Of the ten marshals produced in 1955, nine were from the Eighth Route Army and one from the New Fourth Army, and it felt like something was missing, because there was another important force during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, namely the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, but no one was selected as a marshal.
Is it because the Northeast Anti-Corruption League has contributed too little? Obviously not, after the reorganization in 1937, the Eighth Route Army had 46,000 people, the New Fourth Army was in its early 10,000s, and although the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition was not as good as the Eighth Route Army, there were also more than 30,000 people, basically twice as many as the New Fourth Army. In terms of battle results, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition participated in more than 100,000 battles against Japan and annihilated 186,000 Japanese puppet troops, which is comparable to that of the Eighth Route Army. Unfortunately, the Northeast Anti-Japanese League lacked an iconic figure, and the most famous people in the Northeast Anti-Japanese League at that time were Yang Jingyu, Wang Detai, Zhao Shangzhi, and Zhou Baozhong, but in addition to Zhou Baozhong, the other three people were sacrificed before the founding of the People's Republic of China, so let's focus on Zhou Baozhong.
It is worth mentioning that Zhou Baozhong, who has been fighting in the northeast for a long time, is not a northeasterner, but a Yunnan person. He took part in the Patriotic War at the age of 15, a rare experience among all the founding generals. After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, he was sent to the northeast to form the Anti-Japanese League, and served as the secretary of the Military Commission of the Manchurian Provincial Party Committee, which can be said to be one of the important founders of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Don't look at Zhou Baozhong as a high official, he fought braver than anyone, once he was shot in the left leg, directly let his comrades use a dagger to help him dig out the bullet, and once he was hit in the abdomen, a small section of intestines were exposed, he took a piece of chicken skin to paste the wound and continued to fight.
Such a fierce general was a great headache for the Japanese army, and at that time, in order to get rid of Zhou Baozhong, the Japanese also made a bloody payment, claiming that one or two meats in Zhou Baozhong could be exchanged for one or two gold, but unfortunately no one could catch Zhou Baozhong. After the sacrifices of Yang Jingyu and Zhao Shangzhi, Zhou Baozhong became the leader of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, actively contacting the Soviet army and concurrently serving as the brigade commander of the Soviet Red Army.
Later, when our army and the Kuomintang fought a decisive battle in the northeast, Zhou Baozhong's troops were one of the cornerstones of the Fourth Field Army; after the establishment of the Fourth Field Army, Lin Shuai was the commander-in-chief, and Zhou Baozhong was the deputy commander-in-chief. However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Baozhong left the northeast where he had spent his life fighting and returned to his hometown of Yunnan as vice chairman, which was the general Chen Geng at the time.
In this way, Zhou Baozhong, who was a banner of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, was at least a major general, but he missed the 1955 award. Because he fell seriously ill in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he did not participate in the cadre ranking in 1952, and he also left the army in 1955.
However, Marshal Chen Yi and General Yan Hongyan all left the army when they were awarded the title, but because they represented an important branch, they were also awarded military ranks. And Zhou Baozhong met this condition, but Zhou Baozhong was too low-key, and there was no dispute about the rank, so he missed it. However, when he was awarded the medal, Zhou Baozhong received three first-class medals, which can also be regarded as a compensation for him.