In the history of the Chinese revolution, there are many people with aliases and nicknames. Some are named after image characteristics, such as **'s beard is quite lush, so the officers and soldiers of the Red Fourth Army call him "bearded army commander"; Some are inseparable from their positions, such as *** is called "Ye Shenzuo" because he served as the chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army. And the name of "Boss Tan" has quite a bit of origin, and it is still *** called.
**, formerly known as Tan Xiqi, when he joined the party, he wanted to change his name to "Tan Hu" to think that Mingzhi, but the introducer Yu Lai felt that it was inappropriate, that is: "The cloud is from the dragon, the wind is from the tiger, and the tiger roars and the wind shakes the mountains and forests", thinking that "Zhenlin" is good. **Great joy, then with a lifetime. At this time, it was October 12, 1926. A year later, the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops conquered Chaling County, Hunan Province, and was elected chairman of the county, becoming the first county-level leader in the history of the Communist Party of China, at the age of 25. In November 1927, as a workers' representative, he was elected chairman of the Workers' Peasants and Soldiers of Chaling County, and although he had no experience, he brilliantly fulfilled the task of creating the first Soviet power in the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area.
In 1929, when ** led the Red Fourth Army from Jinggangshan to Fujian, ** and ** and Cai Xiemin respectively served as the party representatives of the three columns of the Red Fourth Army, and later, ** served as the commander of the second column. In 1930, the General Front Committee of the Red Front Army was established, and Zhou Yisu, Teng Daiyuan, Huang Gongluo, and ** were all members of the General Front Committee. Before the Red Army's Long March, he also served as the political commissar of the Red Twelfth Army and the commander and political commissar of the Fujian Military Region. In the course of the establishment of revolutionary base areas and the military struggle against the Kuomintang, he profoundly realized that the Red Army is an armed group that carries out revolutionary political tasks, and if it leaves the goal of propaganda against the masses, arming the armed forces, and building revolutionary power, the Red Army will lose the meaning of fighting a war, and the meaning of the Red Army's existence. Many of his thoughts and practices at that time made valuable contributions to the formation of such brilliant ideas as "armed separatism of workers and peasants," "political power coming out of the barrel of a gun," and "encircling the city from the countryside."
With the withdrawal of the main force of the Red Army from the Soviet area, **, together with Zhang Dingcheng and **, led and persisted in the guerrilla war in western Fujian for three years, preserving the flame of revolution.
When the New Fourth Army was formed, he personally appointed the generals and proposed that four people, Zhang Dingcheng, Zhang Yunyi, and **, serve as division-level leaders. In the end, an agreement was reached with the Kuomintang, and the New Fourth Army was organized into 4 brigade-level detachments, with Zhang Dingcheng, Zhang Yunyi, and Gao Jingting serving as detachment leaders respectively, and Fu Qiutao, Su Yu, and Dai Jiying serving as deputy detachment leaders (actually political commissars). After the Southern Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army was rebuilt, and he was successively appointed by the Military Commission as the commander and political commissar of the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army, the political commissar of the First Division, and the director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army and the political commissar of the Second Division. In the autumn of 1938, due to the ineffective operation of the 114th Division of the Sichuan Army, ** led the third detachment of the newly reorganized New Fourth Army to garrison. For more than a year, under his command, he fought more than 100 battles, destroyed nearly 1,000 enemies, and killed the enemy's Emikawa Island Nakasa, especially the scale of the five Fanchang defense battles. Fanchang was victorious, and the military uniform of ** had become ragged, and the upper of the shoe only reached the toes. The local elders can still sing the "Song of Fanchang", which has a sentence: "Who said that we swim but do not fight, who says that we can't fight a big battle", that is, the battle to defend Fanchang.
On March 23, 1940, the Southeast Bureau of the Communist Party of China and the Military Department of the New Fourth Army sent a telegram to the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China: "In order to strengthen the work of the East Road, Comrade *** has been transferred to organize a military and political meeting, under the command of the unified army, and will set off in a few days." On the way to work, for safety, ** changed into a white shirt, woolen suspender trousers, a long shirt, and a black top hat, like a big boss. Companions, etc., are all referred to as "bosses". Soon after arriving at the station, there was a rumor in the army that "the superior sent a boss!" As a result, the title of "Boss Tan" quietly spread. **Hearing it is also called "Boss Tan", and since then, his subordinates have put "boss" on their lips, and they often say "follow the boss's opinion......”
