Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, China had four major field armies, namely the First Field Army, the Second Field Army, the Third Field Army, and the Fourth Field Army. Among them, the Fourth Field Army had the largest number of people, up to a million people.
Do you know who was the commander who destroyed the most enemies in the Fourth Field Army? He was the founding general of our country, having annihilated more than 140,000 enemy troops in the Fourth Field Army.
The army he led was known as the "Northeast Tiger Army". Who the hell is he? What remarkable feats did he achieve? Let's find out.
Liu Zhen, one of the founding generals of our country, once served as a fierce general in the four fields. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became the commander of the Air Force of the Northeast Military Region and concurrently served as the deputy commander of the Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, making great contributions to the development of China's Air Force.
However, his family background was not wealthy. He was born in 1915 in an ordinary farming family in Xiaochang County, Xiaogan, Hubei Province.
Despite this, he still became an outstanding general of our country with his efforts and talents.
Growing up in a hostile environment, he joined the Red Guards as early as 1930 at the age of 15 and firmly believed that the Communist Party could save the peasants from fire and water.
The following year, he joined the Red Army and was assigned to the guerrilla brigade in his county, where his efforts were recognized by his superiors, and the organization immediately agreed to his application to the Communist Party the following year.
Liu Zhen's outstanding performance in the 4th Brigade of the Special Agents of the Northeast Hubei Provincial Committee made him a company instructor, and he became a member of the pistol regiment of the Red 25th Army in the subsequent reorganization of the brigade.
And Xu Haidong, the leader of the Red 25th Army, discovered Liu Zhen's talent and successfully broke through the blockade line on the Long March with his help. Therefore, Xu Haidong promoted him to the rank of battalion political commissar in recognition of his talents and contributions.
After the end of the Long March, the Red 25th Army successfully merged with the Red Army in northern Shaanxi to form the Red 15th Army Corps. Xu Haidong assumed the position of commander of the legion, and did not forget to promote Liu Zhen, and Liu Zhen was also flattered by this.
After the notice of promotion arrived, he was successfully promoted to a regimental commissar.
He lived up to Xu Haidong's trust, seized the opportunity to be promoted, and after becoming the political commissar of the regiment, they fought many times, and his performance became more and more prominent, winning many awards, and later he was promoted to division staff officer.
From the time he joined the Red Army to the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he had been fighting fiercely with the enemy on the front line and never slackened.
2. Since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the "Northeast Tiger Army" has advanced with the 344th Brigade to the Pinghe Jingchu area in western Hebei Province and has waged fierce battles with the Japanese army. After a series of hard-fought battles, they managed to hold their positions and were transferred to the southeast of Shanxi to fight the Japanese army to the death.
In 1938, they cooperated with the Kuomintang to successfully eliminate a large number of Japanese soldiers at Zhongtiao Mountain, crushing the Japanese army's ambition to occupy Zhongtiao Mountain.
In 1938, Liu Zhen served as the commander of the regiment and went deep into the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border region to fight against the Japanese army, showing outstanding leadership skills. The following year, he was promoted to commander of the 344 Brigade, further proving his strength.
After the end of World War II, he served as commander of the Huaihai Navy Division and secretary of the Huaihai Municipal Committee, continuing to demonstrate his outstanding military and political talents.
Past battles failed to fully demonstrate his true strength, and the War of Liberation was his pinnacle. After Japan's surrender in 1945, there were still a large number of puppet troops who were unwilling to surrender, and the Eighth Route Army and ** began to clean up them.
After nearly a month of fierce fighting, the puppet army was almost completely wiped out, among which nearly 10,000 people were annihilated in Huaiyin City, which is enough to see that the number of these puppet troops is very small.
Although Japan had surrendered unconditionally, it had long been foreseen that an inevitable decisive battle with the Kuomintang was on the horizon. So, he sent 130,000 elite soldiers to the northeast, and they were the predecessors of Siye.
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek treacherously launched a surprise attack on our party, triggering a civil war across the country. This kind of behavior of disregarding the security of the country and the will of the people made the United States, which had been aiding the Kuomintang, deeply distressed and decided to stop aiding the Kuomintang.
Although the Kuomintang is still strong, our party has been under pressure from the Kuomintang in the early days, and Liu Zhen and other comrades in the northeast are also facing difficulties. However, they were able to win the support of the local people in exchange for their sincerity, and they survived the crisis together.
Compared with the troops led by the Guannai ***, they developed rapidly in the northeast, and grew into a million-strong army in only two years. During this period, Liu Zhen also participated in many battles.
In the three Jiangnan battles, he took the 2nd column as the team and defeated more than 3,200 people, and won the name of the 2nd column in one fell swoop. After that, he led his troops to participate in the summer offensive, destroying more than 5,000 enemies, and made persistent efforts to complete the battle of annihilation in the Great Black Forest, where countless enemies were killed.
In the winter offensive of 1947, he made great achievements, and it took only 5 hours to successfully annihilate more than 9,000 people. His bravery was highly praised by **.
In the following year, in 1948, he led his troops to capture Jinzhou, and joined forces with his brother troops to wipe out all Liao Yaoxiang's corps. In the next month or so, he participated in the task of conquering Shenyang, and after a day of fierce fighting, he successfully annihilated the defenders of Shenyang City, totaling 3More than 10,000 people.
His bravery and leadership skills have earned him deep admiration.
During the War of Liberation, he killed more than 140,000 enemy soldiers from the Pingjin Campaign to the Guangxi Campaign. His 2 Column was eventually reorganized into the 39th Army, and he served as the commander of the 39th Army and the deputy commander of the 13th Corps, and his unit was hailed"Northeast Tigers"。
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became the commander of the Air Force and made outstanding contributions to the country's air force cause.
General Liu Zhen led the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force to confront the US Air Force in the Korean War and successfully shot down the most advanced US aircraft, marking a new starting point and rise of China's Air Force.
And in 1958, when he was the president of the Air Force Academy and the deputy commander of the Air Force, ** brought him a special message, entrusting him to find a man of good character and suitable for life.
Liu Zhen had been wondering why the chairman was looking for a partner for him, until he learned that the chairman was looking for a remarriage partner for Liu Siqi, the widow of his eldest son Mao Anying. Mao Anying's heroic death in the Korean War dealt a heavy blow to the chairman and his wife.
After a few years of observation, the chairman decided that Liu Siqi should not keep the empty house for his son alone, so he asked many people to find a suitable remarriage partner for her.
Liu Zhen was deeply moved by this incident, and he could feel the good intentions of ***. Although Liu Siqi is the daughter-in-law of ***, remarriage means that she has become someone else's wife, which is impossible not to know.
However, ** took the initiative to help Liu Siqi find a new partner, which fully demonstrated his broad-mindedness. Liu Zhen also did not live up to the expectations of ***, he found a young man named Yang Maozhi, they developed feelings for each other in contact, and finally tied the knot, and had four lovely children.
Liu Siqi remembered the kindness of the Mao family, and in order to commemorate Mao Anying's sacrifice, she got her husband's consent and named their eldest son "Xiaoying". At the same time, she did not cut off relations with the Mao family because of remarriage, and every festival, she would visit *** to send her heart.
General Liu Zhen's life is full of legends, and in his later years, he often remembers the past when he was the matchmaker, and his admiration for *** is overflowing. In 1990, at the age of 78, this great general finally collapsed due to illness, and his death was an irreparable loss for China and its people.