康健民(1916.12～1977.1.18),字廷文,甘肃省榆中县回回沟村(现划属定西县)人。家居地瘠民穷的干旱山区,加之灾荒不断,战乱频繁,全家13口人在饥寒交迫中生活。康健民从七八岁时起就给地主家放马,经常骑着马在山坡上奔跑,自幼练得一身精良骑术,有“草上飞”美名。15岁那年被国民党甘肃警备第十一旅抓去当兵,过着食不饱腹和挨军官打骂的苦难生活,从而也铸成了他吃苦耐劳、勇敢刚强的性格。1932年春,中国工农红军陕甘游击总指挥谢子长,派共产党员杨林、苏建如等人到伪军十一旅三营策动兵变。当时,该营驻防甘肃省西华池,下属两个连队。杨林到达西华池后,即与共产党员、担任伪一连连长的高鹏飞等人研究了策动计划。7月8日,山骨干、伪排长曹胜勇带领一连战士乘二连 Kang Jianmin (1916.12 ~ 1977.1.18), the word Tingwen, Gansu Yuzhong County Huiqiu Village (now designated Dingxi County) people. Households barren poor arid mountainous areas, coupled with continuous famine, war chaos, the family of 13 people living in hunger and cold. Kang Jianmin from the seventy-eight years old since he gave the landlord the home horse, often riding a horse running on the hillside, since childhood, a well-trained riding, “grass fly ” fame. At the age of 15, he was arrested by the 11th Brigade of the Kuomintang Gansu vigilante and lived a life of misery and was beaten by officers. He also cast his hard-working, brave and strong character. In the spring of 1932, the Chinese worker-peasant Red Army Shaanxi and Gansu guerrilla commanders, chief commander XIE Zi-long, sent Communist Party members Yang Lin and SU Jian-ru and others to the puppet army’s 11 Brigade and the Three Battalions to make tactic changes. At that time, the camp stationed in Xihua pool, Gansu province, under the two companies. After Yang Lin arrived in Xihua Pond, Gao Popei, who was a Communist party member and served as a spy company, studied the plan. July 8, the backbone of the mountain, pseudo-chief Cao Shengyong led a soldier by two companies