Chen Shuxiang, born in June, 1905, is from Changsha County, Hunan Province. 19 19 participated in the anti-Japanese patriotic movement in Changsha initiated by Xinmin society. 192 1, I got to know Mao Zedong who was engaged in the secret work of the Party in Qingshuitang, Changsha, and was enlightened by Marxism. /kloc-0 joined the China Socialist Youth League in the autumn of 922. From 65438 to 0927, he joined the Ye Ting Department of the Northern Expeditionary Army and served as the monitor and platoon leader of the Guard Corps. In September of the same year, he participated in the autumn harvest uprising on the Hunan-Jiangxi border led by Mao Zedong, and soon joined China. Later, he went to Jinggangshan and served as the company commander and the captain of the third column of the 3 1 regiment of the Red Fourth Army. Participated in guerrilla wars in Jinggangshan and Gannan and western Fujian.

1930 June, captain of the special service team of the headquarters in Ren Hongjun, Chen Shuxiang, and captain of the special service team of the headquarters in Ren Hongjun in August, responsible for the security work in Mao Zedong and Zhu De. 193 1 year later, he successively served as the head of the Red Army 12, the commander of the 56th division of the Red Army 19, the head of the 34th division of the Red Fifth Army10/group and the commander of the 34th division, and led his troops to participate. In the struggle to establish the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area and the Central Soviet Area, Chen Shuxiang experienced many battles and made outstanding achievements, and gradually grew into an excellent Red Army commander.

1934 10, Chen Shuxiang led his troops to participate in the Long March of the Central Red Army, served as the general guard of the whole army, fought frequently with the Kuomintang pursuers, and covered the main force of the Red Army and the military commission organs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Zhongge to continuously break through the first to third blockade lines of the Kuomintang army.

165438+1At the end of October, in the tragic Xiangjiang Campaign, Chen Shuxiang led the whole division to fight with enemies ten times his own for four days and five nights, and made great sacrifices. The number of teachers has dropped sharply from more than 6,000 to less than 1 1,000. 65438+February 1, the main force of the Central Red Army and the organs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Zhongge Military Commission crossed the Xiangjiang River.

After covering the Xiangjiang River, the main force of the Central Red Army, Chen Shuxiang commanded the Red Thirty-fourth Division to cross the Xiangjiang River several times, but they all lost ground and fell into the enemy's tight encirclement. Facing the grim situation, Chen Shuxiang carried out the order of retreating to southern Hunan and persisting in guerrilla warfare, and led his troops to break through. In the fierce battle, Chen Shuxiang was shot in the abdomen and seriously injured. He pressed the wound with a belt, continued to direct the battle on a stretcher, and finally broke through. When the troops arrived at Sima Bridge in Daoxian County, they were intercepted by the Kuomintang local peace preservation corps.

At the critical moment, Chen Shuxiang ordered the big troops to break through, leaving himself and two guards to cover. After fierce fighting, most of them broke through, and Chen Shuxiang was unfortunately captured. The enemy was ecstatic to catch a Red Army commander and immediately took him to Changsha. On the way, Chen Shuxiang took the enemy by surprise, endured severe pain, pulled out his intestines from the wound, twisted them hard, and made a heroic sacrifice. He was only 29 years old, and realized the oath of "shed the last drop of blood for the new Soviet China".