Marshal Liu Bocheng was not only a great proletarian revolutionist, politician, and militarist, but also an excellent military educator. He made outstanding contributions to the foundation and development of education in our military military academies. Liu Bocheng has a famous saying, "The theory of military science must be a theory combined with practice. It is directly and obviously tested by the victory or defeat of the war and the amount of bloodshed."

In the long-term revolution During the war, Liu Bocheng knew very well that no powerful army in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, could "fight without teaching"; all talented military strategists knew how to educate and train cadres first. "Run the army first and run the school" has been his consistent proposition, which has been throughout his military career.

After the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, Liu Bocheng went to Wanxian County to join the student army that responded to the revolution, and began his glorious military career. From February to December 1912, he was admitted to the Chongqing Army General Bian School for training. Due to his excellent performance, he was selected to study in the crash course. After graduation, he served as the director of the 5th Division of the Sichuan Army. The formal education in the old military academy not only initially laid the foundation for his military theoretical attainments, but also gave him the "old-fashioned experience" of "ruling the army first".

In December 1926, Liu Bocheng, Zhu De and others launched the Luzhou and Shunqing (now Nanchong) uprisings, served as the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army in Sichuan, and led the uprising troops to fight against the Sichuan warlords to coordinate the Northern Expedition. It achieved the strategic purpose of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to restrain the Sichuan Army from going east to threaten Wuhan. Just after the success of the Luzhou and Shunqing uprisings, he set up a military and political school in his army and served as the principal himself. This was the beginning of the practice of his concept of "governing the army first and governing the school". Through school management, many old officers who had just left the Beiyang warlord system accepted new military and political ideas and stood on the side of progress.

In August 1927, the Nanchang Uprising ended in failure. Investigating the reasons, Liu Bo admitted that in addition to the enemy being too powerful, the Nanchang Uprising had not formed a strong leadership of the army, and had not implemented strong political education and military training for the troops. These factors were the "fundamental weaknesses" of the Nanchang Uprising. Starting from December of the same year, Liu Bocheng was dispatched by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to study at the Moscow Advanced Infantry School and the Frunze Military Academy, the highest military institution in the Soviet Union. After studying in the Soviet Union for two and a half years, he studied the military works of Marx, Engels and many foreign military strategists, which greatly broadened his horizons. In addition, thinking about the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, he became more determined that "to govern the army, you must govern the school." belief.

At the end of July 1930, Liu Bocheng returned to Shanghai and served as the Chief of Staff of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. He assisted Zhou Enlai in holding short-term military training courses and trained the various provinces and special committees responsible for the Communist Party of China. people and cadres of central government agencies to enhance their ability to carry out armed struggle. This was his "first time engaging in red military education." During this period, he was responsible for teaching insurrection strategies, guerrilla warfare, and mobile warfare tactics, and translated the "Soviet Army Infantry Combat Orders" for the Central Military Commission, and proofread the "Soviet Army Political Work Regulations", "How Guerrilla Action" and other materials. On the one hand, he served as a Training course materials were distributed to Red Army schools in various revolutionary base areas, which promoted the early construction of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

In January 1932, Liu Bocheng went directly to the Jiangxi Central Revolutionary Base Area and succeeded Mao Zedong as the president and political commissar of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army School (actually the Red Army University of the First Red Army) until he was transferred in mid-October of the same year. Chief of General Staff of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. During this period, in response to the fact that the Red Army focused on mobile warfare, he vigorously cultivated mobile warfare talents and made outstanding contributions. After the Zunyi Conference, the Red Army was invincible under the command of Mao Zedong. Comparing the two, Liu Bocheng was deeply impressed by Mao Zedong's outstanding commanding ability. Later, with the formation of the scientific theoretical system of the Communist Party of China's military thought, he more consciously promoted and implemented the Communist Party of China's military thought.

In September 1935, the Red Army University (Red Army University) was established at the headquarters of the Fourth Red Front Army, which opened a senior command section, a superior command section and a superior political section. Liu Bocheng was transferred as the president and political commissar. At that time, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army, under the arbitrary command of Zhang Guotao, began to move south in a large scale. In order to rectify this army that was led in the wrong direction by Zhang Guotao, he stood resolutely with Zhu De and other comrades, starting from the overall situation of the life and death of the entire party and the Red Army, regardless of personal life and death, and actively safeguarded the Red Army, the Red Army, and the Red Army. The unity among the cadets of the Fourth Army and through them influence the troops to return to the right track.

