He carried out of the pile of dead people a founding lieutenant general, but he was a colonel himself, which is why
First of all, let's take a look at this little story: after the military rank was awarded in 1955, a lieutenant general went to visit his old leader, who thought he was a lieutenant general, and the old leader should be at least a lieutenant general, but after going there, he learned that the old leader only awarded the rank of colonel, not even a major general. The general fell to his knees in shame and hugged the old leader's leg and wept. This old leader is luo Houfu who will be talked about in this article.
Speaking of which, Luo Houfu once saved the life of the lieutenant general, and after a war, the troops had to leave quickly, but Luo Houfu insisted on going back to see if any soldiers were still alive, and as a result, he found a seriously injured correspondent in the corpse pile and carried him out. Of course, this little correspondent was the later founding lieutenant general. If Luo Houfu hadn't carried him out of the pile of dead people, he probably would have died.
Luo Houfu was born in 1909 in Hong'an, Hubei Province. At the age of 20, he organized the local poor, set up a Red Guard, and became the leader of the Red Guards himself, specializing in cracking down on local tycoons and inferior gentry, and after the Red Guards were incorporated into the Eyu-Anhui Red Army, Luo Houfu served as a company commander. Luo Houfu is bold and is not afraid to "break the routine". In early 1935, Zhang Guotao launched a purge campaign and killed many comrades. Luo Houfu was not on Zhang Guotao's blacklist, but he stood up to uphold justice, stumbled into the compound of the Eyu-Anhui Provincial Party Committee, and scolded the director of the Safety Supervision Bureau, who was responsible for "purging the rebellion."
The chief security guard is Zhang Guotao's confidant, and he said that you really ate the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard, dared to take care of the affairs of the provincial party committee, and then dared to arrest you. Sure enough, as soon as Luo Houfu returned to the county party committee, he was arrested by the security bureau and tied to a tree and tortured. Zhang Guotao decided to kill Luo Houfu, but he did not expect that just after being taken to the execution ground, bandits came to make trouble and killed several Red Army soldiers. Luo Houfu hurriedly shouted to the executioner, "Stupid, let me go, I'll take you over!" As soon as Luo Houfu was untied, he immediately became the captain of the big knife team. He simply assigned tasks and led everyone into the bandits with large knives. The bandits had seen this kind of formation and fled without a few blows.
Although Luo Houfu was short-tempered, he was still very good to the people. On the eve of the Lunar New Year in 1942, Luo Houfu led his troops to Xiaogan, Hubei. At that time, the snow was very heavy, and the soldiers were hungry, although there were many villages nearby, but in order not to disturb the villagers, Luo Houfu ordered all departments to spend the night outside the village.
The next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and when the villagers pushed open the door, they found that the New Fourth Army had been frozen outside all night and had become a snowman. Many villagers cried, saying that the New Fourth Army could not talk about discipline again, and hearing this, the local county magistrate wrote a poem to praise Luo Houfu:
The night of the moss is cold and snowy,
Ignoring the general's conquest back.
Zhuma is afraid of the old dream of the hometown,
Lying quietly and quietly.
So, with Luo Houfu's seniority and merits, what rank should he be awarded? Let's look at his medals first. In 1955, when our army awarded the title, it also awarded three major medals, including the August 1st Medal, the Independence Freedom Medal and the Liberation Medal. These three medals are divided into three levels. Those who can receive three first-class medals are undoubtedly the ten marshals, ten generals and other senior officials of our army. There were 10 generals who did not receive all three first-class medals, but Luo Houfu got all of them, and was the only one who did not award the rank of general.
As for the reason, there are basically two theories. First, when Luo Houfu was deputy commander of the military region, he ran a factory with considerable profits. However, because the army was banned from doing business, Luo Houfu was heavily criticized. Of course, his children later explained that the money from his father's factory was used to subsidize the army and that no money was spent without permission.
Another theory is that Mr. Luo once helped his father-in-law sell opium. Speaking of "opium", Chinese can be said to be a handful of snot and a handful of tears. In modern times, it is synonymous with the devil, and everyone has to kill it. Therefore, it is a crime for Luo Houfu to help people sell opium. In any case, Luo Houfu made a mistake, so he was deliberately suppressed when awarding the title
Of course, after all, Luo Houfu's qualifications are still there. According to many, Mr. Lo was promoted to the rank of major general in 1961. This is also an account.