Author: Forget about the jianghu
General Ye Ting lived to 1955, can he replace Ye Jianying as a marshal? Due to the unexpected death of General Ye Ting, the topic of whether his seniority and merit can be evaluated has been discussed.
Among the ten founding marshals, Mr. Zhu, who and chairman of the "Jinggangshan Huishi", have a historical position that is unmatched among the generals, And Peng, Lin, and Liu Shuai have always been strategic commanders from the Red Army and the Anti-Japanese War to the liberation period, while Mr. He, Xu Shuai, Luo Shuai, and Nie Shuai are also on their own. Therefore, if Ye Ting lived to be appointed as a marshal in 1955, the only two who could be replaced were Chen Shuai and Ye Shuai.
General Ye Ting
It is understandable that General Ye Ting replaced Chen Yi as commander. After all, when Ye Ting was the commander of the New Fourth Army, Chen Yi was still the commander of a detachment. Then, as a "famous general of the Northern Expedition", is it possible for General Ye Ting to replace Ye Shuai, who was praised by the chairman as "Lü Duan's major affairs are not confused"?
General Ye Ting's label was "Famous General of the Northern Expedition" and the commander of the New Fourth Army, and his fame was even greater than Ye Shuai.
Although Ye Shuai, who was known as the "Ye Sanzao", accompanied the last of the ten marshals, the Red Army, the War of Resistance, and the Liberation Period did not intimidate the enemy camp and command the party like other marshals, and even did not have the reputation of Su Yu, Chen Geng and other generals, but his seniority and combat achievements were far greater than many people imagined.
Ye Ting and Ye Jianying have many similarities, such as the Guangdong "Hakka", the Hakka are a Large Han family that moved south after the Two Song Dynasties, and has always attached great importance to the education of future generations. Ye Ting was born in Guishan, Guangdong in September 1896, and Ye Jianying was born in Meixian County, Guangdong Province in April 1897.
In 1917, both Ye Ting and Ye Jianying entered the military academy: Ye Ting entered the Baoding Military Academy with honors from the Wuchang Army Second Preparatory School, while Ye Jianying followed his father to Nanyang for a year, and after returning to China, he entered the Yunnan Lecture Hall, another famous school before the birth of the Whampoa Military Academy.
In the past 22 years, the Baoding Military Academy has trained more than 1,500 generals, including Jiang Shi, Bai Chongxi, Zhang Zhizhong, Fu Zuoyi, Jiang Guangnai, Huang Shaohu, Ye Ting, Chen Cheng and others. The Yunnan Lecture Hall, which has a longer history, has also produced famous generals such as Zhu Laozong, Cui Yongjian, Zhou Baozhong, Zeng Zesheng, Fan Shisheng, Sheng Shicai, Lu Han, Long Yun, Zhou Jianping, Li Fanyi, and Wu Haiqiu.
Because of their birth in a famous school, Ye Ting and Ye Jianying's military journey was quite smooth. At the beginning of 1922, Ye Ting served as the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Grand Presidential Palace Guard Regiment (1 battalion Xue Yue, 3rd Battalion Zhang Fakui), while Ye Jianying served as the commander of the Marine Corps Battalion, both of which were Mr. Zhongshan's right-hand men.
During Chen Jiongming's rebellion, ye Ting and Ye Jianying, both battalion commanders, played the role of mainstay.
In 1924, the 28-year-old Ye Ting went to the Soviet Union to study, and the 27-year-old Ye Jianying served as the deputy director of the professorial department of the Whampoa Military Academy, and the director was Li Jishen (later Wang Bailing), a big man in the Cantonese army. In addition to Ye Jianying, who served as deputy director of the Whampoa Military Academy, only Zhou Gong, deputy director of the Political Department.
Ten years before the Nanchang Uprising, Ye Ting and Ye Jianying were on a par with each other, and Ye Jianying was slightly superior.
Young Ye Jianying
During the Northern Expedition, Ye Ting was famous at home and abroad because of the label of "Pioneer of the Iron Army".
However, at the same time, Ye Jianying's seniority was only above Ye Ting, not below Ye Ting. Prior to the Northern Expedition in July 1926, Ye Ting was the commander of the Independent Regiment (formerly the 34th Regiment) of the 12th Division of the 4th Army, while Ye Jianying was the chief of staff of the 1st Army (commander Wang Bailing) of the Jiang clan.
Before the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek left his back hand and used the 1st Army as a general reserve, acting commander Wang Bailing and chief of staff Ye Jianying. At this time, Xue Yue was also the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division of the 1st Army. In the face of Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zuolin's 700,000 troops, the Northern Expeditionary Army had only 8 armies and 130,000 people, and the main forces were the 4th Army of Li Jishen of the Guangdong Army, the "7th Steel Army" of Li Zongren of the Gui Army, and the 8th Army of Tang Shengzhi of the Xiang Army.
The 8 armies of the Northern Expedition were all in the hands of local warlords, and only Zhou Gong, Li Fuchun, Zhu Kejing, Luo Han, and Lin Boqu served as deputy military deputies who had little say, and the only armed force in the real hands was the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, and the Soviet adviser at that time was still the later Marshal Cuikov.
In The eyes of Chiang Kai-shek, Ye Jianying was a rare talent like Zhou Gong, so after "April 12", he was wanted for openly opposing Chiang Kai-shek and temporarily joined the Wuhan 4th Army as chief of staff. After the "confluence of Ning and Han", Zhang Fakui of the Second Front, sensing that Ye Ting and He Long had made a change, plotted to summon them to house arrest in Lushan in the name of "meeting", but fortunately received a clever notice from Ye Jianying.
