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In 1955, the founding general award ceremony was held in Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall. Among the more than 1,000 PLA generals, ten marshals and ten generals were finally born. Among these 20 highest-ranking generals, most of them are people who have made great achievements in war. But among them, there is one person who has hardly been on the battlefield, and even the opportunity to shoot is very rare.
This general named Tan Zheng rarely really fights, but he squeezed into the generals, and even ranked fifth.
As the first secretary of ***, what ability can he be awarded the rank of general? Why didn't he go to war?
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Tan Zheng, a native of Xiangxiang County, Hunan, was born in 1906. As a famous local gentry family in Xiangxiang, the Tan family has a high prestige in the local area. At the time of birth, the elders of the Tan family named the newborn baby Shiming according to the old grandfather's last wishes.
In his early childhood, Tan Shiming studied in the Tan family's clan private school, and became classmates and friends with Chen Geng. Chen Geng's family and the Tan family are friends in the world, and the Chen Tan family treats both children's children as their own. Because Tan Shiming is three years younger than Chen Geng, the two are often referred to as brothers. As brothers, the two are also from famous families and have the same ideals.
Tan Shiming was fostered in the Chen family and had a deep relationship with the Chen family, especially influenced by the Chen family's grandfather. Chen Geng's grandfather, as a general of the Hunan army, was not pedantic at all. In the process of fighting for the Qing court, he deeply felt the corruption and mediocrity of the court. He has the ideal of defending his family and the country, but he has nowhere to show it. At his home, Tan Shiming often listened to the old man tell about his war past, and took protecting his family and defending the country as his life ideal. Tan Shiming's time in the Chen family was not very long, but it had a great impact on his life development.
On the occasion of graduating from private school and leaving the Chen family. Old Man Chen specially set up a banquet to see off the young Tan Shiming. At the dinner table, the old man did not forget to tell Tan Shiming: "You must go to a new-style school to have a future career." If your family doesn't agree, just come to Grandpa, and Grandpa will definitely help you! ”
With the help of the Chen family, Tan Shiming successfully entered the local new-style school, Dongshan School. As a famous new-style school in Xiangxiang, it was full of various Western advanced ideas at that time. After entering the Dongshan Academy, Tan Shiming was exposed to a lot of progressive knowledge. In the process, he began to read a lot of progressive books at home and abroad, and learned about revolutionary ideas and anti-imperialist patriotism. Under the leadership of his teachers and classmates, this child from a feudal gentry family began to actively participate in the anti-imperialist patriotic movement and became its leading figure.
At that time, Chen Geng, because he was a few years older, had already devoted himself to the revolutionary cause, went south to Guangzhou, and applied for the Whampoa Military Academy.
After graduation, Tan Shiming worked as a teacher in a local primary school under the arrangement of his family. From the perspective of the family, although this job is the most suitable life path for the scholarly family. But Tan Shiming, who cherished the cause of the Chinese revolution, was dissatisfied with such an ordinary life. The experience in the new-style school made him understand that it was impossible to save China by teaching and educating people at that time, and only by joining the army and revolution could there be a glimmer of life.
He had long heard that his "eldest brother" Chen Geng went south to Guangzhou and applied for the military academy. So I hope that he can pull himself and bring himself into the army. But Tan Shiming wrote several letters to Chen Geng, but did not receive the slightest reply. This made him very anxious. At this time, Tan Shiming found the news of the Northern Expedition of the Revolutionary Army on the newspapers and periodicals issued in Xiangxiang.
Tan Shiming's belief in joining the army and revolution is even stronger. Fortunately, a few months later, Tan Shiming finally waited for Chen Geng's reply. It turned out that the reason why Chen Geng did not reply to the letter before was because his party organization sent him to the Soviet Union for further study, so he could not be contacted. After returning to China, after learning about Tan Shiming's desire to serve the country, Chen Geng immediately replied to him and arranged for him to join the army.
In 1927, under the recommendation of Chen Geng, Tan Shiming went to the Hankou area and joined the National Revolutionary Army. At that time, Chen Geng, as a battalion commander in the revolutionary army, was young and promising, and he was very open in the army. Tan Shiming, who has the identity of Chen Geng's brother-in-law, has naturally also been valued by the revolutionary army. As soon as he entered the army, he served as a sergeant clerk. After joining the army, Tan Shiming strengthened his heart to serve the country, and in order to keep himself from forgetting his ambition, he named himself Tan Zheng. Thus, a revolutionary fighter named Tan Zheng was born.
