"Will be holy", as the name suggests, is the meaning of the saint in the general, this evaluation is enough to overshadow "so-and-so" and "so-and-so".
However, the person who won the title of "General Saint" of our army was not the Ten Founding Marshals and the Ten Founding Generals, but a founding general, who was Li Jukui, the "last founding general."
What is the superiority of Li Jukui, the "general saint", who won this honor?
It turned out that Li Jukui had captured two enemy division commanders alive during the Red Army period, saved Peng Dehuai, written poems praising him, and after the defeat of the Western Route Army, he disguised himself as a beggar, begged all the way back to Yan'an to continue the revolution, put forward a plan of "fried noodles" to solve the logistical problems of the volunteer army, and also gave "perjury" to Chen Geng's appraisal of the general, giving the credit for forcibly crossing the Dadu River and the pioneer of the Long March to the leaders and subordinates.
Admiral Li Jukui
I. During the agrarian revolution, Li Jukui saved the life of General Manager Peng, the commander of the two divisions that captured the enemy, and the pioneer of the Long March
Li Jukui was a soldier under Peng Dehuai during the old warlord period, and accompanied Mr. Peng to participate in the famous Pingjiang Uprising, and Peng Dehuai was one of Li Jukui's introductions to the party.
Because Peng Dehuai advocated equality between officers and men and abolished the privileges of officers, it caused dissatisfaction among some subordinates who were originally accustomed to being officials, among them, Lei Zhenqiu, who was the captain of any large team after the uprising, wanted to mutiny, took The head of Mr. Peng to the enemy, and unexpectedly snatched the shell gun of the guard Xue Hongquan at a meeting, aimed at Mr. Peng, and shot at Mr. Peng.
Some of Peng Dehuai's old subordinates were obsessed with this matter, often saying that Li Jukui "saved a marshal for our army from the muzzle of the gun", but Li Jukui himself never showed it off.
In 1931, the Red Army won its first anti-encirclement and suppression victory and captured Zhang Huizhen, the commander of the Kuomintang army division, alive.
At that time, Li Jukui was the commander of the 27th Regiment of the 9th Division of the Red Third Army, and under the unified command of the two regiments, he annihilated more than 9,000 enemy troops, and it was he who captured Zhang Huizhen, commander of the enemy's 18th Division, and Wang Jiejun, commander of the 53rd Brigade, alive.
In February 1933, Li Jukui had been promoted to the commander of the Red 9th Division, and the head of the Red First Army named Li Jukui to attack Dalongxu to build a new merit, Li Jukui only took 40 minutes to destroy an enemy brigade and division headquarters, capturing Li Ming, commander of the enemy's 52nd Division, and more than 3,000 officers and men under his command.
Chairman Mao's "Fisherman's Pride and Anti-First Great "Encirclement and Suppression"" has "the fog is full of longgang and thousands of dark mountains, and zhang Huizhen is caught in front of him." At that time, everyone knew that it was Li Jukui who caught Zhang Huizhan.
The Red Army forcibly crossed the Wu River
The feat of capturing two enemy division commanders was quite rare during the Red Army period. It can be seen that Li Jukui's military command ability is extraordinary.
In June 1933, the Red 7th Division and the Red 9th Division were reorganized into the 1st Division of the Red First Army, which became the vanguard of the whole army. The commander of this Red First Division was a very important candidate, which made Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Red Army, and Zhou Enlai, the general political commissar, quite a headache, and in addition, Lin Biao, the commander of the Red First Army, had very high requirements, and it was really not easy to pick out the generals who met the conditions.
At this time, Peng Dehuai recommended Li Jukui.
Although Lin Biao had heard of Li Jukui's name, but after all, he had no colleagues, out of cautious consideration, Lin Biao decided to evaluate Li Jukui and then make a decision.
Lin Biao asked, "What kind of division commander do you think the red first division commander is?" ”
Li Jukui replied without hesitation: "I think that the commander of the Red First Division is the commander of the First Division of the Red Army!"
Lin Biao was quite satisfied, and Li Jukui became the first division commander of the Red First Division, the pioneer officer of the Long March!
Li Jukui, who is well known for his splendid hard battles such as the strong crossing of the Wujiang River and the Dadu River, was involved in the command.
