The boy has tears and does not flick, only because he has not yet reached the time of evaluation. This was a sentence said by Chairman Mao when he was evaluating titles, and it was quite ridiculous in that year. However, if you think about it, the first appraisal of the title in New China is undoubtedly a summary of the past war years, and it is also an affirmation of every revolutionary fighter. Of course, the attitude toward the conferment of titles can be said to be that some people are happy and some people are worried. For example, the famous General Su Yu is very weak in this matter.
Because in his opinion, compared with those comrades who have already sacrificed, it is already a blessing that he can live until now, and he dares to ask for the level of military rank anymore. Not only Su Yu, but even Ye Shuai also proposed that his military rank was too high, in addition to Xu Haidong, Xu Guangda, Xu Liqing and other comrades, who also made requests for the title. Interestingly, some once-prominent warlords attach great importance to the issue of appraisal, and even nitpick and calculate.
For example, Duan Suquan was quite critical of his being awarded the rank of major general, and even ripped off his major general epaulettes on the spot and never wore a military uniform again, which was too fierce. So, is duan Suquan's appraisal appropriate in the end? Is there any background in this? Today we're going to try to explore this.
This is not the first time that the founding title has been awarded
For our army, it seems that the rank is far away from us, and it is also a bit incompatible with the military style of our army. Chairman Mao has repeatedly stressed the equality of officers and soldiers, and he has avoided this issue very much. In 1937, Chen Bojun, then the commander of the 359th Brigade, returned to Yan'an to report to Chairman Mao. At that time, in order to coordinate with the Kuomintang troops, the Kuomintang awarded Chen Bojun the rank of Major General.
When Chairman Mao saw Chen Bojun wearing a straight Kuomintang major general's uniform, his face was full of displeasure, and his mouth was still chanting, What major general's tahini, ugly and dead. This is not because Chairman Mao has any opinion on Chen Bojun, but because he cannot see the warlord momentum of the major general standing tall and far away from the fighters. In fact, historically, the 1955 title was not the first time. With the needs of the development of the situation, our army has also been awarded small-scale titles.
As early as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our army at that time also had the title of lieutenant general, such as He Long, commander of the 120th Division, who was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, in addition to General Xiao Ke. Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, is a lieutenant general who has the endorsement of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and has a strong mark of the times.
In 1946, in order to adapt to the military coordination at that time, Chairman Mao signed an order to award Peng Zhen, Chen Yun the rank of lieutenant general, and Wu Xiuquan to major general, which is the second time that our party has awarded the title, which is quite temporary. In this way, in fact, in 1955, this award was a relatively comprehensive one for our party and our army, so it can also be regarded as a righteous and upright appraisal.
Interestingly, the appraisal agency at that time encountered a big problem, that is, there were still more than 3,000 old Red Army soldiers, some of whom were not highly educated, and some of whom did not hold important positions. If the conditions of the appraisal were followed, almost none of these people would be eligible to participate in the appraisal, let alone such a low rank.
Chairman Mao listened to such a report and directly wrote the following words on the regulations: The old Red Army does not go to school. The meaning here is very clear: Chairman Mao will not abandon these old Red Army and directly designate them as majors.
Temperament is straight and old Duan is mad
To put it mildly, Duan Suquan's initial appointment to the rank of major general was indeed a bit low. From a historical point of view, Duan Suquan's starting point is also very high. Because his family was relatively well-off when he was a child, Duan Suquan became a small intellectual in the Red Army at that time, and soon became the main leader of the peasant movement in Hunan.
In 1934, when the main Red Army began to retreat westward, Duan Suquan received instructions from He Long of the Second Front and led an independent division to cover the main retreat. It was also in this process that after the independent division completed the task of blocking the attack, the team was scattered, the division commander Wang Guangguang was captured and heroically sacrificed, and Duan Suquan, as the political commissar of the division, lost contact with the team because of his wounds.
After losing contact with the organization, Duan Suquan was slightly better injured and temporarily returned to his hometown of Yaoshui with the help of local compatriot Li Mufu. Although the reactionaries in his hometown also knew that Duan Suquan had once served in the Red Army, when he saw Duan Suquan return, he was like a beggar, just secretly monitoring, and did not embarrass him.
When my father saw that Duan Suquan had finally returned to his hometown, he was very happy. Therefore, he did not intend to ask his son to go out again and take risks, so he entrusted himself to marry Duan Suquan to marry a daughter-in-law. Duan Suquan looked at this well, at least creating conditions for survival for himself to find a team in the future. Because he knows that his way out is in the organization, and there is hope in the ranks of returning to his own team.
In the days that followed, although Duan Suquan already had three children, he did not sink into the comfortable days of his wife and dolls, but tried his best to inquire about the news of the Red Army. In September 1937, Duan Suquan finally learned that the former Red Army was today's our army, and found out that there was an office of our army in Taiyuan nearest to his hometown, so he secretly climbed into a personnel carrier and went through all kinds of hardships to come to Taiyuan alone.
Fortunately, when Ren Bi, who was in the Taiyuan Recruitment Office at this time, saw Duan Suquan, he couldn't help but be surprised, and pulled Duan Suquan for a while, which made him know what Happened to Duan Suquan in the past two years. Ren Bishi was glad that the organization had already held a memorial service for your independent division collective, who could have imagined that you, the political commissar of the division, were actually still alive!
Later, Duan Suquan followed Ren Bishi back to Yan'an, and after being examined by the organization, studied at Yan'an University, and was later assigned to the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, making continuous progress in the War of Resistance. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Duan Suquan served as the commander of the Eighth Column of the Northeast Field Army, and followed Lin Shuai to begin to cross the battlefield in the northeast, which was also the peak period of Duan Suquan.
Under chairman Mao's general pattern of closing the door and fighting dogs, and under the bold command of Lin Shuai, the Liaoshen Campaign was officially launched. Duan Suquan led the Eight Columns from birth to death, served in the siege of Jinzhou, and made great contributions in the Battle of Western Liaoning, annihilating more than 10,000 Kuomintang troops and making great contributions.
Later, in the Korean battlefield, Duan Suquan served as the commander of the Northeast Air Force, and personally developed a set of training exercise templates for the training of mainland air force pilots, making his own contribution to the construction of the new China's air force. It was also because of his innate and frank personality that Duan Suquan was very angry after hearing that he had been awarded the rank of major general.
In his opinion, his former subordinates have become lieutenant generals, and his major general is indeed a bit aggrieved. To be fair, Duan Suquan was awarded the rank of major general, which is actually not unrelated to the bridge section that had lost contact for three years.
Seeing that the medal ceremony was about to be held, Duan Suquan knew that there was no room for maneuver, so he publicly removed his major general epaulettes and vowed never to wear a military uniform again, this stubborn decision lasted until Duan Suquan's death, even before his death, he also instructed his family not to wear military uniforms when he was buried.
brief summary
It has to be said that Duan Suquan's irrational behavior in the appraisal of the title was obviously out of date, and later the organization found Duan Suquan to talk, affirmed his contribution during the war, and arranged for Duan Suquan to serve as the president of the Military and Political University, and later as the political commissar of the military academy.
Duan Suquan was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Second Class, the Liberation Medal of the First Class, and the Order of the National Flag of the DPRK. In September 1993, Duan Suquan died of illness at the age of 78, ending his distinctive revolutionary career.
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