一中国人民解放军工程兵前后有两任司令员,第一任是湖北荆门人陈士榘,第二任即是湖南茶陵人谭善和。谭善和原为红六军团、红二方面军的干部,抗日战争初期调到八路军总部,先后任总部特务团政治处组织保卫股股长、政治处代理主任,八路军野战政治部保卫部一科科长。他就是在这时认识邓小平的。 There are two commanders before and after the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Corps of Engineers. The first is Chen Shizhu from Jingmen, Hubei Province, and the second is Tan Shanhe, from Chaling, Hunan Province. Tan Shanhe, formerly a cadre of the Red Army and the Second Red Army, was transferred to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. He successively took the post of Chief of Security Department and the Deputy Director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army Department of Defense. long. He knew Deng Xiaoping at this time.