At the end of 1974, **'s life has entered the countdown, due to the torture of illness, his spirit has also become trance-like, in the last stage of his life, **when he is sober, he will keep chanting the names of his old comrades-in-arms, ** and others, are "regulars" in the mouth, what is the situation of these old comrades-in-arms at this time, is the deepest concern in the heart, to the surprise of the staff, ** mouth, but there is also the name of a founding major general, he is Zhong Wei.
Who is Zhong Wei?What did he do, and why did he make *** so concerned?
During the War of Liberation, the four field armies were the most powerful troops among the four major field armies of our army, and in this million-strong army, there were also many fierce generals who could fight well, and Zhong Wei was one of them.
* As the commander of Siye, his preference for Zhong Wei has to be amazing, because in the entire system of Siye, Zhong Wei is the only one who has been promoted from division commander to army commander, and Zhong Wei is so favored by **, in fact, it also stems from his own excellence.
And the reason why Zhong Wei was worried about his dying *** was because of his integrity and morality.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhong Wei was awarded the rank of major general because of his outstanding contributions to the revolution, but Zhong Wei was not very satisfied with this military rank.
Because Zhong Wei himself believed that according to his own contributions, he could be awarded the rank of lieutenant general, not major general, so Zhong Wei made some noise when conferring the title, and even said that he would hang the medal on the dog's tail.
This incident made a big fuss at the time, and even *** knew, so *** joked: Men don't flick when they have tears, but it's not time to confer titles.
* Later, Zhong Wei was called over and quarreled, and the matter was over, and after the award, perhaps *** also considered that Zhong Wei was given a low title, so he personally named Zhong Wei as the chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region.
The Beijing Military Region is a large military region, and the person who holds the post of chief of staff is generally a lieutenant general according to regulations, and Zhong Wei assumes this important task as a major general
It was also in the position of chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region that Zhong Wei made a thing that he would never forget, and it was precisely because of this incident that before he died, he kept talking about Zhong Wei and worried about Zhong Wei.
So, what exactly is this thing about?Let's focus on Lushan in 1959.
In July of this year, the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting of the Politburo and the Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee in Lushan.
However, due to the "Book of Ten Thousand Words", the wind direction of the Lushan Conference suddenly changed.
On July 16, ** added the title of "** Comrade Opinion" to Mr. Peng's letter, and instructed: "Printed and distributed for the reference of all comrades, and after that, **, Peng Zhen, Huang Kecheng, ** and others who did not attend the meeting were called to Lushan one after another to attend the meeting.
Because I can't figure out the intention of asking everyone to discuss the letter, in the six days from the 17th to the 22nd, most people agreed with some of the views of ***, and many people also said many similar examples.
But on July 23rd, because of ***'s words, all these circumstances changed.
**During the conversation on July 23, the people who severely criticized the participants were shocked by this, and then, the wind direction of the Lushan Conference completely changed, and it became the meeting that mainly criticized the wrong line, and Huang Kecheng, Zhou Xiaozhou and others who supported *** were criticized together.
On August 19, 1959, the Military Commission held an enlarged meeting of more than 1,000 people in Beijing, and the meeting had only one theme, that is, to continue to criticize Huang Kecheng and others.
Zhong Wei, chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region, attended the meeting, but since the beginning of the meeting, Zhong Wei felt that the atmosphere was very wrong.
On the third day of the meeting, Wu Faxian, deputy political commissar of the Air Force, released a "bomb" in which he said that during the Long March, Huang Kecheng had shot and killed a regimental-level cadre of the Red First Army.
In addition, another senior cadre said that Huang Kecheng had a large number of people during the Anti-Japanese War.
Hearing these circumstances, Zhong Wei was a little shocked, he didn't want to speak, but Wu Faxian said that he was at the scene when Huang Kecheng shot and killed the regimental-level cadres of the Red First Army, and another senior cadre also said that when Huang Kecheng was ***, Zhong Wei could testify.
For a time, Zhong Wei became the center of attention of the crowd at the venue.
Yang Yong, then commander of the Beijing Military Region, and political commissar Su Zhenhua of course knew the "aggressiveness" of these problems, and the two were afraid that Zhong Weitian's character of not being afraid of the ground would cause trouble, so they pulled Zhong Wei in private and persuaded Zhong Wei: "You just said that it has been a long time and you don't remember." ”
Of course, Zhong Wei knew that Yang Yong and Su Zhenhua were for his own good, but the justice and morality in his heart did not allow him to do so.
Zhong Wei stood up, raised his voice, and said: "When attacking Loushan Pass, the enemy slammed on a small hill, and our troops were blocked, I was ordered to lead a guard squad to attack on the hill, at this time, a cadre of a regiment escaped from the battle, and he had to pull a few soldiers to fight against the water, he abandoned his position, left his comrades, and was caught by my follow-up troops, according to my character, if he was my subordinate, I would have shot him on the spot, but because he was a member of the first regiment, I asked the *** who was present
After a pause, Zhong Wei continued: "* It is said that battlefield discipline is enforced. ”
Speaking of this, Zhong Wei's voice suddenly became louder, and he said: "I did this thing, Mr. Peng doesn't know about it, and it has nothing to do with Huang Kecheng, now I want to make it clear, that person deserves it, he should be killed, and the *** of the first army was present at the time, and he also agreed to our execution." ”
Anyway, ** has become the object of everyone's attention.
In the face of everyone's inquiring eyes, ** chose to be silent, Zhong Wei said another thing: "Regarding Huang Kecheng's *** matter, I was the brigade commander under his command at the time, not the logistics minister, I can't prove it, besides, so much ** is not a small amount, if you want to pull it by car, can he put it in**?"
Zhong Wei's words were reasonable, causing chaos at the scene, everyone looked at Zhong Wei's eyes with admiration, hatred, and admiration, Xiao Hua, who presided over the meeting, saw that the venue was chaotic, and immediately sent someone to pull Zhong Wei away, Zhong Wei shouted: "We are all soldiers, on the battlefield of your life and death, shoot one or two ghosts who are afraid of death, what is the fuss, I think someone has ulterior motives, pulling old accounts of history, stirring up old accounts, stirring up."
The relationship between the first and third legions.
Hearing this, for a while, *** and Huang Kecheng's eyes were moist.
Zhong Wei was eventually punished for his righteous advocacy, and afterwards he was dismissed from his post as chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region and assigned to Anhui as deputy director of the Department of Agriculture.
For Zhong Wei's actions, ** was very moved, he never expected that Zhong Wei would speak for himself in such a situation, so he deeply remembered Zhong Wei's name.
This is also the reason why he kept talking about Zhong Wei before he died.