In 1938, almost a year after the establishment of the Eighth Route Army, many generals went to the front line to resist Japan, but they were still studying Xi at Yan'an Marxist-Leninist College. On this day, Tan Zheng, deputy director of the General Political Department, talked to ***, saying that the organization was going to let him go to the 129th Division to be the battalion commander, and asked *** if he had any opinions.
Will there be no opinions?**Before, he was a military commissar, at the military level. However, ***, who has a strong party spirit, replied that he had no opinion, resolutely obeyed the organization's decision, and as long as he carried a gun to kill the Japanese invaders, he could go to **. Soon, ** learned about it and said very angrily that it was so unfair.
What's going on?
** is a native of Hong'an, Hubei, under the influence of the Great Revolution, where the revolutionary atmosphere is relatively strong, ** since childhood, the family is poor, very early participated in the local peasant association to fight the landlord, embarked on the revolutionary road. In 1927, he was honored to join the party and was also elected chairman of the Gaoqiao District Trade Union.
That year, he was only 18 years old, and he was really a hero. The leader found that *** was a good seedling, so he cultivated him with his heart. Once, a mass meeting was to be held, and at the beginning of the meeting, the leaders suddenly informed *** that they were going to the county for a meeting, and this mass meeting was presided over by ***.
It's too sudden, ** has never presided over such a large mass meeting alone, only ** on the scalp, he talked for more than two hours, but fortunately, it was dark, and everyone couldn't see his nervous expression. When he finished, the leader came out from under the table and applauded with the crowd.
It turned out that the leaders did not go to the county for a meeting. Only then did I know that the leader was deliberately cultivating him. Since then, ** has experienced, and then chaired the meeting, I am not nervous, but speak in an orderly manner, which is very impressive.
In 1927, ** participated in the Jute Uprising. After the defeat of the uprising, the struggle continued. Appointed by the party organization, he went to work in the local area and served as the chairman of the Gaoqiao District Soviet. He was only 20 years old at the time. Later, he was elected chairman of the county soviets.
** Very strong ability to work. He has a population of more than 200,000 and often goes deep into the masses to do work. Everyone likes to find *** for comment, and the common people even regard him as a god, even if it doesn't rain
Once, Zhang Guotao came to Gaoqiao and met the chairman of the district Soviet *** In Zhang Guotao's later recollections, he spoke very highly of ***, saying that he was an old and capable guerrilla with a serious attitude, cautious in his speech, and a report on the development of Gaoqiao District. Even Zhang Guotao admired his ability.
In 1931, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Red Army developed greatly, and the "Red Expansion Conference" was held, and he personally led more than 300 aspiring young people to participate in the Red Army. The chairman of the Soviet of a county personally led more than 300 aspiring young people to join the Red Army, which was a very sensational sensation in the Soviet district at that time, and it was also a good story, and the "Lenin newspaper" in the Soviet district carried propaganda reports on it.
In view of the prestige of ***, he came with a team again, so the superiors quickly appointed *** as the political commissar of the regiment. At that time, he was only 22 years old, and he was a very young commander and fighter of the Red Army.
Joining the army is the political commissar of the regiment, and the starting point of this revolution is very high. Because of the experience of local work, he is very good at doing political work, and the regiment he led was not afraid of sacrifice in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle, made many meritorious contributions, and brilliantly completed various tasks, and was awarded the honorary title of "Communist International Regiment" by the headquarters of the Red Fourth Front Army.
** Before doing political work in the local area, he didn't understand what it was like to march and fight, he didn't understand it at all. At first, he couldn't even ride a horse, and was laughed at by the soldiers. **Make up your mind, learn from scratch, ride a horse, shoot, march, camp, set up, and learn Xi desperately, and the progress is very fast and impressive.
How to march in a large army?**At first, he didn't understand, he was a little in a hurry, so he went to ask a battalion commander, and the battalion commander shouted
In the order of the 123rd Battalion and the regimental direct team, they marched all the way in columns.All at once the troops were in order. Only then did I understand that this is how the great army marched.
It can be said that from being the chairman of a county soviet, to becoming a commissar of the Red Army, everything had to be learned from scratch, from scratch. Don't be afraid, **'s biggest specialty is to be good at learning Xi, and he learns quickly, and soon he will become a qualified regimental political commissar. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he changed his career to do financial work, and he also learned it, so he became the Minister of Finance of New China.
