The year 1973 was the seventh year of the special period, and during these seven years, many unexpected things happened, and with the passage of time, the work of convening the 10th National Congress of the Party was put on the agenda.
Who will lead the party organization to continue the struggle is a very serious and solemn matter, and at the suggestion of ***, the Politburo first held a small-scale discussion meeting, mainly to discuss the candidates for the party's chairman and vice chairman.
Who will be the chairman? There is no doubt that it must be *** so who will be the vice chairman?
The Politburo members present were a little silent, and everyone had their own ideas about this position, and after reading it, they said: "I think that among these candidates for vice chairman, there are old, young, and middle, don't we always talk about the combination of old, middle and young?" We should also combine the old, the middle and the young. ”
**'s remarks set the tone for the vice chairman's people, and everyone present still chose to be silent.
** Continued: "When I say 'medium', I mean selecting a person from the army. ”
Hearing this, the prime minister first responded: "I agree with the chairman, it just so happens that I recommend a suitable candidate." ”
Then, ** said a name, ** smiled and nodded, which showed that he also approved of this person as vice chairman.
**The candidate proposed is none other than Li Desheng.
To be honest, Li Desheng's qualifications in our army are actually not old, and in addition, he was not very famous during the war years, so why was Li Desheng able to enter the sight of *** during the special period?
Li Desheng is a native of Xinxian County, Henan, born in 1916, said that Li Desheng is not old, in fact, the reason is also because he is young, when Li Desheng was still an 11-year-old ignorant teenager, our party has broken out one after another Nanchang Uprising, Autumn Harvest Uprising, etc., Li Desheng has not participated in the uprising, his qualifications can naturally not be regarded as old.
However, when Li Desheng joined the Red Army, he was not very old, 14 years old, and he was a "red ghost".
From 1930 to 1937, before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, in these seven years, Li Desheng moved from Hubei, Henan and Anhui to the Sichuan-Shaanxi border, and then to northern Shaanxi.
It was also here that he met the first noble man in his life.
In 1935, Li Desheng expressed his dissatisfaction with Zhang Guotao's "leftist" mistakes at a meeting, which attracted the attention of his superiors, and then Li Desheng suffered the biggest setback in the five years since he joined the army, he was dismissed from his post, expelled from the party, and assigned to the 10th Division as a squad leader of the herald.
As the saying goes, "Life may not be as good as you think, but it's not as bad as you think." ”
For Li Desheng during this period, it was exactly like this, after the commander of the 10th Division learned what happened to Li Desheng, he was very sympathetic to him, so he took the initiative to enlighten Li Desheng and let him put down his burden and move forward lightly.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, ** gave Li Desheng another surprise.
At that time, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated for the second time, because the Kuomintang only gave our army three divisions, so our army had to demote and use the generals.
Later, whenever he recalled this incident, Li Desheng was very emotional, in fact, the promotion of Li Desheng did affect Li Desheng's revolutionary career in the future, since then, Li Desheng has been more energetic in fighting, and his position has been promoted again and again, by the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he has served as the head of the regiment and has become a middle and senior general in the Eighth Route Army.
During the Liberation War, Li Desheng became one of the "Three Musketeers" under the command of the fierce general Wang Jinshan.
Wang Jinshan is one of the most famous generals under Liu Deng, and he is known as one of the "two flowers in the second field" with ***, which shows that his ability is quite large.
Serving under Wang Jinshan is not a burying of Li Desheng's talent, not only that, Wang Jinshan also gave Li Desheng a lot of opportunities to prove himself, in many battles, Li Desheng's most legendary battle was the Battle of Xiangfan in 1948.
In this battle, Li Desheng led the troops to "split the three passes with a sword", seized the three passes of Pipa Mountain, Zhenwu Mountain, and Tiefo Temple, broke the city in one fell swoop, and made immortal achievements.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Desheng's revolutionary life entered a new period.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Li Desheng was the deputy commander of the 12th Army, and he led his troops to participate in the first to fifth battles, during which Li Desheng participated in and commanded the Shangganling Campaign.
For the Shangganling Campaign, everyone knows that Qin Jiwei is famous all over the world in this battle, but what is little known is that the second half of the Shangganling Campaign was actually commanded by Li Desheng, but he was low-key and was not allowed to publicize, so not many people knew about it.
After returning to China, Li Desheng was awarded the rank of major general for his merits, among the more than 1,000 founding major generals, Li Desheng was not famous at this time, and the reason why he later walked into the sight of the first class was mainly to do two things.
The first thing Li Desheng did was to discover and create the "Guo Xingfu Teaching Method", which was highly praised and affirmed by the whole army, and was quickly popularized throughout the army, which caused a climax in large-scale military training and made our army hold the first all-army large-scale competition in 1964.
The second thing Li Desheng did was to stop the martial arts incident in Wuhu during the special period, that is, in 1967, and control the relatively chaotic situation in Wuhu at that time.
This incident was later rebroadcast by "People**" and **People's Radio, and as a result, the name Li Desheng officially entered the sight of **leaders.
However, it is also said that Li Desheng is really valued by the ***, or at the 12th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in October 1968.
This year, Li Desheng attended the meeting as the person in charge of Anhui Province, and announced the group list at the meeting, read Li Desheng's name, and suddenly interrupted his speech and asked: "Which is Comrade Li Desheng?" ”
Li Desheng stood up and hurriedly introduced ***.
** smiled and then asked: "I think things in Anhui are doing well." Didn't we inform him of the whole lake? Wuhu is doing well! The Wuhu problem is complicated, how did you solve it? ”
Li Desheng: "It's a big deal."
**I was very satisfied with this answer, and I have since remembered Li Desheng's name.
Soon after, Li Desheng came to Beijing again to attend the First Plenary Session of the Ninth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, at this meeting, he was elected as a member of the Communist Party of China and an alternate member of the Political Bureau. ”
In this way, ** was more impressed by Li Desheng.
In July 1969, Li Desheng, who was working in Anhui, received a call: Comrade Desheng, I have decided to transfer you to Beijing to work. ”
This one ** completely changed Li Desheng's fate.
After arriving in Beijing, he met with Li Desheng and told Li Desheng that he should read more books, such as "Dream of Red Mansions", "Theory of Heavenly Evolution" and "Tongjian Chronicle", and read it several times, and Li Desheng kept this matter in mind.
Later, with the importance of Li Desheng, Li Desheng successively served as the commander of the Beijing Military Region, director of the General Political Department and other important positions, in the "September 13 Incident", Li Desheng sat in the air force, and made great contributions to the stability of the air force.
With the passage of time, Li Desheng's performance became better and better, and he trusted and valued him more, so the scene at the beginning of the article occurred.
On the eve of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1973, when the Politburo was discussing the candidate for vice chairman, it proposed that a person from the army should be elected as vice chairman, and it was proposed that Li Desheng meet the requirements.
**Agreed on the spot,In fact,**For the arrangement of this matter in the context of the time, it actually has another meaning.
Li Desheng originally wanted to resign, he thought that *** and others were older than him and should be served by ***, but ** stopped him and said: "The chairman has expressed his position, don't say it again." ”
In this way, Li Desheng was elected vice chairman of the party that year.