An old ** sparked heated discussions. **Taken on March 25, 1949, when our party was about to enter the city of Beijing. Standing next to an open-top car for a military parade, with a figure clinging to it behind it.
He only shows his body and his face is hidden in the dark, causing speculation. Who is this mysterious figure? Why did you appear behind *** in this way? He is Liu Yalou, the founding general of New China, and his story is full of legends.
Liu Yalou: The legend of the growth of young heroes Liu Yalou, this name is undoubtedly closely related to "outstanding meritorious service and brilliant achievements". In the years of the war, he fought his way out of the encirclement in the rain of bullets and bullets, and made many military exploits.
When the dawn of peace came, he devoted himself to the creation and development of the Air Force, and opened a new chapter in the Chinese Air Force with the spirit of starting from scratch. Now, let's walk into the world of Liu Yalou and appreciate his legendary and glorious life.
Liu Yalou, formerly known as Liu Zhendong, was born in 1910 in a poor farming family in Wuping County, Fujian Province. At that time, Fujian was inconvenient and bandits were rampant, and this environment created his fearless courage and superb marksmanship, and he became a "sharpshooter" in the township.
In 1929, the CCP formed the Third Route Army in western Fujian, and Liu Yalou, who was only 19 years old, actively signed up to join the army. Since he had received a private school and secondary education, he was one of the few intellectuals in the Red Army.
As a result, Liu Yalou was given the opportunity to further his studies and officially joined the CCP. In the military academy with the battalion, he received a systematic military education, which laid a solid foundation for his later military career.
There, too, he began to attract the attention of the leadership. Among them, he attracted the attention of the leadership for correcting the old warlord style of the instructors in the military school. In one class, a student dozed off in class, and the instructor saw it and was about to hit someone.
When Liu Yalou saw it, he immediately stopped it and said: "The warlord style should not appear in our army, and I must resolutely correct it." When the instructor heard this, he was furious and threatened to give Liu Yalou a little color.
Although Liu Yalou was afraid and worried that he would lose his rare educational opportunity, he still insisted on his decision and did not regret it.
It's a really, really difficult task. I'll do my best, though. Liu Yalou took the initiative to abandon the favorable terrain in order to lead the enemy into the trap we had set in advance, and wait for the enemy to penetrate deep into our hinterland before we launched an attack and wiped them out.
It's like if you're going to hit a dog, you have to let the dog grab the meat first, and that piece of meat is the favorable terrain that we give up beforehand. When the dog finishes eating the meat and loses its vigilance, we can easily defeat it.
Although the soldiers couldn't understand it at first, they all understood it under Liu Yalou's vivid explanation.
On December 1, 1934, the battle was fierce, and Liu Yalou's troops were in danger of being surrounded by the Kuomintang army. At this moment, the Red First Division sent a distress signal.
The Kuomintang army was already approaching the door of the corps headquarters of the 1st Red Division! In the face of the urgent request for help from his comrades, Liu Yalou did not hesitate, immediately led people to the rescue, and quickly defeated the enemy.
As a result, the Xiangjiang ferry was successfully defended. Later, the ** column of our army was able to smoothly cross the Xiangjiang River and preserve the revolutionary fire. In the end, when the ** army was fully and safely transferred, Liu Yalou's Red Second Division and Red First Division alternately covered and withdrew from their positions.
After this battle, Liu Yalou's status in the hearts of our army leaders was once again enhanced, and they trusted him very much in his combat ability. In the subsequent Long March, Liu Yalou and the Red Second Division led by him were often appointed as the vanguard troops.
They successfully crossed the Wujiang River, captured Zunyi, climbed over snow-capped mountains, walked through grasslands, and undertook most of the difficult tasks on the Long March. In 1938, Liu Yalou, as the chief of education of the Red Army's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, was sent to the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union for further study, becoming the first batch of commanders sent abroad to study military affairs in China.
During his study abroad, Liu Yalou performed well, and after the first semester, he was the first in the Chinese Academy.
When Liu Yalou first came to the Soviet Union to study, his learning progress was very slow due to the language barrier. There was a misunderstanding because of this, and he was almost regarded as a hooligan. In order to solve the language problem, he made up his mind to learn Russian, and within half a year he reached the level of fluent communication.
In 1941, when Hitler was preparing to attack the Soviet Union, Liu Yalou discussed with the generals possible offensive routes of the German army. Although most of the generals believe that the German army will choose Ukraine, Liu Yalou believes that they are more likely to choose Belarus as the main direction of attack.
