In 1955, New China decided to implement the military rank system. In the process of awarding titles, some generals expressed dissatisfaction with the central government's decision-making, and the title was very serious.
In particular, The generals Wang Bicheng, Xu Shiyou, and Zhong Wei were more serious in their titles, and the main reason for the troubles was that the central government had set their own ranks too low.
Among the three, Xu Shiyou found Premier Zhou here to complain. Zhou Enlai said: "Su Yu, who made great achievements in the Liberation War, only had the rank of general. ”
Wang Bicheng found his old superior Tan Zhenlin, who went to his superior to reflect on the matter, and as a result, he was criticized.
Zhong Wei made the most of a fuss and said directly: "I want to hang the medal given by the state on the dog's tail!" After Lin Biao heard about this, he directly criticized Zhong Wei before he stopped.
The protagonist introduced by the author today is Wang Bicheng of the three people.
Wang Bicheng photo
During the Liberation War, Hua Ye's deputy commander had three capable generals under his command, namely Tao Yong, Ye Fei, and Wang Bicheng. As the saying goes, a good man has three gangs, and Su Yu was able to achieve such a battle later, which had a lot to do with the three generals under his command.
Wang Bicheng was born in late 1912 and is a native of Macheng, Hubei Province. At the age of 17, Wang Bicheng joined the Red Army and successively served as the commander of the Red Army, the regimental commander, and the deputy division commander.
After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Bicheng successively served as deputy commander of the Seventh Corps of Sanye and commander of the column.
The fate with General Su Yu began in 1940. At that time, Wang Bicheng was the commander of the second column of the Northern Jiangsu Command, and General Su Yu was the deputy commander of the Northern Jiangsu Command.
In the process of fighting hand in hand, the two formed a deep friendship.
In 1946, at the beginning of the Liberation War, when Wang Bicheng led his troops to guard Lianshui, he was attacked by the Nationalist reorganized 74th Division.
In this battle, Wang Bicheng's performance was very poor, and he was defeated under various factors.
At the end of June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek launched a full-scale civil war, and the Liberated Areas of Central Soviet Union were the main direction of the attack.
Under the leadership of Su Yu, the generals were invincible, and Wang Bicheng also charged into the battlefield and participated in five of the battles.
On August 31 this year, the seven battles of Suzhong ended in victory, and Wang Bicheng's mood was also greatly excited.
Of course, the Kuomintang did not give up.
On September 19 and September 22 of the same year, the 28th and 74th divisions of the Kuomintang coup d'état occupied the Lianghuai region, and they also wanted to talk about lianshuicheng, a military stronghold in northern Jiangsu.
Picture | Wang Bicheng photo
In order to prepare for the Battle of Subei and cover the retreat of the Wei army's party, government, military and government organs in central China from Shandong, Wang Bicheng led reinforcements in October and 123, respectively, to relieve the pressure on the soldiers who insisted on Lianshui, and fought a bloody battle under Lianshui City in the 74th Division.
The october war lasted 14 days and was fought very hard.
He commanded the 6th Division and his brother troops to fight the enemy, and finally defended Lianshui City, annihilating more than 9,000 enemy troops.
During the December war, Wang Bicheng and political commissar Jiang Weiqing carefully analyzed the enemy situation, believing that the main direction of the 74th Division's attack was not in the south of the city, but actually in the west of the city, hoping to shift the focus of defense to the western front.
Pictured| photo of Lingfu
However, this opinion of the superiors on Wang Bicheng did not attract the attention of the superiors, and in the end the battle was lost and forced to withdraw from the battlefield.
Chen Yi was angry when he heard the news of the defeat and decided to remove Wang Bicheng from his post. It was precisely after Su Yu came forward to protect chen Yi dispelled this idea.
When turning to Shandong to fight in central China, Su Yu, the head of Huaye, said: "If you encounter the 74th Division, you must not forget us!" ”
Su Yu naturally knew Wang Bicheng and knew that this was a piece of his heart disease, and immediately said, "You can rest assured, we met the 74th Division, and we will certainly not forget you!" ”
Figure | The War of Liberation
Sure enough, after the Meng Lianggu Campaign was launched, Wang Bicheng fought the enemy to the end with full rivet this time. After the campaign was launched, he shouted: "Defend the comrades who died in the Defense of Lianshui!" ”
The outcome of this war was gratifying, and victory was finally achieved. After the war, Su Yu and Chen Yi said to Wang Bicheng: "This time you can completely annihilate the 74th Army, but you have made a great contribution!" ”
At this moment, Wang Bicheng's depressed mood of being frustrated by the Battle of Lianshui was finally relieved.
