In 1970, Li Desheng was appointed as the director of the General Political Department, and he was the first founding major general to serve as the director of the General Political Department. Before this, the General Political Department had appointed two deputy directors. Who a

In 1970, Li Desheng was appointed as the director of the General Political Department of . He was the first founding major general to serve as the director of the General Political Department. Before this, the General Political Department had appointed two deputy directors. Who are they? One of them was higher than the military rank of director Li Desheng.

First talk about the first one, his name is Tian Weixin. Like Li Desheng, he is also a founding major general. Tian Weixin was from Dong'a, Shandong. He participated in revolutionary work during the Anti-Japanese War and joined the Party gloriously in 1939. He is an excellent political general.

Before the Shangdang Battle started, Tian Weixin was the acting director of the Political Department of the Third Detachment of the Taihang Column. Deng Xiaoping talked to him and asked him how the situation was in the army? Tian Weixin replied that the troops were in high spirits for war. Deng Xiaoping asked again, the Kuomintang has machine guns and cannons, and our soldiers only have two or three bullets in their guns. How can we fight this battle?

Tian Weixin replied that he should use nighttime to force the enemy and fight with grenade . The Shangdang Campaign ended successfully, and Tian Weixin served as the political commissar of the regiment in the Third Column of Liu and Deng’s Army. Under the leadership of Chen Xilian, he participated in the battle for the Central Plains.

In 1964, Tian Weixin served as deputy director of the Political Department of the Shenyang Military Region. The then commander of the Shenyang Military Region was his old leader General Chen Xilian. Tian Weixin worked diligently to assist Chen Xilian in his work and was promoted to deputy political commissar of the military region in 1969.

In the same year, Chairman Mao approved the appointment of Tian Weixin as deputy director of the General Political Department, and he assisted Li Desheng in restoring the normal office order of the General Political Department. Once, Lin Biao summoned the leaders of the General Political Department for a conversation and said that he had seen other comrades, but only Tian Weixin did not know them.

Tian Weixin is a general of the Second Field Army. It is normal for Lin Biao to not know him. In 1973, the commanders of the Eight Military Regions were transferred, and Li Desheng left Beijing and no longer served as the director of the General Political Department. Premier Zhou introduced Tian Weixin to Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao told him that the General Political Department will be in charge. In 2002, Tian Weixin passed away at the age of 87.

(Major General Tian Weixin)

The second place is Huang Zhiyong. Director of the General Political Department Li Desheng and another deputy director Tian Weixin are both generals of the Second Field Army, and Huang Zhiyong is a general of the Fourth Field Army. Li Desheng and Tian Weixin were both founding major generals, while Huang Zhiyong was founding lieutenant general, and his military rank was higher than Li Desheng.

Huang Zhiyong is from Chongyi, Jiangxi Province and joined the party gloriously in 1930. Although he was a general of the Fourth Field Army, he also had a lot of connections with Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping led the Red Seventh Army to enter the Chongyi , helped the local army develop, and held training classes. Huang Zhiyong participated in the training class.

Deng Xiaoping personally gave lectures to Huang Zhiyong and others. Therefore, Huang Zhiyong was also Deng Xiaoping's soldier. In 1932, Huang Zhiyong was incorporated into the Red Seventh Army. The Long March of the Red Army began, and Huang Zhiyong served as the political commissar of the regiment in , the Red Eighth Army .

When the troops passed by their doorstep, someone suddenly called Huang Zhiyong's nickname. It was not someone else, but Huang Zhiyong's mother. The leader asked Huang Zhiyong to go home to see him, and Huang Zhiyong said goodbye to his parents briefly and embarked on a journey of thousands of miles.

1938, Chairman Mao summoned Huang Zhiyong and others and told him, "You go to Luochuan , opposite the Kuomintang, go to open a bathhouse." The bathhouse that Chairman Mao mentioned is of course not a place to take a bath, but Huang Zhiyong and others should educate the young people who entered Yan'an from there.

(Ltd. General Huang Zhiyong)

Under the training of Chairman Mao, Huang Zhiyong was very good at doing political work. After victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Huang Zhiyong was transferred to Hebei-Chare and Reliao as the brigade political commissar, and was then promoted to Chief of Staff of the Hebei-Chare and Reliao Military Region. The Second Corps of the Northeast Field Army was established, Cheng Zihua was the commander, and Huang Zhiyong continued to serve as Chief of Staff.

won the Tashan blocking battle, the fourth column of was returned to the command of Cheng Zihua and Huang Zhiyong. The 13th Corps was established, with Cheng Zihua as commander, and Huang Zhiyong also the chief of staff.

Huang Zhiyong participated in the revolution earlier. He was a general in the fourth field of and a leader at the corps level. He was higher than Li Desheng and Tian Weixin. Of course, he had to be awarded the title of Lieutenant General.

In 1957, Huang Zhiyong served as the political commissar of engineering troops and partnered with founding general Chen Shiju.In 1965, he was transferred to the position of political commissar of Armored Soldier and partnered with Xu Guangda, one of the top ten generals. It is amazing that a lieutenant general can partner with a general or a general.

In 1969, Huang Zhiyong served as deputy director of the General Political Department. Although his military rank is higher than that of Li Desheng, he firmly obeys Li Desheng's leadership and fully assists Li Desheng in doing a good job in the General Political Department, becoming a good assistant in Li Desheng's work.

It is very coincidental that in 2011, Huang Zhiyong and Li Desheng passed away in the same year. Li Desheng was 96 years old and Huang Zhiyong was 98 years old.