In 1934, Xie Zhenhua, who was not yet 18 years old, graduated from the Red Army University and was assigned to the Red Third Army Corps as the political commissar of the 14th Regiment of the Red Fifth Division.
and Xie Zhenhua were also regimental-level cadres of the Red Third Army Corps, as well as Yang Yong, Zhang Aiping, Su Zhenhua, and Wang Ping.
And Xie Zhenhua is only a major general, what is going on?
The reason is that Xie Zhenhua has been a regiment-level cadre for too long, a full 11 years.
His father died, and he embarked on the revolution
In 1916, Xie Zhenhua was born in an ordinary peasant family in Chongyi County, Jiangxi Province.
As the days went by, the more Xie Zhenhua wanted to change this life, and at the beginning of 1928, the opportunity came.
This year, Zhu De, Chen Yi and others led the vigorous "Xiangnan Riot" in the southern Hunan area.
In fact, before the Nanchang Uprising, Xie Zhenhua's father had secretly joined the Communist Party of China, and by this time, Xie Zhenhua's father was already one of the main leaders of the underground party organization in Shangbao Township, Chongyi.
The southern Hunan riot failed, and Xie Huanwen, one of the leaders of the riot, came to Chongyi, because of his relationship with Xie Zhenhua's father, so he lived in Xie Zhenhua's house, trying to develop new.
In 1929, Shangbao Township formed a riot team, Xie Zhenhua's father served as the captain, 13-year-old Xie Zhenhua, since then also began to follow his father in the revolution, although he is young, but the work of sending letters, sentry and other work is still very skilled.
One day in early summer, Xie Zhenhua's father led a local uprising, but unfortunately, due to the outnumbered enemy, the rebellion failed, and his father was also captured by the enemy.
At that time, the enemy once let out the wind and said that it could be redeemed with money, but when the Xie family pooled the money and sent it over, the enemy brutally killed Xie's father.
Xie Zhenhua understood at that time that reactionaries are reactionaries, and if the poor people want to live a stable life and not be oppressed, they must all be eliminated, and their "nonsense" cannot be believed
Xie Zhenhua's father died, and he took over his father's last wish, walked out of his hometown, and joined the Red Army guerrillas.
Appreciated by the leadership, the fate changed drastically
When Xie Zhenhua was 17 years old, the revolutionary form was advancing by leaps and bounds, and the momentum of development was very strong, and the organizations in the Soviet districts in various localities received notices to send outstanding Young Pioneers to join the regular Red Army ranks.
Xie Zhenhua, who was already the captain of the Young Pioneers of Chongyi County, immediately took more than 100 Young Pioneers to the Red Third Army and handed them over to the Seventh Army, and then he went to the Political Department of the Red Third Army to report for duty.
Huang Kecheng, who was the head of the organization of the legion at the time, saw Xie Zhenhua and thought that he was a talent, so he sent him to the training class for political work cadres.
Xie Zhenhua cherished this hard-won learning opportunity, and he finally graduated with excellent grades, and then he was placed in the recruit camp as an instructor.
After Xie Zhenhua arrived at the new barracks, he integrated knowledge and action, and did his work impressively, so his superiors were impressed by him and sent him to the Red Army University for further study.
Those who came to the Red Army University to teach were all central leaders Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, etc., and under their teachings, Xie Zhenhua gained a lot.
It was precisely because of his outstanding personality that as soon as he graduated from the Red Army University in 1934, he was arranged to be the political commissar of the regiment.
No one can deny that Xie Zhenhua at this time will definitely become the "rising star" of our army, but what people did not expect is that Xie Zhenhua's subsequent development is jaw-dropping.
When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, due to the reduction of the establishment, the Red Army cadres were also demoted, Xie Zhenhua first served as a section chief in the People's Armed Forces Department of the Second War Zone, and later after the establishment of the Special Service Group of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, he served as the political commissar of the regiment.
At this time, it was the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, and there were about 15 regular regiments in our army, and Xie Zhenhua was able to serve as one of the regimental political commissars, which shows that his ability was recognized and affirmed by his superiors.
Later, Xie Zhenhua was transferred several times, and successively served as deputy director of the Enemy Engineering Department of the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army, commander of the 24th Regiment of the Eighth Brigade of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, and political commissar.
Xie Zhenhua himself is a person with excellent ability, and he works diligently no matter what position he is in, giving a good impression to his superiors.
At the age of 18, he became a regimental cadre and was not promoted for eight years
But what makes people wonder is that Xie Zhenhua was always a regiment-level cadre during the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, no matter how his position was transferred.
At that time, Yang Yong, Su Zhenhua and others, who were once regiment-level cadres with him, were far higher than him at this time.
In 1934, Xie Zhenhua served as the political commissar of the regiment, and in 1945, at the age of 29, he was still a cadre of the regiment, and his experience was very rare among the founding generals of the country.
It is precisely because Xie Zhenhua has been a regiment-level cadre for so many years that it eventually affected his award.
In 1955, Yang Yong, Su Zhenhua, and Wang Ping, who were old comrades-in-arms with Xie Zhenhua, were awarded the rank of general at this time, but Xie Zhenhua was only a major general.
During the Liberation War, Xie Zhenhua was more powerful, and by 1949, he was already a military commander, when he was only 33 years old, very young, but the main reason for his title was the Anti-Japanese War period, not the Liberation War.
Later, Xie Zhenhua served as the deputy commander of the 69th Army, and during the Cultural Revolution, Xie Zhenhua worked in Shanxi and made great contributions to stabilizing the situation in Shanxi.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Xie Zhenhua served as the political commissar of the Kunming Military Region, and in this position, Xie Zhenhua actually had the opportunity to become a general.
In 1985, at the same time as the disarmament of the Kunming Military Region, Yang Shangkun, who was in charge of the daily work of the Central Military Commission, asked Xie Zhenhua if he would work at the Academy of Military Sciences.
Missed the "rank of general"
Judging from the situation at that time, after the army was streamlined and reorganized, the military rank system would be restored within a year or two, and as long as the founding generals who remained in the main posts of the large military region should be awarded the rank of general, Xie Zhenhua went to the Academy of Military Sciences to be a political commissar, and he was also a principal of the large military region, and he could become a general, but Xie Zhenhua took the initiative to give up this opportunity.
Xie Zhenhua, who said that he was the last political commissar of the Kunming Military Region, said: "I am willing to give up my seat to younger comrades and stop thinking about my work." I have the responsibility to make good arrangements for the large number of cadres who have been downsized from the Kunming Military Region, and I want to work together with all of you to accomplish the last glorious historical mission of the Kunming Military Region. ”
Xie Zhenhua politely refused Yang Shangkun's arrangement, and he also lost the opportunity to be awarded the rank of general, and Wang Chenghan, the former commander of the Chengdu Military Region, who replaced him as political commissar at the Academy of Military Sciences, was finally awarded the rank of general in 1988.
Xie Zhenhua has never regretted giving up the rank of general, during the war years, he was able to survive the rain of bullets, he knew that he was luckier than many old comrades-in-arms, and the purpose of his participation in the revolution was not for any high-ranking officials, but to serve the people, so that the people of the whole world can live a stable life.