1993 12 In July, the founding general Li Da died in Beijing, and his ashes were buried in Jiangjun Mountain, Shexian County, Hebei Province.

General Tao once commented on Li Da: "Although Li Da is not good at words, he is good at it."

Marshal Chen Yi once praised Li Da as "our good Zhuge."

Li Da participated in the Long March, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. He served as chief of staff in almost every war period in the history of China's army building, with a cumulative tenure of 40 years.

Good Zhuge, Li Da really deserves such an evaluation.

Li Da, formerly known as Li Desan, was born in Yaxia Village, Hengqu District, Yan County, Shaanxi Province,1April, 905. Like other marshals and generals, Li Da also had the experience of doing short-term jobs in his childhood, but the difference is that Li Da's parents are prescient. They know that only reading can change the fate of children. So when Li Da 1 1 was years old, his family borrowed money for his five-year private school.

Just being in troubled times, how can a scholar live in troubled times? Although Li Da was influenced by progressive thoughts when he was a teacher, he and his classmates actively participated in demonstrations against the Beiyang warlord government during the May 4th and May 30th movements. However, he deeply felt that just being a scholar was useless to this already dangerous country, so in 1926, Li Da resigned from his primary school teaching in Hengqu District and was admitted to the First Army of the Northwest Army founded by Feng Yuxiang.

After graduation, he served as platoon leader, company commander and brigade staff officer in the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army.

After the Central Plains War, the 26th Army Corps was reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek as the 26th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Li Da was appointed as the adjutant of the 74th Brigade and ordered to suppress the Central Soviet Area.

However, Li Da, who has a deep sense of justice, did not do so.

When he was a student, he was influenced by progressive ideas. He deeply realized that the stale warlordism style like Kuomintang could not change China. As for the encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Area, it is extremely wrong to launch a civil war against the country. So in February of the same year in 65438+, Li Da, as the main adjutant of the 74th Brigade of the 26th Route Army of the Kuomintang, followed, followed and participated in the famous "Ningdu Uprising".

Finally, the 26th Army was reorganized into the 5th Army of the Red Army. However, Li Da, as an officer, was not left behind by the Red Army, but was paid for the trip and sent back to his hometown.

This is unacceptable to Li Da.

To this end, Li Da found Ji, commander-in-chief of the Red 5 Army Corps, but Ji was helpless. Unwilling Li Da found Liu Bojian, director of the Political Department of the Corps sent by the Zhongge Military Commission to work in the Red 5 Corps. Liu Bojian was moved by Li Da's persistent revolutionary spirit. After his persuasion, Li Da was finally approved to stay in the Red 5 Army. History almost lost a general to * * * and China.

Soon, Li Da, who had received formal military education and worked as a staff officer, was asked to leave by Wang Zhen, political commissar of the Independent 1 Division of the Hunan-Jiangxi Military Region, and became the chief of staff of the Independent 1 Division and the head of the 3rd Regiment. 1September, 932, Li Da joined the China * * * Production Party through the introduction of Wang Zhen and Gan Siqi, political commissar of the Hunan-Jiangxi Military Region. Two months later, he was appointed Chief of Staff of Gongba Army.

1933, Li da successively served as the chief of staff of Red 17 Division and Red 6 Corps.

Compared with other famous Li Da, such as the founding general Han Xianchu, Li Da's promotion speed is not fast. Of course, there are also some internal factors, that is, Li Da's resourcefulness.

1934, the Red 6 Army Corps was ordered to leave the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet Area, find the Helonghong 2 Army Corps, which lost telecommunication contact with the Central Committee, and meet them. But because of the enemy's siege, and I don't know the exact location of He Long's troops, the Red 6 Corps can only ask while walking.

This road is really dangerous. There were pursuers before, and I don't know the specific location of He Long's troops. The Red 6 Army was soon surrounded by the enemy. In Ganxi Town, Shiqian, northeast Guizhou, the two sides fought fiercely, and the situation was once very serious.

The enemy soldiers outflanked the Red 6 Army in many ways, and the Red 6 Army was very passive because of the scattered manpower. In the melee, Li Da led more than 400 people to escape from the enemy's encirclement, but lost contact with Ren, Xiao Ke, and the head office of the Legion. At this point, Li Da really fell into the biggest crisis since joining the army.

