Founded in 1955, the Shenyang Military Region is mainly responsible for the military affairs of the three northeastern provinces and commands the armed forces in the region. Up to 1985, in the 30 years since the establishment of the Shenyang Military Region, there have only been three commanders, namely Deng Hua from 1955 to 1959, Chen Xilian from 1959 to 1973, and Li Desheng from 1973 to 1985.
In June 1985, Li Desheng, who was the commander of the Shenyang Military Region for 12 years, stepped down from his post after the disarmament of our army on a million major disarmaments, merged 11 major military regions into 7, and who will take over? Deng Xiaoping, then chairman of the Central Military Commission, proceeded from the perspective of the rejuvenation of senior officers, and personally ordered Liu Jingsong, commander of the 64th Army, to be promoted by leaps and bounds, and the other two military commanders who were promoted by leaps and bounds were Fu Quanyou and Li Jiulong. What are the legendary experiences of Li Desheng and Liu Jingsong, commanders of the Shenyang Military Region?
In April 1916, Li Desheng was born to a poor peasant family in Lijiawa Village, Chendian Township, Xinxian County, Henan Province. Xinxian ranked sixth among the top ten founding "general counties" in the country, and 43 founding generals have been stepped out successively, such as Xu Shiyou, Zheng Weishan, Wu Xianen, Fan Chaoli, etc., and there are 16 people who hold leading positions at or above the provincial and ministerial levels of the grand military region, and the highest position is Li Desheng, who is at the deputy state level.
In June 1928, the Red Army liberated Xinxian County, and 12-year-old Li Desheng already understood that the Red Army was fighting for the poor, and not only actively stood guard for the Red Army and sent intelligence, but also served as the leader of the children's regiment. In February 1930, the 14-year-old Li Desheng bid farewell to his dependent father and enlisted in the 31st Division of the Red 11th Army as a soldier, and the deputy commander of the 31st Division at that time was the founding marshal Xu Xiangqian.
During the agrarian revolutionary war, Li Desheng successively participated in the battles of Huang'an, Shanghuang, Sujiabu, and Jialingjiang. In the battle of the Eight Temples, he charged forward, his left chest was pierced, and the wound was purulent and festering. The conditions of the field hospital were rudimentary, and the medicine was scarce, and he had to recover from his injuries with his strong resistance.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Desheng served as a platoon commander in the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the 129th Division was Liu Bocheng, the commander of the 385th Brigade was Chen Geng, and the regimental commander was Chen Xilian. Since then, he has successively served as a company commander, deputy battalion commander, battalion commander, and commander of the 30th Regiment of the Second Military Subdistrict of the Taihang Military Region, and has participated in the night attack on Yangmingbao Airport, Xiangtangpu, the Battle of the Hundred Regiments and other battles. In January 1945, Li Desheng, who was the commander of the regiment, personally led 82 commandos, disguised as peasants, and completely annihilated the Japanese puppet army stronghold in Mafang. The Liberation Daily published an editorial calling the battle a typical war of annihilation.
During the Liberation War, Li Desheng had been serving as the brigade commander of the 6th Column and 17th Brigade of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army under Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping. In the Battle of Xiangfan, Wang Jinshan, commander of the 6th Column, entrusted the main offensive task to Li Desheng, who "slashed three passes" and broke through the three passes of Pipa Mountain, Zhenwu Mountain, and Tiefo Temple in one fell swoop. In the Battle of Huaihai, he led his troops to capture the enemy's core position on the east side of Shuangduiji, making an important contribution to the total annihilation of the Huang Wei Corps.
Li Desheng's greatest reputation was the Battle of Shangganling in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, when he served as the deputy commander of the 12th Army. In the second phase of the Shangganling Campaign, Wang Jinshan appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the 15th Army's Five Holy Mountains Front Command Post, directly commanding the front-line combat troops of the 12th Army and the 15th Army, and finally won the Victory in the Battle of Shangganling.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Desheng successively served as the commander of the 12th Army, the deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, the director of the General Political Department, and the commander of the Beijing Military Region. In December 1973, he was transferred with Chen Xilian and served as the commander of the Shenyang Military Region. In June 1985, Li Desheng stepped down from his post and became the political commissar of the newly established National Defense University, and Liu Jingsong succeeded him as commander of the Shenyang Military Region.
Liu Jingsong was born in July 1933 to a poor peasant family in Shishou, Hubei Province. Since he was a child, he has witnessed the burning and looting of the Japanese army and is determined to serve the country from the army. When the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out in 1951, 18-year-old Liu Jingsong joined the army and joined the army in Dandong, a border city between China and North Korea. Because he had a high school education and a high level of education, as a key training object for officers, he was quickly selected to study at the Seventh Infantry School in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang.
Anyone who has been a soldier knows that the infantry school is the most bitter in the military school, and the training is very strict, but Liu Jingsong is not afraid of hardship and suffering, graduated from the infantry school with excellent results, and was assigned to the infantry division as a platoon leader. In just two years, he was promoted to company commander. As a young man, Liu Jingsong often regretted missing out on entering Korea and fighting with the U.S. army, but soon the opportunity came, and he was sent to participate in the war against the United States in Vietnam.
In 1965, Liu Jingsong commanded the anti-aircraft artillery unit and shot down 12 US aircraft on the Battlefield in Vietnam, making many great achievements and achieving outstanding results. After returning to China, Liu Jingsong successively served as the captain of the military teaching team, the chief of staff of the division, and the commander of the division. In May 1983, at the age of 50, Liu Jingsong was promoted from the commander of the 190th Division to the commander of the 64th Army. At the time of the million-dollar disarmament in 1985, the senior generals of our army urgently needed rejuvenation, and Liu Jingsong was once again promoted from the commander to the commander of the Shenyang Military Region.
During his tenure as commander of the Shenyang Military Region, Liu Jingsong organized and commanded troops to extinguish the forest fire in Daxing'anling. In November 1992, he was transferred to the commander of the Lanzhou Military Region. It is worth mentioning that Liu Jingsong has worked in the position of the Grand Military Region for more than ten years, but he has not been promoted to the leadership of the headquarters or served as a member of the Central Military Commission. In January 1997, Liu Jingsong became the president of the Academy of Military Sciences, and two years later reached the maximum length of service and retired.
On May 8, 2011, Admiral Li Desheng died of illness in Beijing at the age of 96. Now Admiral Liu Jingsong is 88 years old, but his body is very tough, and he wishes the old generals such as Donghai and Shoubi Nanshan!