During the revolutionary war years, many outstanding generals of our army held important posts at a young age, and most of them were promoted and promoted after they had been tempered and made meritorious contributions in battle and their talents had been revealed. The protagonist today is going to talk about, the reason for his promotion is a bit special, he was promoted because he intercepted the booty privately and was discovered by his superiors. This man is the founding lieutenant general, Teng Haiqing.
Why was he promoted when he stole the spoils of war? And listen to the editor slowly.
01, the guerrilla leader who pursues progress
Teng Haiqing is a native of Jinzhai County, Lu'an City, Anhui Province, born in 1909. Since he was a child, he has been herding cattle for the landlord's family since he was 7 years old, and helping the landlord's family burn charcoal at the age of 15. At the age of 20, in 1929, Teng Haiqing joined the local guerrilla group. In 1930, he joined the Red Army with more than thirty partisans and became a member of the revolutionary family. Teng Haiqing secretly withheld the booty, and the interesting story of his promotion occurred shortly after he joined the Red Army.
02, the little red devil actually hid a war horse
By June 1932, Teng Haiqing was already a company commander in the 10th Division of the Red Fourth Army. But there was one thing that always made Teng Haiqing feel very embarrassed, that is, he couldn't ride a horse. A company commander who can't ride a horse will make people laugh when it goes out. Coincidentally, two days ago, the troops participated in the Battle of Huangguang (Chuanshan), and Teng Haiqing happened to capture two jujube red warhorses. He thought to himself that this was a good opportunity to learn to ride a horse, so he left the two war horses behind and did not hand them in according to the regulations.
On June 15, Teng Haiqing led two warhorses out to practice riding. He had just left the east gate of Puta Town and met The Division Commander Ni Zhiliang and the Division Political Commissar Gan Ji face-to-face.
"Which regiment are you from?" Ni Zhiliang asked.
"Thirty-two regiments." I am the commander of the fifth company. ”
"What are you doing with two horses?"
If you let your superiors know that they have kept the booty privately, they will inevitably be punished. Teng Haiqing made a clever move and replied, "Oh, it was for the division commander and political commissar." ”
Ni Zhiliang had already seen through Teng Haiqing's thoughts, looked at Ganji, and said, "This little company commander is quite clever. "Then, let the communicator lead the two horses away.
03, it turns out that I was promoted!
Teng Haiqing thought that this matter was over. Ten days after the results, Teng Haiqing received a notice from the battalion headquarters: "Take your backpack and report to the division headquarters." Teng Haiqing recalled afterwards: "This frightened me, because at that time I was still arresting the 'reorganization faction', and I was afraid of arresting me as a 'reorganization faction'. ”
According to the organizational procedures, Teng Haiqing first went to the battalion headquarters to meet with the battalion commander. He asked the battalion commander, "What are you going to do with me?" ”
The battalion commander said, "I didn't want to transfer you, it was a notice from the regimental headquarters." ”
Teng Haiqing took the introduction letter from the battalion headquarters to the regimental headquarters and asked the regimental commander Cheng Qiguang: "What do you want me to do?" ”
Commander Cheng said, "I don't know, it was the division headquarters that told you to go." ”
In this way, Teng Haiqing, with the letter of introduction issued by the regimental headquarters, went to the division headquarters station with trepidation and entered the office of the division commander and political commissar. After reading the letter of introduction handed over by Teng Haiqing, Ni Zhiliang said, "The reason for transferring you is to let you become a platoon leader in the division headquarters communications team." You wouldn't be dissatisfied, would you? ”
Teng Haiqing nodded vigorously and said, "You can do anything, there is nothing you are not dissatisfied with." At this point he had only one thought, as long as he wasn't caught.
Teng Haiqing did not understand until a few months after the communications team that the company commander was changed to platoon commander not "demoted", but "promoted". The divisional headquarters communications team is a special unit, with only two platoons, and the number is equivalent to that of a reinforced company. One platoon, no soldiers, were all cadres of battalions and companies who had not fought well in the battle, and Teng Haiqing had gone to the signal team as a platoon leader. Another platoon of the signals brigade was the second platoon, which was composed differently from the platoon, and was composed of excellent squad leaders selected from each regiment, and after a period of training, assigned to the company as a platoon leader, just like the advance officers of the unit today.
In fact, at that time, Ni Zhiliang saw that Teng Haiqing was a clever and responsive person, and he remembered him. When there was a vacant position, the first thing that came to mind was Teng Haiqing. Teng Haiqing was thus fortunate to be promoted. In fact, a person like him who joined the Red Army very early and was willing to endure hardships was going to be promoted sooner or later, and it was the consistent tradition of the Red Army that he was on the basis of merit. Later, Teng Haiqing made meritorious contributions in all battles, and only received the rank of lieutenant general when he was awarded the title.