But he was not intimidated by the difficulties. On the contrary, he calmly analyzed the situation and made a quick decision. He decided to go deep into the encirclement of the enemy and look for the whereabouts of He Long's troops alone. Finally, many good things happen. 10 On June 5th, Li Da finally found He Long and Guan Xiangying, the political commissar of the 2nd Red Army, in a small town called Feng Xiangxi.

Li Da immediately contacted the headquarters by radio, and in 1 1 days later, he led the Second and Sixth Legions of He Long to meet in Yinjiang County.

Wang Zhen took Li Da's hand and said excitedly, "Li Da, we thought we couldn't find you. I didn't know you really brought Comrade He Long. You are a good chief of staff! "

Later, Li Da also began their long revolutionary friendship with He Long.

In the same year, Li Da was transferred to the Red 2 Corps as Chief of Staff in He Long. However, when he arrived, Li Da found something was wrong. Due to the shortage of manpower, the work of the headquarters of the Red 2 Corps at this time is very lacking and cannot operate normally. Therefore, Li Da suggested setting up headquarters in units above the regiment level, setting up departments such as operations, communications, reconnaissance and management, and holding training courses to improve the basic quality of staff officers. At the same time, in the process of establishing the Soviet area of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou, Li Da participated in the formulation and command of a series of important battles and made great contributions. He was called "resourceful chief of staff" by many veteran comrades of the Second Red Army.

Many old generals, such as Xiao Ke, Gan Siqi, Chen Bojun, Yu, and so on, later praised Li Da, saying that he "anticipated the enemy's plan better than magic, played an important role in all previous battles and made indelible contributions".

At the same time, because of Li Da's integrity, the whole military department likes him very much and calls him "Bodhisattva Li".

1935, Li Da participated in the Red Army's 25,000-mile Li Long Long March, and Li Da served as the chief of staff of the Red Second Army, assisting He Long, then commander-in-chief. During the Long March, due to Li Da's resourcefulness and outstanding foresight, the Red Second Army escaped the enemy's encirclement and suppression again and again, and joined forces with the Red Fourth Army in Huining, Gansu Province on June 1936+00, successfully completing the Long March.

1937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out. The Central Military Commission issued an order to reorganize the main force of the Red Army into the Eighth Route Army, with divisions 1 15, 120, 129, and Li Da as the director of the General Staff Office of the Eighth Route Army 129.

In 65438+February of the following year, he served as the chief of staff of 129 Division, and with the main force of 129 Division of Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, he went down from Taihang East to southern Hebei to consolidate my anti-Japanese base area in southern Hebei.

Moreover, Li Da often goes deep into the frontier to observe the terrain, understand the enemy's situation and make accurate judgments, and draw up practical operational plans. He also assisted Deng Xiaoping and Liu Bocheng in directing battles for many times, and made outstanding contributions to the construction of anti-Japanese base areas in southern Hebei.

In the following years of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Da quickly grew into an independent figure of the Eighth Route Army. 1 May, 9421Lieutenant General Iwamatsu Yoshio, the Japanese commander, commanded 25,000 Japanese troops to launch a large-scale "sweeping" campaign against the Eighth Route Army headquarters and 129 division headquarters. Before the mopping-up, the Japanese special advance assassination team found the location of the 129 division and launched an attack. In this attack, Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, died heroically.

After the breakthrough, Li Da summed up the failure experience of this campaign and the sacrifice of General Zuo Quan. He felt that as a non-combat sequence, the organs and units should also have certain combat capabilities, otherwise they would be caught off guard like this sudden enemy attack. Therefore, according to the instructions of Liu and Deng, Li Da drafted the Militarization of Non-Combat Organs and issued it to the troops for implementation. This proposition still has important guiding significance for the construction of command organs under the condition of modernization of our army.

In the Nanlin Campaign of 1943, Li Da, as a commander, wiped out more than 6,000 Japanese puppet troops. In June 5438+the same year 10, he served as commander of Taihang Military Region, and carried out Daoqing Campaign, Anyang Campaign and Great Counteroffensive, and recovered a large area of land.

1945 Japan was defeated and the contradiction between China and Japan escalated. 1July, 946, Chiang Kai-shek unilaterally tore up the peace agreement and launched an all-out attack. By the end of June 1947, the People's Liberation Army had wiped out more than 20,000 Kuomintang troops1120,000, crushing Chiang Kai-shek's arrogant all-round attack and forcing him to turn to a key attack.

