But when the staff whispered in Chairman Mao's ear that Marshal Ye Jianying was in front of the hospital bed, Chairman Mao opened his eyes slightly and made a greeting gesture with a gentle gesture.

A good fighter has no great achievements, but he can turn the tide and support the building to collapse.

On January 8, 1976, the beloved Premier Zhou passed away.

On July 6, 1976, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De passed away.

At this time, Chairman Mao's condition is also aggravating. Just as the old man was dying, the members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee came to visit the sickbed and gave the final farewell to the great leader.

When other members of the Politburo visited, Chairman Mao just pressed his eyes tightly and did not move. But when the staff whispered in Chairman Mao's ear that Marshal Ye Jianying was in front of the hospital bed, Chairman Mao opened his eyes slightly and made a greeting gesture with a gentle gesture.

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However, Marshal Ye was too sad at that time and did not notice this detail. When his tiger eyes turned away with tears in his tears, Chairman Mao's dim eyes seemed to suddenly have a light, and he raised his hand again to make a summoning action.

The careful staff on the side discovered this detail and quickly called Marshal Ye back. When Mr. Ye heard this, he hurried back to Chairman Mao. At this time, Chairman Mao seemed to have exhausted his last strength, his lips trembled slightly, as if he wanted to tell Marshal Ye something, but there was no sound.

Marshal Ye anxiously held Chairman Mao's hand and put his head hard toward Chairman Mao's mouth, but he still couldn't hear anything.

Finally, Chairman Mao's finger touched the back of Marshal Ye's hand a few times, and there was no movement again.

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Mr. Ye could only leave the ward with heavy steps, but he kept thinking.

Why did Chairman Mao specifically recall Marshal Ye before his death?

What is the profound meaning of Chairman Mao’s actions?

Is Chairman Mao going to leave him a special will through decades of tacit understanding with Marshal Ye?

年后官网

Comrade Ye Jianying (hereinafter referred to as "Master Ye") was born in 1897 in a small businessman family in Meixian, Guangdong Province.

The family background of the businessman gave Marshal Ye the characteristics of "carefulness", which will enable him to always make the most accurate analysis and the most correct choice whenever he encounters complex problems in his future revolutionary career.

Hakka attaches great importance to education, so Marshal Ye received a good education since he was a child, which made him a rare "Confucian general" in our army in the future, and his poems are often praised by Chairman Mao.

is one aspect of being able to write. Many people don’t know that Marshal Ye’s martial arts are also very strong. His father was a martial scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, so Marshal Ye developed a good martial arts since he was a child. In 1917, he was admitted to the Yunnan Martial Arts Hall .

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At that time, many of the instructors in the Yunnan martial arts lecture hall were Japanese, and one of the instructors' " Jiandao " was very exquisite, and the students often lost in the competition with him.

Shangwu's family style made Marshal Ye like to fight with masters. Therefore, after practicing carefully for several months, Marshal Ye unexpectedly defeated the instructor and helped the Chinese people breathe a sigh of relief. The instructor gave his samurai sword to Marshal Ye. In the war years that followed, Marshal Ye always brought such "trophy" with him.

After graduating from lecture hall , Marshal Ye began to follow Mr. Sun Yat-sen and participated in the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi unification of the National Government . He also supported Mr. Sun Yat-sen's "Northern Expedition". Mr. Sun Yat-sen praised him for being "young and promising" when he heard this and promoted the 24-year-old Marshal Ye to the battalion commander of the Marine Corps.

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In June 1922, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Army, Chen Jiongming, betrayed the revolution and bombarded Mr. Sun Yat-sen's presidential palace. In this crisis, Marshal Ye stepped forward and escorted Mr. Sun Yat-sen to the "Yongfeng" ship . He led his troops to take the "Baobi" ship and followed closely behind, and defended Mr. Sun Yat-sen for more than 50 days. During this period, he held the machine gun and and his subordinates fought fiercely with the rebels on the shore, shattering Chen Jiongming's conspiracy and rebellion.

At that time, the one who guarded Mr. Sun Yat-sen on the Yongfeng ship was Chiang Kai-shek , but he came later than Marshal Ye. In terms of his first contribution to defending the "leader", it should be considered to be Marshal Ye. Moreover, Marshal Ye "has a bow and arrow in person", unlike Chiang Kai-shek who just sent people ashore to steal vegetables for Mr. Sun Yat-sen to eat.

Guard Mr. Sun Yat-sen was the first time that Marshal Ye turned the tide at the critical moment of the Chinese revolution.

1924, 27-year-old Marshal Ye was promoted to Chief of Staff of the 2nd Division of the Guangdong Army. In the same year, he served as deputy director of the professor's department of the Whampoa Military Academy, and became colleagues with 26-year-old Prime Minister Zhou, the director of the political department. Therefore, the leaders of our party have always been prestigious in the national army, Premier Zhou ranks first, and Marshal Ye must rank second.

