I believe that many friends have watched the TV series LiangJian, at the end of the TV series mentioned the titles of Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie, during the Liberation War they were all military commanders, at that time, most of the military commanders were awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and some military commanders were also awarded the rank of general, such as Han Xianchu and General Liu Zhen, of course, they were also concurrently the deputy commander of the corps!
At that time, Kong Jie once said: "In his army in Korea, two division commanders are also major generals, and the commander is also a major general. "It is true that at that time, the major general was the main rank of division commander, and it was rare to confer the rank of major general during the Liberation War! But of course there will be exceptions, he is General Xie Zhenhua, he is the first commander of the Thirtieth Army, which was reorganized from Hua Ye's Twelfth Column! Moreover, General Xie Zhenhua also studied in the Campaign Department of the Nanjing Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army.
Of course, xie Zhenhua was awarded the rank of major general because there were some objective factors restricting him, because after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he had served as the political commissar of the Special Agent Regiment of the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and after eight years of the War of Resistance, his position had changed several times, and after the Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army was reorganized, and Xie Zhenhua came to the Twenty-fourth Regiment of the New Fourth Army as the regimental commander and political commissar, which was actually a demotion for him. Because the commander of the New Fourth Army was one level worse than the commander of the Eighth Route Army, because the cadres assigned to the New Fourth Army at that time were all one level lower than the Eighth Route Army at the same level, for example, the division commander of the New Fourth Army was equivalent to the brigade commander of the Eighth Route Army.
But by the early days of the victory of the War of Resistance, he was still only a regimental commissar. In that war era, cadres relied on military merit to be promoted very quickly, for example, Chen Haisong, the political commissar of the Red Army Army, grew from a soldier to a military political commissar in only four years, and the regimental political commissar who served for eight years was still very rare among the founding generals, and it can be said that it is unique perhaps this is the main reason why Xie Zhenhua was not awarded lieutenant general!