** Came to Changshu from the southern Anhui front, established the New Fourth Army East Route Military and Political Committee, and served as secretary. At the same time, it was decided to set up the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Rescue East Road Command, and under the pseudonym of "Lin Jun", he served as the commander of the Jiangnan People's Anti-Japanese Rescue East Road Command, political commissar, and director of the Political Department, presiding over the party, government, and military work in the East Road area. Under his leadership, in just a few months, the anti-Japanese struggle in the Donglu area grew from small to large and from weak to strong, forming a heyday of the all-round anti-Japanese war. At the end of May, under the mobilization of the first people, more than 10,000 people in Changshu and Suzhou completely destroyed more than 30 kilometers of Xihu Highway overnight and demolished 9 bridges, causing the Japanese army's road transportation to be paralyzed. Immediately, he ordered the anti-Japanese guerrilla forces to take the Suchang area as their base, leaving Kunshan (Kunshan) Jia (Jiading) and Taicang in the east, and Cheng (Jiangyin) and Xi (Wuxi) and Yu (Changshu) in the west. On June 5, he fought in Qianjing, Pailou Market, and Laozha, killing more than 60 enemies. On the 7th, the Japanese puppet was defeated in Kunshan Wugang. On the 11th, they attacked the Japanese stronghold in Xiangcheng at night. On the 18th, it fought a bloody battle with more than 400 Japanese troops in Gale Bay. After that, dozens of people from the Sixth Column of Security were eliminated in the north of Wuxi, and the recalcitrant troops Ma Leming and Zhao Beibei were defeated in Wuxi Rengang and Gangxia. The Japanese, puppet, and stubborn armies were all shaken.
One day, the leader of the guerrillas of the Kuomintang invited Yang Xiaonan, the leader of the banquet, who has always been good at seeing the wind and making the rudder, in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, he had pulled up a team to resist Japan and defend the country, killed Japanese soldiers, rescued the "** wounded, and then defected to Ye Fei, and when Ye Fei withdrew westward, he immediately took refuge in Leng Xin, the commander of the third theater of the Kuomintang, and entrenched in Ganlu Town, Wuxi, and swore not to stand with the Communist Party. This person's banquet is considered by everyone to be a "Hongmen banquet". * The generals of the internal security, the ambush soldiers outside, led Xia Guang (the prototype of Guo Jianguang, the commander of the New Fourth Army in the modern drama "Shajiabang") and others to go happily. During the banquet, Yang Xiaonan suddenly put down his wine glass and said sharply: "Your army, in the name of cooperation to resist Japan, has annexed and incorporated it; Without faith, we are unconvinced. With that, he suddenly pulled out his pistol, and with a "snap", it slammed on the table of the eight immortals. **Furious: "Commander Yang, please understand: if people don't offend me, I won't offend people; If anyone sins against me, I will offend. If Commander Yang dares to fire first, 'Jiang Kang' will have contacts and will accompany him to the end. After a moment of confrontation, ** asked unhurriedly: "Commander Yang, you are a local businessman, why did you pull up your arms?" "Fight devils and protect your hometown!" Yang Xiaonan blurted out. "Are we going to do something stupid about killing each other?! To put it reasonably, Yang Xiaonan secretly admired "Boss Tan" for being in danger and being convincing. After this banquet, Yang Xiaonan began to fight against the enemy with the ranks of the Communist Party.
Tao Yiqiu, a landlord in Kunshan, was the head of the Kuomintang ** district, a righteous and patriotic person, when he learned about the prestige of "Boss Tan", he immediately led his troops into the three detachments of "Jiang Kang". ** He was personally approved as a special member of the Communist Party of China and appointed as the magistrate of Kunshan County, an anti-Japanese democratic regime.
Boss Tan "is also very good at making reports. He was always able to express his views freely, and the comrades listened to it with relish and applauded incessantly, and he would not be interrupted by applause, and he could immediately continue to speak.
