In 1955, at the Chinese People's Liberation Army All-Army Title Ceremony held in Huairen Hall, Zhongnanhai, a revolutionary general was awarded the rank of founding major general.
This surprised many of the revolutionary generals present at the time, and five generals and three lieutenant generals specially wrote a letter to the General Political Department, hoping to promote him.
So who is this revolutionary general? How did he behave in this revolutionary history? The end result?
Tan Youlin, born in 1916, was born in a peasant family in Jiangling, Hubei.
Since Tan Youlin can remember, the conditions at home have been very poor, and eating a full meal at home is often a luxury.
Despite this, his parents hoped that he would be able to change the poor family conditions through knowledge.
So his parents sent him to a private school in the village to study. Tan Youlin, who knows that it is not easy for his parents to provide for him to go to school, is very hard in his studies at school.
After graduating from private school, Tan Youlin went to study in a primary school in Zhenshan under the arrangement of his parents.
However, "bad luck is looking for the suffering", Tan Youlin's father passed away due to a serious illness not long after he started elementary school, and the conditions at home plummeted, and even eating became a problem.
In order to provide for his family's food and clothing, Tan Youlin dropped out of school and came to work as an apprentice in a shop in the town.
With the passage of time, Tan Youlin also met many progressive young people in his work, and under their influence, Tan Youlin came into contact with the advanced ideas of communism, and was deeply attracted by them, and a seed of revolution was planted in his heart at this moment.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Coup" in Shanghai and the news reached Tan Youlin's ears, although Tan Youlin was very angry and wanted to devote himself to the revolution, but after thinking of his mother at home, he decided to save some money for his mother and then devote himself to the revolution.
So, in the following time, Tan Youlin began to work harder. After two years of struggle, Tan Youlin also saved a lot of money.
After giving all the money to his mother, Tan Youlin threw himself into the revolution and joined the Red Army in 1930.
Not long after joining the Red Army, Tan Youlin went to study at the Honghu Military Academy in Shishou, Hubei Province, under the arrangement of the party organization, and after graduation, he first served as a correspondent, propagandist, and guard of the guard battalion of the Honghu Soviet District, and a guard of the military headquarters of the Red Army.
In 1932, after the "leftist" elements headed by Wang Ming ruled the country, they sent instructions to the Hunan and Hubei West Bureaus to "suppress the rebellion".
Therefore, Xia Xi, the leader of the ** branch of western Hunan and Hubei provinces, launched the "firing line anti-rebellion movement" before the 7,000-mile transfer of the Red Third Army, and Tan Youlin was arrested because he had worked as a guard for the so-called "reorganization faction".
Because Tan Youlin refused to "admit his guilt", they tried to make him admit it through violent means, but when they saw that Tan Youlin did not give in, they had to give up temporarily.
After starting the march, they didn't treat Tan Youlin as a human being at all, and even hung the rice bags and bullet bags on their bodies around his neck, allowing Tan Youlin to carry them forward.
As time passed, Tan Youlin gradually fell to the ground due to physical exhaustion, and after seeing that Tan Youlin couldn't get up, he planned to get rid of Tan Youlin.
Just as he was about to do it, ** noticed this scene and hurriedly stopped it, it was this rescue of ** that led to Tan Youlin's deeds.
In 1937, after the "Lugou Bridge Incident", the Japanese army began a full-scale invasion of China, and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out.
After a comprehensive analysis, it was decided to open up a battlefield behind enemy lines suitable for the Eighth Route Army and establish a base area, so *** handed over this important task to Tan Youlin's Peng Xuefeng guerrilla detachment and asked him to go to the eastern Henan region to open up a base area.
At that time, there was a local armed force in eastern Henan, with more than 200 people, and the leader Li Shoushan was born in the old army and had strong command ability, but he vacillated between anti-Japanese and pro-Japanese.
In order to be able to absorb him into the anti-Japanese ranks, Tan Youlin took five cadres to Li Shoushan's troops to do the work of reorganization and integration under the instructions of his superiors.
After the work began, the first thing they did was to go to the grassroots level of the unit to understand and care for the soldiers, so as to grasp the basic situation of Li Shoushan's brigade.
Subsequently, Tan Youlin was even more meticulous about the lower-level officers and soldiers in daily life and drills.
This was the kind of approach, and Tan Youlin soon became very good friends with them, and Tan Youlin also took this opportunity to educate them ideologically and politically, and also adjusted their positions according to their ideological changes.
In the end, under Tan Youlin's rectification, this team soon joined the anti-Japanese team.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, not long after the Japanese army was driven out of China, some bandits living in the mountains in the northeast gradually made moves.
In order to get rid of the bandits who plagued the people, Tan Youlin took the position of deputy commander of the 359th Brigade of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army under the arrangement of ***, and began to clean up the bandits in Jixi and Dong'an.
Under the fierce offensive of Tan Youlin's 359 Brigade, the bandits were quickly driven out of their territory. In order to avoid Tan Youlin's pursuit, they divided into dozens of strands and went directly into the deep mountains and old forests.
In order to be able to completely annihilate them, Tan Youlin formulated a fairly strict combat deployment at the Jiamusi Conference, first of all, Tan Youlin sent soldiers to guard the places where bandits often haunted. Secondly, heavy troops have been dispatched to guard key areas and key areas.
This made the bandits completely trapped in the forest.
With the passage of time, the weather in the northeast is getting colder and colder, in order to be able to annihilate the bandits as soon as possible, Tan Youlin divided the forest where the bandits were located into six parts, and sent six payment troops into these six areas to search.