With revolutionary ideals in mind, Tan Shiming changed his name to Tan Zheng, and thus started his own road of revolutionary struggle. How did he, as a clerk, become the first secretary to the chairman?
Not long after Tan Zheng joined the revolutionary army, he was transferred to a very special revolutionary army unit as a clerk. This guard regiment unit was led by the famous revolutionary martyr Lu Deming. At the time of the Nanchang Uprising, this unit originally planned to rush to Nanchang, but was forced to stay halfway because it was stopped by the Wuhan people**. After hearing the news of the Autumn Harvest Uprising organized in Hunan, Lu Deming led the guard regiment to Hunan and became the most important military force in the hands of the chairman.
After the failure of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the guard regiment was transferred to the Hunan and Jiangxi border areas with the chairman. Because of the low revolutionary situation, many soldiers secretly broke away from the ranks and defected to the Kuomintang army. However, the people led by Lu Deming and Tan Zheng have always been unswerving and follow the chairman. When they reached the Sanwan area, the morale of the troops was very low and they could not exert their combat effectiveness. In order to change the status quo of the troops, the chairman pioneered the important theory of "integrating the party and the army, and directly establishing the party branch on the company". As a result of the reorganization of the Sanwan area, the party organization was truly integrated with the army, and a revolutionary contingent with revolutionary conviction was born.
In the process of reorganization, Tan Zheng became the secretary of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Army and 1st Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. It seems that he is just a regiment secretary, but in fact he is an important leader. There are only two regiments in the reorganized team, and Tan Zheng, as the secretary of one of them, is already a senior leader.
In the process of going to Jinggangshan, Tan Zheng had an intimate conversation with ***, and ** learned that the 20-year-old young secretary was a fellow villager in Hunan. **Overjoyed and said to Tan Zheng: "Okay, good, one Xiangxiang, one Xiangtan, plus a Xiangtan***, the three of us Hunan people go to Jinggangshan to revolutionize together!" ”
After the successful incorporation of the revolutionary contingent in Jinggangshan, the ranks of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army grew rapidly. And Tan Zheng also ushered in a happy event of his own. Under the introduction of Wan Xixian, a representative of party members, he officially joined the Communist Party of China.
In the process of working in Jinggangshan, **'s understanding of Tan Zheng has become deeper and deeper. After learning that both of them had studied in Dongshan School, the chairman admired them very much. The chairman took the initiative to find Tan Zheng and ask him about his revolutionary experience. In the process, the chairman unexpectedly learned that Tan Zheng was actually Chen Geng's good brother and a close friend of the Chen family. During the revolutionary process, the chairman had known Chen Geng for a long time, and even had in-depth exchanges with Mr. Chen. Knowing that Tan Zheng still has such a background, the chairman can't help but attach more importance to him.
In the early days of the establishment of the Jinggangshan Base Area, the personnel of the troops were very scarce. However, the task of developing the base areas is very arduous, and the heavy burden is on the people. In order to be able to gain a firm foothold on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders more quickly, ** began to look for a secretary to share the work pressure for himself.
Tan Zheng, as a cadre who has served as a clerk in the army for a long time, has become the chairman's first choice. In order to let the children of this scholarly family become their own secretary smoothly. The chairman even personally approached Tan Zheng and said to him: "I heard that your cultural knowledge is very good, and your handwriting is excellent. Now that the army is very short of people, if you are wronged, come to me as a secretary! ”
Tan Zheng looked excited after hearing this, and did not think that his position was reduced and lost, but agreed to the chairman's request very excitedly. For the chairman, the senior brother of Dongshan Academy, Tan Zheng admires it incomparably. The chairman personally invited him to serve as secretary, which Tan Zheng was eagerly looking forward to. After taking office as secretary, Tan Zheng learned a lot from the chairman. Not only about the way to deal with work, Tan Zheng also has a deeper understanding of the revolutionary theory of communism.
When the chairman talked to him about why the army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was far more determined than the Kuomintang army, Tan Zheng replied: "It is political work and the faith of our army!" It is precisely because of the efforts of political work cadres that our army has faith and has become an invincible revolutionary army.
Tan Zheng took office as the secretary-general of the chairman and learned the magic weapon of our party's revolution from the chairman. This also set the direction for his future work.
