He was an excellent leader of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, one of the ten founding generals of the People's Republic of China, and the first secretary of Chairman Mao during the Jinggangshan period...
I believe many people have already guessed who he is?
That's right, he is the founding general Tan Zheng.
Speaking of this general, the road to participating in the revolution can be described as quite bumpy, and it can be said that if it were not for Chen Geng "deceiving" him, Tan Zheng would never have joined the army.
Chen Geng
Without further ado, today's Brief History Archives will talk to you about the story of General Tan Zheng.
He was "tricked" into joining the National Revolutionary Army by Chen Geng
On June 14, 1906, Tan Zheng was born in Nanzhushan Village, Xiangxiang Township, Hunan Province, tan Zheng's father named him according to his grandfather's will, so Tan Zheng's name was Tan Shiming, and the number was Ju'an.
In 1912. The 6-year-old Tan Zheng was sent to the private school of the Tan clan in Qixingqiao to study with Chen Geng, and the two can be described as bamboo and horse friendship.
Tan Zheng has been determined to be loyal to the country since he was a child, and Chen Geng as a good friend naturally knows it.
Therefore, after Chen Geng joined the revolution, he decided to "deceive" his friends as well, because Chen Geng knew his friends' ambitions, but he only hindered his family from seeking stable work.
So Chen Geng used his three inches of uncorrupted tongue to force Tan Zheng, who was "deceived", to give up his job as a primary school teacher, so that Tan Zheng made up his mind to join the National Revolutionary Army in Hankou.
Therefore, Tan Zheng came to Hankou, because Tan Zheng's education level was relatively high in the army, he also won the title of "Xiao Xiucai", and as soon as he marched into the army, he served as a sergeant clerk of the 2nd Company of the Special Service Battalion of the General Headquarters of the Second Front.
Since then, Tan Zheng has changed from an obscure commoner to a revolutionary army soldier dressed in military uniform.
Soon after, Tan Zheng went to the camp as the warrant officer secretary of the camp instructor's office, which can be described as an infinite scenery for a while, and even Tan Zheng was very excited.
However, just when he was bent on serving the country, the situation was suddenly turbulent, and Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Zuolin and others began to kill Communist Party members and some patriotic revolutionary masses.
Chiang Kai-shek
According to incomplete statistics, the number of people killed at that time was nearly 10,000 or so!
Under such a terrible shroud, the Chinese revolution fell into a very depressed state. However, Tan Zheng was not intimidated by the so-called terrorist attacks, but on the contrary, he strengthened his determination to make a revolution.
Chen Yi smiled and said that Tan Zheng's personality was too monkey and anxious
In September 1927, Tan Zheng participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by Chairman Mao at the call of Chairman Mao.
In October of the same year, Tan Zheng joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of party representatives Wan Xixian and Yan Chunfang. He then served as a propaganda captain in the military.
In mid-November of the same year, in order to solve the problem of grain shelter for the winter, Tan Zheng went down the mountain with his troops to fight and occupied the county seat of Chaling. The small victory of this war also gave Tan Zheng great confidence.
Tan Zheng
Because of Tan Zheng's performance in literature and competence, in February 1928, when Chairman Mao was the secretary of the former party committee, Tan Zheng was promoted to the secretary of the former committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
During his time with Chairman Mao, he learned a lot about Chairman Mao's ideas on political army building, how to flexibly arrange tactics, and the principle of handling major issues.
It can be said that because of Chairman Mao's teachings, Tan Zheng is no longer the little showman who threw himself into the pen, but an excellent leader who "can both write and fight."
As the saying goes, there are unpredictable storms in the sky!
On June 22, 1929, the "Seventh Congress" of the Red Fourth Army Party was held in Longyan City, but this meeting not only did not solve the problem, but even Chairman Mao was elected as the former secretary of the party committee.
Chairman Mao
Not only that, since Chairman Mao left, the problems of the Red Fourth Army have slowly become prominent.
In late September, Tan Zheng, who was already the secretary general of the Red Fourth Army Military Commission at that time, was very worried about the Red Fourth Army at this time, and Tan Zheng knew that this was not the way to go, and if he wanted to change the current situation of the Red Fourth Army's decline, he must ask Chairman Mao to return to preside over the overall situation.
Therefore, Tan Zheng asked Comrade Chen Yi to report this problem to the central authorities when he went to Shanghai.
In late November, Chen Yi brought back good news: This time I went to Shanghai to reflect on the situation here, and Comrade Zhou Enlai immediately said that he wanted us to invite Comrade Mao Zedong back to continue to be the current secretary of the party committee.
Chen Yi
Tan Zheng was very happy when he heard this, and he was about to pick up Chairman Mao and come back, Chen Yi laughed:
"Why are you still this monkey anxious character, I will pick him up, you have been Comrade Mao Zedong's secretary, you also know him, you stay and take care of him, I heard that he is not in good health, you must arrange his food, food, housing and transportation properly."
Tan Zheng hurriedly nodded his head in agreement, and after sending Chen Yi away, Tan Zheng was as happy as eating candy.
Tan Zheng assisted Chairman Mao in completing the Gutian Conference
On November 26, Chairman Mao returned to Tingzhou with his wife He Zizhen, and Tan Zheng, who had not seen Chairman Mao for a long time, looked particularly excited, and went forward to hold Chairman Mao's hand tightly and said:
"I've been waiting for this day for too long, are you in good health?"
He Zizhen, Chairman Mao
Chairman Mao replied:
"Well, I'm all right, Tan Zheng, can you tell me about what happened to the army during the time I was gone?"
Tan Zheng took out from his pocket the outline of the report that had been prepared long ago and reflected to Chairman Mao the various problems that existed.
After listening to it, Chairman Mao constantly praised Tan Zheng for doing too much detail and allowing himself to fully understand the existing problems.
With tan zheng's assistance, Chairman Mao decided that it was not enough to mobilize criticism in the army, but to mobilize the party's leadership and army officers to hold a forum and formulate a verdict.
After receiving the information, Tan Zheng immediately sorted out the problems of the meeting and the opinions put forward by all of you, and solved countless worries for Chairman Mao.
On November 26, Chairman Mao held an enlarged meeting of the Former Committee in Changting, which decided to convene the Ninth Congress of the Red Fourth Army of the Communist Party of China in December.
After several twists and turns, finally on December 28, 1929, the "Ninth Congress" meeting of the Red Fourth Army, which is of great significance in the history of our party and our army, was held at the Liao Ancestral Hall in Gutian, Shanghang.
At the meeting, Tan Zheng served as the minutes of the meeting, which was also known as the "Gutian Conference", and the resolution drafted during the meeting, that is, the "Gutian Conference Resolution", which later became a programmatic document for the construction of the Red Army.
Under the leadership of Chairman Mao, Tan Zheng's work became more and more excellent, and later when he was awarded the rank in 1955, he was awarded the rank of general, on an equal footing with Su Yu, Chen Geng and others.
Unfortunately, such an excellent warrior still cannot avoid the torment of illness.
The second from the left is Tan Zheng
In his later years, Tan Zheng's health was not as good as before, one day in 1988, the secretary called Tan Zheng to get up and wash up, found Tan Zheng lying on the bed without any reaction, and immediately sent him to the hospital for inspection.
After examination, the doctor judged that Tan Zheng's left half of his body was completely unable to move, his language was dysfunctional, his words were not clear, and he should be half-body failure caused by cerebral thrombosis.
The abominable illness caused the general to die in Beijing on November 6, 1988, at the age of 82 due to ineffective medical treatment.
I hope that with this article, I would like to pay tribute to the great founding general General Tan Zheng!
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