After the reorganization of the whole army, the former Northeast Field Army was reorganized into the Fourth Field Army, and the previous commander was Lin Zong, and the political commissar was still Luo Shuai. Including other positions, there has not been much change, but the former call of the column commander is now changed to the title of the commander, that is, a column, reorganized into an army. At the same time, four new positions were created, namely Corps Commander. It should be known that during the Liberation War, a corps was composed of troops and divisions, and naturally, the commanders and division commanders were under the control of the corps commander.
After the Northeast Field Army was reorganized into the Fourth Field Army, it had four corps, each corps, and a corps commander, that is to say, the Fourth Field Army had four corps commanders in addition to commander Lin Zong. They were Xiao Jinguang, Liu Yalou, Cheng Zihua, and Deng Hua. These four people should have been relatively good at military command at that time. It was also the four of them who commanded the four major corps of the four fields, marched south and fought in the north, won victories on the battlefield again and again, and finally defeated the reactionaries, thus winning the victory of the revolution.
Therefore, the commanders of the four major corps of the four fields were all heroes during the Liberation War and were also famous generals on the battlefield. So, let's take a look at what positions did these four commanders of the four major corps hold after the victory in the Liberation War?
Xiao Jinguang, commander of the Twelfth Corps, was appointed commander of the Navy by his superiors after completing the Battle of Hengbao, and the military headquarters of the Twelfth Corps was changed to the highest organ unit of the Navy. That is to say, after the victory of the Liberation War, Xiao Jinguang threw himself into China's naval construction and served as commander. In this way, Xiao Jinguang, as the commander of the navy after the founding of the People's Republic of China, also made certain contributions to the development and expansion of this newly formed military branch. Moreover, Xiao Jinguang worked in the position of naval commander for a long time, until Xiao Jinguang reached retirement age and no longer served as a naval commander. The founding general who can have such an experience is probably the only one who can have such an experience, Xiao Jinguang, commander of the Four Wilds And Four Major Corps.
Liu Yalou, the second of the four commanders of the Four Wilds, was prepared to lead the corps to continue to fight south after the liberation of North China. However, he was intercepted by a military order from his superiors and made him the commander of our air force, which, like the Navy, belongs to the new branch established after the founding of the People's Republic of China. As you may all know, the current Navy and Air Force are one of the three major services with the same name as the Army. It is enough to see that the air force after the founding of the country was also very important. It is said that when China first established the Air Force, the recruits were selected from the army units. That is to say, a group of air force soldiers in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China all had rich combat experience. As the commander of the Air Force, Liu Yalou also worked for a long time from this position. Until 1965, after he fell ill in the office, he was arranged by his superiors to be treated in Shanghai, due to a long period of busy air force construction work, General Liu Yalou was not lightly ill this time, did not ease up, and died of illness on May 7, at the age of 55.
Deng Hua, the third commander of the Siye Grand Army Corps, was after the completion of the campaign to liberate Hainan Island. He was appointed commander of the 13th Corps of the Northeast Border Defense Army, and it should be known that the corps was later incorporated into the Volunteer Army, and deng Hua served as the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army and embarked on the War of Aid to Korea. It should be said that among the commanders of the four major corps in Siye, after the end of the Liberation War, only Deng Hua, commander of the 15 corps, was still fighting on the front line. Moreover, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he also had the honor of commanding a million volunteer army to fight, becoming the second commander of the Fourth Field Army after Lin Zong. After the end of the Campaign to Aid Korea, Deng Hua took up the post of commander of the Shenyang Military Region after returning to China.
After liberation, the commanders of the Four Wilds Ande Corps, Xiao Jinguang, Liu Yalou, and Deng Hua, were either naval commanders, air force commanders, and commanders of the military region. Only the commander of the 13th Corps, Cheng Zihua, was in a special situation, so why was he said to be the most special? You must know that the four commanders of the four major commanders of the four fields, three of them after liberation, were all commanders of the troops. As one of the four commanders of the Four Wilds, Cheng Zihua, after liberation, left the troops that had worked for more than ten years and transferred to the local government as a provincial parent official, and threw himself into the cause of the construction of the motherland. It was also because of his change of career that he missed the opportunity to evaluate the title in 1955, becoming the only commander without a military rank among the four commanders of the four major commanders of The Four Fields.