Through the efforts of the chairman and Tan Zheng for a period of time, tremendous results have been achieved in the development of the base areas, not only the areas under their control have been expanded several times, but the number of talented people joining our party and our army has also increased rapidly. After serving as a secretary for a period of time, the chairman decided to let Tan Zheng "enter the mountains and forests". Under the chairman's instructions, Tan Zheng returned to the army again to carry out the work of the party committee. After the establishment of the Red Fourth Army, Tan Zheng became the secretary of the Party Committee of the 31st Regiment of the Chairman Wu Zhonghao, and carried out close cooperation with Wu Zhonghao.
In the subsequent battles, Tan Zheng took the political work post as the front line of his battle. Although he did not personally participate in the battle, he did not pick up the ** and attack the enemy. But no one can erase Tan Zheng's achievements in political work. During his tenure as the chairman's secretary, he assisted the chairman in drafting the "Struggle in Jinggangshan."
In the work that followed, he successively wrote a number of summary reports on political work. These work reports have played a great role in the political construction of our party and our army, enriched the spirit of our army, and turned our army into an iron-blooded army that is not afraid of sacrifice or bloodshed for the revolution. It is precisely these political work reports that have become the spiritual magic weapon of our army's invincibility, enabling our army to defeat the strong with the weak and remain firm in the face of weakness.
In 1935, the Red Army marched to the Zunyi area and held a major meeting on the fate of our party. In this meeting, we finally returned to the core again. After the meeting, the chairman summoned Tan Zheng and other commanders and fighters of the army to communicate with the crowd. Under the guidance of the chairman, Tan Zheng completed the article "The Last Blockade". The publication of this article brought great comfort and hope for the future to the Red Army troops in a desperate situation. Inspired by Tan Zheng's article, the Red Army soldiers showed their bravery and fearlessness, and broke through the blockade of the Kuomintang with their flesh and blood. This was precisely the crucial step taken by the Red Army to complete the Long March of 10,000 miles and escape from the predicament.
In 1936, the Red Army's 10,000-mile long march came to an end, and our army accomplished a feat unprecedented in the world's military history. As an important political cadre of the Red Army, Tan Zheng took over the important task of "summing up the political work experience of the Red Army in the past". In March of the same year, Tan Zheng submitted an article entitled "Opinions on the New Rectification Work of the Red Army" to the party organization.
This article not only sums up the achievements and mistakes of our army's political work in the past, but also puts forward ideas and arrangements for the direction of the Red Army's political work after its transfer to northern Shaanxi. The appearance of this article also indicates that our army's political work has entered the next stage of work in the "War of Resistance Against Japan." **I am very satisfied with Tan Zheng's suggestion and approve of its content.
In October 1937, Tan Zheng was appointed deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Commission and served as Ren Bishi's assistant because of his outstanding work performance. At this time, Tan Zheng was just 31 years old, and he had become an absolute veteran and high-level cadre among the political work cadres of our army. During the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to resist Japan, Tan Zheng, as the deputy director of the Political Department, formulated relevant regulations and policies for the political work of the Eighth Route Army.
In 1944, Tan Zheng published the classic work "On the Political Work of the Army". In it, Tan Zheng gave an explanation and idea on how to build a people's army. ** Deeply believe in it, take it as the basic learning material for the army's political work, and distribute it to the troops for cadres to check and study.
In the second year, on the occasion of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Tan Zheng was elected as an alternate member of the Communist Party of China and became a high-level core member by virtue of his achievements.
With the development of the Liberation War, after considering and deciding, Tan Zheng went to the Northeast with ** and others to carry out work. Since then, Tan Zheng has published a number of articles to mobilize the people in the liberated areas and made great contributions to the development of the Liberation War. Since then, Tan Zheng has successively served as Deputy Political Commissar of Siye and Vice Minister of National Defense. First Deputy Director of the General Political Department and other important positions.
In 1955, our army launched the award ceremony, and Tan Zheng was rated as the founding general by virtue of his political achievements, ranking fifth.
The importance of political workIt has been explained: "In the War of Liberation, nearly 5 million Kuomintang troops were annihilated, of which more than 4 million were captured by our army, and more than half of them eventually became liberation fighters of our army. "Such achievements are naturally due to the excellent political work of our army.
The establishment of New China is inseparable from the efforts of our party and our army to overcome obstacles along the way, and the ability of our party and our army to have such combat effectiveness is also inseparable from the lifelong efforts of General Tan Zheng. General Tan Zheng used his lifelong experience to turn the guidance of the first into reality, created an army of faith for our party, and created an ideal sword for our country. Such a great feat, to be awarded the general, well-deserved!
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