Deng Zihui, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, a proletarian revolutionary and statesman of the older generation, an outstanding leader in the local work of our party, and the founder of the Western Fujian Soviet Region, deng Zihui once served as the third secretary of the Central Plains Bureau, the second political commissar of the Fourth Field Army, the acting political commissar, and other positions, and was a high-ranking leader of our party and our army, but why was he not awarded a military rank at the all-army award ceremony in 1955? Let's first take a look at Comrade Deng Zihui's glorious resume.
Deng Zihui, a native of Longyan, Fujian, was an old revolutionary. When Sun Yat-sen broke with the Beiyang warlords and established the Chinese Revolutionary Party (the predecessor of the Kuomintang), Deng Zihui was one of them. This qualification can be said to be rare among those who can be compared in our party and our army. Later, Deng Zihui went to Japan to study, actively pursued progressive ideas, and after returning to China, he founded newspapers and periodicals to publicize revolutionary ideas and gradually became a revolutionary.
With the rupture of the cooperative relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Deng Zihui gradually saw clearly the essence of the reactionaries, threw himself into the camp of our party, joined the party during the period of the great revolution shrouded in white terror, and became a staunch Marxist-Leninist fighter from then on. Deng Zihui had extremely good organizational skills, developed party organizations in western Fujian, organized peasant armed forces to hold riots, and made great contributions to the establishment of the Soviet district in western Fujian.
In 1930, a Soviet government was established in western Fujian, and Deng Zihui was elected chairman. At this time, the Lisan Line shrouded the organization, and Deng Zihui resisted it, and was transferred from western Fujian to work in southern Fujian and Gannan, and later served as the minister of finance of the Central Soviet Region. At that time, in the Soviet district, there were few people who understood finance, and the financial work was difficult, and Deng Zihui organized the work through thorns and thorns, and made a very great contribution to the smooth operation of the finances in the Soviet union.
After the defeat of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army began a 25,000-mile long march, and Deng Zihui, Chen Yi, Zhang Dingcheng, Chen Pixian, and other comrades remained in the south, commanding the revolutionary troops who remained behind to continue the guerrilla struggle. The three-year guerrilla war was difficult and sinister, and it was always facing the pursuit of reactionaries, but the generals who remained were not afraid of danger, overcame the difficulties, and finally persisted to the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Republic.
After the establishment of the New Fourth Army, Deng Zihui served as the director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, and in the process of the development of the New Fourth Army, Deng Zihui was an important leading member of the Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, participated in and led the guerrilla war in the eastern Anhui region, and contributed to the development of the New Fourth Army. After the Anhui Incident, Deng Zihui served as the political commissar of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, which was the ace division of the New Fourth Army at that time, and the commander of the division was General Peng Xuefeng, one of the 36 military experts in New China.
In the early days of the Liberation War, Deng Zihui served as the political commissar of the Central China Military Region, and together with Su Yu and Zhang Yunyi, he led the Central China Field Army north into Shandong to join the Shandong Field Army, making considerable contributions to the establishment of the East China Field Army. Later, Deng Zihui served as the third secretary of the Central Plains Bureau, and the first two leaders of the Central Plains Bureau, Deng Political Commissar and Chen Laozong, because they wanted to command the Central Plains Field Army to fight and act together with the field army, Deng Zihui actually had been presiding over the work of the Central Plains Bureau.
With regard to Nakano's logistical support, the Central Plains Bureau pooled its wisdom and efforts to successfully complete the task, while Deng Zihui, who presided over the work, made a great contribution. After Siye entered the pass, because Luo Ronghuan was not in good health, he was forced to go to the rear to recuperate. Deng Zihui was appointed as the second political commissar of Shiye, and in fact served as the political commissar. After Siye entered the pass, from the Battle of Crossing the River and the Battle of Hengbao to liberating Lingnan and fighting to Hainan Island at the end of the world, Deng Zihui also had to take credit.
After the establishment of the Central China Bureau, Deng Zihui served as the second political commissar, the Central China Bureau was later reorganized into the Central and Southern Bureau, Deng Zihui served as the first vice chairman, and the first in command at the time, Lin Shuai, was to command Siye to continue the southern conquest of the northern war, and Deng Zihui still shouldered the heavy responsibility of presiding over the work of the Central and Southern Bureau. We can see that Deng Zihui has been a high-level leader for a long time, presiding over the work, but he was not awarded a military rank in 1955.
Because in 1955, when the all-army award ceremony was held, Deng Zihui was no longer in the military position, and his position at this time was vice premier. When military ranks were first assessed, Commissar Mao, Premier Zhou, Vice Chairman Liu, Political Commissar Deng, and others voluntarily resigned from the rank of marshal, but later Member Mao suggested that those who no longer held posts in the military would not be evaluated for military ranks, so many cadres who had been transferred to local areas at that time did not confer titles, such as Teng Daiyuan, Zhang Dingcheng, Tao Zhu, and other comrades, and Deng Zihui was among them.
With Deng Zihui's resume, if he had been assessed for military rank in 1955, he would have been at least at the rank of general. As an elder of the Chinese Revolutionary Party and a revolutionary father of the older generation who joined our party during the Great Revolution, deng Zihui's seniority is reasonable to confer the rank of marshal, and it is a little difficult to confer the rank of marshal for a long time, because he has been holding local political work for a long time and has not held military posts for a long time.
Similar to Deng Zihui's resume was Zhang Yunyi, who was also an elder of the League, and later led the Baise and Longzhou uprisings together with Deng Political Commissar, Li Mingrui and others, and established the Red Seventh Army and the Left and Right Rivers Revolutionary Base Area. Similar to Deng Zihui, Zhang Yunyi also held a long-term job in the New Fourth Army, and the two were also at the same level. Therefore, if Deng Zihui evaluates the rank, it is most reasonable to refer to Zhang Yunyi, Zhang Yunyi is a general, and Deng Zihui should also be a general.
Of course, the older generation of revolutionary fathers who care about these false names, for them, no matter what rank, no matter what kind of work they are engaged in, they are serving the people, there is no distinction between high and low.
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