introduction
During the war-torn revolutionary years, the workers and peasants who had been living at the bottom of society and who had been oppressed by the upper classes joined the ranks of the revolution under the call of the leadership of the proletariat and became the mainstay of the people's army in the course of the War of Resistance. Many of our founding generals were born into families of workers and peasants, who grew up in a harsh environment and realized that the old society was old and decaying at that time, and that only by uniting to completely overthrow it could the forty million people of the whole country live a good life.
Wei Guoqing was born in a low-ranking peasant family, and through his own continuous efforts, he grew up to be a general of the republic, bowed his head all his life, and made great contributions to the founding of New China.
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Wei Guoqing was born in September 1913 in a village dominated by zhuang ethnic groups in Donglan County, Guangxi Province, where his family was poor peasants for generations, and the family relied on one acre and eight points of land to maintain the minimum conditions for survival. At that time, the old Gui forces represented by Lu Rongting unified Guangxi, and Lu Rongting also practiced the decadent rule of the Beiyang warlords in Guangxi, imposing high grain and land taxes on the vast number of poor people, and the peasants' lives were miserable. In 1923, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached a united front and united to jointly overthrow the feudal reactionary warlord forces, and at the call of the proletariat, many workers, peasants, and young students took to the streets one after another and participated in the famous May Thirtieth Movement and the provincial and Hong Kong general strikes, setting off a climax of mass revolution throughout the country.
A peasant movement also broke out in Taiping Township, where Wei Guoqing was located, and Wei Guoqing's father served as vice president of the regional peasant association and was one of the main responsible persons of the local peasant movement, who led the people to compete for their own land and interests and achieved certain results. However, in 1927, the reactionary forces led by Chiang Kai-shek and Wang launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état and innocently mutilated communists, and the whole country was shrouded in white terror for a time, and Wei Guoqing's father was brutally murdered for touching capitalist interests. Wei Guoqing's family was also wanted by the local police, and the family's house was burned down, and the entire family was completely destroyed. Wei Guoqing, determined to die, joined the Guangxi Peasant Self-Defense Army at the age of 15.
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In the early days of joining the revolutionary cause, Wei Guoqing participated in many frontal battles and had extraordinary courage and fearless charging spirit on the battlefield. In 1929, Wei Guoqing participated in the Baise Uprising, and the guard next to the leader of the uprising, Deng Xiaoping, was Wei Guoqing. Two years later, at the age of 18, Wei Guoqing joined the Communist Party of China and made outstanding contributions to the third anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, brilliantly completing the tasks entrusted to him by the central authorities at his higher level. At that time, Wei Guoqing served as the commander of the special branch battalion of the Central Red Army, mainly performing various special assault and stealth tasks, equivalent to today's special forces, and in the famous battle of crossing the Wujiang River and forcibly crossing the Jinsha River during the Long March, the special branch battalion led by Wei Guoqing played an important role.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wei Guoqing led his troops to the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Jin, and founded the first branch of kang da located at the foot of the Taihang mountains, where he was mainly responsible for the military training of anti-japanese university members, and under his strict requirements, this school trained a large number of military talents for the anti-Japanese operations in southeastern Jin.
In 1947, during the Liberation War, Wei Guoqing successively commanded a number of important battles, and in the Battle of Baitabu, Wei Guoqing adopted a flexible tactical plan, taking advantage of the strong offensive ability of our army, organizing the main force to form a superior force, dividing and encircling the reactionary forces, and annihilating the reactionary forces, destroying all the 42nd Army, which was at that time the enemy's strong combat strength, and capturing the regimental commander Hao Pengju alive.
03
After the founding of New China, Wei Guoqing was assigned by the central authorities to go to the Vietnamese battlefield to help the Vietnamese people resist the French invaders, Wei Guoqing, as the main person in charge of the Chinese advisory group, still went to the front line of the battlefield to reconnoiter the terrain, analyze the enemy's situation, and participate in the command of the campaign.
In 1955, Wei Guoqing was appointed governor of Guangxi and deputy secretary of the Cpc Guangxi Provincial Committee. After assuming the post of principal responsible person of Guangxi Province, Wei Guoqing worked for 20 years; he actively responded to the line put forward by the central authorities and often went deep into the grass-roots frontline to conduct research; Guangxi is a region where many nationalities gather together, and Wei Guoqing must not only strive to develop economic construction, but also strengthen the customs and traditions of the minority populated areas, and completely preserve the unique cultural heritage of the ethnic minorities, thus laying the foundation for Guangxi's good development in the future.
Wei Guoqing has two sons under his knees, the eldest son is named Wei Yunfeng, through his own efforts to grow into a famous architectural engineer in China, many landmark buildings in Beijing have Wei Yunfeng's participation. The youngest son, named Wei Xiaoyi, joined the army at a young age and later served as a deputy military cadre at the General Staff Research Institute.
epilogue
Wei Guoqing devoted his life to the independence of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation, and after the founding of New China, he devoted all his energy to the construction and development of his hometown, making great contributions to the country's economic development and the stability of the people's lives.