In September 1955, the Chinese People's Liberation Army held the first ceremony of awarding medals and titles to the whole army, which gave birth to more than 1,000 founding generals headed by the ten founding marshals and will always be remembered by future generations.
Regarding the founding generals of new China, there will always be constant discussions, and many topics about military ranks that people will enjoy talking about, such as: Did Su Yu, the first founding general of the Republic, resign the rank of marshal? Why was General Xu Guangda's resignation from the rank of Grand General not approved? General Xu Shiyou went to Premier Zhou to complain about the low military rank, why was he instantly relieved after hearing the ranks of Su Yu and Xiao Ke? Why was Xu Liqing, a senior general at the rank of a regular regiment, only awarded the rank of lieutenant general? Why did General He Jinnian, whose seniority was comparable to that of a major general, almost awarded the rank of colonel?
Of course, there are other important factors, among which a key factor affecting the level of military rank includes the "Shantou faction", that is, the representative of a certain main force in a certain historical period, taking the agrarian revolution period, when there were three main Red Army, namely the Red Army, the Red Second Front, and the Red Fourth Front.
The commanders-in-chief of these three main Red Army forces were Zhu De, He Long, and Xu Xiangqian, all of whom ranked among the top ten marshals, and they and several other marshals had the merit of creating the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and their merits were outstanding, and they also prominently represented the "mountain head" at that time, and they had to be marshals in any way.
The situation of the founding ten generals is similar, in addition to their own outstanding revolutionary contributions, each of them also represents a certain main force in each period, on the agrarian revolution period alone, General Chen Geng not only served in the later Red Fourth Front Army, but also served in the Central Red Army, and finally was awarded the general, in addition to his own outstanding combat achievements, also represented the Central Red Army, similarly, the Central Red Army out of the generals also huang Kecheng, Tan Zheng, Luo Ruiqing and several others.
Although Xu Haidong was also from the Red Fourth Front, but later led the Red Twenty-fifth Army to participate in the Long March alone, becoming the first Red Army to reach northern Shaanxi, after Liu Zhidan's sacrifice, Xu Haidong became a representative figure of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and also generously donated money to support the Central Red Army, solving the urgent need, so even if Xu Haidong was absent from the Liberation War, he was still awarded the rank of general and ranked second.
The situation of Wang Shusheng and Xu Guangda, the last two of the ten generals, wang Shusheng and Xu Guangda at the level of the Red Army, was more obvious; Wang Shusheng served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front during the Red Army period, and the commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian was a marshal, and it was only natural that the deputy commander-in-chief became a general, not to mention that the Red Fourth Front Army once became the most powerful red army, and the fierce generals in the army were like clouds, Xu Shiyou, Chen Zaidao, and Chen Xilian, who were all his subordinates, and Wang Shusheng, as the deputy commander-in-chief of this unit, although in 1952 the army rating was only the level of the main regiment. But being awarded the title of General is also highly anticipated.
More controversial is General Xu Guangda, Xu Guangda, as the love general of Marshal He Long, represents the Red Second Front, and it is generally believed that the most representative of the Red Second Front is General Xiao Ke, who served as the deputy commander of the Red Second Front, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was the deputy commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
When the list of generals was initially determined, whether it was the list of fifteen people or the list of twenty-two people, Xiao Ke's name was impressively listed, and with his seniority and contribution, he was also well-deserved to be awarded the title of general, but as the representative of the "mountain head", it was more appropriate or Xu Guangda.
Unlike Wang Shusheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front, Wang Shusheng served as deputy commander-in-chief for several years, and was the representative of the Red Fourth Front from the beginning, Xiao Ke was the leader of the Red Sixth Army and He Long's Red Second Army after the start of the Long March, and in July 1936, at the end of the Long March, the two major corps were reorganized into the Red Second Front, and Xiao Ke did not hold office for a long time.
Moreover, the Red Sixth Army was originally a formation unit of the Central Red Army, and apart from seniority and position, it was still the most suitable person to represent He Long's unit, and Xu Guangda joined He Long's department at the beginning of his participation in the revolution and gradually grew into one of He Long's beloved generals.
Therefore, even if there is no such position as commander of the armored corps, the most representative is Xu Guangda.