Among the founding major generals, Zhong Wei was the most widely known one, during the Liberation War, he was Lin Biao's beloved general, and he was promoted directly from the division commander to the commander of the army, and he was the only one in the entire Four Fields system.
Zhong Wei was able to fight a good war, made immortal merits for new China, his troops are known as the first-class main divisions in the northeast troops, there is such a division commander, naturally can bring out such a strong team, in 1975, the general staff put the internal translation of the film "General Patton", some veteran generals after watching, feel that there is nothing, they mouth a little: "There is something strange, we also have." "This person is Zhong Wei."
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhong Wei mainly did two things, the first thing was to make trouble when awarding titles, and the second thing was to speak for the old chief.
In 1955, our army carried out the first all-army award, in this award, Zhong Wei was rated as a major general, in the face of such a rank, Zhong Wei believes that low, according to his own contribution, at least should be the rank of lieutenant general.
For example, during the Liberation War, when he was the commander of the column, Huang Yongsheng, who was also the commander of the column, became a general, and what made Zhong Wei feel even more sad was that one of his division commanders was a lieutenant general, and he was only a major general.
The commander of this division under him was named Wen Yucheng, during the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wen Yu became the commander of the 40th Army, at that time, he led his troops to participate in the first to fifth battles, annihilated many enemies, Wen Yucheng was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, to a large extent, because of this consideration.
Zhong Wei did not participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is naturally different from Wen Yucheng, of course, in 1949, Zhong Wei's troops fought a defeat at Qingshuping, which was also the reason for his awarding.
In general, Zhong Wei's award of the title of major general should conform to many considerations at that time, and perhaps many people thought that Zhong Wei's military rank was indeed low, so after that, Chairman Mao personally named Zhong Wei as the chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region, which can also be regarded as a "low rank and high match.".
In 1959, Zhong Wei did something that had a great impact.
This year, due to the Lushan Conference, Peng Dehuai, Huang Kecheng, and others were wrongly criticized, and after the Lushan Conference, an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission was held in Beijing, and Zhong Wei, then chief of staff in Beijing, participated in the enlarged meeting.
On the third day of the meeting, Wu Faxian, who was then the political commissar of the Air Force, said one thing: During the Long March, Huang Kecheng had ordered the killing of a regimental-level cadre of the Red First Army, and Zhong Wei was responsible for the prison sentence.
Huang Kecheng was Zhong Wei's old leader, during the agrarian revolution, Zhong Wei served in the Red Third Army, he and Huang Kecheng, are old acquaintances, old comrades-in-arms, and during the War of Resistance, when Zhong Wei did not want to be in the Central Plains, or ran to northern Jiangsu, it was Huang Kecheng who took him in and made him a brigade commander.
Zhong Wei was pushed to the "cusp of the storm", and many people were waiting to see what Zhong Wei would do.
A group of old comrades-in-arms of the four wilds were also looking at Zhong Wei, and they knew that how Zhong Wei was, he would certainly not disappoint everyone, yes, Zhong Wei did not disappoint everyone, even if Yang Yong, commander of the Beijing Military Region, and Su Zhenhua, political commissar of the Navy, pulled him, he still stood up resolutely.
Zhong Wei said: "When attacking Loushan Pass, the enemy attacked fiercely at a small hill, the troops were blocked, I led a guard squad to attack the small hill with the cooperation of regimental firepower, at this time a cadre of the first regiment that cooperated with the operation escaped from the front, and also pulled a soldier to recoil the water, he left the position, fled, and was caught by my follow-up troops, just because he was a member of the first regiment, I specifically asked Luo Ruiqing who was present, and he said to enforce battlefield discipline. ”
Later, Zhong Wei shot the man.
Regarding the second thing, Zhong Wei said: "I am the brigade commander under Huang Kecheng, not the logistics minister, no matter how much money I have, I don't know how much money I have, I can't prove it." Besides, so much gold is not a small amount, to be pulled by a car, where does he put it? ”
Zhong Wei said more and more vigorously: "We are all soldiers, on the battlefield where you are dead and alive, shoot one or two ghosts who are afraid of death, what a fuss." I think some people have ulterior motives, ripping up old historical accounts, and provoking the relationship between the First and Third Armies,........"
Hearing this sentence, the eyes of the people present were all tightly fixed on Zhong Wei, some people had admiration in their eyes, some people had resentment in their eyes, and even more people had shame in their eyes, Huang Kecheng and Peng Dehuai did not expect that Zhong Wei actually had such tenacity, Huang Kecheng shed tears, and Peng Dehuai also deeply remembered Zhong Wei's name.
More than 10 years later, before Peng Dehuai died, he kept shouting the names of several people in his mouth, including Zhong Wei.
After Zhong Wei finished speaking, he was immediately taken out of the meeting hall, and Luo Ruiqing reported the matter to Chairman Mao, who frowned after listening to it: "Who said that criticizing Peng Dehuai was engaging in sectarianism and provoking contradictions between the First and Third Armies?" Luo Ruiqing: "Zhong Wei." ”
Chairman Mao: "That little man Zhong Wei?" Luo Ruiqing: "Yes." ”
At the end of the meeting, Zhong Wei was dismissed from his post in the army and assigned to the Anhui Provincial Department of Agriculture as deputy director, during the Cultural Revolution, Zhong Wei survived, and in 1979, he was rehabilitated.
At the same time, Huang Kecheng also resumed his work, serving as secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and adviser to the Central Military Commission, Zhong Wei is a soldier who has not worn his military uniform since 1959, at this time, he very much wants to put on the uniform again and return to the army.
Therefore, Zhong Wei found the old leader Huang Kecheng and hoped that Huang Kecheng would arrange a job for himself, and Huang Kecheng said: "You should stay with yourself in peace, and if there is a war, he will go to you again." It is said that When Zhong Wei heard this, he fell ill and in 1984, he completed his legendary life at the age of 73.
From today we will explore, perhaps Huang Kecheng does not arrange work for Zhong Wei, the practical significance is to protect Zhong Wei, he understands Zhong Wei's temperament, anyone dares to offend, dare to say anything, if Zhong Wei is allowed to return to the army, it is very likely that someone will want to rectify him, it is better not to let him go back, rest assured.
Before Zhong Wei died, he left a will: "Dear party, I don't have to pay me any salary after I die, because my sons can live, and I don't owe any accounts myself; my television set and refrigerator are handed over to the party as party fees, don't give me a memorial service and farewell before the spirit, and scatter my ashes at Pingjiang Tianyue Academy, where we revolt." ”
The party organization gave Zhong Wei a high evaluation, saying that he was "a life of revolution and a life of fighting." ”