Look northwest, shoot the wolf. Northwest An, National Security. The Lanzhou Military Region was once the largest military region in China, with jurisdiction over five northwestern provinces and a strategic location of great importance. Those who can become commanders of the Lanzhou Military Region are all famous generals who can fight a vicious battle.
In the history of the Lanzhou Military Region, many commanders were famous generals, such as Lieutenant General Pi Dingjun of the Central Plains Breakthrough Jianqigong, and General Han Xianchu, the commander of the whirlwind. Han Xianchu was followed by du Yide, a famous general of the Hundred Battles, who was Deng Xiaoping's beloved general, the political commissar of the Sixth Column, and Wang Jinshan's iron partner.
In 1982, the commander of the Lanzhou Military Region was replaced again, who would replace Du Yide? Whether it was the former commander Du Yide or the newly arrived commander, they were a generation of generals who made Deng Xiaoping very relieved.
Deng Xiaoping said to Du Yide, "With you in the northwest, I will be relieved."
Among the few columns in Liu Deng's army, the sixth column was a young column and a column that could fight a hard battle. The commander of the column was preceded by the founding general Wang Hongkun, and then there was the founding lieutenant general Wang Jinshan. The six columns were able to fight a hard battle under the leadership of Wang Jinshan.
The bloody battle at Dayang Lake, the complete annihilation and reorganization of the enemy's Third Division, the Sixth Column was successful in the spirit of unsuccessful chengren, and the first battle made the Big Brother Column look at it with astonishment. Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping relied heavily on and trusted liuzhong.
The commander of the column, Wang Jinshan, did not say that he had fought in the war, but he also caused a lot of trouble and was not very stable. The war in the Central Plains was tight, and he was about to jump thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, but he actually had an accident, his thigh was crushed and fractured, and he dropped the chain at a critical moment and left the army.
(Deng Xiaoping and Du Yide, etc.)
The country is in trouble. Wang Jinshan left, fortunately there was also political commissar Du Yide. Du Yide was also a general from the Red Fourth Front, and the political commissars of the Red Fourth Front not only did political work, they were generally military and political all-rounders, who could fight wars and do political work.
For example, Chen Xilian, who has served as both a division commander and a division political commissar, such as Du Yide, is also a division commander and a division political commissar, and he has also fought many vicious battles in the Red Fourth Front. Wang Jinshan left, the sixth column could not be without a marshal for a day, and Du Yide was both a political commissar and an acting commander, and he still won the battle.
Relatively speaking, Du Yide was more stable than Wang Jinshan, and it reassured Liu Deng' chief. At the critical moment when the ruhe river was forcibly crossed south, Chief Liu Deng led the personnel of the organ to march with the sixth column, which was a high degree of trust in Du Yide and absolute reassurance.
Du Yide did not disappoint Chief Liu Deng, not only to fight, but also to protect the safety of the chiefs, he was highly nervous during that time, the most tense moment, the whole person kept sweating, almost collapsed. Du Yide withstood the pressure, withstood the test, successfully entered the Dabie Mountain, worked hard to fight, circled with the enemy, and spent the most difficult years with Chief Liu Deng.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Du Yide was awarded the title of founding vice admiral, and served in the navy for a long time, serving as deputy political commissar of the navy. In 1979, the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam began, and after Deng Xiaoping dispatched troops from land, he sent Du Yide to sit on the sea to prevent the enemy from attacking from the sea. Du Yide went, and Deng Xiaoping was relieved.
In 1980, Han Xianchu entered Beijing to take up his post, and the position of commander of the Lanzhou Military Region was vacated. Deng Xiaoping again ordered Du Yide to go to the Lanzhou Military Region as commander. Du Yide said to Deng Xiaoping,
Rest assured, I will do my best.
Soon after his arrival, Du Yide began to work with all his heart and blood, disregarding his elderly body and going deep into the border defense forces to investigate and investigate. In the Hexi Corridor, Du Yide led the cadres of the military region and said to "Zuo Gongliu",
Zuo Zongtang can also leave shade for future generations, and we Communists and revolutionary soldiers should consolidate the construction of national defense and leave achievements for future generations.
In 1981, the second year of Du Yide's tenure as commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, Deng Xiaoping inspected the troops of the Lanzhou Military Region, shook Du Yide's hand, and said,
With you in the Northwest, I'm relieved.
This sentence fully shows that Deng Xiaoping was very satisfied with and very much recognized Du Yide's work.
(Du Yide accompanied Deng Xiaoping on his inspection)
In 1982, at the age of 70, Du Yide took the initiative to retreat to the second line. Mr. Deng named another veteran and asked him to take over as commander of the Lanzhou Military Region. He is Zheng Weishan.
