In China's military, the hierarchy of generals is very strict and accurate. When it comes to hierarchical division, it has to be mentioned that this division began. In 1955, when the title was conferred, the Military Commission of ** imitated the military system of the former Soviet Union at that time, and implemented the military rank system in **.
The military rank system allows generals to have their own ranks, which can make it more convenient to carry out their work and lead troops to war. In the establishment of this military rank, generals are divided into four grades, namely general, general, lieutenant general, and major general. It is not easy to get the commendation of the ** Military Commission, and among these people, the most outstanding is the rank of general.
Parallel to the top ten marshals of the founding of the country, at the time of the founding of the country, it also had the reputation of "the top ten generals of the founding of the country". Among the top 10 generals are Su Yu, chief of the General Staff, Huang Kecheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Wang Shusheng, vice minister of national defense. They all started from the grassroots level, went deep into the troops, and grew up through experience at every level.
Take General Su Yu, who we are most familiar with, as an example, during the Nanchang Uprising, he was just a small soldier in the command headquarters, subordinate to the guard, and served as a small squad leader in the guard.
After that, he performed extremely well in many party deployments such as Jinggangshan and the Long March, and was gradually known and recognized, and finally became the chief of staff through promotion, and obtained a relatively high status in the Military Commission in New China.
But among the top 10 generals, there is one person who is different from others. He is Xiao Jinguang. Xiao Jinguang and Su Yu and others are completely different. On the contrary, he relied on his experience of studying in the Soviet Union twice and was a division-level cadre when he joined the army, but within a few years, he was promoted to lieutenant general and was responsible for party affairs in Guangdong.
After graduating from the Soviet Union at the age of 20, Xiao Jinguang returned to China to manage the army, and at the age of 22, he began to serve as the party representative of an entire division. Xiao Jinguang's name became louder and louder as the team he led won more and more battles.
As his experience later showed, Xiao Jinguang did not live up to the trust and delegation of the party organization to him. After studying military theory in the Soviet system, he had his own unique views on the arrangement of troops and the work of party affairs, and he was often able to rely on his own judgment and obtain unexpectedly outstanding results.
During the Red Army's Long March, he organized and mobilized the local people to cooperate with the Red Army in a counterattack. After that, he participated in the "anti-encirclement and suppression" struggle many times. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he personally launched the campaign of "supporting the government and loving the people", and made a series of adjustments to the unreasonable contradictions and disputes within the army and between the army and the people, and eliminated many internal hidden dangers.
During his tenure as a cadre in the army, he abolished many of the unreasonable work styles and structures in the previous army, adjusted the military structure according to the emerging requirements, and spent soldiers with food, so that soldiers could be more enthusiastic and have ways to serve the country. During the Liberation War, he served as the first chief of staff of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and concurrently served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army.
The conditions of the Northeast battlefield are difficult and the tasks are heavy, and Xiao Jinguang has handled the internal problems of the army very well, which has increased the strength of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army. The people and the soldiers are united in their efforts to resist the enemy.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was ordered to form the naval forces of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. During his 30 years in the Navy, he made great gains by building the Navy with nothing and building the Navy from scratch.
Xiao Jinguang fought all his life and made indelible contributions to China's army construction. **At the time, he said that Xiao Jinguang was a rare talent and would be awarded the post of commander of the Navy for life.
It can be seen that he has made great contributions to the Chinese navy and even the entire army. Xiao Jinguang's life of loving the party, the country and the people, he said on his deathbed that what he wanted to see most was that China's navy became stronger and stronger, and Taiwan returned to the embrace of the motherland. After Xiao Jinguang died, his ashes were scattered into the East China Sea in accordance with his last wishes. I believe that Mr. Xiao will be with us to witness a better future for China.