During the Liberation War, it was not a surprise that the political commissar of the column did not have to take care of political work and specifically studied how to fight a war.
In the Northeast Democratic United Army, after Wan Yi, the commander of the First Column, was transferred to the political commissar, Lin Zong's requirements for him were: Just learn to fight wars, regardless of political work.
Why is Wan Yi so special?
From Wan Yi's resume, it is not difficult to find that he is a commander who leads soldiers to fight.
He joined the Eighth Route Army in 1944 and served as the commander of the Binhai Detachment and the deputy commander of the Binhai Military Region. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he returned to his hometown in the northeast to fight the war, and successively served as the commander of the Advancing Column and the commander of the Seventh Column.
In August 1946, he was appointed commander of the newly formed 1st Column.
In April 1947, he was originally transferred to work in the rear, but Wan Yi said that he did not agree with anything. The commander has been replaced by Li Tianyou, how to arrange a position for him? In the end, he was arranged as a political commissar and asked him to fight with Li Tianyou.
He has never been a political commissar, can he do politics well? Instead of this, let him learn how to fight in large armies. In this way, not only to solve the problem that Wan Yi does not want to leave the combat unit, but also to cultivate the ability to fight a big battle, why not kill two birds with one stone?
During his tenure as political commissar, he and Li Tianyou unified the command of several divisions and attacked Siping City twice. The third time was due to lack of experience and intelligence failure; the fourth time, after summing up the lessons learned, Siping City was liberated within 23 hours.
After the liberation of Sipingcheng, the Fifth Column was established due to the development of the war situation, and who would serve as the commander, it was obvious that Wan Yi was the best candidate. He couldn't have been doing political work all the time and become a double commander with Li Tianyou.
In this way, in March 1948, he became the commander of the Fifth Column.