彭雪枫将军不仅是中国工农红军和新四军杰出的指挥员和军事家,也是功绩卓著的统战工作者。他在开辟豫东抗日民主根据地的过程中,模范地执行党的抗日民族统一战线政策,收编地方武装,壮大抗日队伍,创造性地开展党的统战工作,被毛泽东、朱德誉为“共产党人的好榜样”。 General Peng Xuefeng is not only an outstanding commander and militarist of the Red Army and the New Fourth Army of China’s Workers and Peasants but also a distinguished United Front worker. During the process of opening up the base of resistance against Japan and democracy in the east of Henan Province, he implemented the party’s policy of the anti-Japanese national united front on an exemplary basis, compiled local armed forces and expanded the ranks of the anti-Japanese troops and creatively carried out the party’s united front work. He was praised by Mao Zedong and Zhu De as “good communists example”.