At the 1955 award ceremony, those generals who made outstanding contributions to the victory of New China were awarded the military ranks they deserved according to their seniority and military exploits. But there is such a founding lieutenant general who is special, he was only a brigade commander of the People's Liberation Army in 1949, but he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 55, and among the division commanders in 49 years, only a few people have obtained the rank of major general, who is he? Why?
He just has"General Buyi"The founding general Zhang Dazhi is known as the founding general. General Zhang Dazhi is not well-known among the founding generals, but his reputation for incorruptibility is well known to everyone. During the 15 years that Zhang Dazhi worked in Lanzhou, he never made a special move because of his status as a commander, he ate millet, potatoes, and sauerkraut, and often went out in the clothes of a fellow countryman, and went down to the grassroots level to understand the situation"General Buyi"The nickname of the Ya.
Born in 1911 in a small village in Shaanxi, Zhang Dazhi was admitted to the Suide Provincial No. 4 Normal School with excellent grades at the age of 16 and joined the Communist Youth League. In 1929, Zhang Dazhi successfully joined the Communist Party of China.
In 1934, Zhang Dazhi returned to northern Shaanxi as a military commissioner and led the vast number of soldiers and civilians to victoriously smash the enemy's first counter-revolution against the Soviet area of northern Shaanxi"Encirclement and suppression"。In 1935, after the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Zhang Zhida served as the political commissar of the 81st Division and the 78th Division of the 15th Army Corps, and also led the troops to participate in the Battle of Laoshan and the Eastern Crusade.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Dazhi served as the political commissar of the 6th Regiment of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In 1938, Zhang Zhida served as the political commissar of the Sixth Garrison Regiment and led the troops to actively cooperate with Li Jingquan's detachment to go north to Daqingshan. In 1940, Zhang Dazhi served as the director of the Political Department of the Daqingshan Cavalry Detachment. In 1942, the Japanese army wanted to carry out an anti-Japanese guerrilla base in Daqingshan"The Great Sweep"At the critical juncture when the enemy was outnumbered and life and death, Zhang Dazhi led the cavalry detachment, which was several times larger than our enemy, to fight bloodily day and night, and victoriously broke out of the encirclement. After that, he was rewarded by his superiors.
During the War of Liberation, Zhang Dazhi continued to serve as deputy commander and deputy political commissar of the Suimeng Military Region, and participated in the Suibao and Jining battles. However, since 1947, Zhang Dazhi has been high and low. He successively served as the guerrilla commander of the five provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningbo, Jinsui and Suide, and the commander of the Suide Division, and concurrently served as the commander of the Second Garrison Brigade.
But Zhang Dazhi did not complain at all about this situation, he felt that no matter where he was, no matter what position he was in, as long as he could work hard for the great cause of the motherland. When the Taiyuan Campaign began, Zhang Dazhi led the Second Garrison Brigade to capture important strongholds such as Fenggeliang and Niuhuozhai, creating favorable conditions for the liberation of Taiyuan.
In 1949, Taiyuan was liberated, and Zhang Dazhi was only a brigade commander. It didn't take long for Zhang Dazhi to receive an order to make him the commander of the Northern Shaanxi Military Region. However, before Zhang Dazhi could take office, he was urgently promoted from brigade commander to army commander and went to participate in the Lanzhou Campaign.
Before Zhang Dazhi served as the commander of the Fourth Army, the two regiments of our army conquered for a whole day, but they did not take the Shenjialing position, and they were also very heavy. After Zhang Dazhi took office, he immediately convened an emergency meeting to analyze the war situation. Later, under the command of Zhang Dazhi, the Fourth Army successfully captured the Shenjialing position.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Dazhi continued to serve as the commander of the Fourth Army. In 1955, Zhang Dazhi became the commander of the Lanzhou Military Region. At the 1955 award ceremony, Zhang Dazhi was awarded the rank of founding lieutenant general. In 1992, Zhang Dazhi died of illness in Beijing at the age of 81.
Life is finite, but career will last forever. Zhang Dazhi has been fighting for the revolutionary cause all his life, he is the pride of the motherland and a hero of the people.