After many days of searching, the anti-bandit troops not only took away all the food hidden by the bandits, but also narrowed the encirclement little by little.
Soon after, the bandits came out one after another due to hunger and cold, surrendered to the bandit suppression forces, and surrendered.
In the end, the bandits chose to surrender under the encirclement of Tan Youlin and surrender a little bit.
Soon the news of the victory of the bandits reached the ears of the Northeast Bureau, and for Tan Youlin's outstanding performance, the Northeast Bureau specially sent a message to give a commendation.
The purpose of this crackdown was not only to eliminate the collusion between the Kuomintang reactionaries and the bandits, but also to free the Communist Party from the flanking attack and to protect the security of the liberated areas in northeast China.
At the same time, this operation also succeeded in smashing the enemy's conspiracy and won a more solid strategic rear for our party and army.
In 1949, Tan Youlin, then deputy commander of the Fourth Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, began to march towards Jiangnan with his troops under the order of ***.
After arriving in Yichang, Shashi, and Jiangling in Hubei, he launched the Yisha Campaign, and Tan Youlin was very excited about this battle to liberate his hometown, so after the consent of his superiors, he personally led the troops to participate in it.
Soon, the PLA armies arrived at the predetermined assembly position, and the defenders of Yichang were surrounded on three sides, and there was only one way to cross the river and flee south. After 10 days of fierce fighting, the Battle of Yisa ended victoriously and Gangneung was liberated.
After the battle, Tan Youlin took the time to return to his hometown, hoping to find his mother and tell her about his changes over the years, so that his mother could be happy.
But what he didn't expect was that his mother had passed away the year before, which made his mother unable to see the liberation of his hometown and live a good life before he died, and Tan Youlin felt very guilty about it.
Not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Korean War broke out, and under the instructions of ***, Tan Youlin served as the deputy commander of the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army, followed the troops into North Korea, and became the first batch of volunteers to enter North Korea at that time.
After entering North Korea, Tan Youlin received the task of capturing the strategic location of Unsan.
After receiving the task, Tan Youlin did not dare to delay, only after a short rest came to Yunshan, and started a battle with it, after the first fierce battle, Tan Youlin suddenly found that it was not the South Korean soldiers who fought with him, but the First Cavalry Regiment of the American ace army.
In order to capture Yunshan as soon as possible, Tan Youlin chose to launch an attack on the US army at night when he couldn't see his fingers. Because the U.S. military was not good at fighting at night, the PLA became a nightmare for the U.S. military at night, and soon the U.S. military was annihilated by the volunteers at the Zhuren Bridge.
After that, Tan Youlin led the 39th Army into a comprehensive pursuit of the fleeing enemy, and after a fierce battle, the Volunteer Army finally ended the Battle of Yunshan victoriously.
In 1955, at the award ceremony of the whole army of our country, Tan Youlin, then the commander of the public security of the Northeast Military Region, was awarded the rank of founding major general.
As soon as this incident came out, it caused dissatisfaction among some generals, because with Tan Youlin's qualifications and contributions, he couldn't be a general, and it was more than enough to be a lieutenant general, but a major general was really a lot lower.
In order to be able to raise Tan Youlin to the rank of Wang Zhen, Xiao Ke and other eight generals, they jointly wrote a letter to the General Political Department, asking them to raise Tan Youlin's military rank to lieutenant general.
When the staff of the General Political Department saw this letter, they were also very embarrassed and did not know what to do, so they had to send the letter to the hands of Marshal ***.
In order to solve this matter, ** personally found Tan Youlin and said: "Youlin, your military rank is indeed low, with your qualifications and position, it is no problem to award lieutenant general, but the result is that you were awarded lieutenant general at the same time and you were not awarded, I apologize to you for this matter, it is our negligence in our work." ”
In this regard, Tan Youlin just smiled and waved his hand and said: "What kind of Kobe is this, a major general is a major general, and there are many comrades-in-arms who are at the same time with me who sacrificed themselves on the battlefield for the revolution, I now have a home, I have children, and I am already very content to stand up and accept the award." ”
After listening, ** gave Tan Youlin's speech a thumbs up.
After the award, Tan Youlin successively served as deputy commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, deputy political commissar of the Xinjiang Military Region, secretary of the party committee of the Xinjiang Military Region, and other important positions.
Until Tan Youlin died in 2006 at the age of 91.
General Tan Youlin's life was a glorious life of dedication to New China.
From a young age, he devoted himself to the revolution and resolutely went to the front line to participate in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, showing his selfless patriotic spirit and deep friendship with the people.
However, even after the end of his military career, he still spared no effort to contribute all his strength to the construction of New China, and was willing to give everything until the end of his life.
Throughout his life, General Tan Youlin cherished the great belief in governing the country and saving the people, and was always a staunch practitioner of Marxism.
For many years, he never considered his personal self-interest, but always put the interests of the country and the people first. He showed great dedication and sacrifice, and his actions are a model that we will always admire and learn from.
Because of this, we would like to express our deepest respect to General Tan Youlin, who has been fighting all his life. The spirit of selfless dedication he represents is not only Tan Youlin's personal quality, but also a symbol of that special historical period.
He is the representative of countless revolutionary martyrs who have contributed to New China, and they have given everything without hesitation for the interests of the country and the people.
We would like to pay our most sincere tribute to all these martyrs and feel that they have created the modern miracle of New China with their blood and lives.
General Tan Youlin's life is full of legends, and his deeds and spirit will always inspire us and lead us to a better future.
Let us always cherish and admire him, resolutely remember and inherit their fighting spirit, and continue to work hard to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!