Among the 57 founding generals of our country, few people are known, and several of them are Yang Zhicheng of the Dong nationality, Li Tao of the Mongolian Yao nationality, and Wei Guoqing of the Zhuang nationality.
In 1973, when ** met with senior generals of the army in Zhongnanhai, he saw Wei Guoqing, who was the first political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region at the time, and said happily: "Old friend, you are not Wei Guoqing, your appearance has changed, you have gained weight." ”
Wei Guoqing, how did he become an old friend?
Wei Guoqing is a native of Donglan County, Guangxi, at the age of 15 joined the Peasant Self-Defense Army, in 1929, he joined the Communist Youth League, officially began his revolutionary career, that year, he participated in Wei Baqun, ** Zhang Yunyi led the Baise Uprising.
Later, his wife Xu Qiqian asked him: "At that time, have you ever seen ***?"”
Wei Guoqing replied: "We are in charge of the head of the guard, ** Zhang Yunyi, they are in and out, haven't we all met?"”
After the uprising, Wei Guoqing has been in the ranks of the Red Army, successively served as a company commander, secretary of the general branch of the Red Army University, etc., in October 1934, the Red Army Long March said that he was the commander of the special battalion of the cadre regiment, and the head of the cadre regiment at that time was the famous Chen Geng.
During the Long March, Wei Guoqing followed the regiment commander Chen Geng and did many contributions, such as setting up a pontoon bridge for the troops on the Wujiang River, participating in the battle of seizing the Jinsha River and attacking Tong'an Prefecture.
In August 1935, the ** Red Army Cadre Corps and the Red Army School of the Fourth Front Army were merged and compiled as the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army University, and the special science battalion was expanded into the special science regiment, Wei Guoqing continued to serve as the head of the ** regiment, in 1936, when participating in the Battle of Wayaobao, Wei Guoqing led his troops to cover the evacuation of ***, and he was unfortunately wounded.
Many years later, ** said to him with emotion: "I have not been injured, Mr. Zhu has not been injured, Wei Guoqing, you are injured." ”
During the Anti-Japanese War, Wei Guoqing successively served as the captain of the 6th Brigade of the Anti-Japanese University, the political commissar of the 9th Brigade of the New Fourth Army, and the deputy commander of the Fourth Division.
During the Liberation War, Wei Guoqing successively served as the commander of the 2nd Column of the Shandong Field Army, the commander and political commissar of the 2nd Column of the Huaye Army, the commander of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and the political commissar of the 10th Corps of the Sanye Army.
In 1947, Hao Pengju, who defected to our army, defected to the Kuomintang troops, and when the commander learned of it, he immediately summoned Wei Guoqing and asked him to lead his troops to eliminate Hao Pengju's troops.
Wei Guoqing lived up to expectations, although Hao Peng's troops were behind Huang Botao's group, but Wei Guoqing used flexible tactics to make the troops go around in front of Hao Peng's troops and wipe him out, when Huang Botao learned of this, Wei Guoqing had already led his troops to evacuate safely.
*After learning the news, he was very happy, Wei Guoqing came to return to his life, ** took a telegram and said to him: "Look, ** and *** congratulate you." ”
After that, Wei Guoqing participated in the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Huaihai, etc.
In 1948, it was decided to form the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and the first thing to consider was to ask Wei Guoqing to serve as the commander of the Northern Jiangsu Corps and Chen Pixian as the political commissar.
In the first stage of the Huaihai Campaign, it was to eliminate Huang Botao's group, Wei Guoqing led the Northern Jiangsu Corps to the south from the Longhai Road in accordance with the orders of his superiors, cutting off the retreat route of Huang Botao's four armies to the east or west, Chiang Kai-shek sent troops to support, and the Huaye Command sent an order to Wei Guoqing, asking him to block the enemy's aid forces.
Wei Guoqing believed that to help the enemy, we should hit its vital parts, so he sent our troops to take the initiative to fight fiercely with the enemy at Xuzhou Airport, Pantang, Donghe Village, and other places, and the enemy was forced to change the aid plan.
