In 1959, Huang Kecheng, then the Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, stepped down, and the position of Chief of General Staff was suddenly vacant. Since this position has high requirements for ability and qualifications, it is difficult to determine the candidate for a while!
But the Chief of Staff is an important position in the military, and long-term vacancy is not a solution. At this time, someone suggested: in terms of qualifications and abilities, General Liu Yalou can be competent.
Liu Yalou
As soon as this proposal came out, it immediately received many people's approval. After all, Liu Yalou's qualifications and abilities are there, and everyone can see them. But just as the proposal is about to be formed to report the resolution.
Lin Biao rarely expressed his opinion. He said: As the Chief of Staff of the General Staff, Liu Yalou is too aggressive and shows his sharpness, which is not suitable.
This statement made many people not understand. You should know that Lin Biao is extremely low-key on weekdays and almost never interferes in personnel appointments. This time, someone proposed that Liu Yalou be the Chief of Staff, which was obvious to him.
More importantly, although Lin Biao is not good at socializing, he has a close personal relationship with Liu Yalou. But seeing that his friend is about to be promoted, why did Lin Biao come out and intervene again?
Could it be that Liu Yalou really looks like Lin Biao said, and his personality is too sharp? Or is there another reason why Lin Biao said this?
"Military Boy" Liu Yalou
Liu Yalou was born in Xiangyang Village, Xiangdian Township, Wuping County, Fujian Province in 1910. It was the late Qing Dynasty, and the smoke of revolution was ignited everywhere. Although the Qing government's rule was already shaky, the exploitation of the people was becoming increasingly serious.
Liu Yalou's family was originally extremely poor, and because they did not have their own land, in order to make a living, Liu Yalou's father Liu Kefang could only go up the mountain to collect firewood and spend some money on selling firewood to live. Although life is hard, it can still be maintained. But with Liu Yalou's birth, Liu Kefang's wife was seriously injured and passed away without suffocating the next day!
For a moment, Liu Yalou, who had just landed, became a motherless child. But even more tragic fate is still waiting for him. Because Liu Kefang went out alone to make a living, he was unable to raise Liu Yalou at all.
had no choice but to adopt Liu Yalou to his friend Liu Dexiang. Although Liu Dexiang's family is not rich, it is much better than Liu Kefang.
In this way, the young Liu Yalou began his life in his adoptive father's house. Afterwards, Liu Yalou grew up gradually and when he reached the age of enlightenment, Liu Dexiang became worried.
Because of years of getting along, Liu Dexiang likes Liu Yalou very much, and he also found that compared with his own children, Liu Yalou is obviously smarter.
So, Liu Dexiang made a decision that ordinary people could not understand. That is to do all the best of the family to send Liu Yalou to school alone.
1920, Liu Yalou, who was only 10 years old, entered Chongde Primary School to study. In school, Liu Yalou's intelligence is famous. No matter which gentleman he is, he will be praised whenever he mentions Liu Yalou.
4 years later, Liu Yalou was admitted to Changting Provincial No. 7 Middle School with extremely excellent results in his envious eyes. Later, due to the warlord melee and Liu Dexiang's age, he was no longer able to provide Liu Yalou with further studies.
In desperation, Liu Yalou had to drop out of school and return home. Although Liu Yalou had not finished junior high school at that time, he was already a very knowledgeable person in the ten miles and eight villages!
So under the introduction of the village, Liu Yalou came to Chongde Primary School to teach. At that time, Liu Kemo, the principal of Chongde Primary School, was a Communist Party member and admired Liu Yalou, a young man who received a new type of education.
And after learning about Liu Yalou's character, Liu Kemo even developed a love for Liu Yalou. So in the days that followed, Liu Kemo intentionally or unintentionally transmitted some progressive ideas to Liu Yalou.
In fact, Liu Yalou has lived in an environment of exploitation and oppression since he was a child, so he yearns for such great achievements as resisting oppression and liberating the working people.
But Liu Yalou also knew that if he wanted to overthrow the reactionary rule, he could not achieve great things by himself alone. So in the process of getting along with Liu Kemo, he gradually made friends with many like-minded people.
. Together with these people, Liu Yalou contacted and established the " Iron Blood Group ". Later, due to his outstanding organizational leadership, he was elected by the majority of farmers as the leader of the "Great Youth Association".
Due to Liu Yalou's various outstanding performances, he gradually became noticed by our party organization. Through his investigation of him openly and secretly, in 1928, Liu Yalou successfully joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Zhang Dixin , Li Guang and others.
