As we all know, there are various levels of military ranks in each military camp, just like when China conferred titles in 1955, it awarded ten founding marshals and ten founding generals, which is also a high affirmation of the generals who have made great contributions to the country. In fact, as early as the Liberation War, the first camp had already awarded titles to various officers, but almost all of them had the rank of lieutenant general. It is precisely because there are too many officers with the rank of lieutenant general, which also leads to the fact that the rank of lieutenant general is not so precious in the first team.
As the saying goes, scarcity is expensive, and the rank of lieutenant general in the ** team is already a bit rotten, so why is it precious? So within the ** group, what kind of military rank is more precious? Naturally, he is a special general. The so-called special general is actually equivalent to the generalissimo of the Soviet Union, and Stalin alone in the Soviet Union can receive such an honor, and it is precisely in this way that the rank that has been obtained by only one person until now is even more precious. Of course, such a lofty honor is naturally not something that everyone can obtain among the best generals, and so far only Lao Jiang has obtained this rank.
Since the special general is impossible to obtain for most officers within the ** group, the first rank general in the ** group is particularly precious in comparison. ** The first rank of the general in the group, if placed in our army, is actually equivalent to the rank of marshal. As for the second-class general in the ** group, then it is like the rank of general in our army.
As we all know, for a period of time after the founding of New China, in order to commend those generals who made great contributions to the founding of New China, our army also held an unprecedentedly grand ceremony for awarding titles. In 1955, a total of 20 outstanding generals were awarded the rank of marshal and general, which attracted the attention of the people of the whole country for a time. Speaking of which, many people can't help but ask such a question: In the ** group, how many generals have won the first-class general and the second-class general for the first time? How many of them are from the Whampoa family?
* As early as 1935, the group conferred the rank of general on a number of generals, and a total of 9 generals received such honors. However, when it comes to these nine generals, everyone should be familiar with them, such as the famous Zhang Xueliang, Yan Xishan, Li Zongren and other famous generals, they are all bigwigs from local warlord groups. However, we found that among the first nine generals who obtained the rank of first-class general, only He Yingqin seems to belong to the Whampoa general, and as the leader of the Whampoa Army, he has always played the role of Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man.
The first batch of Huangpu generals who won the rank of first-class general is only He Yingqin, so how many of the first batch of 22 ** generals who have obtained the rank of second-class general are from the Huangpu department? Looking at these second-level generals, it is not difficult for us to find that they are all the highest military officers, such as Liu Xiang, Long Yun and Han Fuqu among them, who were all famous local kings during the ** period. However, among the 22 second-level generals, there are not many from the Huangpu department, and only three are generals from the Huangpu department, they are Liu Zhi, Gu Zhutong and Jiang Dingwen.
If you want to talk about Liu Zhi, Gu Zhutong and Jiang Dingwen, the three second-level generals, I have to say that they are the most dazzling generals in the many Whampoa armies. We all know that Chiang Kai-shek's requirements for his confidants and generals are very high, and the prerequisite is the students of the Whampoa Military Academy. Therefore, Liu Zhi, Gu Zhutong and Jiang Dingwen, the three generals from the Whampoa Military Academy, were naturally deeply trusted and respected by Chiang Kai-shek, so they have always been Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand men in major battles such as quelling the warlord chaos and the Central Plains War.
At that time, the five tiger generals under Chiang Kai-shek were very famous, including Liu Zhi, Gu Zhutong and Jiang Dingwen, and the other two were Wei Lihuang and Chen Cheng. Of course, Wei Lihuang and Chen Cheng also received the rank of second-class general in 1939, but they were not like Liu Zhi, Gu Zhutong and Jiang Dingwen, who were the first three generals to receive the rank. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to see from the first batch of awarded generals of the ** group that most of the outstanding generals are still from the local area, and there are not many real Whampoa generals.