In January 1950, Ho Chi Minh , on behalf of the Indochina Communist Party (later the Vietnam Workers' Party) and the Vietnamese government, filed a request to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to aid Vietnam and resist France. The new China was just established at that time and everything was in trouble.
But just like Mao Zedong said in the future when he made the decision to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea: We urgently need peace construction. If I were asked to write the reasons for peace construction, I could write hundreds, thousands, but these hundred, thousands of reasons cannot match the six big words, which is "can't ignore it."
Chairman Mao and Ho Chi Minh
0CCP Central Committee finally decided to provide Vietnam with material assistance and military consultant guidance. The head of the military advisory regiment sent was Wei Guoqing, the future founding general. Before meeting with the representative, Liu Shaoqi met Wei Guoqing and asked him if he had any difficulties in the cadres. Wei Guoqing said that his and his assistant Mei Jiasheng's main energy will be focused on military work and requires a leadership in political work. Mei Jiasheng next to
recommended a person: Deng Yifan. When he mentioned him, Liu Shaoqi and Wei Guoqing were very familiar with him. They both worked with Deng Yifan and had enough understanding of him. So Liu Shaoqi made a decision on the spot: It’s him!
At that time, Deng Yifan was just transferred from Nanjing to General Political Department by Luo Ronghuan. He was about to return to Nanjing to pack up his things and move, and was directly taken to the Yinian Hall of Zhongnanhai by Liu Shaoqi.
Liu Shaoqi
"Comrade Deng Yifan, your job needs to be changed. I plan to send you to the military advisory group in Vietnam to serve as a part of the leadership work." Liu Shaoqi was not polite to him, and came up straight to the point.
Deng Yifan was unprepared: "Go to Vietnam? But Director Luo just talked to me and asked me to work in the General Political Department."
"I'll go and say to Director Luo, you go to the meeting first and listen to the Chairman's speech." Liu Shaoqi did not give him room to think. He believed that his old subordinate would figure it out. When he served as the political commissar of the New Fourth Army , Deng Yifan was the secretary of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army , and worked under his leadership for a long time.
Deng Yifan went to the meeting. After attending the meeting, he divided the work with Wei Guoqing and Mei Jiasheng. Wei Guoqing presided over the overall work, Mei Jiasheng presided over the headquarters, and Deng Yifan was responsible for political work.
Deng Yifan (third from right) and others were in Vietnam
, but Deng Yifan, who received the order at this time, felt a little sorry for his family. After the national liberation, Deng Yifan was transferred to serve as the political commissar of the Third Corps of East China Military and Political University, and his wife was also transferred from the Cultural Committee of the Shanghai Military Control Commission to work in Nanjing. After discussion, the two decided to take their two daughters to Nanjing to go to school.
Seeing that the family was about to reunite, Deng Yifan was called to Beijing by Luo Ronghuan and asked him to work in the General Political Department. When he went to Beijing, he just moved his house again, but on the way, he encountered Liu Shaoqi asking him to go to Vietnam, and Deng Yifan and his family had to separate again.
Deng Yifan told his wife Zhou Zhizhong when he returned home. His wife cried bitterly: "I finally hope to live a stable life, but I will separate again!" But there was no way. The duty of a soldier was to obey the order, and he went through fire and water without hesitation.
Deng Yifan, who consciously owed his family, accompanied his wife and two daughters to his wife's hometown Nanchang before leaving, and then hurriedly went to his hometown Xingning through Guangzhou. After a long journey, he finally returned to his hometown that he had been away from for a long time, but Deng Yifan could only stay here for only three days and then left his hometown. In Zhuzhou , Deng Yifan and his wife and daughter broke up and went to Nanning , and will go to Vietnam through there.
Deng Yifan
While working in Vietnam, Deng Yifan finally took a leave for a while to go home to visit his relatives. His wife said to him, "If you go to Vietnam again, we will divorce." After thinking about it, Deng Yifan put forward his ideas to his superiors, but still said that he would unconditionally obey his superiors' decisions. Because of this, he was criticized as " hedonism ".
Later, Zhou Zhizhong finally divorced Deng Yifan, but Deng Yifan did not feel sad about the spring and autumn, and gave up on himself. Instead, he returned to the Vietnam front with a piece of divorce agreement and went into a new battle.
Before going abroad, the military advisory group was grouped, and Deng Yifan served as the head of the political work advisory group and went to the General Political Bureau of the Vietnam People's Army to work as an advisor. Compared with Chen Geng and Wei Guoqing, Deng Yifan's main contribution to aiding Vietnam and resisting France lies in political construction.
From the left are Mei Jiasheng, Deng Yifan, Luo Guibo, and Wei Guoqing. When I first went to Vietnam, the French army had an absolute advantage in terms of military strength, occupying large and medium-sized cities on the plains. The Vietnamese People's Army mainly uses guerrilla warfare . In a difficult environment, Deng Yifan and the members of the advisory group sometimes had to transfer continuously with the General Political Bureau of the Vietnam People's Army. They crossed the rugged mountain roads in the dense forests and wade through the surging rivers. In some places, they were even vast and primitive forests. They were rarely visited but were full of lees and flying insects.
