At the conferring ceremony after the founding of the People's Republic of China, an unknown general received the rank of general. After receiving the rank of general, he still went to the front line of work and never felt proud of this honor. This founding general was inconspicuous among the many founding generals, and was even slightly inferior.
In fact, why he remains unknown is mainly because he took the initiative to give up many of his achievements to others. This made it rare for him to have any achievements to be proud of in his decades of revolutionary career, so he is still relatively unknown to the public. As everyone knows, the founding general is not well-known, but he is indeed very capable. Even Mao Zedong would ask for his advice when he wanted to use troops, which shows how powerful he is.
At this point, he should be a general who will be remembered in history. So who is this founding general? Why is it said that even Mao Zedong asked for his opinion before using troops?
1. Generals promoted from column commanders
In the revolutionary era, many generals were promoted through column commanders, which made column commanders a test for revolutionary generals, although many of the later founders of the People's Republic of China The heroes all gave complete answers, but one general remained unknown after answering. He was the founding general-Li Tao.
Li Tao's qualifications are actually very old. As early as the Long March period, the position of the Red Army column commander was adjusted. It was March 1935, and the Red Army was still on the arduous Long March. However, personnel transfers were made during this period, allowing Liu Bocheng to temporarily leave this post. At the same time, Ye Jianying, as deputy commander, also had other transfers, so At that time, the organization decided after research to select Li Tao as the commander of the column.
After learning that he was going to serve as the commander of the column, Li Tao was very anxious and thought that he was not capable of holding such a position, so he approached Liu Bocheng and hoped that the organization would choose a suitable candidate.
Liu Bocheng was not surprised when he saw Li Tao coming to him. After all, it was the first time for Li Tao to hold such an important position, so he began to do Li Tao's work repeatedly. In Liu Bocheng's eyes, Li Tao, like himself, was a cadre who led troops in war, and Li Tao had already highlighted his talents in several anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns. This impressed Liu Bocheng, so he believed that the organization There is no problem in electing Li Tao to be the commander of this column.
Therefore, after meeting Li Tao, Liu Bocheng said that he could rest assured that there were also leading cadres such as Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou in the column. After hearing that there was still a leader, Li Tao felt relieved and began to serve as the commander of the column. He also began to work with leading cadres such as Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou, which made Mao Zedong begin to leave a deep impression on this general.
2. The person even Mao Zedong asked for advice
From the time he served as the commander of the column in 1935, Li Tao's military talents in the revolution began to be increasingly displayed, which made Mao Zedong couldn't help but praise his military talents.
When was crossing Chishui , Li Tao allowed the Red Army to successfully break through the enemy's blockade through careful command. This made Mao Zedong highly praise him, so Li Tao was later transferred to the director of the Political Department of the Column of the Military Commission and began to coordinate the column. political and ideological construction work.
After the Long March, Li Tao came to the revolutionary base area in northern Shaanxi and began to take charge of the construction work of the base area, and was appointed as the Minister of Economic Construction of the Central Military Commission. After taking up this new position, Li Tao's burden did not lighten. On the contrary, it became heavier and heavier. At that time, the base area was still very desolate and the people's lives were also very difficult. It was in such an environment that Li Tao lived up to the expectations of everyone and served in the new position. The base area created a new situation in economic development and created a material foundation for the subsequent Anti-Japanese War.
After the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the people's army combined with the anti-Japanese armed forces from various places repeatedly hit the Japanese invaders hard, making it difficult for the Japanese invaders to take advantage of the frontal battlefield. Therefore, the Japanese invaders began a strategy of blockading the anti-Japanese base areas in an attempt to The attempt to annex the anti-Japanese base areas was completed with one soldier.
After seeing the Japanese aggressors' conspiracy, Li Tao began to further adjust the economic development work in the anti-Japanese base areas, which allowed the anti-Japanese base areas to rely on self-reliance to survive the crisis. After overcoming the crisis, Li Tao began to prepare multiple plans to counterattack the Japanese invaders, and received high praise from the organization. Even Mao Zedong called him an all-rounder, not only a military general, but also a general. Even the economic development of revolutionary base areas is his specialty. So Li Tao naturally became a general whom Mao Zedong often asked for decision-making.
After the Revolutionary War entered the War of Liberation, Mao Zedong asked Li Tao for his opinion on many major counterattack strategies. This shows that Li Tao is well-deserved as a very outstanding military talent.
3. Conclusion:
As a military general with outstanding performance during the Long March, Li Tao not only made outstanding achievements in the military during the revolutionary war years, but also performed very well in the economic development of the revolutionary base area, so this It made Li Tao a general that even Mao Zedong had to ask questions about, and it also made him a military talent worthy of being recorded in the annals of revolutionary history, worthy of being admired and learned by future generations.
