In 1972, Li Da finally gained his freedom thanks to the efforts of *** and ***. The first thing he did was to write a letter to **, expressing his desire to be able to return to work.
A few months later, Li Da, who was recuperating in Beidaihe, received a call from *** in person, and simply asked a question: "Do you write now, do your hands tremble?"
Behind this question is ***'s deep trust in Li Da. At that time, in order to reverse the disrupted training order of the army, ** decided to rectify the army and strengthen military training, and Li Da, the "old chief of staff", was the best choice in his heart.
During the war years, Li Da never left the post of "chief of staff". In the post of chief of staff at all levels, Li Da has experienced 20 years, and has worked with many senior generals such as ** and so on, and is known as "Mr. Zhuge ".
After the Ningdu Uprising in 1931, Li Da, the general of the uprising, was selected and transferred to work in the Hunan and Jiangxi Soviet Districts and served as the chief of staff of the First Independent Division of the Red Eighth Army. This was Li Da's first post as chief of staff in the people's army, and he began his lifelong journey as chief of staff.
In dealing with the enemy's fourth "encirclement and suppression" of the Hunan and Jiangxi Soviet regions, Li Da personally went to the front line to direct the battle, creating an extraordinary record of winning more with less. He won the respect of the soldiers with his wisdom and courage, and the "Chief of Staff Li" in the mouths of the soldiers became "Chief of Staff Li Joining", and Xiao Ke, who was the commander of the army at the time, was also full of praise for Li Da, praising him for "both rushing forward and steady".
In 1933, Ren Bishi was ordered to serve as the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Hunan and Jiangxi Soviet Districts, and the Red Eighth Army was also reorganized into the 17th Division of the Red Sixth Army Corps.
After the Red Army began its Long March northward, the Red Sixth Army Corps, which had been transferred by the Red Army, encountered a strong enemy in Guizhou. At the moment of life and death, Li Da showed his superior military acumen.
In the process of dealing with the enemy, Li Da ordered the radio station to be turned on at any time, trying to contact the headquarters of the Red Sixth Army Corps, and guiding the Red Third Army to find the main force of the Red Sixth Army.
Later, Ren Bishi said to *** many times: "Without Li Da, it is not easy for the Red Sixth Army to survive." Later, the Red Second Front Army was established, and Li Daju made great contributions. After the number of the Red Second Army was restored, Li Da was transferred to the chief of staff of the Red Second Army Corps, assisted in formulating the Xiangxi offensive operation plan, and participated in the command of the troops to open up the Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou Soviet areas.
In addition to the busy war, Li Da always paid attention to the construction of the staff business of the troops, and not only presided over the formation of a powerful staff team of the Second Red Army Corps, but also held training classes to improve the tactical quality of the corps.
* said happily: "Lin Chong is the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, and you Li Da are the head of the 8,000 Red Army." In my opinion, it's not that Lin Chong is ten times stronger than you, it's that you are ten times stronger than him.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Da served as the chief of staff of the 129th Division and crossed the east with the army to resist Japan. In order to actively implement the strategic policy, Li Da hosted a guerrilla training class in Liao County, Shanxi, and in addition to teaching in person, he often invited people to give lectures at the training class.
Thanks to Li Da's efforts, the small county town of Liao County soon became the birthplace of guerrilla warfare in the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan anti-Japanese base areas, and the backbone of guerrilla warfare cultivated also became the backbone of the 129th Division.
** once praised Li Da: "The 129th Division can persist in the protracted war of resistance, and Li Da has put a lot of effort into it." At the end of 1938, Li Da served as the chief of staff of the 129th Division, assisting *** and *** until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
During the long-term war, Li Da knew by heart the names of more than 2,000 counties in China, and knew the terrain of the strategic area well, and was praised as a "living map" by the commanders and fighters of the whole army.
Many years later, when reviewing the history of the Second Field War, he fully affirmed Li Da's group: "It is precisely because of a more capable staff team than the Japanese army that the 129th Division can hold out in North China until the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan."
1.In 1943, Li Da advocated a revolution in military education, and Li Da responded positively and wrote an article expounding its urgency and necessity from the perspective of a staff officer. **After reading Li Da's article, he exclaimed: "Li Da can be regarded as the father of the staff of the 129th Division!"
Li Da and *** became like-minded friends as a result. 2.In 1945, Chiang Kai-shek secretly prepared for a civil war, preparing to attack the People's Liberation Army of Shangdang. In accordance with the instructions of Chief Liu Deng, Li Da successfully captured Xiangyuan City, laying the foundation for the victory of the Shangdang Campaign.
The victory of the Shangdang Battle was an important stroke in the history of Liu Deng's army and an important stroke in Li Da's military career. In the subsequent Battle of Pinghan, Li Da successfully promoted Gao Shuxun's uprising, which caused the Kuomintang army to be disorganized and laid the foundation for the victory of Liu Deng's army.
