In China's modern history, China has implemented a three-level military region system for a long time, and has constantly adjusted the division of large military regions, and the corresponding army establishment has also changed. However, there were four founding generals, who seemed to have not been affected by the frequent adjustment of the division of the grand military region, and had been the commander of the grand military region for more than twenty years, and they were xu Shiyou, Yang Dezhi, Han Xianchu and Chen Xilian, the four founding generals.
Among them, Xu Shiyou and Yang Dezhi served as commanders of the Grand Military Region for twenty-five consecutive years, becoming the commander of the Grand Military Region for the longest time among generals.
In the unpredictable situation, what kind of abilities did Xu Shiyou and Yang Dezhi have in order to sit firmly in this high-powered chair for twenty-five years?
The frequently adjusted division of the grand military region is not a tumbler with the commander of the large military region
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, on the basis of reviewing the experience of the development of military regions in the past and drawing on the model of the Soviet military region system, China established a three-level military region system of large military regions, provincial military regions, and military sub-districts.
In April 1950, the Central Military Commission abolished the names of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Field Armies, the North China Field Army, and the corps, and established six major military regions (northwest, southwest, central and southern, east China, north China, and northeast China) throughout the country, provincial military districts in all provinces, and municipal military sub-districts and county (city) armed departments in each city, bringing all armed forces under the jurisdiction of the military region, marking the formal formation of the three-level military region system.
In 1955, in order to cope with the increasing international pressure, the Central Military Commission adjusted the original six major military regions into the twelve major military regions and the thirteen major military regions. Among the thirteen major military regions, the three major military regions of Inner Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang are named after the provinces where the organs are located, while the other 10 major military regions: Shenyang, Beijing, Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Kunming, Wuhan, Chengdu, Lanzhou and Fuzhou are all named after the cities where the organs are located. Among them, the Fuzhou Military Region was specially established by the Central Military Commission to demarcate the Fujian and Jiangxi military regions from the Nanjing Military Region, mainly to serve the needs of the struggle against Taiwan.
In the late 1960s, in order to streamline military expenditure and balance the layout of the large military regions, the Central Military Commission adjusted the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Tibet Military Region to provincial military regions, and the thirteen major military regions were adjusted to the eleventh military region. However, due to the influence of the special situation, from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, the work of the organs in the large military regions was rarely carried out normally, and the leaders of many military regions were forced to leave their posts.
In the 1980s, China carried out the famous one-million-dollar disarmament campaign, and the eleventh military region was correspondingly reduced to seven major military regions of Shenyang, Beijing, Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Lanzhou, and the leadership structure of the original military region was also broken and reshaped.
It is not difficult to see that the division of China's military regions has undergone multi-stage great changes, not only in terms of numbers and ups and downs, but also in terms of geography. Under the circumstance that such a major change has led to frequent personnel transfers, it is really difficult to imagine how Xu Shiyou, Yang Dezhi, Han Xianchu, and Chen Xilian, the four founding generals, could serve as commanders of the Grand Military Region for more than twenty years, and the story of Xu Shiyou and Yang Dezhi serving as commanders of the Grand Military Region for twenty-five consecutive years is even more miraculous.
In the course of the two men's twenty-five years as commanders of the Grand Military Region, Xu Shiyou served successively as commander of the Nanjing Military Region (1955-1973) and commander of the Guangzhou Military Region (1973-1980). Yang Dezhi served as commander of the Jinan Military Region (1955-1969), commander of the Wuhan Military Region (1969-1979), and commander of the Kunming Military Region (1979-1980).
From 1979 to 1980, Yang Dezhi and Xu Shiyou jointly commanded the Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack in the direction of Yunnan, fiercely cleaning up the white-eyed wolf of Vietnam, and the two together drew a satisfactory end to the life of the commander of the last military region. In 1980, Yang Dezhi and Xu Shiyou jointly left the position of commander of the Grand Military Region due to their promotion, and Xu Shiyou was promoted to deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, and Yang Dezhi was promoted to chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army.
