Tan Zheng is the director of the Political Department of Siye, why is the military rank higher than that of Chief of Staff Liu Yalou when he is awarded
Tan Zheng, an outstanding political cadre, is known as "talking about politics". This fully proves the important position of political work cadres in our army. Among the top ten marshals, Luo Shuai is a representative who is good at political work; Among the top ten generals, Tan Zheng is famous.
He worked in Siye for many years and held the position of director of the political department. Although according to the common understanding, the influence of this position may not be as good as that of the chief of staff, Tan Zheng surpassed Liu Yalou when conferring the title.
This is not an accident, in fact, it is not uncommon for the head of the Political Department to have a higher rank than the chief of staff.
Tan Zheng, a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, was born in 1906 in a scholarly family, and has known Chen Geng since childhood. He was born smart and worked as a teacher in an elementary school in addition to his studies. In 1927, he decided to abandon his pen and join Rong, but his first application was ridiculed by recruiters for telling the truth.
In the face of ridicule, he was not to be outdone, but retorted: "Who said that the pen can't kill the enemy? With this firm belief, he successfully joined the Hunan Army and became a clerk.
Following *** to participate in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and undergo the reorganization of Sanwan, he advocated building the branch in the company, which laid a solid political foundation for the all-round development of our army, and he himself was a beneficiary of this policy.
1.Tan Zheng, the first secretary of **, drafted documents in Mao's style, which was favored by ***. When he was at a low point in his career, Tan Zheng funded him and delivered news in the army.
In 1929, Tan Zheng served as the recorder of the Gutian Conference, assisted in drafting the programmatic documents of the Red Army, completed the Long March, and engaged in political work in the rear. Although he did not go to the front line to kill the enemy, the document he drafted during the rectification movement was in line with ***'s mind and was called the "Tan Zheng Report".
2.Liu Yalou, who held a higher position than Tan Zheng during the Red Army, was good at military planning and command, participated in the Great Patriotic War, and was one of the important leaders of our army to the Northeast after the Soviet Red Army withdrew from the Northeast.
Although he did not participate in the Anti-Japanese War, he was an important chief of staff of the four fields led by General Lin. 3.The intersection of Tan Zheng and Liu Yalou's work began in the Liberation War, and they were both important leaders of our army, Liu Yalou was the chief of staff, and Tan Zheng was the director of the administrative department.
Although in Siye, which was led by Mr. Lin, Siye would sign his name as "Lin Luo Tan Liu" when he sent a telegram to the Military Commission, and Liu Yalou thought that he should not be ranked fourth, so he changed his signature to "Lin Luo Liu Tan", but Tan Zheng put the overall situation first and ignored it.
During the Liberation War, Tan Zheng assisted Luo Shuai in carrying out political work, and found that the "grievance campaign" of a grassroots company was very effective. He immediately extended it to the entire Siye, which greatly boosted morale and attracted more Kuomintang soldiers to surrender, so that Siye rapidly expanded its forces in a short period of time.
Although Luo Shuai was unable to join the army due to physical reasons, Tan Zheng successfully completed the political work, stabilized the morale of the army, and became the anchor of the sea for the advancement of the four fields. When the title was conferred in 1955, Tan Zheng was awarded the rank of general, while Liu Yalou was only awarded the rank of general.
Although Mr. Lin fought for Liu Yalou to the rank of general, because Liu Yalou missed the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, his merits were a little weak. In fact, among the four major field armies, not only the chief of staff of the four fields has a higher rank than the director of the political department, but also a similar situation exists in the first field and the third field.