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1927, when the "April 12" counter-revolution broke out, Marshal Ye was already the commander of the 2nd Division of the 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which Chiang Kai-shek regarded as his direct line. It can be seen that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to win over Marshal Ye. But Marshal Ye resolutely "telected an anti-Chiang Dynasty" and defected to the Wuhan National Government to serve as the chief of staff of the 4th Army. His immediate superior was Zhang Fakui, commander of the 2nd Front Army.

However, Marshal Ye soon discovered the reactionary face of Wang Jingwei and resolutely decided to join the Communist Party of China. Premier Zhou, who knew Marshal Ye's patriotism, immediately approved it after hearing the news. In early July, at the most dangerous moment of the Chinese revolution, Marshal Ye became a member of the Communist Party of China, absolutely abandoning all glory and wealth and "joining the party on the front line."

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On the eve of Nanchang Uprising, Wang Jingwei held a meeting in Lushan and decided to let Zhang Fakui arrest General He and General Ye Ting. After Marshal Ye learned about it, he took a huge risk and immediately went down the mountain to make appointments between General He and General Ye Ting to Jiujiang , and inform them of the news in time.

Then, General He and General Ye Ting immediately led their troops to set off and won the victory of the "Nanchang Uprising". As a result, the first armed force controlled by our party was officially born.

At the critical moment of the start of the revolutionary cause of our party, Marshal Ye once again turned the tide.

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After the Nanchang Uprising, Wang Jingwei urgently ordered Zhang Fakui to "encircle and suppress" the uprising troops. Marshal Ye suggested to Zhang Fakui as the chief of staff of the 4th Army to send the 4th Army to Guangdong directly. When Li Jishen was fighting with the uprising army, he took the opportunity to seize the empty Guangzhou city, rather than fighting with the uprising troops to lose both sides.

Mr. Ye’s purpose of this suggestion is three:

1. Protect the uprising troops.

2. Mobilize the 4th Army to Guangdong and lure out the troops of Li Jishen in Guangzhou City.

3. Use the 4th Army Teaching Corps and Guard Corps whom he has mastered to take advantage of the emptiness of Guangzhou and cooperate with General Ye Ting and Comrade Zhang Tailei to launch an uprising.

This plan can be said to be "shot three birds with one stone", and it was fully accepted by Zhang Fakui.

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1927 At 3:30 am on December 11, 1927, the first shot of the Guangzhou Uprising was fired first by the teaching team led by Marshal Ye, and Zhang Fakui ran away without even wearing his pants. At that time, General Ye Ting rushed to Guangzhou as commander-in-chief. In actual combat, Marshal Ye's uprising troops played a mainstay.

Although the uprising failed, the "Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Nanchang Uprising" and the " Autumn Harvest Uprising " were listed as the "three major uprisings" independently led by our party in the early days, making immortal contributions to the establishment of the Red Army . Marshal Ye played an extremely critical role in both of them.

And in the future journey of our party, he will also play a more critical role. After the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", the Party Central Committee and the Red 1 Front Army embarked on the long journey of the Long March of .

In the Zunyi Conference in January 1935, Marshal Ye did not hesitate to support Chairman Mao as the leader of the Party Central Committee.

In June 1935, the Red 1 and 4th Front Army met in Maogong, and the Party Central Committee made a wise decision to go north to fight against Japan. However, Zhang Guotao, one of the main leaders of the Red 4th Front Army, made a wrong opinion and asked the Red Army to go south. With the strong persuasion of Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou, he reluctantly agreed to the mixed arrangement of the Red 1 and 4th fronts and divided them into left and right to head north together.

As the chief of staff of the Red Army's former enemy command center, Marshal Ye also firmly opposed the wrong suggestions of Zhang Guotao at that time.

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0 In mid-August, Zhang Guotao began to hold his troops when he led the left line army to the Aba area, and once again proposed the wrong plan to go south, and at the same time refused to move closer to the right line army where the Party Central Committee was located.

On September 9, Zhang Guotao sent a secret message to Chen Changhao, the political commissar of the front command of the Right Route Army, asking " to quickly resolve the matter of going south ". At that time, Comrade Chen Changhao was speaking to the army, and the staff officer sent a secret message to Marshal Ye outside the venue. After seeing this, Marshal Ye suddenly felt that his tense was critical and immediately rode his horse to Chairman Mao’s residence and handed the secret telegram to Chairman Mao.

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Chairman Mao made a quick decision and led the Party Central Committee and the main forces of the Red 1 and 3rd Legions to head north that night, and Marshal Ye led the Military Commission Column to catch up. With this as the beginning, our party and our army moved from the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan to the victory of national liberation.

and the Red 4th Front Army suffered huge losses under Zhang Guotao's wrong decision to go south.

This matter, Chairman Mao mentioned it many times in the future, and praised Marshal Ye for being "not confused about his major issues". "He made great contributions at the critical moment. He saved the party, saved the Red Army, and saved all of us!"

How many people can get Chairman Mao's evaluation of this?

After the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began, Marshal Ye and Premier Zhou cooperated perfectly. With his prestige and deep connections in the Kuomintang military, he made great achievements in the "unified front and united anti-Japanese war".

