As the saying goes, "Xiu cai meets soldiers, and it is not clear what is reasonable", but there is no absolute in the world, such as a military theorist who gave lessons to the Red Army generals when he was 16 years old, so that the Red Army generals who had experienced hundreds of battles were convinced.
This "xiucai" in the army is tao Hanzhang, the founding major general.
Although Tao Hanzhang was only a founding major general, his level of military theory was comparable to that of many marshals and generals, and few people could surpass him.
So, why is Tao Hanzhang so powerful? This has to start with his family background.
Tao Hanzhang is a native of Jinxian County, Jiangxi, born in a family of five generations of scholars, his grandfather has a high attainment in literature and science, and in his hometown, he enlightened the people's wisdom and won the love of the people. Tao Hanzhang's father was good at poetry, literature, archaeology, and was also proficient in medicine, and Tao Hanzhang grew up in this very good family environment.
Later, when the Tao family fell in the middle of the road, coupled with the chaos of the situation, Tao Hanzhang decided to abandon his pen and enter Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Officers School.
At the beginning of 1933, when the Japanese invaders invaded the Great Wall in the south, Feng Yuxiang formed an anti-Japanese allied army and urgently telegraphed the Northwest Officer School into Chahar to prepare for the War of Resistance, and Tao Hanzhang was arranged to be a correspondent. Unfortunately, under the heavy blows of the Japanese army and the opposition, the anti-Japanese allied forces suffered heavy losses, and Tao Hanzhang also returned to Nanchang, Jiangxi.
At that time, the Red Army was developing in full swing in Jiangxi and was deeply supported by the people, and Tao Hanzhang was also deeply infected by the Red Army, believing that this was the real people's army, so he decided to join the Red Army.
The story of Tao Hanzhang's participation in the Red Army was a big news at that time, because most of the Red Army troops were poor people, and not many people could read, but Tao Hanzhang was a well-known "big showman".
After Tao Hanzhang came to the Red Army, he originally wanted to be a military commander, but he did not expect to do the work of "dancing and ink" and was assigned to the fourth branch of the Red Army to engage in propaganda and teaching work.
At the beginning, the Red Army generals were not optimistic about Tao Hanzhang, saying that a 16-year-old hairy child knew what? But wanwan did not expect that after Tao Hanzhang gave them a lesson, he completely convinced these "rough men".
Tao Hanzhang also made use of the military knowledge he had learned at the NorthwestErn Officers' School to compile a training syllabus for the Red Army, "One Hundred Questions on Military Questions and Answers.", in a simple and easy-to-understand way, he brought advanced military theory to life and vividly, which was well received by everyone.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Tao Hanzhang served as the detachment leader and military instructor of the Eighth Route Army's camp school, and Zou Taofen, head of the Chongqing Sanlian Bookstore, wrote a letter to the Eighth Route Army, hoping that the Eighth Route Army would write a book on how to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many former generals of the Nationalist Army said that they thought that this book was the work of the chairman, but they did not expect that it was written by Tao Hanzhang.
Everyone wants such a military talent as Tao Hanzhang, and after the Liberation War broke out, Luo Ruiqing found him and asked him for what? Let him preside over a senior staff training course to train staff officers.
At first, Yang Chengwu did not want to let Tao Hanzhang go, but it was not easy to refuse, so he asked Luo Ruiqing to write an IOU to "borrow people".
Luo Ruiqing was stunned, only heard that there was an IOU to borrow something, and "borrowers" also had to write IOUs? However, in order to "borrow" Tao Hanzhang, Luo Ruiqing had to write one.
In 1955, Tao Hanzhang was awarded the rank of major general and died in 2010 at the age of 93.