In 1959, Peng Dehuai was wrongly criticized at the Lushan Conference. In view of the situation of the conference at that time, many founding generals had to join the ranks of criticism. Even among the cadres of Yiye that Peng Zong had brought, there were many people who did not dare to say a fair word for Peng Zong.
Of course, most people dare not tell the truth, but there are still people who dare to say, he is the founding general Wang Zhen. When it was his turn to speak, he calmly stood up, then cleared his throat, and said at the meeting: "Elder Peng was always a national hero, and his contributions in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were known to everyone. We spent a relatively long time together during the War of Liberation. I think he resolutely implemented the decisions of the Central Committee during the War of Liberation. ”
General Wang Zhen's speech shocked the audience in an instant. Everyone did not expect that The tone of Peng Zong's problem had long been set, but he still dared to say that Peng Zong's contribution, and could not help but admire Wang Zhen's thick character and frank character.
As everyone knows, General Manager Peng and Wang Zhen were superiors and subordinates in the Liberation War, and they also established a deep friendship in the war to liberate the Great Northwest.
At that time, Ichino had only two corps under his command, the First Corps and the Second Corps. Among them, the commander of the First Corps was Wang Zhen. Therefore, in the Liberation War, the First Corps fought many hard battles and won battles. It can be said that Mr. Peng and Wang Zhen cooperated very tacitly.
Gradually, Wang Zhen was impressed by Peng Zong's military command ability and wisdom of acting fiercely, daring to fight a hard battle, and having the overall situation in his heart, and he also admired Peng Zong more and more.
Of course, Mr. Peng also relied more and more on Wang Zhen, and Wang Zhen fought calmly, resolutely and decisively, and often used strange moves to win, which made Mr. Peng more and more satisfied with Wang Zhen. Therefore, when many battles were launched, General Peng had to summon Wang Zhen to Yiye's command post, and the two of them jointly discussed strategies and tactics to take the enemy's methods.
Peng Zong and Wang Zhen were also hot tempers, and the two had quarrels many times, even in front of the staff officers of the headquarters, no one gave anyone face, and they were red in the face, and finally even scolded. However, no matter who is right and who is wrong, the other party does not remember revenge, but waits for the anger to subside, and then patiently communicates with each other, does ideological work, and wins the support of the other party.
For example, when Jiuquan was liberated, they quarreled over the "heart digging group". At that time, after the enemy in Jiuquan escaped, a huge spy network was laid in the city, most of these spies were trained Kuomintang female soldiers, intending to marry the officers who entered the city, and then attack and disintegrate us from the inside.
General Peng limited Wang Zhen to crack the case within three days and wipe out these people. However, Wang Zhen felt that this matter was somewhat complicated, and these people hid it very deeply, feeling that it would take at least a week to solve the problem. However, Peng Zong insisted on solving the case for three days, and the two quarreled, and Wang Zhen even patted the table with Peng Zong. But in the end, Wang Zhen still carried out Peng Zong's instructions. In order to complete the task on time, Wang Zhen did not sleep for three days and three nights, and the personnel of the security department rotated day and night, and finally realized Peng Zong's intentions.
After solving the case, Mr. Peng personally visited Wang Zhen with some things and informed him of the time in advance.
Wang Zhen was so sleepy that although the staff reminded him that Peng Zong was coming, he still replied directly, you tell him to go back, I am going to sleep now.
After all, Peng was always the commander of Ichino, and the staff officers felt bad, so they were a little embarrassed. Wang Zhen saw the difficulty of the staff officer and added: Just say this, it's all right. After saying that, I fell asleep on the bed.
Peng always knew that Wang Zhen was making up for sleep, smiled and said to let him sleep, put down things and really went back directly, it can be seen that the two were liver and gallbladder in the war years, they were superiors and subordinates when they fought, and they were usually good friends.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Zhen's health problems, especially the old stomach disease that appeared during the revolutionary war years, was repeated, and he could no longer work. Later, Wang Zhen reported the report of major gastric surgery to Peng Dehuai.
Wang Zhen's stomach had to be cut off, and the doctor said that the risk of surgery was very large, and it was likely to cause bleeding or complications in the stomach.
Peng Zong listened, worried enough, afraid that the operation would not be done well, Wang Zhen could not get off the operating table, so the surgical report has been pressed there and hesitated to sign. However, instead of sitting idle, he asked many medical experts to determine how big the risk was.
Later, experts suggested that if General Wang Zhen did not perform surgery, he would certainly not be able to live in the future. However, after surgery and recovering well, there is at least half the chance of survival. Mr. Peng signed it. He instructed the health department to dispatch the best doctors from the whole army to do it, and the preparation for the operation was reported every day.
On the day Wang Zhen had surgery, Peng Dehuai was worried and could not even work. He called the hospital's health department a moment later and asked about the progress of the operation, until Wang Zhen was safely out of the operating room, and he was relieved.
It can be seen from this that the revolutionary friendship between Peng Zong and Wang Zhen is not ordinary. Everyone can also imagine why Wang Zhen dared to stand up for Mr. Peng when he encountered wrong criticism in 1959.