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In 1992, at the age of 78, Zhang Zhen wanted to retire, but Deng Xiaoping asked him to help Jiang Zemin for another three years and three more years.
Zhang Zhen was somewhat surprised by the central government's opinion. After all, he mentioned his pension plan twice before the central government.
Image|General Zhang Zhen
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For some time, Deng Xiaoping targeted Zhang Zhen more than once.
In July 1975, Zhang Zhen, then the commander's representative of the Wuhan Military Region, received an order from the central authorities to rush to Beijing. Su Yu spoke with Zhang Zhen on behalf of the Central Military Commission.
In an interview with Zhang Zhen, Su Yu told Zhang Zhen:
"The Military Commission decided to transfer you to the General Logistics Department.
Zhang Zhen was a little surprised at that time. After all, his previous position was never logistics manager. The general then told Suja:
"After you took over as CEO this time, Comrade Deng Xiaoping personally entrusted you with your work.
With the continuous development of modern armies, the role of military logistics is becoming more and more important. Zhang Zhen knew all this. When he was working in the Wuhan Military Region, he saw some situations in the troops and was very worried.
After returning to China in 1973, Deng Xiaoping solved some problems in the troops, strengthened military training, and raised the level of the troops in all aspects. Rao Ming held such an important position in the General Logistics Department and chose Zhang Zhen.
Deng Xiaoping believed that Zhang Zhen could realize his beliefs.
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After much deliberation, Zhang Zhen decided to accept this important role:
"Since the Central Military Commission and Comrade Xiaoping have made a decision, I will obey the organization and complete the task.
Although he first met Deng during the Huaihai Campaign in late 1948, his admiration for Deng dates back to his Red Army days, according to General Zhang Zhen's memoirs.
In 1914, General Zhang Zhen was born into a poor peasant family in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. He joined the Workers' Youth League in 1926, the Chinese Communist Youth League and the Red Army in May 1930, and the Communist Party of China in October of the same year.
From 1931, General Zhang Zhen successfully served as the political director and communications director of the 4th Company and 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the 5th Red Army, and the battalion commander of the 10th Regiment of the 4th Red Army.
In June 1930, by order of the Central Committee, the Red Fifth Front Army and the Red Eighth Front Army established the Red Third Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
General Zhang Zhen remembers well that in March 1933, the Red Army was reorganized into the 4th, 5th and 6th Divisions. It was established after the army went north. At that time, Zhang Zhen was serving in the 10th Regiment of the 4th Red Division. After the troops arrived in Fujian, they fought side by side with the 5th Red Division many times. He saw this army fighting tenaciously and efficiently. In his free time, Zhang Zhen had many conversations with the commanders and fighters of the 5th Red Division. He knew that the 5th Red Division was the 7th Red Army led by Deng Xiaoping (Deng Xiaoping led the rebellion in Baisha and became the 7th Red Army). Red Army after the Longzhou Uprising). Under my influence, I heard many heroic deeds of Deng Xiaoping. Although Zhang Zhen and Deng Xiaoping had admired each other for a long time, they never met because of the seriousness of the revolutionary struggle.
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By mid-December 1948, the Huaihai Campaign had ended, with Huang Wei's regiment suffering heavy casualties and Du Yuming's corps making little progress. At that time, the Central Military Commission ordered the General Forward Committee of the Huaihai Campaign to hold a meeting to discuss the situation of the next stage of the campaign.
The General Front Committee decided to hold a meeting in Caiwa Village, where Huaye's headquarters are located.
At that time, Zhang Zhen was also the deputy chief of staff of the East China Field Army and also attended the meeting of the General Forward Committee. In the Huaihai Campaign, the next stage must consider the situation of the next battle to cross the river.
Then Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Su Yu, and Tan Zhenlin, former director of the General Affairs Committee, took everyone to take pictures, but no one dared to step forward, and only five photos were taken in the end. General Zhang Zhenhe still regrets that he recalled this scene many years later, otherwise this unforgettable historical moment would have its own characteristics.
In March 1949, Zhang Zhen became the chief of staff of the Third Field Army, and the General Forward Committee immediately began planning for the battle of crossing the river. At that time, Su Yu was recovering from his injuries in Jinan, and Zhang Zhen announced his campaign plan to Deng Xiaoping on behalf of the Third Field Army.
