There were 57 founding generals of New China, among them, there was a general with the same name as the Three Kingdoms period, his name was Wang Ping.
Admiral Wang Ping, a native of Yangxin County, Hubei, participated in the revolution very early and made great contributions to the revolution. And his ability has also been affirmed by *** and praised by the marshals.
Because of his personal ability, the marshals even "grabbed", ** once named *** to ask for Wang Ping, but *** never gave it.
This incident later caused trouble here, but ** said: I can't talk about this matter.
So, how did this Admiral Wang Ping do a good job of letting the two comrades-in-arms "grab" *** and ***?
In 1907, Wang Ping was born in a poor peasant family in Yangxin, Hubei.
Since he was a child, Wang Ping's family life has been very hard, which has also cultivated his character of being mature and sensible at a very young age, and taking the initiative to shoulder the responsibilities of the family.
In 1926, our party carried out a land movement in Yangxin, Hubei, and Wang Ping took the initiative to move closer to our party after seeing our party's proposal to fight landlords and divide land.
This year, 19-year-old Wang Ping became the head of the agricultural cooperative, and under his leadership, the people in the village were very convinced of our party and were willing to follow our party.
Later, our party had its own armed force, the Red Army, and after Wang Ping learned about it, he discussed with his parents that he would also join the army.
He told his parents that "boys are determined in all directions" and that the Red Army is an army under the leadership of our party and an army that fights for the poor masses.
His parents were very supportive of his idea of joining the army and supported him to join the army.
In this way, Wang Ping came to the Red Army.
Although his family was difficult when he was young and he couldn't go to private school, Wang Ping's studious personality made him know how to read and break sentences in contact with members of our party.
In that era when the level of education was generally not high, Wang Ping's literacy skills were focused on training as soon as he entered the Red Army, and he worked as a clerk and propagandist.
At that time, our party called on the whole army to be literate, understand culture, and learn from each other, and many of Wang Ping's comrades-in-arms found him to learn knowledge, and he became a "master" in the mouth of his comrades-in-arms.
The higher-level leaders attached great importance to Wang Ping, and soon made him the leader of the propaganda team, and it was also from this time that Wang Ping's work began to move closer to ideological and political work.
The conditions of the Red Army were tough, and basically everyone had been on the battlefield, and you didn't have to know how to shoot just because you were in charge of propaganda or medical work.
The first war Wang Ping fought was the Battle of Yueyang.
The Kuomintang army has guns and cannons, and those ** Red Army chicks who went to the battlefield for the first time are a little scared.
But Wang Ping was not afraid at all, he gave full play to the work of a propagandist and did ideological work for his comrades-in-arms. When his comrades rushed to kill, he also rushed forward and captured 3 spears of the enemy with his own hands.
After the victory in the battle of Yueyang, Wang Ping participated in the Red Army's anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle.
He fought bravely and made military merits, and won the support of his comrades-in-arms, and soon his superiors made him the political commissar of the mobile regiment of the Red Third Division.
Wang Ping is very tall, very long, and he can't eat anything good when he was young, and his figure is very thin.
Despite this, he walked very quickly, which was very advantageous in the Red Army's anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign.
After the Zunyi meeting, ** decided to evacuate Zunyi north and advance in the direction of Chishui.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek strictly ordered the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang to send troops to deploy troops on the Yangtze River to block the road for the Red Army to go north.
Since the enemy's strength was much stronger than our army, ** decided to evacuate first, turn back to Chishui, and enter Zunyi second. The task of attacking Zunyi first fell to Wang Ping's Red Eleventh Regiment.
At that time, Zunyi had been taken over by the enemy, and the enemy set up many machine guns along the city wall, which posed a great threat to the Red Army.
But Wang Ping knew that Zunyi must be taken as soon as possible, so he mobilized his troops, and everyone began to attack the city without much rest.
Encouraged by Wang Ping, the morale of our army was high, and the enemy soon abandoned the city and fled, and Wang Ping decisively ordered the pursuit of the deserters.
On the way, he met Wu Qiwei of the National Army, which was a unit with high combat effectiveness, and Wang Ping knew that it was difficult to eat the other party with his own Red Eleventh Regiment alone.
So, on the one hand, he instructed the defense, neither retreating nor advancing, dragging the enemy; On the other hand, he asked people to go back to their superiors and send a large army of the Red Army to encircle and suppress it.
In this battle, the pressure of the Red 11th Regiment was very great, and the enemy was a ** army equipped with energy, and its combat effectiveness was amazing.
