Jinggangshan in Lion

After the uprising troops arrived in Jinggangshan, Lion followed Mao Zedong's instructions and made great efforts to publicize and mobilize the masses. Under the leadership of Wan Xixian, the Party representative, Lion and his comrades entered the village, posted notices and wrote slogans in the name of Guo Liang, head of the first regiment of the First Division of the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants, and mobilized the masses to establish and restore agriculture and trade union organizations. In a few days, Lion and his comrades, led by Wan Xixian, a Party representative, passed through Lingxian County, Anren County and Chaling County and made propaganda to tens of thousands of people along the way. Suppressed several reactionary county magistrates and Kuomintang county party secretaries, rescued the revolutionary masses imprisoned by the enemy, and inspired the revolutionary fighting spirit of the people around Jinggangshan.

At that time, supplies on Jinggangshan were very difficult. The snow closed the mountain and it was freezing. The soldiers are still wearing light clothes and have no food to eat. They are hungry and cold, and life is very difficult. Lai Yi became skinny, but he stood firmly, tightened his belt, handed a bowl of red rice porridge sent to him by the cookhouse squad to an injured soldier to drink, and dug a handful of grass roots from the snow to satisfy his hunger.

At this time, Yin, a reactionary hostile to the Jinggangshan people, was entrenched in Yongxin, relying on hundreds of elite guards to claim to be the so-called commander-in-chief of the seven counties' joint defense, and often harassed Jinggangshan soldiers and civilians. In order to ensure the peace of the people in Jinggangshan, the troops coordinated by the revolutionary army of workers and peasants were ordered to destroy Yin. After the battle began, Lion attacked the enemy from the front in succession. He used the favorable terrain to rush forward, throwing several grenades in succession, killing several stubborn enemies and opening a passage for the troops. After two hours of fierce fighting, dozens of people, including Yin, were killed and the rest were taken alive. This campaign won the trust of Jinggangshan working people in the revolutionary army of workers and peasants.

/kloc-in mid-October, Lion led a propaganda team. After several days of publicity and negotiations with the Chamber of Commerce, he raised some food and other materials needed by the troops. Some activists who used to work in the peasant associations also came back to get in touch with the army and resume their activities. After several days of preparation, the democratic government of workers, peasants and soldiers in Chaling County, with Tan Zhenlin as the chairman, was proclaimed. Red flags have been planted everywhere in Chaling City.

/kloc-at the end of 0/927, the Eighth Army of Wu Shang, the enemy of Hunan, sent a main independent regiment, together with seven or eight companies in Luoding, and about twenty companies attacked Chaling. Lai Yishui stopped the enemy continuously. After the fighting started in the morning, it intensified. When a platoon of ammunition was running out, the 3rd Battalion came to support with several boxes of bullets. By dusk, outnumbered, the troops decided to retreat after dark. Lion led a squad to cover the rear, which ensured the troops to leave Chaling safely.

/kloc-in the spring of 0/928, Lion was promoted to platoon leader of gongsijun, and later served as adjutant of the third column command of gongsijun. /kloc-in the spring of 0/930, Lion was appointed as the deputy commander of the first column command of GongSiJun. During the hard years in Jinggangshan, Lion took part in the military actions to defend Huang Yangjie and explore Gannan, and made contributions to defending and consolidating Jinggangshan revolutionary base area.

/kloc-in the winter of 0/930, Lion was transferred to the political commissar of the Red Column Training Team. According to the eighteen-character tactic and sixteen-character tactic of guerrilla warfare put forward by Mao Zedong in the First Training Team of the Red Army, he taught guerrilla tactics courses, tactical command, marching at night, etc., and dragged students from classrooms and playgrounds to the wild. Later, he led the teaching team to act with the column, launched guerrilla warfare, expanded the base area and strengthened the Red Army. Wherever he went, he led the teaching team to fight local tyrants, raise food money, help the masses establish Soviet political power, and organize red guards and workers and peasants riot squads. In this way, the teaching team was tempered in the fierce struggle, which effectively improved the military and political quality and trained a number of grassroots backbones for the local government.

From the autumn harvest uprising to the national liberation, Lion fought side by side with Mao Zedong and was injured many times. Mao Zedong called him "a tough guy made of steel". 1955 was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and won the second-class August 1st Medal, the first-class Medal of Independence and Freedom, and the first-class Medal of Liberation. He is a veritable general who rose from the autumn harvest uprising.