Xiao Ke (1July 90714—June 2008 10/October 24) was a proletarian revolutionary, strategist, military educator and founding general, and an important member of China People's Liberation Army. The real name is Ke Zhong, formerly known as Wu Yi, a native of Tiancun, Pantou Street, Jiahe, Hunan. Jiahe Jiazhong jiangxi normal School graduated from Huangpu Phase IV. 1925, participated in the Northern Expedition, Nanchang Uprising, Jinggangshan Struggle and the Long March of the Red Army. Successively served as company commander, battalion commander, colonel, division commander, commander of the Sixth Red Army Corps and deputy commander of the Second Red Army Corps. 1934 was awarded the Second Class Red Star Medal. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, he served as deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army 120 Division, commander of the Gerchatin March, and deputy commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region; During the War of Liberation, he served as commander of the Liao Military Region in Jizhong, deputy commander of the North China Military Region, vice president of North China Military and Political University, and first chief of staff of the Fourth Field Army. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as Minister of Military Training, Director of Training, Vice Minister of National Defense, President of Military and Political University, Dean and Political Commissar of Military Academy (predecessor of National Defense University), Vice Chairman Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Adjunct Professor of School of Humanities of Fudan University, Member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 10 alternate member of the Central Committee, 165438 Central Committee member, and 65438+ Standing Committee member/kloc-. 1988 won the first-class Red Star Meritorious Medal and Mao Dun Literature Award.
Many of the founding generals awarded by 1955 began to study culture in the revolutionary army. Xiao Ke, who is good at poetry and prose, can be regarded as a veritable Confucian general. As Si Nuo's ex-wife commented in the autobiography of the older generation of revolutionaries in China: "Like Zhou Enlai, Xu, Xiao Ke is the reincarnation of what China people call a' strategist'."
Xiao Ke was born in a poor scholarly family in southern Hunan. He entered a private school in his early years and was familiar with the four books and five classics, Tang poetry and Song poetry, laying a good foundation for classical culture and literature. When he was young, he began to love literature. Although he later joined the army, he often took time to study during the long war years, whether during the strategic command gap or on the way to Guanshan. He likes Tolstoy, Balzac, Lu Xun and other eastern and western writers, and has read a lot of Chinese and foreign classics, such as War and Peace, Young Werther, The True Story of Ah Q and so on. He not only loves reading, but also has always been interested in literary creation. During the Red Army period, he wrote vernacular poems and short stories in Hunan and Jiangxi base areas and published them in newspapers and periodicals in the base areas. Even during the Long March, Xiao Ke never missed a poetic moment. Before the smoke cleared, he was writing a poem in a humble command post. During his days in the army, he took time to create many touching poems, recorded his feelings and thoughts, and revealed his mental journey. His calligraphy is also very good, and Kan Kan talks about it, showing the true qualities of a military scholar.
At the end of 1985, when General Xiao Ke retired from the post of president and political commissar of the PLA Military Academy, he wrote a poem and lamented himself: "Too much emotion, especially not enough time. Although I am never tired, the older I get, the harder it is. " This "difficult" thing refers to the literary creation that Xiao Ke loved all his life. Therefore, in his later years, he devoted himself to the study of military science, party history, military history and war history, and insisted on writing and editing Nanchang Uprising, Autumn Harvest Uprising and Zhu Maohong's Sidelights, and published many articles. He wrote the novel Bloody Luo Xiao, published Memoirs of Xiao Ke and Poems of Xiao Ke, and edited hundreds of masterpieces, General History of China Culture and Encyclopedia of China (Military Volume). It seems incredible that a man who has been an officer for a long time wants to engage in literary creation, but Xiao Ke said, "I have never seen this matter so mysterious." Among them, the most noteworthy and praised by the world is Blood Luo Xiao.
This book was written in May 1937 and in October 1939/kloc-0. In a very difficult creative environment, General Xiao Ke wrote a first draft of a novel with a length of 400,000 words, tentatively titled Luo Xiaojun. At that time, he read the famous Soviet novel Liu Tie after the Xi incident and was greatly inspired. He thinks he can write Liu Tie in China. In the next four or five years, Xiaoke made three major revisions and several minor revisions. As a result, he got tuberculosis and had to put it on hold. Since then, the manuscript has been locked in the drawer for many years, and there is no time to take care of it. What Xiao Ke and Qi Xianfo did not expect was that this novel manuscript, which was preserved by all means, would bring them disaster. Take the 1958 anti-dogmatism movement, which was blocked for 2 1 year, as the material for criticizing Xiao Ke. In order to achieve the critical effect, the novel draft was printed and bound into three volumes, and circulated internally with the words "critical use". When Xiaoke got this rare book, he threw it into the stove with joy. During the Cultural Revolution, Xiao Ke and his novels fell into disaster again. The rebels criticized him with a new viewpoint of line struggle. To this end, they mimeographed hundreds of copies of this manuscript. Some people say that Blood on Luo Xiao is the only novel in China that was mimeographed twice before it was officially published. Until 1988, with the efforts of the editors of the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Publishing House, Xiao Ke himself made great efforts to revise and polish it again, reducing the total length to 250,000 words, and the novel was finally published.
1933, 500,000 troops of the Kuomintang carried out the fifth "encirclement and suppression" against the Central Soviet Area led by the Communist Party of China (CPC). Luo Xiao Column, the main force of the Red Army in the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Area in the middle of the Luo Xiao Mountains, moved northward into the new Soviet Area according to the instructions of the Central Committee. Along the way, they broke through the enemy's heavy encirclement and interception many times, with harsh environment, difficult conditions, fierce fighting and huge sacrifices. In order to preserve the strength of the troops, the Central Committee agreed to return the column to the base area in Luo Xiao. The book is full of twists and turns, vivid characters, fluent language and revolutionary feelings. Experts and scholars agree that it is a novel that truly reproduces the life of the Red Army and has a strong flavor of the times, giving readers a brand-new feeling. It is difficult to write this charm without personal experience.
Xia Yan, a famous writer, called it "a wonderful work in the history of contemporary military literature in China". It is the greatest achievement of General Xiao Ke's literary creation in his life, and it also represents the highest level of his literature. It is his ups and downs, arrogance, enthusiasm for literature, reading and thinking, and seeking the peak and crystallization of light and truth. 1988 On the eve of the Army Day, the novel Bloody Luo Xiao, which was born in the flames of war in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, was finally published by the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Publishing House half a century later, causing great social repercussions. The author Xiaoke has also changed from a 30-year-old youth to an 8 1 year-old man. After the book was published, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Hu Yaobang presented a four-line gift: "Alone, Li Guangming will go down in history forever. Luo Xiaoqu, the general of the night, will accompany me until dawn. " 199 1 in March, the Chinese Writers Association informed that "Bloody Luo Xiao" won the honorary prize of1984-1988 Mao Dun Literature Award. Introduced by Xia Yan and others, General Xiao Ke became a member of the Chinese Writers Association.