In 1987, an old man over seventy years old was urgently transferred to the Military Commission as the new deputy secretary general of the Military Commission.
The new secretary general of the Central Military Commission, named Hong Xuezhi, is not only the founding general of New China, but also the founder of the People's Liberation Army's modern logistics. When he learned the news that he had been appointed deputy secretary general of the Central Military Commission, he was very surprised"Thank you for the organization's love, but I'm really old and it's hard to take on a heavy responsibility. ”
Hong Xuezhi) So, why did you let Hong Xuezhi, who is over seventy years old, serve as the new secretary general of the Military Commission? Why is Hong Xuezhi so deeply trusted?
Today, this episode tells you about:Founding General - Hong Xuezhi.
In 1987, Comrade ** had reached the age of 73. Because of his advanced age,He has successively resigned from many positions such as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, a member of the Politburo, and the director of the ** Advisory Committee, but retained the post of chairman of the Military Commission.
However, the busy work and the changing national defense situation made this old man feel a little overwhelmed, and he needed a capable helper to shoulder the burden of building the country with him.
At this time, he set his sights on Hong Xuezhi, a founding general of the Republic and the founder of modern logistics of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
From 1984 to 1987, at the white-hot stage of the two-mountain round war, the Chinese People's Liberation Army faced a severe test in the face of repeated provocations from its southern neighbors。The army is on an expedition of labor, and logistics construction is the most important thing to ensure the victory of the battle to defend the homeland and defend the country. And Hong Xuezhi, who has repeatedly made military exploits on the Korean battlefield, is undoubtedly an expert in this area.
In October 1950, the vigorous "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Defend the Home and Defend the Country" campaign kicked off, and ** personally took command and led tens of thousands of Chinese volunteer soldiers to set foot on a strange land. This war is completely different from any other war in Chinese history, such as the anti-Japanese resistance and liberationThe Chinese and people's soldiers not only faced a powerful opponent who was known as the world's number one at that time, but also faced the general dilemma of the modern war army: logistics.
At the beginning of the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the US military discovered the shortcomings of the Chinese People's Volunteers' modern logistics, put forward the law of the so-called "worship offensive," and sent air force units to wantonly and indiscriminately bomb our army's heavy logistics. In the harsh environment of lack of clothing and medicine,Although the volunteers fought very tenaciously and bravely, there were still some soldiers who have been sleeping in this land of white mountains and black waters.
Resist US aggression and aid Korea, protect the home and defend the country).
In the face of the increasingly severe logistical situation on the front line, ** returned to Beijing many times, and called for the soldiers in the rear to hurry up and think of a way. Just when everyone is at a lossIn May 1951, Hong Xuezhi shouldered the heavy responsibility of shouldering the logistics support work of the Volunteer Army. He personally arrived at the logistics site, explored the law of the US bombing, and adopted the logistics transportation plan of day and night, taking turns on duty, and forging a logistics supply line for the volunteers that "cannot be broken and cannot be rushed."
In addition, Hong Xuezhi also discovered the characteristics of the Northwest noodle "fried noodles" that are easy to transport and preserve, and do not need to be cooked on a fire. Under his vigorous popularization, the regional delicacy of fried noodles became the main dry food carried by the soldiers of the Volunteer Army at that time. In July 1953, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army completely defeated the world's strongest opponent at that time, and reluctantly walked to the armistice negotiation table in Panmunjom, a country that had never tasted defeat before.
Panmunjom armistice negotiations).
After Hong Xuezhi returned to China,In 1954 he was officially appointed deputy director of logistics of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and was promoted to minister three years later. The valuable experience accumulated by the units of the Chinese People's Volunteers in the later period during the Korean War was passed on to the whole army under the impetus of Hong Xuezhi, and the modern logistics system of the people's army took shape.