Although Liu Yalou's judgment was not taken seriously by the Soviet High Command, he was favored by important leaders of our army, and he served as a staff officer of the Soviet command during the Soviet-German war.
Soon after Liu Yalou served as a staff officer in the Soviet Union, he ushered in a severe cold. He immediately pointed out that due to the lack of winter equipment, the German soldiers froze to death from frostbite and gradually decreased their combat effectiveness, and this was the best time for the Soviet army.
He proposed a combat plan: first seize air supremacy, and then cooperate with Soviet soldiers to cope with the cold and destroy the German armored forces. In accordance with his proposals, the Soviet army carried out coordinated operations by land and air and achieved a major victory.
Therefore, the high-ranking generals of the Soviet army deeply admired him and invited him to become a Soviet citizen. However, Liu Yalou always remembered the original intention of studying abroad - to drive away foreign enemies, so he resolutely refused the invitation to change his nationality.
In 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and Liu Yalou, as a staff officer of the Soviet Major, joined the 1.5 million army, advanced into the northeast of China, and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army.
But as soon as he arrived in Dalian, Liu Yalou contacted the Northeast Bureau, hoping to return to his team. In May 1946, the ** Military Commission appointed Liu Yalou as chief of staff of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, a decision that shocked Liu Yalou himself and the Soviet generals.
However, the leadership made this decision after careful consideration. Liu Yalou was already an outstanding general before he went to study in the Soviet Union, and served as the commander of the main force of the Red Army for a long time.
At the same time, he had a close relationship with the leaders of the Red First Army, and the two cooperated tacitly. Liu Yalou studied in the Soviet Union for nearly ten years and had a close relationship with the Soviet army, which facilitated communication and coordination during wartime.
When Liu Yalou reported to the Northeast Coalition Army, the leaders of the Red First Army even personally greeted him at the door, which was an unprecedented treatment. He said to Liu Yalou: "You alone, at least two of my chiefs of staff!" ”
This is a very high evaluation of Liu Yalou's ability. Liu Yalou quickly displayed the quality of an excellent chief of staff, established China's first surveying and mapping school, trained a large number of professionals in surveying and mapping military maps, and also opened staff training classes, personally attended classes, and passed on the knowledge he had learned to more people.
Liu Yalou's ingenuity attracted the attention of *** and ***, and they asked him to send the carefully formulated staff training plan and translated teaching materials to **, and then ** distributed them to the whole army for study.
Soon, the fascists were completely defeated, and the Japanese army was expelled from the country. However, China did not win a complete victory, and the Kuomintang began to exterminate the Communist Party and its army, and a large-scale civil war broke out between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
On September 8, 1948, at Siping Railway Station, Liu Yalou sat on a train heading south, his destination unknown. His subordinates, and even the commander of the column, did not know where the train was going and who it was fighting against.
It turned out that this was an order from the leadership to both quickly transport troops to Jinzhou and maintain the suddenness of the campaign. Therefore, Liu Yalou did not announce the battle plan in advance, and asked the troops remaining south of Changchun to march to Jinzhou many days in advance, creating the illusion of an attack.
After the troops boarded the train, Liu Yalou also asked the radio station above the division level of the Northeast Field Army to stay where it was and contact the command post in order to confuse the enemy troops and make them think that our army would not go south to attack Jinzhou, but had already gone north to Dachangchun.
This series of actions made Fan Hanjie, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang suppression of the Communist Party, also fooled. The Liaoshen Campaign finally ended with the victory of our army, and the entire northeast was liberated. The Northeast Field Army, which had just finished the Liaoshen Campaign, immediately swung its division south and marched into North China.
In order to urge Fu Zuoyi to give up his illusions and surrender as soon as possible, Liu Yalou recommended himself to serve as the front-line commander for the liberation of Tianjin. In just 29 hours, he liberated Tianjin, which the Kuomintang claimed to be "able to hold for at least three months", and captured alive Chen Changjie, the commander of the Tianjin garrison, and finally contributed to the peaceful liberation of Beiping.
Liu Yalou: The Guardian Hidden Behind *** When the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which had gone through countless life and death struggles, was about to end, Liu Yalou was appointed commander of the 14th Corps of the Fourth Field Army.