Deng Xiaoping said to Zheng Weishan, "I am relieved that you will go to Lanzhou to become a commander."
Du Yide was a native of Huangpi, Wuhan, and Zheng Weishan was a native of Xinxian County, Henan, both of whom were sons of Dabie Mountain and generals of the Red Fourth Front. Du Yide was born in 1912, and Zheng Weishan was 3 years younger than him. Relatively speaking, Zheng Weishan is more outstanding.
In the Red Fourth Front, they were all promoted to senior generals at the level of the main division in 1933. At that time, Du Yide was 21 years old, and Zheng Weishan was only 18 years old. During the Liberation War, Du Yide was the political commissar of Liu Deng's column, following Liu Deng to the Central Plains, and Zheng Weishan was the commander of the column under Nie Rongzhen of the North China Military Region to defend North China.
In 1948, Fu Zuoyi suddenly sneaked into Shijiazhuang and Xibaipo in a vain attempt to take extraordinary measures against Chairman Mao and other central leaders. At the crucial moment, Chairman Mao sang a thrilling plan for the empty city and deceived Fu Zuoyi. History is not a novel, and behind Chairman Mao's empty city plan, there is Zheng Weishan's painstaking efforts.
At that time, the military situation was urgent, and Premier Zhou urgently dispatched Zheng Weishan's three columns to aid Shijiazhuang. Zheng Weishan was a famous flying general, who marched for more than 600 miles in 4 days and 4 nights, fell from the sky, and suddenly appeared near Shijiazhuang, blocking the enemy's retreat, which frightened Fu Zuoyi.
The four major field armies were established, with Du Yide as deputy commander of the 3rd Corps and commander of the 10th Army, and Zheng Weishan as the commander of the 63rd Army, and later promoted to deputy commander of the 19th Corps. In 1969, Zheng Weishan succeeded General Yang Yong as the commander of the Beijing Military Region, although he was the younger brother, he became the commander of the Grand Military Region earlier than Du Yide, and he was in charge of the Gyeonggi Heavy Land.
Chairman Mao once said,
There is Xu Shiyou in the south and Zheng Weishan in the north, all of which are wind and fire, and they are fierce.
Juxtaposing Zheng Weishan and Xu Shiyou is a high appraisal of Zheng Weishan and shows that Chairman Mao recognized Zheng Weishan's work.
(Lieutenant General Zheng Weishan)
In December 1982, the 67-year-old veteran Zheng Weishan was appointed commander of the Lanzhou Military Region. Before leaving, Deng Xiaoping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, personally talked with Zheng Weishan. Deng Xiaoping said in a serious tone,
You are an expert in leading soldiers to fight, those who do not need me to say more, you go to Lanzhou as a commander, I am at ease, pay attention to two things, the first is to cultivate ten successors in the northwest, the second is to vigorously plant trees and afforestation, green the great northwest, and benefit future generations.
Deng Xiaoping assigned Zheng Weishan two major strategic tasks: one was to plant trees and afforestation to benefit the future, and the other was to cultivate qualified personnel and solve the problem of rejuvenating cadres as soon as possible. Zheng Weishan shook Deng Xiaoping's hand and said: I will certainly bow down and strive to fulfill the tasks assigned by the central authorities.
The commander of the Grand Military Region personally came to the door to visit an old man
After Zheng Weishan arrived at his post, he timely conveyed Deng Xiaoping's instructions and launched the Great Northwest Greening Campaign. Zheng Weishan is very self-aware, although he was born in the countryside and grew up planting land, he is an outsider for greening.
Professional things need to be done by professional people. Zheng Weishan found a large number of agricultural and forestry books to read. Agriculture and forestry experts from all over the country heard Deng Xiaoping's call and offered their words and ideas one after another. The 88-year-old vice president of the Agricultural Society wrote a letter to Zheng Weishan from his hospital bed and recommended a person to him, named Liu Yazhi.
Liu Yazhi has been engaged in flower garden planting all his life, and is in a brigade on the outskirts of Lanzhou, known locally as Liu Laohan. On this day, Commander Zheng Weishan personally visited the door and said to Liu Yazhi,
You are a forestry expert, I specifically asked you for advice, can you give us a consultant?
Liu Yazhi introduced the dwarf pruning technique to Zheng Weishan, put forward the idea of afforestation with drought, and gave Zheng Weishan two books written by himself. Zheng Weishan, if he has won the most precious treasure, has the guidance of scientific theories, and the great cause of greening has been carried out smoothly.
