In April 1949, the natural danger of the Yangtze River, on which the Kuomintang had high hopes, was broken, the People's Liberation Army swept through Jiangnan with an unstoppable momentum, the Kuomintang's reactionary rule was on the verge of disintegration, and the liberation of the whole country was just around the corner.
In September 1949, Peng Dehuai commanded Yiye to annihilate the main forces of Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui, who were entrenched in Lanzhou and Ningxia, liberated the vast areas of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Qingdao provinces, opened a passage into Xinjiang, and formed a trend of zhang nets.
Tao ZhiYue
For the Xinjiang issue, the strategy of the great man is to seek reconciliation. Through Zhang Zhizhong, he won over the Xinjiang garrison commander Tao Zhiyue, who jointly electrified the uprising with Bao Erhan, chairman of the Xinjiang government, and took the first step toward the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang.
Bourhan
Xinjiang after peaceful liberation was not peaceful. Although Xinjiang was peacefully liberated as a whole, the situation in Xinjiang is still very complicated. The separatist ideology of the old local forces in Xinjiang to "drive out the Han Chinese" and establish the "Republic of East Turkistan" has always been haunted, and this political trend has a deep influence in some parts of Xinjiang, and they carry out separatist and sabotage activities through various separatist means.
On the one hand, the great men took many measures at the same time; on the one hand, they sent a telegram ordering Tao Zhiyue and Bao Erhan to maintain national unity and local order, and to cooperate with the People's Liberation Army to abolish the old system and implement the new system; on the other hand, they invited local revolutionary leaders in Xinjiang to participate in the political consultative conference in order to win the broadest support of the people in Xinjiang; third, when the new government in Xinjiang was established, the principle of local ethnic minorities being the masters of their own affairs was determined, and the proportion of Han and Minority in the government was set at 2 to 3. With a view to adopting the above measures, we can quickly stabilize the situation in Xinjiang.
Great man and Wang Zhen
Generally speaking, the military is the continuation and guarantee of politics, and whether various measures can be fully implemented to play a role requires military support, so it is imperative for the PLA to enter Xinjiang, and the question is who to send to Xinjiang.
At that time, the four corps of Yiye were commanded by Wang Zhen, Xu Guangda, Zhou Shidi, and Yang Dezhi, and those who entered xinjiang were bound to be selected from these four people. On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the great man met With Wang Zhen and asked him his future plans, to which Wang Zhen replied: Go to the most arduous and needy place. The great man estimated that he had already planned at that time, and specifically asked Wang Zhen to listen to his thoughts.
Next, when talking to Peng Dehuai and Wang Zhen about the Xinjiang issue, the great man said: "Our fellow villager Zuo Wenxiang (Zuo Zongtang) said, 'If Xinjiang is not solid, then the Mongolian department will be uneasy, and the bandits on all sides of shaanxi and Gansu Mountain will be worried about invading Yiyi, and they will not be able to prevent it, that is, they will not be able to prevent it, that is, they will not be able to sleep in the guanshan mountains in the north. This is reasonable, and we should pay special attention to the Xinjiang issue.
The great man was determined to entrust the Xinjiang problem to Wang Zhen, and he said to Wang Zhen: Zuo Zongtang once left a poem, "Three thousand lines of newly planted willows have attracted the spring wind and jade pass." Comrade Wang Zhen, I hope that after you arrive in Xinjiang, you will be able to surpass Zuo Wenxianggong and build Xinjiang into a beautiful and rich paradise. ”
Subsequently, Wang Zhen led the order into Xinjiang, he did not bear the heavy trust, put down the rebellion, stabilized the situation, tens of thousands of troops took root in Xinjiang, reclaimed the border, developed and built, and made outstanding contributions to the development and construction of new China.
Then, why did the great man choose Wang Zhen to enter Xinjiang and sit in the counterinsurgency? There are roughly the following considerations:
First, Wang Zhenjiu fought in the northwest and was familiar with the situation in the northwest. There were 1st, 2nd, 18th, and 19th corps in Yiye, and the 18th and 19th Corps were originally the sequence of the North China Field Army, and Zhou Shidi and Yang Dezhi fought in North China most of the time, and the northwest was relatively unfamiliar. Xu Guangda, commander of the Second Corps, studied in the Soviet Union for a long time and did not have the long time that Wang Zhen fought in the northwest, so it was better for Wang Zhen, commander of the First Corps, to lead the army into Xinjiang.
Second, Wang Zhen fought bravely and tenaciously. Wang Zhen has been a member of our army since the red army period, and he has made outstanding achievements in both the Long March period and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In particular, in 1944, he led his troops to a long-distance raid and operation, which lasted two years, traveled more than 27,000 miles, and fought more than 300 battles, from Yan'an to the Border of Xiangyue and Guangdong, and then back to Yan'an, deeply praised by the great man, affectionately called him "Wang Beard", praised this move as the second long march of our army, wang Zhen was entrusted with a heavy responsibility is inevitable.
Third, Wang Zhen can not only fight wars, but also produce, which is even more precious. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Zhen led the 359th Brigade into Nanniwan to reclaim the land, and a year later built tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in the original wasteland, producing 10 million kilograms of grain. The deeds of Nanniwan spread throughout the large and small base areas, and they could fight and produce, and the prestige of the 359th Brigade was spread all over the world. Xinjiang has had a tradition of reclamation and reclamation since ancient times, and the republic will certainly not be missing, so it is most appropriate for Wang Zhen to enter Xinjiang.
In the end, Wang Zhen's courage and strategy, and his style of work are tough. On the one hand, Wang Zhen resolutely cracked down on the rebels and never tolerated them; on the other hand, he followed Mao Zedong's instructions of "severely punishing the first evil and treating the soldiers leniently," controlled the overall situation, strategized, and quickly opened up the situation. He also adopted a series of measures that were supported by the people of Xinjiang, such as dividing land among the Uighur people, liberating women's rights and interests, and abolishing polygamy, winning the initiative politically and greatly isolating the rebels. As for his toughness, I will not say more, under his rule, Xinjiang has not had chaos for many years, and justice is in the hearts of the people.