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Among the founding generals, although Huang Kecheng did not have Su Yu's outstanding battle achievements and swept through thousands of armies, nor did he have the legendary magic and great achievements of Xu Haidong's Red Army period, he ranked third among the founding generals, and even ranked in front of the famous Chen Geng. Why is Huang Kecheng ranked so high? Does he deserve it?
Among the senior generals of our army, if they are good at strategic thinking and have a strategic vision, it is easy for everyone to think of Huang Kecheng. Chen Yi once commented on Huang Kecheng: "Don't look at you Master Huang wearing myopic glasses, his eyes can see far, it is clairvoyant."
Huang Kecheng's proposals of great strategic value are numerous. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Kecheng, who was the director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, found that after the abolition of the political commissar system and political organs, political work was greatly weakened, resulting in "the growth of the new warlordist tendency." He immediately proposed to his superiors the restoration of the system of political department and political commissar, which was eventually adopted by Mao Zedong and the Central Military Commission.
Huang Kecheng's most famous strategic proposal was the strategic proposal to the Party Central Committee after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to vigorously march into the northeast. In fact, on the way huang Kecheng led the third division into the northeast, many of his strokes were strategic. For example, the troops cannot leave their weapons, they must not only bring weapons but also drive into the northeast with full armor; the road to the northeast is long, and they must take the winter cotton clothes with them without fear of bearing weights; and the soldiers pay attention to the speed of the soldiers and do not stop in Shandong and go directly to the northeast front. These suggestions were adopted by the central authorities, demonstrating Huang Kecheng's outstanding strategic acumen.
Throughout Huang Kecheng's military career, many times he is a shoulder to shoulder with the military and politics, which can be described as both military and political excellence. In particular, in terms of establishing base areas, Huang Kecheng has the extraordinary ability to "throw beans and become soldiers." It is said that Luo Ronghuan praised and praised Huang Kecheng's ability.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the northern Jiangsu base areas and the Third Division of the New Fourth Army developed and grew under the leadership of Huang Kecheng. The structure and overall combat effectiveness of several divisions and third divisions of the New Fourth Army are very advanced. This allowed that when our Party decided to march into the northeast on a large scale after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Kecheng was able to lead more than 35,000 officers and men of the New Fourth Army to the northeast in a hurry. This force later became an important support and backbone force for the Northeast Field Army.
After the defeat in the Siping Defensive War, in accordance with the central authorities' strategic principle of "establishing a consolidated base area in the northeast," Huang Kecheng, who was appointed commander of the Western Manchuria Military Region, deployed quickly and quickly opened up the situation, ensuring that the construction of the base areas in the Western Manchuria region was fruitful and creating favorable conditions for the subsequent strategic decisive battle.
In the history of the construction and development of our army, there have been many generals who can recruit good soldiers, but there are not many senior generals who really understand the economy and can manage their own finances. Although Huang Kecheng was born in the army, he was very good at economic work. Zhou Enlai once said: "Huang Kecheng is a person I understand, you give him 10,000 yuan, he can use 100,000 yuan."
In May 1941, at the meeting of the supply ministers of the new fourth army held in Yancheng, Liu Shaoqi praised: "There are 7 divisions in the whole army, the three divisions have the most people and the least money, and they should learn from their experience."
During the northeast period, with the sharp increase in the number of soldiers in the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and the sharp increase in logistics support tasks, Huang Kecheng was appointed deputy commander of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and commander and political commissar of the Logistics Command, in charge of the logistics work of the entire northeast region. After taking office, Huang Kecheng paid attention to perfecting and perfecting the main logistics regional distribution, and paid attention to perfecting and perfecting the logistics support establishment framework and basic laws and regulations, and the logistics work in the northeast region was quickly raised to a new level. The Central Military Commission also deliberately forwarded and popularized the logistical work experience in the northeast region to other base areas and liberated areas in Guannei.
Many people do not know Huang Kecheng's experience in ruling the local government. In fact, in this regard, Huang Kecheng also reflects his extraordinary talent and wisdom.
Before the Battle of Tianjin, when looking for a candidate to take over Tianjin, the first industrial and commercial city to be liberated by china, Mao Zedong personally nominated Huang Kecheng to serve. Huang Kecheng became the first secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee. After taking office, Huang Kecheng put forward the work policy of "taking over the establishment of the government, stabilizing order, restoring production, and carrying out democratic reforms", and the entire takeover work progressed smoothly. Mao Zedong specially summoned Huang Kecheng to Beiping to report on the takeover of Tianjin and gave him high praise.
In August 1949, Hunan was about to be peacefully liberated. This is a place where "only Chu has materials and Yu Sisheng", and it is the hometown of Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Ren Bishi, and it is naturally extraordinary to send someone to rule Hunan. In particular, at that time, the half of Jiangnan was not yet completely liberated, and the strategic position of Hunan was important, which was the only place for our army to pursue and annihilate the Bai Chongxi clique. This time, Mao Zedong nominated Huang Kecheng again. As a result, Huang Kecheng was transferred from Tianjin to Hunan and began to perform the duties of secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and commander and political commissar of the Provincial Military Region...
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Main references: "Biography of Huang Kecheng", "Records of the Great General"