Liu Zhidan: The unique figure of the Chinese familyLiu Zhidan's position in the Chinese family is of special significance. This uniqueness is mainly reflected in several aspects: First, hundreds of well-known senior generals have emerged in the squadron, including the top ten marshals, top ten generals, generals and a large number of "untitled generals". The honor of being classified as a "military strategist" is not trivial;Secondly, in the long run, Liu Zhidan at least has the qualifications of the founding general, which is comparable to the top ten founding generals, and even surpasses some base areas and the founders of the Red Army. Such a status speaks for itself;Moreover, Liu Zhidan was the last of the "military strategists", and the timing of his selection was extremely special, which also highlighted the eternal contribution of him and the Red Army of northern Shaanxi to the revolutionary cause. If it weren't for the existence of Liu Zhidan and the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, it would have been difficult for the Red Army and the three main forces of the Long March to find a clear foothold. At that time, when the enemy forces in the north were strong and the great northwest region was barren, it was extremely difficult to find a suitable base area.
With his deeds of laying the foothold of the Red Army, Liu Zhidan is enough to go down in history. In the last century, the gap between the North and the South was palpable. If we take the traditional Qinling Mountains and the Huai River as the boundary, divide the north and south of China's geography, and there are 9 southerners among the military experts, accounting for 917%；In the north, there is only 1, and the proportion of people is only 83%。Among them, there are 5 from Hunan, including the chairman and 6 marshals;There are 3 in Sichuan, including Deng Gong, Yang Shangkun, etc.;Hubei has 4;There are 3 in Guangdong;In addition, Luo Binghui is from Yunnan, and Fang Zhimin is from Jiangxi, both of whom are from the south;There are only 3 from the north: Zhou Gong, the "beautiful bearded man" of Huai'an, Jiangsu, the "Marshal of Buyi"** from Wutai, Shanxi, and other military strategists from the north. Liu Zhidan, a revolutionary born in Baoan, Shaanxi, acted in line with the situation against the backdrop of high revolutionary enthusiasm in the south and deserted revolution in the north. In the history of the Chinese revolution, the only ten marshals from the north were ***
Judging from the development trend of the Red Army, Liu Zhidan's actions are also logical. During the period of the agrarian revolution, the Red Army once developed and grew in more than a dozen base areas, numbering tens of thousands. It was established one after another.
The number of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Front armies and several corps, as well as multiple armies. The vast majority of these armies were active in the south, ranging from the Red Army to the Red Army. In addition, there were also units in the south, such as the Red Army of Western Fujian, the Red Army of Southwest Jiangxi, and the Red Army of Southern Jiangxi, as well as the Red Army in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base areas. In the area north of the Huai River in the Qinling Mountains, only a few armies were born, including the Red Army and the Red Army of Northern Shaanxi, which were formed after the Long March, and the Red Army of Li Hongguang, which was born in the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. Liu Zhidan and the Northern Shaanxi Red Army were among the few survivors of the northern army. Compared with the Xiyang region of Shanxi Province and the Great Plains of eastern and southern Hebei provinces, northern Shaanxi is arid and has little rainfall and barren land, and is at a disadvantage in terms of food crops, economic development and population numbers.
However, Liu Zhidan and the Northern Shaanxi Red Army survived tenaciously and became the leading figures and core forces of the Northern Shaanxi Red Army. Liu Zhidan is a cadet of the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and **, Hu Lian and others are classmates, after the failure of the Great Revolution, he returned to his hometown to organize the military movement and peasant uprising. His father was the head of the regiment in Jintang Town, and he had a wide range of local contacts. Liu Zhidan's cousin, Zhao Lianbi, was a well-known local revolutionary leader. Liu Zhidan adopted the strategy of leveraging his strength to cooperate with the regular army to transport arms and materials, absorb the power of King Shan, and transform the Elders' Association, and quickly formed a red armed team composed of more than 300 people. After the Weihua Uprising, Liu Zhidan was good at conducting guerrilla warfare according to local conditions, and gradually strengthened his own power. Compared with other armies, Liu Zhidan's Red Army was indeed different. For example, the Red Army was founded before the "918" incident, a year before Liu Zhidan's Red Army.
In the early days of its establishment, the Red Army had more than 1,100 people, far more than Liu Zhidan's more than 300 at the time of its establishment, but in the end it did not hold out. In addition, Liu Zhidan's Red Army faced Shi Yousan a very difficult opponent, and his subordinate Shen Ke inherited his mantle. Gu Xiongyi, the political commissar of the Red Army, and others were ensnared and assassinated one after another, and the troops were sharply reduced to more than 700 people. In the north, the difficulty of the armed uprising can be seen, and the tenacity of Liu Zhidan and his Red Army is even more valuable. If it weren't for Liu Zhidan, even if Xu Haidong's Red Army could reach northern Shaanxi on a long march, it would be difficult to gain a foothold. Similarly, without the Shaanxi-Gansu border base founded by Liu Zhidan, Xu Haidong, Cheng Zihua, and the Red Army would have paid an even greater price if they wanted to take root in northern Shaanxi. In addition, without the support of the masses in northern Shaanxi, it was by no means easy for Xu Haidong and the Red Army to survive. The existence of Liu Zhidan and the Shaanxi-Gansu border base areas provided a clear goal for the three main forces of the Red Army to go north to resist Japan, and also enabled the strength of the Red Army to continue and grow.
It is precisely because of this that Xu Haidong was able to take out 7,000 oceans to support the 5,000 yuan of the Red First Army. It can be said that Liu Zhidan and the Red Army of Northern Shaanxi have made irreplaceable contributions in history. Liu Zhidan, who died young, was deservedly awarded the title of "military strategist".