The cause of revolution is not a matter of making a fuss in the wind and snow, nor is it a dinner party or an embroidery of art, it is neither elegant nor calm. It is a glimmer of light that our party's ancestors fought hard in the grind of blood and fire and under the cold guns of the enemy. The soldiers who came out of the war years, each with great military achievements, everything they did for the republic was great and selfless, and at the same time there were hardships that ordinary people could not imagine.
After the founding of the Country, in recognition of what these great proletarian fighters had done for the Republic, an unprecedented ceremony was held in 1955. This ceremony represents the lofty significance given by the country and the people, and it is a rare honor for the generals who have fought for half their lives on the battlefield. Before such an important title awarding activity, many stories were naturally derived.
Because the conferment of the title is of great significance, Chairman Mao personally took the lead, and leaders at all levels were waiting in a strict line. In the evaluation process, the definition of the candidates for the ten marshals and the evaluation of merits are even more important. At that time, one of the benchmarks for evaluating marshals was that they needed to still serve in the army, but one of the ten marshals in the future was no longer in the army, he was Chen Yi, so the staff was embarrassed during the evaluation, or Premier Zhou Enlai came out and mentioned a figure, so that Chen Yi was recognized and became one of the marshals.
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Marshal Chen Yi's biography is already familiar to everyone. He was born in 1901 (27th year of qing guangxu) and became a member of the Communist Party of China as early as 1923. As a veteran of the Red Army, Chen Yi's contributions in the early stages of the war were of great significance. He led his comrades in the southern conquest of the northern war, led the uprising, and founded the base areas, and these achievements undoubtedly made many contributions to the development of the Red Army.
At the same time, the New Fourth Army also spread far and wide with the prestige of General Chen Yi. In countless major wars, this iron-blooded army made the enemy feel frightened, and in the eight-year War of Resistance and the subsequent Liberation War, the New Fourth Army created many military miracles again and again, which was closely related to Chen Yi's wise leadership. Therefore, in terms of merit alone, General Chen Yi is fully qualified to serve as a marshal.
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After the establishment of the republic, the military rank assessment was carried out in 1955, and the senior leaders and staff were very busy. Among them, the identification of marshal candidates is the biggest problem. Those who are qualified to be marshals must be the leaders of the First Army and make immortal contributions to the cause of the revolution. After careful evaluation, the Red 1 Red 2 and Red 4 armies respectively selected suitable candidates, and when it was the turn of the New Fourth Army, everyone made a mistake.
At that time, General Chen Yi was no longer working in the army, but was transferred to other departments, and Xiang Ying, the early elder of the New Fourth Army, was killed and General Ye Ting died. Then the only people who can serve as marshals are Su Yu and Chen Yi. Chairman Mao and Liu Shaoqi preferred Su Yu as marshal, while Premier Zhou supported Chen Yi.
General Su Yu is not only extremely strategic in battle, but also has a great heart in terms of being a person, and he expressed to the organization his willingness not to serve as a marshal, a move that not only in the military, but also in all walks of life of General Su Yu's open-mindedness and arrogance.
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After Su Yu gave up the marshal competition, only Chen Yi was qualified to serve as a marshal, but Chen Yi's absence from the army was still a difficult problem in the selection. Finally, Zhou Enlai pondered for a while and proposed a Soviet figure, Bulganin.
Bulganin was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, but he did not have a good record in the military history of the Soviet Army. At that time, the war was imminent, the Soviet army needed a person to stand up as the military leader of the Soviet army, and bulganin in the war did not have any outstanding achievements, but persisted in office to the end. After the war, the Soviet Union did not forget Bulganin, and although he, like General Chen Yi, was no longer in the army at this time, but was transferred to other departments, the Soviet Union still gave him the honor of marshal.
What's more, General Chen Yi's contribution to the battlefield is very significant, which is even stronger than Buljanin, and since Buljanin can become a marshal, General Chen Yi certainly cannot lose this opportunity because he is not in the army. Finally, at the suggestion of Premier Zhou, General Chen Yi finally received the rank of marshal.