Why can Li Xiannian, who was born in , the Red Fourth Front Army, win Mao Zedong's long-term trust?
Mao Zedong and Li Xiannian
1909 On June 23, 1909, a boy was born in a poor farmer in the Li family's house in Jiulong Chong, Gaoqiao District, Huang'an County, Hubei Province. He ranked eighth among the brothers and sisters of his half-mother and the youngest. He was the famous Li Xiannian later.
Li Xiannian was very hard when she was a child. At the age of 8, she started working with her father and brother in the fields, and had to do some miscellaneous work of herding cattle and picking up firewood. When he was 10 years old, his father saved money to support him in a private school in the Li family's big house. He knew that the opportunity to study was hard-won and he worked very hard in his studies.
After finishing the private school, Li Xiannian really wanted to continue studying in school, but at this time the family could no longer provide the tuition for him to continue studying, so he had to drop out of school. After dropping out of school, Li Xiannian studied carpenters one after another and worked as an apprentice in a holiday shop. When he got older, his horizons gradually broadened and he often thought about some social issues.
When in Wuhan, Li Xiannian witnessed the social reality of warlords fighting, people's misfortune, huge gap between the rich and the poor, and class oppression, and was deeply influenced by the revolutionary propositions and propaganda of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. In October 1926, the National Revolutionary Army invaded Wuchang, Hubei. Li Xiannian saw the revolutionary soldiers in military uniform with his own eyes, and couldn't help but feel excited.
The next day, Li Xiannian resolutely decided to return to his hometown, contact farmers, and actively participate in the peasant movement. In the winter of that year, Li Xiannian was elected as the executive member of the Township Farmers' Association and secretly joined the Chinese Communist Youth League .
Li Xiannian led the members of the Farmers' Association to fight against the local tyrants and investigate and deal with their ill-gotten wealth. They confiscate what should be confiscated and what should be returned to the masses. They handled clearly and were deeply loved by the people. Li Xiannian's name became so famous. Everyone in all corners of the country knows that he is the mortal enemy of the landlords and bullies, and he is also a good leader of the poor peasants.
1927 After the victory of the Huangma Uprising, Li Xiannian personally led some peasants to eradicate the local tyrants and evil gentry in the Guihualou and Datangwan areas, and opened granaries to help the poor.
Huang'an County The vigorous revolutionary struggle caused the enemy's rapid counterattack, and the Huangma Uprising troops suffered serious setbacks. Li Xiannian was ordered to continue to stay in Gaoqiao District and persist in the struggle. Since then, he and some leaders such as Zhan Xianting and Wang Baoshan have been scattered and hidden in the district and the township, accumulating strength to deal with the enemy.
On December 17, 1927, Li Xiannian, who was 18 years old, joined the Communist Party of China. After the " September 18th Incident " in 1931, Li Xiannian thought about it over and over again. After obtaining the consent of county party secretary Guo Shushen, he led a group of young people from the county to participate in Red Army .
Li Xiannian (second from right)
Li Xiannian, who joined the Red Army, was incorporated into the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division of the Red 4th Army, serving as the political commissar. At this time, Li Xiannian was only 22 years old. The position of the political commissar of the regiment is not simple. Although Li Xiannian has fought sparrow war and guerrilla war in the past, he has not really fought big battles, tough battles or bad battles, and he has no experience in commanding a regiment and has outstanding military capabilities. How can he convince the public? Therefore, for Li Xiannian at this time, the biggest difficulty of is the military relationship.
In early January 1932, more than 2,000 people from the Red 33rd Regiment gathered to head to Qiliping. Li Xiannian muttered to himself, wouldn’t so many people marching together to trample all the crops of the people? So he asked Sun Yuqing, the commander of the 2nd Battalion next to him. Sun Yuqing told him that the troops marched in the order of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Battalion and the regiment directly under the regiment. Only then did Li Xiannian realize that the brigade of troops marched like this.
Li Xiannian could not march on horseback at that time, so he made a joke about this. The regiment commander Wu Yunshan rode a horse and took the vanguard away. The groom led a horse to him. He was stunned because he had never rode a horse, but in front of so many soldiers, he was embarrassed to say that he could not ride a horse.
So, Li Xiannian had to bite the bullet and get on the horse, but he failed to get on the horse several times in a row. The soldiers next to him looked at him and laughed secretly, and someone started to whisper sarcasticly. From then on, Li Xiannian became cruel to quickly improve his military capabilities and train his military hard every day.
includes war. Li Xiannian also participates in the battle while humbly seeking advice and seriously learns the ability to fight. Whether in combat preparation or during the battle, he kept asking the regiment commander Wu Yunshan and the 2nd Battalion Commander Sun Yuqing. After several battles were fought, Li Xiannian initially mastered some specific tactics and tactics.
