In the 1955 award, only one of the generals of the former Red Fourth Front Army was named the founding marshal, but the Red Front Army came out of eight founding marshals.
During the period of the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Red Fourth Front Army and the Red First Front Army had a slight advantage in terms of the size of their forces and the number of Kuomintang troops eliminated.
During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Red Fourth Front Army wiped out a total of 880,000 Kuomintang troops, which was more than the Red First Army.
In terms of troops, the Red Fourth Front Army and the Red First Front Army have always been evenly matched. The strength of the Red Front Army in its heyday did not exceed 100,000, and the strength of the Red Fourth Front Army in its heyday was also close to 100,000. The two fronts had almost the same number of troops.
During the Long March, the Red Army consumed enormously, from 860,000 people, and by the time the victory reached northern Shaanxi, there were more than 7,000 people left, especially when the three main forces of the Red Army met, there were only 20,000 or 30,000 people left in the first army, but the Red Fourth Front Army had 80,000 lions. For a time, the strength of the Red Fourth Front Army was stronger than that of the Red First Army.
Although the Red Fourth Front Army lost two armies in the later Western Expedition, the Red Fourth Front Army still had more than 10,000 people, not including half of Xu Haidong's Red 15th Army Corps.
In terms of troops, there were still more troops than the Red First Army, but by the time of the Great Conferral in 1955, only one marshal had come out of the Red Fourth Front Army, and eight out of the Red First Army.
Aren't any other generals in the Red Fourth Front eligible to be awarded the title of marshal?
The commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army is *** He was awarded the rank of marshal, so the red is the political commissar of the front army, is he not eligible to be awarded the rank of marshal?
In 1936, two armies of the Red Fourth Front Army and one army of the Red Front Army formed the Western Route Army, which crossed the Yellow River and prepared to open up contact with the Soviet Union.
However, in the Hexi Corridor and Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin's Ma Jiajun encountered, the Western Route Army only had 21,000 people, but the combined troops of the Second Ma had nearly 100,000 people, and the Western Route Army had no rear to fight, and most of the Ma Jiajun were cavalry and moved quickly.
The Western Route Army and Ma Jiajun fought hard in the Hexi Corridor for several months, and were finally outnumbered, and ** and Chen Changhao were forced to leave the West Route Army to ** to report on the situation of the Western Route Army.
Along the way, the two dressed up in disguise, and after many difficulties and dangers, they arrived in Yan'an, but Chen Changhao returned to his hometown in Hubei, although he later returned to Yan'an, and soon went to the Soviet Union for treatment in Yan'an, which was more than ten years, until the liberation of the country Chen Changhao returned to the motherland, so Chen Changhao missed the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation. After returning to China, Chen Changhao no longer held any position in the army. Therefore, in the 1955 award, Chen Changhao could not have been awarded the rank of marshal.
So is Wang Shusheng, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army, qualified to award the rank of marshal?
Wang Shusheng was one of the participants in the Jute Uprising, one of the founders of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army.
In the Red Fourth Front Army, Wang Shusheng later served as the head of the main regiment, the division commander, the army commander, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the front army, and assisted in many classic battles. As Xu Shuai's deputy, he was by no means a simple figure, the agrarian revolution killed the landlord's uncle, and he took the lead in the battle of Huang'an. From the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, Wang Shusheng followed Xu Shuai's footsteps and strengthened the Red Fourth Front Army step by step.
But the later Western Expedition made his fate take a sharp turn, during the Western Expedition Wang Shusheng was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army, after the defeat of the Western Route Army, Wang Shusheng returned to Yan'an through the desert. He was arranged to study at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.
After studying for a period of time, in April 1938, he served as the deputy commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region, and the commander was Marshal ***, and Wang Shusheng was still the deputy of the Military Region at this time.
In September 1944, Wang Shusheng led his troops into the battlefield of western Henan and established the anti-Japanese base in western Henan, at this time he became the commander of the second-level military region, in October 1945, Wang Shusheng led the troops of the Henan Military Region south to Tongbai Mountain, and joined the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army to form the Central Plains Military Region, and served as deputy commander and commander of the first column and political commissar.
The scale of the Central Plains Military Region is not large, with only more than 60,000 people, and it cannot be regarded as a large strategic zone.
The People's Liberation Army served as the commander of the Hubei-Henan Military Region during the war, and in 1949 he served as the deputy commander of the Hubei Provincial Military Region.
In 1955, he was rated as a regular corps level, although it was a regular corps level, but Wang Shusheng's contribution to the revolution was still very great. According to the 1955 award standards, the regular corps rank is generally generals and generals.
Although Wang Shusheng served as the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army during the Red Army, Wang Shusheng's position was not high in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, which directly affected the later awarding of titles. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general, which can be said to be neither high nor low.
There were several directors of the Political Department of the Red Fourth FrontThe first Liu Shiqi died in 1933, the second Wu Huanxian died during the Red Army, the third Zhang Xiuqin was removed by Zhang Guotao, and the fourth Zhou Chunquan made a mistake during the Red Army, and later served as a logistics worker in his revolutionary career.
The deputy director of the Political Department is Fu Zhong, who has been doing political work in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and has been neither promoted nor demoted in his position, and was rated as a regular corps in 1955. Awarded the rank of general.
Other senior generals of the Red Fourth Front Army also failed to meet the standards of marshals, such as General Wang Hongkun, who served as deputy chief of general staff and commander of the Red Fourth Front Army in the Red Fourth Front Army.
Compared with the chiefs of staff of the other two front armies, it is normal for Zhang Yunyi, deputy chief of general staff of the Red First Front Army, to be awarded the rank of general, Li Da, chief of staff of the Red Second Front Army, to be awarded the rank of general, and Wang Hongkun to be awarded the rank of general.
Xu Shiyou, Wang Jian'an, Chen Zaidao, and **, who served as Red Army-level cadres during the Red Army, were the highest commanders of the corps in the War of Liberation, and they did not meet the standard of marshals according to the standard of the 1955 award.
Senior General Chen Geng also served as the chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front Army, the division commander of the Red First Army, the commander of the 386 Brigade during the Anti-Japanese War, and the commander of the Fourth Corps in the War of Liberation.
You must know that the top ten marshals were all commanders at the front army level during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, and the lowest was also a cadre at the corps level, and they all served as division-level cadres during the war. In the War of Liberation, he was the commander of a large military region and a deputy of a large military region. Chen Geng can't reach this point. Therefore, Chen Geng was awarded the rank of general.
In the Red Fourth Front Army, there is only the standard of how to lead the marshal, first of all, he served as the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army during the Red Army period, and he belongs to the front army-level commander.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the deputy commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and belonged to the deputy division-level cadre. In addition, he also served as the commander of the first column of the Eighth Route Army, and belonged to the cadre at the division level.
During the War of Liberation, he served as the deputy commander of the North China Military Region and belonged to the deputy position of the Grand Military Region. In 1949, he served as Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army. It's the same as the main post of the Grand Military Region.
Therefore, only *** of the Red Fourth Front Army reached the standard of a marshal.