As everyone knows, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was the first battle for the founding of the country since the founding of New China. It can even be said that China's status as a great power today was largely determined by that war.
Today, when we talk about the Korean War, we are always proud of the glory of our ancestors. However, back then, back in the locality, back in October 1950, when China's policymakers were faced with the question of whether to send troops to North Korea to resist US aggression and aid Korea, they were like a mountain pressed on their chests, and it was difficult to breathe.
At that time, most of the old comrades were opposed to sending troops to Korea. The reasons for opposition are also quite strong, China has just come from the war of liberation, the country is full of devastation, all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, and there is no industrial foundation at all.
Who is the opponent? It was the world's first industrial power that had just been tempered from the flames of World War II, which was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. In the event of an unfortunate defeat and being taken to Chinese mainland by the Americans, then the gains made by the revolution over the past few decades will be wiped out, and Chiang Kai-shek will return.
In the end, it is the great leader who makes a decision: there are many advantages to fighting, and there are many disadvantages to not fighting.
This is also thanks to the fact that New China had just been established at that time, and the prestige of ** was in full swing, which was able to suppress all opposition voices with the power of one person. But the question now is, who will be sent to North Korea?
**The first thing that comes to mind is the confidant general he has painstakingly cultivated over the years**. In his words, the war is ruthless and tricky. Moreover, he has led the Fourth Field Army to fight in the northeast region for a long time, and he will not be unfamiliar with the weather and terrain in the Korean region.
But the problem is that this ** is also against sending troops to North Korea, and his physical condition is still very bad at this time.
In 1938, when passing by the defense area of Yan Xishan in Shanxi, he was accidentally injured by the soldiers under Yan Xishan, which led to ** recuperating in the Soviet Union during the entire War of Resistance against Japan, leaving a very serious sequelae, afraid of light and water, and very sensitive nerves.
So, ** thought of another person, that is, Su Yu, the twin star with the same name as **.
Su Yu used soldiers like a god in the War of Liberation, annihilating millions of enemies, and was a military god cultivated by the commander-in-chief. At this time, the liberation of Taiwan was being planned in the Fujian region.
However, the blessing is incomparable, and the disaster is not a single line, and at this critical moment, Su Yu's body also collapsed. Due to the long-term rain of bullets, the dark wounds in his body are more serious than **.
When he was worried about the candidate for the general to lead the army, **, as the mayor of Shanghai, suddenly stood up and expressed his willingness to send troops to North Korea as the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army.
When I heard this, I couldn't laugh or cry, so I had to say: Comrade Comrade's attitude is positive, but this candidate still needs to be discussed.
You know, ** can be listed as a marshal later, and he must also know about marching and fighting, why should he refuse **'s request when no one is available in the government and the opposition?
To understand these, we have to start with the life of the ** marshal. **Born in an ordinary family in Sichuan in his early years, he was inspired by the New Culture Movement led by Chen Duxiu and others to come to Beijing, the cultural mecca of the time, for further study.
Here, he got acquainted with a group of later CCP leaders such as Cai Hesen and **.
In 1922, our party cultivated a group of outstanding backbone talents. A group of young people were selected from among the party members to study in France. At that time, *** and others were also on the list of studying in France. It's just that when he set off, ** suddenly decided not to go to France, he felt that China's problems had to be found in China.
In the process of studying in France, ** formed a deep friendship with *** and others, who were basically the French students in the CCP political system.
In 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek launched the 412 counter-revolutionary coup, the party organization sent ** to the Nanchang area to assist *** and others in holding the Nanchang Uprising. But due to the delay on the way, when he came to Nanchang, the rebel army had already moved south to Guangdong, and he had to follow all the way.
The emperor lived up to his wishes, and he finally caught up with the ** troops left behind by the rebel army at that time in today's Sanheba area.
When the rebel army went south to Guangzhou, the Kuomintang Qian Dajun's troops followed all the way like a dog's skin plaster. In order to get rid of this dog skin plaster, the rebel army decided to lead 3,000 people to stay behind as the broken queen, which is the famous Sanheba division in history.
Later, the large army of the rebel army was completely annihilated in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong, and the 3,000-person broken army led by ** actually became the only armed force with professional military training left under the leadership of the Communist Party at that time.
After the news of the annihilation of the Nanchang Uprising army came back, this broken rear army with only 2,000 people left suddenly became panicked. In the end, after several twists and turns, he escaped, and after finally settling down, he clicked on the number of people, and in the end, there were only more than 800 people left of more than 2,000 people.
The number of people lost was not killed in battle, but ran. ** I went back and counted the cadres, and I found that all the cadres above the company had run away, and only ** was left.
Although the situation is extremely dangerous, the 800-strong force could collapse at any moment. However, ** are two revolutionary optimists. In today's Tianxinping area, the two cooperated to deliver a touching speech, infecting the entire army with their optimism.
With the help of **, the army finally regained a complete cadre organization. This is of great significance in the history of the PLA, because if the 800-strong force collapses, the future of the revolution will be bleak.
As the saying goes, power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and the revolutionary cause needs to be accomplished by the army. But the army is not something that can be cultivated by cultivation, it does not mean that you are entangled with a group of people, that is the army, it can only be said to be a rabble. The military must undergo professional military training and have a certain degree of organizational ability.
Otherwise, it only takes a small number of professional armies to wipe out a hundredfold of rabble. These 800 people were the only army under the Communist Party at that time that had received professional military training, and they were born out of the famous Ye Ting Independent Regiment and had rich combat experience.