He made great achievements in this huge and protracted battle. And after that, he became a part of history in a unique way at the founding ceremony.
On March 25, 1949, the first military parade of our army into Beijing began. In this military parade, ** stood on a jeep in a military coat for review.
And just behind him, there was a person who caught the attention of the people around him. This person is Liu Yalou. He stood behind ***, his face buried in it, hunched over, his guns clenched in both hands, and he was always on alert.
His existence is not only to protect the chairman, but also to be loyal and responsible to the party and the country. However, his face was never seen. Because the reason why he hides his face is because he is worried that ** will be recorded in the history of the party in the future, and he wants to ensure the solemnity of **.
It is a kind of respect and reverence for the past and the future. Soon after the military parade ended, the founding ceremony was solemnly held in Tiananmen Square, and the masses of the people began an era in which they were the masters of their own country.
And Liu Yalou has also become a witness and guardian of this era. He is the guardian hidden behind ***, and he is the one who pays silently. His presence, like his name, shines forever.
Behind all this brilliance, there are many worrying facts. At that time, China was not only economically backward and in ruins, but also had only a certain strength in the army, and the air force and navy were in a blank stage.
At the founding ceremony, the performance of the fighter plane formation made the people's blood boil, but they did not know that these planes were actually made up. To make the show look even more exciting, nine of the planes also flew twice.
Deeply concerned about this situation, after careful consideration, he believed that it was necessary to immediately begin the formation of the Air Force and Navy. So, who will be responsible for the formation of the Air Force?
In the end, ** chose Liu Yalou.
This decision is the best one after careful consideration. First of all, the position of commander-in-chief of the Air Force requires a high level of education, because the Air Force is a modern branch of the army, and Liu Yalou is a navy in the Soviet Union, which gives him an advantage to a certain extent.
Secondly, when our army is preparing to build an air force, it will definitely buy equipment from the Soviet Union. Liu Yalou studied abroad for ten years and had a close relationship with the Soviet high-level, and many high-ranking generals recognized him very much.
In addition, Liu Yalou is fluent in Russian, which is very helpful in communication and coordination. Finally, in the years of the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Yalou has won the absolute trust of my country, not only in his work ability, but also in his revolutionary will.
After all, the preparation of the Air Force is a very important task, and it is necessary to send people with strong beliefs.
Chairman, I mainly focus on the Army, and I don't know much about the Air Force, so I'm afraid I won't be able to do this job. ”
Liu Yalou was encouraged by ***, although he would be dizzy as soon as he got on the plane, he still bravely accepted the position of the first commander of the People's Air Force. At that time, he was only 39 years old, but he stayed up late every day to study, and soon applied to ** for the formation of the leading organ of the Air Force, ** immediately approved.
On November 11, 1949, the People's Air Force was formally established, and after that, it developed rapidly, and soon China had its own repair shop and spare parts factory. In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Air Force as soon as possible, Liu Yalou put forward the slogan of "building while fighting, and training while fighting."
Even in the face of the dilemma of shortage of equipment and lack of flight experience, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army Air Force is still fearless, confronts a strong enemy, and constantly sums up experience. In battles with the U.S. Air Force, they won one victory after another, and their achievements were remarkable.
Vandenberg, chief of staff of the US Air Force, even exclaimed: "China has become one of the world's major air powers seemingly overnight." "Under the leadership of Liu Yalou of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, China's air force has gradually become one of the best branches of the army.
In 1964, Liu Yalou shared his experience in building the Air Force at the Great Hall of the People, which was the most glorious moment in the history of the Air Force and his most glorious moment as a general.
However, the years of war left him with many wounds, and the preparation for the air force also exhausted his talents and efforts. In August 1964, Liu Yalou was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer, which was a heavy blow and bad news to China's military and civilians, especially the Air Force.
General Liu Yalou, a highly respected and highly accomplished marshal, died on May 7, 1965, at the age of 55, after nine months of heroic struggle against illness.
His life was full of splendor and magnificence. Someone once praised him: "The military exploits of the marshal, the position of a general, the rank of general." His funeral was held at the Zhongshan Hall in Zhongshan Park, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians went to pay their respects that day.
At the memorial service, all the leaders attended, and after the memorial service, the hearse escorted by *** left. Although our country is getting richer and stronger now, we should always remember those years of gunsmoke and the contributions made by General Liu Yalou to us.
We must do our best to build our motherland and hope that China will get better and better.