Founding Major General Li Desheng, a typical all-rounder of literature and martial arts, won the rank of general in 1988 and was the first vice chairman of the military background.
In his lifetime, there were three "accidental promotions" from the military leader to the leader of the country, and won the high trust of Mao Zedong.
There is also the fact that because Mao Zedong's nickname is Li Desheng, which is similar to Li Desheng's harmonic sound, it has also caused many anecdotes in later generations and is talked about by everyone.
The mountains and rivers are silent, the sun and the moon are silent, and Li Desheng has written his great love for the motherland on the land of China, and he is a rare cadre from the army and a state-level cadre.
Everything starts from April 1916, Chendian Township, Xinxian County, Henan, Li Desheng came to this world.
General Li Desheng's battle to fame was the stronghold of Sandai Mafang during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the process of which was comparable to a spy war movie, personally wearing makeup to go deep into the enemy's nest, and finding out the details of the Japanese Kou in the tiger's den and wolf's den.
The geographical location of Mafang Town in Shanxi is very important, it belongs to the junction of three counties, the key is to separate two anti-Japanese base areas, which belongs to the throat road, which makes us very headache.
The Eighth Route Army failed in the first attack on Mafang, the second time the 30th Regiment attacked Mafang, who knows that it failed again, in 1943, Li Desheng went to the 30th Regiment as the regimental commander, preparing for three dozen Mafang, if this time failed again, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Why is Mafang so hard to beat? The Eighth Route Army attached great importance to Mafang, and the Japanese Kou also attached importance to Mafang, and from the autumn of 1941, the devils began to capture a large number of migrant workers from surrounding towns, and spent three years to build strong fortifications.
Especially in the east of the town, castle-like strongholds were built on the commanding heights, and with the little soil equipment of the Eighth Route Army, it was difficult to capture it.
Not only was the wall high and the weapons and equipment sophisticated, but there was also a special agent named Qing Shuiliyi in the 4th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, who bribed a large number of traitors to carry out intelligence reconnaissance in the six surrounding counties and towns.
That is to say, whether it is military or intelligence, Mafang is like a sharp blade of the Japanese army, cutting through two large pieces of base areas of the Taihang Military Region of our Eighth Route Army.
The anti-Japanese flames burned on the Taihang Mountains, and strategically speaking, our army's anti-Japanese base areas were directly threatened by the Mafang stronghold; from the hidden front, the threat was even greater.
As mentioned above, the two dozen horse fangs failed, especially the 30th Regiment suffered heavy losses, and the soldiers were emotionally and psychologically frustrated, so Li Desheng went to the 30th Regiment and served as the regimental commander.
In order to revitalize the hearts of the army, Li Desheng led the soldiers to fight the traitorous puppet army, and through several small-scale battles, improved the soldiers' anti-Japanese confidence.
After Li Desheng reorganized the team, he looked at the tumor of Mafang, and then took the initiative to ask for help, and made a military order to ask for three war horses!
The headquarters immediately approved that Li Desheng would command the troops and make preparations for capturing the Mafang stronghold.
At that time, the political commissar of the 30th Regiment was named He Deqing, and the chief of staff was named Zhang Zhenhua, and together with Li Desheng, analyzed the situation between the enemy and ourselves.
Summing up the lessons of failure, MaFang is condescending and has very fierce firepower, while our army's equipment is not good, so it is certainly not possible to attack strongly, and it can only be taken outright.
Moreover, our Eighth Route Army knows nothing about the interior of the Mafang stronghold, and since it is necessary to formulate surprise attack tactics, it is necessary to go deep into the enemy's heart and find out the enemy's details.
Knowing that he had won every battle, Li Desheng decided to personally carry out the reconnaissance mission, and he quickly received intelligence, saying that the devils in Mafang had not eaten vegetables recently, or that the Japanese army invading China was originally a unit that did not attach importance to supplies.
The devils had been asking the nearby traitors to send vegetables and grain to the Mafang stronghold, and Li Desheng immediately decided to personally lead seven soldiers to form a reconnaissance team to go deep into the tiger's den and wolf's den!
The location of the 30th Regiment was only fifty kilometers away from Mafang, and Li Desheng took off his military uniform, changed into the torn clothes of the common people, and dressed up in a rustic manner.
