<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Centennial 114: Chen Xianrui</h1>
Author: Forget about the jianghu
The Red 25th Army is a magical unit, where is the magic?
First of all, compared with the Red First, Red Fourth, and Red Second Sixth Armies, the Red 25th Army was the only unit that participated in the Long March whose number did not decrease but increased, and the number of soldiers who marched all the way from the Eyu-Anhui base area to northern Shaanxi increased to 3,400 before they set out.
Secondly, the Red 25th Army is strong in combat, and its weapons and equipment such as machine guns and rifles far exceed those of other fraternal units. Not only that, the Red 25th Army is also very rich, with 7,000 oceans. Later, the chairman sent someone to borrow, and Xu Haidong shot 5,000 oceans.
Of course, the most amazing thing about the Red 25Th Army is that there are 97 generals: among them, General Liu Zhen and Han Xianchu were brought out by an "old squad leader" during the Red Army period, and this "old squad leader" was also awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955, and he was Chen Xianrui.
Founding Lieutenant General Chen Xianrui
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > first, the "old squad leader" of the special service brigade</h1>
Chen Xianrui was born in September 1914 in Jinzhai, Anhui.
Like many Red Army soldiers, Chen Xianrui herded cattle for the landlord's family from an early age, and he tasted the bitterness of the world. In August 1929, at the age of 15, Chen Xianrui joined the Red Army and served as a service soldier in the 97th Regiment headquarters of the 32nd Division of the 11th Army.
In April 1930, Chen Xianrui was transferred to the headquarters of the Red 2nd Division and served as a small messenger, and in September, the Red Fourth Front attacked Xinyang, and the enemy army was fierce. Division commander Zhou Weijiong ordered Chen Xianrui to inform Xu, deputy commander and commander of the 1st Division, to retreat forward, and Chen Xianrui did not fail in his mission.
In November 1931, after the establishment of the Red Fourth Front, Chen Xianrui was transferred to the headquarters pistol team as a squad leader. The red fourth pistol team produced many founding generals, such as Qin Jiwei, Zhan Huayu, Xiao Quanfu and so on. After the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign failed, the Red Four withdrew west to Sichuan and Shaanxi. Chen Xianrui fell behind due to illness and returned to Eyuwan alone, and was appointed by E Zhengweisan as the squad leader of the 1st squad of the 4th Special Agent Brigade, and there were 7 people in the class.
Unlike ordinary troops, the special service brigade often performs some more urgent, dangerous, and important tasks, such as reconnaissance in disguise, food collection, tongue catching, bullies, and so on. The members are also selected and selected from a thousand, and they are one of the best in a hundred.
However, two small soldiers have been friends with Chen Xianrui, the "old squad leader": one is Liu You'an (Liu Zhen) of the Xiaobei County Independent Battalion, who is 1 year younger than Chen Xianrui. There was also a young man who was 1 year older than Chen Xianrui with a face full of pimples, named Han Xianchu.
Founding General Han Xianchu
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > two, the "three musketeers" of the general's class</h1>
With the addition of Liu Zhen and Han Xianchu, Chen Xianrui's secret service class had 9 people.
After liberation, only 3 of the nine people in this class survived: Chen Xianrui, the 18-year-old class leader at the time, Liu Zhen, 17, and Han Xianchu, 19. When he was awarded the title in 1955, Chen Xianrui was a lieutenant general, and Liu Zhen and Han Xianchu were generals.
Chen Xianrui, the "old squad leader" from the cowherd baby, is only 18 years old, but he is capable of doing things without leaking, nicknamed "Little Broom".
In October 1933, the situation in the Eyu-Anhui base area was very severe, and Chen Xianrui, who was already the commander of the detachment, escorted Cheng Fangwu to Shanghai with a pistol team of 40 people. Liu Zhen and Han Xianchu followed Chen Xianrui for more than a month and sent Cheng Fangwu to Wuhan to board the train.
In May 1934, at a battle summary meeting, everyone was happy for the victory, but only the deputy squad leader Liu Zhen pointed out the three deficiencies in front of the military commander Xu Haidong, and was soon promoted to company instructor, Han Xianchu, who was already a deputy company commander, ridiculed him for "two and a half levels in three sentences."
In November 1934, the Red 25th Army left Gao Jingting to insist on guerrilla warfare, and the main force was strategically shifted.