Later, when General Huang Kecheng recalled this incident, he once said: If it were not for these more than 800 people, Jinggangshan would not have succeeded by relying solely on the troops left behind by the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
So these 800 people are basically the skeleton of the Red Army, the Eighth Route Army, and the People's Liberation Army. The heads of future marshals, generals, and generals all came from this unit. Relying on this alone, the historical status of ** is beyond doubt.
After Jinggangshan Zhu Mao joined the teacher, he has been an assistant for a long time. His relationship with ** is like the relationship between *** and ***.
But during the Jinggangshan period, a small unpleasant incident occurred. At that time, the Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprising had just run in. On the issue of the attributes of the army, ** and ** have a disagreement, ** believes that the army should be a full-time war, and should not carry too many political ambitions and reduce military efficiency.
But *** thinks that it is not enough for the army to just be able to fight. It is also necessary to learn how to fight local tyrants, divide land, distribute leaflets, conduct propaganda, run education, and serve the people. If you can only fight, then at most it will be the army of the king who has not committed any crimes, but you will never be able to become a soldier of the people, and you will not be able to get the sincere support of the masses.
In order to alleviate the contradictions between the two sides, ** reconcile between the two sides. What Comrade said is reasonable, and what Comrade said is also right, we should make up for our weaknesses.
In the end, through the election, everyone took off the post of secretary of the General Front Committee and elected the first secretary. After that, he went to Gutian, Fujian Province today to carry out grassroots work.
But ** understands that his strength is to deal with colleague relationships. However, the rudder of the general direction of the army still has to rely on ***.
So, he risked his life and went to Shanghai in person to talk to *** hoping that *** would invite *** back. And in the subsequent Gutian Conference, he clearly supported the army building line.
It is precisely because of his noble character of single-mindedness that *** has always favored him.
When he died in 1972, he personally ran to the memorial service.
**'s husband** said to *** with tears: "* is not sensible! ”
But *** said to the wife of **: "* is a good comrade!" ”
After the Red Army's Long March, ** was left in the old base area by Bogu and Li De, and led the old and weak who stayed behind to support the sick and disabled until the Xi'an Incident and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated again.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, ** was sent to assist Ye Ting in the work of the New Fourth Army.
After the Southern Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army began to cross the Yangtze River and operate in today's northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, which was also the prototype of the East China Liberation Army. During the incident, Ye Ting** and Xiang Ying were killed, and ** took over the command of the New Fourth Army and became the de facto leader of the East China Bureau.
During the War of Liberation, the East China Field Army was divided into two groups, the southern group was led by Su Yu, mainly to deal with pressure from Nanjing; The northern group is led by ** and mainly faces pressure from the Shandong region.
Compared with Su Yu's seven battles and seven victories, the Northern Front Army led by ** at that time played against the famous Kuomintang generals Zhang Lingfu and Xue Yue, and the effect was not ideal.
Seeing that this would not work, he sent a telegram to persuade him: ** Comrade or you will be in charge of political work full-time, and the army will be handed over to Su Yu for unified command.
If this is left on ordinary people, even if you don't complain in your heart, you have to hate Su Yu to death. You must know that when Tianxinping was reorganizing the army, ** was the second-in-command of a troop of more than 800 people, and Su Yu was just a platoon commander, and now he is asked to assist Su Yu, and he can't stand it personally.
But ** was not unhappy at all, but he simply handed over the command of the army neatly, and wholeheartedly assisted Su Yu, a junior.
With the full cooperation of both sides, the East China Field Army won decisive battles such as the Menglianggu Battle and the Huaihai Campaign.
Especially during the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu was ready to concentrate his forces to chase the Central Plains, but the strategic policy formulated at that time was to disperse his troops and cross the river south to open up a base area behind the enemy.
In the face of the differences between the two sides, ** resolutely stood on Su Yu's side and directly faced the pressure from ***.
In the last battle of words, ** was also persuaded by them, and for the first time in the world, he changed his decision. It can be seen that ** is really a loyal elder.
However, after this incident, ** has always been worried that *** will have thoughts about Su Yu because of his disobedience.
In 1955, **accompanied *** on a trip. At that time, the two sides were talking about ancient and modern figures, but ** suddenly compared Su Yu, who used soldiers like a god, to Fan Xu, who killed pigs and dogs under Liu Bang.
In the face of Liu Bang's mistakes, he had repeatedly and reprimanded him bluntly, and Liu Bang was still sending people to kill him before he died.
As soon as I heard this, I immediately understood his voice, and I was furious, and corrected: "I am not Han Gaozu, and Su Yu is not Fan Xu!" ”
This shows the open-mindedness of ***!
During the selection of the commander of the Volunteer Army in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, ** had great expectations for Su Yu and kept the position of commander vacant. In the end, Su Yu still passed by this position for physical reasons.
* Worried that Su Yu will not be able to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, it will be understood as an opposition to sending troops to North Korea. Therefore, he originally did not support sending troops to North Korea, so he hurriedly said that he would serve as the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army to cover his old partner.
**After hearing his self-recommendation, he couldn't laugh or cry, of course he knew**The small abacus of this move. Naturally, he did not dare to hand over such an important position as the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army to him, after all, he was better at political work than military work.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a very important one, and this war will determine the attitude of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards China and the position of the Chinese towards themselves in the future.
If the war is lost, then China will have to make compromises and pray for the protection of the Soviet Union, and it may become a semi-colony again.
Of course, the choice of commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army had to be very cautious, so in the end it was decided that the commander of the Northwest Field Army, who supported the dispatch of troops to Korea, would be the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army.
However, this episode of ** also provided a lot of comfort to *** who insisted on sending troops at that time, and it can be regarded as a crooked fight.