Among the founding generals, there are not a few people who have held the main posts of the major military regions, but there are not many people who have successively held full posts in the three major military regions, and Guo Linxiang, the founding major general, is one of them. Guo Linxiang, a native of Yongfeng County, Jiangxi, joined the Red Army at the age of 16 and participated in the first to fifth anti-encirclement and suppression operations. After the start of the Long March, he served as a company commander in Chen Geng's cadre regiment. When the Red Army's Long March passed through Qipan Mountain, it was surrounded and blocked by the Sichuan Army, and Guo Linxiang was ordered to lead his troops to block the enemy at the Widow River and cover the passage of the central column.
After the battle began, the enemy continued to launch a fierce attack relying on superior troops, and Guo Linxiang and the company commander commanded the troops to rely on simple fortifications to stubbornly block the attack. During the battle, the company commander was unfortunately killed, and Guo Linxiang was not in danger, commanding the whole company to repulse the enemy's three charge with frontal blockade and two-wing roundabout tactics, and successfully completed the task assigned by his superiors. After the war, Guo Linxiang was praised by the regimental commander Chen Geng for his good command. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Guo Linxiang served as the director of the Political Department of the 5th Military Sub-district of the Taihang Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and the commander at that time was Pi Dingjun.
After that, Guo Linxiang fought under the leadership of Pi Dingjun, first following him to create the anti-Japanese base area in western Henan, and then following Pi Dingjun to participate in the Central Plains breakthrough. During the Liberation War, Guo Linxiang entered Huaye and served as the director of the political department of the column and the deputy political commissar of the army, and successively participated in the Battles of Lianshui, Lunan, Laiwu and Menglianggu. Later, he was transferred to Shanxi to fight with Xu Qiangqian, and participated in the Battle of Linfen, the Battle of Jinzhong and the Battle of Taiyuan, and made many military achievements.
In the early days of the founding of New China, Guo Linxiang served in Sichuan, and his main job was to suppress bandits. In April 1950, he became the commander-in-chief of the Third Command of the Southwest United Defense and Suppression of Bandits. As soon as he took office, he held a public trial meeting in Tongnan, Hechuan, Wusheng and Guang'an, and shot 7 bandits who committed the most heinous crimes. This move greatly shocked the arrogance of the bandits, and encouraged by this, the masses led the way and sent information to the bandits, and the bandits' activities were greatly restricted.
At the same time, Guo Linxiang also set up "self-renewal personnel registration offices" in various counties, ordering bandits hiding in the northern Sichuan area to turn themselves in before the deadline and reform themselves. Guo Linxiang took a two-pronged approach and received good results, and two months later, the bandit plague in northern Sichuan was basically eliminated. After that, He Long personally appointed Guo Linxiang as the commander-in-chief of the front line of the Battle of Blackwater, and asked him to lead more than 20,000 people from 11 infantry regiments to Blackwater to suppress bandits. At that time, Fu Bingxun, commander of the Kuomintang 104th Division, colluded with Su Yonghe, the leader of the BlackWater, to launch an armed rebellion, and his arrogance was extremely arrogant.
After Guo Linxiang took office, he divided his forces into east and west to launch an attack on the rebels, and after more than two months of bitter fighting, he killed the bandit leader Fu Bingxun, and the Blackwater rebels were completely suppressed. Because of his boldness and ability, Guo Linxiang has been constantly used and has served as the political commissar of the Chengdu Military Region, the Xinjiang Military Region and the Nanjing Military Region. In 1985, my country carried out millions of disarmaments. Guo Linxiang, then political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region, suggested to Yu Qiuli, director of the General Political Department: "It is better to reduce the number of monks than to demolish the Great Temple," and explained: "The so-called demolition of the Great Temple is the merger of several major military regions, such as the Nanjing Military Region and the Fuzhou Military Region. ”
Yu Qiuli said: "Your idea is good, but it is difficult for cadres to handle it." Guo Linxiang said: "The Nanjing Military Region and the Fuzhou Military Region are merged, Xiang Shouzhi is the commander, fu Kuiqing is the political commissar, I can come down." Yu Qiuli did not take a position on the spot after listening. Soon after, the Fuzhou Military Region was merged into the Nanjing Military Region, with Xiang Shouzhi, former commander of the Nanjing Military Region, remaining in his post, Fu Kuiqing, former political commissar of the Fuzhou Military Region, serving as political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region, and Guo Linxiang being ordered to serve in Beijing as secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Military Commission.
At that time, Guo Linxiang was already 71 years old, and he thought that the Beijing officials were difficult to deal with and had certain ideological concerns, so he said to Yang Shangkun, who was then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission: I will retire after only one year of work. But a year later, his superiors not only did not let him retire, but also made him deputy director of the General Political Department, and Guo Linxiang's work became busier, and in 1988 he was awarded the rank of general. In 1990, at the age of 76, Guo Linxiang retired to the second line. In 2010, the old general died of illness at the age of 96.