Company Commander Liu Deshu, Platoon Commander Yang Ladong, Zhang Mutang, Squad Leader Luo Xiwen, Gou Yuxi, Scout Yang Pigang... Following the regimental commander Li Desheng, with meat and vegetables, he rushed to the Mafang stronghold.
Li Desheng walked in front, carrying a basket of large cakes, and whenever he encountered a checkpoint on the road, he said that he was going to "honor" the imperial army.
Departing at nine o'clock in the evening, we arrived at Mafang at dawn and came to the west gate of the stronghold.
Zhai Fucai, an agent of the Eighth Route Army, had long since infiltrated the Japanese army in Mafang and served as a brother-in-law in the kitchen, cooking for the devils.
Zhai Fucai went out early to meet Li Desheng. The chef came out to greet the maintenance meeting of the grain delivery, it seems that everything is normal, in fact, these "traitors" are the anti-Japanese warriors of my Eighth Route Army, not only to deliver food, but also to send funerals for the Japanese army!
The leader of the Suzuki squad of the Japanese Kou came to check, and Zhai Fucai smiled and said that Li Desheng had come to comfort the imperial army. Suzuki looked over Li Desheng's basket and laughed while eating the big cake and praised Li Desheng for being a good citizen.
For professional soldiers, Li Desheng went deep into the Mafang stronghold and found out the fortifications, firepower nets, barracks, command posts of the wall... From the West Gate to the East Gate, Li Desheng gained a lot!
After Li Desheng found out the enemy's defenses, he returned to the 30th Regiment and began to formulate a surprise attack plan and take the Mafang stronghold, which was imperative!
As planned: send commandos late at night to enter the playground at the east gate of Mafang, where there is an unguarded cave where you can hide. At dawn, someone (our agent) will take the initiative to open the east gate, and when the time comes, a surprise attack will be launched, and after occupying the east gate of Mafang, the rest will be easier to do.
Li Desheng held a combat meeting to work together to study the method of assaulting the East Gate, and when he got married some time ago, his compatriots sent some wheat flour, and the couple had not been willing to eat it. Whoever can come up with a good strategy will receive a noodle reward.
At that time, it was definitely a high-standard meal, and everyone began to discuss how to raid the East Gate and eat the noodles of the regimental commander.
Li Desheng personally selected eighty-two people to form the most elite commando team in the whole regiment, and he wanted to personally lead the soldiers to take the east gate of Mafang.
In fact, the original team was eighty people, Ma Qiang's father, was forcibly captured by the Japanese army to repair the Mafang Gun Tower, because the body is thin and afraid of not being able to climb the mountain beam, so he was kicked off the cliff by the devil, unfortunately died. Xiao Tiesuo's sister was only 16 years old, and after being captured by the ghosts of Mafang, she was defiled to death, which was hated by the national enemy and the family.
So with these two men, it's an eighty-two-man commando, or a death squad...
Li Desheng showed superb drawing ability and personally drew a sketch to explain how to attack Mafang.
Members of the commando team are not allowed to wear shoes and thick cotton socks on their feet to prevent walking and making noises, so everyone should prepare in advance.
For a surprise attack, so at the beginning of the war, it is definitely not possible to release the gun, and it is necessary to use a large knife.
Li Desheng had long arranged for people to go to Taigu Dongyang Station to bring a railway track back to the base area, and the blacksmith was a teacher to guide the casting of knives, and the soldiers participated.
After more than half a month of forging, eighty-two brand-new large knives came out, and after Li Desheng distributed the large knives, he personally served as an instructor to teach everyone how to kill the enemy in one move and win.
Li Desheng made sufficient pre-war preparations and clearly explained every street, every alley, and how to fight and how to attack Mafang.
On March 4, 1945, the head of the Taihang Second Sub-district issued an order to start a war, and Li Desheng immediately led his troops from The Twin Peaks Mountain, where the 30th Regiment was located, to the Mafang stronghold fifty kilometers away.
Departing in the morning, we walked to Sitou Village at dark, only ten kilometers away from Mafang, and the troops immediately blocked the news and ate a full meal of white-faced steamed buns.