In 1932, ** was promoted to political commissar of the Red 11th Division, and the division commander at that time was Ni Zhiliang, later the founding lieutenant general. In the Battle of Qiliping, ** was wounded twice and sat on a stretcher to command the troops to march. In 1933, the Red Fourth Front Army entered Sichuan, thwarted the three-way siege of the Sichuan Army, the troops developed rapidly, expanded in Mumen, and was promoted to the political commissar of the Red 30th Army, becoming one of the rare senior generals of the Red Fourth Front Army.
From the regimental political commissar in 1931, to the division political commissar in 1932, and then to the military political commissar in 1933, ** one step a year, it should be said that the promotion speed is still relatively fast. Xu Shiyou in 1933 was promoted to deputy commander. **Faster than Xu Shiyou's promotion.
The Red Fourth Front Army produced fierce generals, and there were many fierce Zhang Fei who charged into battle, such as Xu Shiyou, Wang Shusheng, Chen Zaidao, Wang Jinshan, etc., but there was a lack of political commissars who could do political work, and ** was one of the most outstanding political commissars of the Red Fourth Front Army.
After the victory of the Red Army's Long March, three armies of the Red Fourth Front Army crossed the Yellow River and joined the Western Route Army. ** It can be said that it is the pioneer of the Western Route Army. If you want to cross the Yellow River, you have to have a boat, ** worked as a carpenter, was responsible for shipbuilding, and led the Red 30th Army to cross the river first.
After the successful crossing of the river, the Western Route Army soon found itself in trouble. In the great northwest, the land was unfamiliar, there was a shortage of water and food, and the bloody siege of the Ma family army caused great losses to the troops. The Red 9th Army fought in Gulang City, and the Red 5th Army fought on the high platform, the two army commanders unfortunately died, and the two armies were also greatly injured.
The Red 30th Army became the only main force of the Western Route Army. ** Fought bloody battles with army commander Cheng Shicai, and finally failed. The situation is dire. In a battle, ** lay on the embankment to observe the enemy's situation, and half of his body was exposed.
The commander reminded him to pay attention to concealment, but he didn't care at all, and he didn't move. The commander of the trumpet was in a hurry, raised his right hand and grabbed his shoulder and pressed it down, and suddenly a bullet hit the commander's right arm, and suddenly the flesh and blood were blurred, and the bones were exposed.
The commander was wounded, if he hadn't pressed ***'s arm, this bullet would definitely hit ***, and the consequences would have been unimaginable. In the face of the crisis, the two leaders of the West Route Army, *** and Chen Changhao, left the army and went to Yan'an to report their work, and the remaining troops were under the unified military command of ***.
Western Route Army Memorial Hall).
Obviously, this is a high level of trust in ***. In order to preserve the team, ** decided to march westward and cross the Qilian Mountains, and when they reached the Xingxing Gorge at the junction of Gansu and Xinjiang, there were only more than 400 people left.
History proves that the choice of ** is correct, because those who march eastward will suffer greater losses, and many Red Army generals such as Wang Shusheng almost begged all the way back to Yan'an.
After all, some backbone generals have been saved for the party, and these are elites who have been tempered for thousands of years. Later, he recalled that it was when he was ordered to be in danger and not be alarmed by changes and save a group of fighting backbones for the party, which is very remarkable.
Under the response of the organization, ** and others returned to Yan'an. Before joining the Western Route Army, he commanded an army, and now it is estimated that there is only one battalion left.
When I was in Xinjiang at that time, someone once asked***
Are you going to go to the Soviet Union, or to Yan'an?Because it was very convenient to enter the USSR from Xinjiang. Replied without hesitation
Of course, it's Yan'an.The flames of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression have risen, and he wants to go to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. After returning to Yan'an, he was cordially received by ***. **The sentence "You have worked hard" made *** and others almost burst into tears. Subsequently, ** entered the third phase of the Xi of Kang University, and the third phase was completed in less than two months of enrollment.
At that time, the struggle to criticize Zhang Guotao's erroneous line had not completely ended, and he hated Zhang Guotao and truthfully criticized Zhang Guotao. Because he felt depressed and uncomfortable, he took the initiative to leave Kang University and enter the Marxist-Leninist Institute to continue his studies Xi.
