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The army commander during the Red Army period, who lived until 1955, mostly started as a general.
For example, the Red Army lived to the great award, President Peng, President Lin, and ** were all founding marshals, Zhang Yunyi was the founding general, and Zhang Zongxun was the founding general;Some outstanding generals who died young are also famous, such as Huang Gongluo, Luo Binghui, Deng Ping, Dong Zhentang, Zhao Bosheng, Zhou Jianping, Xun Huaizhou, etc.
He Lao of the Red Second Front Army was always the founding marshal, and Xiao Ke was the founding general;The *** of the Red Fourth Front Army is the founding marshal, Wang Shusheng is the founding general, Wang Hongkun and Xu Shiyou are the founding generals;Those young talents who sacrificed are also thunderous: such as Kuang Jixun, Wu Huanxian, Yu Tianyun, Sun Yuqing, etc.
There is a young general who was born in the Red Fourth Army, who became the first army commander at the age of 23, and his combat style is brave and strong, and he is the pioneer of the Long March of the Red Fourth Front Army. However, what is the reason why the Grand Conferral was only awarded to the Founding Lieutenant General?
This young hero is Cheng Shicai, the acting commander of the Red 30th Army.
Cheng Shicai was born in August 1912 in Dawu, Hubei Province, in a poor peasant family. At this stage of birth, he is basically at the same starting line as most of the founding generals. When Cheng Shicai was 17 years old, the warlords of Chiang, Yan, Feng and other warlords broke out in the Central Plains, and the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area developed rapidly.
Cheng Shicai served as a company instructor and other positions, and when Cheng Shicai really came to prominence was during the 33rd Regiment of the Red 11th Division. On the way to transfer from Hubei, Henan, and Anhui to the Sichuan-Shaanxi region, the Red Fourth Front Army was attacked from three sides by two divisions and one brigade of the Wei Lihuang Department of the enemy's 14th Army, and Wu Yunshan, the commander of the Red 33rd Regiment, died in the battle.
At the critical moment, political commissar Cheng Shicai stepped forward and led the broadsword team to kill the enemy, and the whole regiment was able to break through smoothly, but Cheng Shicai was seriously injured. In the second year, Hu Zongnan, Liu Maoen and Tian Songyao of the Sichuan Army organized a "three-way siege", and Cheng Shicai led the Red 33rd Regiment to cut off the enemy's retreat with the Red 11th Division. In this battle, the Red Fourth Front Army annihilated more than 13 enemy regiments and more than 10,000 people.
Under the leadership of Cheng Shicai, the Red 33rd Regiment played a great reputation, and was successively awarded the titles of "Attacking Like a Tiger Regiment" and "Night Tiger Regiment" by the Red Fourth Front Army Headquarters. In June 1933, the Red Fourth was expanded, and Cheng Shicai was promoted to the commander and political commissar of the 88th Division of the Red 30th Army.
During the Long March of the Red Fourth Front Army, Cheng Shicai, who was only 23 years old, was promoted to the acting commander of the Red 30th Army.
At that time, because Wang Shusheng, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Army, was no longer concurrently serving as the commander, the post of commander of the Red 31st Army was vacant. Yu Tianyun, commander of the Red 30th Army, was transferred to the commander of the 31st Army, Cheng Shicai was appointed acting commander of the Red 30th Army, and the political commissar was Comrade Xiannian. But for some reason, the word "generation" has not been removed.
During the period of acting army commander, the Red 30th Army, under the leadership of Comrade Cheng Shicai and Comrade Xiannian, opened roads in the mountains and built bridges in the water, served as the pioneer of the 100,000-strong army, and took the lead in meeting the division between Maogong and the Red Army in Sichuan. 23-year-old Cheng Shicai is hereMaoer coverI met the chairman for the first time and was deeply impressed by his magnanimity and wisdom.
After the three armies were assembled, the Red 30th Army was incorporated into the Western Route Army and made an expedition to the Hexi Corridor. After successive defeats, Comrade Cheng Shicai and Comrade Xiannian led more than 1,000 people from the rest of the 30th Red Army to trek in the bitter cold for 43 days, and led the remaining 407 people to finally arrive at Xingxing Gorge.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Cheng Shicai served as the chief of staff of Xiao Keji's Recha Advance Army;During the Liberation War, Cheng Shicai served as the commander of the 3rd Column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and served as the commander of several second-level military regionsAfter the founding of the People's Republic of China, Cheng Shicai served as the first deputy commander of the Public Security Army, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in September 1955.
During the period of the Red Army, the military achievements were great and the position was very high, so why was the general not awarded the title of general?