From then on, Zhang Zhen gradually got to know Deng Xiaoping. He believes that Deng Xiaoping's simple and direct work style had a great influence on his later work.
Photo|Group photo of the General Committee of the Huaihai Campaign in December 1948
In 1954, when Zhang Zhen transferred to the Nanjing Military Academy, President Liu Bocheng asked him:
You see Comrade Xiaoping, he did not go to a military school, why his determination to fight is right.
Zhang Zhen was completely unprepared for this question and was surprised to be asked, but when he remembered some of his contacts with Deng Xiaoping, he remembered Deng Xiaoping's work style, so he answered truthfully:
Perhaps Comrade Xiaoping knew the intentions of his superiors, knew the situation of the enemy in front of him, and knew the strength of the enemy.
Liu Bocheng nodded and said:
"The key is that Comrade Xiaoping has mastered military dialectics in practice and is able to make decisions according to the actual situation, which is the most important thing!"
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Zhang Zhen disobeyed Deng Xiaoping's instructions. He reorganized the logistics management contingent under very difficult conditions and laid the foundation for the development of the army's logistics.
In early 1980, Deng Xiaoping again promoted Zhang Zhen to deputy chief of staff. One of the biggest problems Zhang Zhen faced when he took over the General Staff was that building a modern army is inseparable from talent, and cultivating talent requires strengthening the construction of military academies.
Deng Xiaoping strongly supported Zhang Zhen's proposal. During the period of General Zhang Zhen, he actively responded to the call of the Central Committee and once again comprehensively organized the establishment of the Military Academy. Unexpectedly, he received another important position.
Zhang Zhen (left) and Peng Xuefeng pose in front of the wreckage of a downed Japanese plane in November 1940.
Zhang Zhen, who has served in the General Staff for many years, is now in his 70s, and his body has been ravaged by the trauma of war.
During the fifth operation against the funeral, Zhang Zhen was wounded by a bullet in the right hand. He was later hospitalized with malaria. Zhang Zhen's wound did not heal quickly, and the bullet stuck in his right shoulder.
In February 1946, Zhang Zhen went to the headquarters for a meeting. During the meeting, Zhang Zhen felt pain in his right hand. Zhang Zhen took advantage of the delay and went to Huaiyin Renci Hospital to take X-rays. Doctors found that Zhang Zhen was seriously injured and had to undergo surgery to remove the bullet. But as the war approached, Zhang Zhen did not choose this course of action. After the founding of New China, he went to the hospital to remove the bullet.
Zhang Zhen has repeatedly expressed his desire to retire in his later years.
In the early summer of 1977, at the invitation of his comrade-in-arms and founder Major General Zheng Guiqing, Zhang Zhen went to a military leisure center in Changsha, Hunan Province to recuperate. However, he soon received a call from Beijing and was elected vice chairman of the Central Committee at the 11th Party Congress that year.
After more than five years in office, the general was appointed commander of the Third Command by the central authorities in March 1985, and the 70-year-old Zhang Zhen immediately resigned as deputy chief of staff.
In order to prepare for retirement, Zhang Zhen decided to study and enjoy retirement life in addition to studying.
However, a sudden arrangement disrupted his plans.
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In 1985, after General Xiao retired from the command post of the military academy, the central government immediately decided to build the highest military school in the whole army. Deng Xiaoping pointed out that the National Defense University will be formed by merging the Military Academy, the Political College, and the Logistics College.
On April 3, Yang Shangkun invited Zhang Zhen to speak and made it clear:
"How about preparing the National Defense Academy?"
Zhang Zhen felt a little abrupt again, and he suggested:
It is the introduction of Liu Zhilai, senior director of the Military Academy, first political commissar and political commissar Liu Zhilai.
However, Yang Shangkun shook his head bluntly, "Although you two have very high qualifications, they are both working in the academy, and their qualifications are relatively high, I think you are more suitable." ”
Zhang Zhen was silent for a while, not revealing more secrets.
At that time, Zhang Zhen initially thought that the central government had only asked him to prepare for the establishment of the National Defense University, but did not allow him to work at the National Defense University. Consider Zhang Zhen's decision to retire:
"Although we have to use waste heat.