But the reality is still grim. The Central Plains Liberated Area basically fell. In August, the Central Military Commission made an important decision, and Liu Deng's army, with Li Da as its chief of staff, marched thousands of miles south into the Dabie Mountains.

This is a tough battle. In order to give full play to the strategic role of containing the enemy, Liu Deng's army went deep behind the enemy lines and contained the enemy's exterior lines, carrying out expensive expeditionary operations.

However, the intention of this expedition was finally seen through by Chiang Kai-shek. In the southwest Shandong campaign, Chiang Kai-shek concentrated his main force on desperate interception in Heze area. Liu Deng's army fought hard for 28 days, paid the price of 65,438+3,000 casualties, successfully crossed the Yellow River, and successfully entered Henan, thus starting a journey of thousands of miles south.

In this leap, Li Da played a very important role. He had long anticipated the decision of the Central Military Commission to go south, so he made a lot of preparations in advance, such as exploring the route and arranging the troops to advance. As a matter of fact, he is the chief steward of the army.

At the same time, Li Da knows the map route at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain like the back of his hand, and knows hundreds of counties and cities along the way like the back of his hand. After passing through the Yellow River floodplain, Li Da volunteered to be a pioneer guide and led the staff officers to spy on the enemy. Moreover, the guards who led the way for the leader of Liu Deng were corrected by Li Da three times in a row, so Deng Xiaoping said with emotion: "Li Da is a living map, and his skill is really amazing!"

Tell another short story about Li Da's skill in memorizing maps. In his later years, Li Da once flew from Zhanjiang to Kunming. There was a thunderstorm on the way and the plane bypassed. At this time, Li Da was resting, and the captain told other drivers not to wake the captain. As a result, Li Da woke up at this time. He called the guard and asked him why we were flying north. The guard was surprised and told the truth.

So it is no wonder that Deng Xiaoping called him a "living map".

1950 In February, Li Da was appointed as the deputy commander and chief of staff of the Southwest Military Region, and later as the commander of the Yunnan Military Region. Presided over the daily work of the Southwest Military Region, and participated in leading the southwest region to annihilate the remnants of Kuomintang armed forces and bandits and strive for the peaceful liberation of Tibet.

1953 On April 18, the Central Military Commission decided that Li Da would take over the post of Chinese people's Volunteer Army Chief of Staff Xie Fang. 1at the beginning of may, 953, Li arrived at the headquarters of the volunteers to report for duty. Deng Hua, the acting commander of the Volunteer Army, respected the old chief of staff Li Da and called him Zhuge Liang of the Volunteer Army. When meeting, Deng Hua always said to Li Da as soon as he entered the venue: "Mr. Zhuge, please."

Deng Hua asked Li Da to draft a telegram from the Volunteers to the Central Military Commission, which was issued after discussion by the leaders of the Volunteers. During his stay in Korea, Li Da's main job was to assist Deng Hua's acting commander in organizing and commanding the summer counter-offensive campaign, which won a great victory, and forced Clark, the supreme commander of the United States, to sign an armistice agreement on July 27th, 1953.

Li Da is loyal to his duties and always sticks to the front line. Moreover, Li Da was honest and clean all his life, and did not bring some convenience to future generations because of his high position. 1987, after 55 years, he returned to his hometown. When he left, he wrote "fair and decent", hoping that the county leaders could learn from the past, be fair and decent, and resolutely put an end to corruption.

His son Li Rulong has been a farmer all his life. Once Li Rulong saw that his house was in ruins, he wrote to Li Da, saying that he needed some money to repair it. As a result, Li Da wrote back and said, "You have grown up. You can't rely on me in this matter. You can't just fix it in geis. "

1993 12 In July, Li Da died in Beijing with the 1st Class August 1st Medal, 1st Class Independence Medal and 1st Class Liberation Medal at the age of 88.

Today, when we recall General Li Da, future generations will sincerely say that Li Da was our good staff officer and a good Zhuge.

Finally, tell a story about Li Da.

1945 12 14, Li Da got married with Zhang Naiyi, whom she had known for more than 20 days. When Zhang Naiyi asked him why he chose to get married on this day, Li Da said, "I joined the Red Army on February1931KLOC-0/4, which is a memorable day for me to change from an old army soldier to a Red Army soldier."