Every time Deng Yifan and the members of the advisory group arrived at the destination to set up camp, they would cut down bamboo and trees by themselves, then make some thatch and build small thatched huts, and use bamboo to make beds, tables and stools, build temporary offices and dormitories to carry out intense work.
It rains almost every day in Vietnam in summer. The thatched hut is too simple and leaks everywhere. Deng Yifan had to hang a piece of rain cloth on his head and sit on the bed all day long to work. The weather is stuffy and humid, and everything seems to be soaked in water. Every day, my clothes and pants are either soaked by rain or penetrated by sweat. The clothes I washed were dry for several days, and sometimes I really had to dry them with a torch.
front row is Deng Yifan
But in such a difficult environment, Deng Yifan made outstanding contributions to the political construction of the Vietnam People's Army. In Vietnam, he participated in command of major battles such as Border, Middle Tour, Northeast China, Ninh Binh, Peace, and Dien Bien Phu .
In Border Battle , Deng Yifan helped the General Politburo draft a political mobilization order for the campaign, clarifying the purpose and significance of the border battle, and calling on all commanders and fighters to carry forward the style of continuous combat, not afraid of fatigue, not afraid of sacrifice, and win a complete victory. After nearly a month of fierce fighting, the border battle ended successfully on October 23, annihilated 8 entire French battalions in one fell swoop, killing and capturing more than 8,000 people. From then on, the Vietnam War situation took a turn, and the Vietnamese People's Army changed from passive defense to active attack, and from guerrilla warfare to a new stage of combining sports attack and guerrilla warfare.
Through the practice of political work in border battles, the work ability of political and political cadres at all levels of the Vietnam People's Army has been trained and improved, but the foundation of political and ideological work in the Vietnam People's Army is still relatively weak.
Border Battle Schematic
So Deng Yifan assisted the General Political Bureau of the Vietnam People's Army to formulate a training plan and personally took charge of the entire teaching work. The training class combines the actual situation of the Vietnamese People's Army and focuses on solving major issues such as the nature of the People's Army, the purpose of the founding of the army, the Party's leadership over the army, the status and role of Party and government work in the army, and the relationship between military and government work.
During his time in Vietnam, Deng Yifan led the political advisory group to assist the General Political Bureau of the Vietnam People's Army in succession to hold 8 cadre training classes, basically training cadres above the company and above the Vietnam People's Army Northern Army and some cadres above the regiment and above also participated in the training. Through the training, the military and political quality of Vietnamese People's Army cadres has been greatly improved, and the troops have made progress to varying degrees in terms of military and political relations, officers and soldiers' relations, discipline, and style.
In July 1951, Deng Yifan put forward suggestions on strengthening ideological leadership and political education for the Vietnamese People's Army. At the same time, he also suggested establishing a system of current affairs reports and political courses to make the army's political education regular and institutionalized. The General Military Commission of the Vietnam People's Army adopted his suggestion.
Ho Chi Minh and the military advisory group
Wai Guoqing and Mei Jiasheng returned to China for treatment, Deng Yifan also presided over the military advisory work. He suggested that Vietnam organize small and medium-sized mobile warfares and carry out extensive mobile warfares. The Vietnam eventually drove away the French invaders provided the correct strategic guidance.
In addition, Deng Yifan also helped the Vietnamese People's Army carry out several political training and ideological education, improving the combat effectiveness of the Vietnamese People's Army.In 1953, at the suggestion of Deng Yifan and others, the Vietnamese People's Army carried out a "political military reorganization" campaign. The Vietnam Workers' Party believed that "this laid the foundation for the victory of Dien Bien Phu Battle ."
On September 2, 1953, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam held a grand medal conference in the base area of northern Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh personally awarded the members of the advisory group, and Deng Yifan was awarded the second-level military merit medal.
After that, with the continuous progress of the Vietnamese People's Army, the French invaders retreated step by step, and the Vietnamese People's Army won the final victory. Deng Yifan, Wei Guoqing, Luo Guibo participated in the armistice negotiations with France together with the Prime Minister of Vietnam 1.
In late October 1954, Deng Yifan and others followed the Vietnam People's Army headquarters to Hanoi . Under Deng Yifan's suggestion, the Vietnamese People's Army gradually established a formal cadre and political work system.
In mid-September 1955, after Deng Yifan completed his work in Vietnam, he led some personnel from the military advisory group to leave Hanoi and return to China. On the eve of Deng Yifan's return, Ruan Zhiqing, director of the General Political Bureau of the Vietnam People's Army who worked with him for a long time, had two sincere conversations with him, expressing his sincere gratitude and the unsatisfactory friendship between comrades, and personally saw him off to Munan Pass (now Friendship Pass ).
On September 27, Deng Yifan was awarded the rank of lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army of China and was awarded the second-level August 1 Medal, First-level Independence and Freedom Medal and the first-level liberation Medal.
References:
" Senior General of the Chinese People's Liberation Army "
Song Guotao " Full Record of the Chinese Marshal General's Award for the Title "
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