As we all know, in 1955, China carried out the awarding of titles by the whole army, and in 1956, some generals who did not participate in the 1955 awarding of titles were reissued. Among them, there was a deputy commander who refused to confer the title, which made Peng always hate iron and steel, and scolded him: "Don't you even listen to ***'s words?""So who is this deputy commander?Why did he refuse to be conferred?
The deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army is named Wei Wei, and President Peng is in such a hurry to confer the title on him, mainly because he hopes that his contributions during the war years will be duly rewarded. In fact, Wei Wei was not in our army at first, he graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, he served in the National Revolutionary Army, and he still started from the grassroots level, and rose all the way to the post of chief of staff of the 93rd Army. However, in the process of promotion, he saw the corruption of the people, which made him have other ideas, and he was very dissatisfied with the people.
In 1937, when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated again, Wei Wei thought of the Red Army that had been encircled and suppressed by the Kuomintang several times and was able to win the victory of the Long March, so he thought of meeting the original opponent. After Wei Wei came to Yan'an, he saw that all the Red Army units were positive and upbeat troops, and he sighed again: "It is not unreasonable that the Red Army has been able to defeat Chiang Kai-shek many times. ”
Therefore, Wei Wei put forward a request to our party to join the People's Army, but because it was in the context of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at that time, Wei Wei was a senior general, and if he directly joined our party, it might cause a political turmoil, so our party did not agree to his request for the time being.
But *** did not directly refuse Wei Wei, but persuaded him to continue to stay in the Kuomintang army, and maybe he could have extraordinary achievements later. Wei Wei also agreed with ***'s suggestion, so he returned to the **93 Army. Soon, he waited for the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
In 1940, Chiang Kai-shek was very anxious when he saw that the Eighth Route Army was developing so fast, so he ordered the **93rd Army to use military friction as an excuse to take the opportunity to enter the Shanxi-Henan border base area and find an opportunity to attack the strength of the Eighth Route Army. After Wei Wei learned the news, he immediately decided to help the Eighth Route Army tide over the crisis, so as chief of staff, he intercepted Chiang Kai-shek's telegram and urgently sent people to deliver the news to the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi-Henan border base area.
The Eighth Route Army in the Jin-Henan border base area had Wei Wei's intelligence and immediately took action to get out of the encirclement of the 93rd Army. However, this operation naturally exposed Wei Wei's identity, and even the commander of the 93rd Army knew in his heart that the only person who leaked the secret was Wei Wei, the chief of staff, so on June 5, the commander of the 93rd Army received a secret order from Lao Jiang and asked him to transfer Wei Wei to the ** training regiment for investigation.
And the commander of the 93rd Army is a very righteous person, he has worked with Wei Wei for many years, so naturally he will not betray his comrades, so he held a farewell banquet for him, and then sent six guards to send Wei Wei to the Eighth Route Army.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek, after learning about the behavior of the commander of the 93rd Army, was very angry, and directly removed his position, and let the spies strictly guard him. After Wei Wei came to the side of the Eighth Route Army, he was warmly welcomed, and he was also closely cared for by Chen Geng and **. After Wei Wei settled his family, he was transferred to the command of *** and worked in the general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
Because Wei Wei made outstanding achievements when he was in the Eighth Route Army, he personally wrote a letter of recommendation, allowing this former general of the Kuomintang Army to officially join the ranks of the Communist Party of China. Later, in the ranks of our army, Wei Wei worked until after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many important battles in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, he had experienced, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wei Wei had been promoted to a military-level cadre, and was the deputy commander of the 60th Army and the deputy commander of the West Sichuan Military Region.
When the title was conferred in 1955, Wei Wei's cadre rank could be awarded the rank of major general, but he himself felt that his revolutionary qualifications were not enough, so he could not take this military rank. So he immediately approached the leader of the appraisal committee and said that he could not accept this military rank, because many cadres in the army had not been awarded, so he could not be ranked first. As a result, his name did not appear in the 1955 list.
When Mr. Peng knew about this, he immediately found Wei Wei and asked him to accept this military rank, and said that this was an order from ***, and finally Wei Wei accepted it, and also asked to lower his military rank.