In June 1936, the Second and Sixth Red Army Corps led by He Long, Ren Bishi and others arrived in Ganzi, joined forces with the Fourth Red Front Army, and immediately formed the Second Red Front Army. In early July, Liu Bocheng was invited to the Red Second Front Army to give the commanders and soldiers a tactical report on the enemy's cavalry. He proposed the basic principles of improving confidence, dealing with the enemy, utilizing terrain, and using weapons. He also explained the formation and pursuit of the cavalry. , organized backward movement and strengthening drills in peacetime, etc., which were deeply admired by He Long. After his recommendation, Liu Bocheng followed the operations of the Second Red Front Army and served as the president of the Red Army University of the Front Army. He became the only person in the history of our army who has presided over the military education of the three main Red Army forces.

As the president of the Red Second Front Army University, Liu Bocheng lived up to expectations.

On September 20, 1936, he wrote the article "What I Think of in the Education of Our Military from Actual Combat", which put forward the requirements for training and education from the military and political aspects, especially the requirements for offense, defense, detour, A series of tactical principles and training methods such as marching, camping, vigilance and field operations have made a great contribution to strengthening the military quality of the Red Second Front Army. In December of the same year, the Second and Fourth Red Army universities were merged into the Anti-Japanese Red Army University (later known as the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, or Anti-Japanese University for short), and Liu Bocheng naturally became the only vice president.

Regarding "the combination of theory and practice", Liu Bocheng himself is an expert. Liu Bocheng once said: We must have a policy to run a good school, and the policy is the policy of Kangda University. The policy of the Anti-Japanese University is the three sentences put forward by Comrade ***: "A firm and correct political direction, a hard and simple work style, and flexible strategies and tactics." The core of this policy is to adhere to the correct direction of running the school, which is military Education in colleges and universities must serve the political needs of the party and the army and serve the construction of the army. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the military academies (including camp schools and training classes) presided over by Liu Bocheng always followed the above-mentioned guidelines and inherited the school spirit of the Anti-Japanese University of "unity, intensity, seriousness and liveliness", maintaining and carrying forward the education of our military academies. good tradition.

In August 1937, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Liu Bo served as the commander of the 129th Division. As early as the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, he gave instructions to the battalion school of the 129th Division: use *** military treatises as the "first teaching material." He believes that the military thought of the Communist Party of China and the history of the people's army, especially recent actual combat examples, should be used as the first kind of teaching materials. Only in this way can they be corrected to their original nature; while the Japanese military doctrines and teaching orders can be used as "the second kind of teaching materials". "Textbook", only in this way can it be used to analyze and study the characteristics and tactics of combat objects; some Soviet doctrines and military theories can be used as the "third textbook", which can broaden horizons and promote the development of military education. Throughout the Anti-Japanese War, the vast majority of those who participated in the 129th Division were workers and peasants. They had high political consciousness and bravery in combat, but their cultural level was low. Under Liu Bocheng's care and call, the army organized many literacy classes and cultural classes, setting off a craze for cultural learning. In order to become an anti-Japanese iron army, he also "strategized and won the teaching field first", and successively organized division training teams (classes), division accompanying battalion schools, division rotation training teams, division staff training classes, etc., and vigorously cultivated military, political, and staff talents . Because of his foresight and the realization of the concept of "ruling the army first, running the school", the 129th Division became famous for its military quality in the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and became the "iron army among the North China Anti-Japanese Iron Army."

In September 1945, the Japanese invaders had just surrendered, and the war between the Chinese and Japanese armies began. The People's Army of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan region led by Liu Bocheng still emphasizes "ruling the army first and running the schools". The schools with battalions at all levels are well-established and play an indispensable role in strengthening the military and political literacy of the troops. On September 2, 1948, the Central Plains Military and Political University was established. Liu Bocheng, then commander of the Central Plains Field Army, served as both president and political commissar. Due to Liu Bocheng's "fame", Central Plains Military and Political University was unparalleled among other military and political universities. It trained a large number of military and political talents for the Central Plains (Second) Field Army and provided military talent support for the victory of the Chinese People's Liberation War.