After joining the party, in order to express his determination to continue to work hard for the working people and his will to go to the next level, Liu Yalou changed his original name "Liu Zhendong" to Liu Yalou!
Since our party had just begun to compete with the reactionaries in an armed struggle, Liu Yalou soon participated in various battles as a soldier.
Although Liu Yalou was young at that time, he was particularly clever on the battlefield. Moreover, because he was constantly trained in combat, Liu Yalou's military literacy was rapidly improved.
When Red Army Long March, Liu Yalou, who was only 25 years old, had already become the commander of the First Division of the Red 1st Legion. After the Long March, Liu Yalou even went to Anti-Japanese Red Army University to study as a senior military cadre.
Until 1939, because our party urgently needed a group of military command cadres with super high military literacy during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Liu Yalou was recommended to go to the Fulongzhi Military Academy in the Soviet Union for further study.
In the Soviet Union, Liu Yalou still showed extraordinary will. Due to language barriers, Liu Yalou was unable to learn normally in the classroom at the beginning.
After realizing this problem, Liu Yalou began to overcome the language barrier. After the problem was solved, Liu Yalou's academic performance soared and he quickly became a top student in the eyes of everyone.
1942, the Soviet-German War broke out. Liu Yalou, who stayed in the Soviet Union, participated in the Patriotic War as a major in the Soviet Union and achieved excellent results.
It is said that Liu Yalou, who performed well at that time, even alarmed Stalin . After learning about Liu Yalou's situation, the latter took the initiative to show his goodwill, and even agreed to the Soviet nationality and major general rank, hoping that Liu Yalou could stay in the Soviet Union!
But Liu Yalou clearly rejected the good intentions of the Soviet Union. He knew very well that the organization sent him to the Soviet Union to study in order to better serve the motherland, and how could he abandon his motherland for the sake of so-called fame and fortune?
Therefore, in 1945, Liu Yalou returned to China to work and began his career as the "Chief of Staff"!
"Chief of Staff" Liu Yalou
In 1946, Liu Yalou was appointed Chief of Staff of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army . After Liu Yalou took office, he found that the staff system in the army was very chaotic and the overall staff level was also low.
As the chief of staff, Liu Yalou began a reform with the "Liu style" in order to change this situation. In order to improve the quality of the staff team, Liu Yalou even took great effort to set up a staff training team!
In order to formulate professional textbooks for the staff training team, Liu Yalou personally translated the "Red Army Staff Business Regulations". At the same time, in order to continuously improve the professionalism of staff work, the division of labor is clearer.
Liu Yalou also organized the establishment of surveying and mapping schools, which vigorously trained professional terrain surveyors and military map map personnel.
It can be said that Liu Yalou's various measures have made great contributions to our army's ability to establish a professional staff team.
Later, after the Northeast Democratic Alliance was renamed Northeast Field Army , Liu Yalou formed a leadership team with Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan. As we all know, Lin, Luo, , Liu Zhong, , Lin Biao is not the oldest, but can be ordered by the central government.
Lin Biao is the number one figure in the Northeast Field Army. In fact, Luo Ronghuan and Liu Yalou had no objection to this. After all, Lin Biao's military command capabilities have been verified by the anti-encirclement and suppression battles and the War of Resistance Against Japan.
But even so, as Lin Biao's chief of staff, Liu Yalou's work is difficult to do. Lin Biao likes to unexpectedly fight, so the change in military command thinking is so fast that ordinary people can't achieve.
This requires the staff to have a better sense of the overall situation, and only in this way can they keep up with Lin Biao's ideas. Therefore, whenever there is a war, Liu Yalou is the busiest.
He needs to understand all the situation in the whole world, so that when Lin Biao suddenly asks questions, he can blurt out the answers and win the best fighter for the troops.
And we also know that Lin Biao’s strictness is famous. Almost all subordinates have been criticized by Lin Biao for their inadequate work, but Liu Yalou is an exception.
Fu Zuoyi
1948, Pingjin Battle is about to be. Because Fu Zuoyi, in the city of , has an ambiguous attitude towards peace negotiations, he also asks for the terms of peace negotiations, which is unrealistic.
This made the Party Central Committee decide to liberation Tianjin to break Fu Zuoyi's fantasy, so that he could honestly return to the negotiating table.
