After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Shaoqing, who once served as the chief of staff of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army, was sent from Yan'an to work on the front line, and since then he has also started a "floating" military career. How do you say that?
In 1939, Liu Shaoqing left Yan'an and was sent to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui front line to strengthen the leadership work, when Li Xiannian was sent to Hubei-Henan-Anhui to open up a new area, with the expansion of the army needs cadres, and to the front line was entrusted with important tasks, became Commander Li's right-hand man, became the "commander-in-chief" of the 5th Division, not only responsible for the war, but also responsible for all the work of the headquarters.
In 1944, he was transferred to leave the 5th Division and go to Yan'an to study, but he was a little reluctant in his heart. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Hubei, Henan and Anhui with Wang Shusheng. At that time, the 5th Division, Wang Shusheng's Division, and Wang Zhen's Department formed the Central Plains Military Region, and it was proposed to appoint him as chief of staff, but he somehow resigned and had no official position in the Central Plains Military Region.
During the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he was transferred to work in the Beiping Military Dispatch Office, and since then he has left the old army.
With the breakthrough of the Central Plains, the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army arrived in Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi to open up a new area, he returned to Yan'an to recuperate, asked to work on the front line, and was initially arranged under Liu Deng, thinking of returning to Hubei, Henan and Anhui with the troops. At that time, the troops were fighting in southwest Lu, and there was no plan to go south for the time being. Therefore, he decided to leave to fight in the northeast, passing through East China and being left behind.
Most of the East China troops were reorganized from the New Fourth Army, and Chen Yi, Su Yu, and Zhang Yunyi were all veteran leaders of the New Fourth Army. In terms of past affiliation, Liu Shaoqing was their subordinate. However, because the 5th Army developed in the Central Plains, it was far away from Yancheng, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, and there were not many contacts.
Zhang Yunyi, deputy commander of the military region, knew Liu Shaoqing's past position, but as a cadre parachuted in, there was no suitable position for him at this time. At first, he was asked to engage in education or serve as the commander of the garrison brigade, but later he was changed to the commander of the Bohai Navy Division, and his position belonged to the division level.
Military subdivisions belong to local troops, and fighting wars is naturally not the main task, but the main work is to develop the construction of base areas, expand troops, cooperate with the main force in combat, carry out local land reform, requisition grain, and suppress bandits. He really wanted to lead the main force of the army division to fight a beautiful battle, perhaps because he was an airborne cadre, he was not familiar with the top and bottom, and he still needed to run in, so he was sometimes hindered or denied when he put forward a combat plan, so his work was not very smooth, and he asked to leave.
When his problem was reported to Zhang Yunyi, he also knew why he wanted to leave, this was a situation caused by the division of the base areas of the Anti-Japanese War, and the local cadres were not very relieved, and they did not trust the foreign cadres very much, and the team was pulled up by themselves during the Anti-Japanese War, that is, the head of the East China Military Region would encounter such a situation when he went to the new area. He also told him that the position assigned to him now is indeed a little lower, which is also caused by many circumstances.
Zhang Yunyi's words made him feel a lot less wronged, and his superiors also took into account his work in the military subdivision, so they arranged for him to work again in Tao Yong's 4th Vertical and 10th Division. In addition, they can go to the Dongjiang Column, and the troops were transferred from Guangdong to Shandong, so they can go there to help with the training.
Liu Shaoqing went to the Dongjiang Column, but he was not given a position. A few weeks after the Dongjiang Column, the Huaye Eastern Front Corps was established, and he was assigned to serve as the chief of staff of the corps to assist Xu Shiyou in the war.
In the past, he assisted Li Xiannian in the war, because Li Xiannian was born in political work and needed to strengthen the military aspect, so Liu Shaoqing's work and authority during the Anti-Japanese War were very large, and his work was also very convenient. Xu Shiyou and Wang Jian'an, deputy commander of the corps, are all veterans who are very capable of fighting, and Liu Shaoqing mainly conveys and assigns tasks in military affairs.
The Eastern Front Corps began several months of defending Jiaodong, and in the spring of 1948, in the Yanzhou Offensive Battle, he left the front line to recuperate due to black fever. Since then, he has left the combat unit, such as the Jinan Campaign, the Liaoshen Campaign, etc., and he has not participated in it.
In 1949, the army was reorganized into Sanye, and his superiors hoped that he would continue to serve as the chief of staff of the corps. But in the end, there was no suitable position for him, so he could only arrange a temporary position again, so that he could take the southbound cadres to the front line to receive the work. When the task is completed, his position ceases to exist.
It was not until after the liberation of Shanghai that several regiments led by him were reorganized into the director of the Shanghai Railway Public Security Bureau. After the liberation, he was transferred to the deputy secretary-general of the East China Bureau.
During the three years of the Liberation War, he was always "floating" and did not take root in the army like other cadres. If we talk about the reasons, there are also many reasons, there are their own reasons, and there are also external reasons.
For his own reasons, he could have continued to serve as the chief of staff of the corps in the combat unit, and his position was not low, but he thought about leading troops on the front line and lost his plan to stay in the combat unit once. From the perspective of external reasons, as an airborne cadre, he did not bring troops over, and the difficulties can be imagined, and this is the so-called "mountain". As a result, many cadres are actually reluctant to leave the old unit to work in the new unit because of the complexity of personnel issues.
Why didn't he stay in the old army in the past and go to Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi at that time? It's still what I said before, I feel angry, and I can't figure out how to transfer myself out of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army. After many years, I was relieved.