Elder Peng was always the second marshal of our army, and his prestige in the army was extremely high, but he also had the only time that he had a situation where he could not command the army. That was when he was the commander of the Northwest Field Army, the predecessor of the Northwest Field Army was the 120th Division, that is, the unit brought out by General He, who was responsible for logistics during the Liberation War, so he handed over the troops to General Manager Peng, but because there was no running time, it caused many misunderstandings.
In early August 1947, the Northwest Field Army failed in a vertical attack on Yulin, the political commissar Liao Hansheng was angry, Mr. Peng called to hold him accountable, everyone knew how hot Mr. Peng's temper was, and he began to scold people without saying two words.
However, Liao Hansheng also knew that he could not hang up his face without a good face, and as soon as he put down the phone, he began to rearrange the combat tasks, and he said to his subordinates: "Today I will let Noji see what kind of troops we are, just this one company, at least to block the pursuing enemy for two hours!" After He Bingyan heard about this, he also personally took a battalion to reinforcements, but as a result, he repelled the pursuing soldiers and retreated with Liao Hansheng. Such a small episode occurred again later, in the Battle of Xifu, although the Northwest Field Army annihilated a total of 21,000 enemy troops, but because individual generals did not listen to the command, it also caused a lot of losses to the troops.
When General Manager He heard about this, he specially rushed to solve the matter for General Manager Peng, and he first went to the Fourth Column to criticize the problem of the disunity of individual cadres; then Elder He personally learned about the situation with the generals of the Northwest Field Army, and found that the original problem was that the command styles of General Manager Peng and General Manager He were very different, and That Commander Peng was very upright and unkind, so problems arose in communication between the two sides. Therefore, Boss He criticized them one by one, especially Liao Hansheng, as the nephew of President He, was scolded the most, and after the education of President He, these generals no longer confronted President Peng, and gradually got used to President Peng's command style with the passage of time, and gradually tacitly agreed to become the first-class main force of our army.