In 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Marshal ***, who was the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army, was appointed as the first chief of the General Staff. Due to physical reasons, Xu Shuai was unable to perform his duties, and the position was replaced by Marshal ***. It was not until 1954 that General Su Yu, who had risen to prominence in the War of Liberation, took over as chief of the General Staff. At that time, there were 11 generals who served as his deputies. This article will introduce these 11 deputy chiefs of the General Staff.
General Huang Kecheng was an important military leader after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and served as deputy chief of the general staff and director of the general logistics department. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the head of the Organization Department of the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, and proposed the restoration of the political commissar system. In 1958, he succeeded Su Yu as chief of the General Staff, but was dismissed from his post because of his outspoken outspokenness as an "anti-party group". After his comeback, he served in the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and died in Beijing in 1986 at the age of 84.
Senior General Chen Geng's resume during the war years is well known, the head of the cadre regiment during the Red Army, the commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the commander of the Chen Xie Corps during the Liberation War, and the commander of the Second Field Fourth Corps. Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he participated in the War to Resist France and Aid Vietnam and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In October 1954, he was appointed deputy chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army, and although he still served as the dean and political commissar of the Military Engineering Academy, he remained in the General Staff for most of the time and was in charge of operations.
However, due to the trauma of the war years, Chen Geng's health was not very good after the founding of New China. He died in Shanghai in 1961 at the age of 58.
General Zhang Zongxun was a participant in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and the Red Army was in the Red Army.
1. Served in the 4th Front Army. During the Anti-Japanese War, he was the commander of the 358th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. After the founding of New China, he served as deputy chief of general staff and head of the military academy department, leading military training and the construction of academies. In 1973, he was transferred to the head of the General Logistics Department, in charge of the logistics work of the whole army. He died in 1998 at the age of 90.
General Xu Shiyou is a tiger general and a fierce general of our army, born in the Red Fourth Front Army, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression emerged in Jiaodong, and the Liberation War captured Jinan City. In 1953, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and later served as Deputy Chief of General Staff and Commander of the East China, Nanjing and Guangzhou Military Regions. In 1979, he commanded the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and in 1980, he was promoted to a member of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission. He died in Nanjing in 1985 at the age of 79.
General Deng Hua was a general of our army with excellent military and political affairs, and his status was not high during the Red Army period, and he served as the commander and political commissar of the military division during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the commander of the 7th Column of Dongye and the 44th Army in the War of Liberation, and later served as the commander of the 15th Corps. In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he served as the first deputy commander and first deputy political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteers, and later served as the acting commander and commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers. He returned to China in 1954 and served as the first deputy commander and deputy chief of the general staff of the Northeast Military Region, and in 1955, he was appointed commander of the Shenyang Military Region. In 1959, he was implicated in the Lushan Conference, but he was unable to return to work in the army, and died in Shanghai in 1980 at the age of 70.
General Yang Chengwu is a native of Changting, Fujian, a pioneer on the Red Army's Long March, who killed Lieutenant General Abe Guixiu on Taihang Mountain during the Anti-Japanese War, and fought in North China in the War of Liberation. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as commander of the air defense forces, deputy commander of the North China Military Region, and deputy chief of the North China Military Region. In 1955, he served as the commander of the Beijing Military Region and the Commander of the Air Defense Force, and later became the full-time deputy chief of the General Staff. Later, he served as the commander of the Fuzhou Military Region and died in Beijing in 2004 at the age of 90.
* The general was a general with excellent military and political skills, served in the Red Sixth Army and the Red Second Front Army during the Red Army, and was the commander and political commissar of the 259th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War, leading the Nanniwan large-scale production movement. During the War of Liberation, he participated in the Great Northwest Campaign under the leadership of ***.
In 1949, he led the First Corps into Xinjiang, liberated Xinjiang and contributed to its production and construction. In 1954, he was appointed commander and political commissar of the railway corps, deputy chief of the general staff, mainly devoted to railway construction. Later, he served as Minister of Agriculture and Reclamation, Vice Premier, President of the Party School, and Vice President of the People's Republic of China. He died in Guangzhou in 1993 at the age of 85.
General Li Kenong is one of the famous leaders of our party and our army, and has been engaged in intelligence work for a long time. During the war years, he made an important contribution on the covert front. Since 1953, he has served as Deputy Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army and Director of the Investigation Department of the Communist Party of China, mainly responsible for intelligence work. He died of encephalomalacia in 1962 at the age of 63.
General Zhang Aiping served in the Soviet District, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and East China during the war years, and went to the Soviet Union after being wounded in the early days of the Liberation War. At the end of 1948, he returned to China and served as a member of the Front Committee of the Third Field Army. During the Battle of Crossing the River, he formed the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy and served as commander and political commissar of the East China Navy. In 1954, he served as the commander and political commissar of the Eastern Zhejiang Front Command, responsible for the Battle of Dachen Island. In the same year, he served as deputy chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and commanded the campaign to capture Yijiangshan Island. He was responsible for the leadership of the national defense science and technology and industrial front for a long time, served as Minister of National Defense in 1982, and died in Beijing in 2003 at the age of 93.
General Peng Shaohui is a famous one-armed general of our army, who worked in the 120th Division during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and fought in the northwest region during the War of Liberation. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as deputy commander and chief of staff of the Northwest Military Region, was transferred to the post of deputy chief of general staff and deputy director of the training director department of the People's Liberation Army in 1955, vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences at the end of 1957, and deputy chief of general staff again in 1960. He died of a ruptured hemangioma in 1978 at the age of 72.
General Han Xianchu is a famous general of our army, who has never been defeated in a battle in his life, and is called "General Whirlwind" by the enemy. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the deputy commander of the 688th Regiment of the 344th Brigade and the commander of the new 3rd Brigade. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and later served as Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of General Staff, Commander of Fuzhou Military Region, and Commander of Lanzhou Military Region. He died in Beijing in 1986 at the age of 73.
If you want to compare who has achieved the most among them, the most objective way to do so is to look at the 1955 award ceremony. There is no doubt that the honor of the general is higher than that of the general, and we all know today that there are ten founding generals, but in fact, there were fifteen people in the list of generals at the beginning, including ** and Zhang Zongxun. Later, in the list reported by ***, seven more pre-selected lists were added, and Xu Shiyou, Deng Hua, and Peng Shaohui were also among them. In the end, after repeated research, it was finally determined that the candidate for the founding general was Su Yu and other ten people, and there are different opinions on why the above people were defeated, but it is undeniable that the first two preliminary lists also fully illustrate the country's recognition and attention to them.