The general with a hot temper and the courage to fight in battle is not only Peng Dehuai, but the founding major general Zhong Wei also has several characteristics:
First, the temper is hot, but the love of soldiers and the people;
The second is to obey orders as a vocation, but not to follow the rules;
Third, if there is a war, it will go to the battlefield.
Zhong Wei joined the Red Army in 1930, but he was good at fighting, and his promotion was very quick, he became the political commissar of the regiment in only three years, at the end of the agrarian revolution, he was already the director of the political department of the division, and he was the deputy brigade commander at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
At the beginning of the Liberation War, the Nationalist army pursued the strategic plan of "first going south and then north, attacking the north from the south, and attacking the north from the south", concentrating four armies aimed at eliminating the main force of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, while our army launched the South Crossing Operation, which was called the Three Lower Jiangnan, and the nationalist army was exhausted in energy.
One day, Zhong Wei received lin biao's military orders and led the Fifth Division to zhongchang Road to annihilate the enemy's new first army.
According to intelligence analysis, Zhong Wei thought that he could annihilate the enemy's two battalions, but the political commissar believed that without the orders of his superiors, he could not covet immediate interests, and even if he won the battle, he would also make a mistake, but the division commander Zhong Wei was iron-hearted and said: "It is wrong to disobey the military order, but it is a big mistake to delay the impact of the fighter plane on the overall situation!" ”
The political commissar refused to retreat, and Zhong Wei gave an order: "It is so determined, take two battalions of the enemy army, hit the wrong one, and shoot me to bear it!" Lin Biao repeatedly urged Zhong Wei to advance east, but when Zhong Wei saw that the situation on the battlefield had changed, he bit the enemy's two battalions to death, and then pinned down an enemy regiment, so that the enemy's Eighty-seventh Division also rushed to reinforcements.
Zhong Wei was not in danger, while commanding the battle, he reported the battle situation to Lin Biao, originally to let Zhong Wei cooperate with the main force to annihilate the enemy, but this time, Lin Biao was asked to transfer the first column and the second column to cooperate with Zhong Wei to fight, and this battle was a big victory, Zhong Wei completely annihilated one regiment of the enemy, and dragged an enemy division, so that Lin Biao commanded the first column and the sixth column to completely annihilate the enemy's division at Guojiatun!
In 1955, Zhong Wei was awarded the rank of major general and served as the chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region, and served as the chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region, with the reputation of General Patton of China.
Zhong Wei was straight, which also made him suffer a lot later, although he was in a high position, but Zhong Wei was a well-known model of honest government, his son once wanted him to find a job, but he was sent back to his hometown as a farmer, he loved his granddaughter, but when his granddaughter offered to let him help find a job in Beijing, Zhong Wei declined:
To go back to the exam yourself, not to go through the back door, that is shameless, Grandpa hates corrupt elements the most, if you give me a machine gun, I will surprise them all.
When the counterattack against Vietnam broke out in 1979, Zhong Wei did not resume his post until 1980, when he was rehabilitated, the 70-year-old Zhong Wei asked the Central Military Commission to go out of the mountains to participate in the war, but the old chief Huang Kecheng advised him, saying: "You stay well, if you fight again, he will go to you." "A few years later, General Zhong Wei died of illness, and his will was touching:
"Dear party, I don't have to pay my salary after I die, my children can live on their own, I don't owe any debts, my TV set and refrigerator are handed over to the party as the final party fee, no memorial service and farewell before the spirit, and my ashes are scattered in Pingjiang, the place where we revolt."
Paying tribute to this brave and honest Chinese General Patton, the older generation of generals, the most precious thing is quality, and he has been for the party and the country for the people all his life.