In 1955, new China was awarded the title for the first time, just as the so-called Liang Shanbo ranked second, and everyone wanted to be in the top, which was a reasonable thing. So there are a lot of stories around before and after the award.
Many of these generals are high-spirited, take the initiative to give up their titles, and even give up. Of course, there are also people who are very dissatisfied with their ranks.
Anyone who has seen "Bright Sword" knows that the Iron Triangle of the Northwest Jin Dynasty is very dissatisfied with its rank, and has been criticized by its old boss for this.
The one I want to talk about today is actually the same, his seniority is indeed old enough, it is an old man who participated in the Nanchang Uprising. When he was awarded the rank in 1955, he was not satisfied with his rank and became angry. It was because of this that he was revoked from his title, and as a result, in the following year, he was relegated to him, and he was Lieutenant General Nie Heting.
Founding General Zhou Shidi once said: "Nie Heting is a too strong person", perhaps it is precisely such a fiery and upright personality that brings him too much trouble.
He was Ye Ting's old subordinate, and he was a company commander at the time of the Nanchang uprising. After the failure of the uprising, for the survival of the troops, Zhu De led the troops to accept the name of Fan Shisheng, the commander of the Kuomintang Sixteenth Army.
However, This decision of Zhu De made Nie Heting unbearable, and he could not accept joining the Kuomintang again no matter what. At that time, no one could persuade him, and he could not be persuaded, so he could only let him go to Shanghai. However, he later moved to Guangzhou and participated in the Guangzhou Uprising under the old leader Ye Ting.
After the uprising failed again, he entered Jiangxi and successively served as the regimental commander and chief of staff of the Red Fourth Army under Zhu Mao. At that time, the political commissar of the Red Fourth Army was Luo Ruiqing, and after Nie Heting left, it was Su Yu who replaced him as chief of staff of the Red Fourth Army.
After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, he served as the chief of staff of the reorganized Red Army and was one of the important military cadres of the Red Army.
In fact, at this time, in terms of seniority and the position at that time, the award of admiral was not excessive. You must know that many people in the same period who were equivalent to his positions were later generals.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was also appointed head of the Advisory Department of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. Although he did not go to the front, his work was also very important, which shows the importance attached by the central authorities. Not long after, he arrived at the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region as chief of staff and worked under the leadership of Nie Rongzhen.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Nie Heting went to the northeast and succeeded Lu Dongsheng as the commander of the Songjiang Military Region, and later became the deputy chief of staff of Siye.
At that time, after the reorganization of Shiye, the first chief of staff was Xiao Ke, and the other deputy chief of staff was Chen Guang.
Judging from this card, Nie Heting thought that he could not be a lieutenant general. Therefore, he was very dissatisfied with his title, and he also made a big fuss in front of Luo Ronghuan.
The Central Committee criticized him and temporarily stripped him of his rank, but later he also wanted to understand, and the Central Committee also thought that his attitude was still sincere, so he added him to the rank of lieutenant general in the following year.