This founding lieutenant general was the military high-ranking military staff member whom the chairman relied on the most, and old Chiang wanted but could not get it
In the past, when doing history magazines, the name "Guo Huaruo" often appeared, and some readers called and asked: Is it that you have written wrong, it should be Guo Moruo? Readers who know will also ask: Is Guo Huaruo and Guo Moruo brothers?
In fact, it is not, this person is called "Guo Huaruo", the founding lieutenant general, and the literary scholar Guo Moruo has nothing to do with it.
At the end of 1939, Guo Huaruo published a "Preliminary Study of Sun Tzu's Art of War", which caused quite a stir in the Nationalist army, and Zhou Gong once returned to Yan'an from Chongqing and told the chairman:
"Some Kuomintang officers asked me who Guo Huaruo, who wrote the article "Sun Tzu," and if Guo Moruo was not a brother. I answer: He is our military senior counselor and is not related to Mr. Guo Moruo, but his position in China's military theoretical circles should be comparable to Mr. Guo Moruo's position in revolutionary literature. ”
Although some of Guo Moruo's affairs after the founding of the People's Republic of China were very controversial, he was still very commendable during the revolutionary period, especially in the propaganda of the anti-war culture. Zhou Gong said that Guo Huaruo's position in the military theory circles was comparable to Guo Moruo's position in revolutionary literature, which also showed the high level of Guo Huaruo's military theory.
Born in 1904 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, Guo Huaruo was admitted to the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy at the age of 21, and became classmates with Lin Zong, Zhang Lingfu, Liu Zhidan and others. Please note that among the more than 3,000 candidates in that period, Guo Huaruo's admission results ranked first.
(Photo: Guo Huaruo in his youth)
After graduation, because of his excellent military talent, Chiang Kai-shek twice invited him to serve as the staff secretary, but Guo Huaruo refused both times. Why? There is a folk saying that if Guo Hua can look at the face, after seeing the old Jiang, he thinks that this person is rich and noble, but he is not a ming prince who rules the world, and he cannot follow him blindly.
Of course, this kind of thing is just folklore, and if Guo Hua refuses to serve as a military adviser to Old Chiang Kai-shek, it is nothing more than because Old Chiang has deviated from the road of revolution and is not a man all the way.
So, who is Guo Huaruo's fellow traveler? The answer is Mr. Zhu. After the defeat of the Nanchang Uprising that year, many people chose to leave the army, but Guo Huaruo traveled thousands of miles to find the team that Zhu Laozong had retained and became a member of Zhu Laozong's command.
In 1930, Guo Huaruo was transferred to the chief of staff of the Red 4th Army Headquarters, and later successively served as the chief of staff of the Red 1 Army Headquarters, the chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the Red Army, and the secretary general of the General Front Committee of the Red Army, and became an important military senior staff member of the chairman, Zhu Laozong and others.
The chairman once jokingly said to him: "You are from Fujian, but your insight is not 'floating', it is 'deep', it is deep and visible." ”
At the end of 1937, Guo Huaruo was appointed director of the First Bureau of the Central Military Commission (referred to as the First Bureau of the Central Military Commission), what did the First Bureau of the Central Military Commission do? It is the Operations Bureau of the General Staff of the Central Military Commission, which includes four sections: Operations, Intelligence, Confidentiality, and Management. The chairman wrote a special letter to Guo Huaruo, telling him: "You are not in charge of anything else, focus on the research of strategic issues and the affairs of the editorial department, and make sure to get a clue about the issue of military theory." ”
The "Preliminary Study of Sun Tzu's Art of War" mentioned at the beginning of this article is the task assigned to Guo Huaruo by the chairman, who lived up to his high expectations and wrote this foreign masterpiece, which is still an important material for the study of Sun Tzu's Art of War to this day, and Guo Huaruo is also recognized as the most authoritative expert in the study of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
This reminds me of another person: Zhang Zhen, when filming "A Generation of Grandmasters", director Wong Kar-wai asked him to learn eight poles, but he did not expect Zhang Zhen to learn to become the national champion of eight poles. It's just so dedicated!
In 1939, Yan'an opened a staff training course, originally wanted to ask the chairman to give a course on "strategic studies", but the chairman did not go, but recommended a person, that is, Guo Huaruo, and said to the person in charge: "You can rest assured, Guo Huaruo is no less than me." The so-called 'no less' is similar to me, even more than me. ”
As we all know, the chairman is known as a "strategic everyone", and the world can't find a few people who can match him, but looking at his evaluation of Guo Huaruo, it can be imagined that Guo's ability is indeed extraordinary.
After the liberation war began, Guo Huaruo left Yan'an and went to Shandong, successively serving as the deputy commander of the 6th Column of Huaye, the political commissar of the 4th Column, and the political commissar of the 9th Corps.
Commander Wang Bicheng of the 6th Column said: "If Guo Hua is there, only then can our 6-column really be successful!" ”
Commander Tao Yong of the 4th Column said: "With the chairman's high staff sitting in town, I Tao Yong is really both worry-free and fearless!" ”
Commander-in-Chief Chen of Sanye said, "Hua Ruo, you are really capable of more work!" ”
Look at it, the people who came down from the chairman's side are born with their own aura.
With Guo Huaruo's seniority and status, he should basically be awarded the rank of general, after all, he is the political commissar of the corps, but in fact, he is only given a lieutenant general, which is a bit low.