General Tan Zheng) During this period, Tan Zheng talked to him and said,
The organization is ready to send you to the 129th Division as a battalion commander, do you have any opinions?As mentioned earlier, after the defeat of the Western Route Army, the troops brought back by ** are equivalent to a battalion. From the military political commissar, demoted to the battalion commander, ** although he was angry, but the party spirit has always been strong, he resolutely obeyed the organization's decision. As long as you go to the front line to kill the enemy, it doesn't matter what position you have. And he answered,
No comments. Resolutely obey the organizational arrangement.Soon, ** knew about this matter and talked to *** in person. **Say,
I heard that you are going to be a battalion commander in the 129th Division, is there such a thing?Truthfully replied,
Yes.**Say,
It's so unfair.Why is this unfair?
First, ** was a senior general who was a military political commissar before, and he was at the regular army level, and he was demoted to a battalion commander all of a sudden, which is a 6-level reduction in a row. Although it is said that from the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army, many people have been demoted, and it is normal to even be demoted by 3 levels, but are there any 6 levels in a row?I guess there's only *** person. No one can stand it.
Second, some regiment commanders of the 129th Division, such as *** were ***'s subordinates during the Red Army, such as Chen Zaidao, when he was the military political commissar, he was the division commander, and now Chen Zaidao is already the deputy brigade commander of the 129th Division, ** went to the 129th Division as a battalion commander, how can he face *** Chen Zaidao and other old subordinates and old comrades-in-arms of the year?
Third, at that time, because of Zhang Guotao's problem, some officers and soldiers of the Red Fourth Front Army were appointed unfairly, and they opposed this practice, believing that Zhang Guotao only represented himself, and most of the officers and men of the Red Fourth Front Army were the party's wealth and treasures.
** thinks that *** must not be allowed to be the battalion commander, he did not agree with the decision of the General Political Department, so he personally talked to ***. For the history of ***, *** has a certain understanding, he believes that *** is a pioneering ability and good at being a general, "the general does not get off the horse", which is a high evaluation of ***.
The conversation continued. **Q***
Do you know Gao Jingting?replied,
Not only acquaintance, but also familiarity.**Say,
There is an urgent shortage of military cadres in the New Fourth Army, so why don't you go to him as chief of staff?At that time, Gao Jingting was the commander of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, which means that he should serve as the chief of staff of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army. This is definitely higher than going to the 129th Division as a battalion commander.
Although *** asked ***'s opinion in a solicited tone, ** could feel ***'s earnest care, and he resolutely obeyed ***'s wise decision. Go on to say
However, I heard that Gao Jingting has a bad temper, loves to kill, and is difficult to work with, are you afraid?replied,
Don't be afraid, when I was in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, I fought guerrilla warfare with him, and later he served as chairman of the Soviet District Soviet, and I was chairman of the Soviet in Pi'an County, and I also had a lot of contact in my work, and I almost talked about everything, and I even rolled on a bunk.After listening to ***'s words, ** smiled happily, and changed his appointment to *** and asked him to go to the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army as chief of staff. In the minds of ***, all the cadres of the Red Fourth Front Army are the same as the Red Front Army and should not be treated differently.
**。He happily went south, but he didn't go to Gao Jingting. The situation changed too quickly, and ** arrived in the Zhugou area of Queshan County, Henan, and established the Henan-Hubei Independent Guerrilla Detachment of the New Fourth Army, ** as the commander. This team, which started with just over 160 people, has grown to more than 9,000 in just a few months.
Sure enough, he didn't see the wrong person, ** was very good at leading the team, and he pulled up another army for the party. After the Southern Anhui Incident, the first unit was reorganized into the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, with a total of more than 15,000 people, and ** served as the division commander and political commissar.
In the later period of the Anti-Japanese War, the Central Plains Military Region was established, and ** served as the commander and political commissar. The war of liberation broke out in full force, and it was from him that Chiang Kai-shek besieged it with heavy troops, and launched a thrilling breakthrough in the Central Plains with great wisdom and courage.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as vice premier and was one of the founding fathers of the republic. He was originally qualified to be awarded the rank of general, because he had already held an important position in the ** and took the initiative to resign from the rank. ** is an uncrowned general.