Below, let's take a look at what skills Xu Shiyou and Yang Dezhi have to create a record of twenty-five years as commanders of the Grand Military Region.
Xu Shiyou had studied martial arts at the Shaolin Temple for many years and practiced a real kung fu. Even among the founding generals who are as skilled as clouds, his skills are enough to rank among the first ranks. During his military career, he made many personal appearances to kill the enemy on the front line to boost morale. His fierce knife was not only neutral in the Red Army, but also famous in the Nationalist army and the Japanese army.
In addition to his personal strength, Xu Shiyou is also famous for his ability to fight, good at fighting hard battles, and vicious battles, and his position as commander of the Grand Military Region is also mostly derived from his outstanding military achievements.
During the Long March, Xu Shiyou repeatedly served as a pioneer, leading the leading troops to intercept and kill the bleeding road in the enemy's encirclement, and was promoted to the commander of the Red Fourth Army with his outstanding military achievements.
During the Liberation War, the Nationalist 74th Division, known as the ace army of the "five main forces" of the Kuomintang reactionaries, was heavily armed with US ordnance, and its arrogance was incomparable, but Xu Shiyou insisted on taking the army with millet plus rifles, trapped him in Meng Lianggu to the death, and constantly surrounded the reinforcements, and finally completely annihilated the 74th Division, causing Chiang Kai-shek to almost collapse.
In the Battle of Jiaodong and the battles of Zhang Zhou, Changwei, and Gunzhou, Chiang Kai-shek made a desperate bet and gambled on the old money, but Xu Shiyou led his troops to fight tenaciously, and also broke this old chiang's old book, and directly smashed the Kuomintang's key attack on Shandong, so that Chairman Mao did not hesitate to praise.
In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Xu Shiyou was appointed commander of the Third Army of the Volunteer Army; before that, the US military had just counterattacked under the command of military wizard Ridgway, and his arrogance was very arrogant, but in the summer counteroffensive campaign, Xu Shiyou commanded the volunteer army to eliminate the us army's living forces as the goal, and repeatedly sawed with the US army, causing a large number of casualties to the US army, and then fighting back the arrogance of the US army.
Throughout Xu Shiyou's military career, he has hardly encountered "hard nails" that cannot be smashed, and he has hardly encountered hard battles and vicious battles that he cannot fight.
In addition, Xu Shiyou of the Heavenly Divine Martial Arts not only has courage and martial arts, but also has a keen sense of politics.
During the Long March, Xu Shiyou saw that Zhang Guotao's life began to corrupt and took the initiative to admonish Zhang Guotao. After his persuasion was fruitless, he questioned Zhang Guotao's leadership and gradually drifted away from Zhang Guotao.
When Zhang Guotao plotted to kill Zhu De and Liu Bocheng, it was Xu Shiyou who sent people to pretend to be mountain thieves and ambushed the troops who were arranged to assassinate the two, which completely frustrated Zhang Guotao's plan and allowed the two to turn the situation around.
When Xu Shiyou was almost killed because of a misunderstanding at kang da, he also correctly chose to believe in Chairman Mao at a critical moment, believed in the investigation organized, and finally was able to dispel the misunderstanding, and was appreciated by Chairman Mao, and also changed his original name "Xu Shiyou" to "Xu Shiyou" at Chairman Mao's suggestion.
At the time of that "movement," Xu Shiyou was also very resourceful, and instead of sitting still and waiting, he went to the mountains many times to hide, stay away from the political tide, and made frequent contacts with Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou, relying on their shelter and his own initiative to retreat, avoiding many dangers, and his position as commander of the Grand Military Region was almost unaffected.
The Central Military Commission once spoke highly of Yang Dezhi as "a generation of loyal and courageous generals." Throughout Yang Dezhi's life, he is completely worthy of this title, and he is more worthy of the commander of the great military region for twenty-five years.
