1959, before the Lushan Conference, Peng Dehuai did not want to go to Lushan for a meeting, so he asked his secretary Zheng Wenhan to ask him for leave from the General Office of the Central Committee. Unfortunately, when he asked for leave, Chairman Mao personally called Peng Dehuai and had to come to the meeting.
(Lieutenant General Zheng Wenhan)
What is little known is that Peng Dehuai's secretary, Zheng Wenhan, was later awarded the rank of lieutenant general and achieved great success. So, who is Zheng Wenhan? Why did he serve as secretary for Peng Dehuai?
Zheng Wenhan is from Luoyang, Henan. Luoyang City 期地方日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日本日� Zheng Wenhan is a very talented and ideal talented Luoyang man. He participated in the revolution in 1938 and studied at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the Eighth Route Army Military and Political Academy.
In 1942, Chairman Mao proposed to let comrades without practical work experience go to the army to train, and Zheng Wenhan was assigned to the 359th Brigade led by Wang Zhen. In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, Zheng Wenhan followed the troops to participate in the southward battle. Because Japan surrendered to , he turned to the Northeast battlefield.
The 10th Column of the Northeast Field Army was established, with Liang Xingchu serving as commander, and Zheng Wenhan was the director of the regiment political department, who followed Liang Xingchu to participate in the tragic Black Mountain blocking battle. He personally led the reconnaissance company and some officers to seize a high ground in one fell swoop during the chaos of the Kuomintang army.
During the Fourth Field army heading south to fight, Zheng Wenhan got married. What is very legendary about is that his wife is a child set by her parents in childhood. After Zheng Wenhan participated in the revolutionary work, the two sides lost contact. Many years have passed, and Zheng Wenhan always remembers such a marriage, and he specializes in search of someone in the newspaper. When his fiancée saw the missing person notice, he found Wuhan from Luoyang and finally found Zheng Wenhan.
They have been separately for 11 years. Zheng Wenhan could have found a like-minded lesbian in the army, but he didn't. This shows that Zheng Wenhan is a very affectionate and righteous person who keeps his promises.
1951, Zheng Wenhan entered North Korea to fight and served as the director of the Political Department of the Volunteer Army Delegation of the Korean Armistice Committee. He did a lot of work for the Korean Armistice Negotiation .
1955, after organizational selection, Zheng Wenhan, who had strong party spirit and excellent work ability, was transferred to the position of Vice Premier of the State Council and Secretary of the Office of the Minister of National Defense, that is, Peng Dehuai's secretary, who was responsible for drafting various speeches for Peng Dehuai. In the same year, Zheng Wenhan was awarded the rank of colonel.
Peng Dehuai visited abroad, and Zheng Wenhan followed him and wanted to draft and revise Peng Dehuai's speeches and speeches. Peng Dehuai was unwilling to attend the Lushan Conference and asked Zheng Wenhan to help him ask for leave, but he did not get approval. Peng Dehuai had no choice but to go to Lushan for a meeting.
Zheng Wenhan stayed in Beijing and drafted a lecture draft for Peng Dehuai at the Higher Military Academy. No one expected that this lecture draft would never be used again. At the Lushan Conference, Peng Dehuai wrote a letter to Chairman Mao, which was criticized incorrectly.
Zheng Wenhan was soon notified to go up the mountain to draft a review for Peng Dehuai. Relatively speaking, this review is harder to write than any speech. It is difficult to write. Peng Dehuai expressed his willingness to accept all the criticisms at the Lushan Conference, and Zheng Wenhan and others drafted and revised several reviews for him.
Soon, Peng Dehuai was dismissed, and his office of the Minister of Defense naturally had no need for existence. Zheng Wenhan and others will arrange their work separately by the organization. When saying goodbye to , Peng Dehuai said sadly, your mission has been completed, thank you.
(Peng Dehuai visited the Nanchang Uprising Memorial Hall, the second on the left is Zheng Wenhan)
Zheng Wenhan and others left, Peng Dehuai kept sending them outside the office door and said the last sentence, goodbye, don’t come to again in the future. Since then, until Peng Dehuai's death in 1974, Zheng Wenhan has never seen Peng Dehuai again.
This is a farewell forever. Why did Peng Dehuai tell Zheng Wenhan and others not to come again in the future? Because Peng Dehuai is guilty, and Zheng Wenhan and others are still young and have a bright future, Peng Dehuai does not want to implicate them because of his own problems.
In the same year, Zheng Wenhan served as deputy director of Xiao Hua's office of deputy secretary-general of the Military Commission , and later promoted to office director, and he became Xiao Hua's good assistant. In 1975, Zheng Wenhan was transferred to the Academy of Military Sciences and served as deputy director and director of the office.
In 1982, Zheng Wenhan was promoted to vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences and in 1985. The political commissar of the Academy of Military Sciences at that time was founding major general Wang Chenghan. In 1988, the entire army restored its rank system, Wang Chenghan was awarded the rank of general, and Zheng Wenhan was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Among Peng Dehuai's secretary, Zheng Wenhan has achieved great success in being able to obtain the rank of lieutenant general and serve as the president of the Academy of Military Sciences. In his later years, Zheng Wenhan attended a seminar on Peng Dehuai's life and thoughts. He believed that:
Peng Dehuai always respected and supported Chairman Mao very much, and Chairman Mao also relied on Peng Dehuai very much. It was only because of the different social experiences and different cultural education that they formed very distinctive different personalities. As a result, the two had many discord and even fierce collisions.
