After the Third Division of the New Fourth Army went to the Northeast, it was reorganized into the second column of the Northeast Field Army, and Liu Zhen, the deputy division commander, was appointed as the column commander. Huang Kecheng thinks that he is old and has poor eyesight, and military command is not his strong suit. Serina Liu is brave and good at directing wars. Therefore, he recommended Serina Liu as the commander. From then on, Liu Zhen commanded Dongye II to participate in the northeast battlefield. A series of campaigns, such as Jiangnan Campaign, Liaoshen Campaign, Pingjin Campaign, Hengbao Campaign and Guangxi Campaign. All the way from Baishan Heishui in Northeast China to Nanguan in Guangxi Town, the Second Field Army in Northeast China wiped out the most enemies and achieved the greatest results, so-called Northeast Tiger Army. 1948165438+10 was changed to 39th Army. On the Korean battlefield, the 39 th Army is also the best army.
Liu Zhen, 19 15, from Xiaogan, Hubei. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as a soldier, company instructor, battalion, regiment and division political commissar. 1934, after the victory of the Red 25th Army in Luotian, the battle gap was summarized. Liu Zhen was then the acting party branch secretary of the pistol regiment. He thinks that although the battle has been won, the fly in the ointment is mainly the use of tactics. First, the fire organization was not in place, second, the deployment was not careful during the retreat, and third, the pistol regiment came to town late to carry silver dollars. In view of the existing problems, he suggested strengthening tactical training and attaching importance to the coordinated use of artillery weapons. Xu Haidong, commander of the Red 25th Army, was quite appreciative after hearing this. After the Red 25 Army arrived in northern Shaanxi on the Long March, it was co-edited with the Red 26 Army led by Liu Zhidan as the Red 15 Army. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the Red Army 15 Corps was reorganized into one of the two main brigades of the Eighth Route Army 1 15 Division, namely the 344th Brigade. Liu Zhen was appointed as the political commissar of the 688th regiment of the brigade, and later led his troops to participate in the victory of Pingxing Pass. Later, Liu Zhen followed Huang Kecheng south to join the ranks of the New Fourth Army and served as the deputy commander of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army. He is the right-hand man of Huang Kecheng, the commander and political commissar. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army was ordered by the Central Committee to March to the northeast. 1946, the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army was reorganized into the 2nd column of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces, with Liu Zhen as the commander. From then on, he took charge of this tiger army and galloped between the white mountains and black waters in the northeast, making great contributions.
Lin Biao's Northeast Field Army has 12 infantry columns, of which Li Tianyou's 1, Liu Zhen's 2, Han Xianchu's 3 and Hong Xuezhi's 6 are the ace troops. It should be noted that among the military chiefs of these main columns, only Liu Zhen was the commander from beginning to end, which shows that the head of Dongye trusted and valued Liu Zhen. The Northeast Tiger Army followed Mao Zedong's military thought and kept improving its tactical and technical level according to the requirements of "what to fight and what to learn". The army learned the combat skills in different situations, such as plains, undulating lands, rivers, mountains, large, medium and small cities, day and night, and gained the experience of coordinated operations of various services and arms. In summing up his experience in military command, Liu Zhen himself said that in tactical thinking, we should resolutely implement the ten military principles, seize the opportunity to wipe out the enemy and concentrate our forces on destroying the enemy; In battlefield command, pay attention to on-the-spot investigation, personally see the terrain, carefully arrange and fully prepare; In the course of combat, we should pay attention to summing up and popularizing advanced experience in time and drawing lessons from failure. In addition, he also believes that it is necessary to carry forward military democracy, integrate political work into operational command, and cultivate a good fighting style, and so on.
Although Xiao Hua was the youngest founding general, Xiao Hua spent most of his time in military and political work, and he was a political cadre, so he rarely directly commanded operations. Moreover, Xiao Hua is not a general who grew up from a soldier step by step, that is to say, he has never been a monitor, platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander and so on. He went from local to military. From the officer's point of view, Liu Zhen is the youngest general. He gradually became a commander from a soldier. During the Red Army period, Liu Zhen was in the same class as General Han Xianchu and Lieutenant General Chen Xianrui, and three generals were produced in one class, which was a much-told story for a while. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Liu Zhen served as the commander of the Volunteer Air Force, leading the young Volunteer Air Force to compete with the most powerful American Air Force in the world and achieved brilliant results. In particular, it knocked down Davis, who was called "the highest jet ace pilot" by the United States. The commander of the US Far East Air Force said that the US Air Force is fighting a fierce and skilled enemy. Vandenberg, chief of staff of the US Air Force, exclaimed that "* * * China has become one of the world's major air force powers almost overnight". When Liu Zhen served as deputy commander of the Air Force and president of the Air Force Academy after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he also set up a bridge between Liu Siqi, the daughter-in-law of Chairman Mao, so that Liu Siqi and Yang Maozhi, a faculty member of the Air Force Academy, achieved a beautiful marriage.
Although Liu Zhen has made great achievements, he has been a deputy in the Air Force for more than ten years. Liu Yalou, commander of the Air Force, is a general, and Wu, political commissar, is a lieutenant general. Liu Yalou suggested to the Central Committee that Wu, the political commissar of the Air Force, should be appointed as the commander of the Air Force. In fact, in terms of qualifications, meritorious military service and ability, Liu Zhenyuan is above Wu. Wu knows that his ability and exploits are inferior to Liu Zhen, so he has been trying to get Liu Zhen. As Liu Zhen was a subordinate of Huang Kecheng for a long time, he was labeled as "Huang Peng anti-party clique" who escaped through the net. Of course, Liu Zhen can't be the commander of the air force because he is not from the Red Army.