Before the 1955 award, the selection team reported the list to the chairman, who, after seeing it, circled a person in the list of admirals and commented: This person is proud and complacent, and it is advisable to award lieutenant general.
This person was General Wang Jian'an, who was also known as "Shandong Shuangxiong" with General Xu Shiyou, and the relationship between the two generals was originally very close, and later when the Red Fourth Front Army had problems with Zhang Guotao, general Xu Shiyou, who had a hot temper, because of some remarks, wanted to fight a guerrilla war himself, and he wanted to ask several people to go with him, and among the people he called was Wang Jian'an.
Although Wang Jian'an had a very straight temper, he felt that it was wrong for him to run away privately, and at a critical moment, instead of leaving with General Xu Shiyou, he told the political commissar about it.
Later, General Xu Shiyou calmed down and realized his problem, but Wang Jian'an reported to his superiors, or angered General Xu Shiyou, and identified his whistle-blowing behavior as betrayal, and the relationship between the two was once very stiff.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the two also cooperated many times, but the relationship never showed an inflection point. It was not until the end of the Battle of Eastern Henan in 1948 that the relationship between the two men took a turn for the worse, and the central government decided to march into the Jinan area, and the candidates considering leading the troops were General Xu Shiyou and General Wang Jian'an, because both of them were very prestigious and famous in the Shandong region, and their ability to command and fight was also affirmed by the organization.
The chairman first sent a telegram to General Xu Shiyou, and when the general received the chairman's appointment, he was naturally very excited, so he hurried on the road, and after a night of running, he arrived at his destination in the early morning of the next day.
When the chairman knew, he asked him to wait with peace of mind that the deputy was already on his way. Subsequently, the chairman found General Wang Jian'an and wanted him to be General Xu Shiyou's deputy, and the two must unite and cooperate. Wang Jian'an understood the chairman's meaning, that he was afraid that they would have contradictions and affect the operation, so he immediately issued a guarantee.
By the time General Wang arrived in Shandong, Xu Shiyou had already prepared wine and vegetables in advance. It turned out that after Xu Shiyou knew that the deputy was Wang Jian'an, he said to the people around him, this time the chairman let us work together, I must work with Lao Wang to take Jinan City, and I can't lose the chairman's face.
Looking at the enthusiastic General Xu Shiyou, Wang Jian'an was also impressed, and the two sat together and drank a meal of wine, and the past was over. The two also agreed that after taking Jinan, they would have another drink.
In the Battle of Jinan, the two cooperated tacitly and took Jinan City in eight days. When the city of Jinan was liberated, the generals rushed to fight elsewhere.
General Wang Jian'an has a view of the overall situation, stopped it in time when General Xu Shiyou was impulsive, and was able to follow the chairman's opinions, put aside the grudges between the two, and go all out on the battlefield. From above will be labeled as a medium.
The reason for this was probably that the general's first impression in front of the chairman was not very good, at a meeting during the Red Army period, Mr. Chen put forward a battle plan, but Wang Jian'an thought that something was inappropriate, and in the last two people arguing, General Wang Jian'an was angry for a while, and even slapped the table, and this matter was later reported to the chairman by the participants, and the chairman had a bad impression of Wang Jian'an.
However, General Xu Shiyou, an old friend of Wang Jian'an, said that although Lao Wang would shoot the table, he would never dismantle the stage when he would go down, and this person had courage and strategy, did things straight and straight, and would not turn.
After the evaluation team received the chairman's instructions, on the one hand, it was difficult to refute the chairman's opinion, and on the other hand, it recognized the general's ability, and at that time, the general had physical problems because of the long-term war to resist the United States and aid Korea, and was sent back to China for recuperation, and it was unlikely to attend the ceremony, so the people in the evaluation team wanted to let go first.
