When our army conferred the title for the first time, a total of 177 founding lieutenant generals were awarded, but many of them were actually fully qualified to be awarded generals, such as Xu Liqing, Zhan Caifang, Wang Jinshan, Wang Bicheng and so on. However, if you want to say the most regrettable, Ni Zhiliang once served as the chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front Army and the chief of staff of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. 
Ni Zhiliang was born in Beijing in 1900, and is also the only founding general of Beijing nationality, and also graduated from the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and was a classmate of Mr. Lin and Liu Zhidan. Ni Zhiliang was famous in the Red Army for his violent temper, but he was a good hand in war, and his subordinates were not unconvinced. In the winter of 1930, when the snow was falling heavily in Xinzhou City, the Red First Army explored the emptiness in the city and decided to fight a battle and get some supplies to survive the winter, so they handed over this task to the Red Third Regiment, and the head of the regiment was Ni Zhiliang. Because of the heavy snow, the enemy relaxed their vigilance and withdrew all the sentry posts, Ni Zhiliang entered Xinzhou City without firing a single shot, quickly killed two enemy regiments, and captured a large number of trophies, so that the brothers of the Red Army had a good year. With his outstanding ability, Ni Zhiliang was soon promoted to division commander, and later promoted to chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front Army, and was called the "four giants" of the Red Fourth Front Army together with Chen Changhao and Wang Shusheng. 
During the Anti-Japanese War, Ni Zhiliang served as the chief of staff of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the 129th Division at that time was the commander of the division, the deputy division commander was the director of the Political Training Office was Zhang Hao, all of whom were at the level of marshal. In October 1937, the 129th Division crossed the Yellow River and went to the anti-Japanese front, after several months of heroic fighting, it was rapidly expanded from the initial 3 regiments to 6 regiments and 6 guerrilla detachments, and later established the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region, the commander of the military region was Ni Zhiliang, and the commanders of several military divisions under his command later became the founding lieutenant general. Later, the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region was changed to the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Border Guerrilla Command, and Ni Zhiliang continued to serve as the commanderFounding General Wang Shusheng!You say, such qualifications, only the rank of lieutenant general, is it too low?During the Liberation War, Ni Zhiliang was sent to work in the northeast region, during this period, Ni Zhiliang basically did not work on the front line, but transferred to the rear military region to work, and served as the deputy commander of the West Manchurian Military Region, vice president of the Northeast Military and Political University, and other positions. 
At the beginning of 1950, just as Ni Zhiliang was working hard to grasp his teaching work, ** came to order him to go to Beijing to do diplomatic work. Ni Zhiliang was still a little difficult when he received this order, because he had fought for half his life and knew nothing about diplomacy!Ni Zhiliang told the prime minister about his concerns, but the prime minister said: "No one is born with diplomacy, you can learn by doing!"After several months of training, Ni Zhiliang went from a layman who knew nothing about diplomacy to one of the first batch of diplomatic envoys of New China who knew diplomatic etiquette and served as ambassador to North Korea. After Ni Zhiliang took office, he learned about the history and customs of the DPRK in many ways, and played an important role in coordinating the relations between the two countries in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. When the title was awarded in 1955, Ni Zhiliang was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and many people complained about him, but he didn't care much about it, and accepted the rank calmly without any complaints. On December 15, 1965, General Ni Zhiliang died of illness due to overwork at the age of 65.