In the Nanchang uprising, He Long was the commander-in-chief, Ye Ting was the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and although Ye Jianying did not participate, he suggested to Zhang Fakui as a "super undercover" that he should not encircle and block the rebel army, but would directly insert himself into Guangdong and the warlord Li Jishen to seize the territory, which invisibly reduced the pressure on the rebel army.
Young Trikov
After the defeat of the Nanchang Uprising, Ye Jianying "volunteered himself" and served as the leader of the 4th Army's teaching regiment.
During the Guangzhou Uprising, the 2,000 members of the teaching group were the absolute main force, but the uprising was surrounded by Huang Shaohu, Chen Mingshu, and Zhang Fakui because of the leak of secrets by traitors, and The proposal of Ye Ting and Ye Jianying to break through was rejected by the Comintern adviser Neumann, and the rebel army finally failed in a bloody battle of three days and three nights.
After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, the trajectory of Ye Ting and Ye Jianying's lives changed completely differently:
The commander-in-chief Ye Ting was bitterly criticized by the responsible persons Wang Ming, Li Lisan and others, and he was responsible for the failure of the uprising. Ye Ting was completely unable to accept it, and left angrily to prepare to appeal to Moscow, after which he began a decade of overseas wandering. In the winter of 1928, the deputy commander-in-chief, Ye Jianying, was sent to the Labor University of the Soviet Union, and after returning from his stay in the Soviet Union, he served as chief of the general staff, chief of staff of the Red First Army, commander of the military region, president and political commissar of the Red School.
During the Long March, Ye Jianying served as the commander of the First Column, the chief of staff of the Red Third Army, the chief of staff of the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment, the chief of staff of the headquarters, and the chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army. When Ye Ting returned in November 1937, he became the commander of the New Fourth Army in January of the following year, making great contributions to the development of the New Fourth Army.
However, due to various reasons, Ye Ting's work was not smooth, and he ran away 3 times in 3 years, but he was persuaded by Zhou Gong to return.
Xiang Ying, Zhou Gong, Ye Ting
In January 1941, the Anhui Incident broke out, and Ye Ting was detained during negotiations. Later, he was imprisoned in Shangrao, Chongqing and other five places for 5 years and 2 months. Even in prison, General Ye Ting was unyielding and wrote the famous "Prisoner Song", indicating his unswerving ideals.
At this time, Ye Jianying, as chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, assisted Zhou Gong and Dong Lao in their united front work in Wuhan, Guilin, Chongqing and other places, during which time he also served as the military director of the Southern Bureau. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ye Jianying served as deputy chief of staff of the headquarters, and the chief of staff was concurrently served by Vice Chairman Zhou Gong.
On March 4, 1946, Ye Ting was released, if it were not for the plane crash, what position would he hold?
At that time, our army formed eight major strategic regions: Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia had Zhu Laozong, Peng Zonghe, and Ye Jianying, Jin Sui had Mr. He and Xu Xiangqian, Jinchaji had Nie Rongzhen, northeast China had Lin Zong and Luo Political Commissar, Jinji Luyu had Liu Deng, Shandong had Chen Yi, Hua had Su Yu, and Central Plains had Commander Li and Zheng Weisan.
If General Ye Ting returns to Yan'an safely, he may have two options: one is to serve as the commander of Huaye on the front line, Chen Yi as the political commissar, su Yu as the deputy commander, and the three famous generals complement each other. However, in this way, whether the "God of War" Su Yu can still stand out has become an unknown.
There is also a possibility that General Ye Ting, who has been away from the battlefield for 5 years, will stay at the Headquarters of Yan'an or serve as deputy commander-in-chief to assist the chairman and Zhu Lao in drawing up the national war situation and strategic development. If so, Ye Ting and Chief of Staff Ye Jianying would meet again after many years.
The scene of the "April 8 Air Disaster" memorial service
If Ye Ting lived until 1955 to participate in the appraisal, could he and Ye Jianying jointly evaluate the title?
In September 1955, our army implemented the rank system for the first time, and the main basis for evaluating marshals was several points:
The first point is that the important leader of the uprising during the Red Army period, or the founder of the main anti-Japanese base area; Such as serving as the leader of the headquarters and the leader of the main army. General Ye Ting fully agrees with this;
Second, the main anti-Japanese armed leaders during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, or the founders of major base areas; Such as the person in charge of the headquarters, the chief officer of the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army, and the chief officer of the New Fourth Army. General Ye Ting also fully agreed with this.
Third, during the Liberation War, the principal responsible persons of the headquarters and the major strategic regions, or the principal responsible persons of the major field armies and military regions. According to the seniority and influence of General Ye Ting, whether he went to East China (Huaye) or stayed in the headquarters, it was likely that he would meet the conditions for being awarded the marshal.
Fourth, after the founding of New China, General Ye Ting was also extremely likely to serve as the head of the headquarters and the head of the six major military regions. Judging from the official ranking of 36 military experts, General Ye Ting is indeed a marshal rank after the marshal and before the general.
Ye Shuai
Although he had experienced ten years of the Great Revolution away from China, General Ye Ting's five-year career in the iron window showed his belief in not leaving our army even if he sacrificed. This is actually an introspection of a decade of overseas wandering. In view of Ye Ting's unique representativeness, there is a high probability that he will occupy a marshal position. Compared with Ye Jianying and Chen Yi, Ye Was more likely to be awarded the title of marshal. The reason was that Chen Yi had left the army at that time, and Ye Jianying's representation was irreplaceable, perhaps this was more appropriate.
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