The 1955 ceremony was a tribute and affirmation to all the heroes who had dedicated themselves to the cause of the revolution, and more than a thousand generals were awarded the title.
Of all the senior generals who were awarded ranks, there was one general who, according to seniority, should be awarded the rank of lieutenant general, but in the end he was promoted to general under the special instructions of the chairman.
This general was Han Xianchu, who was known as the Commander of the Whirlwind, and everyone was convinced by his promotion of rank. After all, of all the generals who were awarded the rank this time, General Han Xianchu was the only one who had never lost in battle.
In February 1946, Han Xianchu was appointed deputy commander of the 4th Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in Southern Manchuria. In October, the Nationalist army secretly mobilized 100,000 heavy troops to march to Liaodong and southern Liaoning. At this time, some leaders of the Fourth Column found that the enemy's strength had increased and began to argue fiercely about whether the war should be fought or not. After all, the Nationalists also sent an elite 25th Division, which was not only fast in marching, but also very well equipped.
However, the enemy army was fierce, and Han Xianchu led the column of the Tenth Division, marching more than 200 miles day and night, and strengthened his determination to fight. Han Xianchu first secretly assembled the main force, and then took advantage of the enemy's lack of preparation to block the invading enemy. In this war, the enemy has always been in a passive state of being beaten, without any initiative. In the end, more than 8,000 people were annihilated by our army, and the proud army of the nationalist army collapsed.
In the autumn of 1947, Han Xianchu was transferred to the commander of the 3rd Column of the Northeast Democratic Army. At this time, the war on the northeast battlefield had become more and more intense. At this time, Lao Jiang wanted to open the railway from Jinzhou to Chengde and dispatch troops to support Jinzhou. At this time, in the face of the weak defensive strength of the enemy army, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army gradually changed the situation and turned the defensive into an attack. Although Han Xianchu had only been in office for a few days, he had quickly grasped all the war situations and could make accurate judgments about the war.
In order to defeat the enemy, Han Xianchu ordered his troops to travel more than 100 kilometers and quietly reached the rear of the enemy. At the beginning of the war, the nationalist army was all blindfolded, and they could not figure out where this army came from or when it came from. In this way, our army caught the Nationalist army by surprise, and in this battle, a total of 8174 Nationalist troops were killed and wounded, and the 116th Division of the Nationalist Army was annihilated on the battlefield.
In these two wars, Han Xianchu led his troops to attack the Nationalist army one after another, which made several Nationalist commanders in the northeast call Han Xianchu "whirlwind commander" and admired his name very much. At the station where Han Xianchu annihilated the 25th Division in 1946, the nationalist commander was Du Yuming, and when he was transferred out of the northeast, before leaving, he said: The most difficult unit to fight on the northeast battlefield is the "whirlwind unit" led by Han Xianchu.
Not only did he achieve impressive results in the northeast battlefield, but Han Xianchu also defeated the enemy brilliantly in all subsequent wars. In April 1950, in order to successfully liberate Hainan, Han Xianchu resolutely and vigorously set out from the Leizhou Peninsula without the help and cooperation of the navy and air force.
It took only 3 days for Han Xianchu to lead the army, and Hainan Island was successfully liberated. Han Xianchu had never lost a battle in his life, and led the "whirlwind troops" from the northeast to Hainan Island, and they were invincible. He galloped on the battlefield all his life, was brave and good at war, and made great achievements for new China, which was respected and admired!