At this time, Chen Xianrui was the political commissar of the 3rd Battalion of the 223rd Regiment, Han Xianchu was the company commander of the 224th Regiment, and Liu Zhen was the company instructor of the 225th Regiment. In December, the Red 25th Army entered Jiujia Bay in southern Shaanxi, and the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion was named "Eshan Guerrilla Division" by Wu Huanxian, and Chen Xianrui became the division commander from a battalion-level cadre.
In February 1935, the E-Shaanxi Guerrilla General Command was established, with Chen Xianrui as the commander, and from then on he led a partial division to create conditions for the main force to make the Long March. In July, Liu Zhen and Han Xianchu followed the red 25th army to continue the Long March, separated from Chen Xianrui.
Liu Zhen, Han Xianchu, Chen Xianrui
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > third, the Shaanxi Red Army in the mouth of the chairman</h1>
In September 1935, the Red 74th Division was formed in southern Shaanxi, with Chen Xianrui as its commander.
The Red 74th Division had 2 battalions, 1 pistol regiment, and 1 special agent company with more than 700 people, and under the leadership of Chen Xianrui, it insisted on holding the base area on the border of Eyu and Shaanxi, and the team gradually grew, annihilating more than 4,000 enemy troops in hundreds of battles, and the troops grew to more than 2,100 people.
In September 1936, when the enemy troops in southern Shaanxi were transferred to the west one by one, Chen Xianrui did not know that the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army were fighting the Red Army in northern Shaanxi. Beginning in November, Chen Xianrui led the Red 74th Division all the way north and swept through the local armed forces on the henan and Shaanxi sides. Someone was also sent to post propaganda slogans on the top of Mount Hua. Chen Xianrui's move inadvertently helped the main force of the Red Army.
On December 12, the Xi'an Incident broke out, and Zhou Gong sent Li Tao, Zhang Guohua, Long Feihu and others to carry the radio to find Chen Xianrui and the Red 74th Division, and then the Red 74th Division was renamed the "South Road Anti-Japanese Army", and Chen Xianrui became the commander.
Subsequently, the Red 74th Division rushed to the Tongguan area to cooperate with the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army to block the enemy troops who were trying to invade Xi'an. After the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident,
Jiang Shi of Nanjing demanded that Xu Haidong's Red Fifteenth Army and Chen Xianrui's troops evacuate southern Shaanxi and drive north of the Wei River.
The chairman agreed to Xu Hai's northeast retreat, but repeatedly stressed that Chen Xianrui was an "indigenous" unit in southern Shaanxi, and if they did not want to leave southern Shaanxi themselves, no one could force it. After negotiations between Zhou Gong, Liu Bocheng, Ye Jianying and others with Gu Zhutong, an agreement was finally reached.
Half a year later, Chen Xianrui led the Red 74th Division to Sanyuan and organized it into the rear garrison of Lin Biao's 115th Division.
From left in the front row: Zheng Weisan and Xu Haidong; from left in the back row: Li Longgui, Cheng Zihua, Chen Xianrui
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" >4. Defend Yan'an and then enter southern Shaanxi</h1>
At the end of 1937, when the chairman received Chen Xianrui, he praised him for doing a good job in southern Shaanxi, and the enemy's tens of thousands of troops could not defeat them under siege, and the Red 74th Division cooperated with the main force of the Red Army in Huashan, and the enemy offered a reward of 10,000 oceans in order to eliminate Chen Xianrui, the "king of southern Shaanxi" of the Red Army.
Soon Chen Xianrui was appointed as the commander of the 4th Police Regiment of the Left Behind Corps, and in 1940 he was appointed deputy brigade commander of the 1st Police Brigade.
In 1942, Chen Xianrui married Wang Yan in Fu County, Shaanxi Province. Wang Yan was born in August 1920 in Gaocheng, Hebei Province. At the age of 18, he participated in the cadre training class of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and after graduation, he was assigned to do women's work, and in the same year, he went to Yan'an to enter the women's team of the Anti-Japanese University and the women's university.
In September 1944, the 129th Division ordered Pi Dingjun and Xu Zirong to form the "Western Henan Anti-Japanese Advance Detachment" and advance into western Henan. In October, Chen Xianrui led the third detachment of the anti-Japanese guerrilla in western Henan to advance into western Henan, and in February 1945, Chen Xianrui and the Pixu detachment met.
