In May 1975, Ouyang Yi, who had interrupted work for eight years, was reinstated as the first deputy political commissar of the artillery. For the order to resume work, he has mixed hearts and can be said to be mixed. Happily, I have survived these 8 years; The worry is that the artillery has many problems to deal with, which can be described as full of difficulties, and it is difficult to return to the situation.
Ouyang Yi worked in defense and political work, and after the founding of New China, he served in the public security army. In 1957, after the withdrawal of the public security army, he was transferred to the artillery organ as a deputy political commissar.
During the Great Movement, he was transferred to the Ministry of Petroleum to be responsible for military management. When Wu Kehua was hit, he could not avoid it. Although his energy was in the Ministry of Oil, criticism of the artillery was detained a lot, and some people in the Ministry of Oil even made false accusation letters and interrupted their work in 1967.
When he was impacted, both physically and mentally the blow was not small, the most memorable one, so that he did not sleep for six days, the kind of torture that broke through the physiological limit, will never be forgotten. This is also a grievance that he has never had before.
His problem was dealt with in 1972, but some conclusions remained. In 1975, he was transferred back to artillery work.
Speaking from the heart, he may have hoped to work in other units, but fortunately, in the face of such a complicated situation, Wang Ping went to work in the artillery a month earlier to carry out rectification and rehabilitation.
Speaking of Wang Ping, he suffered similar to Ouyang Yi, and since the impact in 1967, someone listed dozens of baseless crimes for him, which were eventually overturned and liberated in 1972. For the next 3 years, he waited for his superiors to assign work. Among them, at the end of 1973, he also went to Beijing to ask Ye Shuai for help, perhaps because the time was not right, he only restored his life as a party organization, and the work was not implemented.
At the beginning of 1975, when he went to Beijing for a meeting, he was appointed to serve in the artillery. When he came to work in the artillery, he was not too young, he did not work for a long time, he talked little, giving the impression of weakness and indifference. However, in his later practical work, he rehabilitated a large number of cadres and supported them in the end.
When Wang Ping grasped the work, Ouyang Yi, as the first deputy political commissar, made a great contribution.
In this year, the higher authorities said that the army should be rectified, and under Deng Xiaoping's instructions, they sharply pointed out the problems with the current situation of the troops: the phenomena of swelling, scattering, arrogance, luxury, and inertia. With the "Shang Fang Sword" of the superiors, the artillery held a political work conference, and Ouyang Yi was responsible for many important tasks, and Wang Ping was very free and trusted him.
Ouyang Yi went to his house to report political work in order to work, and when he just sat down to report, he shook his hand and said: No need, you can grasp it boldly!
In accordance with the division of labor among the members of the Standing Committee, he acted vigorously and vigorously, and grasped several tasks in a down-to-earth manner:
Set up an inventory office to carry out a large number of internal investigations and external transfers; restoration of artillery academies; Rectify the chaos and implement the policy.
In 1981, news spread that the artillery organs were to be abolished, and it was learned that the arms organs would be abolished and replaced by the operational department of the General Staff. Artillery was originally at the level of the Great Military District, which was to be changed to the level of the regular army. In this regard, he has a little idea, after all, he has been in the artillery for twenty years and has feelings. As an old party member, he can also correctly deal with personal advances, retreats, and stays.
Later, after the abolition of artillery, he then retired to the second line, took up his duties at the people's congress, and lived a relatively peaceful life.