Although the guards in Tianjin at that time were not as strict as Peking, as the gateway to Peking, once Tianjin was captured by our army, then Peking would become the meat at our army's mouth. It was only a matter of time to eat it.
also had a deep understanding of this, so at Fu Zuoyi's instruction, Chen Changjie was arranged to guard Tianjin. Originally, Lin Biao estimated that with the PLA's combat power, he could basically take Tianjin in 72 hours.
But after all, the Kuomintang army is sticking to it, while our army is attacking it strongly. Although Lin Biao was extremely confident in our army's combat power, the war was too variable and no one dared to assert easily until the last moment.
For this reason, Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan and Liu Yalou studied it carefully together. Finally, the combat policy proposed by Liu Yalou was adopted, and the battle against Tianjin was launched with the tactic of "attacking east, west, south and north, breaking through, splitting and encircling, and finally annihilated each one".
However, unexpectedly, under the command of Liu Yalou, the People's Liberation Army launched an attack with five armies, and finally took Tianjin in just 29 hours, and captured the commander-in-chief of the security officer Chen Changjie.
Liberate Tianjin
After this battle, even Lin Biao admired Liu Yalou very much. In theory, it is possible to gain Lin Biao's recognition at least to show that Liu Yalou's staff ability is extraordinary.
But as we all know, Lin Biao's personality is taciturn, and Liu Yalou is exactly the opposite of Lin Biao, and this may be the reason why Lin Biao really opposed Liu Yalou's takeover as Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army!
"Godde Lei" Liu Yalou
In fact, Liu Yalou worked with Lin Biao for a long time during his tenure as Chief of Staff of the Northeast Field Army. Lin Biao did not doubt Liu Yalou's ability to be advised, and the reason why he opposed his takeover as Chief of Staff.
is more about considerations based on Liu Yalou's personality. And those who have worked with Liu Yalou have deep feelings about Liu Yalou's personality. There is also a rumor circulating about this:
" are not afraid of suffering or death, but are afraid that Commander Liu will come to give a lecture! "
This sentence seems like a joke, but in fact it reflects the sharpness of Liu Yalou's personality. Compared to other leaders who like to contact grassroots soldiers and subordinates, Liu Yalou is more like a "cold machine"!
As we all know, Liu Yalou once had experience in the Soviet Union, and it is precisely because of this that Liu Yalou developed extremely strict military habits.
Liu Yalou
In Liu Yalou's opinion, whenever he goes out, his clothes and shoes must be neat and smooth. Because the Soviet army has regulations that students studying at Fulongzhi Military Academy must learn to polish their leather shoes, otherwise they will not be able to graduate smoothly.
Therefore, no matter where you go, no matter whenever you appear in front of everyone, his leather shoes are wise to see. So when Liu Yalou went out for inspection, his strictness made many people afraid.
In addition to this, Liu Yalou never talks about personal feelings at work. Even for high-standard meetings, as long as Liu Yalou attends, etiquette tea, fruits and cigarettes are not allowed to be served.
Moreover, during the conference speech session, Liu Yalou's pursuit of efficiency was simply harsh.He asked the cadres present to uphold a principle when speaking, that is: If you have something to say, you will be long, and if you have nothing to say, you will be short.
For those who have nothing to say or care about him, Liu Yalou never cares about the so-called affection and face. Basically, as long as Liu Yalou thinks that there is nothing to say about, he will scold him in the next second.
Therefore, in the eyes of most cadres, Liu Yalou has no work ability and his temper is even more "nothing". But in fact, as a staff officer, you must not only have superb professional capabilities, but also be able to unite comrades.
. Regarding this point, at least in Lin Biao’s view, Liu Yalou is lacking. It turned out that on the eve of Dongye's attack on Jinzhou in 1948, Liu Yalou received information that the Kuomintang might send planes from Shenyang to send aid to Jinzhou.
In order to trap Jinzhou to death, Liu Yalou ordered the eighth column at that time to use artillery fire to block the airport in Jinzhou and prevent the Kuomintang plane from landing.
After on-site investigation, the Eighth Column at that time found that there were two airports in Jinzhou. One of the eastern suburbs was abandoned and the other in the western suburbs was still in use. Therefore, the leader of the Eighth Column led to the Electric Power Command, asking Liu Yalou which one should be blocked?
In fact, such requests are very ordinary, but they made Liu Yalou very angry. He couldn't help but curse the leaders of the Eighth Column for this:
" two airports, one can be used and the other cannot be used. Can it be used to block which one still need to ask for instructions? Are you eating or eating grass? "
Another time, at that time, a leader of the Northeast Field Army was an old Red Army, who had some qualifications. Therefore, during the migration to the rear, I brought a lot of furniture illegally.
can be used according to the regulations at that time. Any person who moves to the rear can only carry his own belongings, and no other than that is allowed to carry them.