After the founding of New China, Wang Bicheng successively served as commander of the Shanghai Garrison District and commander of the Zhejiang Military Region. In 1955, New China awarded titles to generals who had participated in the revolution.
Figure | Su Yu and Wang Bicheng
The central government gave Wang Bicheng the rank of lieutenant general, but he felt that the central government had set him low.
In fact, from the perspective of comprehensive factors in all aspects, the procedure is in line with the regulations.
In 1958, Su Yu became chief of staff. In his many years of war career, he only understood war, was insensitive to politics, knew nothing about it, and offended some people.
In the same year, the central government also held a meeting to attack Liu Bocheng and Xiao Ke.
After Su Yu was criticized, some people found three subordinates of Su Yu in the war years, and Wang Bicheng was naturally among them.
Ye Fei was very prestigious in the army and was a founding general. But at Su Yu's criticism meeting, Ye Fei didn't say a word.
No matter what others said, he was not willing to go against his own heart and say that Su Yu really had some fault.
Picture | Wang Bicheng and the leaders of Hua Ye's Sixth Column
As for Wang Bicheng, he clearly understood Su Yu's character and style, and he did not believe at all that his old superiors really had any faults, nor did he believe in the "false" charges imposed on General Su Yu.
Therefore, these people asked Wang Bicheng and Su Yu to draw a clear line, and Wang Bicheng did not agree to it.
Ye Fei did not speak, but Wang Bicheng stepped forward and said, "I have been ordered to expose Su Yu during the years that I have been fighting with General Su Yu. I feel his conspiracy very deeply. There are two main points, that is, "big" and "plot".
Then, Wang Bicheng said: "I remember that before the Battle of Jinan was over, Su Yu wanted Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee to propose the Huaihai Campaign and disintegrate the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's army. The central authorities adopted Su Yu's suggestion, and we finally won the final victory in the Battle of Huaihai. How big this conspiracy is, I dare not comment on it, nor am I qualified to comment on it, but only Chairman Mao understands it best. As for Su Yuyin's side, I didn't see it, let alone experience it. ”
After Wang Bicheng's speech at this table, all the generals under the rostrum began to talk about it. At that time, Marshal He Long also participated in the meeting.
Originally, he did not speak to some of Su Yu's untrue remarks. But after hearing Wang Bicheng's remarks, he also got up.
The people who spoke at the venue were instantly silent, only to hear Wang Bicheng say: "Su Yu is credible and can be handed over." ”
After a while, the audience was quiet, and He Long stood up again and said, "Su Yu is credible and can make deep friends." ”
General Tao Yong was also a fierce general who followed Su Yu for many years. In this regard, Tao Yong said: "My culture is very low, I can't read words, this manuscript was written by the secretary of one of my chiefs, but some of these words I don't know, I am afraid that I can't read it well." If there is something wrong, please ask the secretary to add. ”
Pictured | a photo of Wang Bicheng, the founding lieutenant general
Hearing Tao Yong's words, the generals in the audience laughed one after another. The person presiding over the meeting saw this scene and hurriedly ordered someone to take Tao Yong out of the venue.
In 1984, General Su Yu passed away. After Wang Bicheng learned the news of the death of his old superior, he could not help but return from it in sorrow.
He knew that the hat on General Su Yu's head had not yet been taken off, so he wanted to write a letter to the central government, hoping to restore the general's reputation.
Su Yu's wife knew Wang Bicheng's idea and quickly stopped him.
In 1994, Su Yu, Zhang Zhen, and Liu Huaqing officially published an article entitled "Remembering Comrade Su Yu", hoping to restore the reputation of General Su Yu.
Su Yu had only regained his innocence, and wang Bicheng had already died at this time.
Photo | Su Yu
To this end, Chu Qing also specially came to Wang Bicheng's tomb and told him the good news, hoping to rest in peace under the Nine Springs.