Generals and marshals often come from the bravery and fearlessness of the war years, some are revolutionary leaders, some are ordinary fighters, but they all have a common characteristic, soldiers and pawns, fearless. There was a general, one person in the army, who was above ten thousand people, even surpassing his former superior, Xu Shiyou, and he was still a guard during the Liberation War, and he was the former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission- Zhang Wannian.
In the war years, Zhang Wannian was born very late, and only before the Liberation War, Zhang Wannian joined the Eighth Route Army in 1944 and did not drink the last soup of the War of Resistance Against Japan, but then the Liberation War broke out, successively serving as soldiers, guards, and correspondents.
In particular, this soldier who was not afraid of death saved his superiors twice before the ghost gate was closed, and the bullets around him were roaring by, and the company commander was shot, and no one dared to pull him down.
Because of his bravery in battle, although Zhang Wannian joined the army not early, in the Liberation War, Zhangjiakou and Beiping, and then went south with the troops for thousands of miles, and finally became famous in the Battle of Hengbao, became the commander of the division and regiment, and became one of the senior commanders and fighters of our party and our army early. The speed of his promotion is not only because of the bravery of the battle, but also from his boldness and talent, and the nine-character technique of night training put forward by him is passed down as the training policy of "deep cat waist, high legs, light into the water".
During the counterattack against Vietnam, Zhang Wannian led the "Iron Army Division", formerly known as ye Ting Independent Regiment, into the Vietnamese war, when others set up a command headquarters far away from the front line according to the explanation of the book, Zhang Wannian designed the command headquarters under the jungle according to the special jungle warfare needs, only a hundred meters away from the forward position, repeatedly won battles, and brilliantly completed the mission entrusted to him by the party and the state.
Later, when Zhang Wannian visited the United States, Clinton's defense minister, as soon as they met, did not take care of him, they directly hugged him tightly, Clinton was shocked, and when he asked, he knew, "Mr. President, this is Zhang Wannian, who I couldn't catch in the jungle of Vietnam, and I caught him now.", everyone laughed.
Zhang Wannian was a practical general with courage and strategy, loyalty to the party, and love for soldiers like sons; although the revolution was not early, he showed his fists and feet in a series of military operations after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and three times out of Dongshan Island. It was precisely because of this that Zhang Wannian surpassed his superior Xu Shiyou and became vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.