If Huang Gongluo had not sacrificed, would he have been awarded the title of Marshal or General after the founding of the People's Republic of China?
If Huang Gongluo had not sacrificed, the chances of being awarded the rank of marshal after the founding of the Country were still very great. However, the governor of history believed that he still had a high probability of becoming a general.
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First of all, it must be clear that if Huang Gongliu was awarded a title after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he might be awarded a marshal, but it was most likely that he would be awarded a general or even a lower rank.
To say that Huang Gongluo will definitely award the marshal is obviously nonsense.
In the 1980s, the Central Military Commission selected 36 of the greatest military figures in the history of the People's Liberation Army, and Huang Gongluo was among them. However, it should be noted that the first batch of 33 military experts did not include Huang Gongluo. The first 33 military experts were mao zedong, zhou enlai, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng, He Long, Chen Yi, Luo Ronghuan, Xu Xiangqian, Nie Rongzhen, Ye Jianying, Yang Shangkun, Li Xiannian, Su Yu, Xu Haidong, Huang Kecheng, Chen Geng, Tan Zheng, Xiao Jinguang, Zhang Yunyi, Luo Ruiqing, Wang Shusheng, Xu Guangda, Ye Ting, Xu Jishen, Cai Shenxi, Duan Dechang, Zeng Zhongsheng, Zuo Quan, Peng Xuefeng, Luo Binghui, and Lin Biao. In this ranking, Huang Gongluo's old friend Duan Dechang was among them, but Huang Gongluo was not selected. Among the three people who were added later, in addition to Huang Guangluo, there were Liu Zhidan and Fang Zhimin.
The reason for Huang Gongluo's inclusion among the 36 military experts is also very clear: he was a senior commander of the Pingjiang Uprising.
The Pingjiang Uprising was an important army-building movement in the history of the People's Liberation Army. During Peng Dehuai's tenure as the commander of the First Regiment of the Hunan Independent Fifth Division, with the help of Duan Dechang, Teng Daiyuan and others, a grass-roots party organization was established. When this unit was transferred to Pingjiang to suppress the peasant movement, Peng Dehuai led his troops to rise up, launched the Pingjiang Uprising, occupied the county seat of Pingjiang, and then established the Fifth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
What was Huang Gongluo doing during the Pingjiang Uprising? Shortly after the victory of the Pingjiang Uprising, Huang Gongluo led two companies of the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the Independent Fifth Division of the Xiang Army to Pingjiang, preparing to join the Pingjiang Uprising led by Peng Dehuai. However, after Huang Gongluo entered the city, a company commander actually deceived and instigated the rebel troops to defect behind his back.
What position did Huang Gongliu hold during the Pingjiang Uprising? The Pingjiang uprising troops were reorganized into the Thirteenth Division of the Fifth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with Peng Dehuai as the commander and division commander, and Teng Daiyuan and Deng Ping as party representatives and chiefs of staff, respectively. There were three regiments under the Fifth Red Army, the three regimental commanders were Huang Chunyi (Huang Gongluo's Huangpu classmate, who died), Chen Pengfei (deserter), and Lei Zhenhui (who defected and was shot). At this time, Huang Gongluo served as a member of the Military Commission of the Fifth Red Army, and later the Red Fifth Army established the second brigade, he served as the captain of the second brigade, the second brigade was upgraded to the second column, and he served as the captain of the second column.
That is to say, during the Pingjiang Uprising, Huang Gongluo did not bring in his own troops, but because of his relatively deep qualifications, he was equivalent to the senior cadres and reserve cadres of the Red Fifth Army.
Yes, before the Pingjiang Uprising, Huang Gongluo already had deep qualifications.
Huang Gongluo, who is a Han soul, joined the Dharma Protection Movement in 1915 and became a grassroots cadre in the Xiang Army. In the Xiang Army, Huang Gongluo and Li Can, Peng Dehuai and other progressive officers became close friends, and the three of them studied together in the Hunan Army's Lecture Hall. After Huang Gongluo finished his studies, he served as deputy company commander and company commander. Li Can was the instructor of Peng Dehuai's culture class, and during the Pingjiang Uprising, Li Can was a company commander of the First Regiment and participated in the uprising as the general representative of the Soldiers' Committee.
Huang Gongluo, Li Can, and Peng Dehuai were comrades in arms in military life and death, as well as comrades with like-minded ideals. The difference was that Huang Gongluo had a better chance, and in 1927 he entered the third senior class of the Whampoa Military Academy (please note that this is not the Whampoa III that Wang Yaowu studied, because the Whampoa III graduated in the first half of 1926, while Lin Biao's Whampoa IV graduated in October 1926). During his time in Huangpu, Huang Gongluo also participated in the Guangzhou Uprising led by Ye Ting and Zhang Tailei.
With the study experience of the Whampoa Military Academy and the combat experience of the Guangzhou Uprising, Huang Gongluo did not have an actual position in the Red Fifth Army, but his prestige was still very high. Therefore, when the Fifth Red Army later suffered setbacks and restructuring, Huang Gongluo was always the most trusted person of Commander Peng Dehuai.
In November 1928, Peng Dehuai Teng Daiyuan led the main force of the Fifth Red Army to Jinggangshan to meet the Zhumao Red Army, and Huang Gongluo, as deputy commander of the Fifth Red Army and commander of the Second Column, remained in the Pingjiang and Liuyang areas to continue to fight guerrillas. During this period, Huang Gongluo created the Xiang'e-Gansu District and made great contributions to the construction of the revolutionary army and base areas.
