He leapt over both Peng Dehuai and Zhu De to lead all of China's military, and led the movement to "learn from the PLA" during the Cultural Revolution.  
He joined the opposition in 1928 and by 1933 had expanded his control within Kiangsi Province greatly by 1933.  After the war with Japan he seized Manchuria using guerilla war techniques he would later espouse in his Long Live the Victory of the People's War.  He leapt over both Peng Dehuai and Zhu De to lead all of China's military, and led the movement to "learn from the PLA" during the Cultural Revolution.  FTP, name this man, perhaps best known for the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death by plane crash in 1971, purportedly part of a failed coup attempt against Mao Zedong.
He joined the opposition in 1928 and by 1933 had expanded his control within Kiangsi Province greatly by 1933.  
Lin Biao or Piao