In the military history of the Republic, do you know who served as Chief of General Staff the most?
People who do not understand the history of the development of the Republic will definitely not know.
He is Marshal Liu Bocheng.
After the founding of New China, he served as the chairman of the Southwest Military and Political Committee. He was originally intended to be appointed as the Chief of Staff, but he refused. He said "I have been the Chief of General Staff four times, but I haven't been a good person. Let me do education and be a teacher!"
When did he hold the position of Chief of General Staff?
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the 129th Division and the commander of the Taihang Military Region. During the War of Liberation, he served as the commander of the Third Field Army, . Needless to say, he served as Chief of Staff during the Red Army period.
1927, after participating in the Nanchang Uprising, he left his motherland to study at the Soviet Union's Fulongzhi Military Academy. By 1930, he returned to China and arrived in Shanghai and was appointed as the Chief of Staff of the Military Commission.
However, he did not go to the Red Army immediately, but stayed in Shanghai for 2 years.
1932, he arrived at Ruijin and served as the principal of the Red Army School. A few months later, he replaced Ye Jianying as the Chief of General Staff.
In 1934, in the anti-encirclement and suppression battle, he was dissatisfied with Li De's blind command and was demoted and appointed as Chief of Staff of the Red Fifth Army . After the Red Army's Long March 4 began, the combat mission was very heavy. He was appointed as the Chief of General Staff for the third time to assist Zhu and Mao in the battle.
After the popular first and fourth fronts, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng went to Red Fourth Front Army . Zhang Guotao looked at the few soldiers and guns, wearing the tattered Central Red Army , and his heart was inflated, wanting to rely on the 80,000 Red Army in his hand to seek power.
Liu Bocheng fought a long-term struggle with Zhang Guotao in the Red Fourth Front Army, and was eventually removed from his position as Chief of Staff, and he was asked to go to the Red Fourth Front Army Red Army University as president.
Zhang Guotao led his troops to attack Chengdu and proposed to "capture Chengdu and eat rice." In the end, the generals were lost, so they had to go north to the Long March.
In 1936, the three main Red Army met in northern Shaanxi, and Liu Bocheng was appointed as the Chief of General Staff for the fourth time. At this time, there was no war to fight. The only task was to serve as the commander of the aid to the Western Army and to meet the troops returned from the Western Army.
After the liberation, Liu Bocheng had been thinking about running a military academy. His philosophy was "The army must be built" and "the army must be governed first"
In the future battlefield, the country needs regular troops and needs to cultivate senior military talents. When he was studying abroad at Fulongzhi Military Academy , he systematically learned military power knowledge, opened his eyes, and combined with combat experience, he could become a qualified commander.
He reported his opinions to the central government and received instructions to agree to his school.
Just like that, he established the first military academy of New China, Nanjing Military Academy . In these eight years, a batch of outstanding military talents have been cultivated.
In 1958, an anti-dogmatist movement in the army pushed Marshal Liu Bocheng to the forefront of the crazy waves and wrote a review. Later, he was not responsible for his work due to illness until he died of illness.
