Peng Dehuai (Peng Te-huai; vereinfachtes Chinesisch: 彭德怀; traditionelles Chinesisch: 彭德懷; Pinyin: Péng Déhuái; Wade-Giles: P'eng2 Te2-huai2) (24. Oktober 1898 - 29. November 1974) war ein prominenter kommunistischer Militärführer Chinas und diente von 1954 bis 1959 als Verteidigungsminister Chinas. Peng wurde in eine arme Bauernfamilie geboren und erhielt mehrere Jahre Grundschulausbildung, bevor ihn die Armut seiner Familie zwang, seine Ausbildung im Alter von zehn Jahren einzustellen und mehrere Jahre als Handarbeiter zu arbeiten. Als er sechzehn Jahre alt war, wurde Peng Berufssoldat. Peng nahm am Northern Expedit Teil
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Peng Dehuai (Peng Te-huai; simplified Chinese: 彭德怀; traditional Chinese: 彭德懷; pinyin: Péng Déhuái; Wade–Giles: P'eng2 Te2-huai2) (October 24, 1898 – November 29, 1974) was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader, and served as China's Defense Minister from 1954 to 1959. Peng was born into a poor peasant family, and received several years of primary education before his family's poverty forced him to suspend his education at the age of ten, and to work for several years as a manual laborer. When he was sixteen, Peng became a professional soldier. Peng participated in the Northern Expedition, and supported Wang Jingwei's attempt to form a left-leaning Kuomintang government based in Wuhan. After Wang was defeated, Peng briefly rejoined Chiang Kai-shek's forces before joining the Chinese Communist Party, allying himself with Mao Zedong and Zhu De. Peng was one of the few senior military leaders who supported Mao's suggestions to involve China directly in the 1950–1953 Korean War, and he served as the direct commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army for the first half of the war. Peng's experiences in the Korean War (in which Chinese forces suffered over a million casualties, more than any other nation involved in the fighting) convinced him that the Chinese military had to become more professional, organized, and well-equipped in order to prepare itself for the conditions of modern technical warfare. Peng resisted Mao's attempts to develop a personality cult throughout the 1950s; and, when Mao's economic policies associated with the Great Leap Forward caused a nationwide famine, Peng became critical of Mao's leadership. The rivalry between Peng and Mao culminated in an open confrontation between the two at the 1959 Lushan Conference. Mao won this confrontation, labeled Peng as a leader of an 'anti-Party clique', and purged Peng from all influential positions for the rest of his life. From 1966
