Author: Little Orange
In 1955, the ten marshals and ten generals rated by our army were all legendary, and they were all military and strategists in the people's army. However, among the ten generals, there was one person who had almost no resume of directly leading soldiers to fight, which was particularly special, who was this person? What kind of superiority did he have, having not led soldiers to fight but still being rated as a founding general?
【Tan Zheng】
This general is Tan Zheng, the third among the founding generals. Tan Zheng was born in Xiangxiang, Hunan in 1906, and the general Chen Geng is a fellow villager, the two families are still old friends, the two grew up together from childhood and brotherhood. Not only that, after growing up a little, under the arrangement of the two families, Tan Zheng also married Chen Geng's sister, who was also Tan Zheng's brother-in-law.
Tan Zheng was greatly influenced by Chen Geng, Chen Geng was later admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, and participated in the Northern Expedition, Tan Zheng was very envious, so he wrote to Chen Geng, who was already the commander of the National Revolutionary Army, telling him that he also wanted to join the army revolution, Chen Geng gave great encouragement to this, so Tan Zheng bid farewell to his wife and went to Wuhan to join the army and became a clerical officer in the army.
【Tan Zheng, Chen Geng, etc.】
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek launched an incident and wantonly arrested and slaughtered revolutionaries, but neither of them was discouraged, Chen Geng then participated in the August 1 Nanchang Uprising, while Tan Zheng participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, thus becoming acquainted with the chairman.
At first, the flesh-and-blood Tan Zheng also wanted to take up arms to fight the enemy like his brother-in-law Chen Geng, but the chairman discovered where the real strengths of the cultured Tan Zheng were, and he also made a special conversation to inspire him.
Once the chairman asked him: "If you were given ten bullets, would you be able to destroy ten enemies?" ”
Tan Zheng smiled and shook his head, and the chairman said, "What about the five?" How about three? ”
Tan Zheng, a scholar who had not yet touched the barrel of a gun, shook his head in embarrassment, and the chairman also laughed: "So, your strength is not to fight, you should find your own advantages, as long as you use your advantages well, you can sweep through thousands of armies!" ”
The chairman's inspiration made Tan Zheng realize that intellectual culture has an important role to play in the revolution. In this way, Tan Zheng became the first secretary of the chairman, the two ate and lived together, often discussed each other on revolutionary issues, and under the inspiration and education of the chairman, Tan Zheng made rapid progress. When he was working at the chairman's side, the chairman wrote "The Spark of Stars Can Burn the Plains", which was a good guide to the early revolution, which pointed out the direction for the people in all parts of China at that time who were struggling to find the way under the white terror.
Tan Zheng also gradually realized the importance of political work, which is like a spiritual arming, which can make a warrior with a change in thinking glow with great combat effectiveness, many times more powerful than the power of a typed gun.
Tan Zheng paid special attention to the red army's combat and grasped the battle situation, and analyzed and summarized it. When the battle was over, he often wrote a very thoughtful and instructive summary of the battle, which gave the troops a great inspiration.
In 1929, Tan Zheng was sent to the 31st Regiment of the Red Fourth Army as a political secretary, and Luo Ronghuan, another well-known political work cadre of our army, served as the political commissar. In a battle, Luo Ronghuan was shot and wounded, and Tan Zheng braved the rain of bullets and bullets to rush to the battlefield, saving Luo Ronghuan and saving the life of a future marshal of the republic.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army. Because the new situation has undergone earth-shaking and tremendous changes compared with the period of the agrarian revolutionary war, and because Chiang Kai-shek deliberately demanded that our army implement the organizational system and rules and regulations of Chiang Kai-shek's army, our army was forced to stop the political commissar system in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, some personnel had erroneous concepts in their thinking, and some people even learned to eat, drink, and enjoy themselves in their contacts with senior officials of Chiang Kai-shek's army, and even the bad incident of high-ranking cadres absconding with money without permission.
Tan Zheng and others solemnly proposed to restore and adhere to the system of political work cadres, which was affirmed, and Tan Zheng continued to make achievements in political work posts.
In order to rejuvenate the role of ideological weapons and at the same time provide a favorable tool for ideological education for the military and people of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Tan Zheng specially wrote a book with an important position, "Report on the Problems Concerning the Army's Political Work," which not only highlighted the role of theory, but also drew useful nourishment from culture and integrated it into excellent political work teaching materials. This book was not only widely popularized and publicized in the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army, but also popularized to a certain extent within Chiang Kai-shek's army, making contributions to the consolidation of the anti-Japanese united front.
During the Liberation War, Tan Zheng was sent to the northeast. At that time, the main battlefield in the northeast was the key to determining China's future and destiny, and it was also the examination ground for Tan Zheng to explore how political work could exert greater combat effectiveness.
At that time, there was a huge disparity between our army and Chiang Kai-shek's army in terms of numbers, weapons and equipment, or preparations for war. Tan Zheng creatively invented a measure that greatly changed the comparison of the advantages of the two sides.
Tan Zheng found that although there were many people in Chiang Kai-shek's army, most of the officers and men were forcibly forced or even kidnapped by the enemy to "join the army." The officers and men of the Chiang Kai-shek army were full of resentment and could be used by me completely.
Tan Zheng actively popularized the "complaints" and "three investigations" education put forward by the troops. Through the grievance campaign, officers and men understood why they were exploited, understood why they were fighting, and when they had a direction in their hearts, they radiated a strong impetus.
In this new-style army reorganization movement, not only have the officers and men of our army greatly improved, but even many officers and men of Chiang Kai-shek's army who have just been captured have been able to wake up and realize that they have decided to turn their guns around and attack the enemy, and a large number of officers and men of Chiang Kai-shek's army have become glorious "liberation fighters," which has rapidly changed the superiority of the enemy and our armies.
This also shows from one side the great power of political work. As a representative of outstanding political work cadres, Tan Zheng has made outstanding contributions and has been rated as one of the top ten generals, which is also deserved.