Jiang Dongxing, the founding major general, who accompanied Mao Zedong for a long time, wrote a memoir of Wang Dongxing, in which he recorded many interesting things about Mao Zedong's political life:
Chairman Mao said to the people present in a targeted manner: We must be modest and cautious, do not our tails, it does not matter if there are mistakes, we have such a rule in our Party, if we are wrong, we will review them. This time, Comrade Wang Dongxing did not get aside!
I interjected that I had made a mistake at the Lushan conference.
Chairman Mao asked: None of you participated in the "Seven Battles and Seven Victories" (from July 13 to August 31, 1946, the Central China Field Army, under the command of Commander Su Yu and Political Commissar Tan Zhenlin, fought for 45 days, annihilating 6 brigades and 5 traffic police brigades of the Kuomintang Army, a total of 5. More than 30,000 people, commonly known as "seven wars and seven victories". ------------------
Chen Liyun said he had participated.
Chairman Mao did not believe it and said, "I can't see it!" What kind of official were you then?
Chen Liyun replied: He has served as deputy director, director, and deputy political commissar.
Chairman Mao's question here about the "seven wars and seven victories" in the Soviet central region at the beginning of the Liberation War was to further discuss the issue of cadres. He said that one of the commanders of the "Seven Wars and Seven Victories" was Tan Zhenlin, who served as the secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee after the founding of the People's Republic of China until 1952.
Chairman Mao then spoke of Comrade Chen Yi. He said: Chen Yi has the advantage of fighting a war, and he can also listen to other people's words. When he beat Meng Lianggu, he listened to Su Yu in the south and Xu Shiyou in the north.
At the beginning of the Liberation War, Su Yu was in the central China Liberated Area in the south, and Xu Shiyou was on the Jiaoji Line in the north. Later, the Central China Field Army withdrew north to Shandong to form the East China Field Army, with Chen Yi as the commander of the former secretary of the political commissar, Su Yu as the deputy commander, and Xu Shiyou as the commander of the Jiaoji Line Field Army and commander of the Ninth Column.