In the 1980s, most of our founding generals had retired. Although some senior generals are nearly old, they are still fighting in the front line, and qin Jiwei, the founding lieutenant general, is one of them, who is 66 years old when he becomes the commander of the new Beijing Military Region.
In November 1987, Qin Jiwei stepped down as commander of the Beijing Military Region and became minister of national defense, who will succeed him in charge of the Beijing Military Region? The successor was officially his old subordinate Next Week Yi Bing, who was also a 65-year-old man when he took up the heavy responsibility.
Pictured| Qin Jiwei
In 1922, Qin Jiwei of Huang'an, Hubei Province, lost his father and was only 8 years old. Qin Jiwei did not expect that the later old subordinate Yi bing was born in the neighboring province of Chao County (now Chaohu City) in Anhui Province. In August 1938, zhou Yibing, who was 16 years old at the time, saw the Japanese Kou ravaging the mountains and rivers and resolutely threw himself into the revolution.
At the same time, Qin Jiwei was already the commander of the independent detachment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and he was only 24 years old at the time. At the time of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhou Yibing was already the deputy director of the Organization Department of the Fengyang County CPC Committee. Entering the Liberation War, Zhou Yibing fought and lived in East China for a long time, and Qin Jiwei was a sequence of the Central Plains Field Army, and the two did not have any intersection.
Picture | Zhou Yibing
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qin Jiwei personally led the 15th Army to Korea, fought a bloody battle in Shangganling, and played the prestige of the "Chitose Army". In July 1955, Zhou Yibing ended his study life in the Senior Accelerated Department of the Military Academy and became the first deputy commander of the 72nd Division of the 24th Army. In September of the same year, Qin Jiwei was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
By July 1959, Zhou Yibing was already the deputy chief of staff of the 66th Army. For the next ten years, Zhou Yibing served as a staff officer. In July 1969, Zhou Yibing was appointed deputy commander of the 69th Army. In November 1973, Zhou Yibing was appointed deputy chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region, rising to the rank of regular army. At this time, Qin Jiwei was already the commander of the Chengdu Military Region.
In October 1975, Qin Jiwei crossed the military region to serve as the second political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, and later the first political commissar, and the commander of the Beijing Military Region at that time was the founding general Chen Xilian. In January 1980, Chen Xilian stepped down as commander of the Beijing Military Region and was succeeded by Qin Jiwei. In December of the same year, Zhou Yibing was appointed chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region.
Pictured| Chen Xilian, former commander of the Beijing Military Region
It was also in 1980 that a major turning point was ushered in in the history of our army: a conference code-named "801" was held in Beijing, which made it clear that our army's strategic policy was adjusted from "active defense and enticing the enemy to go deep" to "active defense." Subsequently, the General Staff Proposed to Organize a Large-Scale Live-Fire Exercise in the Beijing Military Region, which was later known as the North China Exercise.
In 1981, the Beijing Military Region began intensive preparations. Qin Jiwei put forward the strategic concept, Zhou Yibing assisted him in its specific implementation, the blueprint for the exercise was decided, and even the exercise site and the visiting point were personally surveyed by Zhou Yibing and the leaders of the Military Training Department of the General Staff Department, leading the exercise troops and the heads of various services and arms.
Pictured| During the North China Exercise, Deng Xiaoping received Zhou Yibing
In September of the same year, the North China Exercise was held as scheduled, and the director was Zhou Yibing. The scale of the North China exercise is unprecedented, and the data of various exercises are as follows:
It covers the army and air force aviation units, together with the support units, a total of more than 114,000 people, using 1,327 tanks and armored vehicles, 1,541 artillery, 475 aircraft, 10,606 automobiles, and the exercise cost is as high as 25 million yuan.
The great success of the North China exercise is our army's attempt to seek joint operations between various services and services, and it is also a useful reference for our army's construction of informationization, modernization, and mechanization, and has explored valuable experience for our army's later preparation for the establishment of a group army.
Figure | North China Exercise
In 1984, Qin Jiwei served as the commander-in-chief of the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the deputy commander-in-chief was Zhou Yibing. This military parade is different from the past, it is the first military parade in our country since 1959, and the preparations are complicated.
Zhou Yibing cooperated with Qin Jiwei in preparing for the military parade, was responsible for specific planning work, and clarified the goal of the military parade of "world-class and international top-notch". To this day, the 1984 military parade is still one of the most classic military parades.
Pictured| the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1984
In November 1987, Qin Jiwei stepped down as commander of the Beijing Military Region. Zhou Yibing, a general of the Central Military Commission, succeeded Qin Jiwei in charge of the Beijing Military Region and rose to the rank of Zhengda Military Region, with the partner liu Zhenhua, the founding major general.
In April 1988, Qin Jiwei succeeded General Zhang Aiping as State Councilor and Minister of National Defense. In September of the same year, our army implemented a new rank system, Qin Jiwei was awarded the rank of general, and Zhou Yibing was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Pictured| Zhou Yibing in his later years
Youdao is a tiger father without a dog, and the sons of Qin Jiwei and Zhou Yibing have all become lieutenant generals:
Qin Weijiang, the eldest son of Qin Jiwei, held the rank of lieutenant general, former deputy commander of the Eastern Theater and commander of the army;
Qin Jiwei's second son, Qin Tian, was a lieutenant general in the Armed Police force and former deputy commander of the Armed Police Force;
Zhou Xiaozhou, son of Zhou Yibing, with the rank of lieutenant general, former deputy commander of the Chengdu Military Region...