Ten Marshal Anecdotes: Chronicle of Legendary Figures

Author: Peng Jiandong
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book selects ten brilliant episodes from the war years when the ten marshals fought valiantly across the battlefield, collects their life experiences after the founding of the People's Republic, and narrates their little-known emotional journeys. It is highly authentic and very readable. Zhu De—participated in the Xinhai Revolution, the War for the Protection of the Republic, and the Nanchang Uprising, co-created the "Zhu-Mao Red Army" with Mao Zedong, one of the founders of the People's Liberation Army; Peng Dehuai—regarded as a unique division commander in the Red Army, deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army, renowned for leading the army in the Korean War; Liu Bocheng—Soviet-trained chief of the Red Army General Staff, fought fiercely in the Taihang Mountains, advanced into the Dabie Mountains, commanded the Huaihai Campaign, known as the "God of War" and the "War God"; He Long—led the revolution with two horses and two swords, played a key role in the Nanchang Uprising, shocked the Japanese invaders with his battles in Jizhou, and became the first director of the Sports Commission of the People's Republic of China with a chivalrous heart; Chen Yi—famous for his guerrilla warfare in southern Jiangxi, displayed the demeanor of a scholar on the East China battlefield, became a red diplomat in the new China, and engaged in poetic exchanges with Mao Zedong for many years; Luo Ronghuan—long-time "partner" of Lin Biao, one of the pioneers of political work in the People's Liberation Army, passed away young, causing Mao Zedong great grief; Xu Forward—Class One student of the Whampoa Military Academy, gained prominence in the Guangzhou Uprising, demonstrated his skills in the Henan-Anhui and Sichuan-Shaanxi battlefields, and fought against the "teacher" Yan Xishan in the liberation of Shanxi; Nie Rongzhen—Whampoa political instructor, brought down the "Flower of Famous Generals" of the Japanese army in the North China War of Resistance, and became the long-term leader responsible for the research and development of the two atomic bombs in the new China; Ye Jianying—Whampoa instructor, the "permanent" chief of staff of the Red Army and the People's Liberation Army, fiercely condemned Jiang Qing and her followers during the Cultural Revolution, and forcefully severed his hand; Lin Biao—a war general in the turbulent times, the youngest marshal and minister of national defense at the time, blinded by profit, perished in the crash of the Ulanqab Airport.