On March 11, 1949, the Fourth Field Army, which was reorganized from the Northeast Field Army, was officially born, with a total of four combat corps under the jurisdiction of the whole army, with Lin Biao as the commander and Luo Ronghuan as the political commissar, which is the origin of the famous Fourth Field Army in the history of our army.
After the establishment of the Four Wilds, they responded to the call of the Central Military Commission and began to go south to liberate all of China, it is worth mentioning that at this time, in addition to the leadership position of "Lin Luo", the other core leaders have undergone great changes from the Northeast Field Army period, for example, there is the famous "Lin Luo Liu" during the Northeast Field Army period, which is Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan and Chief of Staff Liu Yalou, and the three of them are known as the core of the Northeast Field Army.
However, after the establishment of The Four Wilds, Liu Yalou did not serve as the chief of staff, but served as the commander of the Fourteenth Corps under the jurisdiction of Noji, of course, the commander of the Large Corps and the chief of staff of noji belong to the same level, Liu Yalou seems to have left Noji, in fact, a deeper step is the central government's heavy use of him, hoping that he can be independent.
However, after Liu Yalou left Yeji, the post of chief of staff was not promoted from the generals from the Northeast Field Army, but the central authorities deliberately transferred two people from North China to serve as the first chief of staff and the second chief of staff of Siye, who were Xiao Ke and Zhao Erlu, who were later awarded generals.
In fact, these two people went to Siye to serve as chief of staff, which is also qualified enough; Zhao Erlu was earlier the chief of staff of the North China Military Region, participated in and commanded many battles to liberate Northern China, and he came to Siye as the second chief of staff, which actually belonged to the level of adjustment, and secondly, Xiao Ke did not mention that during the agrarian revolutionary war, he served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the front army, and later he was the first general of New China, and he served as the first chief of staff of Siye, and almost everyone was convinced.
But what was surprising was that the general who served as deputy chief of staff to these two men at that time was a famous general of our army whose seniority and military achievements were not low, he was Chen Guang, and according to his past seniority, even if he served as chief of staff, it was more than enough, after all, Siye traced back to his roots, that is, he was part of the Shandong Eighth Route Army led by Chen Guang.
Speaking of this, many people may also be curious, why after the establishment of The Four Fields, Xiao Ke and Zhao Erlu, who were transferred in, were both chiefs of staff, but Chen Guang, who made great efforts to create this field army, could only be deputy chief of staff at this time?
To talk about the root cause of this matter, we have to talk about it before Chen Guang became the deputy chief of staff of Siye; in fact, before the formation of Siye, Chen Guang had not participated in specific military command for a long time, and his deputy chief of staff was still won for him by Chairman Mao.
It was after the liberation of Peiping that Chen Guang and many generals from the Northeast Field Army stayed in the Beijing Hotel, and while he was staying at the Beijing Hotel, Chairman Mao learned about some things about Chen Guang, and he felt that chen Guang could not be left idle, so Chairman Mao personally signed an order appointing Chen Guang as deputy chief of staff of the newly formed Fourth Field Army.
Before serving as the deputy chief of staff of Siye, General Chen Guang had actually not participated in military command for nearly two years, and the main reason for this was that he himself had a relatively straightforward personality and had his own views on military command.
For example, in the Jiangnan Operation in late December 1946, Chen Guang was still commanding the troops on the front line and serving as the commander of the sixth column, and as a result, he and Lin Biao had a disagreement on the issue of operations, and General Chen Guang himself was a person who insisted on his own opinions, but his combat deployment was not recognized by Lin Biao and the command, which made Chen Guang depressed and seriously ill, and then he left the front-line troops and went to the rear to recuperate.
From here, it is not difficult for us to see that Chen Guang and Lin Biao, two famous generals of our army, have their own views on the military; in other words, they are all generals at the commander-in-chief level, but marching and fighting naturally requires the unification of military orders.
After the Northeast Field Army was reorganized into the Fourth Field Army, in fact, General Chen Guang's post was also difficult to arrange; first, the troops developed rapidly, and second, Chen Guang had not commanded the military for a long time, so it did not seem appropriate to put Chen Guang anywhere, but Chairman Mao was not an ordinary person after all, and he personally arranged for Chen Guang to be the deputy chief of staff, which naturally had a deep meaning, and if viewed from the perspective of the time, it was exactly the most reasonable.
The reason behind this is actually very easy to understand, first of all, Xiao Ke, the first chief of staff of Siye, and Zhao Erlu, the second chief of staff, did not have much deep intersection with Chen Guang before, nor were they Chen Guang's old subordinates during the Shandong Eighth Route Army, so there was no problem of "latecomers coming first" or "not having enough seniority" to let Chen Guang serve as deputy chief of staff.
In addition, after Chen Guang served as the first deputy chief of staff of Siye, he also had a partner who served as the second deputy chief of staff, which was General Nie Heting, in fact, this person was also an old party member who joined the army during the period of the Great Revolution, and his seniority was not inferior to Chen Guang.
Chairman Mao's profound arrangement can be said to be all in plain sight, which not only reflects the respect of the central authorities for Chen Guang, but also allows Chen Guang to return to military work in a logical way, laying a certain foundation for him to remain in the Guangdong Military Region as deputy commander.
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