In the summer of 1935, the Red First and Fourth Fronts met the divisions, Li Jukui became the chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front Army, and in 1937, the Western Route Army was completely destroyed, Li Jukui dressed as a beggar and returned to the Red Army garrison for two months, Chairman Mao comforted him: "Although you are defeated, you are still honored!" ”
Li Jukui and the generals of the Red Army
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Jukui was the chief of staff and a capable general under General Chen Geng
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Li Jukui served as the chief of staff of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division, and later served as the commander of the Taiyue Military District, and was the right-hand man of the brigade commander Chen Geng.
Li Jukui during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
During the Liberation War, Li Jukui went to northeast China to serve as chief of staff of the Western Manchuria Military Region and second director of the Logistics Department of the Fourth Field Army
At the end of 1946, Li Jukui rushed to the northeast, and was soon appointed chief of staff of the West Manchuria Military Region, along with commander Huang Kecheng and political commissar Li Fuchun to set up a team, "so that the West Manchuria Military Region was registered with Lin Biao, commander of the Northeast Field Army." General Huang Kecheng praised Li Jukui: "He is an old comrade, who has a very good set of command of fighting, and is a competent chief of staff. ”
Later, Li Jukui was transferred to the Logistics Department with Huang Kecheng, and the fierce general Li Jukui did not complain and did the logistics work well, and after the establishment of the Fourth Field Army, he became the second director of the Logistics Department.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Jukui served as deputy chief of staff of the Headquarters of the Fourth Field Army, director of the Logistics Department of the Northeast Military Region, minister of the Petroleum Industry Department, and dean/political commissar of the Logistics College
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Jukui served as deputy chief of staff of Siye, director of the Logistics Department of the Northeast Military Region, and president of the Plaster Logistics College.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, our army encountered difficulties in logistical supply, and Li Jukui thought of "fried noodles" and solved a great problem of supply for the volunteer army.
Premier Zhou Enlai personally ordered Li Jukui to be the minister of petroleum industry to lay the foundation for the mainland's petroleum industry, until 1958, when he was reassigned to the political commissar of the General Logistics Department, and the Central Military Commission gave him a supplementary military rank.
According to Chairman Mao's bodyguards, when approving the supplementary military rank, he once sighed: "Without him (Li Jukui), New China would have been founded at least ten years later." ”
Li Jukui's literary history materials
In fact, in 1955, when our army first conferred the title, Li Jukui was on the list of generals, and Chen Geng, an old partner and fellow "naughty ghost" at the time of the appraisal, joked with Li Jukui, saying that because he had not been a general of the Red Army or above, he might not be able to evaluate the general, so he asked him to help himself make perjury when organizing a conversation with Li Jukui, saying that Chen Geng had once been a division commander.
Li Jukui believed it to be true, and really said that he was the commander of Chen Gengdang's division during the Red Army period. The comrades of the general cadres were stunned when they heard this, because they knew that Chen Geng had long been a division commander in the Red Fourth Front, and had also been the principal of an infantry school at the commander level.
Afterwards, Chen Geng was very moved, and lamented that his rank of great general was given by Li Jukui.
Withstanding the onslaught of the Cultural Revolution, Li Jukui resumed his work as dean of the Higher Military Academy, political commissar of the Logistics Academy, and adviser to the Central Military Commission.
When Li Jukui was the political commissar of the Logistics College, some colleagues proposed that "talents must be produced in one year." In addition to affirming the enthusiasm of his colleagues, Li Jukui sought truth from facts and made scientific arrangements for accelerating the cultivation of talents in accordance with the actual situation.
When writing war memoirs, he never took the merits of the generals for himself and attached gold to himself, but attributed the victory to the wise leadership of his superiors and the heroic battles of his subordinates.
In his old age, Li Jukui was "a 'false adviser' who did not care about the question", and also cared about the problems of the troops and dared to express his own opinions directly, and fulfilled the responsibility of "advisers", on June 25, 1995, a generation of "general saints" great hearts stopped beating and died at the age of 91.
In his later years, Li Jukui
5. Summary
General Li Jukui's life is full of legends; he has the assets of a great general in his discussion of merit, talent, and seniority; he is able to write and use martial arts; he has devoted himself wholeheartedly to the cause of building new China regardless of personal gains and losses; he has fulfilled his vow to fight for communism all his life; his outstanding merits and lofty moral character will forever be recorded in the annals of history.