After Huang Botao's group was completely annihilated, Wei Guoqing once again led his troops to separate Li Yannian, Liu Ruming's corps and Huang Wei's corps to fight, these tasks, he completed them very well, in early January, Wei Guoqing once again led his troops to annihilate Du Yuming's group, Huaihai Campaign finally won the victory of our army, Wei Guoqing made great contributions.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, ** originally wanted to send Wei Guoqing to do diplomatic work, either to the United Nations, or to the United Kingdom as an ambassador, the United Nations was controlled by the United States at that time, and New China was not allowed to enter, and Britain was not friendly to our country.
In the end, the party organization decided not to send an ambassador to England.
At this time, the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh asked China to send a military advisory group to Vietnam to assist them in the anti-French campaign, and with the consent of ***, Wei Guoqing was appointed as the head of the military advisory group.
When meeting with the members of the military advisory group, Wei Guoqing was praised again, he said: "The Communist Party needs to go, you can go to a comfortable environment, you can go to a difficult place, as long as the work needs, you don't care about anything else, you have to Xi learn from Comrade Wei Guoqing." ”
In 1954, with the help of the Chinese Affairs Advisory Group, the Vietnamese People's Army had wiped out 110,000 French troops, and in 1955, Wei Guoqing once again commanded the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
After this war, the French had to throw in the towel.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general, the Order of Eighty-One of the Second Degree, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the First Degree, and the Order of Liberation of the First Degree.
In 1956, ** proposed that Wei Guoqing stay in the army, ** did not agree: "The People's Congress of Guangxi has elected Wei Guoqing as the governor, and others have set up the governor's desk for him. ”
As a result, Wei Guoqing was in charge of Guangxi for 20 years, and during these 20 years, Wei Guoqing did many useful things for Guangxi, such as rebuilding Guangxi University, asking Guangdong to return to the Beibu Gulf, building the Guangxi National Printing House, and building the Liugang and Xijin hydropower stations.
Because Wei Guoqing did many things that were beneficial to the people during his time in Guangxi, to this day, many people of the older generation still miss his name when he mentions it in Guangxi.
In 1958, ** came to Nanning, Guangxi, to prepare for a meeting here, after some leading comrades came, Wei Guoqing, as the host, wanted to do his best to the friendship of the landlord, saying that he invited everyone to dinner, ** was not allowed to invite dinner.
However, *** is still very lenient towards his old friend, he said: "Just once, be simpler." ”
Wei Guoqing proposed to get a snake soup for everyone, and ** agreed: "Let everyone taste it." ”
During the banquet, ** jokingly said to everyone: "Lingnan people have the Xi of eating snake soup, Wei Guoqing is a Lingnan person, you must taste it, otherwise you will look down on Lingnan people." ”
In 1971, during the ** southern tour, I talked with Wei Guoqing in Changsha: "Wei Baqun and you are both surnamed Wei, are they a family?"”
Wei Guoqing: "In addition to the five suits, Wei Baqun went to Guangdong to give lectures on Xi Xi and received the chairman's education. ”
**: I can't say what he Xi learned from me, nominally, I'm a gentleman, he's a student, in fact, he's a sir, I'm a student. It's a pity that this comrade has already died, and I miss him very much. ”
In 1973, when the commanders of the eight major military regions were transferred, Xu Shiyou was transferred from the commander of the Nanjing Military Region to the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, and Wei Guoqing was the first political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region at that time.
**When meeting with senior generals of the army, when he saw Wei Guoqing, he smiled and said: "Old friend, you are not Wei Guoqing, your appearance has changed, you have become fat, you have to help Comrade Xu Shiyou more, he is not familiar with life there." ”
It can be seen from this incident that **'s trust in Wei Guoqing is also enough to see his love for Xu Shiyou.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wei Guoqing successively served as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fourth to Seventh National People's Congress.
Fourth, the vice chairman of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and other positions, is at the vice-national level.
In 1989, Wei Guoqing died of illness at the age of 76.