Among the founding generals of new China, there was no shortage of generals who had studied abroad, especially in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and a group of senior commanders were sent to the Soviet Union to study for medical treatment. This group of people were later awarded the rank of lieutenant general or above, including the founder of the Red Sixth Army, why did he not fight on the front line after liberation, who was he, and where did he go?
This person is Tan Jiashu.
Tan Jiashu participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising in his early years, and was later transferred to Hong Kong for medical treatment due to his injuries. After arriving in Hong Kong, he was arrested and sent back to the mainland by the warlord Li Jishen to join the Cantonese army. During the battle, he broke away from Li Jishen's troops and searched for the organization four times.
Since Tan Jiashu joined the revolution, his relatives and family members have all died because of this, which makes his revolutionary ideas more and more unswerving.
After that, he found an organization and went to Jinggangshan, continued the armed struggle in the Xianggan area, and pulled up a peasant Red Guard army, which was later reorganized into a guerrilla brigade and a guerrilla column. This team later developed into the Red 8Th Army, he served as a division commander in the Red Eighth Army, and the Later Red 6 Army was also established on the basis of this team, and he served as the chief of staff of the corps.
Tan Jiashu was the founder of the Red 8th Army and the Red Sixth Army, and to some extent, he was more senior than Xiao Kedao. Although Xiao Ke held a higher position than him, Xiao Ke was transferred from outside the Red Army.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he first served as a teacher and captain of the Anti-Japanese War. However, due to physical reasons, at the end of 1938, he and Li Tianyou, Liu Yalou, Zhong Chibing and others went to Moscow to see a doctor, and later went to the Frunze Military Academy to study. Because of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, he and his party first stayed in Mongolia, and then followed the Soviet Red Army back to China, and it was not long after the victory of the War of Resistance.
After liberation, Tan Jiashu did not go to some units to fight, but served as the chief education officer and vice president of the North China Military and Political University, which was formed. After the founding of New China, he became the deputy commander of the air defense army, became the deputy of Zhou Shi, and was awarded the title of lieutenant general.
According to Tan Jiashu's seniority in the Red Army, his position was not low, but he did not have many achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and in addition, he had been engaged in education in the rear after liberation, and his contribution to combat was not outstanding. If he had stayed on the front line, it would have been a different story.