During the Liberation War, in order to meet the needs of the strategic battlefield and the situation, our army made further meticulous adjustments to the chaotic organization and unit numbers during the Red Army period and the War of Resistance Against Japan, and by February 1950, the Beijing headquarters issued a document stating that China had decided to establish six major military regions. What is the position? When the rank was first awarded in 1955, what rank was it awarded?
Gao Gang, the first commander of the Northeast Military Region, joined the party at the age of 21 and secretly carried out military movement work in the northwest warlord forces, and was one of the founders of the headquarters base area of the Soviet region of our army.
High post
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as secretary of the headquarters of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, chairman of the Senate, and secretary of the Northwest Bureau.
After the establishment of the Northeast Military Region in 1949, Gao Gang was ordered to participate in the war in the northeast and serve as a commander, and his position has not been changed since then, but he died in 1954, so he did not receive a military rank.
After Gao Gang's death, Deng Hua, the commander of the Volunteer Army, who commanded and participated in five battles during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and made outstanding military achievements, took over the Northeast Military Region and became the acting commander, and was awarded the rank of founding general at the first grand award ceremony in 1955.
Marshal Nie Rongzhen, the first commander of the North China Military Region, whose ancestral home is Jiangjin, Sichuan, joined the party at the age of 24, accepted the organization's dispatch, and successively began a 5-year study abroad in Belgium and Moscow, the Soviet Union.
Nie Rongzhen
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Nie Shuai served as the deputy division commander of the Eighth Route Army, and after cooperating with Marshal Lin Biao in winning the Ping-type Guanda Victory, he successively created and consolidated for our army the base areas of Jizhong, Jidong, Pingxi, and Pingbei, with a remaining population of more than 12 million and a main combat force of 100,000, and repeatedly smashed the enemy's iron wall and encircled the great sweep, which was praised by Chairman Mao as the "Lu Zhishen" of our army.
In 1948, our army controlled the overall situation of the North China Battlefield, the command headquarters moved from northern Shaanxi to North China, in order to strengthen the leadership of the amnesty North China Military Region, Nie Shuai served as the first commander of the North China Military Region, and was awarded the rank of founding marshal after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Chen Yi, the first commander of the East China Military Region, went to France to study in the early years, joined our party after returning to China after completing his studies, and led the launch of the Nanchang and Hunan uprisings.
Chen Yi
During the Long March of the Red Army, Mr. Chen stayed in the south for three years to guerrilla, created a new fourth army team, and successively opened up the anti-Japanese situation in Jiangxi and Jiangsu regions, complementing General Su Yu in coordination.
During the Period of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, it won great victories in the battles of Huangqiao, Menglianggu, Huaihai and Shanghai.
In 1947, due to a command error, Chairman Mao proposed that the East China and Shandong Field Armies be merged to form the East China Military Region, and Chen Laozong was the first commander of the East China Military Region and was awarded the rank of marshal after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Marshal Lin Biao, the first commander of the Central and Southern Military Region, graduated from the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in his early years, participated in two Northern Expedition Wars, and had deep revolutionary qualifications.
Lin Biao
After the Nanchang Uprising, Lin Shuai climbed Jinggang Mountain, starting from a small platoon leader all the way, a 25-year-old officer to a regimental commander, who was the second main force of the Red Army and Peng Zong, and played a flat-type Guan da victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
During the Liberation War, based on the rear area of the northeast, after the liberation of Shenyang and Liaoning, he personally led 800,000 troops into the customs to participate in the war and liberated Tianjin and Beiping in northern China.
In April 1949, the Fourth Field Army marched into Zhongnan, liberated Kaifeng, Henan, and merged with the Central Plains Military Region to form the Central And Southern Military Region, with Lin Shuai as the first commander and was awarded the rank of founding marshal after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Marshal Peng Dehuai, the first commander of the Northwest Military Region, served in the Xiang Army in his early years, and then in 1928, after commanding the Pingjiang Uprising in Hunan, he climbed Jinggang Mountain, strengthened the revolutionary forces, served as the commander of the Red Third Army, and wholeheartedly and firmly followed the party.
Peng Dehuai
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he became the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, fought a hundred regimental battles, and repeatedly smashed the enemy's iron walls and encircled the great sweep, making great contributions.
During the Liberation War, Mr. Peng led his troops to liberate the Great Northwest, and in November 1949, Yiye merged with the Northwest Military Region to become the First Field Army and the Northwest Military Region, and Mr. Peng served as the first commander of the Northwest Military Region, and was awarded the rank of founding marshal after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The first commander of the Southwest Military Region was Marshal He Long, and after the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, He Shuai followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen in carrying out anti-imperialist and anti-feudal armed struggles.
He Long
After the Northern Expedition, He Shuai became a military commander because of his outstanding military achievements, but under the low tide of the white terror revolution, he was determined to firmly join our party, participated in the uprisings in Nanchang and Hunan Xiangxi, created the revolutionary base areas of our army in Hunan and Hubei, and coordinated the transfer of the main force in the Long March.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, He Shuai served as the commander of the Eighth Route Army and repeatedly smashed the enemy's encirclement and sweeping campaigns in the northwestern Jin and Jin-Cha-Ji regions.
In February 1950, Erye crossed the river south, moved to the southwest of the country, merged with the 18th Corps to form the Southwest Military Region, He Shuai served as the first commander, and was awarded the rank of founding marshal after the founding of the country.