Because the Gao Shuxun uprising was the first unit of the Kuomintang army to revolt in the Liberation War, ** instructed various places to set off the "Gao Shuxun Movement", and *** also spoke highly of Li Da's heroic feats.
In 1948, in order to strengthen centralized and unified leadership, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army was renamed the Central Plains Field Army.
Li Da continued to serve as the chief of staff of talents, assisting *** and ** to organize and command the battle. In order to quickly issue orders and grasp the situation of the troops in a timely manner, Comrade Li Da stayed by the first machine day and night, even in the dead of night, he was still in the office, and he answered attentively.
* Comrade once humorously said that Comrade Li Da "slept with ** in his arms". In the Huaihai Campaign, which decided the fate of the Kuomintang and Communist armies, Comrade Li Da led a group of cadres to set up a front headquarters, organized troops to quickly repair railways and highways, and opened up transportation lines on the battlefield, thus providing a solid logistical support for the victory of the Huaihai Campaign.
* Comrade said that "the Huaihai Campaign was pushed out by the masses with a small car", and the organizer of the small car was Comrade Li Da. In 1949, the Central Plains Field Army was renamed the Second Field Army, and Comrade Li Da continued to serve as chief of staff to assist Chief Liu Deng in crossing the Yangtze River moat.
Subsequently, he participated in the command of the troops to march to the southwest and liberated the four provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Xikang.
Li Da] The Road to Chief of General Staff of the People's Army In 1950, the Southwest Military Region was established, and Li Da served as deputy commander and chief of staff. He participated in leading the work of suppressing bandits and liberating the people, and was appreciated by the people.
At the end of the Korean War, ** said of Li Da: "Li Da served as chief of staff during the Agrarian Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation.
** This sentence prompted Li Da to be appointed chief of staff of the Volunteer Army and participated in the later operations to resist US aggression and aid Korea. For the elderly, writing without shaking is a sign of good health.
** Use this to judge whether Li Da is capable of the new task. At the suggestion of *** and approved by ***, Li Da, who was only 70 years old, was appointed deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army and returned to the army after a fourteen-year absence.
Although the work of the army was still constantly being interfered with at that time, Li Da, who had just taken office, had great resistance in his work, and even had the possibility of being "knocked down" again. However, Li Da deeply felt that he had a heavy responsibility, put aside the so-called "problems" on his body, and said to ***: "No matter how much resistance there is, we must make our army's military training fully resume as soon as possible."
Two months after Li Da (second from left in the front row) and others entered the venue of the celebration of the liberation of Nanjing, and two months after being appointed as deputy commander, the armored corps of the Central Military Commission held a symposium on military training work, and Li Da was invited to give instructions for the meeting.
Although he had not prepared a speech in advance, Li Da's speech was clearly organized and well-founded, and it was deeply shocking, and it was a long time since I had heard such a thought-provoking and inspiring speech.
After Li Da was "liberated," he seized all the time to read documents and materials, learn about the situation of the troops, and prepare for his return to work. When he was appointed leader in charge of military training, he impressed the troops with his guidance methods and courage.
1973 is also considered "the best year in many years" for military training in the troops. However, the trees were quiet and the wind did not stop, and the normal work of the army was further disturbed.
Li Da went to great lengths to find a video of foreign military materials and asked the cadres of the whole army to study the operational characteristics of foreign armies so that they could refer to them in training, but the result was criticized for propagating Japanese militarism.
However, Li Da insisted on his own viewpoint, holding that the Central Military Commission's policy of strengthening military training was correct. No matter how others tossed him, Li Da worked hard to carry it out as always, and worked tirelessly to go deep into the army to guide and train him.
In 1974, Li Da was invited to lead a delegation to visit North Korea. Since Li Da had participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the North Korean side gave him a very high standard.
The DPRK's first deputy chief of general staff and deputy director of the General Political Bureau of the DPRK were responsible for greeting and sending off the DPRK general bureau, and the director of the political bureau made a special trip to visit the visiting delegation. The Chief of the General Staff met and hosted a banquet for the members of the delegation, and Kim Il Sung received Rida and the delegation and had a four-hour conversation.
Accompanied by the DPRK deputy chief of general staff, Li Dahe and the delegation visited many important military bases in the DPRK. Li Da had the opportunity to return to his old land and learn from the experience of the DPRK, so he was very interested, and he had to carefully observe and inquire about the situation whenever he went to a place, and he did not let people support him when climbing the mountain, and he even walked faster than the young people.
As a result, after Li Da returned to China, his legs were swollen for many days, and he rested for a long time before it subsided. After several years of arduous efforts, Li Da presided over the revision and compilation of a number of rules and regulations, which were approved by the Military Commission and issued to the troops for trial implementation.
Li Da: When you are old and strong, you insist on fighting at work Li Da once served as the chief of staff for several decades, and he always stood on the side of ***, but he was framed.
But Li Da doesn't care about this, as long as he has not been dismissed, he will unswervingly grasp training as always. In September 1976, in connection with the nuclear test, the Xinjiang Military Region organized an offensive test exercise of the army against the enemy under the condition of atomic weapons.
