What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
If you know history, friends know that there were three armies that participated in the great Nanchang Uprising, and the commanders were Wei Jiu, commander of the Ninth Army (who did not arrive), Ye Ting, commander of the 11th Army (who was also the commander-in-chief of the front line of the uprising), and He Lao, commander of the 20th Army (who also served as the commander-in-chief). These three armies must have been the main force of this uprising, and without the participation of these three armies, the Nanchang uprising would not have been so successful. Therefore, as long as these three military commanders lived until the liberation, they were all marshal ranks, except for Wei Jiu, the commander of the Ninth Army, who did not participate due to illness, and was replaced by deputy commander Zhu Laozong, who was later the head of the ten marshals. Ye Ting died after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War due to an accident on a plane.
In fact, at that time, in addition to the commander, each of the three armies also had a party representative. It is equivalent to the political commissar of every military unit of our army later. You must know that during the Liberation War, whether it was a field army, a corps, a column, an army, or a division, it had the post of political commissar. In fact, it is similar to the nature of the party representatives at the time of the Nanchang uprising. So, you know what? When they participated in the Nanchang Uprising, who were the party representatives of the three armies? Why is there only a party representative of the 11th Army, who after liberation is the rank of marshal! What are the ranks of the other two?
The party representative of the Ninth Army in the Nanchang Uprising was Zhu Kejing, a native of Liling, Hunan Province, a talented man of our party who graduated from Peking University before participating in the revolution. After participating in the revolution, he studied in the Soviet Union, and then participated in the Nanchang Uprising with Mr. Zhu. At that time, Zhu Kejing was a party representative of the Ninth Army, and Zhu Lao was always a deputy commander. Because the commander of the army, Wei Pestle, was ill and did not participate, these two were the top military commanders of the Ninth Army. Under their leadership, they participated in the Nanchang Uprising and became an important military force in the uprising.
Zhu Kejing
However, Zhu Kejing was unlucky and separated from his troops when the rebel army withdrew from Nanchang. Since then, Zhu Kejing has lost contact with the party organization, but he has not given up the revolution and has successively persisted in revolutionary activities in Tianjin, Guilin, Nanchang and other places. It was not until the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that Zhu Kejing restored the party's organizational relations and was appointed as an adviser to the Political Department of the New Fourth Army and the head of the field service regiment directly under him, responsible for propaganda and democracy movement work. However, bad luck came again, Zhu Kejing was on his head, and after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation broke out again. That is, in July 1947, Zhu Kejing was arrested by secret agents for betrayal by traitors, and finally heroically rebelled on the outskirts of Nanjing, and did not survive until after liberation.
Liao Qianwu film and television image
The party representative of the 20th Army of the Nanchang Uprising was Liao Qianwu, a native of Pingli, Shaanxi, who was an elderly revolutionary in my party and joined our party in 1922. Under the recommendation of Zhou Gong, he served as the party representative of the ironclad team of the Grand Marshal's Office of Mr. Zhongshan, and then served as the director of the political department of the Fourth Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and participated in the Northern Expedition. At that time, Liao Qianwu's status in our party was already very high, and later when Chiang Kai-shek rebelled against the revolution, Liao Qianwu participated in the Nanchang Uprising with Ye Ting and served as the party representative of the 11th Army.
However, after the defeat of the rebel army in the south, Liao Qianwu, together with Zhou Gong, Ye Ting and others, transferred to Hong Kong, and then Liao Qianwu was needed to work in Shanghai for work. In 1930, he was sent to Hunan to preside over the work, but was unexpectedly arrested by He Jian. In the face of the enemy's torture, he was unyielding and did not reveal news about the Red Army to the enemy. In the end, the reactionaries had no choice but to secretly kill him on September 3.
Nie Shuai
The party representative of the 11th Army of the Nanchang Uprising was Nie Rongzhen, and perhaps everyone was more familiar with this one, who was also Nie Shuai, one of the later Ten Marshals. He was also a marshal in the history of our party who was both military and political, and then served as the political commissar of the Red First Army, the deputy commander of the 115th Division during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the commander of the North China Field Army during the liberation period, so after liberation, he was awarded the rank of marshal. At the same time, he also became the party representative of the three armies of the Nanchang Uprising, and the only one with the rank of marshal. Unfortunately, the remaining two died during the Revolutionary War years.