General Zhang Aiping is a person from the army, in April 1949, the East China People's Liberation Army fought across the Yangtze River, the Kuomintang naval forces revolted a lot, but these people need the management of the People's Liberation Army, at that time, the People's Liberation Army in the navy talent is poor, in the military and political aspects can not rely purely on the Kuomintang Navy uprising personnel, so the East China Military Region decided to establish the East China People's Navy, appointed Zhang Aiping as the commander of the East China Military Region Navy, General Zhang Aiping at first did not want to take over this position, thinking that he was from the army. He didn't know anything about the military knowledge of the navy, and was called by Chen Yi to a reprimand, and Chen Yi shouted in a loud voice: "You Zhang Aiping don't pick up this burden, who will pick up this burden?" Let the Kuomintang uprising general Lin Zun do it, are you willing to do it? If the leadership of the Navy's key military and political departments cannot be held by the generals of our People's Liberation Army, is it still called the People's Navy? ”
Zhang Aiping had no choice but to accept this position and go to the naval organs to take up his post.
Comrade Zhang Aiping, born on January 9, 1910 in Zhangjiagou, Luojiangkou Town, Daxian County, Sichuan Province, to a poor peasant family, entered Daxian Middle School in the spring of 1925 and began to participate in revolutionary activities, joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in April 1926, became a member of the Communist Party of China in August 1928, transferred to shanghai underground party work in 1929, was arrested twice, and suffered from the torture of the enemy in prison, but he was unyielding.
After being rescued from prison by our party, because his identity had been exposed, in December 1929, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and successively served as a squad leader, political instructor, squadron leader, and brigade leader in the first division of the Red 11 army.
At the end of 1930, he went to work in the Central Soviet Region and successively participated in the third, fourth and fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the Central Soviet Region.
In the spring of 1934, he entered the University of the Red Army, and in September of the same year, he was appointed as the political commissar of the 12th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Third Red Army.
During the Long March, he successively served as the director of the Political Department of the Fourth Division of the Third Red Army, the political commissar of the 11th Regiment, and the 13th Regiment, and he led his troops to cut through thorns and thorns, charge forward, open the way for the main force of the Red Army, and cover the security of the Party Central Committee and the organs of the Central Military Commission.
After the Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, he served as the political commissar and acting regimental commander of the cavalry regiment of the Central Military Commission, encircled and suppressed bandits in northern Shaanxi, and made contributions to consolidating the base areas in northern Shaanxi.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Comrade Zhang Aiping was entrusted by the PARTY Central Committee to go to Shanghai to serve as secretary of the Military Commission of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provincial CPC Committees, organize the anti-Japanese guerrilla war in the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo region, develop our party's anti-Japanese armed forces in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and strengthen the strength of our army.
In August 1940, he was appointed commander of the third detachment of the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army, and led his troops into the Huaihai and Yanfu areas, and waged a resolute struggle against the Japanese hypocrisy.
In September 1944, he was appointed commander of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army and commander of the Huaibei Military Region, and led his troops to fight in the vast battlefield south of Xuzhou and east and west of Jinpu Road, fighting continuously, recovering lost ground, and making due contributions to the final victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
During the Liberation War, Comrade Zhang Aiping served as deputy commander of the Central China Military Region and member of the Central China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and in the battle to command the troops to break through the stubborn enemy of the Jinpu Railway, he took a vehicle, and when the driver reversed backwards, he stretched out his head to observe the situation of reversing, his head was clipped to the wall, he was unconscious, and after suffering serious injuries to the head, he went to the Soviet Union for treatment, and at the end of 1948, he returned to China after his injuries and served as a member of the Front Line Committee of the Third Field Army.
After the launching of the Campaign to Cross the River, he was appointed to set up the Chinese People's Liberation Army Naval Force and served as commander and political commissar of the East China Navy; he persisted in basing himself on the people's army, recruiting talents and recruiting talents, uniting and educating the former Kuomintang uprising naval personnel, strengthening the building of rules and regulations, founding our army's first naval school and the first naval technical research and guidance organization, the Naval Headquarters Research Committee, and from the beginning of taking over the ships of the Kuomintang naval organization, in less than two years, he established a naval force with relatively strong combat capability.
Once, when he went to a certain naval department to inspect the work, when he passed a small town near the outskirts of Nanjing, he found a gangster force of twenty or thirty people looting along the streets of the town and smashing shops.
At that time, the whole country had just been liberated, the social order had not yet stabilized, the bandits had not yet been eliminated, and the gang forces had not yet been attacked; therefore, some bandits colluded with the gangs to stir up trouble and take advantage of the chaos in social order to rob the people of their wealth and accumulate wealth.
However, the gangsters did not buy it, and while running around, they shot at the People's Liberation Army with the local guns they were holding, and the guards were immediately wounded twice, and General Zhang Aiping was very angry and ordered the guards to "beat them hard."
After receiving the order, the guards immediately launched a fierce counterattack against the gang.
The guns held by the guards and fighters were all the same American carbines, and they beat them to death, killing more than a dozen robbers, and the other gangsters saw the situation, fearing that their lives would not be guaranteed, obediently raised their native guns to surrender, and knelt on the ground to beg for forgiveness.
The angry robbers rushed forward to beat the gangsters to death, and General Zhang Aiping and the guards and soldiers dissuaded the masses from acting excessively and returned the looted materials to the masses.
Standing on a high platform and addressing the masses, General Zhang Aiping said: "Fellow villagers, this gang of gangsters who robbed the masses of their belongings has been captured by us, they have become our prisoners, the People's Liberation Army has a captive policy, they have surrendered, they can no longer beat and abuse them, please understand us, let us take the prisoners away!" ”
As they were speaking, a platoon of the nearby public security forces heard the sound of gunfire and rushed to them, and General Zhang Aiping handed over the prisoners to them and got back on the bus and set off.
After the liberation of Nanjing by our army, the social order in Nanjing quickly returned to stability, and the Nanjing Municipal Government was also in the process of eliminating bandits and cracking down on triad organizations. Wipe them out completely and completely.
The leaders of the mafia organizations headed by the people's government were tried and then shot, and the rest of the criminals were sentenced to different sentences according to the crimes they committed.
After a severe blow, the society and order in the suburbs of Nanjing have gradually stabilized, the political power has been consolidated, the anti-hegemonic movement and the land reform movement have begun, and the peasants who have turned over have been given land.