The ten marshals of New China are all masters, they are all very good, but everyone also has a focus, like Luo Shuai and Nie Shuai are inclined to grasp the ideology and engage in government affairs, while Peng Shuai and Lin Shuai are biased toward leading the battle, compared with Liu Bocheng liu shuai is more comprehensive.
During the war years, Liu Bo served as chief of the general staff of the Red Army, commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and commander of the Second Field Army of the People's Liberation Army. Soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was ordered to set up the Chinese People's Liberation Army Military Academy, trained a large number of middle- and senior officers with both political integrity and ability for New China, and developed a command academy system with a complete range of arms in our army.
Whether he can fight or not and whether he can engage in education are completely different things, in the film and television drama "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong has great military talent, and he has never feared anyone on the battlefield, but in the end he has become a student of Chang Naichao who was captured by him. Li Yunlong was mighty in front of others, and when he faced the reprimand of the teacher, he also knew that he was not the material of the teacher.
Because if you want to teach others, you must have something in your stomach and a mature theory, if you have not even systematically studied yourself, what will you teach others?
Liu Bocheng studied successively at the Moscow Higher Infantry School and the Frunze Military Academy, and he not only had excellent command ability, but also had few military qualities in the whole army, so at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Central Committee entrusted him with the heavy task of cultivating talents.
But have you found a strange phenomenon, speaking of Liu Bocheng, most people can only think of the deeds before the founding of the People's Republic of China, after the founding of New China he seems to have little news, so why is this so?
There are two main reasons, one is that the elderly are not in good health, and the other is that they have been wrongly criticized.
Liu Bocheng was born in 1892, second only to Zhu Laozong among the ten marshals, and he was 63 years old when he was awarded the title in 1955, which was already considered "advanced age" in that era.
Don't look at the fact that we are still very energetic in our 60s, the average age at the beginning of the founding of the country was 50 years old, and the average age of men at the 1978 census was only 66.9 years of life expectancy. If living conditions and medical standards cannot keep up, people are prone to aging.
Moreover, Marshal Liu Bocheng suffered very serious injuries in his early years, which had a great impact on his body. I remember that when I was studying, there was an article in the Chinese textbook called "God of War", which told a story about Liu Bocheng's war years.
In 1916, Liu Bocheng led the rebel army to attack Fengdu, and he was unfortunately hit by enemy bullets while commanding at the front, the situation was quite dangerous, but fortunately he found a German doctor in time to save his life.
In the process of surgery, Liu Bocheng was worried that the use of anesthesia would affect the nerves and delay the command of the operation later, so he completed the entire operation without anesthesia. The most powerful thing is that Liu Bocheng also endured the pain after the operation and said the number of knives that the doctor had moved, which made the doctor exclaim "Military God"!
Although this incident made everyone see Liu Bocheng's courage, as far as Liu Shuai himself was concerned, it caused a very sad result - his injured eye had nearly zero vision for decades to come. Commanding the battle with one eye, the high-intensity work made his body very overwhelmed.
Therefore, after the liberation of the great southwest, Liu Bocheng did not go to the PLA General Staff Headquarters, the General Political Department, the General Logistics Department, and the General Armament Department, which are high-powered and mission-heavy departments, but took the initiative to propose and was ordered to set up the PLA Military Academy in Nanjing.
During his tenure as dean, he personally wrote teaching materials and trained teachers for many times, and cultivated a large number of talents for the Platon Army. However, this is naturally not as popular as those veteran coaches who are still in front-line positions.
As for being wrongly criticized, it is actually related to military academies. As mentioned earlier, Marshal Liu Bocheng studied in the Soviet Union, and there were also Soviet advisers when the military academy was formed. This would be harmless in the context of sino-Soviet friendship, but after the Soviet Union repeatedly made disrespectful demands involving China's sovereignty, relations between the two countries began to become delicate.
Chairman Mao later said: The Sino-Soviet uproar was actually in 1958, and they wanted to control China militarily, and we will not do it. Also in 1958, Mr. Peng, who presided over the daily work of the Central Military Commission, believed that the military academy run by Liu Shuai had the phenomenon of "copying Soviet textbooks and inviting Soviet instructors" and was suspected of being "dogmatism."
After Liu Bocheng heard this news, he was keenly aware of the uneasiness behind him, and in order to avoid implicating more subordinates, he chose to resist this matter, and after taking the initiative to resign as the director of the military academy, he went to Beijing.
Regardless of other problems, Liu Shuai's approach is very responsible!
Liu Shuai had been very depressed because he could only use one eye for a long time, and now he was in a hurry to attack his heart in the future, and he fell ill not long after arriving in Beijing.
The main target of the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission was Liu Shuai and Commander Su, Liu Shuai did not attend at the beginning of the hospitalization, marshal Chen Yi interceded for him at the meeting, but there was no effect. The chairman remembered Liu Shuai's physical reasons and said that he could not go to the stage to "make a review."
But Liu Bocheng knew that this kind of thing could not be delayed, and the more people would be affected in the future, the more people would be affected, so he came to the venue regardless of the patient's body, and then the nurse helped him to the podium and seriously did a "review".
At that time, there were many old subordinates and old students of Liu Bocheng in the audience, so as soon as he entered, most of the people spontaneously stood up and paid attention to the ceremony, and when they saw his weak appearance, everyone in the venue was particularly distressed.
Liu Bocheng's "review" was particularly serious and profound, during which no one questioned and interrupted, and when he finished speaking and leaving, everyone stood up and applauded and watched him leave.
After this, Liu Bocheng was even farther away from the political arena, so based on his situation, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he went to engage in education far from the center, and later he was wrongly criticized, and naturally he gradually fell silent and faded out of people's sight.
However, there is an old Chinese saying called "Sai Weng lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing", Liu Shuai was very open-minded, and did not feel depressed because he was revoked and misunderstood, but always maintained an optimistic attitude.
And because he has no power, he will not be targeted by people, thus escaping the repeated storms that followed, he lived peacefully to the age of 94, the longest among the ten marshals (Marshal Nie Rongzhen died last time, at the age of 93), and his heart was far away!
Of course, his reputation was eventually restored, and soon after Yang Dezhi became chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army in 1980, he publicly stated with the consent of Deng Gong that it was wrong to oppose "dogmatism" in the past.
In 1982, the Central Committee sent a letter of tribute to Liu Bocheng, affirming his contribution to the revolution and approving the publication of Liu Bocheng's Selected Military Writings. These two things are actually rehabilitating Liu Bocheng.
In 1987, a year after Liu Bocheng's death, the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Military Commission completely rehabilitated them in the "Ji" Character No. 15 (Order) Circular of 1987.
Before his death, Liu Shuai once said, "Once I die, it is my greatest glory to be able to put on my tombstone the inscription 'Tomb of Liu Bocheng of the Chinese Bolsheviks'." In fact, what he did was a Bolshevik and did not need to be expressed in form!