At ten o'clock in the night, the commando team headed for Mafang, and Zhai Fucai and Liu Zhancai, the undercover agents of our Eighth Route Army, were already waiting inside the cave outside the East Gate.
In the three-hole cave, eighty-two commandos of our army were hidden, and that night there was heavy snowfall, and the majesty was too white.
At five o'clock in the morning, the east showed the white of the fish's belly, and our agents came out with the maintenance of the meeting to clean the snow.
The ghost sentries on the upper floors of the city also gave a thumbs up and shouted that maintenance would be greatly dripped. As everyone knows, the reason why the snow is swept here is to clear the obstacles for the commandos and make it easier to attack.
After dawn, Liu Zhancai, an agent of our army in the Japanese kitchen, had to go through the east gate to deliver food, and the second child of Song who was responsible for opening the door was also an agent of our Eighth Route Army.
After Liu Zhancai entered the door, he only hid the east door and did not lock it.
On the eight-meter-high wall, the Japanese sentry looked at the east side and turned their heads to look at the west side, and Liu Zhancai slammed the lunch box hard and launched the secret code of attack.
At The order of Li Desheng, the commando team was like a wild horse that had lost its reins and pounced all the way to the East Gate.
In the Japanese East Gate Barracks, about a dozen Japanese soldiers were eating breakfast, and they had a habit of putting their guns on the shelves behind the doors. At this time, he suddenly turned his head to see that the squad leader of the commando team, Rossiwen, had already entered the barracks with a sword, and after a sharp slash, he solved the battle cleanly.
After the commando team entered the door, they seized the bunker, the bunker, and the radio station from three directions, and Li Desheng personally commanded it with a large knife, and he had already touched the Japanese military organization here clearly, so after the battle, the fight was smooth and smooth!
In particular, the squad leader of the second squad was named Zhao Mazi, and with the speed of lightning and the momentum of not being able to cover his ears, he rushed to the East Gate Gun Tower, and slashed at it with a large knife. At this critical vantage point, heavy machine guns and small steel cannons were captured, laying the foundation for victory.
In terms of communications, pigeons, radios, and horses were destroyed, and only one military dog escaped from the sewers.
An east gate was divided into four corners, and the remaining enemies retreated to the northwest corner, trying to resist to the end with the bunker. So much so that I was a member of the commando, and suffered more than a dozen casualties.
Li Desheng hurriedly ordered to stop the attack, now we have more people, and there are few people on the other side, and it is not advisable to attack strongly.
First the machine guns suppressed the enemy in the bunker, and another well-armed warrior was sent back to the flank of the bunker, and the grenade was thrown in, as if two kicks were sounded inside the iron barrel, and although the bunker was not broken, the flesh and blood inside were blurred.
Li Desheng saw that he was about to take the East Gate, and a bald officer of the Japanese army, obviously just out of bed, wearing a sweater and barefoot, swung a Japanese saber, and rushed toward Li Desheng.
Coincidentally, Li Desheng was holding a Japanese saber in his hand, which had just been captured, and he slashed the enemy's saber with one knife, and then took a half step forward and slashed down fiercely.
The quality of the Japanese sweater was still very good, and it actually blocked Li Desheng's blade, but it could not stop Li Desheng's strength, and it was split so that he could not stand steadily.
The reconnaissance platoon leader waited for this opportunity and went forward to capture the prisoner, a man named Suzuki.
Under Suzuki's sweater, Li Desheng was chopped bruises and bleeding, and when the doctor bandaged the prisoners, two more Japanese officers rushed out and were captured by my reconnaissance squad one by one.
Sandalama Fang, starting at six o'clock in the morning and fighting until one o'clock in the afternoon, seized a large amount of weapons, equipment and materials, more than sixty bags of rice alone, sauce, fish, kelp, canned food that the Japanese love to eat... And so on, hundreds of boxes.
However, what is sad is that Liu Deshu, the heroic captain of the commando team of the Eighth Route Army, and Yang Ladong, the heroic platoon leader, were seriously injured in the process of attacking.
Fan Yunlong, the heroic combat staff officer of our army, together with more than a dozen heroic scouts, was martyred in a heroic way...
The sappers of the 30th Regiment immediately went out and blew up the Japanese bunker of the Mafang stronghold, and the nearby villagers had already prepared their tools after hearing the gunfire on this side, and came to help as soon as the battle was over.