In 1958, Lieutenant General Zhang Zhen, then vice president of Nanjing Military Academy, would take a group photo with Lieutenant General Liao Hansheng, then chief political commissar of Nanjing Military Academy. On April 30, 1985, the Central Military Commission officially announced its decision:
"Comrade Zhang Zhen took command and recruited relevant comrades from the three headquarters to be in charge of the preparatory work for the establishment of the National Defense University."
Zhang Zhen initially considered formally resigning after completing preparations for the National Defense University, but to his surprise, the Military Commission did not approve his request. After the official establishment of the National Defense University at the end of the year, the Party Central Committee decided to appoint Zhang Zhen as president of the National Defense University and Li Desheng as political commissar.
In this way, General Zhang Zhen, who was originally preparing to retire, worked at the National Defense University for seven years.
General Zhang Zhenhe was ordered to build the National Defense University, which caused heated discussions. There are those who support it, and there are not a few who are not optimistic. Some even wrote directly to the Central Military Commission to express their dissatisfaction.
Zhang Zhen remained indifferent to this situation:
"The merger of the three universities to form the National Defense University, like any reform, there will always be opinions and differences that need to be carefully thought out and organized. So be mentally prepared. If I could, many years later, "Don't be like this, I'll try to do a good job."
At the beginning of the establishment of the National Defense University, Zhang Zhen suggested that the educational content should be set at a higher level, and that it should not be repeated in primary and secondary schools, but that subjects in primary and secondary schools should be taught. School. School. University. In the future, we should pay attention to applying what we have learned; The knowledge imparted should not be narrow, and attention should be paid to cultivating multi-functional talents. These ideas were later incorporated into the teaching ideas of the National Defense University.
During his tenure as president of the National Defense Academy, Zhang Zhen paid special attention to the school's faculty. Under his leadership, many outstanding teachers took over the management of the school, and they made a great contribution to the quality of teaching in the school. According to Xiong Guangkai, the general, who was invited by Zhang Zhen to serve as an assistant professor at the National Defense University, gave a speech at the university. Zhang Zhen not only led the way, but also sat in the classroom and listened. Listen to his wonderful lectures.
On September 10, 1986, the first day of the inauguration ceremony of the teachers of the National Defense College, Zhang Zhen proposed to take a group photo with the school's old teachers and scholars. Dissatisfied:
"Teachers and researchers stand on the podium all year round, and it's Teachers' Day, and they should be invited to sit down." To that end, the National Defense University has instituted an unwritten rule: when taking a group photo, faculty, staff and researchers sit in the first row, and all the rectors stand in the back row.
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General Zhang Zhen has been studying at the National Defense University for seven years. The general is almost 80 years old and ready to retire. This is done by young and promising people.
In April 1992, Zhang Zhen attended a major meeting of the Central Military Commission. He told the meeting that this was his last time attending a meeting of the military center. Someone will replace him.
However, he did not expect that the central government decided to let him work in the military food department.
General Zhang Zhen controls the army
The 78-year-old general fell asleep when he heard that he would join the leadership of the Armed Forces Council. He knew that his burden was not light. Zhang Zhen was deliberately absent.
After a night of deliberation, Zhang Zhen finally decided to bravely shoulder the burden and continue to contribute to the modernization of the army.
On October 6, 1992, on the eve of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Deng Xiaoping sent a letter to the Central Committee, proposing to add Zhang Zhen as vice chairman of the military center.
Thirteen days later, at the first plenary session of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Zhen was officially elected vice chairman of the Military Commission. After the meeting, Rao Ming took a group photo with the members of the new central management team and asked Zhang Zhen about his physical condition.
"How old are you?"
"It's been 78 years."
Deng Xiaoping smiled and nodded:
"You're ten years younger than me, you can do it again."
During the conversation, Deng Xiaoping also urged him to help Comrade Jiang Zemin well and build a leading body of the army within three years.
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Zhang Zhen knew what Rao Ming wanted. Recalling this scene many years later, he bluntly said:
"Comrade Xiaoping's thoughts and speeches are very important, and they make me very aware of the importance of the tasks I have done. In order to complete the task, I formulated a 'three-point agreement', seeking truth from facts and showing it." "Less publicity, no overlap." This remains a cautionary tale for the next five years.