Yang Dezhi's loyalty is reflected in his loyalty to the party and loyalty to people.
Yang Dezhi was loyal to the party, obeyed the command, and strictly observed discipline. He has been punished only once since he joined the Red Army and joined the Communist Party of China in 1928. The punishment was also due to an accident, his pistol accidentally went off fire, accidentally injured a migrant worker, not his intention. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many people wanted to help Yang Dezhi eliminate this long-revoked sanction in the archives, but he rejected them one by one and always used this punishment to warn himself.
In that special movement, the rebels could no longer catch any political stain on Yang Dezhi except for this punishment, and had to symbolically fight him several times, so they could no longer pose a substantial threat to Yang Dezhi, and Yang Dezhi also maintained his position in that movement.
Yang Dezhi, who is loyal to the party, is also loyal to others. He never insulted his superiors in exchange for a future, nor did he treat his subordinates harshly, to demonstrate strictly, not to be humble among his peers, and his character was almost well-known. When he first became the commander of the Jinan Military Region, there was no objection, and many people expressed enthusiastic support.
Yang Dezhi's courage is mainly reflected in his amazing calmness and creativity in conducting.
Take the two stories of flying soldiers breaking through the Wujiang River and forcibly crossing the Dadu River, Yang Dezhi is the main commander in these two stories.
When Yang Dezhi commanded his troops to forcibly cross the Wujiang River, the Red Army was in internal and external difficulties, and the Wujiang River also became a ghost gate for the Red Army. However, Yang Dezhi was very calm, he first took the initiative to lead the Red Regiment to reach wujiang before the enemy reinforcements arrived, and selected 8 warriors to tie a bamboo row to try to cross the Wujiang River.
Although the test crossing later failed, he immediately creatively asked the second batch of soldiers to tie handrails to the bamboo row and choose the place where the downstream water flow was slower to cross the river, and the river was successfully crossed. Later, more than a dozen soldiers who crossed the river fought bravely and successfully destroyed the enemy's riverbank stronghold, and the Red Regiment also opened a way for the Central Red Army to survive at wujiang.
When Yang Dezhi commanded the forced crossing of the Dadu River, he first forcibly marched more than 70 kilometers on a rainy night, led the Red Regiment to suddenly arrive at the Anshun Field at the dadu River crossing, completely annihilated two companies of the Kuomintang army that had not yet reacted, controlled the position on the bank of the Dadu River, and captured a transport ship.
Subsequently, he took it by surprise and launched an attack on the tired enemy army at dawn, formed the "Eighteen Warrior Commandos" in the lead, and rushed to the opposite shore on the captured transport ships, crushed the unsuspecting shore defenders, successfully took the position on the other side, and won the victory of crossing the Dadu River.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Yang Dezhi combined the experience of tunnel warfare in Hebei and Put forward the tactic of building a tunnel fortification defense system: Digging under the air raid shelter to form a V-shaped fortification, so that a large number of soldiers could move under the air raid shelter, avoid artillery bombardment, and come out of the unexpected place of the US army at any time to consume the US army.
This tactic is almost the same as tunnel warfare, but the amount of work is very huge, and there have been generals who have conceived it before, but the only one who really has the courage to formally propose it first and put it into practice is Yang Dezhi. In the Battle of Shangganling, the Americans poured shells like rain, making the volunteers inevitable on the ground. It was only by virtue of the fortification defense system built by Yang Dezhi that the volunteers were able to painstakingly maneuver with the American troops in the tunnels and repulse more than 680 attacks of more than 60,000 enemies with difficulty. After the Battle of Shangganling, Yang Dezhi was also greatly praised by Mao Zedong for this genius tactic he proposed.
epilogue
Xu Shiyou and Yang Dezhi served as commanders of the Grand Military Region for twenty-five years, not only because of their outstanding skills, but also because of the special situation created by specific historical periods. In today's increasingly modern defense forces, I am afraid that no one will be able to continue the legend of serving as commander of the military region for twenty-five years.