With his practice and wisdom, Hong Xuezhi laid the first cornerstone in history for the logistics of the people's army, and was also the key general who contributed to the successful conclusion of the Korean War. In this regard, ** once commented:"The victory of the Korean War should not be attributed to me alone, one of our medals will be awarded to Gao Mazi and the other will be awarded to Hong Mazi. ”Hong Mazi here refers to Hong Xuezhi.
The outstanding contribution to China's modern logistics and the rich experience of fighting in foreign countries are one of the reasons why Hong Xuezhi was appointed deputy secretary general of the Central Military Commission in 1987. What is little known is that Hong Xuezhi is over seventy years oldBefore he was still reused, he still had a rough life that had been hidden in the snow for 20 years.
During the Lushan Conference in 1959, Hong Xuezhi spoke up for his old superiors. However, he himself was implicated in this and was not only dismissedHe previously served as the head of the logistics department, and was also delegated to the local government as the director of the Department of Machinery and Agriculture, which has been nearly 20 years.
Faced with the sudden changes in his life, Hong Xuezhi did not feel discouraged by this, but regarded it as an experience for himself. During his more than 10 years of local work, Hong Xuezhi has never wavered in his loyalty and belief in the party and the people.
And there is always a reward for paying, and history will eventually give everyone an objective and fair assessment: in 1973, ** suddenly asked *** around him:"Do you know that the former head of the logistics department, Hong Xuezhi, went to ** later? ”
** with ***
After some visits and investigations, ** finally learned the whereabouts of Hong Xuezhi: it turned out that he was working on a farm in Jilin Province. Under the careful care of ***,In 1974, Hong Xuezhi was promoted to the director of the local petrochemical bureau, and his life has improved significantly compared to the past.
After a long wait and tempering, in August 1977, Hong Xuezhi was appointed as a member of the Military Commission, and in September he served as the director of the National Defense Industry Office, presiding over the industrial and national defense construction work of the Republic. After many years,Hong Xuezhi finally returned to the embrace of the organization and continued to contribute to the motherland and people he loved.
Hong Xuezhi, Xiao Hua, Su Yu, Chen Geng and others took a group photo).
In 1987, when *** decided to appoint Hong Xuezhi as the new deputy secretary general of the Military Commission, perhaps it contained both the rightThe appreciation of Hong Xuezhi's talent also contains the last wish of *** who wants to reuse Hong Xuezhi again in his later years.
If we learn more about Hong Xuezhi's various contributions during the revolutionary war, we will find that Hong Xuezhi deserves the post of deputy secretary general of the Central Military Commission.
Hong Xuezhi was born in 1913, and as early as the age of 15, he participated in the peasant armed movement under the leadership of our party. In May 1929, he became an honorable member of the Communist Party of China and an outstanding soldier under the command of the Red First Army.
In 1932, Hong Xuezhi, who was promoted to the political commissar of the battalion, followed the Red Fourth Front Army to the west, and opened up the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area in history, which was second only to the ** Soviet region. During his roots in the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area, he led his troops to repel them** "Three-way siege" and "six-way siege" and other encirclement and suppression, and achieved a rare military miracle in Yinan, Yingqu and Xuanda and other places.
The back row is left Hong Xuezhi).
In May 1935, Hong Xuezhi led the Long March. Red.
1. On the occasion of the meeting of the Red Fourth Front ArmyHong Xuezhi gave four batches of grain, cattle and sheep to the Red Front Army, which had trekked through mountains and rivers along the way, and was hungry and laborious, so that the soldiers of the Red Front Army were grateful to Hong Xuezhi。On the later journey, Hong Xuezhi crossed the grassland four times, and several times he received the Red Sixth Army and other brother troops to go north smoothly, making indelible contributions to the victory of the Long March. In order to solve the logistical problems of the troops, Hong Xuezhi made careful calculationsHe raised 280,000 catties of grain, cattle and sheep, shoes and tents, and showed his amazing logistics talent for the first time in the army.
