In the course of the development of the people's army, 1955 was a very extraordinary year. In this year, the three major systems of compulsory military service, rank system, and officer salary system were successively implemented in the people's army, marking that the regularization and modernization of the People's Liberation Army has entered a new stage, and has great significance and major impact on the later army construction and development.
In that year, more than 1,000 senior commanders of the People's Liberation Army were awarded the rank of major general or above, and later called them founding generals. Interestingly, about 10 percent of these generals were revolted by the former Kuomintang troops, with a total of 159 people. Giving a large number of titles to the previous "enemies" is probably also a miracle in the world's military history.
Most of these 159 rebel generals had met with the troops under the command of our Party for a long time, and had also fought with the invaders to the death on the anti-Japanese battlefield. However, when they saw clearly the essence of the reactionary war launched by the Chiang regime, they resolutely conformed to the trend of history and abandoned the dark and turned to the light, which not only saved the people from the devastation of war, but also accelerated the process of revolutionary victory. Therefore, they are all meritorious ministers of the People's Liberation Army, and they are well-deservedly awarded military ranks at all levels.
Among the 159 generals, Tao Zhiyue, Dong Qiwu, and Chen Mingren were awarded the rank of general; Han Liancheng, Kong Congzhou, and Zeng Zesheng were awarded the rank of lieutenant general; and Wei Zhen, Bai Bai, Deng Zhaoxiang, Liao Yunzhou, Zhang Shizhen, Wang Qiming, Bai Bai, Lin Zun, and Liu Shanben were awarded the rank of major general.
Among these generals, there were 3 most heroic and good at war, of which 2 were famous generals of the War of Resistance and 1 of them played a prestigious role in the Korean battlefield.
The first was General Dong Qiwu, who initiated the Suiyuan Rebellion, who was a powerful general of General Fu Zuoyi. As early as 1933, Dong Qiwu, who was the regimental commander at the time, led his troops to participate in the Great Wall War of Resistance, held the main position, and resisted seven attacks of the Japanese army; in the winter of 1936, Dong Qiwu was promoted to the commander of the 218 Brigade, the two main brigades of the 35th Army, and led his troops to participate in the famous "Great Victory of the Bailing Temple" (also known as the Suiyuan War of Resistance). In this battle, nearly a thousand enemy were killed, more than 400 enemy were captured, and a large number of weapons, ammunition and materials were captured, and the Jin Sui army suffered only more than 300 casualties.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Dong Qiwu led the 218th Brigade to retake Shangdu, killing and wounding more than 330 enemy and puppet people. Subsequently, he moved to the northwest of Jin, participating in the Suinan Campaign, the Baotou Campaign, the Suixi Campaign, and the Wuyuan Campaign, and in 1940, Dong Qiwu was promoted to the commander of the provisional 4th Army for his outstanding military achievements, and two years later, he took over as the commander of Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army. The 35th Army was Fu Zuoyi's starting force, and Dong Qiwu led this unit to participate in the battles of Anbei, Dongsheng, Hexi, and Hayehu, and made outstanding military achievements, worthy of being a famous general in the War of Resistance.
If Dong Qiwu is a "miscellaneous" general of the Kuomintang, Chen Mingren is chiang kai-shek's "concubine" of the Central Army. He was recognized as a brave and good general in the Kuomintang army.
Chen Mingren was born in 1903 in Liling, Hunan Province, and was a high-caliber student in the first phase of Huangpu. In the siege of Huizhou in the Second Crusade, Chen Mingren served as a death squad, and was the first to climb the city wall with a large banner, which was appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek. At the age of 30, Chen Mingren was already a lieutenant general in the 80th Division.
In 1938, Chen Mingren led more than 6,000 officers and men of the 2nd Division to fight hard in the Jiujiang Defense War, and insisted on not withdrawing despite 2,000 casualties. Of the 9 divisions that participated in the battle, the Pre-2nd Division was the only one to complete the task and was commended by Chiang Kai-shek. At the Battle of Guinan, Chen Mingren led the 2nd Division to fight alone at Kunlun Pass and stubbornly persisted for a week. At that time, there was a rumor in the Japanese army that Du Yuming was not as good as Chen Mingren. In the 1944 Western Yunnan War of Resistance, Chen Mingren became the ace general of the Expeditionary Force, commanding the 71st Army to conquer Huilongshan and making a name for himself at home and abroad.
Chen Mingren was an insider in the War of Resistance, and of course the civil war was also "insider". In 1947, Chen Mingren defended Siping, and the People's Liberation Army suffered more than 10,000 casualties and still did not conquer it, even resulting in his opponent, Commander Lin, the "master and disciple" of the Huangpu Fourth Period, lacking confidence in attacking the stronghold for a period of time. Of course, Chen Mingren's greatest achievement was in August 1949, when he and Cheng Qian and others led a televanmeral uprising, making outstanding contributions to the peaceful liberation of Changsha.
Among the founding generals from the Nationalist army, Lieutenant General Zeng Zesheng was also brave and good at war, and he made outstanding achievements in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Zeng Zesheng, a native of Yongshan County, Yunnan, graduated from the Yunnan Daowutang, served as the regimental commander, division commander, and commander of the Kuomintang 60th Army, fought in Taierzhuang in blood, and participated in the Defense of Wuhan, the Battle of Nanchang, and the Battle of Changsha. In 1948, Zeng Zesheng led his troops to revolt in Changchun, and the unit was organized into the 50th Army of the People's Liberation Army, and Zeng Zesheng continued to serve as the commander of the army.
In October 1950, Zeng Zesheng led the 50th Army to participate in the war as the first batch of troops to enter the DPRK. In the third battle, the 50th Army broke through the blockade of a battalion of the US 25th Division in the Bisholi area, and then completely annihilated the British Royal Heavy Tank Squadron, killing and wounding more than 300 enemy prisoners. In the defensive operation on the south bank of the Han River in the fourth campaign, the 50th Army turned its back on the Han River and continued to block the UNABCing us 3rd Division, the US 25th Division, the British 29th Brigade and the Turkish 1st Brigade, fighting hard for more than 50 days and nights, killing and wounding more than 11,000 enemy prisoners. When the great man received Zeng Zesheng after returning to China, he said, "You have played well! ”
(In the process of writing this article, we refer to the famous writer Guan He Fifty Prefecture's "The Great Title Awarded the Truth in 1955 The History of the Iron-Blooded War of the Gods of War", which is another masterpiece of the author's true interpretation of the CCP God of War and the history of the CPC.) The book only sells for 45 yuan, yuan, recommended for everyone to read. ）