Therefore, in the 1955 title, General Wang Jian'an did not participate in the authorization. Later, after the communication between the selection team and the chairman, the reason for the draft general was informed, and the chairman heard it and felt that it was very reasonable, and in January 1956, Wang Jian'an was awarded the rank of general, and it was General Peng and General Huang Kecheng who personally awarded the rank of general to the general in the building of the Ministry of National Defense.
Although the title was awarded later than others, the qualifications and abilities of the generals were very suitable for the generals.
However, in 1980, the general died, but no one went to mourn, and many old comrades-in-arms learned of the general's death after a long time.
General Wang Jian'an was born in Huang'an County, Hubei Province, like most generals, he was also born in a poor peasant family, although the birth is very difficult, but Wang Jian'an knows that reading can be wise, in order to be able to read, he while doing short-term work, while looking for time to read, often when reading is found by the landlord beaten, but the general will still secretly read some simple books. So although I didn't go to school, I wasn't illiterate.
In 1924, at the age of eighteen, Wang Jian'an left his hometown to join the army and join the ranks of the great warlord Wu Peifu, but the bad habits in the warlord ranks disappointed Wang Jian'an. Within a few years, he left the team and went on to return to his hometown and became a smith. In 1926, he joined the Peasants' Self-Defense Army and the Self-Defense Forces in his hometown, when our Party was developing troops in various places, and in 1927, by chance, Wang Jian'an joined the ranks of the Red Army, became a party member, and began his revolutionary career.
Because of his previous experience as a soldier in Wu Peifu's unit, the general was very prominent in combat, and was soon reused by his superiors, he followed the unit to participate in four anti-encirclement and suppression, from 1928 to 1931, he grew from a small soldier to a deputy commander of the Red Army, the general knew that there was no knowledge, only brute force is not enough, he has entered the school twice to study, after the school's systematic education, the general's military ability is getting stronger and stronger.
In 1939, the Japanese army sent 20,000 troops to attack the Shandong region, and General Wang Jian'an was the deputy commander of the Shandong column at that time, and through clever deployment, he divided the column and fought the enemy many times, and finally let the enemy end the attack. At the same time, the nationalist army also harassed our army many times, there were wolves in the front and tigers in the back, the situation of our army was very critical, in 1942, the enemy suddenly moved to besiege the team led by General Wang Jian'an, and after pondering, the general resolutely led the soldiers to a small high ground, occupied the geographical advantage step by step, and fortified in advance near the small high ground in time.
However, when they were building the fortifications, the other side came over, our fighters quickly ran out of bullets, the soldiers did not sit still, but fought with the enemy, in this cruel struggle, Wang Jian'an and the fighters annihilated the enemy more than a thousand people, and when the soldiers finished the battle and planned to rest the team, the enemy launched another attack, the two sides fought for nearly a month, and finally our fighters repelled the enemy with strong perseverance.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he also participated in the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Because of the long period of conquest, he had many physical problems and had to be forcibly sent back to China for recuperation in 1954. Although the man was sent back to China, the general's heart was still on the battlefield, and when his body recovered a little, he returned to work again.
However, the general did not seem to have good luck, and he successively became the deputy commander of the Shenyang Military Region, the deputy commander of the Jinan Military Region, and the deputy commander of the Fuzhou Military Region, and has been serving as the second in command for others. However, the general did not have any opinion on this and has been working diligently and earnestly. Once the general was watching TV, and after seeing the death of a marshal abroad, the whole funeral scene was very extravagant, and the general told his family that I would not have to do this in the future.
On July 25, 1980, the general died, and his wife told the organization that the general's will did not need to hold any mourning ceremony, nor did it have to alarm the central government. Even a few of the general's children, when they knew that the general was seriously ill and rushed back, saw the general who was already critically ill. A month after the general's death, his comrades and old subordinates realized that something was wrong and learned the news that the general had died.
The general's ashes were scattered on the land of his hometown. Thus quietly ended his life.
General Wang Jian'an has courage and strategy, works straight to the point, is willing to be the second in command, works hard and complains, works diligently and earnestly, is low-key, exemplary, and admirable!