Li Xiannian relies on his hard work and learning and intelligence, and after many practical battles on the battlefield, his military quality and ability have made rapid progress. He became the political commissar of the regiment at the age of 22, the political commissar of the division at the age of 23, and the political commissar of the military at the age of 24. He has almost reached the level of progress every year and has a very fast promotion speed.
On June 15, 1935, the Party Central Committee led the First Red Front Army and the Fourth Red Front Army to successfully meet in Maogong area, Sichuan. The 26-year-old Li Xiannian met Mao Zedong for the first time. At that time, the commanders and soldiers of the Red Fourth Front Army were very young and energetic, which left a deep impression on Mao Zedong.
Especially for Li Xiannian, Mao Zedong favored Li Xiannian. As soon as he saw Li Xiannian, Mao Zedong looked up and down and asked him how old he was. Li Xiannian replied that he was 26 years old a few days away. Mao Zedong praised you, you are so young and have a bright future! Before leaving, Mao Zedong happily said to Li Xiannian, since ancient times, heroes have become young, and we only regret that we met too late!
Central Plains Breakthrough (Oil Painting)
After the Red First Front Army and the Red Fourth Front Army met, Zhang Guotao had a serious split. Li Xiannian followed the Red Fourth Front Army and was carried south to the Kangbian area of Sichuan. Li Xiannian was very disgusted and firmly resisted Zhang Guotao's serious separatist behavior. He said that the division of the Red Army was the division of the revolution! He even clearly opposed Zhang Guotao's serious wrong behavior in establishing a new central government.
Li Xiannian firmly supports Xu Xiangqian's correct judgment and command in the combat counterattack, resolutely resists the expansion of the anti-counterfeiting of the troops, effectively protects a large number of cadres, and plays a very important role in consolidating and protecting the combat effectiveness of the troops. Li Xiannian firmly supported Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Xu Xiangqian and others to fight against Zhang Guotao's separatist activities, and finally ushered in the successful meeting of the Red One , 2 and 4th Front Army in Huining .
In October 1936, Li Xiannian and Acting Army Commander Cheng Shicai commanded the Red 30th Army to successfully cross the river and control the west bank in Ningxia Battle . In January 1937, Li Xiannian commanded the Red 30th Army to cooperate with the Red 9th Army and the Red 5th Army. After more than a month, he annihilated more than 10,000 enemies in the Nijiayingzi Battle, exerting the power of the Red Army. After the Southern Anhui Incident, Li Xiannian, who served as the commander and political commissar of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army, commanded and launched the famous Dwarf Mountain Battle , annihilated most of the puppet troops and hundreds of Japanese troops in the area, and opened up the Sichuan-Han Mian Anti-Japanese Base Area.
In Li Xiannian's extraordinary military career, the one that is particularly worthy of being a big book is the breakthrough of the Central Plains. In mid-June 1946, at the order of Chiang Kai-shek, Liu Zhi, mobilized 11 regular troops, 26 divisions, about 300,000 troops, and deployed them on the north and south lines of the Central Plains Liberation Zone, attempting to encircle and annihilate the main force of the People's Liberation Army led by Li Xiannian within 48 hours.
At that time, the main force of Central Plains Military Region had 3 transfer directions, east, north and west. Most generals demanded a breakthrough to the east and approaching the New Fourth Army headquarters, which could greatly reduce pressure and losses. However, after repeated consideration, Li Xiannian chose to break westward, which required the double encirclement of Liu Zhi and Hu Zongnan. In the end, the main force of the Central Plains Military Region, with more than 50,000 people, broke out of the encirclement of the Kuomintang army with about 300,000 troops at the cost of more than 20,000 casualties and entered the Shaanxi area.
Just as this army was about to head to Yan'an directly, Li Xiannian received three telegrams connected to Mao Zedong and the Central Military Commission, asking the army not to go north, but to break it into pieces and stay in southern Shaanxi to fight guerrillas, establish a base, and restrain a large number of enemy troops in southern Hu Zong. Li Xiannian decisively gave up his plan to enter other liberated areas and stayed on the southern line to deal with the enemy dozens of times his own. It was not until the end of July that the troops contacted the southern Shaanxi guerrillas who came to pick them up.
The Central Plains Breakthrough Campaign led by Li Xiannian was an extremely exciting and important battle in the history of our army in the early stage of the Liberation War. Its troops were few to many, and more than 50,000 enemies were killed and killed and killed more than 20,000 people. It successfully completed the strategic transfer mission, crushing Chiang Kai-shek's attempt to eat the People's Liberation Army of the Central Plains. This battle established Li Xiannian's historical status as a founding military strategist and won the long-term trust of Mao Zedong in the future.
1949 Mao Zedong specifically gave him full affirmation and praise when he talked with Li Xiannian at Xibaipo . This is what Li Xiannian is amazing: For the sake of the national war, he would rather have suffered significant losses from the troops he brought out, but he never complained at all. It was this move that won him the long-term trust of Mao Zedong in him later.
