Author: Forgotten in the rivers and lakes.
Cheng Zihua is one of the 16 corps commanders of our army, and he is also the only one who has not been conferred a title.
After the three major battles, the whole army was reorganized, and our army formed 16 corps, and among the commanders of the 16 corps, 15 of them had military ranks after the founding of the People's Republic of China: 1 marshal *** 3 generals Xu Guangda, Chen Geng, Xiao Jinguang, and 11 generals
** of the first field (Xiye), ** Yang Yong of the second field (middle field), Wang Jian'an, Chen Shiyu, Song Shilun, Ye Fei of the third field (Huaye), Liu Yalou and Deng Hua of the fourth field, and Yang Dezhi and Yang Chengwu of the North China Military Region.
The only corps commander without a military rank was Cheng Zihua of the 13th Corps.
Huang Kecheng, political commissar of the 13 Corps, was the founding general, and acting commander Huang Yongsheng, successor political commissar Xiao Hua, and first deputy commander Li Tianyou were all generals. Second Deputy Commander Peng Mingzhi, Chief of Staff Huang Zhiyong, and Director of the Political Department Liu Daosheng are lieutenant generals.
The three armies under the jurisdiction of the 13th Corps are also famous: among them, the 38th Army and the 39th Army are one of the "Five Tigers of the East Field", and although the 49th Army was formed later than the two big brother troops, it is also a heroic army that can fight well under the construction of Zhong Wei, the "Chinese Patton", and has performed well in the battles of conquering Tianjin, Shashi and Jiangling.
As the military commander of one of the strongest corps of our army, why did Cheng Zihua not confer a military rank?
[Group photo during the meeting of senior military cadres in Jinchaji in 1939.] Front row, from left: Nie Heting, Chen Bojun, Shu Tong, Sun Yi Back row, from left: Yang Chengwu, Wang Ping, Cheng Zihua].
Cheng Zihua is a native of Yuncheng, Shanxi, and the land of the Three Jin Dynasty has always produced many famous generals. Like Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Guan Yu, Dugu Xin, Wei Chigong, Pei Xingjian, Di Qing, Dong Qiwu and others, they are all famous generals in all eras.
Cheng Zihua was born in 1905, the same age as Xu Shiyou, Lu Zhengcao, Yang Jingyu and other famous generals. Coincidentally, Cheng Zihua and *** both studied at Taiyuan National Normal School. **It was the first crash course in 1919, and Cheng Zihua was already in 1922 when he entered the school, ** had already graduated, and became a teacher in Hebian Village Primary School in Wutai County.
At the end of 1926, Cheng Zihua was admitted to the sixth phase of Huangpu (Wuhan Branch), participated in the Northern Expedition, and entered the Wuhan School Corps as an instructor. In the Guangzhou Uprising, Cheng Zihua was a fighter, and ** was the captain of the 6th Wing of the Workers' Red Guards.
After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, ** and Cheng Zihua both insisted on guerrilla warfare in the Hailufeng area.
In the second half of 1926, ** was sent to Hubei, Henan and Anhui to replace the sacrificed Wu Guanghao as the deputy commander of the Red 31st Division, while Cheng Zihua was sent to the troops of the warlord Yue Weijun to do military transportation work. After the Daye Rebellion, Cheng Zihua served as the detachment leader of the Red 5th Army.
During the Agrarian Revolution, Cheng Zihua served as a regiment commander and division commander, and later served as a special commissioner to the Red 25th Army as a commander, and led the Red 25th Army to participate in the Long March with political commissar Wu Huanxian and deputy army commander Xu Haidong.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Cheng Zihua served as the deputy commander, acting commander and acting political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. During the Liberation War, he served as the deputy political commissar of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, the commander of the 2nd Corps of the East Field (13th Corps of the Four Fields), and had proper general qualifications.
Cheng Zihua did not confer the founding general, and the most widely circulated saying is "Unauthorized attack on Miyun,."Almost lost a big one because of a small one
Cheng Zihua attacked Miyun and almost let go of Fu Zuoyi's descendant army 35th Army, and this thrilling battle appeared in the Pingjin Battle at the end of the decisive battle. Cheng Zihua and the 2nd Dongye Corps, as the pioneers of General Lin's Dongye Army, rushed to the western part of Beijing at night and intercepted the retreat of the enemy's 35th Army in accordance with the chairman's instructions.
The reason why the Dongye army wanted to secretly enter the customs was to play a big game of chess for Fu Zuoyi's troops, who had become frightened birds, and Dongye and the North China Military Region worked together to take down all the 520,000 troops of Fu Zuoyi's ** army from Suiyuan in the west to Tanggu in the east.