The army and the people were united in their efforts, and soon the Mafang stronghold was bulldozed, allowing the two major base areas of the Taihang Military Region to be connected from then on.
Coincidentally, a Japanese material transport team, originally thinking of going to Mafang to rest, ran into the 28th Regiment of our Eighth Route Army on the road, plunged into the ambush circle, was completely annihilated by our army, and captured a large amount of materials.
The great victory of Mafang shocked northern China, and the 129th Division of the Taihang Military Region of our Eighth Route Army immediately issued a commendation and published articles in major newspapers.
The above is the battle of Fame of General Li Desheng, the victory of the three dozen mafangs, the shame of the 30 regiments, many veteran soldiers sitting on the ground crying, holding back the anger for a long time, and today they are cathartic.
General Li Desheng also shined in the subsequent War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
For example, in April 1978, the founding lieutenant general of our army, Wang Jinshan, that is, the archetypal character of Li Yunlong in "Bright Sword", was admitted to the hospital in his later years because of his increasingly serious cancer, and when he was in a trance and half dream, he seemed to have returned to the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Wang Jinshan was a fierce general, even if he was a commander, he often charged with his troops, set up ladders to attack the city, and always said that he was not at ease with the front-line battles, and always had to rush to the city wall himself to be assured.
Before Wang Jinshan died, he asked, "Where did the enemy fight?" Who are we, the top there? ”
The younger son said, "It was Uncle Li Desheng who was there." ”
When Wang Jinshan heard that it was Li Desheng, he said, "Oh, Li Desheng went up, right, I can rest assured that I can sleep..."
It can be seen from this that in the heart of the iron-blooded warrior Wang Jinshan, Li Desheng's ability and bravery are trustworthy, and even if he encounters more enemies, he is also assured of Li Desheng.
About Li Desheng's affairs on the battlefield, I will share it here for the time being, and with this general, shan he is lucky!
The following article mainly talks about General Li Desheng, who in the era of peace and martial arts, belongs to the good talents who govern the country with both culture and martial arts.
Li Desheng was born in Xinxian County, Henan, was a fellow villager of Xu Shiyou and Li Xiannian, joined the Red Army at the age of 14, and as a result, during the Long March, because of the wrong line of Wang Mingbogu and others, Li Desheng was demoted from squad leader to fighter, and he completed the Long March with grievances, but he still insisted on following the party.
From the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign through the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, it can be said that it was fought from the beginning to the end! A hero's life, an iron-blooded life!
By the spring of 1967, the situation in Anhui had become very complicated, and Qian Jun, deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, could not control the situation.
By the end of July, under the arrangements of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, Li Desheng was training his army, and then rushed to Anhui with the 12th Army, and quickly brought the situation under control.
In just one year, Anhui has developed well, and Li Desheng has made outstanding contributions, stabilizing the originally complex situation and beginning to reshape the social order.
In fact, at this time, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai had already noticed Li Desheng's ability.
There is no rumor in later generations that "Mao Zedong reused Li Desheng because of the harmonic sound of his name", which is completely nonsense and impossible to happen.
In October 1968, when Li Desheng went to Beijing to attend a conference, when Zhou Enlai read out the list, he read Li Desheng's name, and Mao Zedong asked which was Li Desheng?
Zhou Enlai asked Li Desheng to stand up, and Li Desheng immediately shouted, stood up from his seat, and saluted the central leaders.
This was the first time That General Li Desheng had a conversation with Mao Zedong, and the great man asked about the revolutionary road of Li Desheng, a native of Xinxian County, Henan, and a fellow citizen of Xu Shiyou.
Mao Zedong said: "I think things in Anhui are doing well, didn't we inform him of the whole Wuhu?" Wuhu is a good whole, that Wuhu problem can be complicated! Li Desheng, how did you do it? ”
Li Desheng said directly: "Create public opinion! ”
As a result, after listening to the whole audience, most people showed a skeptical look, thinking that Li Desheng's answer was not comprehensive enough, where did he report the work like this?