Wang Ping continued to boost morale, and he told the soldiers to resist the pressure, fight this battle well, and wait for the support of the large army.
Because he was too close to the front line, Wang Ping was even cut off a piece of skin on the back of his head by the enemy's bullets, and blood flowed.
This reminded Wang Ping of Deng Ping, the chief of staff who had just died not long ago, the pain in his body did not make him retreat, and the hatred in his heart made him more determined to defeat the enemy.
With his delay, a large army soon arrived and successfully defeated this ** army.
On April 14 of this year, the 11th Red Regiment had just walked more than 100 kilometers to the racecourse, and received an order to occupy the Beipanjiang ferry and cover the main force of the Red Army to cross the river.
At this time, there are still more than 90 kilometers to go from the ferry, and everyone is tired from the long journey, and now they have to catch more than 90 kilometers in two days, which inevitably makes the soldiers have some words.
Wang Ping then told the soldiers that the duty of a soldier is to carry out orders, and how could they be dissatisfied with the safety of the main force of the Red Army, which is related to the revolution?
Under the leadership of Wang Ping, the 11th Red Regiment arrived at the ferry in a day and a night before the enemy occupied the ferry.
Wang Ping did not let the troops rest, everyone took off their clothes directly, put their guns on their heads and began to rush to the other side to seize the key points.
As soon as the troops crossed the entrance, the soldiers found that the enemy was also climbing up the mountain, and Wang Ping immediately organized a team to start attacking the enemy.
Before everyone had time to put on their clothes, they went into battle bare-chested, and the enemy did not expect that our troops would be caught off guard so quickly and fled for their lives.
The soldiers chased for more than 20 miles in one go, and the common people along the way were very surprised when they saw the shirtless soldiers.
Soon, the main forces of the Red Army came to the ferry and began to cross the river. By the time the main forces of the Red Army had completed the crossing of the river, the 11th Red Regiment had become a rearguard regiment.
The enemy soon surrounded again, which made *** anxiously ask Wang Ping to retreat as soon as possible and rush to Xingren Town.
Wang Ping was ordered to start a race with numerous guard regiments. Wang Ping's guard regiment was very fast, everyone's speed was trained, and they ran 60 kilometers in 6 hours.
You know, people now can't run at a speed of more than 6 kilometers per hour, not to mention the fact that at that time the Red Army soldiers did not have horses and vehicles and carried all kinds of supply guns.
This also made *** happy when he saw Wang Ping:
Look, our "Scuds" are catching up! ”
Wang Pingyuan's name is actually Wang Weiyun, and when he first joined the army, the company commander always couldn't call his name, so he simply changed his name to Wang Ming.
But later, the Comintern came to another representative named Wang Ming, which made his comrades-in-arms start to make fun of him by name again, which made him have the idea of changing his name again.
It happened that Wang Ping was studying at the Red Army University at that time, and once he talked to them, and when asked what difficulties he had, Wang Ping raised his hand and stood up.
He told ***
President, I would like to change my name! ”
**Hearing this, he smiled and said:
Why did you change your name, Wang Ming is very good, he is still an international representative. ”
When Wang Ping heard this, he drooped his head and said:
Because of this, everyone simply doesn't call me Wang Ming, but calls me an international representative. ”
** couldn't help but smile, and then took out a brush, Long Feifeng Wu wrote a letter of appointment to Wang Ping and He Jinnian:
Ordered, He Jinnian was the commander of the 27th Army, and Wang Ping was the political commissar of the 27th Army. **
When Wang Ping saw the appointment letter of ***, he knew his new name, which was Wang Ping.
**attaches great importance to Wang Ping's political organization ability, and in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Ping also solved the urgent need of ***.
At that time, the Anti-Japanese War had just begun, and the 27th Army led by Wang Ping was appointed to Zhengning, a three-day journey.
At that time, the Red Army was short of funds, and the Red 27th Army only had 100 yuan, and there was no food on it, so Wang Ping applied to his superiors for funds.
But at that time, *** didn't have any money, so he could only reply to himself and find a way.
Wang Ping then contacted *** directly and asked *** for money, but he didn't expect *** to say:
I don't have a dollar, you use your brain, think of a way, if you can't think of it, go to sleep, wake up and think about it. ”
Wang Ping listened to ***'s words, and he didn't have a way.
In the past, many of the funds for the Red Army revolution came from gifts from the common people and from fighting landlords and tyrants, so Wang Ping moved this heart again.