In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Hong Xuezhi, who was studying at Kang University, followed the teachers and students of Kang University to the front line of resistance against Japan. In April 1941, Hong Xuezhi and other Kang Da cadres trekked from the Taihang Mountains to Yancheng in distant northern Jiangsu, opened up a new revolutionary base area, and trained a large number of cadres for the New Fourth Army here. In 1943, when Peng Xiong, chief of staff of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, was killed in battle, and the morale of the whole army was low, Hong Xuezhi was ordered to reorganize the morale of the Third Division and expand the anti-Japanese base area in northern JiangsuAnd won a series of battles such as Funing and Huai'an, laying the foundation for the victory of northern Jiangsu in the future Liberation War.
**, Hong Xuezhi and others took a group photo).
During the War of Liberation, Hong Xuezhi led the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu to the northeast, successively serving as commander of the Liaoning West Military Region and the Heilongjiang Military Region, actively participating in the work of suppressing bandits in the localities, and further promoting the consolidation and expansion of the people's revolutionary base areas. In the later Northeast War, Hong Xuezhi was appointed as the commander of the Sixth Column to command this column, which was known as the "main force of the Northeast Field Army".In major battles such as the Northeast Summer and Autumn Offensive, Hong Xuezhi and the Sixth Column under his command performed miraculous feats until the liberation of the entire Northeast at the end of 1948.
In January 1949, Hong Xuezhi entered the customs with the Fourth Field Army and participated in the liberation war in various parts of the country. He actively cooperated with other brother units of the People's Liberation Army to complete the encirclement of Beiping City, so that our army surrendered without a fight, and Fu Zuoyi, who was known as the "elite of North China," could only surrender his hand, and the ancient city of Beiping, which has a history of 1,000 years, was thus preserved. April 1949,Hong Xuezhi participated in the battle of crossing the Yangtze River, led the troops to cross the Yangtze River from Huanggang, Huangshi, and Qichun, and personally sounded the death knell of the Jiang dynasty.
The People's Liberation Army occupied Nanjing).
It is precisely because of Hong Xuezhi's outstanding military exploits accumulated in the four periods of the Red Army, Anti-Japanese Resistance, Liberation and Korean War that Hong Xuezhi was awarded the rank of general during the first award of the People's Liberation Army in September 1955. In 1988, after the People's Liberation Army reinstated the military rank system, Hong Xuezhi was once again awarded the rank of generalHe is the only general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army and even the world's armed forces who has been awarded the rank of general twice, so he is honored as a "six-star general" by later generations.
Although Hong Xuezhi has experienced ups and downs and tempering along the way, no matter how the years change, it cannot erase the various achievements he has made in history. When *** repeatedly expressed his hope in 1987 that Hong Xuezhi could work tirelessly and serve as the deputy secretary general of the Military CommissionHong Xuezhi suddenly had mixed feelings and resolutely shouldered the heavy responsibility of continuing to serve the cause of national defense.
During his tenure,Hong Xuezhi not only continues to devote himself to the country's modern national defense, but also often engages in various work and activities such as diplomacy. Hong Xuezhi's name is known even to the American ** world. In the 80s of the 20th century, Hong Xuezhi was invited to visit the US Air Force, and Hong Xuezhi improvised to the US ** officer next to him: "Speaking of which, I am also a student taught by you in the United States. When the U.S. ** official asked very curiously, which U.S. ** school Hong Xuezhi graduated from, Hong Xuezhi laughed and said:"On the Korean battlefield, of course! ”
After 2000, Hong Xuezhi successively resigned from his positions and lived a life of retirement. However, even in the last moments of his life, he still maintained the habit of reading books and newspapers, and asking people around him about national affairs. If this veteran general were to be 20 years younger, perhaps he would still be eager to go to the front line and guard the borders of the motherland.
Hong Xuezhi and the United States ** official).
On November 20, 2006, Hong Xuezhi died of illness at the age of 94The contribution made by this "six-star general" to the logistics cause of the Chinese people's army will forever be continued by the people's soldiers. And his hard work for the country is destined not to be forgotten by the people.