Senior General Chen Geng is the first vice minister of national defense in Chinese history to die of illness while in office. He died of a myocardial infarction in Shanghai in 1961 at the age of 58, while he was also serving as vice minister of national defense. Chen Geng was China's first founding general to die while in office. Four years later, another vice minister of national defense, General Liu Yalou, also died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 55, three years younger than Chen Geng. Liu Yalou was one of the founding generals who died earlier. Among the founding generals, Liu Yalou is famous because he was the first commander of the Air Force of New China and the longest-serving Air Force commander so far, for 16 years, no one has broken this record. In addition to serving as the commander of the Air Force, Liu Yalou also serves as vice minister of national defense. In 1959, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defence, a post he held for only six years, until his death in 1965. Why did Liu Yalou die so early?(Li Kenong, Chen Geng, and Liu Yalou). The main responsibility lies with Liu Yalou himself, who is a workaholic and never cares about his own health. In 1964, U.S. unmanned aircraft arrogantly entered Chinese airspace, before China had the capability to shoot them down. Liu Yalou attached great importance to this matter and personally went to Guangdong to inspect the First Air Division.
The leaders of the 1st Air Division found that Commander Liu was not in a good state, and the red-faced and energetic image of Liu Yalou they had seen before no longer existed, and was replaced by a sickly figure with a thin and pale face. The leaders of the 1st Air Force Division suggested with concern that Commander Liu take a break, but Liu Yalou has always been resolute and resolutely refused, saying that he had come to work, not to recuperate. In the process of listening to the report, Liu Yalou almost fainted many times due to severe pain in his liver and beads of sweat on his forehead, but he endured the pain and continued the meeting to study how to shoot down the drone. ** Personally supervised Liu Yalou to be hospitalized, and since then, Liu Yalou has never returned to work. Liu Yalou finally followed the instructions of the prime minister and the urging of his wife and went to the hospital for examination. The doctor was surprised to find that Liu Yalou's liver transaminase in his body was as high as 300 units, more than four times the normal level, and the entire liver was as hard as a stone, which was almost certain to be an advanced liver cancer. This is unbelievable, why was Liu Yalou dragged to such a point?Didn't he even realize he had liver disease?Aren't his family and friends aware of it?If we had found it earlier, if we had found it earlier, wouldn't it have been possible to avoid all this?
However, this is the case, at the beginning of the founding of New China, the air force was poor and white, facing the challenge of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but Liu Yalou built a large number of air force units with full combat effectiveness in only a very short period of time. This caused a shock at home and the attention of the world. Liu Yalou is not the Monkey King, and he does not have the ability to change in seventy-two ways, and all miracles are obtained by his hard work day and night. Liu Yalou had long realized that there was something wrong with his health, but he persevered for the sake of work, concealed his illness from everyone, and never stepped into the hospital. All this is for work, for the strength of the new Chinese Air Force, Liu Yalou has been racing against time (Liu Yalou and the three old marshals). After Liu Yalou's physical examination report came out, he did not immediately inform himself and his family, but first reported it to the ** leader. After receiving this report, the prime minister was shocked, the chairman was also shocked, and Liu Yalou's comrades-in-arms were even more shocked!**Immediately instructed to stop all work in Liu Yalou immediately and send him to the best hospital**.
However, what is surprising is that after getting the instructions of **, Liu Yalou actually stuffed it into a drawer and continued to devote himself to work, no matter how others persuaded him, it would be useless. Liu Yalou quickly drafted a report on dealing with American unmanned aircraft. When this report was sent to ***, ** did not give instructions, but personally wrote a letter full of care and handed it to Liu Yalou: "Comrade Yalou, I am deeply concerned when I learned that you are ill, so you must recuperate seriously, follow the doctor's advice, and do not neglect." ”。Liu Yalou had to go to the hospital, and the next day, accompanied by his wife, he went to Shanghai Huadong Hospital, and from that moment on, Liu Yalou never returned home. According to the method formulated by Liu Yalou, the heroic soldiers of the Chinese Air Force shot down American unmanned aircraft one after another. ** He accompanied his family to visit Liu Yalou in the hospital three times and gave him revolutionary records. When these air force heroes arrived in Beijing and were personally received by the ** chief, they met the beloved *** Mr. He and *** Marshal, but did not meet their commander Liu. On such an occasion, Commander Liu should not be absent.
When they learned that Commander Liu was receiving ** in the hospital, the heroes couldn't help but burst into tears. They will never see their commander Liu Yalou again. During Liu Yalou's hospitalization, many old comrades-in-arms came to visit him. **Marshal and General Yang Chengwu all came, and even Mr. Lin, who never went to the hospital to visit patients, also came. Of course, Mr. Lin will come, because Liu Yalou has always been his right-hand man, since the beginning of the Red Army's Long March, Lin has always been the commander of the Red First Army, and Liu Yalou is the pioneer of the Red First Army, the political commissar of the Red Second Division and the commander of the Red First Division. During the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Yalou went to the Soviet Union to study Xi, while Mr. Lin went to the Soviet Union to accept **, and even attended Liu Yalou's wedding in person. During the Liberation War, as the commander of the Northeast Army, the god of war Lin always felt that many tasks were in a state of unsatisfactory and he was not able to command. It wasn't until Liu Yalou served as chief of staff that Mr. Lin was able to command with ease. The concern of the chief and his comrades-in-arms did not save Liu Yalou's life. In May 1965, Liu Yalou, a generation of famous generals, passed away, leaving the air force career he loved, his wife and young children who worked together.
He is an old scalper who is going all out and working hard for the revolutionary cause. Liu Yalou not only died of illness while serving as commander of the Air Force, but also died while serving as vice minister of national defense.