With the improvement of the revolutionary situation, Huang Gongluo later became the commander of the Red Sixth Army, and the troops he led became the main force in the Zhumao Red Army. The Red Sixth Army was later renamed the Red Third Army, and Huang Gongluo still served as the commander.
Huang Gongluo had a very important position in the ranks of the Red Army. In Chairman Mao's "Butterfly Loves Flowers from Tingzhou to Changsha", Huang Gongluo's name is mentioned -
June Heavenly Soldier Conscription of Corruption,
Ten thousand long wisps will tie up the Kunpeng.
The red corner of Ganshui,
Partial teachers borrowed from Huang Gongluo.
Millions of workers and peasants are enthusiastic,
Swept across Jiangxi straight to Xiang and E.
An international lament,
Wild ride for me from the sky falling.
When Chairman Mao commanded the Zhumao Red Army to fight three anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns, Huang Gongluo, Lin Biao and Wu Zhonghao became Chairman Mao's "three generals." What is very interesting is that Huang Gongluo came from Peng Dehuai's Pingjiang Uprising troops, Lin Biao came from Zhu De's Nanchang Uprising troops, and Wu Zhonghao was Chairman Mao's Autumn Harvest Uprising troops.
Like Wu Zhonghao, Huang Gongluo was also killed before the Long March. The difference is that Wu Zhonghao was not selected as one of the 36 military experts. The reason may be very simple, during the autumn harvest uprising, Wu Zhonghao was only a battalion commander, and Luo Ronghuan, the company commander in the autumn harvest uprising, finally became a marshal. Among the autumn harvest rebel troops was General Tan Zheng. For the sake of "more comprehensive representation", Wu Zhonghao did not have this posthumous honor.
Among the Pingjiang uprising troops, there were too many martyrs, and Huang Gongluo was only one of the more representative ones. Female general Hu Yun was mistakenly killed in 1934, Deng Ping was shot and killed in the Long March, Zhang Rongsheng was killed in Jinggangshan, Li Can was arrested and killed while working in the Shanghai underground party, and Huang Chunyi of He Guozhong was also killed in battle.
In fact, there were four main troops in the Pingjiang Uprising who survived until liberation: Peng Dehuai, commander of the Fifth Red Army, and the second founding marshal; Teng Daiyuan, a party representative of the Red Fifth Army, who served as minister of railways after the founding of the People's Republic of China; and Li Jukui, a squad leader of a certain squad of the Fifth Red Army, and a founding general.
At the time of Huang Gongluo's sacrifice, the Red Third Army had actually become the absolute main force no less than the Red Fourth Army, so if Huang Gongluo could continue to fight and continue to establish meritorious achievements, there might be some future in the future;
In the first case, he has been the main commander of the Central Red Army for a long time, and he has been released as the military commander of one side in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and may become a marshal. This situation is similar to Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan.
In the second case, in the War of Resistance Against Japan, he led a unit to advance behind enemy lines, establish a solid base area, and then shine in the War of Liberation, and may become a general after the founding of the Country. In this case, you can refer to Chen Geng and Su Yu.
In the third case, the long war left wounds and illnesses, and there were no special merits in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, and the military supervisor could only beat the drum and run the dragon set, and it was possible to become a general after the founding of the country. In this case, you can refer to Shaw.
Judging from Huang Gongluo's performance during the Red Army period, if there is no accidental sacrifice on the way to the transfer of troops, it is most likely to be the first two situations, that is, Huang Gongluo is very likely to become a general.
However, having said that, Huang Gongluo's seniority in the Central Red Army is really high enough.
We might as well take a look at what happened to Huang Gongluo's subordinates in the Red Third Army.
The Red Third Army was subordinate to the Red First Army, with Huang Gongluo as the commander, Marshal Chen Yi as the political commissar, and Zhou Zikun (who later became the director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army and died in the Anhui Incident) as the chief of staff.
The three division commanders were Chen Bojun, commander of the Seventh Division, and Li Tao, political commissar; Liu Yuxi, commander of the Eighth Division; and Wang Ruyi, political commissar; Xu Yangang, commander of the Ninth Division; and Zhu Liangcai, political commissar. Among these people, Chen Bojun came from the Autumn Harvest Uprising and later became a founding general. Li Tao was also a founding general, Liu Yuxi graduated from the Huangpu Phase I and Frunze Military Academy, and later served as the commander of the Red Tenth Army, and was sacrificed; Wang Ruyi followed Liu Yuxi into the Red Tenth Army, and finally died; Xu Yangang later succeeded Huang Gongluo as the commander of the Red Third Army, and was defeated and killed; Zhu Liangcai, author of "Zhu De's Bian Dan", was the founding general.
In some biographies of Su Yu, it is said that Su Yu led his troops to capture Zhang Huizhen. However, in fact, the troops that captured Zhang Huizhen alive must have been the headquarters of the Red Third Army. Judging from the situation at that time, Su Yu was not the division commander of the three divisions of the Red Third Army, and Su Yu's later superiors Liu Yuxi and Wang Ruyi were the political commissars of the eighth division of the Red Third Army. If Su Yu's capture of Zhang Huizhan was true, he must have been the deputy division commander or regimental commander of the Red Third Army at that time.
Huang Gongluo was a very important military figure in the period of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, with high seniority and high theoretical level, but it is still a bit exaggerated to say that he will definitely be able to become a marshal.