On September 27, 1955, the highly anticipated award ceremony kicked off . A total of 55 generals were awarded the rank of general . Among them, some of them were very successful because they participated in many wars. Some of the military exploits are due to high positions in the army, and others are due to the great contributions they have made.
But among the many generals, there is a special existence, , he is Wang Jian'an, and he has not been awarded any military rank.
Wang Jian'an took part in the revolution earlier than many generals, and his position was not low. He started fighting during the land revolution and continued until the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. No one was absent.
It stands to reason that, regardless of seniority or military exploits, Wang Jianan should be awarded the rank of general. Even if it doesn't, it's at least a lieutenant general, but why doesn't it have no rank?
It turned out that Mao Zedong commented on Wang Jian’an’s name when reviewing the list of generals selected: "Wang Jian’an is proud and complacent, and he will be awarded the award."
The selection team was very entangled after looking at it. If according to the chairman's comment, the rank of lieutenant general is awarded to Wang Jian'an, but many generals who are not as good as his will be ranked as generals.
If it does not follow the chairman's opinion, but there are clear comments, for a while, the selection team is in a dilemma.
Finally waited and waited, and on the day when the title was officially awarded, Wang Jian'an was not awarded any military rank.
What is going on?
turned out to be related to Chen Yi. Once, Chen Yi, Wang Jianan and others were in a meeting, and it was common for opinions to disagree during the meeting. But Wang Jian'an has a quick temper.Angrily slapped the table.
Who knew about this, but Chairman Mao knew about it, so he left a proud and complacent impression on Chairman Mao.
So in 1956, the selection team explained the matter, and then mentioned to Chairman Mao the issue of the title, and then Wang Jian'an was awarded the rank of general.
General Wang Jian'an was born in the army, and when he was fighting on the battlefield, he was also a quick temper, and he was vigorous and vigorous without procrastination.
In his life, he commanded countless wars and was wounded many times. He was upright and upright, never crying hard and tired. He made an indelible contribution to the founding of New China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, as long as the country needs him, he will immediately stand up, work hard, work hard, and have no complaints.
He was even the founding general who was awarded the rank of general in 1956, . But why did no one come to offer condolences when he died at the age of 72? Didn't even the 4 sons ever go home?
Wang Jian’an was originally called Wang Jian’an. He changed his name for fear of being avenged by the landlord. He was born in a small mountain village in Huang'an County, Hubei Province in 1908. When Wang Jian'an was a child, his family was very poor. Even at a young age, he would go to the street to beg to support himself.
At the age of 14, he started herding cattle for the landlord. But the landlord not only deducted his salary, but also beat and scolded him. Finally, he ran out in a fit of anger, took the only piece of bacon in his family, and went to Cangzhou Bajimen boxing master to apprenticeship.
Later, under his diligent study and practice, he finally practiced his kung fu, and then went to find the landlord to avenge him. After he beat him to the ground, he changed his name.
After he got a martial arts, he had the idea of joining the army. He entered Wu Peifu's army a few years earlier, but he discovered that these warlords not only smoked, drinks, and gambled, but they were also very corrupt internally.
The different ways are not conspiring. After seeing through it a little bit, Wang Jian'an is discouraged and left without looking back.
Picture: Young Wang Jianan
joined the Communist Party of China in 1927.
At this time, Wang Jian'an is at a high-spirited age. He has a passion and experience in martial arts. Therefore, in the subsequent jute uprising and other wars, he showed that he was not afraid of life and death, and fought bravely.
Although young, he was very brave and wiped out many enemies. When he was 25 years old, he became a political commissar of the 88th Division of the 30th Red Army. After
, he led his subordinates to participate in the battles of Yinan, Yingqu and Xuanda. In the battle of Xuanda, the commander of Wang Lieshan died heroically. Wang Jianan was ordered in danger. With his excellent commanding ability and bloody fighting spirit, Bringing his subordinates to move forward courageously, they accomplished the task brilliantly.
Since then, he has been the commander of " " in the hearts of the soldiers.
Picture: Wang Lieshan
Wang Jian'an was not only very brave on the battlefield, but also did not forget to learn after the war. So he often reads and writes in his free time to enrich his knowledge.
learned of this and arranged for him to study at Red Army University . During this time, he went to bed late and got up early every day, just to learn more knowledge.
Finally, Huangtian paid off. He learned a lot of tactics and more advanced ideas, which laid the foundation for him to command operations in the future.
As the saying goes: "A thousand soldiers are easy to get, but a good general is hard to find." Wang Jian'an is such a talent.
1937, After the Lugou Bridge Incident , the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and various anti-Japanese forces emerged throughout the country. In particular, the anti-Japanese war team spontaneously organized in Shandong has grown to more than 40,000 people.
So after Wang Jianan graduated, he joined the anti-Japanese wave.
According to the order of the organization, he came to Shandong, and then began to unify the local anti-Japanese armed forces and act as deputy commander.
The Japanese army was also aware of this huge force. In order to stifle this force in the cradle, the Japanese army assembled nearly 50,000 troops and began a large-scale "mopping up the Shandong area."
, The Yimeng Mountain area became a hell on earth, with corpses all over the field, and the towns and villages where the Japanese army passed by were all filled with gunpowder smoke, and there was no life at all.
Wang Jianan saw this and led his men to start a counterattack. The Japanese army was not to be outdone, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than 20 days.
In the end, Wang Jianan regained 14 strongholds from the enemy and wiped out countless enemies.
