During the Warring States period in Chinese history, there was a famous patriotic poet Qu Yuan, who wrote such a poem in his masterpiece "Leaving sorrows": "What is good in the heart, although it is nine deaths, it is still unrepentant."
Today, many people use this verse to express themselves, to adhere to their ideals, and to achieve their determination to achieve their goals.
Among the ten founding generals of New China, General Huang Kecheng, ranked third, looking at his life, it is really appropriate to use this poem to explain.
In July 1930, under the influence of the "Lisan Route", the Red Third Army was ordered to attack the big city of Wuhan, and Huang Kecheng, who was then the political commissar of the detachment, immediately raised an objection, he believed that the time was not ripe to fight the big city, and the regimental political commissar He Chang tried to persuade him to realize his mistakes, Huang Kecheng resolutely refused to admit his mistakes, he said: "I do not accept it now, I will not accept it in the future, and I am ready to argue with you for another 20 years." ”
After that, Huang Kecheng ignored the persuasion of others and wrote to the regimental commander Peng Dehuai, asking not to fight Wuhan.
After Peng Dehuai saw it, his heart was also a little difficult to deal with, he also knew that the time to fight Wuhan was not ripe, but he could not disobey the orders of his superiors, in the end, Peng Dehuai chose the compromise method, gave up attacking Wuhan, and instead attacked Changsha, Peng Dehuai said to Huang Kecheng: "It is useless to mention, it is better not to mention." ”
Huang Kecheng replied bluntly: "I can't do it, I know it's wrong, let me not say it?" Kill it and don't do it. ”
Changsha was later defeated, but not long after, the enemy came back with several times the strength of the troops, and our army had to withdraw from Changsha overnight.
After the battle was lost, Peng Dehuai still remembered Huang Kecheng, especially Huang Kecheng's persistence in adhering to the truth, which made him very moved.
In 1931, when huang Kecheng protected several unjustly accused comrades, his superiors decided to arrest him and execute him.
Huang Kecheng is so honest, frank, and adhere to the truth, for this reason, so in the history of the agrarian revolution, Huang Kecheng's position has always been up and down, in 1932, Peng Dehuai led his troops to attack Ganzhou, Huang Kecheng did not agree, during the Battle of Ganzhou, our army lost, Huang Kecheng in order to reduce losses, he took the initiative to lead the troops to retreat.
After the war, some people said that the attack on Ganzhou was lost, because Huang Kecheng took the initiative to retreat, for this reason, the superior held a special meeting to criticize him, Huang Kecheng refused to admit his mistake, for this reason, his position as the political commissar of the division was revoked and he became the political commissar of the battalion.
Since then, he has repeatedly adhered to the ideal of justice in his heart and refuted unrealistic orders, so by the time the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Huang Kecheng had been demoted to an ordinary Red Army soldier.
In 1943, Huang Kecheng served as the commander of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, and in this year, Kang Sheng, minister of social affairs, made a mobilization report on "Rescuing the Lost" at the Yan'an Cadre Conference, setting off a "rescue campaign", which caused a large number of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.
Huang Kecheng carried out a pilot project in the Seventh Brigade of the Third Division, and not long after, he found that this was very similar to the "repression" in the Soviet area in that year, and he immediately stopped this movement, some people said that if he did not listen to his superiors, there would be trouble, Huang Kecheng did not care, he said: "I would rather be misplaced than killed by mistake." ”
In 1946, during the Siping Defense War, Huang Kecheng repeatedly proposed to Lin Biao to retreat, but Lin Biao ignored it, and it was not until 1959 that Huang Kecheng did not know the reason, when Chairman Mao told him that he let Lin Biao insist on the Siping Defense War.
Huang Kecheng did not lie because the person in front of him was his beloved Chairman Mao, he said bluntly: "What you decided was also wrong." Chairman Mao was a little surprised by this, and after a while he said, "Then let future generations comment." ”
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao greatly appreciated Huang Kecheng's character of upholding the truth and repeatedly entrusted him with heavy responsibilities; before the Tianjin Campaign, Chairman Mao asked Huang Kecheng by name to serve as the secretary of the Tianjin Municipal CPC Committee, asking him to make early preparations to take over Tianjin.
