This man is the founding major general - Zeng Kelin!
He was only 16 years old when he joined the Red Army, and experienced successive anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles in the Soviet zone, and made many military achievements. After the Red Army's Long March reached northern Shaanxi, Zeng Kelin was transferred to the Red 28th Army as the regimental chief of staff. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he entered the Anti-Japanese University to study, and then went to the anti-Japanese front in eastern Hebei. At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was appointed commander of the 16th Military Subdistrict of the Jidong Military Region, and the commander of the military subdistrict should have belonged to the divisional combat unit at that time.
After the Soviet army sent troops to the northeast, Zeng Kelin was ordered to lead the 16th Military Sub-district to Shenyang. At that time, Shenyang was controlled by various forces, and the situation was relatively chaotic, and Zeng Kelin decided to take drastic measures in order to quickly control the chaotic situation in Shenyang. He first banned the puppet Manchu government department and established the Shenyang Garrison Headquarters of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army in order to communicate with the Soviet army on an equal footing. He then ordered his troops to take action and disarm all the Kuomintang armed forces in Shenyang.
The Soviets were so satisfied with the results of Zeng Kelin's work that they entrusted him with the largest munitions depot in Shenyang. When Zeng Kelin walked into the arsenal, he became "greedy", and such a good gun had never been seen, let alone used. So he ordered: "Immediately organize troops to pull overnight!" However, this kind of "guarding and stealing" was eventually discovered by the Soviet army, and the warehouse was also recovered. However, he did not suffer a loss, and in three days and three nights, tens of thousands of rifles, as well as thousands of light and heavy machine guns, and more than 200 artillery of various calibers were pulled out.
With guns and cannons, of course, the army will be expanded. Within a few months, his 16th Military Sub-district had suddenly expanded from more than 4,000 people to more than 85,000 people, and Zeng Kelin had also become the commander of hundreds of thousands of troops in the northeast of Weizhen.
When the war in the northeast was about to begin, the troops entering the northeast were reorganized, and the troops of the 16th Military Sub-district were divided into two columns, which were reorganized into the 3rd column and 4th column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and Zeng Kelin himself was appointed deputy commander of the Liaodong Military Region and became Xiao Hua's deputy.
After October 1946, the Kuomintang troops advanced all the way, and the 3 columns were repeatedly defeated and fought, and were compressed in several sparsely populated counties in southern Manchuria. Zeng Kelin was ordered to be "demoted halfway" to the position of commander of the 3rd Column; on the eve of the Liaoshen Campaign, Zeng Kelin was again "demoted half-post" to the commander of the 7th Column; after the Battle of Pingjin, he was once again "demoted" to the Tank Division of the Northeast Field Army as a division commander; after liberation, he was again transferred to the Air Force Mixed Brigade as a brigade commander.
At that time, one of his old comrades-in-arms once ridiculed: "Zeng Kelin, you were a full-fledged teacher during the War of Resistance, and more than ten years have passed, and the officials are getting smaller and smaller!" ”
In fact, "the smaller the official is, the smaller he is" does not mean that he will not fight, nor does it mean that he has any "problems".