There is such a bridge section in "Bright Sword", that is, on the eve of the award, Li Yunlong Ding Wei Kong Jie knew that he had been awarded major general, indignant, of which Ding Wei was even more aggrieved. He felt that Shino had served as the commander of the column, and he was also a lieutenant general, and he also said that his former subordinates were now carrying a star on their shoulders, which was very uneven.
In fact, most of the initial column commanders of the People's Liberation Army were mainly generals, and there were many lieutenant generals, such as the column commander Chen Geng who was a general, and the main ones above were the main generals. Of course, this mainly refers to the initial column commanders, who were basically promoted to the rank of chief and deputy corps in the later period, and it was normal to be rated as generals. After that, there were more column commanders, and column commanders like Ding Wei certainly did not have as much gold content as the original column commanders, in fact, there were column commanders who were lieutenant generals, and deputy commanders became generals.
There is indeed such a thing in our army, the original column commander was awarded the rank of lieutenant general when he was awarded the title, and the deputy commander of the deputy column at that time was later awarded the rank of general, and his reputation was even better than that of the original column commander, and this column deputy commander was named Han Xianchu, the founding general of the People's Liberation Army.
At that time, the Northeast People's Liberation Army had a fourth column formation, and this unit was first formed by Wu Kehua, deputy commander of the Jiaodong Military Region of the Shandong Military Region, and Peng Jiaqing, director of the Political Department, who led the organs directly under the Jiaodong Military Region and six independent regiments of the local units of the Fifth Sub-district to form the Shandong 6th Division. At that time, there were 8942 people and 2250 long guns. The unit expanded in the southern Manchuria area and was organized into the Fourth Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in early 1946, with Wu Kehua as its commander, and two deputy commanders at that time were Hu Qicai and Han Xianchu.
Later, Hu Qicai served as the commander of the Fourth Column, and Han Xianchu still served as the deputy commander, of course, for a period of time, Hu Qicai and Han Xianchu commanded the Battle of Xinkailing, achieved major victories, and annihilated the ace division known as the Thousand Mile Foal, which had a great influence at that time, and the results of the post-war statistics were:
In this campaign, more than 8,000 people of the 25th Division were annihilated, more than 5,000 people under the commander of the Major General Li Zhengyi were captured, a total of 2,887 rifles, light and heavy machine guns, submachine guns, and short guns were captured, 117 mountain guns, mortars, machine guns, and rapid-fire guns, 3 cars, 4 armored vehicles, 13 radios, and more than 1 million rounds of ammunition.
In this campaign, the deputy commander Han Xianchu showed superb command ability and was deeply valued by the Higashino headquarters, so in early 1948, Han Xianchu, the deputy commander of the fourth column, replaced Zeng Kelin, the commander of the third column, and became the commander of the third column, so Han Xianchu became the military commander of the column from a deputy commander of the column.
At this time, Han Xianchu's original two old superiors, Wu Kehua, was still the commander of the column, and Han Xianchu was already on an equal footing with him. Because of his health, Hu Qicai was appointed deputy commander of the column at this time, and his position had been lowered by Han Xianchu by one level.
In the War of Liberation, Han Xianchu became more and more courageous in the Vietnam War, marched bravely with his troops, won hundreds of battles, and was called the commander of the whirlwind by the enemy, and was a rare victorious general in our army, especially he also commanded the troops to recover Hainan Island.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Han Xianchu served as the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army to lead the troops into the Korean War, and at this time General Wu Kehua served as the deputy commander of the corps, and General Hu Qicai was still in the northeast, and when the title was conferred, Han Xianchu was awarded the rank of general, and his two old bosses, General Wu Kehua and General Hu Qicai, were awarded the rank of lieutenant general respectively. Both General Wu Kehua and General Han Xianchu served as military commanders in the military region.
It may seem a little unbelievable, but it was nothing at the time, after all, the older generation of revolutionaries never cared about their honor, they cared about how to serve the people.