Later, Tianjin was defeated, and because Huang Kecheng had already prepared, he successfully took over the big city within a week.
Chairman Mao was very pleased with Huang Kecheng's efficiency, and in October Chairman Mao again named Huang Kecheng and asked him to serve as a parent official in his hometown of Hunan Province.
Huang Kecheng stayed in Hunan for three years, and in accordance with the decision of the central authorities, he completed a series of tasks such as suppressing bandits, carrying out land reform, and supporting the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and he laid a solid foundation for the development of Hunan in the new era.
In 1952, Chairman Mao again named Huang Kecheng as deputy chief of general staff and director of the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army; at that time, our army's logistics work had just entered the right track, and after Huang Kecheng assumed this post, he worked diligently; in the course of 5 years, he perfected and perfected the rules and regulations for our army's logistics work, and made outstanding contributions to the transformation of our army's logistics work to modernization.
In 1958, Huang Kecheng assumed the post of Chief of the General Staff.
Why did Chairman Mao attach so much importance to Huang Kecheng? In fact, this is related to Huang Kecheng's disposition, and Chairman Mao knows that Huang Kecheng dares to tell the truth, seek truth from facts, and strengthen his convictions, so he has repeatedly entrusted him with heavy responsibilities.
After the Lushan Conference in 1959, Huang Kecheng sided with the sidelines until his comeback in 1977, when he served as an adviser to the Central Military Commission, and later, he was elected executive secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
In 1980, a leader of the General Staff Department ate and drank 400 yuan of public funds, this person was Huang Kecheng's old subordinate, Huang Kecheng learned of this matter, immediately called this person: "Are you a tiger's ass? ”
This person immediately rushed to apologize to Huang Kecheng and used his salary to make up the 400 yuan.
Huang Kecheng said: "The more my old subordinates are, the more strict requirements they must be, otherwise how can they serve the public?" ”
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, many people were very concerned about the direction of the country, when there were some unhealthy trends in society, and at this critical moment, in 1980, at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Discipline Inspection Commission.
Huang Kecheng gave a speech that lasted for 4 hours, and Huang Kecheng said: "I feel deeply sad that Chairman Mao has passed away, although I have been wronged since the Lushan Conference, the feelings of our generation are more than all personal grievances..."
Overall, Huang Kecheng commented on Chairman Mao: Seven points of merit and three points of negligence.
In 1981, Huang Kecheng's talk was written into an article entitled "On the Evaluation of Chairman Mao and the Attitude Toward Mao Zedong Thought", which was ready to be published in the People's Liberation Army Daily, before which Huang Kecheng asked Deng Xiaoping to read it first.
After reading it, Deng Xiaoping agreed to publish it, but asked Chairman Mao's former secretary Hu Qiaomu to check on individual texts.
Hu Qiaomu changed chairman Mao in Huang Kecheng's article to "Comrade Mao Zedong," and when Huang Kecheng got the revised draft, he immediately said to the people who came: "In the revised draft, the title "Chairman Mao" was changed to "Comrade Mao Zedong." I am not used to it, and I cannot get by emotionally. ”
Later, the title of Chairman Mao in this article was changed back.
In 1984, Huang Kecheng saw the entry about Lin Biao in the Encyclopedia of China and the Military Volume, and he disagreed, so he approached the compilation team and said: "Lin Biao's article cannot be written in this way, so it cannot be explained to future generations...."..."
At Huang Kecheng's suggestion, the editors revised Lin Biao's entries in the book again.
Speaking of this, Huang Kecheng later said frankly: "No matter what he does to me, I am fair to him anyway." ”
In 1986, Huang Kecheng became terminally ill, and he began to refuse treatment and medication: "I can no longer work for the party, please don't waste the state's money for me, leave the medicine to comrades who can work." ”
On December 28 of the same year, Huang Kecheng died of illness at the age of 84.
When Huang Kecheng's wife, Tang Dihua, commented on her husband, she said: "Even if you die without regrets, you will not be ashamed of the sky, and you will not bow down to people." ”
This sentence is placed on Huang Kecheng's body, and he deserves it.