Editing He Long (section)

{{Short description|Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1896–1969)}}
{{family name hatnote|[[He (surname)|He]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[Yuan shuai|Yuanshuai]]
| name                = He Long
| native_name         = {{nobold|贺龙}}
| native_name_lang    = zh-Hans-CN
| image               = He Long.jpg
| imagesize           = 
| caption             = Marshal He Long in 1955
| order2              = Member of [[Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]]
| term_start2         = October 1954
| term_end2           = 9 June 1969
| 1blankname2         = Chairman
| 1namedata2          = [[Mao Zedong]]
| order4              = [[Vice Premier of China]]
| premier4            = [[Zhou Enlai]]
| term_start4         = October 1954
| term_end4           = 9 June 1969
| birth_name          = {{lang|zh-Hant|賀龍}}
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1896|3|22|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Sangzhi]], [[Hunan]], [[Qing dynasty|Qing Empire]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1969|6|9|1896|3|22|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Beijing]], China
| party               = [[Chinese Communist Party]] (1926–1969)
| spouse              = 
| alma_mater          = 
| allegiance          = {{PRC}}
| nickname            = {{lang|zh-Hans|贺老总}} (''Hè lǎozǒng'', "Old Chief He") <br/> {{lang|zh-Hans|贺胡子}} (''Hè húzi'', "mustachio He")
| serviceyears        = {{flagicon image|Flag of China (1912–1928).svg}} [[Beiyang government|Republic of China]] (1914–1920)<br/> [[Image:Republic of China Army Flag.svg|22px]] [[National Revolutionary Army]] (1920–1927)<br />[[File:Flag of the Chinese Communist Party (Pre-1996).svg|25px]] [[Chinese Communist Party]] (1927–1969)
| rank                = [[Yuan shuai|Marshal of People's Republic of China]]
| commands            = * Division Commander of the [[Eighth Route Army]]
* [[Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission]]
| branch              = {{Army|China|1949}}
| battles             = * [[Northern Expedition]]
* [[Chinese Civil War]]
** [[Long March]]
**[[First encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet]]
**[[Third encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet]]
* [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Sino-Japanese War]]
** [[Hundred Regiments Offensive]]
| mawards             = [[File:Order of Bayi 1st Class.svg|25px]] [[Order of Bayi|Order of August the First]] (1st Class Medal) (1955)<br />[[File:Order of Independence and Freedom 1st Class.svg|25px]] [[Order of Independence and Freedom]] (1st Class Medal) (1955)<br />[[File:Order of Liberation 1st Class.svg|25px]] [[Order of Liberation (China)]] (1st Class Medal) (1955)
| occupation          = General, politician, writer
}}

'''He Long''' ({{zh |s = 贺龙 |t = 賀龍 |p = Hè Lóng }}; March 22, 1896 – June 9, 1969) was a [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese Communist]] revolutionary and a [[Marshal of the People's Republic of China|Marshal]] of the [[People's Republic of China]]. He was from a poor rural family in Hunan, and his family was not able to provide him with any formal education. He began his revolutionary career after avenging the death of his uncle, when he fled to become an outlaw and attracted a small personal army around him. Later his forces joined the [[Kuomintang]], and he participated in the [[Northern Expedition]].

He rebelled against the Kuomintang after [[Chiang Kai-shek]] began [[Shanghai massacre|violently suppressing Communists]], when he planned and led the unsuccessful [[Nanchang Uprising]]. After escaping, he organized a soviet in rural [[Hunan]] (and later [[Guizhou]]), but was forced to abandon his bases when pressured by Chiang's [[Encirclement Campaigns]]. He joined the [[Long March]] in 1935, over a year after forces associated with [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Zhu De]] were forced to do so. He met with forces led by [[Zhang Guotao]], but he disagreed with Zhang about the strategy of the Red Army and led his forces to join and support Mao.

After settling and establishing a headquarters in [[Shaanxi]], He led guerrilla forces in [[Northwest China]] in both the [[Chinese Civil War]] and the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and was generally successful in expanding areas of Communist control. He commanded a force of 170,000 troops forces by the end of 1945, when his force was placed under the command of [[Peng Dehuai]] and He became Peng's second-in-command. He was placed in control of [[Southwest China]] in the late 1940s, and spent most of the 1950s in the Southwest administering the region in both civilian and military roles.

He held a number of civilian and military positions after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. In 1955, his contributions to the victory of the Chinese Communist Party were recognized when he was named one of the [[Yuan Shuai|Ten Marshals]], and he served as China's [[Vice Premier of China|vice premier]]. He did not support Mao Zedong's attempts to purge Peng Dehuai in 1959 and attempted to rehabilitate Peng. After the [[Cultural Revolution]] was declared in 1966, he was one of the first leaders of the PLA to be purged. He died in 1969 when a glucose injection provided by his jailers complicated his untreated diabetes.