In the middle of the last century Chinese, through decades of arduous revolutionary struggle, countless revolutionary pioneers did not hesitate to throw their heads and spill their blood, braving the rain of bullets and bullets, marching forward and fighting bloody battles, and finally won the great victory of national liberation, the people being the masters of their own affairs, and the establishment of a new China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to commend these heroes who were born into death during the revolutionary war years and who made outstanding contributions to their ideals and beliefs, a grand ceremony was held to confer military ranks, and these heroes who held important positions in the three major periods of the Red Army, the War of Resistance, and liberation were awarded corresponding ranks, such as the red army period as a commander, the war of resistance as a division commander, the liberation war as a field army commander, generally awarded the rank of marshal or general, and other military ranks and so on.
Most of the generals and elites of these republics have made outstanding contributions to the birth, construction, and development of the people's armed forces, and most of them are the founders of the army; at the same time, they have also awarded medals, namely, the August 1st Medal, the Order of Independence and Freedom, and the Liberation Medal, that is, they participated in leading positions and meritorious personnel during the Red Army, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation, respectively.
But this is not fixed, for example, today to introduce you to one, he was the political commissar of the military during the Red Army period, the political commissar, division commander, commander of the detachment during the War of Resistance, and the commander of the military region during the Liberation War. However, before the day of his title, he was not only not awarded a military rank, but also a medal, or even expelled from the party.
His name is Dai Jiying, a native of Dai Shiying Village, Tanshugang, Hong'an County, Hubei Province, who joined the Communist Youth League as a student and became a party member, becoming a well-known leader of the student patriotic movement in the three towns of Wuhan.
Later, the remnants of the jute uprising were reorganized into the 7th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, with Wu Guanghao as the commander and Dai Jiying as a member of the party committee of the 7th Army, leading the troops to begin the arduous struggle to create the revolutionary base area in the Eyu border area.
After the establishment of the CPC Provincial Committee of Eyu and Anhui, Dai Jiying was elected as a member of the provincial party committee and served as the political commissar of the 74th Division of the 25th Army of the Red Fourth Front, leading his troops to participate in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation in western Anhui. After the defeat of the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the main force was forced to march west, and Dai Jiying's 74th Division remained in Eyuwan to persist in the struggle. During this period, Dai Jiying adopted rapid assault tactics, completely annihilated the 105th Brigade of Ma Hongkui's unit, captured 1 mountain artillery, 8 mortars, 12 machine guns, more than 2,000 long and short guns, and more than 100 war horses.
Dai Jiying, who was known as "quite a warrior", was promoted to political commissar of the Red 25 Army, and at the same time he was also the political commissar of the 74th Division and the commander-in-chief of guerrilla warfare in northeast Hubei, becoming one of the important leaders who persisted in the struggle in the Eyu-Anhui base area. Later, together with his commander Wu Huanxian, he led the Red 25th Army to fight against the Kuomintang army at Panjiahe Village, repelled the strength of 4 divisions under the commander of the "Qing Suppression" area, Wei Lihuang, and annihilated more than 1 regiment of the Kuomintang army, bankrupting its plan to encircle and annihilate the Red Army.
The "Battle of Guojiahe" and the "Battle of Panjiahe" have been recorded in military history, and Dai Jiying's contribution to participating in decision-making cannot be erased. After these two battles, the Red 25th Army was greatly enhanced and rapidly developed to more than 13,000 people.
Later, he left the Eyu-Shaanxi Soviet Region with the main force of the Red 25th Army and went north to the Long March, and successively served as the director and chief of staff of the Political Department of the Second Anti-Japanese Advance Team in the north, the director of the Northern Shaanxi Security Bureau, the officer and deputy director of the Military Department of Northern Shaanxi, and the secretary of the Special Committee of the Eastern Region of Northern Shaanxi. Attracting 200,000 Kuomintang troops, it effectively coordinated the operation of the main Red Army in western Sichuan. The Red 25th Army finally reached northern Shaanxi to meet the Red 26th Army led by Liu Zhidan.
In the erratic guerrilla war, whenever the troops went to any place, Dai Jiying always personally held meetings to understand the thinking of cadres and fighters and the implementation of discipline, paid attention to the selection and promotion of activists and the development of party members in the course of struggle, and often went down to the grass-roots level to talk with the fighters and preach revolutionary principles. When fighting, he always took the lead as a soldier, personally experienced the danger, and rushed with the warriors in the rain of bullets and bullets. At that time, the troops were severely short of food, and he was as hungry as the soldiers. Looking at his pale face, the guard quietly found a little rice to boil a small bowl of porridge for him, he did not taste a mouthful, let the guard give all the porridge to the wounded and sick...
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as director of the political department and political commissar of the Jiangbei Guerrilla Column of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, deputy commander of the Fourth Detachment, and once acted as commander, and also served as the former committee of Jiangbei of the New Fourth Army, secretary of the Party Committee of henan district of the CPC, political commissar of the Henan Military Region, and political commissar of the Henan Military Region and the People's Anti-Japanese Army.
During the Liberation War, Dai Jiying successively served as a member of the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, a political commissar of the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region, and a deputy secretary of the Party Committee and director of propaganda in western Henan. After the victory of the Central Plains Breakthrough, Dai Jiying served as the second deputy secretary of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee and director of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Central Plains People's Government.
It can be said that Dai Jiying made outstanding military achievements in the revolutionary war years and made contributions to the victory of the revolution; at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, all the construction of New China was in ruins, and Dai Jiying was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee and secretary of the Kaifeng Municipal CPC Committee, and the leaders at higher levels expected him to continue to carry forward the revolutionary tradition and make new contributions to the construction of New China. However, Dai Jiying believed that the victory of the revolution was not small, his merits were not small, the appointment of posts was too low, he was the military political commissar and commander during the Red Army, the War of Resistance, and the War of Liberation, and the position was equivalent to that of the provincial level or even higher, and later he made a battle merit, at least he had to arrange a provincial party secretary of the same rank, so he wrote to the central authorities to ask for promotion.
In order to solemnize the party's iron discipline, purify the party organization, and enhance the party's combat effectiveness, the central party committee decided and obtained the approval of the central and central and southern bureaus to expel Dai Jiying from the party.
Dai Jiying has such an experience, can he still be awarded a military rank? Naturally, it was impossible, and after returning home to reflect, he tied up his political career and faded out of people's vision forever.