After Zhang Zhen became a member of the Military Commission, he attached great importance to the modernization of the armed forces. In order to understand the real problems of the army, Zhang Zhen even visited the army in person, regardless of his age. It is necessary not only to listen to the reports prepared by the cadres, but also to conduct spot checks on other unprepared, organized and unorganized places, in order to truly achieve comprehensive rectification. Understand. When Zhang Zhen visited the local company, he noticed that the internal affairs and sanitary conditions of the army were very good and unified. However, Zhang Zhen did not praise him. However, they found that many things were not right. Used.
Zhang Zhen remained calm and went to another business next door, only to find that the problem was that the restaurant was missing and the camping equipment was seriously damaged. The faces of the relevant cadres became angry.
However, Zhang Zhen did not criticize him, but learned from the side that there was indeed a problem with the army's funding, so after returning to China, he focused on solving the army's problems.
General Zhang Zhen is under military surveillance
Zhang Zhen realized the danger of military production operations early on, and advised the army not to participate in production and management, but not to be shot and killed. Units located in remote areas with harsh conditions can be protected with houseplants that can be used by children.
After years of efforts, the state has completed the task of reforming the management of military production, and established a system of unified management of military production management, separate management of construction projects, and management of military production and military production. Manage. Their affiliation... Follow yourself
Zhang Zhen served in the armed forces for more than five years, during which time he visited the language department at least once a year. Someone suggested that he reduce his crew and travel less, but Zhang Zhen shook his head and refused:
"In your position, you have to do your job well, how can you do it well without giving up power?"
Whether in the hot and humid Xisha Islands or the cold and oxygen-deficient Qinghai Plain, Zhang Zhen was left behind. Even if the hidden disease recurs, he is always happy. In recent years, Zhang Zhen has devoted his limited time and energy to army building.
General Zhang Zhen has spent his life building his country. Although he missed his hometown, he rarely returned home.
In October 1961, General Zhang Zhen's adoptive mother, 78-year-old Wu Mingyuan, died of illness, but due to his busy schedule, General Zhang Zhen could not return home to attend the funeral. In his busy schedule, he could only write a letter to his younger brother Wu Shengsheng:
"I am sad that my mother died, but since I am not qualified for my job, I can only serve the country sincerely, embarrass my son, and bury me." ”
Photo|Zhang Zhen with his mother, wife and children in 1960
In the fall of 1992, when Zhang Zhen's classmate Zheng Kaiwei went to Pingjiang to visit the grave of Zhang Zhen's adoptive mother Wu Mingyuan, he found that the grave was overgrown with weeds and abandoned. Chuzu's grave was also stolen. Compared with the graves of the parents of Taiwanese ruler Li Yuanxuan, it looks a little gloomy.
"The graves of Li Yuanxuan's parents are beautiful, and the graves of our ancestors of central officials should also be beautiful.
After talking with Zheng Dewu, Zheng Kaiwei and Zheng Dewu decided to jointly write a letter to General Zhang Zhen with the county and city, hoping to restore the general's ancestral tomb. When Zhang Zhen learned of this, he immediately wrote to the general. He did not agree to publicly fund the restoration of the ancestral tomb, and only gave his younger brother 1,000 yuan to restore the tombstone of his adoptive mother Wu Mingyuan. He wrote at the end of the letter:
"I am a member of the Communist Party and I serve the people. Don't compare with Li Yuanxuan, he is a member of the Kuomintang, he has money to build graves for his ancestors, that's his job, we can "t." "You can't learn from it." “。 We must retain the basic fighting strength of the revolutionaries, not exaggerate, and not use public funds for private affairs. Ancestor worship in ancient society was one of the most humble, despised, and popular activities. "It comes from the people."
Zhang Zhen and the general did not have many close relatives. The four brothers were honest and responsible farmers who were never pessimistic about the general.
General Zhang Zhen rated the unit on June 12, 1996
In recent years, General Zhang Zhenhe has paid attention to the most important issues of national construction.
In September 1955, Zhang Zhen was awarded the title of "Chinese General".
On September 14, 1988, Zhang Zhen was awarded the title of general.
On September 3, 2015, General Zhang Zhen died of illness in Beijing at the age of 101.
A good life cannot provoke deep admiration.
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