Strictly speaking, the "Liu Deng Army" runs through two historical periods: the stage of the all-out War of Resistance and the stage of the War of Liberation. During the Anti-Japanese War, the official name of the department was the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the main body of which was the Fourth Front Army during the Red Army period, which was very strong, and developed into the Central Plains Field Army and the Second Field Army in the War of Liberation. In fact, in Liu Deng's army, there are many generals from the original ** Red Army and the Red Second Front Army. For example, Li Da, chief of staff of Erye, was the chief of staff of the ** marshal during the Red Army, and later he had a very high status in Liu Deng's army, and was rated as a general after the founding of the People's Republic of China; But if you want to say that the real "No. 3 leader" of Erye is really not Li Da, but Comrade Zhang Jichun.
Zhang Jichun served as the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of Erye, which was slightly higher than General Li Da's rank, second only to Marshal *** and Comrade Xiaoping. The political work of Erye was coordinated and controlled by Deng Gong, and Zhang Jichun was mainly responsible for the actual implementation and promotion. The strange point is: in the later stage of the Liberation War, Liu Deng's army had a scale of hundreds of thousands of people, and its strength was not trivial, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the commander was rated as marshal, why did Deng Gong and Zhang Jichun not have military ranks? In 1952, Comrade Xiaoping was transferred to the first and served as the vice premier, but in fact he was basically separated from the work of the army, so he did not participate in the evaluation, and Zhang Jichun's situation was similar.
In 1949, after the main force of Erye marched into the southwest, Zhang Jichun stayed in Sichuan like Deng Gong, and the two continued to work together. Zhang Jichun served as the deputy political commissar of the Southwest Military Region and the second deputy secretary of the Southwest Bureau, and if he followed this development context, Zhang Jichun could participate in the 55-year awarding of titles, and he was very promising to be rated as a general based on his military qualifications; However, considering that Chen Geng, who has made outstanding achievements in battle, is bound to be awarded the rank of general, Erye may not have two generals, so it is reasonable for Zhang Jichun to obtain the rank of general.
However, Zhang Jichun did not participate in the award. In 1954, before the award, Zhang Jichun was hand-picked and left the southwest for Beijing to serve as the deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department. Therefore, Zhang Jichun's situation is similar to that of Deng Gong, the two most important political cadres of Lao Erye, both left the army after the founding of the People's Republic of China and went to Beijing to take up party and government positions. In the 60s and 70s, although Comrade Xiaoping experienced two twists and turns, he eventually became the core of the second-generation leading collective and led the cause of reform and opening up.
Zhang Jichun regretted that his development in Beijing did not go smoothly and he died early. Zhang Jichun's situation in his later years has a lot to do with his own characteristics and the background of the times. As a veteran political cadre of the army, Zhang Jichun has a strong party spirit and integrity, and he was responsible for discipline inspection work when he was in the Red Army. His wife, Luo Ping, was influenced by her husband and exposed the history of some people to the organization, and later these people gained power in the sixties and maliciously retaliated against Zhang Jichun's family. Zhang Jichun focused on the field of culture and education in 1966, and the cultural caliber was precisely the focus of those people's attacks, and Zhang Jichun was at a disadvantage.
At the beginning of 1967, when Comrade Tao Zhu, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, was attacked and framed, the upright Zhang Jichun spoke up for his righteousness, so he was further suppressed, removed from his post and criticized, Zhang Jichun was ill and could not be treated, and finally died early in 1968. If it weren't for these subjective and objective factors, Zhang Jichun's talent and moral character could have had a better development, held a higher position, and done more work for the party and the country. After the national situation gradually stabilized, in 1979, Comrade Zhang Jichun was officially rehabilitated, and his old boss Deng Political Commissar personally presided over the memorial service to deeply cherish the memory of this good comrade-in-arms who had known each other for many years.
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