At that time, near the location of the 27th Army, there happened to be a landlord-born joint security director, whose family was wealthy, and many ordinary people came to him to buy food when they ran out of food.
And he gave grain and used guns to scare the common people, which was exactly the object of beating landlords and dividing land in the past.
But if you want to buy it, and you don't have the money, how to make the director of the joint insurance take the initiative to "admit punishment"? Wang Ping didn't know how to do it for a while.
It just so happened that on this day, Wang Ping asked people to buy food with the little money left, but he didn't expect the director of the joint security to fire a warning shot at this time, and there was a conflict at this time.
Wang Ping couldn't help but be happy when he heard the news: "There you have it!" ”
After that, he and the army commander He Jinnian found the county magistrate and asked the county magistrate to come forward to find the director of the joint security and ask him if he wanted to shoot at the Red Army and whether he wanted to be a traitor?
The county magistrate was taken aback by He Jinnian, and at this time Wang Ping stood up and sang white-faced, and he told the director of the joint security department:
Do you want to admit punishment, or do you want to admit beating? ”
The director of the joint security did not dare to be a "traitor", so he could only give the Red Army 500 loads of grain and 5,000 yuan.
** learned that Wang Ping had an "income", so he asked Wang Ping to leave 2,000 yuan, and send the rest back to *** for emergency.
Later, when *** mentioned this incident, he always said that Wang Ping "has a way".
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Ping served as the political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Third Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and his boss was the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region
During this period, Wang Ping's work was still political propaganda work, and under his propaganda, the people of Jinchaji were very supportive of the anti-Japanese war, and there was even an anti-Japanese war upsurge of "sending sons and sons to husbands" to the battlefield.
** attaches great importance to Wang Ping, and once wanted Wang Ping to serve as the political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, but Wang Ping refused.
In the later period of the Liberation War, there was no longer any battle to be fought in North China, and at this time, the Fourth Field Army entered the customs and came to North China.
**When I came to the North China Military Region and saw ***, I asked Wang Ping by name.
At that time, the post of political commissar of the 13th Corps of the Fourth Field Army was vacant, and it was for this reason that Wang Ping was asked to take office.
But after *** knew that *** wanted Wang Ping, he refused in one breath. Although there are relatively no major battles to be fought in North China, the local anti-bandit work is inseparable from Wang Ping.
Wang Ping was the commander of the Chahar Military Region at that time, and shortly after the liberation of Chahar, bandits were rampant, so Wang Ping commanded the troops to start the work of suppressing bandits.
But a large number of troops have been transferred away, and Wang Ping only has a cavalry division in his hands, so Wang Ping began to call on the local militia to fight the bandits together.
In addition, he also actively publicized and let the common people also participate in the suppression of bandits, and actively persuaded the bandits to surrender and report themselves.
It is only through a multi-pronged approach that the work of suppressing bandits can be progressed. Therefore, **will refuse the request of *** this old friend dignitary.
This time I didn't get anyone, but I didn't give up, so I had a second person in 1955.
At that time, ** held the post of head of the General Political Department, and Wang Ping was the political commissar of the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army, and he had just returned from the Korean battlefield when he was notified that he was going to a new department.
This is a new department, a mobilization department under the General Staff, and it is hoped that Wang Ping can take up the post of head of the mobilization department.
But Wang Ping felt that he had never done this job, so he wanted to refuse, but it was not good to refuse directly.
After thinking about it, Wang Ping found the *** who advocated the work of the Military Commission at that time
**It's Wang Ping's old chief, there is something to talk about between the two, Wang Ping hopes that *** will come forward to refuse ***'s scheduling, but *** said:
I can't talk about this matter, Director Luo invited you to go, and he must have considered whether you were suitable. Although I am in charge of the work of the Central Military Commission, I cannot ignore Director Luo's assignment. ”
In this way, Wang Ping can only find *** by himself
And *** also told Wang Ping that this is for the work of the organization, and he also said that Wang Ping is doing mobilization work all year round, and this job is very in line with Wang Ping.
In this way, Wang Ping learned that it was for work, so he did not shirk again and became the head of the mobilization department.
On February 8, 1998, Wang Ping died of illness in Beijing at the age of 91.
Throughout his life, General Wang Ping made great contributions to the cause of the country's liberation, and the general secretary praised him for his "outstanding meritorious service and famous general demeanor".
Counting Wang Ping's life, he has held important positions in the party, government, and military, and has made outstanding achievements in each position.
It is precisely because of his all-round talent that *** can always remember him.
In the annals of the Republic, this great general will always be engraved.