The history inn has written a lot of articles about the founding generals, but there is still very little involvement in the school-level officers, in fact, among the school officers, there are also many legendary figures, today to introduce a founding major, he has a record when awarding the title is unprecedented, even Zhu Boss can not be compared.
This unprecedented record is not about military merit, but about age.
As we all know, among the marshals and generals, the oldest is undoubtedly Mr. Zhu, born in 1886 and 69 years old when he was awarded the title in 1955. In addition, three others were born in 1892, namely Marshal Liu Bocheng, General Zhang Yunyi, and General Tao Zhiyue, all of whom were 63 years old when they were awarded titles. This is also the only four founding generals over the age of 60 at the time of the award.
However, among the school-level officers, there was one older than them, that is, Jiang Weiping, a native of Fangshan County, Hebei (now part of Beijing).
Jiang Weiping was born in 1878, the fourth year of the Qing Dynasty, and by the time he was awarded the title in 1955, he was 77 years old. Moreover, in 1955, he was still a major, and when he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1960, he was already 82 years old, which was probably unprecedented in the history of the world military.
Jiang Weiping joined the army very early, and in 1897 he was a soldier in Li Hongzhang's army, please note that of the ten marshals at this time, six of them have not yet been born, and nine of the ten generals have not been born.
Later, Jiang Weiping successively served in the troops of Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui, and the highest rank was the regimental commander, and he could also be regarded as a powerful prince in that chaotic world. However, Jiang Weiping was not interested in these fame and fortune, and later returned to his hometown and began a career in medicine.
Until March 1938, because of dissatisfaction with the Japanese army's bullying of Chinese, Jiang Weiping, who was already 60 years old, resolutely made a decision: he took his son to defect to the Eighth Route Army and began another legendary journey.
In the Eighth Route Army, Jiang Weiping gave full play to his years of experience in practicing medicine, led his apprentices throughout the lofty mountains and mountains, and allocated countless medicinal materials for the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army, which greatly alleviated the tension of Chinese medicine in the Eighth Route Army.
The story of the 359 Brigade's reclamation of Nanniwan is certainly familiar to everyone, but few people know that Jiang Weiping is the biggest contributor to Nanniwan, and the farm he leads is known as the first model farm of the 359th Brigade.
In 1947, in the Battle of Shijiazhuang, Jiang Weiping, who served as the deputy director of the first branch of the Bethune International Peace Hospital of the Eighth Route Army, led the medical staff into intense work, and was rated as a model company after the war.
Because of his great merits, Jiang Weiping was one of the deputies at the first national congress of combat heroes and model workers after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was received by the chairman.
When he was awarded the rank in 1955, Jiang Weiping was awarded the rank of major at the age of 77, and he was also the oldest person in our army. Five years later, Jiang Weiping was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
Jiang Weiping has long served as the vice president of major hospitals, and his work is very busy, but for every medical seeker, even if he is tired, he will do his best to treat him. Sometimes when the patient is sick and cannot come to the hospital, he will come to the door in person and never charge any additional fees.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jiang Weiping still maintained the style of fighting in nanniwan in the past, and even the only cotton vest was made by hand when he was in Nanniwan. His family persuaded him to change a new one, he said: "Now that life is good, we can't forget the past, we can't forget our roots!" ”
However, as long as it is beneficial to society and the country, he has never been stingy, and the money saved has been bought by him to buy medicines and give them to patients in poor areas free of charge.
Later, bayi film studio also specially filmed a "old hero Jiang Weiping" to record his legendary life.
On July 12, 1964, Jiang Weiping died of illness at the age of 86.