For the rejuvenation of cadres, Zheng Weishan has the most say, and he became a full division before he was 20 years old. Now that he is the commander of the Great Military Region, Zheng Weishan knows what talent is and how to discover and train talent, and soon a large number of young cadres were promoted.
Of course, as the commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, the most important thing is to grasp combat readiness. The reason why Deng Xiaoping was reassured about Zheng Weishan was because he knew that Zheng Weishan was a professional who fought in the war.
In order to understand the situation, Zheng Weishan conducted field research, and from helan Mountain to the Hexi Corridor, the off-road vehicles ran one after another, and the staff officers of the operations department were a bit overwhelmed. Zheng Weishan, an old man who is nearly seventy years old, has a high morale and has never aged when he travels all over Qingshan.
Zheng Weishan spent half a year leading the personnel of the organs to survey the terrain of the northwest, and successively traveled more than 70,000 kilometers, covering important mountain passes under the jurisdiction of the Lanzhou Military Region, large and small hills, and border posts.
From the perspective of military specialization, Zheng Weishan put forward many new ideas and new viewpoints, and in accordance with Deng Xiaoping's strategic principle of active defense, formulated a complete set of defensive combat plans for the northwest region, which caused great repercussions in the Lanzhou Military Region. In 1985, at the age of 70, Zheng Weishan ended his term as commander of the Grand Military Region and retired to the second line.
The commanders of the old and new military regions have a special complex for the Great Northwest
As mentioned earlier, Du Yide and Zheng Weishan were both generals of the Red Fourth Front, and they also had one thing in common: after the end of the Long March, they both joined the Western Route Army and experienced that tragic defeat. Du Yide was the commander of the cavalry division, he covered Wang Shusheng's breakthrough, and after being scattered, he begged for food all the way back to Yan'an.
Zheng Weishan was the political commissar of the Red 88th Division at that time, his experience was surprisingly similar to Du Yide, the troops were scattered, 22-year-old Zheng Weishan went out day and night, in order to avoid the enemy's search, he went to the desert without people, hungry had to catch bison dung to fill his hunger, thirsty sometimes drink his own urine. After going through hardships to return to the organization's report, Zheng Weishan is also a "beggar" covered with lice.
The defeat of the Western Route Army left them with unforgettable pain. The special experience makes Du Yide and Zheng Weishan have a very heavy northwest complex. Let them successively serve as the commander of the Lanzhou Military Region and return to the Hexi Corridor, which is the providence of the underworld.
During his inspection of Qilian Mountain, he saw herds of horses, and Commissar Xiao Hua said to Du Yide,
Commander Du, maybe there are still the descendants of your Western Route Army cavalry division running away from the war horses.
This is true, Qilian Mountain not only has the descendants of the war horses of the Western Route Army, but also buries the remains of many martyrs of the Western Route Army.
Climbing Helan Mountain, Du Yide recalled the tragic war of that year and could not speak for a long time. He remembered many comrades-in-arms, many lovely comrades, who died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Ma family army, and the blood stained the land under his feet red.
Zheng Weishan's complex for Lanzhou was even heavier, the Western Route Army failed, he fled back with nine deaths, and in the later stages of the Liberation War, he waved his troops to participate in the liberation of Lanzhou City, aimed at the sworn enemy Ma Jiajun, bombed wildly, and avenged the red army brothers.
Unexpectedly, nearly seventy years old, Zheng Weishan became the commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, and when he inspected the Hexi Corridor, Zheng Weishan had specially inspected the ancient battlefield, and he could also see piles of white bones.
Most of those white bones belonged to the red army soldiers, all of whom belonged to our Red 88th Division.
When the Red 88th Division participated in the Western Expedition, there were more than 5,000 people, and only 20 people broke through in the end, and less than 10 people returned to Yan'an. Most of them died in the Qilian Mountains, when they were all children in their 10s and 20s.
Zheng Weishan, the political commissar of the division, was only 22 years old at the time.
After his retirement, Zheng Weishan missed the comrades who spilled blood on Qilian Mountain. He had always wanted to go to the northwest to have a look, take a walk, and talk to his comrades-in-arms, but unfortunately, because of his health, he was not able to make the trip in the end.
In 2000, Zheng Weishan died of illness at the age of 85. According to his will before his death, When Zheng Weishan left, he was facing west, facing the Qilian Mountain Pass, facing Lanzhou, and facing those comrades whose souls had returned to the Great Northwest.
Du Yide died in 2009 at the age of 98, and he lived longer than Zheng Weishan.
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