Zhang Zhen was one of the fastest-promoted generals during the war years.
His highest position during the Red Army was the chief of staff of the regiment, and after more than ten years of fighting, he grew into the chief of staff of Sanye, which was inseparable from his personal ability, but it was also inseparable from the reuse and cultivation of these three people.
Zhang Zhen joined the army in 1930 and was assigned to work in the propaganda team, and was later promoted to captain of the regimental propaganda team.
In 1931, he was promoted to combat unit as a company instructor. In 1933, he received an order from the division headquarters that he was a passive worker and a kulak, and that he had been dismissed from his post and served as a clerk for the division headquarters.
Because of the kulak hat, he was not promoted for a long time.
In 1934, he hung a lottery in a candle-shaped battle and went to the hospital to recuperate, and Huang Kecheng, the political commissar of the division, named him to return to the front with him and serve as a regimental staff officer in the combat unit. Not long after, the Red Army began the Long March, and those who remained in the hospital to recuperate were found and killed by the enemy army, and they were all sacrificed. If it were not for Huang Kecheng, he would not have embarked on the road of the Long March, let alone become a senior general in the future.
In September 1935, the Red Army was transformed into the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment, he served as the regimental communications director, in October he was transferred to the 2nd Column Command as the communications director, the commander of the division Peng Xuefeng, on November 2 the column was changed to the 4th Division, he served as the director of the division's communications department and the regimental chief of staff. From then on, the two began to fight side by side for several years.
The first to reuse his chief, Peng Xuefeng
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was named by Peng Xuefeng and went to Taiyuan to do secret liaison work. After the Red Army was transformed into the Eighth Route Army, Peng Xuefeng openly worked as the chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhang Zhen served as a major staff officer, deputy liaison and reception.
Due to the defeat of the Kuomintang army in the frontal battlefield and the fall of North China, the central government was senior, and the superior transferred Peng Xuefeng to Qishan County to reorganize the Henan troops, and Zhang Zhen also went to work in henan and served as the chief of staff of the 4 detachments and 8 regiments of the New Fourth Army.
Not long after, the guerrilla detachment of the New Fourth Army was established, with Peng Xuefeng as commander and political commissar, and he as chief of staff. In the next few years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, with the expansion of the troops, the number of the troops was constantly changed, and they were successively changed to the 6th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army, and the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army
In 1944, Peng Xuefeng was shot and killed in a battle, and the two had a seven- or eight-year-long comradeship, which made him very sad.
The second allowed him to exert his military talents into his hands, Zhang Aiping
After Peng Xuefeng's death, his superiors sent Zhang Aiping, deputy commander of the 3rd Division, as the commander of the 4th Division. Zhang Aiping was very sure of Zhang Zhen's ability.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Aiping served as deputy commander of the Central China Military Region, hoping that he would concurrently serve as the commander of the 9th Column of the Central China Field Army and let Zhang Zhen serve as the deputy commander. Zhang Aiping said that she would not serve as a commander, or let Zhang Zhen serve as a commander and play his role.
In this way, Zhang Zhen, who had been the chief of staff for eight or nine years, began to become a senior commander and fight independently.
In the following war, many battles were fought, and in 1947, the Shandong Field Army merged with the Central China Field Army to form the East China Field Army, and he served as the deputy commander of the 2nd Column.
Su Yudian will let him assist, and he is under a lot of pressure
In 1948, the superior Hope Su Yu led 3 columns to fight south, which was called the First Corps of the Southeast Field Army. Su Yu served as commander and Zhang Zhen was appointed chief of staff of the corps. Zhang Zhen was uneasy about this appointment. He believes that fighting in the south is intense and he is not up to the task.
Under the enlightenment of Su Yu's thought, he agreed to take up the position.
However, Su Yu felt that the time was not ripe to fight in the south, and he dared to be blunt, so the central authorities made a strategic change and stayed in the Central Plains to fight a great annihilation war.
For the first time, he assisted Su Yu in the Great Annihilation War, the Battle of Eastern Henan, and annihilated more than 90,000 enemy troops in the First World War, which allowed Zhang Zhen to learn a lot of things.
Soon, he was promoted to deputy chief of staff of the East China Field Army, assisting Su Yu in fighting the Battle of Huaihai, the Battle of Crossing the River, and so on. In 1949, he was promoted to Chief of Staff of Sanno.
In the more than twenty years of revolutionary struggle, he once served as his leader, and Yao Zhe, Fang Qiang, and Zhou Chiping were not as high as him in the rating.
He can be promoted so quickly, inseparable from his own ability, but also inseparable from Peng Xuefeng, Zhang Aiping, Su Yu in different periods of training and promotion of him.