At the conferment ceremony, the chairman, dressed in a black Zhongshan suit and walking like a fly, personally awarded the ranks to the seven marshals present. Maybe some people think it's strange, isn't it the Ten Marshals? Yes, it was indeed the Ten Marshals, but there were three Marshals who could not be present because of other tasks, they were Ye Shuai, Lin Shuai, and Liu Shuai.
Ye Shuai was directing military exercises in Dalian at the time, while Lin Shuai and Liu Shuai were recuperating in Qingdao because they had paid too much during the war years, were exhausted and in poor physical condition. The chairman shook hands with the seven marshals present, including President Zhu, and commended them for their outstanding contributions to the Chinese revolution, and their rank as marshals was a testimony to their outstanding merits.
After the marshal's conferment ceremony, the prime minister appeared immediately after the chairman. The premier was one of the important founders of the ye ting independent regiment, the first armed force controlled by our party, who commanded the Nanchang uprising that shocked China and foreign countries, the armed uprising of the Shanghai workers, and was one of the important founders of our army.
Dressed in a Zhongshan suit and refreshed, the prime minister personally conferred titles on major generals, admirals, lieutenant generals and major generals. In this appointment, there are 10 major generals, 55 generals, 175 lieutenant generals and 798 major generals. Here, the author would like to highlight that in the first conferment of titles in September 1955, there were 55 generals, 175 lieutenant generals, 798 major generals, and finally 57 generals, because Wang Jian'an and Li Jukui were awarded the ranks of general in 1956 and 1958, respectively, and Nie Heting and He Cheng were also supplemented with the rank of lieutenant general in the future, so the final list of generals and lieutenant generals was 57 and 177 respectively.
The list of major generals is more complicated, the number of the first batch of founding major generals, there are many rumors circulating in the anecdotes, there are 798, 800, 802, 1614 and other theories, why is this? First, in the first conferment in September 1955, only 798 founding major generals were conferred by the prime minister.
At the end of 1955, two generals, Mu Shengzhong and Zhou Zizhen, were awarded the rank of major general, which was the first two generals to be awarded the rank of general. At this point, the list of major generals was increased to 800. In 1956, huang huxian and Kaimo Sonam Wangdui, two generals, were awarded the rank of major general, at this time, the list of founding major generals increased to 802. By 1961 and 1964, more than 800 school officers had been promoted to major generals, and the final number of founding major generals had become 1614. Therefore, there will be many different theories about the number of founding major generals. In fact, it should be expressed like this: the first founding major general was 798, the first batch of founding major generals were 802, and the total number of founding major generals was 1614.
After the general's award ceremony, it was Mr. Peng who appeared. Mr. Peng, since the Pingjiang Uprising began to participate in the revolution, it has been 27 years since then. The hot-blooded youth of that year was already an old man with two sideburns and slight frost at this time, and the flying and free spirit of his youth was gone, and he was replaced by the style of a great general who commanded thousands of troops and horses.
As the person in charge of the appraisal committee, in the previous preparatory work, Mr. Peng worked hard with Luo Shuai, Xu Liqing and others, and paid a lot of painstaking efforts for the appraisal work. This time, Mr. Peng personally appeared on the scene and awarded titles to some school officials. Most of the founding officers participated in the revolution during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression or the War of Liberation, and they were relatively young and were the inheritors and promoters of the revolutionary cause.
After Mr. Peng finished his title, he appeared as General Su Yu. After joining the revolution, this cultural man from a teaching and learning background did not engage in political work, but served as a military commander, and the battles he commanded, including the Battle of Cheqiao, the Battle of Gaoyou, the Battle of Suzhong, the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Laiwu, the Battle of Yudong, and the Battle of Huaihai, all of which were great victories that made the world look at him, and his military ability was the best in the whole army.
This time, General Su Yu, in his capacity as chief of the General Staff, conferred titles on the officers of the General Staff Office. After the conferment of the rank of colonel in the General Staff Office, General Xiao Hua appeared. Xiao Hua's parents were revolutionary martyrs, and during the Great Revolution, Xiao Hua's home was the street point of the revolution.
Xiao Hua had been a correspondent for revolutionary work since childhood, and when he joined the Red Army, he was only 14 years old. In Ruijin, the center of the Soviet District, Xiao Hua met With Member Mao for the first time, Member Mao greatly appreciated the child and praised him: This child has a career, and I see that his future is unlimited.
25 years later, Xiao Hua was awarded the rank of general at the conferment ceremony, and at this time, he was only 39 years old.
After Peng Zong and Su Yu appeared one after another, Xiao Hua followed closely behind and conferred titles on the lieutenants. The lieutenants were basically young people who participated in the revolution during the Liberation War, full of young vitality, and they were all the backbone of the future of the revolution. Of course, Xiao Hua, who gave them the title, was also very young at that time.
After the ceremony of awarding the title of lieutenant officer, the chairman presided over the awarding of medals to the revolutionary fathers, and with reference to the contributions of the generals in the three stages of the agrarian revolutionary war, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation, they were awarded the August 1st Medal of the First to Third Grades, the Order of Independence and Freedom, and the Liberation Medal respectively. After the awarding ceremony, the may-fifth medal ceremony, a major event in the history of the people's army, was successfully concluded.
Since then, our army has officially adopted the rank system and completed its integration with the international community, which is of epoch-making significance in the process of modernization of our army. And the names of the first batch of founding generals who were awarded titles have long been recorded in history.
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