As the person in charge of military training, Li Da resolutely resisted this evil trend and encouraged the leaders of the military region to do a good job in this exercise. At the same time, together with other leading comrades, Li Da also led a total of 350 cadres responsible for combat training in various general departments, all branches of the armed forces, and all military regions, as well as leaders of military and political cadre schools in military regions, to visit Xinjiang and cheer them on, thus greatly increasing the morale of the PLA.
At the end of 1978, with the approval of the ** Military Commission, the General Staff organ held a meeting to clear up the grievances of Li Da and other comrades. Li Da was finally able to carry out the revolutionization, modernization, and regularization of the army without interference.
In 1978, Li Da took the lead in responding to the issue of the rejuvenation of leading cadres, and proposed to be the first to retire at the Standing Committee of the General Staff Department. After hearing about it, some veteran comrades persuaded Li Da not to mention it himself, so as not to be misunderstood as making a mistake.
Li Da said: "Our party has long demanded that cadres be able to go up and down. It is precisely because I only fight for the top, not for the bottom, that I have to take the lead, so as not to be embarrassed.
With the consent and approval of the Military Commission, Li Da was removed from the post of deputy chief and appointed as an adviser to the Military Commission.
In previous years, the military training of the troops was not taken seriously, which led to a decline in the status and prestige of the chief of staff, and the chief of staff was given the title of "chief of staff of the headquarters" and was regarded as the leader of the command rather than one of the leaders of the troops, which to a large extent adversely affected the work of the chief of staff.
When Li Da went to the army to investigate and study, he received feedback from many people. In order to raise the status of the chief of staff, Li Da put forward a proposal on the eve of the all-army meeting of the chiefs of staff to abolish the term "chief of staff of the headquarters."
* The Central Military Commission adopted this suggestion and issued a formal circular that in the future, when appointing and dismissing chiefs of staff, the word "headquarters" would no longer be named, and the status and role of chiefs of staff should be formally defined in the form of laws and regulations.
After Li Da retreated to the second line, as always, he often went to the army to conduct investigation and research, but due to his advanced age and physical strength and energy were not as good as before, he personally persuaded him not to go to remote places, and instructed the person in charge of the PLA General Hospital to restrict Li Da from going out and take responsibility for his health.
According to Li Da's physical condition, Li Da (first from the left in the middle row) and other leaders met with the General Hospital of Athletes, made a special report to the Military Commission according to Li Da's physical condition, and restricted his travel.
After agreeing to this report, the person in charge of the General Hospital specially conveyed the instructions of *** to Li Da. However, Li Da said: "Although my physical strength is not as good as before, I can still move, and I can still go down and to the frontier."
I haven't fallen yet. During his four years as an adviser to the Military Commission, Li Da had to go out three or four times a year. Every time he went out, Li Da did not let the troops receive him beyond the standard, and he never participated in the entertainment activities arranged by the troops.
Whenever he had time, Li Da would look at the map he carried with him, listen to the radio, and write an investigation report after returning to Beijing, making many insightful suggestions. In addition to conducting investigations in the army, Li Da also consciously undertook the mission of writing a memoir of Liu Deng's army's combat journey.
Several veteran comrades suggested that a few people should be transferred from above, allocate some funds, allocate cars, and find a guest house. As a result, Li Da refused: "You don't need too many people, one or two will do."
I can't ask for money, I can borrow a house from a guest house, but I don't need a car, I can use my car if I have something. ”
Li Da rigorously wrote his memoirs, requiring him to write about his military exploits and shortcomings, and not to write about his own parts unless necessary, and to write more about the contributions of other generals and troops. He once chased back the comrades who had finished the report and told them to seriously scrutinize it, and not to write about what they could do if they could not write about it.
The first draft of the memoir was completed in only three years, with the title of the book inscribed and the preface to the book. In 1985, the book quickly sold out, causing a strong response, and everyone in Shanxi Party history circles had a copy, and many important contents were also cited in other works.
Li Da wrote more than a dozen memoirs without spending a penny.
In 1985, due to Li Da's long hours of work, he became seriously ill and had to be accepted in the PLA General Hospital.
During this period, Li Da's condition gradually deteriorated and he was unable to eat normally, and his wife stayed by his side, assisting the medical staff to take care of him and making liquid food for him herself.
The medical staff were full of praise for his wife, and if they had to choose a model lady, they would definitely choose her. Despite the best efforts of the medical staff, Li Da's life could not be saved.
After his death, the news was published in major national newspapers and provincial newspapers. ** The Central Military Commission and the head of the General Staff also published a memorial article in the newspaper, and the Hong Kong press also reported the news of his death in large headlines, appraising his life.
Before the publication of his "Selected Military Writings of Li Da" and "In Memory of General Li Da", ** and Zhang Zhen wrote inscriptions and ** inscriptions respectively. Li Da has won the respect of the world with his frank and selfless noble character.