preface
The revolution is great, but the journey is difficult, and bloodshed and sacrifice are inevitable. At the beginning of the development of our army, because of its weak strength and lack of combat experience, the casualties were very large.
The Significance of the Nanchang Uprising, which broke out in 1927, is obvious to all, but its losses are very heavy. There were more than 20,000 people who participated in the uprising, and after the defeat in the Battle of Tangkeng, the rebel army had very few left, and only the thousand or so people led by Zhu Laozong and Chen Laozong who still had combat effectiveness remained, but they became the spark of the spark, and after launching the Shonan Uprising, they went to Jinggangshan and jointly created and consolidated the first rural revolutionary base area with the autumn harvest uprising team.
It is worth mentioning that when the Nanchang Uprising was completed, there was only one of the six division commanders at the time of the founding of New China, and that was Zhou Shidi, who was the commander of the 25th Division.
The starting point of the marshal
In 1900, Zhou Shidi was born in a scholarly mendi in Xinchang Village, Qiongshan, Hainan, the father of a late Qing Gongsheng, who was quite famous in the local area, and also served as a county senator in the early years of the Republic of China.
Under the influence of the family environment, Zhou Shidi's studies have always been good, and he was later admitted to Qiongya Middle School. In his middle school years, Zhou Shidi had excellent grades and was keen to participate in various activities in the school, and was elected as an officer of the Qiongya Student Federation during the May Fourth Movement. A year later, after graduation, Zhou Shidi returned to Qiongshan to become a primary school teacher.
Stable income, comfortable working environment, but not the life he yearns for. At the age of 22, Zhou Shidi quit his job and came to Guangzhou, where he looked for a way to serve the country and the people. In 1924, Zhou Shidi applied for the Whampoa Military Academy and became a first-term student of Whampoa, and as soon as he graduated, he was favored by Zhou Gong and assisted in the preparation of the Iron Armor Team of the Grand Marshal's Office.
This armed force is ostensibly subordinate to the Marshal's Office, but in fact it is completely under the direct leadership of our Party, which is also the first armed contingent independently led by our Party, and Zhou Shidi is the second captain, which shows how high The status of Zhou Shidi in our army is.
After the end of the Northern Expedition, Zhou Shidi was promoted to the regimental commander of the 73rd Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army (formerly the Ye Ting Independent Regiment), at this time there were several Huangpu IV graduates assigned to the 73rd Regiment, and one of them was very familiar to everyone, this person was Lin Shuai, at this time he was only a probationary platoon leader.
After "412", Li Hanling, commander of the 25th Division, tried to win Zhou Shidi over and let him join the Kuomintang camp, but Zhou Shidi refused.
On August 1, Nie Shuai met secretly with Zhou Shidi and told him about the outbreak of an uprising in Nanchang. After consulting with Li Shuoxun, the two took advantage of the lunch break to take most of the 25th Division out of the garrison and rushed to Nanchang, where they repelled Li Han's soul on the way, and finally arrived in Nanchang the next day to join the uprising.
After reorganization, the 25th Division still retained its original name, and Zhou Shidi served as the division commander. He was already a division commander at the time of the Nanchang uprising, and his starting point was very high. At this time, Su Yu was only the guard squad leader of the general headquarters of the rebel army, and Chen Geng was the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the 6th Regiment of the Third Division, and the position was very different from his.
There were also two big figures in the 25th Division, the aforementioned Lin Shuai was the commander of the 1st Company of the 73rd Regiment at this time, and Mr. Chen was a higher position than Lin Shuai and was the political instructor of the 73rd Regiment.
After the founding of the country, these people were either marshals or generals, so why was Zhou Shidi, who had a high starting point, only a general?
The four partners became marshals
After the rebel army moved south, Zhou Shidi and Chen Laozong led the 25th Division to block Qian Dajun's headquarters at Sanheba, and after three days and nights of fierce fighting, the 25th Division suffered heavy losses. Later, it was learned that the main force had lost the battle of Tangkeng, and even if some remnants were gathered, the strength was very small.
In late October, Mr. Zhu sent Zhou Shidi to Hong Kong to find a party organization to report on the situation and ask for directions for the next step of the rebel army. After a month of traveling, Zhou Shidi came to Hong Kong and quickly found Li Lisan to report on his work.
While waiting for instructions from their superiors, the Guangzhou uprising failed, and many revolutionaries fled to Hong Kong, which also made the situation in Hong Kong very tense. At this time, Zhou Shidi was ill again, all of which were very unfavorable to him, and after being persuaded by his friends, he went to Nanyang to hide from the wind without informing the organization, and temporarily lost contact with the organization.
A few months later, after Zhou Shidi returned home, he could not get in touch with the organization, but
He persisted in the struggle against Chiang Kai-shek, and was arrested in 1931, only to be released from prison under the influence of Soong Ching-ling. At the end of 1933, Zhou Shidi got in touch with the party organization, and in February 1934 he entered the Soviet zone and finally returned to the team.
He later followed the Red Army to northern Shaanxi, and was reintroduced by Dong Biwudang, but the party age was calculated from 1924.
In 1936, after the three main forces of the Red Army met the division, Zhou Shidi was promoted to chief of staff of the Red Second Front, and became a partner with Mr. He. In the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Shidi was seriously ill and was arranged to go to the rear to recuperate.
In 1946, after the outbreak of the Liberation War, Zhou Shidi, who had no intention of recuperating, took the initiative to ask to go to the front. At this time, there was also a cadre with the same mood who also expressed the same will to the organization, and this person was Xu Xiangqian. Soon both requests were applied for, and in 1948, the two became partners, one was the deputy commander of the First Corps of the North China Field Army, and the other was the commander of the Corps.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Shidi became the commander of the Air Defense Force, and in April 1955, he was transferred to the deputy director of the Training Directorate, and Liu Shuai was the minister. Later, Liu Shuai was transferred to the Nanjing Military Academy, and Ye Shuai took over his position and became a partner with Zhou Shidi.
In Zhou Shidi's revolutionary career, there were four marshals to partner.
The second general of Weng Son-in-law
In 1955, Zhou Shidi, who was highly qualified, was awarded the title of general, which was more or less related to the four years that the party organization had been missing. However, at the awarding ceremony, a very glorious thing happened in their family, that is, Zhou Shidi's son-in-law Peng Fujiu was also awarded the rank of major general, and Weng and his son-in-law were both founding generals, which was also very rare in the whole army.
Peng Fujiu's wife was born to Zhou Shidi and his first wife, Weng Qiukun, and the two married as early as 1916, but Mrs. Weng died in 1930, leaving a daughter Zhou Jingquan, who later changed her name to Zhou Boya.
In 1940, under the mediation of He Laozong, Li Zhen and others, Zhou Shidi and Zhang Jian married, and after marriage, they had three sons, it is worth mentioning that the wife of the eldest son Zhou Jian is Xiao Shuang, the second daughter of the founding general Xiao Hua, so Zhou Shidi and Xiao Hua are relatives.