"When the heavens and the earth work together, the heroes are not free." Success is destined for three points, seven points rely on hard work, luck occupies a vital position in life encounters, in the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, there was such a political commissar, relying on luck to save the whole division. What's going on here?
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the ancient soldiers and soldiers pay attention to the favorable times, places, and people, and the unity of the three is the road that can be achieved, and this day is linked to luck, and when the leaders of the troops command the battle, in addition to the strategy of arranging troops, the luck of the times is also crucial.
In the course of the 1936 Western Expedition, Chen Xilian, the political commissar of the Eleventh Division of the Red Fourth Army, once burned his stomach because he ate half a jar of peppers in one breath, and when he got up in the middle of the night to drink water, he found the enemy's ambush, thus saving the entire unit under the wrong sun. For this reason, the political commissar Chen Xilian was also honored as "the blessed general of the Red Army."
He died at an early age and had a difficult life
On January 4, 1915, Chen Xilian was born in an ordinary peasant family in Pengjia Village, Hong'an County, Hubei Province, Chen Xilian was the youngest son in the family, and above him there were two older sisters, and the patriarchal father pinned his only hope on Chen Xilian, the only son.
His father, Chen Yonghou, had planned to exhaust all his strength to cultivate Chen Xilian, but unfortunately, he only had time to accompany his son for three years, and he died of illness, leaving orphans and widows, and the burden of life suddenly fell on Chen Xilian's mother.
Raising three children at once, this poor woman had to get up early every day to do farm work, but despite this, the family was still destitute, the children often did not have enough to eat, and the young Chen Xilian naturally did not have the conditions to read and write in this situation, and could only stay at home to help her mother work and share the housework.
In his free time, he would also go to farm, raise fish, sell vegetables, and hand over all the silver tickets he earned to his mother to help the family live a better life. In 1923, when Chen Xilian was 8 years old, in order to subsidize the family to reduce the burden of family life, he offered to help the landlord herd cattle.
He begged for food under the landlord every day to survive, and he was often humiliated and insulted by the landlord, and beatings were commonplace. At the age of 13, Chen Xilian rolled around because of the unbearable abdominal pain on the way to herding cattle, but after being discovered by the landlord, he thought that he was deliberately lazy and slack, and in this way, Chen Xilian was beaten by the landlord for no reason.
This kind of oppressive and exploitative day not only brought Chen Xilian physical pain, but also his spirit felt incomparably torturous and painful. As a child, he wanted to rebel against this miserable life, and he could not bear it any longer.
After making up his mind, he took a candle and took advantage of the dark and windy night of the moon to drag his body full of scars, and limped to the Xiaojia Temple several miles away, where the Red Eleventh Army was stationed at that time.
He left his hometown and decided to join the army
At that time, the sentry of Xiaojia Temple invited the captain Zhan Caifang, and when Zhan Caifang heard Chen Xilian say that he wanted to join the army, he smiled faintly, and Chen Xilian at that time was not yet a rifle high, and he could not reach the level of joining the army at all.
Zhan Caifang did not agree to let him join the Red Army, but although this little radish ding was short, his willpower was amazing, and the next day he followed the large army forward for 50 kilometers, and such a resolute determination could not help but surprise Zhan Caifang.
He ordered him to stop advancing and carefully asked Chen Xilian why he wanted to join the Red Army, and Chen Xilian looked at him with great sadness and indignation about what he had suffered after six years of severe beatings by the landlords, and revealed his scarred back to Zhan Caifang.
Zhan Caifang was silent for an instant, he really had no way to turn a blind eye anymore, he promised Chen Xilian that he would come back to pick him up after a year, and then personally sent Chen Xilian back home. The mother was immediately disturbed when she saw her lost and recovered son with the Red Army.
She did not want Chen Xilian to join the army on the battlefield, there was only such a son, she really could not bear the pain of losing him, since then, her mother guarded Chen Xilian day and night, cutting off all contact between him and the Red Army, and even used a rope to tie her son's feet when he slept.
However, Chen Xilian's willpower and determination to join the army were not consumed, but became more and more intense, and after a year of bitter persistence, he finally waited for Zhan Caifang, and on that night, Chen Xilian still took advantage of his mother's farm work to escape and joined the Red Army. In 1930, Chen Xilian joined the Communist Youth League of China, and in the same year he became a member of the Communist Party of China.
Lead the army to the west, and win with luck
In 1936, the Red Fourth Army ended the great Long March after the victory of the Huining Division in Gansu, but then began the route of the Western Expedition, and the military career of these years also honed Chen Xilian's willpower and combat effectiveness.
In this year, Chen Xilian, political commissar of the Eleventh Division of the Red Fourth Front, led his troops to an ancient city in Gansu, Talachi, at this time, the Red Army had just finished the Long March, and had not yet fully recovered before continuing the western expedition.
Political Commissar Chen Xilian ordered a night's rest in The same place as Talachi, when the army was short of food, the soldiers were hungry one by one, and there was no combat effectiveness to speak of, so Chen Xilian had no choice but to order the soldiers to go to the local people to buy some grain to alleviate it.
However, the local people had been threatened by Ma Jiajun long ago, few people dared to sell grain to the Red Army, and when the guards reported, Chen Xilian was thinking about the strategy of controlling the enemy, and when he was careless, the pen in his hand suddenly fell to the ground, and when the guards picked up the pen, they accidentally found a jar under the bed.
Curious, he moved out, but after opening it, it was a sour smell, but Chen Xilian was bright in his eyes and shouted that this was a good thing. The jar was filled with inch-long peppers, and Chen Xilian said that this thing was the most inferior, so he asked the guards to buy these sour pickled peppers from the landlord and distribute them to the soldiers.
Unfortunately, most of the soldiers could not eat spicy, so in the end, half of the pepper went into Chen Xilian's stomach. In the night, Chen Xilian ate half a jar of peppers on an empty stomach, and the pain in his stomach burned, so he got up and found some water to drink. There was no water in the house, so he went outside the house, and in a daze he saw the crowd at the foot of the mountain, and fixed his eyes on it and broke out in a cold sweat.
It turned out that a large area of the enemy was preparing to surround them, and the guards who had been sentry were sleeping at this time due to long-term fatigue, and could not take care of anything else, Chen Xilian immediately pulled out his pistol, fired the gun, and the soldiers woke up in an instant and immediately went into the state of battle.
The generals fought and retreated, and after quickly organizing fire to resist the enemy's attack, they successfully retreated from the west side of the town, retaining most of the personnel of a whole division.
brief summary:
It was Chen Xilian's timely discovery that bought precious time for the successful retreat of the Red Fourth Army, perhaps there was providence in the darkness, Chen Xilian happened to get up at that time to drink water, and also ran outside the courtyard, just in time to see the sneaky enemy.
This kind of luck cannot be said to be unimportant, luck is bonused, strength is supreme, this is the Red Army's invincible position, again and again to repel the enemy's winning magic weapon.