However, Mao Zedong was very appreciative of Li Desheng's answer, and the great man said: "Yes, it is to create public opinion!" We Communists have been making revolutions for decades by creating public opinion; otherwise, how can we pull up the Red Army, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the People's Liberation Army, engage in so many contingents, and do not do mass work? ”
In April 1969, Beijing was about to convene the Ninth National Congress, and before this meeting, Li Desheng saw that there was no Xu Shuai, Nie Shuai, or Chen Shuai on the candidate list of "members of the Politburo of the Central Committee"... But it has its own name.
Li Desheng was greatly surprised, and immediately went to Xu Shiyou and Chen Xilian, hoping to tell Mao Zedong not to elect himself as an alternate member.
Because Li Desheng saw that he was the only military commander from the field army in the list, of course, this is also the only time in the history of our party at present.
Li Desheng was successfully elected, which among the many founding major generals at that time, there were only two founding people who could enter the Politburo of the Central Committee, and Li Desheng was one of them, according to foreigners, belonged to the Young Zhuang faction, young and vigorous, and more capable.
In July, Li Desheng was working intensively when he received an order from the central government to take up his post in Beijing, and arrived in Beijing by plane on the 28th.
Not long after, Mao Zedong summoned Li Desheng, who walked into Zhongnanhai very nervously.
Mao Zedong smiled, took his nickname Li Desheng, went to joke with Li Desheng, relaxed the other party's emotions, and then began to talk about work.
Mao Zedong inquired in detail about Li Desheng's work experience in recent years, and immediately asked Li Desheng to read more books in the future, not only to read domestic but also to read foreign ones.
Li Desheng was in several positions at the time, in addition to the work of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in Beijing, there were also work in Nanjing and Anhui, and he was worried that he could not complete it, so he wanted to eliminate the work in Nanjing and Anhui.
Mao Zedong directly said that none of them should be spared! The work in Anhui and Nanjing must continue to be held. Zhou Enlai encouraged Li Desheng to be bold in his work.
On April 30, 1970, Li Desheng was appointed director of the General Political Department, and he himself was naturally "very surprised" by this position, but this was arranged by the Party Central Committee, so he had to work boldly like Zhou En.
Since the founding of the Communist Party, all those who held this post were senior leaders of our Party, and even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, only Marshal luo Ronghuan, General Tan Zheng, and General Xiao Hua held this post.
Li Desheng, on the other hand, was the first founding major general to serve as the "director of the General Political Department" and the only founding major general to hold this post. It is also the first time in the history of our army that a major general has taken up the post of headquarters in a central organ.
In that turbulent era, Mao Zedong also made Li Desheng into Lin Biao's Central Military Commission office group compared to "mixing sand", and its deep meaning was self-evident.
At that time, Xie Fuzhi held that Li Desheng was leading soldiers to fight and was not suitable for political work.
Mao Zedong directly criticized Xie Fuzhi and said: "Li Desheng is not suitable, you are suitable? ”
In December 1970, at a time of increasing tension, Li Desheng suddenly received a summons from Mao Zedong to serve as the commander of the Beijing Military Region and also to be in charge of the General Political Department!
It can be seen from this that Mao Zedong trusted Li Desheng's military ability and affirmed his political ability.
In August 1973, when the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing, Mao Zedong wanted to retire to the second line as an adviser, but everyone insisted that Mao Zedong continue to be the chairman.
At this time, after Mao Zedong himself became the chairman, he would elect a vice chairman, and Li Desheng was one of the candidates, and the signal released by this was self-evident.
Li Desheng was greatly surprised, and he hurriedly said that he was not suitable, because his qualifications were far behind other candidates.
Mao Zedong made a decision, and Li Desheng was elected by the party organization to assume the position of vice chairman of the party central committee.
As last time, Mao Zedong not only made Li Desheng vice chairman, but also made Li Desheng concurrently in the work of Anhui and Nanjing.
Among all the founding generals, Li Desheng was the first to hold the post of vice chairman, entering the core of our party like a high wall to block the bad atmosphere at that time.
From the perspective of our posterity's reading of history, Mao Zedong's arrangement must have a profound meaning, and he saw that Li Desheng had always been on the correct road, and from the period of the Red Army to the founding of New China, he belonged to the struggle against the wrong line.
This is the biggest shining point in Li Desheng's body, because few people can stick to the right path all their lives.