Wang Hongkun was a senior founding general; he served as a commander of the Red Army, deputy chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front, brigade commander of the Eighth Route Army, commander of the Military Region, commander of the People's Liberation Army Column, and deputy commander of the Military Region.
He was a military cadre and had fought many big battles, so why was he not famous? This may have a lot to do with his later life experience.
After liberation, Wang Hongkun was transferred to the Navy as deputy commander. At that time, the navy team was not yet sound, Xiao Jinguang served as commander, the chief of staff was Luo Shunchu, and there was no political commissar.
Later, the navy's leadership team was enriched, and it can be said that Wang Hongkun's seniority in the navy is definitely the second in line, and the political commissar Su Zhenhua arrived 4 years later than him.
Although his seniority ranked second, he later ranked third in the Navy, and even in 1962, his superiors sent Lieutenant General Li Zuopeng as executive deputy commander, all before him.
After 1966, the Navy's leadership was adjusted. Wang Hongkun was promoted from deputy commander to second political commissar, the first political commissar was Li Zuopeng, and Zhang Xiuchuan served as director of the political department and deputy political commissar.
Although Xiao Jinguang served as the commander of the Navy and the first secretary of the Party Committee, his decision-making power was gone, and many things in the Navy were decided by Li Zuopeng.
Since then, the Navy has had the title of "Li Wang Zhang".
This status quo was maintained until after the 913 incident, when Li and Zhang were dismissed, while Wang Hongkun was not affected and continued to serve as the second political commissar. At this time, the former naval political commissar Su Zhenhua returned to work, he was originally arranged to serve as the second political commissar, but he wanted to start from the deputy post and first serve as the first deputy commander for 8 months.
In 1973, Su Zhenhua served as the first political commissar of the Navy, the first secretary of the party committee, Xiao Jinguang as the second secretary, and Wang Hongkun as the third secretary.
In subsequent work, his position did not change. It was not until 1977, when the Cultural Revolution ended, that a critique of the Gang of Four began to be launched, and wang Hongkun's mistakes were exposed. He was then dismissed from his post as Second Commissar.
After 7 years of waiting, in 1984, he was finalized, dismissed from his position as second political commissar, demoted from administrative level 5 to administrative level 6, and retired from the main corps.
If he had not made a mistake during the ten years of the campaign, he would have been properly treated as a grand military district after his retirement.