In June 1945, at the First Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee held in Yan'an, our party formed a supreme leadership group with Chairman Mao as the core. In addition, there were five leaders with very strong abilities in all aspects, who became important members of the highest inner circle, and they were called the five secretaries at that time.
The first Chairman Mao, he was a native of Xiangtan, Hunan. During the years of the revolutionary war, he led the Autumn Harvest Uprising, established the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area, and explored a great strategic idea of encircling the city from the countryside, and was the core founder of the people's army and the leader of the revolutionary war.
The second Premier Zhou, he is a native of Huai'an, Jiangsu, and his ancestral home is Shaoxing, Zhejiang. During the years of the revolutionary war, he planned and led the Nanchang Uprising and fired the first shot of the armed revolution. He held important positions for a long time and led the revolutionary war, and belonged to a great proletarian revolutionary who made great contributions in the military, politics, diplomacy and other fields.
The third comrade Shaoqi, a native of Ningxiang, Hunan, has excellent organizational skills, speech skills, and independent leadership skills, and is an important member of the first generation of leading groups.
The fourth commander-in-chief, Zhu, is a native of Yilong County, Sichuan. In his revolutionary career, he experienced the Nanchang Uprising, and at a critical juncture, he stepped forward and led the troops to fight in Hunan and Jiangxi, retaining the revolutionary flame of the Nanchang Uprising. This is the time when the Jinggangshan Division was later joined and the Red Fourth Army, the first unit of our party, was officially born, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu was the first commander of this army, and it was from this moment that he established his position as commander-in-chief of the Red Army. Since then, Commander-in-Chief Zhu has been the core figure of the Supreme Command.
When the fifth Ren Bi was born, he was a native of Xiangyin County, Hunan. In the history of the revolutionary war, he was an outstanding proletarian revolutionary, an outstanding political worker, and served as the general political commissar of the Red Second Front Army, and was always a partner with He Lao. During the Anti-Japanese War, Ren Bishi was the director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, responsible for the political and ideological work of the whole army. During the liberation period, he went to northern Shaanxi with Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu, assisted Chairman Mao in commanding the national liberation war, formulated land policies and carried out land reform.
The five commanders refer to the military commanders who took charge of the major battlefields during the War of Liberation.
Presumably friends who know the history of the Liberation War know that in this campaign, it was General Peng Da who was in charge of the Northwest War, Nie Rongzhen was in charge of the North China War, General Lin was in charge of the Northeast War, Mr. Chen was in charge of the East China War, and Comrade Bo Cheng, the military god who was in charge of the Central Plains.
The troops led by the above five people are called the five major field armies of the liberation period, and they are all commanders of their respective field armies. Among them, General Peng Da also served as the political commissar of the Field Army, and Mr. Chen also served as the political commissar of the East China Field Army.
On the battlefield of liberation, the commanders of the five major field armies commanded their respective units, destroyed a large number of enemy forces on the battlefield, and made great achievements in speeding up the victory of the revolutionary war. Therefore, after the founding of New China, the commanders of the five major field armies all received the rank of marshal.
The five famous generals refer to the founding generals who are the best at using troops in the people's army.
The first general Peng Da, defeated the Japanese in his military career and won the Battle of the Hundred Regiments. The defeat of the reactionary military bloc and the liberation of the northwest region played a key role in speeding up the founding of New China. He commanded the People's Volunteers to defeat the Western powers on a foreign battlefield, becoming the first Chinese general in modern history to defeat the Western powers militarily.
The second general, Su Yu, was the founding general who was the best at using troops in the people's army. During his military career, he created many classic battles, such as the well-known Soviet-Chinese Campaign, the Laiwu Campaign, the Menglianggu Campaign, the Huaihai and other battles, all of which were fought by this famous general.
The third Lin Shuai, he is the founding general who is the best at fighting a downwind battle, and he can give full play to the windward battle, and his combat style is just the opposite of General Peng. Mr. Lin, who is good at fighting a tailwind battle, created many classic battles in the Northeast Battlefield during the liberation period, such as the Liaoshen Campaign, the Pingjin Campaign, and the Hengbao Campaign, all of which were fought by Lin Shuai.
The fourth military god, Comrade Bocheng, is the one with the richest military knowledge in the people's army. It is precisely because of this that Comrade Bo Cheng has also become one of the many famous generals in our army who is the best at employing soldiers. Commander-in-Chief Zhu said that he had the style of an ancient famous general, and that he had courtesy, righteousness, benevolence, wisdom and faith. The Japanese during the Eight-Year War of Resistance praised him as a military strategist.
The fifth Xu Xiangqian, he is a famous player with rich practical experience. Although, during the War of Liberation, he did not become the commander of the five major field armies, his military talent was not inferior to the five commanders at all, or even better. Because, on the battlefield of liberation, he commanded 60,000 local troops and created a classic battle in which less won more, causing the Yan Xishan military group to lose more than 100,000 people, which played a key role in speeding up the liberation of Shanxi. Therefore, Comrade Xiang is also known as a contemporary Hanshin.