#桅杆笔谈 ##三野战将#
Author: Mast
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The author likes military history. When reading the memoirs or biographies of the founding generals, I was deeply amazed by the vivid and glorious experiences of our ancestors, and my heart was surging every time, and I came up with the idea of praising their singing and crying stories. To this end, in the first two years, a series of articles on the four field generals was written, and a total of more than 40 four field generals were written. After the series of articles was published in the column of "Soldiers' Sayings", they were well received by military history lovers. Many friends encouraged the author to continue and write about the three field generals. Starting today, the author will try to write a series of three field generals, starting with General Ye Fei, the commander of the 1st Column of Huaye.
【General Ye Fei】
(1) The only founding general with dual citizenship
Among the 1,614 founding generals of our army, General Ye Fei has many differences. First of all, after research, Ye Fei is the only founding general with dual nationality.
Ye Fei was born in the Philippines in 1914, his father was an overseas Chinese and his mother was Filipino. According to Philippine law, a person born in the Philippines automatically acquires Philippine nationality. In July 1930, after Ye Fei was arrested in Xiamen, his second brother took his birth certificate and prepared to negotiate through the Philippine Consulate in Xiamen.
At the same time, Ye Fei also legally has Chinese nationality. Article 1 of the Regulations on Nationality of the Qing Dynasty, formulated and promulgated in 1909, stipulates that a person born to a Chinese father is a Chinese national, regardless of whether he was born in China or not. After that, until 1980, China did not enact a nationality law, and successive governments de facto recognized or acquiesced to these provisions. When Ye Fei was born, his father was Chinese, and although he was born in the Philippines, he also had Chinese nationality.
It was only after the enactment of the Nationality Law in 1980 that dual nationality was not allowed on the mainland.
Some people say that Hung (formerly known as Wu Yuanbo, who was awarded the rank of major general in 1955) was also a founding general of dual citizenship. There is no legal basis for this. Born in Vietnam, Hung was not born in Vietnam to a father who was not Chinese or Chinese, so he did not have Chinese nationality. Hung entered the Whampoa Military Academy to study, participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, and served in our army for about 20 years from the time of the Red Army, and was the only foreigner among the founding generals. This is off-topic.
In 1919, when Ye Fei was 5 years old, he was sent back to his hometown of Nan'an, Fujian, by his father. It wasn't until 60 years later, in 1989, when he led a delegation to visit the Philippines, that he visited his birthplace.
(2) The founding general who unexpectedly embarked on a military career
At the beginning of 1949, when the whole army was unified and reorganized and the four major field armies were established, a total of 16 corps were formed. The commanders of these 16 corps are either graduates of military academies, such as Xu Guangda and Song Shilun, or workers and peasants who have been promoted from soldiers or grassroots levels, such as Chen Xilian and Liu Yalou. Only Ye Fei grew up from a scholar to a senior commander of our army.
Historically, there have been many stories of scholars writing from Rong. Among the founding generals of our army, there are also many who have put pen to paper, such as Marshal Liu Bocheng, General Tan Zheng, General Xiao Ke, etc. But Ye Fei is different from them, he does not take the initiative to put pen to paper, but passively or accidentally "follows Rong".
In the second half of 1932, the Fuzhou Central City appointed Ye Fei (then secretary of the Fuzhou Central Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League) to inspect the work in eastern Fujian in the name of a special commissioner. During this period, in March 1934, the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee was destroyed, and Mindong's contact with his superiors was severed. At the critical juncture, Ye Fei presided over an emergency joint meeting in his capacity as a special commissioner, and proposed and established a special committee for Mindong to lead the local armed struggle in a unified manner.
At that time, Fujian's organizational system was as follows: In early 1931, after the Fujian Provincial Party Committee was destroyed, the organization instructed not to restore the provincial party committee, but to organize the two central city party committees of Xiamen and Fuzhou, and to bring the eastern Fujian region under the leadership of the Fuzhou central city party committee. At that time, there were two central county party committees in eastern Fujian, Fu'an and Lianjiang, both of which were directly under the Fuzhou Central Municipal Party Committee. If the eastern Fujian region cannot achieve unified leadership and go its own way, it will be broken by the superior enemy.
Ye Fei integrated the two central county party committees in a timely manner, formed a joint force, and became the organizational guarantee for the eastern Fujian base area to adhere to. At that time, Ye Fei completed the above work as a special commissioner. Although he did not immediately serve as the secretary of the special committee, because he was a representative of the higher-level organization, Ye Fei became the de facto "number one" in the local area and led the three-year guerrilla war in eastern Fujian. At that time, Ye Fei was not yet 20 years old, and he had already shown a strong sense of the overall situation and organizational skills.
In September of that year, when the Mindong Independent Division of the Red Army was formed, Ye Fei concurrently served as the political commissar. It can be said that Ye Fei embarked on a military career quite unexpectedly under a very special circumstance.
(3) "You're just a scholar"!
After the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to cooperate for the second time. In December 1937, Ye Fei, who was then the top leader of the party, government and army in the eastern Fujian base area (concurrently secretary of the Mindong Special Committee, chairman of the Mindong Military and Political Committee, and independent division of the Mindong Independent Division), went to Nanchang to accept the mission of the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters through Fuzhou, and was received by Chen Yi, chairman of Fujian Province. When Chen Yi saw this "bandit leader" who they had been bounty for many years, she was very surprised and said, "You are a scholar"!
At this time, although he experienced three years of arduous guerrilla warfare, Ye Fei still had the image of a scholar. Originally, he was a cadre of the Communist Youth League, and he was sent to Mindong to inspect the work. Under normal circumstances, after the inspection, he would return to the Fuzhou Central Municipal Party Committee and continue to be the secretary of the Youth League Committee or engage in party affairs.
In November 1933, Zeng Zhi, who was also working in Mindong, went to visit Ye Fei, who was recuperating from his injuries, and was encountering the enemy's "purging". Zeng Zhi said in his memoirs: "One day, Ye Fei and I observed the enemy's movements. The enemy's bullets flew in the direction we were, and Ye Fei hadn't been in contact with the battle scene much at that time, so he couldn't distinguish the direction and height of the bullets. He craned his neck when he heard the bullet 'whine' over his head, but the bullet 'poofed' near his feet and did not react. ”
At the beginning of 1938, the Mindong Independent Division was reorganized into the 6th Regiment of the Third Detachment of the New Fourth Army, with Ye Fei as the regiment commander and led 1,300 Mindong children to the anti-Japanese front. At that time, Ye Fei felt that he "had not studied military affairs, and military work was not my forte", and that "the situation of the revolutionary struggle in eastern Fujian forced me to lead the military struggle", and proposed to "stay in Fujian and do local work". However, the Southeast Branch thought that Ye Fei was "not good at leaving the army", but actually took a fancy to his organizational talent.
Later war practice proved that Ye Fei's military command talent was also very outstanding, and his military achievements were outstanding. Ye Fei led 1,300 children out of Fujian in 1938, and in July 1949, he led 130,000 troops of the Sanye Tenth Corps into Fujian, and the strength was exactly 100 times that of that year. But behind this, how many hardships and hardships, how much blood of martyrs?
【Zeng Zhi】
He was a weak scholar back then, and today he is a general. Zeng Zhi sighed in his later years: The scholar who couldn't distinguish the direction and height of the bullet back then, "After years of war training, he became a general of the People's Liberation Army." It can be seen that war has created great talents." The cruel war situation not only pushed Ye Fei into a military career, but also tempered a scholar into a commanding general.
[To be continued]
[Deeply cultivate the history of war and promote positive energy]