But this old cadre relied on his identity to fight against the staff who blocked him from escorting the car before boarding the car. Finally, he brought large pieces of furniture such as stand cabinets, dressing tables, sofas and other items into the car.
Later, I met Liu Yalou and came to check the work. After discovering this problem, Liu Yalou immediately ordered the soldiers to clean up all the items of the old cadre from the car.
At that time, the old cadre was in the carriage, but when Liu Ya ordered his items to be removed downstairs, he could only huddle in a corner of the carriage, so scared that he didn't dare to come out.
In fact, if it were another person, perhaps for the sake of the old Red Army, he would turn a blind eye and just turn a blind eye, but Liu Yalou's sharp personality made him unable to rub the sand in his eyes.
So although Liu Yalou adheres to principles and is not merciless, he is not good at uniting comrades and coordinating work in actual work. In this way, no matter how strong Liu Yalou's own ability is, if he cannot mobilize all his strength for his own use, then no matter how powerful he is, he will be greatly reduced!
This may be the reason why Lin Biao, who has a deep understanding of it, disagrees with Liu Yalou as the Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army!
"Air Force Commander" Liu Yalou
But some people don't like Liu Yalou's "ruthlessness", and some people really appreciate Liu Yalou's selflessness! Before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, although our army had liberated Peiping, the Kuomintang planes still came to harass them all day long.
At that time, our army did not have an air force, and the strength of air defense was even more blank. Therefore, it is urgent to harass the Kuomintang aircraft but there is no way to do so.
In this regard, the great leader Chairman Mao was extremely anxious. As a national leader, he realized at that time that without the protection of the Air Force, a country's airspace would be invaded by the enemy.
In this case, Chairman Mao came up with the idea of forming an air force. After discussing with Premier Zhou, both of them felt that Liu Yalou was the best candidate for the Air Force Commander.
Then, under the appointment of Chairman Mao, Liu Yalou became the first commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force. As it turns out, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou have unique visions, and Liu Yalou really makes the construction of the air force very vividly.
The Air Force at that time was a "gold-swalking beast" compared to the army! But for Liu Yalou, even though he had received thousands or even over 100 million military expenditures, he, the Air Force commander, was still "extremely shabby"!
During the "Three Antis" movement, corruption cases emerged one after another across the country. However, Chairman Mao was extremely relieved about the Air Force, the "gold-swalking beast".
It turned out that Chairman Mao went to the Air Force to inspect work. When he saw Liu Yalou, Chairman Mao proposed to ask Liu Yalou to salute him.
Chairman Mao and Liu Yalou
Liu Yalou still stood attentively and saluted Chairman Mao respectfully. And when Liu Yalou's arm was stretched out to reveal his sleeves, Chairman Mao saw the worn sleeves and the rough and old shirt!
Seeing this, Chairman Mao couldn't help but admire: An air force commander manages more than tens of millions in a year, but his clothes are so shabby, which is enough to prove his integrity.
Afterwards, Chairman Mao even specifically proposed that he would approve Liu Yalou in the name of the Chairman of the Military Commission to buy several new clothes. But Liu Yalou said: Both the Air Force and the country need money, and money should be used on the blade.
After hearing this, even Chairman Mao couldn't help but praise: Liu Yalou is a real soldier. However, as the commander of the Air Force, Liu Yalou is extremely busy with work and often doesn’t care about his health when he gets busy.
Over time, Liu Yalou had a big problem with his health. But even during the hospitalization period, he insisted on not being special and was unwilling to let others delay their work to visit him.
On May 7, 1965, Liu Yalou died of ineffective treatment at the age of 55. The fall of a generation of famous generals makes people sigh!
Conclusion:
In fact, for Liu Yalou, he may not care at all whether he can become the Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army. In his heart, how to strengthen the army, how to strengthen the country, and how to let the people live a happy life is a huge thing.
Now this founding general has been away from us for 67 years, but whenever he talks about his deeds, we can still draw infinite power from him, and this may be the real reason for missing the hero!
References:
- "Admiral Liu Yalou: "The Thunder and Resolute Action of "Mr. Lei"" - Wu Dongfeng
- "General Liu Yalou's Two and Three Affairs" - Wu Dongfeng
- "Iron-faced and passionate Liu Yalou" - Wu Dongfeng
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