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But Chiang Kai-shek's "anti-communist" intention was unsuccessful. By 1940, his conspiracy to undermine cooperation was obvious.

In March 1940, Chiang Kai-shek summoned more than 100 chiefs of staff in the army to Chongqing for a meeting, and instructed his subordinates to spread rumors and attack the Eighth Route Army.

If his conspiracy succeeds this time, the situation of our party and our army, which are in the most difficult period of anti-Japanese war, will be in danger.

Marshal Ye was ordered to attend the meeting as the chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army.

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At the meeting two days ago, Marshal Ye patiently listened to the various accusations of Chiang Kai-shek's minions, and after the meeting, he arranged for our party staff to quickly organize various counterattack materials

On the third day, it was Marshal Ye's turn to speak. Marshal Ye showed his "Confucian general" style and was calm and composed. First, he listed the performance of our army in Anti-Japanese War one by one.

Suddenly, his subject changed and a "blockbuster" was thrown at Chiang Kai-shek.

"Do you know what happened that Hebei Provincial Chairman Lu Zhonglin ordered Zhang Yinwu's troops to attack the Eighth Route Army and kill the people?" Marshal Ye calmly asked Chiang Kai-shek.

"There is still such a thing?" Chiang Kai-shek pretended to behave.

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"The evidence is here, you can see it." Marshal Ye said, and handed over the relevant telegrams and photos to Chiang Kai-shek.

"What kind of style is it! What kind of style is it!" This "bomb" knocked Chiang Kai-shek to "beauté on the outside and tender on the inside." The atmosphere at the scene immediately changed, and most of the chiefs of staff began to tend toward our party and our army.

Then, Marshal Ye compared the Eighth Route Army's record horizontally with the National Army in other theaters, and refuted the various accusations made by several chiefs of staff under Chiang Kai-shek for "passive resistance to Japan" against our army. Marshal Ye spent two hours talking in the originally stipulated half an hour!

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Many chiefs of staff present still felt a sense of justice. After Marshal Ye finished his speech, warm applause burst out from the audience.

Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to invite Marshal Ye to dinner after the meeting and then announce the punishment measures for the Eighth Route Army, but now it's good, so I simply stop eating it.

Comrade Dong Biwu saw the report on this matter and praised Marshal Ye: " There was Zhuge Liang in ancient times, and now there is Ye Gong, who are all talking and fighting against scholars! "

Chairman Mao praised him when he heard this: " Comrade Jianying made great contributions again! "

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Marshal Ye's achievements in united front work can be well proved through two examples.

The first one is the United Front Army of the Yunnan Army. Marshal Ye used the background and relationship of the Yunnan martial arts lecture hall to establish a good personal relationship with the "King of Yunnan" Long Yun and Lu Han.In the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Long Yun, despite Chiang Kai-shek's repeated strict orders, provided great help to protect our party's underground organization in Yunnan. General Lu Han announced the uprising at the end of 1949, and Yunnan soldiers were liberated peacefully without bloodshed.

The second is Zhang Fakui, the united front. , an old boss who was beaten by Marshal Ye to the point of running away, was the only commander in the 12 war zones of the Kuomintang who did not "declare" the New Fourth Army and telegram "anti-communist" during the Guangzhou Uprising.

1941, Marshal Ye returned to Yan'an . In the position of Chief of Staff, he assisted Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief of Zhu De, and made outstanding contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance and the victory of the War of Liberation.

New Era

1955, Comrade Ye Jianying was awarded the rank of Marshal of the People's Republic of China .

Here I want to add a sentence that the full name of the general's rank is " A general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army ".

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On October 6, 1976, the 79-year-old Marshal Ye personally sat in the Huairen Hall of Zhongnanhai, once again defending the Chinese revolutionary cause that countless martyrs sacrificed their lives for.

In August 1977, Marshal Ye firmly supported Comrade Deng Xiaoping as the second generation of leadership core.

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In April 1980, the 83-year-old Marshal Ye visited Shenzhen Shekou and Zhuhai, the forefront of reform and opening up, and became the first important leader of the Party and the state to inspect special economic zone .

In September 1981, Marshal Ye delivered a speech, further clarifying the nine principles of peaceful reunification, which also became the basic prototype of ", one country, two systems, ".

On October 22, 1986, Marshal Ye Jianying, the staunch defender of China's revolution, passed away in Beijing.

Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements.

Although Marshal Ye is ranked last among the "Top Ten Marshals", this does not mean that he has made the least contribution.

On the contrary, "last position" means that whenever the cause of the party and the cause of the Republic face a major crisis, Marshal Ye will become the stabilizing needle that turns the tide and helps the building fall.

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Chairman Mao gently patted Marshal Ye's back of his hand, which was his last instruction to Marshal Ye: Old comrade-in-arms, after I leave, the important task of caring for the party and the country will be handed over to you .

I would like to dedicate this article to Comrade Ye Jianying, the guardian of the Republic who made immortal contributions to the revolutionary cause.