On November 28, 1941, Luo Zhongyi, chief of staff of the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army and commander of the 16th Brigade, and Liao Haitao, political commissar, died heroically while fighting against the Japanese army in Tangma, Liyang. **Regardless of personal safety, only two guards were brought to cross the river from Jiangbei and disguised as a "boss" to pass through the checkpoint again. As soon as he arrived at the 16th Brigade, he immediately announced that he would be the brigade commander, reduce the personnel of the organs, enrich and strengthen the company, and adhere to the anti-Japanese position in the south of the Yangtze River. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen Pixian, an old comrade-in-arms, recalled: "The story of going to Sunan West Road twice to turn things around vividly reflects his courage and talent. ”
**Once said: There is a Boss Tan in singing Peking Opera, and we also have a Boss Tan! In this way, ** took the lead in calling "Boss Tan", and the name of "Boss Tan" slowly spread, and the characteristics of "boss" were also greatly reflected in him.
The marshal has a very pertinent evaluation of ***: "Jealousy and hatred are his greatest characteristics. "On the eve of the Battle of Jinan, the Shandong Corps held a pre-war mobilization meeting for cadres above the division level on September 5. Commander Xu was still recuperating in Jiaodong, and at the meeting, he first conveyed the combat tasks of the third year of the Liberation War and the spirit of the Qufu Conference. In the end, he raised his arms and waved his fists, and put forward the slogan of "Fight to Jinan Mansion and capture Wang Yaowu alive". Comrade Jin Zhi, then deputy director of the General Staff Office of the Shandong Corps, recalled: "This short, vivid, exciting, and morale-boosting loud slogan became the target of the heroic struggle of all the commanders and fighters participating in the battle. Xie Youfa, the founding lieutenant general of the People's Republic of China, recalled: "* He always spoke and acted neatly, was good at grasping the key points, and put forward mobilization slogans in a timely manner, which was very encouraging to the troops. Encouraged by this slogan, the morale of the troops was high, which eventually turned the slogan into reality. ”
From January 19 to 26, 1949, the Huaye Front Committee held an enlarged meeting in Jiawang, northeast of Xuzhou. Under the auspices of Su Yu, the Huaye Army was reorganized and personnel adjustments were made to senior cadres. On 9 February, in accordance with the decision of the First Military Commission of the Communist Party of China on unifying the organization and number of the whole army, the East China Field Army was renamed the Third Field Army and issued a reorganization order. After the reorganization, the Third Field Army was still headed by ** as commander, political commissar and former secretary of the party committee, Su Yu as deputy commander and second deputy political commissar, and ** as first deputy political commissar. In April 1949, ** was ordered to command the Seventh Corps of the Three Fields.
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VII.III. The 10th and 33rd armies, with a total of 300,000 people, formed the Central Group. He pulled the troops who were not accustomed to water to Chaohu Lake to carry out water training. ** The marshal praised: "The Chaohu training army is an important page in the history of liberation. ”
At 19:30 on the evening of April 20, ** commanded 300,000 people to cross the Yangtze River moat from Wuhu. Thousands of artillery guns fired in unison, thousands of sails raced, and the Yangtze River defense line, which the Kuomintang army had painstakingly managed for a long time, was broken through by our army overnight. The first boat of the 24th Army to cross the river reached the south bank in only 15 minutes. The first breakthrough of the Central Group attracted the attention of the Kuomintang army to the middle section of the Yangtze River, and this created favorable conditions for the two eastern and western group armies of our army to cross the Yangtze River. On the 21st, Commander-in-Chief ** and Zhu issued the "Order to March to the Whole Country". On the evening of the 22nd, ** and deputy commander Wang Jian'an led the command headquarters to cross from the north bank, and when they were driving to the south bank, they suddenly encountered the Kuomintang ** in the direction of Nanjing from Anqing in the middle of the river. The situation was very critical, ** was not chaotic, calm, calmly told the boat boss how to avoid**, and finally arrived safely on the south shore. The battle of crossing the river was the last battle of the first horse in his career.
In 1955, the Chinese People's Liberation Army implemented a military rank system. The fact that he has served as the deputy secretary general and vice premier of the Communist Party of China took the initiative not to participate in the evaluation of the title, reflecting the high style and dignity of our army's senior generals who do not want personal honor.
*: "Yanhuang Chunqiu" 2022 Issue 05, author Shi Lei (**Party History and Literature Research Institute).