However, Cheng Zihua, who passed through Miyun, sought to fight, leaving 1 column to attack Miyun, but the result was a startling snake, which made Fu Zuoyi vigilant, and the 35th Army almost retreated to Beiping and Fu Zuoyi joined forces.
Coincidentally, no book was written, and at this time, the Yang Luogeng Corps and Yang Chengwu Corps of the North China Military Region also made mistakes, which aroused the anger of the chairman and approved the three corps.
Because of this incident, there is a folk saying that it is because of being good at fighting Miyun, so that Cheng Zihua and the general have no chance.
In fact, this is just a folk speculation, which does not stand up to scrutiny.
The most obvious point is that Yang Dezhi, Yang Chengwu and others, who made mistakes in the battle to encircle and annihilate the enemy's 35th Army, did not affect the awarding of titles. **, Cheng Zihua was not awarded a military rank because of his job.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people's army, which had experienced 22 years of armed struggle after the Nanchang Uprising, was faced with a situation of "immediately winning the world and ruling the world immediately." More and more large and medium-sized cities are returning to the embrace of the people and are in urgent need of governance and construction.
However, the purpose of our army to serve the people wholeheartedly itself includes two aspects: overthrowing the old society and developing and building a strong country, and it is necessary to build cities and rural areas, vigorously develop the economy, and improve the people's living standards.
Cheng Zihua was one of the first batch of military cadres to be transferred to local areas. After General Lin commanded the 500,000 troops of Siye to cross the Yangtze River and go south and successfully completed the Battle of Hengbao, Cheng Zihua was appointed by the chairman to serve as the leader of his hometown Shanxi.
Some time after the founding of New China, a large number of cadres were transferred from the army to the localities.
These senior generals who have not participated in the evaluation of military ranks can be roughly divided into 3 categories:
The first category is those who are in charge of one side like Cheng Zihua.
In the preliminary evaluation list submitted by Song Renqiang, Lai Chuanzhu, and Xu Liqing for the first time, at least 22 provincial-level cadres considered evaluating the founding generals, generals, and lieutenant generals, and Cheng Zihua, who was in charge of Shanxi, belonged to this category.
In addition to Cheng Zihua, there are also a large number of generals who took off their military uniforms and came to the place.
Such as Peng Zhen in Beijing, Zhang Desheng in Gansu, Li Jingquan in Sichuan, Zhang Dingcheng in Fujian, Wu Zhipu in Henan, Comrade Xiannian in Hubei, Zeng Xisheng in Anhui, Tan Qilong in Zhejiang, Jiang Weiqing in Jiangsu: Chen Zhengren in Jiangxi, Lin Tie in Hebei, Zhang Zhongliang in Qinghai, Pan Zili in Ningxia, Feng Baiju in Hainan, etc.
These uncrowned generals also include Teng Daiyuan, Zhang Jichun, and Yang Shangkun at the level of generals, Wang Weizhou, He Changgong, Li Zhuoran, Chen Manyuan, Tao Zhu, Zhou Baozhong, Gao Kelin, Zhao Shoushan, Zhang Ziyi, Wang Shitai, etc.
The second category is generals who have been transferred from the military to industrial ministries.
This category includes Song Yuhe and Liu Ruilong, vice ministers of agriculture, Zhang Kexia, vice minister of forestry, Chen Xiyun, vice minister of construction engineering, Zhu Lizhi, vice minister of communications, and Xu Zirong, vice minister of public security.
The third category is the well-known two groups of generals and ambassadors in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The most famous generals and ambassadors without military ranks include Wu Xiuquan, who served as chief of staff of the Northeast Military Region, **, who served as chief of staff of the North China Military Region, and Yuan Zhongxian and Ji Pengfei, who served as political commissars and deputy political commissars of the Sanye CorpsWang Youping, who served as the director of the Political Department of the Second Field Corps, and Huang Zhen, the political commissar of the column;Han Nianlong, Luo Guibo and others who served as military political commissars.
It can be seen from this that a large number of generals have not been awarded military ranks, which is completely out of the needs of work.
It's just that Cheng Zihua, as the commander of the Red 25th Army during the Red Army, the commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Dynasty during the Anti-Japanese War, and the veteran commander of the Dongye 2nd Corps and the Siye 13th Corps, is more eye-catching than many other uncrowned generals.
Despite this, Cheng Zihua and many uncrowned generals made significant contributions to the construction of New China regardless of fame and fortune. These feats are as shining as the stars on the shoulders of the awarded generals.
1. "Memoirs of Cheng Zihua", written by Cheng Zihua;
2. "In Memory of Cheng Zihua", written by the editorial board;
3. "General Huang Zhen's Ambassador Career", by Yin Jiamin, Jiangsu People's Publishing House.
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