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first version. There were 15 people in the first plan for the preliminary evaluation of generals reported by Peng Luo to the central government. After the central government decided to tentatively select 11 people for the preliminary evaluation of generals, 4 people had to be subtracted.
At the Secretariat meeting to study the candidates for generals, Chairman Mao personally rejected four of them, namely Xu Haidong, Song Renqiong, Wang Zhen, and Zhou Chunquan, after reviewing the list of 15 generals. In this way, the 11 generals designated by Chairman Mao personally are: Su Yu, Huang Kecheng, Chen Geng, Tan Zheng, Xiao Jinguang, Zhang Yunyi, Luo Ruiqing, Wang Shusheng, Zhang Zongxun, Xu Guangda, and Xiao Ke.
Chairman Mao personally delineated and ranked eleventh in the preliminary evaluation of Xiao Ke.
After Liu Shaoqi saw the list of generals drawn by the chairman, he believed that Xu Haidong was not only a member of the Central Military Commission proposed by Chairman Mao himself, but also a hero who "had made great contributions to the Chinese revolution". Therefore, Liu Shaoqi removed Song Renqiong, Xiao Ke and the following three people. , retained Xu Haidong. After repeated discussions, the
Secretariat agreed to Liu Shaoqi’s proposal. The 11 preliminary evaluation generals determined at the Secretariat meeting are Su Yu, Xu Haidong, Huang Kecheng, Chen Geng, Tan Zheng, Xiao Jinguang, Zhang Yunyi, Luo Ruiqing, Wang Shusheng, Xu Guangda, and Zhang Zongxun.
Zhang Zongxun became the 11th ranked general in the preliminary evaluation.
second version.
Chairman Mao and the Secretariat of the Central Committee studied the preliminary list of generals reported by Peng Luo through many meetings and decided that the candidates for generals would be selected from the 15 people in the first plan of generals reported. The number of generals is temporarily the same as the number of marshals, which is 11. The
meeting also determined that among the 15 people in the plan, the top 8 were all "members of the Military Commission" and were general candidates for the initial evaluation in 1954, and must be retained. The remaining three places should be selected from the seven new candidates. In order to be representative, the three generals should represent the three major front armies of the Red Army.
In the selection of 7 new generals, Zhang Zongxun and Song Renqiong represented the Red Army. Since the Red Army and Tan Zheng, as representatives of political cadres, had been selected for the general list, Song Renqiong, who was also a political cadre, regretted not being selected. general.
Although Xu Guangda, Xiao Ke, and Wang Zhen are all representatives of Red Second Front Army , Xiao Ke is also the deputy commander-in-chief of Red Second Front Army, but he and Wang Zhen are representatives of Red Sixth Army , as the big brother's Red Second Army. , must have a place among the generals, and Xu Guangda represents both the Second Red Front Army and the Second Red Army Corps. Therefore, Xu Guangda was elected as a general on behalf of the Second Red Front Army and the Second Red Army Corps.
Wang Shusheng and Zhou Chunquan are representatives of the Red Fourth Army, but there is no suspense that Wang Shusheng, as the deputy commander-in-chief, must have won the Red Fourth Army general seat over Zhou Chunquan, who had made mistakes in history.
As a result, the central government finally determined the 11 preliminary candidates for generals. They are: Su Yu, Xu Haidong, Huang Kecheng, Chen Geng, Tan Zheng, Xiao Jinguang, Zhang Yunyi, Luo Ruiqing, Wang Shusheng, Xu Guangda, and Zhang Zongxun.
Admiral Zhang Zongxun
In summary, the eleventh general in the preliminary evaluation is not the first general Xiao Ke, but Zhang Zongxun.