In August 1937, Shandong Military Region was established, and Wang Jianan was still the deputy commander and chief of staff. However, since the superiors did not send a commander, he is equivalent to a commander, managing matters large and small in the Shandong Military Region.
However, the Japanese army did not give up, and still wanted to occupy the entire Shandong. Wang Jian'an led his subordinates and confronted the enemy many times. He also smashed the attempts of the Japanese army many times and beat them to the ground.
In the spring of 1943, Wang Jianan was appointed as the commander of of the Luzhong Military Region. Since then, he has been fighting in the Shandong area for a long time, so many older Shandong people know Wang Jian’an’s name, and many Shandong people have also grown up listening to Wang Jian’an’s deeds.
Wang Jian'an is very approachable when interacting with ordinary people. He has homework that the children of the village do not know. Sometimes he will ask him, and he will also take his children to practice martial arts. In this way, he has become a fellow Chinese and Chinese martial artist. Great hero.
The following year, Wang Jianan received another very difficult task, which was to remove all the bases of the Japanese and puppet troops in Shandong.
After receiving the mission, Wang Jian’an carefully studied the geographic location and information about the Japanese army, and then led the six regiments to attack the Wuhua Cultural Department.
Unexpectedly, this puppet army fought more fiercely than the Japanese army, facing such a powerful enemy. Wang Jian'an did not panic at all, but was more composed and calm, adopting a strategy of defensive first and then looking for opportunities to break through.
In the end, the two sides fought fiercely for more than 20 days before our army won, and the five liberated areas in Shandong became a line.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek unilaterally tore up the " double ten agreement " regardless of the interests of the country and the people, and the civil war broke out.
In December of the same year, the Shandong Military Region merged with the Central China Field Theater to form East China Field Army ,Wang Jianan received the order to prepare to attack Lunan. But in order to get to the battlefield as soon as possible, he asked the driver to speed up. As a result, because of the winding mountain road, the car turned over due to delay in braking.
Although Wang Jian'an was not in danger of life, he was still seriously injured, but for the victory of the revolution, he ignored dissuasion and walked into the command post with the help of soldiers.
At that time, the logistics unit was not perfect, so before he had time to take the anesthetic, he gritted his teeth, endured the severe pain, and lay on the hospital bed to command operations.
The soldiers were also infected by this lightly wounded spirit. They were very brave on the battlefield and did not back down, because they knew that only when the war was won, Wang Jianan could heal his illness with peace of mind.
In 1948, Wang Jian'an served as the deputy commander of the East China Field Army and commanded the campaign in the east of Henan. Later, Chairman Mao called to Xibaipo . At that time, Chairman Mao was overworked and was training in bed.
Chairman Mao told him that his main task now is to liberate Jinan, with Wang Jianan as the deputy commander and Xu Shiyou as the commander.
Chairman Mao was afraid that he would have an opinion on the fact that he had been the deputy commander, so he told him that he could put forward any request or opinion.
Wang Jianan immediately saluted him, saying: " has no objection, please rest assured, the chairman, and promise to complete the task.
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Then Zhou Enlai asked him: " You only have half a month to break through Jinan. Do you have any problems? _strong2 _strong2 _span3span strong_spanspan9 p0 If fights continuously, there is no big problem ."
So Zhou Enlai assured him that Jinan was handed over.
If you want to win Jinan quickly, the biggest difficulty is Jinan's city defense, which is not only strong, but also heavily guarded. Only by deploying troops in detail can we win.
Therefore, before the battle, Wang Jian'an was fully prepared. Whether it was reconnaissance or communication, or command, he had made plans.
But after the war broke out, we still encountered a problem. Our army has been siege of the city for seven days and seven nights. Not only did the logistics unit urgently need supplies, but the casualties were also high.
In this regard, Wang Jianan and Xu Shiyou agreed that they should work hard together, and only continue to attack the city to win. It was not until the 24th day of the war that our army finally won Jinan and wiped out the enemy.
After the Battle of Jinan ,Wang Jianan took a rest for a while, and then took part in the cross-river battle .
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Korean War broke out. In 1952, he led his army to participate in the Anti-US Aid Korea , and repeatedly defeated the enemy's vital forces with small victories.
But years of fighting, his body has long been unable to afford it.
In 1954, Wang Jianan fell tired on the hospital bed.
Since then he has served as the deputy commander of the Jinan Military Region, the Shenyang Military Region and the Fuzhou Military Region. Although they are all deputy commanders, he has no complaints and has always worked hard.
Even Ye Jianying admires him very much.
On July 25, 1980, General Wang Jianan died of illness at the age of 72.
It is strange that such a well-known and well-known general, , was actually in the memorial service, and no one came to offer condolences. Why?
It turned out that this was the will of the old general. He didn’t want his funeral to be so grand and to send so many wreaths. It was too wasteful of manpower and material resources. Then he would only need to sprinkle his ashes on the fields of his hometown.That's it.
And when he was seriously ill, he also refused the children's request to come back to visit. He said, "The children of are not my private property. They want to do things for the country and the people. As long as I have a breath, none of them can come back ."
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But because of his sudden illness, the children really didn't have time to see him for the last time.
so that more than a month after his death, those former comrades in arms only learned of this. Everyone was shocked: " why there is no news at all ."
This is the spiritual realm of the older generation of revolutionaries. This is the founding general Wang Jian'an, his deeds and his spirit. , It is always worth learning.
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