On March 2, the Henan Military Region was established, and Chen Xianrui was appointed commander and political commissar of the Yuzhong Military Subdistrict.
In June 1946, the Central Plains broke through, and Chen Xianrui led the 43rd and 44th regiments into the Wudang Mountains with the deputy commander Wang Shusheng. In February 1947, Chen Xianrui was appointed commander of the second column, and Han Dongshan was appointed political commissar. Soon after the 12th Column of Jinji-Hebei Luyu was established, Chen Xianrui left the old army.
In 1941, Wang Yan and Chen Xianrui were in Yan'an
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" >5, liberation of southern Shaanxi will eventually become a "parent official" in Hanzhong</h1>
In September 1947, The Jinji-Hebei Luyu formed the 38th Army of the Northwest Democratic Coalition Army, with commander Kong Congzhou and deputy commander Chen Xianrui.
This 38th Army is not the 38th Army of the "Long Live Army" of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but the "Shaanxi Army" that was born and raised, and is an insurrectionary force. Chen Xie's corps was composed of the 4th Column, 9th Column, and 38th Army, and the 80,000-strong army approached Funiu Mountain in western Henan.
The 17th Division and the 12th Brigade of the 38th Army met the division in victory, and this was Chen Xianrui's third entry into southern Shaanxi.
In June 1948, the Southern Shaanxi Military Region was established, with Commander Liu Jinxuan, Political Commissar Wang Feng, and Deputy Commander Chen Xianrui. Soon, Chen Xianrui and other troops participated in the Battle of Xiangfan commanded by Wang Jinshan. The Southern Shaanxi Military Region dispatched 34 regiments, 35 regiments, and Yun Bai Independent Regiment, annihilating more than 1,800 enemy troops.
In March 1948, Chen Xianrui was transferred to the deputy commander of the Western Henan Military Region and was ordered to lead the 17th Division and other units to suppress bandits. In May, he led the 17th Division to participate in the Battle of Wanxi, capturing more than 700 enemy soldiers. Chen Xianrui commanded the 17th Division to take advantage of the victory and retake the county seat of Shangnan.
In May 1949, the 19th Army was assigned to the Ichino Sequence, with Commander Liu Jinxuan and Deputy Commander Chen Xianrui.
After liberating the southwest, Chen Xianrui marched to Hanzhong with he long's eighteenth corps. On December 8, Hanzhong was liberated, and Chen Xianrui, deputy commander of the 19th Army, concurrently served as the director of the Hanzhong Military Control Commission. This is also the fourth time that Chen Xianrui has entered southern Shaanxi in the past 15 years, and the whole territory of southern Shaanxi has been liberated.
Li Zhimin's wife Liu Ping, Chen Xianrui's wife Wang Yan, and Yang Dezhi's wife Shen Gejun were on the 38th line
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" >6, the "King of Southern Shaanxi" did not forget the old district</h1>
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chen Xianrui served as director of the political department and deputy political commissar of the Nineteenth Corps of the Volunteer Army. At this time, Liu Zhen was the commander of the Volunteer Air Force, and Han Xianchu was the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army. At that time, the two small soldiers under the "old squad leader" had surpassed Chen Xianrui in their positions.
In September 1955, Liu Zhen and Han Xianchu were awarded generals, while the old squad leader Chen Xianrui was a lieutenant general. After the awarding ceremony, the chairman received some of the general representatives, and did not forget that Chen Xianrui, who had just returned from the 38th Line, was the "King of Southern Shaanxi" of the Red Army.
Although Liu Zhen and Han Xianchu had high military ranks, Chen Xianrui still called the "little soldiers" of that year, an "old Han" and a "little Liu", and the two admirals also paid tribute to the "old squad leader" when they met. Chen Xianrui served as the political commissar of the Beijing Military Region and the Chengdu Military Region, and in January 1979, he was transferred to the Lanzhou Military Region as an adviser and reunited with Han Xianchu, commander of the "small soldiers".
In January 1981, Chen Xianrui retired and later participated in the compilation of the war history of the Red 25Th Army.
In his lifetime, the most memorable thing about Chen Xianrui is the old district of Eyu and Shaanxi, and he once served as an adviser to the old district construction promotion committee, focusing on the economic development of the old area. On January 10, 1996, Chen Xianrui died of illness at the age of 82, and some of his ashes were scattered in the old area of Eyu and Shaanxi, where he had fought.
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