After the founding of New China, many founding heroes held important positions, and many founding generals became commanders of military regions or local leaders, and there were also generals who took the initiative to give up their titles, such as Xu Guangda, Xu Liqing, and others.
What people did not expect was that such a thing happened, and a local leader who was proud of his great merits actually suspected that the official was small, and wrote a letter to the chairman to ask for an official, and he was also the head of the province. What happened to this person?
This person who dared to write a letter to be an official was called Dai Jiying, who was the number one in Kaifeng City, Henan, and Kaifeng was the provincial capital of Henan at that time, plus he felt that he had made great contributions when he advanced into Henan and should become a leader in Henan, so he relied on the old man to sell the old letter to ask for an official.
In fact, Dai Jiying did make great contributions, but it was another matter of strength to be an official, he was not very famous, many people may not have heard of him, although he was not a founding general, but he was one of my famous generals in our army, and the general Xu Haidong was once his deputy.
Dai Jiying, a native of Hong'an, Hubei Province, joined the Party as early as 1926, when he was only 20 years old, the following year he participated in leading the jute uprising, and in April 1933, at the age of 27, Dai Jiying was appointed political commissar of the Red 25 Army and political commissar of the 74th Division, which showed his position in the Red Army.
Many people know that the general Xu Haidong was a commander of the Red 25th Army, but at that time Xu Haidong was only the deputy commander of the Red 25th Army and the commander of the 74th Division, so Xu Haidong was still Dai Jiying's deputy, don't look at Dai Jiying as a political commissar, his military command ability is very good.
After the Jute Uprising, the troops were reorganized into the 7th Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, when Dai Jiying served as the party representative of the 7th Army, equivalent to the later political commissar, and made great contributions to the creation of the Eyu border base area, and in February 1932, Dai Jiying was appointed as the political commissar of the 74th Division of the Red 25th Army.
After the defeat of the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the main force left the western expedition, and Dai Jiying led the 74th Division to stay in the Eyu-Anhui base area to insist on fighting, during this period Dai Jiying made many military achievements, first on March 4, 1933, the reconnaissance learned that the 105th Brigade of the Ma Hongkui Department of the Northwest Army had entered Xinxian County, Henan.
Dai Jiying seized the opportunity to take advantage of the unstable foothold of Ma Hongkui's troops at Dabie Mountain, marched 30 miles overnight, and at the cost of more than 30 casualties, completely annihilated 2 regiments of the Kuomintang and killed a regimental commander and a regimental deputy.
In addition, more than 2,000 people were captured, a large number of guns and ammunition were captured, and after the war, Dai Jiying was promoted to political commissar of the Red 25th Army and political commissar of the 74th Division, and in the middle of the same month, Dai Jiying commanded the Red 25th Army to engage the Kuomintang army at the Panjia River, repelling the siege of Wei Lihuang's 4 divisions and annihilating an enemy regiment.
These two battles made the red 25 army famous, but also let Dai Jiying famous for a while, the red 25 army has been rapidly developed, the number of soldiers reached more than 13,000 people, but what people did not expect is that when the left-leaning error appeared, Dai Jiying became an active executor and killed many people by mistake.
Even Liu Zhidan, the main founder of the northern Shaanxi base area, was imprisoned by Dai Jiying, who was dismissed from his post and given a warning, and later during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Dai Jiying also made great contributions, especially in the 1946 Central Plains Breakthrough.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Dai Jiying served as the second deputy secretary of Henan and other positions, he wanted to be a leader in his own merits, but was angrily criticized by the chairman: "incurable", and was expelled from the party, and only in 1984 did he restore the party membership and provincial cadre treatment, Dai Jiying died of illness in Zhengzhou on November 29, 1997, at the age of 91.