China has experienced many wars in modern times, the most impressive of which is probably the War of Resistance Against Japan. It is true that this war has indeed caused heavy casualties and lost a lot of development resources to our country, but in a sense, without this war, China's future will be a different picture. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, many heroic figures emerged, either throwing their heads and spilling blood on the front line, or giving advice and suggestions to the command post to command the troops to fight flexibly. Later, after the founding of New China, China also gave corresponding rewards to those who had made great achievements on the battlefield to thank them for everything they had done.
Everyone should know that at that time, our country conferred military ranks on many important people in the military and let them hold some more important positions. However, there is still a regimental commander in our country, who can be said to be the slowest-promoted regimental commander in the Eighth Route Army, who has only been promoted one level in ten years, but his achievements in his later years are very great.
The regimental commander's name was Zhang Caiqian. Zhang Caiqian can also be regarded as an old revolutionary at that time. He participated in the jute uprising in 1927, and later joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army by chance, originally no one noticed Zhang Caiqian, and later over time the superiors found that Zhang Caiqian's military talent was quite outstanding, so they let him serve as the commander of the Red Army, and by 1937, Zhang Caiqian had successfully become the commander of the 12th Division of the Red 4th Army.
Later, China integrated several anti-Japanese troops and formally formed the Eighth Route Army, and in the Eighth Route Army, Zhang Caiqian served as the commander of the 770th Regiment of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division. Compared with other regimental commanders, Zhang Caiqian's promotion was indeed very slow, and it should be known that other regimental commanders had basically become the commander of the column in the early stages of the Liberation War, but Zhang Caiqian only promoted one level in ten years, which was actually a relatively rare situation at that time.
In fact, the reason why Zhang Caiqian was promoted so slowly was mainly because he was mainly responsible for the task of holding the anti-Japanese base areas in the rear at that time, and did not always be active in the most dangerous places on the front line like other generals. Of course, in addition to this, there is another important reason, that is, at the beginning of the Liberation War, Zhang Caiqian has been leading the troops to actively fight guerrillas on the land of China, because the scale of guerrilla warfare is generally not very large, which actually affects Zhang Caiqian's promotion.
Although Zhang Caiqian's promotion at that time was very slow, it has to be said that his achievements in his later years were indeed quite huge. According to relevant information, after the founding of New China, Zhang Caiqian served as the commander of the 44th Army, and later appointed deputy chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, playing a huge role in the Sino-Vietnamese War. Although such an excellent general's promotion is not as fast as others, his achievements are not comparable to those of any comrade-in-arms.
We often say that "one will accomplish a thousand bones", and when we praise those outstanding generals in those years, we should not forget those soldiers who sacrificed their lives, and without them who were not resolute and tenacious, China's War of Resistance Against Japan would not have won the final victory. They deserve the respect and gratitude of all of us.