preface
"The reason why we lost the battle is all because of you, Commander Nie, your introspection is so profound, you don't realize your mistakes at all!" Marshal Nie Rongzhen was severely criticized by the founding general, and even Mr. Zhu was shocked, what is going on?
Marshal Nie was blamed in public
In October 1946, that is, the fourth month of the outbreak of the Liberation War, at this time Nie Rongzhen served as the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
In addition, the troops suffered heavy casualties, so the entire military region was shrouded in gloom, in order to revive morale and learn the painful lesson of failure, so Nie Rongzhen decided to hold a summary meeting.
After the meeting began, everyone present frowned and didn't say a word, and in the conference room, only Nie Rongzhen's voice was echoing.
He carefully analyzed the situation of the battle, reflected on the reasons for the defeat, and hoped to find a good path to turn the situation around. However, I don't know what went wrong, Guo Tianmin, the commander of the second column, suddenly took the case, criticized Nie Rongzhen, and pointed to the core of the problem.
Guo Tianmin believes that the leadership's reflection is not deep enough, and the main reasons for this failure are: blind optimism and insufficient preparation for war; blind disarmament, self-abandonment of martial arts; Turning a blind eye to Fu Zuoyi's threat, he overly underestimated the enemy's rashness.
Guo Tianmin's words were directed at Nie Rongzhen, even though Nie Rongzhen has always been known for his gentleness, he would feel embarrassed when he was criticized in public at this time, so he ignored the other comrades in the conference room and left directly.
After the meeting, Guo Tianmin never led troops in Jinchaji again. In order to calm down the turmoil, Liu Bocheng decided to transfer Guo Tianmin to his command, and said: "This thorn has to be taken care of by Chen Geng." ”
Straight people have offended many people
Who is this Guo Tianmin? Why did he confront Nie Rongzhen in public?
Guo Tianmin was born in Huang'an, Hubei Province in 1905, his parents were farmers, and although his family was poor, he still supported him to complete his education. Guo Tianmin has been very smart since he was a child, and his academic performance is among the best, and it is precisely because of this that he will be sponsored by the village sages to continue his studies in the city school.
Although Guo Tianmin has good academic performance, this does not mean that he has a good personality, on the contrary, Guo Tianmin has been a thorn in the head since he was a child, he has a straightforward personality and is very irritable when encountering problems, which laid the groundwork for him to contradict Nie Rongzhen later.
At the age of 20, Guo Tianmin became a teacher, but in his heart, only revolution was the only way out, so he rushed to Guangzhou the next year and became the sixth cadet of the Whampoa Military Academy, and at the age of 22, he joined the Communist Party of China.
During his time at the Whampoa Military Academy, Guo Tianmin had a conflict with the rightists in the school because of the dissemination of Marxist theory.
After the outbreak of the "April 12" incident, Guo Tianmin became the target of the Kuomintang rightists, but fortunately his boss Li Yafen rescued him in time and was able to escape. This incident did not make Guo Tianmin feel afraid, but strengthened the heart of the revolution.
In 1929, Guo Tianmin joined the Red Army in Jinggangshan and became a member of the Red Fourth Army. During Guo Tianmin's days in Jinggangshan, he won the appreciation of Chairman Mao and Mr. Zhu for his courage and courage, but Guo Tianmin's irascible temper also gave the chairman a headache.
Although the leaders know that Guo Tianmin is straightforward and has no bad intentions, he offends people.
Guo Tianmin was very radical in dealing with the world, and treated his subordinates even more harshly, which also caused a lot of disputes. In Guo Tianmin's eyes, he could hardly tolerate any small mistake of his subordinates, and even once reprimanded him in public because of a soldier's small mistake.
Although it is said that his way of leading troops temporarily maintained military discipline, it also caused dissatisfaction among the soldiers, but they did not dare to disobey out of fear.
It was precisely because of the appreciation of the leaders and the fear of the subordinates that Guo Tianmin never realized his problems, which led to the occurrence of his public accusation of Nie Rongzhen.
At that time, the situation at home and abroad was highly tense, so the top level of the party attached great importance to the unity in the army, for fear of being split from within by some lawless elements, and Guo Tianmin's behavior was undoubtedly a crime against the wind.
In order to avoid further intensification of the contradictions, the central authorities could only let Guo Tianmin temporarily leave the front line of the military in order to calm down the situation. But Guo Tianmin is also a rare military talent in the end, and it is impossible for the central government to completely give up on him.
Fortunately, at this time, Liu Bocheng proposed that Chen Geng manage Guo Tianmin and help him adjust his behavior and how to deal with problems.
Chen Geng and Guo Tianmin met at the Red Army University in the Central Soviet Region, and both of them were students of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng was the first phase, Guo Tianmin was the sixth phase, and Guo Tianmin called Chen Geng "senior" on weekdays.
And Guo Tianmin is very pure, whoever fights is good at war, he admires whom, Chen Geng happens to be like this, so Liu Bocheng believes that only Chen Geng can control Guo Tianmin.
As a result, Liu Bocheng really did not see the wrong person, and after this incident, Guo Tianmin not only got tempered in the military, but also made great progress in his personal cultivation.
However, although Guo Tianmin's words were fierce at that time, he was not talking nonsense, and the three points he pointed out were indeed reasonable.
Why did the defense of Zhangjiakou fail
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party negotiated peacefully and reached a number of agreements, including a disarmament agreement.
According to the agreement, the national army will be reduced to 90 divisions, and the communist army will be reduced to 18 divisions.
However, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have left a hand in the issue of disarmament, and the Kuomintang has mainly eliminated the "miscellaneous army" and the old, weak, sick and disabled, and changed the number of "army" to "integrated divisions." In fact, the number of people has not decreased much.
Similar practices have been adopted in most areas of our army, with the exception of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, where Nie Rongzhen strictly follows the requirements of the disarmament agreement, with only four of the nine columns being cut and only 200,000 of the 320,000 armed personnel retained.
It can be said that Nie Rongzhen's approach caused our army to fall behind a large margin in terms of numbers, and at that time, the subordinates of the military region, including the commanders of other military regions, all expressed concern about the disarmament policy.
He even wrote a letter to persuade Nie Rongzhen, hoping that he could adjust his strategy, otherwise he would suffer a big loss in the future, but Nie Rongzhen only replied with one sentence: "Strictly implement the disarmament order."
Three months later, a full-scale civil war broke out, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region cut one-third of its troops, which was undoubtedly self-defeating, so it was stolen by Fu Zuoyi twice in the Battle of Zhangjiakou, resulting in the defeat of our army.
Therefore, the battle at that time was indeed due to blind disarmament and blind self-confidence, and if Nie Rongzhen could listen to the advice of others and adjust his strategy at that time, the result might be completely different, so Guo Tianmin was not wrong.
It's just that Guo Tianmin's approach is too extreme, and he shouldn't blame Nie Rongzhen in public, which made a big mistake, but Guo Tianmin really didn't have bad intentions, he was just anxious about losing the battle.
epilogue
Therefore, no matter where you are in or when, it is also a very important topic to behave in the world, if there is no solution to Guo Tianmin's matter at that time, then there are only two endings in the end, either split, or Guo Tianmin is suspended.
Fortunately, there was a satisfactory result in the end, and Chen Geng and Guo Tianmin got along very well.