On this day, 79 years ago, on June 21, 1946 (May 22, 1946, the lunar calendar), Luo Binghui, who had gone from a slave to an outstanding military strategist, died of illness. Luo Binghui was an outstanding strategist who grew up from a slave to command thousands of troops and made many military achievements. Luo Binghui (1897-1946) was born in 1897 in a poor Yi family in Yiliang, Yunnan Province. He lived a serf life worse than cattle and horses since childhood. In 1915, he joined the Yunnan Army and fought bravely. He rose from soldier to battalion commander, and participated in the War to Protect Yuan, the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition. In July 1929, he secretly joined the Communist Party of China. In November of the same year, he led the soldiers of the Jingwei Brigade to uprising in Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province and joined the Red Army of China Workers and Peasants. He has served successively as commander, brigade commander, second column commander of the Sixth Army, commander of the 12th Army and 22nd Army. Shortly after the fifth counter-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, he served as commander of the 9th Red Army Corps. Later, he served as executive member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Republic of China. He led his troops to participate in the Guangchang Defense War and escorted the advance team of the anti-Japanese troops north on the expedition. In October 1934, he led his troops to participate in the Long March. During the journey, he repeatedly took on important responsibilities and covered the central organs and the main force of the Red Army to go north, demonstrating superb command art. The Central Military Commission praised the Red 9th Corps as a "strategic light cavalry." In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, in the name of Deputy Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army, he worked on the united front in the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army. In 1939, he served as deputy commander of the 1st Detachment and commander of the 5th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and led his troops to open up an anti-Japanese base area in eastern Anhui. After 1940, he served as deputy commander of the Jiangbei Command and commander of the 5th Detachment, commander of the 2nd Division and commander of the Huainan Military Region, making important contributions to consolidating and expanding the Huainan Anti-Japanese Base Area. During the War of Liberation, he served as the second deputy commander of the New Fourth Army and deputy commander of the Shandong Military Region. Although he was seriously ill, he still went to the front line to deploy and fight. On June 21, 1946, while in Lanling, his condition suddenly deteriorated and he died of illness at the age of 49. Luo Binghui used his life to fulfill his promise: "The most comforting thing in life is to truly bravely sacrifice all personal interests and to fight for national independence, freedom and liberation with the most enthusiasm, especially for the liberation and interests of the working people. Fight for the happiness of mankind with truth, justice, and justice." The body was buried in the East China Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery in Linyi. The tombstone was engraved with inscriptions by Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De and Ren Bishi.