Marshal Liu Bocheng
Author Lantai
Whenever Marshal Liu Bocheng is mentioned, everyone can remember that Marshal Liu Bocheng once followed Guan Gong's example of scraping bones to heal his wounds, and in order to ensure that his mind was clear in the future, he once did not use anesthesia for eye surgery.
At that time, Liu Shuai was only 24 years old, and Liu Shuai, who was already an outstanding young officer in the old Sichuan Army, was on the battlefield in order to save an unknown soldier, causing the bullet to shoot in from the top of his skull and fly out of his right eye socket.
During the operation, because the anesthetic at the injured site would damage the brain nerves, Liu Shuai refused to take anesthesia, and the operation lasted for a total of three hours, and Liu Shuai did the operation without a word.
Therefore, Liu Shuai was also praised as "Guan Gong" in the old Sichuan Army.
Or be impressed by Marshal Liu Bocheng's superb military attainments, because Marshal Liu Bocheng was one of the few senior generals in the PEOPLE's Liberation Army who had received formal modern military education at the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union before 1949; and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Marshal Liu Bocheng made many and outstanding contributions to the regularization of the People's Liberation Army; in 1962, when the Sino-Indian border self-defense counterattack war, Liu Shuai pointed out the biggest weakness of the Indian army to the point" "copper head, tin tail, back tightness, belly loose". And to this end, he designed corresponding exquisite offensive tactics to guide the front-line People's Liberation Army to a complete victory, which showed Liu Shuai's command skills.
Advance into the Dabie Mountain statue
Bai Chongxi, who had always been above the top of the Kuomintang army, believed that Liu Shuai was the first general in the People's Liberation Army after fighting Liu Deng's army at Dabie Mountain.
However, all this is not the most prominent feature of Marshal Liu Bocheng.
Marshal Liu Bocheng's most prominent feature is humility.
Of course, this is not to say that other founding generals are not humble, each general has his most prominent characteristics, some generals, such as He Longhe boss, he is also humble, but humility is not his most prominent feature, for people to be free is the most prominent feature of He Boss.
The most prominent feature of Marshal Liu Bocheng is humility.
According to the recollections of Liu Shuai's children, Marshal Liu Bocheng never talked to his children at home about how many enemies he had annihilated in his military career, how many well-known Kuomintang generals he had captured, and which battle was his most proud handiwork.
On the contrary, Liu Shuai always warned his children at home that Chairman Mao was a genius, that he was only an ordinary person, that he commanded the war by relying on diligence to make up for his clumsiness, and that he also relied on the three armed forces to use his life, and that he himself was nothing remarkable.
Major General Liu Meng, the second son of Marshal Liu Bocheng, once mentioned in an interview that Liu Shuai never talked about his own merits at home, "Dad fought many battles, but he never talked about his own merits."
And Liu Taixing, the eldest son of Marshal Liu Bocheng, was once sent by Liu Shuai to a primary school with particularly bad conditions more than 20 kilometers away from his headquarters. The desks and chairs are all made of earth and stone, and the three meals a day are coarse grains eaten by ordinary people.
Until Liu Taixing transferred with Marshal Liu Bocheng's work transfer, no one in the school knew that Liu Taixing was the son of Marshal Liu Bocheng.
The reason why Liu Shuai did this is because he once said that the children of cadres cannot be separated from the masses, and they cannot let their children feel superior to others.
Xinxian County, Henan
However, what best reflects the humble characteristics of Marshal Liu Bocheng is that Marshal Liu Bocheng resolutely made "Bocheng County" a "new county".
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During the Liberation War, Marshal Liu Bocheng led Liu Deng's army to fight in Henan, repeatedly encircling and annihilating the Kuomintang army, and in February 1947, Marshal Liu Bocheng led the army to liberate the Xinji area of Henan.
In order to thank Marshal Liu Bocheng, the local people unanimously decided to change the original name of the county to "Bocheng County" after discussion.
Neither Liu Shuai nor the People's Liberation Army knew about this matter in advance.
When Liu Shuai learned of this matter, he resolutely disagreed, and Liu Shuai said that neither the PLA soldiers nor the party members should resolutely highlight the individual; the victory of the revolution is the victory of the people, the victory of the proletariat, the result of collective struggle, and it is by no means the merits of a certain individual or some people, named after an individual, which not only does not conform to the regulations, but also does not benefit the individual.
Statue of Marshal Liu Bocheng
At the suggestion of Marshal Liu Bocheng, "Jingfu County" was eventually renamed "New County", taking the meaning of the people getting a new life and living a happy life.
So back to the title itself, why isn't there "Bocheng County" today? It was because of Liu Shuai's modesty that under his resolute opposition, "Bocheng County" only existed for a few days, and it was changed into a new county by Liu Shuai himself.
Although this incident was not a big deal in Liu Shuai's magnificent military career, I felt that this incident could best show Liu Shuai's humble characteristics.
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