Original title: Wu Dongfeng: Ye Shuai said why he said "poetry is good poetry, that is, some complaints" | tao hanzhang of my pen and ink relationship with the founding general
General Tao Hanzhang
Generals on the battlefield are mostly known for their military achievements, while General Tao Hanzhang has established a peak with military theory and military education.
General Tao Hanzhang was of medium stature and well-proportioned. Like to wear top hats, paper fans, there are celebrity pie. The general wrote a lot of works in his lifetime, about 1 million words. There are five most proud books, such as "Military Questions and Answers 100 Questions", "Sun Tzu's Introduction to the Art of War", etc., which are popular in the battle during the battle.
The first book, "Military Questions and Answers 100 Questions", is the debut work of General Tao Hanzhang, born in the Red Army period. The book was copied on local red, green, blue, and yellow paper for weddings and funerals, and organized in the form of questions and answers, and was widely circulated in the Red Army company according to Yun. Such as: What is offense? What is defense? What is a chase? ...... Answer them one by one, popular, easy to understand, easy to remember. In 1934, General Tao Hanzhang was appointed as a tactical instructor at the Red Army School of the Xianggan Military Region.
The second book, Outline of Guerrilla Tactics, was written by Mr. Zou Taofen during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and was published by Sanlian Bookstore in 1939 under the name Tao Jianqing. In 1992, when Tao Hanzhang joined the Huangpu Military Academy Alumni Association, he learned that this book was circulating among the Kuomintang army, and after introduction, he first saw the true appearance of the book "Outline of Guerrilla Tactics", 54 years after the publication of the book.
The third book was "Staff Work of the Eighth Route Army", which was later changed to "Staff Work Manuals". After the publication of the book, it was popular among all units of the People's Liberation Army, and there were different versions of Erye, Sanye, and Siye. Nie Rongzhen, commander of the North China Military Region, presented General Tao Hanzhang with a first prize medal and a remuneration of 300 yuan. General Tao Hanzhang said: "At that time, a soldier's monthly allowance was only 1 yuan, and cadres' allowance was 5 yuan. 300 yuan is equivalent to the current 3000 yuan! ”
The fourth book, Tropical Jungle Combat (Internal Edition), was published in 1978 by the Military and Political University as an internal reading. A year later, it was serialized by the People's Liberation Army Daily in the self-defense counterattack in southern Xinjiang and distributed to all the participating units. At that time, the general was the vice president of the Platon Military and Political University.
The fifth book is "Introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War", published in October 1985, with translations from the United States, Britain, Malaysia, Singapore and other five countries, and published in dozens of countries around the world.
This "Introduction" was also written in the 1950s and 1960s when Tao Hanzhang was an instructor at the Nanjing Military Academy, at the behest of Marshal Liu Bocheng, the dean. It was changed several times over the years before it was published in 1985. It was soon translated into English by a Chinese military attaché to the United Nations and published by the Sterling Company in New York, USA, and initially did not attract attention. After the outbreak of the Gulf War, some people recommended the book to the US Department of Defense, but only bought 100 copies and distributed it to the senior generals who participated in the war. Immediately afterward, the American Military Book Club and the Star-Spangled Banner Press bought another batch and recommended it to the U.S. Marines who participated in the war.
The name of General Tao Hanzhang has since become famous in the US military circles. Burzinski, a senior adviser to the U.S. Congress, wrote to General Tao Hanzhang: "I have read your book, and not only have I benefited personally, but I believe that all who have read this book have benefited." Soon, the secretary of state of the U.S. state of Alabama sent a special person to China to award the title of "Honorary Secretary of State of Alabama" to General Tao Hanzhang, who was recuperating in Guangzhou.
During the Cultural Revolution, General Tao Hanzhang was persecuted by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" and was imprisoned. In 1971, he was rehabilitated and released from prison, coinciding with the Chongyang Festival, and the general felt inspired and wrote a poem:
A few degrees of heavy yang and a few degrees of autumn,
The hero's twilight heart is leisurely.
Willing to shoulder heavy burdens,
Shame on yourself for being light.
Prosperous Bole should always have,
The vicissitudes of the degree are left to stay.
Read the list of books,
Light sail steady rudder pan midstream.
General Tao Hanzhang recalled: "This poem was somehow transmitted to Ye Jianying, and After reading this poem, Ye Shuai said a sentence: 'Poetry is a good poem, it is a little grumbling.' ’”
At that time, Ye Jianying re-presided over the daily work of the Central Military Commission as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission after the Lin Biao incident, and was elected vice chairman of the Party Central Committee in 1973. At the recommendation of Ye Shuai, Tao Hanzhang became vice president of the Military and Political University and vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences.
It is said that at that time, there were several candidates for vice president of the National Defense University, all of whom were outstanding military commanders from various field units, and Ye Jianying supported Tao Hanzhang, saying: "It is very easy for the National Defense University to choose a vice president who can manage, but it is not easy to choose a vice president with academic thinking and research level. ”
On January 19, 1998, General Tao Hanzhang's eightieth birthday, I wrote a couplet to celebrate the birthday. Shanglian: Rongma's life is not belligerent; Xialian: Strategizing and planning. I asked Zheng Hongbiao, the director of the cultural editorial office of the Warrior Newspaper and a calligrapher, to write calligraphy as a birthday gift to the general, and General Tao Hanzhang was very happy, and he wrote the above poem on my autographed book to give it back to me.
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