Cheng Shicai during the Red Army period was a fierce general with strong combat effectiveness.
Fighting bravely is the label of many senior generals of the Red Four, and Comrade Xiannian, the old partner of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and the political commissar of the Red 30th Army, once commented on Cheng Shicai: He is imposing on the battlefield, and he is indomitable, like a tiger out of the mountain.
However, because Cheng Shicai was very young, his qualifications during the Red Army period were not outstanding:
On the one hand, Cheng Shicai served as the acting military commander relatively late, and he was already on the way to the Long March.
As we all know, the Red Fourth Front Army has gone through several stages of development: the Red Army commanders in the founding period (before 1931) were the founding marshals and generals, such as Kuang Jixun, the commander of the Red 25th Army and the Red 4th Army, and the successor commander of the Red 4th Army
In July 1933, the Red Fourth Front Army was expanded for the first time, growing to 80,000 people
The commanders of the five armies under his command are Wang Hongkun (24 years old) of the Red 4th Army, He Wei (33 years old) of the Red 9th Army, Yu Tianyun (27 years old) of the Red 30th Army, Wang Shusheng (28 years old) of the Red 31st Army, and Wang Weizhou (46 years old) of the Red 33rd Army.
Red. 1. After the division of the Fourth Front Army, the commanders of the five armies of the Red Fourth Army were Xu Shiyou (30 years old) of the Red 4th Army, Sun Yuqing of the Red 9th Army, Cheng Shicai (23 years old) of the Red 30th Army, Yu Tianyun (29 years old) of the Red 31st Army, and Wang Weizhou (48 years old) of the Red 33rd Army. Cheng Shicai is the youngest.
On the other hand, until the defeat of the Western Route Army, Cheng Shicai's acting army commander did not turn positive.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Cheng Shicai was not on the front line of combat for a period of time.
Xu Shiyou, who has been in the army for a long time with Cheng Shicai, has similar military exploits to Cheng Shicai during the Red Army. During the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Shiyou has been making contributions on the front line in the 386 Brigade and Shandong. According to the organization's arrangement, Cheng Shicai studied at Kang Da and the Party School successively, and finally got the opportunity to go to the front line, and was sent to the Xiao Keji Recha Advance Army as chief of staff and commander of the detachment.
However, due to various factors, the development of the Jirecha Advance Army was restricted, and the number was soon revoked. Cheng Shicai returned to northern Shaanxi, returned to the Kang University branch as the principal, and later served as the deputy director of the fourth department of the party school, making contributions on another front, but he was not as dazzling as some other comrades-in-arms on the battlefield.
At this time, what are his old comrades-in-arms doing in Red Fourth?Wang Shusheng served as the deputy of the Taihang Military Region, Wang Hongkun served as Chen Zaidao's deputy in the Southern Hebei Military Region, and Xu Shiyou served as the first leader of the Jiaodong Military Region in Shandong.
During the Liberation War, the generals of the Eighth Route Army who stayed in Yan'an landed in the Northeast one after another, such as Xiao Jinguang, Han Xianchu, Cheng Shicai and others, after Cheng Shicai entered the Northeast, he successively served as the deputy commander of the Southern Liaoning and Eastern Liaoning Military Regions, and the commander of the 3rd Column. After "Commander of the Whirlwind" Han Xianchu served as the commander of the 3rd Column, Cheng Shicai was transferred back to the second-level military region, first Andong, and then Liaoxi, and the troops under his direct command were independent detachments, and his main task was to open up and build liberated areas and do a good job in providing support.
Objectively speaking, Cheng Shicai and Li Yunchang were the pioneers in seizing the northeast and made outstanding historical contributions to the realization of Yan'an's strategy of "getting out of the way and occupying the two sides". With the changes in the situation in Northeast China, many outstanding high-ranking generals have been assigned to the field of local troops and local construction, and have silently made contributions.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Cheng Shicai entered the Military Academy, and was later appointed as the first deputy commander of the Public Security Army, becoming the right-hand man of the People's Republic of China, and in 1955, Cheng Shicai was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and "three first-class medals".
The commanders of the 12 main columns of Higashino were mostly awarded the founding generals. But there are also some column-level commanders such as Wan Yi and Zhan Caifang as lieutenant generals, as well as Duan Suquan, He Jinnian, and Zhong Wei as major generals. Comparatively,Cheng Shicai, the commander of the Red Army, was awarded lieutenant general, which was also in the normal category.
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2. "Red Fourth Front Army", by Shaohua, Hunan People's Publishing House.
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