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He Long | |
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贺龙 | |
 Marshal He Long in 1955 | |
| Member of Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party | |
| In office October 1954 – 9 June 1969 | |
| Chairman | Mao Zedong |
| Vice Premier of China | |
| In office October 1954 – 9 June 1969 | |
| Premier | Zhou Enlai |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 賀龍 22 March 1896 Sangzhi, Hunan, Qing Empire |
| Died | 9 June 1969 (aged 73) Beijing, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (1926–1969) |
| Occupation | General, politician, writer |
| Nickname(s) | 贺老总 (Hè lǎozǒng, "Old Chief He") 贺胡子 (Hè húzi, "mustachio He") |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  People's Republic of China |
| Branch/service |  People's Liberation Army Ground Force |
| Years of service |  Republic of China (1914–1920) National Revolutionary Army (1920–1927).svg){kind=small} Chinese Communist Party (1927–1969) |
| Rank | Marshal of People's Republic of China |
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| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |  Order of August the First (1st Class Medal) (1955) Order of Independence and Freedom (1st Class Medal) (1955) Order of Liberation (China) (1st Class Medal) (1955) |
He Long (simplified Chinese: 贺龙; traditional Chinese: 賀龍; pinyin: Hè Lóng; March 22, 1896 – June 9, 1969) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and a 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 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 Ten Marshals, and he served as China's 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.