Among the founding generals, there are some who are more special, that is, "returned overseas Chinese." What is returned overseas Chinese? Simply put, it is the overseas Chinese who originally lived in a foreign country and returned to Settle in China.
Among the founding generals of our army, there were a total of eight "returned overseas Chinese generals," including General Ye Fei, Lieutenant General Zhuang Tian and Lu Sheng, and Major Generals Zeng Sheng, Wu Kezhi, Tang Duo, Chen Qingshan, and Ye Songsheng.
Today, I want to talk about Lieutenant General Shoda.
Born in 1907, Zhuang Tian was originally from Wanning County, Hainan Province, and because of his family's poverty, he crossed the ocean to Singapore to earn a living as a teenager.
It was in Singapore that Zhuang Tian came into contact with revolutionary ideas and, under the teaching of Huang Yidun, secretly joined our party.
In 1931, the 24-year-old Zhuang Tian was ordered to return from Singapore to enter the Soviet Zone and start his combat career.
From his return to the Soviet zone until the completion of the Long March, Zhuang Tian held most of the positions of political commissar and director of the political department, and he was very good at doing ideological work, but his command ability was also not doubted, and everyone gave him a thumbs up.
In 1933, Zhuang Tian was appointed political commissar of the Model Regiment, but as soon as he arrived, the Central Military Commission transferred him to the Fujian front to command the operation and assist the main Red Army in breaking through the enemy's fourth "encirclement and suppression.". After the victory of the battle, everyone involuntarily sighed: "I didn't expect that this Zhuang political commissar would fight so hard!" ”
When the Red Army crossed the Jiajin Mountain during the Long March, Zhuang Tian was seriously wounded and could not walk, and he did not want to drag the troops back, so he proposed to stay and not leave.
In that sinister environment at that time, staying behind was basically nine deaths, so after the regimental commander Dong Zhentang knew about it, he specially sent someone to carry Zhuang Tian and said, "Anyone can throw it down, but Zhuang Tian can't throw it, because he will fight." ”
General Zhuang Tian had a silver dollar in his home, which had been carefully collected, and someone asked what was the special significance of this silver dollar? Shoda said it saved my life.
It was in 1941, when the Japanese puppet army sent a large number of troops to encircle and suppress the Qiongya base area of our army, and at that time, Zhuang Tian was the deputy commander of the Qiongya Anti-Japanese Independent Corps, personally leading the soldiers in a bloody battle. Unfortunately, during a battle, Shoda was hit by a bullet, the bullet passed through the abdomen, and the huge impact force broke through a hole in his stomach, and the intestines flowed out hard, and the bandaged cloth could not be tightened.
Zhuang Tian took out a silver dollar from his pocket, placed it on the wound in his stomach, and then bandaged it, finally blocking the wound.
Due to the urgency of the war, Zhuang Tian insisted on commanding the battle, and fainted several times in pain, until the reinforcements came, and then they were carried down to the front line and saved their lives.
Since then, General Shoda has kept this silver dollar, saying that it is his savior.
By the time of the victory of the War of Resistance, with the efforts of Zhuang Tian, Feng Baiju and others, the Qiongya Independent Column had grown to more than 7,700 people, plus local armed forces, a total of more than 10,000 people, becoming an important force outside the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.
During the Liberation War, Zhuang Tian successively served as the commander of the Guangdong-Guizhou Border Column, the commander of the Guidian Border Guerrilla Brigade, and the commander of the Guidian Qianbian Column, and at most he had more than 30,000 troops under his command, which belonged to a relatively large column.
In 1955, Sho was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and died of illness in 1992 at the age of 85.