There is such a general in our army, who has made outstanding achievements in the counterattack against Vietnam, which can be said to have made him famous in one fell swoop, and then he was elected as the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee.
Zhang Wannian, in fact, many people will think of his outstanding contributions in the counterattack against Vietnam when they mention Zhang Wannian, indeed Zhang Wannian is a tiger general in our army, but in fact, in our party's War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, Zhang Wannian also made great contributions, and at that time he was not a senior cadre, just a small soldier, but he won 5 battle achievements, which is really extremely admirable.
In 1928, Zhang Wannian was born in an extremely poor peasant family in Shandong, when he was a child, he once relied on begging and learning carpentry for a living, it can be said that those days were a tragic moment that Zhang Wannian could not forget in his life, and also made him thoroughly feel the kind of unbearable old China, so in the young Zhang Wannian's heart, he unconsciously planted the flame of revolution.
In 1944, the 16-year-old Zhang Wannian chose to join the Eighth Route Army and joined the army in the 3rd Battalion and 7th Company of the Jiaobeihai Independent Regiment.
It was 1945, when the Jiaodong Military District of our Eighth Route Army surrounded and annihilated the Japanese army, and soon the Japanese army chose to surrender, and then the chief Quan Zhaorui was ready to accept the surrender, but what he did not expect was actually the surrender of the Japanese army, and in an instant the Japanese machine guns began to strafe, and the chief Quan Zhaorui was unfortunately shot and wounded.
At this time, Zhang Wannian naturally immediately ran to save Quan Zhaorui, and then carried Quan Zhaorui all the way, and finally successfully rescued Quan Zhaorui, who was seriously injured.
In addition, in the battle of Dadonggou, the then chief Quan Zhaorui was in danger again, and a bullet of the enemy flew past Quan Zhaorui's ear, at this time Zhang Wannian stepped forward again and immediately threw Quan Zhaorui down, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
In the Battle of Tashan in the Liaoshen Campaign, this battle was arguably the most tragic battle zhang Wannian encountered in his life, and the result was that Zhang Wannian led the regimental signal team and the Nationalist army to fight for six days and nights, and finally won the victory.
Naturally, such a hero of our army as Zhang Wannian was praised many times, and when he was at Xiyuan Airport, even Chairman Mao personally received and praised Zhang Wannian.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Wannian successively served as the chief of the operations unit of the 369th Regiment Headquarters of the 123rd Division of the 41st Army, the staff officer of the Operations Section of the Army Headquarters, and the first deputy regimental commander and chief of staff of the 368th Regiment of the 123rd Division.
The most well-known is undoubtedly Zhang Wannian's performance in the counterattack against Vietnam, when Zhang Wannian served as deputy commander of the 43rd Army and commander of the 127th Division, and the result was that his unit played an extremely dazzling record.
In May 1993, Zhang Wannian was promoted to the rank of general, won the Independence Freedom Medal, the Liberation Medal, and in 1995, he was appointed vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, and at 17:00 on January 14, 2015, Comrade Zhang Wannian died in Beijing at the age of 87 due to ineffective medical treatment.