During the period of the Eighth Route Army, the cadres who could achieve the brigade level were basically the level of founding generals and generals, such as Xu Haidong, Chen Geng, Huang Kecheng, Wang Hongkun, Chen Bojun and so on. However, there is a 358 Brigade that is very unfortunate, the brigade commander Lu Dongsheng died before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the political commissar Luo Guibo also regrettably missed the rank. 
Luo Guibo is a veteran in the history of our army, one of the founders of the revolutionary base in the southern Jiangxi Soviet region, and was only 23 years old when he became the commander of the Red 35th Army. During the Anti-Japanese War, Luo Guibo served as the political commissar of the 358 Brigade, the commander and political commissar of the Eighth Army Division of the Jinsui Military Region, although he did not participate in the awarding of titles, but during the Anti-Japanese War, he was the general of the Eighth Route Army who was the most known to Westerners. What's going on? When Luo Guibo was the commander of the Eighth Army Division of the Jinsui Military Region, he had a special mission, and the defense area where he was located was the only way for important figures of our army to enter Yan'an from the Japanese-occupied area. However, Luo Guibo not only did not make any trouble, but also created a foolproof steel corridor. 
The Japanese invaders naturally knew about this steel corridor, but they had no choice but to do it in a hurry. This news soon reached the ears of the allies, so Britain and the United States and other countries sent reporters to interview Luo Guibo. Luo Guibo knew that he couldn't snub these reporters, but the Eighth Route Army at that time really didn't have decent resources in his hands, so Luo Guibo simply cleaned up a ruined temple and used it as an interview meeting room. Where have foreign journalists ever seen such an informal conference room? immediately doubted the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, and even thought that Luo Guibo's achievements were all lies, and he had to prove it to them. Real gold is not afraid of fire, Luo Guibo directly took the reporters to Fenyang County, where a brigade headquarters of the Japanese army was stationed, only to see Luo Guibo order, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were fast, almost at the same time, the enemy's artillery tower was uprooted, the electric light company fell into darkness, the railway at the railway station was broken in two, and the match factory also ignited a raging ......fire
Most of the foreign reporters were convinced, but there were still some people who were hard-mouthed, they knew that the Japanese believed in the so-called spirit of bushido, and it was easy to kill and difficult to capture alive. Luo Guibo did not shirk either, and ordered two scouts casually, and these two people directly entered the compound of the Japanese army, and joined forces with the troops outside the city, and quickly resolved the battle, and quickly captured the four Japanese prisoners. At this time, foreign reporters were convinced, and they praised Luo Guibo as China's "Robin Hood", omnipotent! After these reporters returned to China, they all reported Luo Guibo's brave stories, which also made Luo Guibo the most famous general of the Eighth Route Army in the Western world. So, such a powerful senior general, he has to have qualifications and military merits, why does he not have a military rank? In fact, it is very simple, because after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Luo Guibo was transferred to *** as an ambassador abroad, and by the time the title was awarded in 1955, Luo Guibo had already left the army, so he had no military rank.