Then why did they open a huge gap after the founding of New China? All this has to start with Han Wei's military career.
During the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Han Wei was the platoon leader of the 1st platoon of the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the First Regiment. Han Wei had a rich early experience. He was from Huangpi, Hubei, but he ran to Anyuan Coal Mine in Jiangxi to work as a worker. Although he was a worker, he later entered the fourth session of Huangpu Military Academy as a transfer student. After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, he joined the Ye Ting Independent Regiment and participated in the famous Northern Expedition. After participating in the Northern Expedition, his troops were incorporated into the 3rd Battalion of the Guard Regiment of the Wuhan National Government. Coincidentally, his troops were taken to participate in the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
In other words, he has participated in almost all famous historical events in the early days of the Chinese revolution. Such a life experience is rich and can be called a legend.
Because he was a worker and had a famous experience in the Northern Expedition, Han Wei was brave and good at fighting, and often took the lead, causing the enemy to be off guard.
In the Battle of Ninggang in 1928, the enemy was condescending with the advantage of geographical location, and the Red Army troops were still unable to conquer. Han Wei rushed to the wall alone, set up a ladder and climbed up the city tower for a few strokes, killing and killing, leaving the enemy powerless. Red Army therefore greatly boosted morale to capture Ninggang City.
Han Wei's legend is not only his courage, but his luck is so good that it makes people doubt that God gave him a cheat alone.
In the battle of Xiaochi in 1931, a bullet hit his head, but he miraculously survived. It turned out that the bullet was shot from behind Han Wei's left ear at that time, and turned upwards after tympanic membrane of the right ear, and passed through sinus from the bottom of the right eyeball, but did not hurt the brain. Dean Fu Lianzhan couldn't help but shout: It's incredible that can survive!
And during the bloody battle in Xiangjiang in 1934, the 100th Regiment of the 34th Division where Han Wei was located was almost wiped out, leaving only more than 30 people including Han Wei. In order to avoid becoming a prisoner of the enemy, Han Wei jumped off the cliff.
All other comrades died heroically, only Han Wei was buffered by several branches in a row and saved his life. Afterwards, he continued to revolution as if he was fine.
It is precisely because of his outstanding military achievements and extraordinary revolutionary experience that Chairman Mao valued him very much. However, even so, it is still difficult to make Han Wei among the generals and marshals. Why
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First of all, the first reason is that although Han Wei followed Chairman Mao to participate in the famous Autumn Harvest Uprising in the early days, he was later incorporated into Red Fifth Legion . As we all know, the Red Fifth Army is a unit formed by the Kuomintang army uprising in front of the formation. It always serves as the "Dead Guard Division" in the Long March of , responsible for cutting off the rear of the Central Red Army. Whether it is the commander-in-chief, Ji Zhentong, deputy commander-in-chief, Dong Zhentang and others, the deaths and sacrifices of the deaths, the Red Fifth Army of also suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Xiangjiang River, and later the entire army was wiped out during the Western Expedition.
Han Wei was assigned to the Red Fifth Army, which destined him to have a different military career thereafter, and also cut off his long-term contact with Chairman Mao. Later, the reason why Zhang Zongxun and Luo Ronghuan were able to be promoted step by step was closely related to their long-term presence with Chairman Mao. After understanding this truth, it is not difficult to understand why he was only awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
The second reason is that after Han Wei fought against Xiangjiang, although he survived the disaster, he lost contact with the Red Army at this time. After trying every possible way to find the troops, he was helpless and just planned to join the Kuomintang army first and then wait for an opportunity to find the large army. It was precisely because of this "stain", which made it difficult for the later political team to obtain great room for promotion.
Of course, the last one is that there are more old subordinates in the revolution with Chairman Mao, and there were only a few places at the rank of the great rank in 1955, so it was impossible for everyone to all give it a satisfactory military rank. Moreover, the revolutionary team was formed by a group of different "mountain". The number of direct generals under Chairman Mao was awarded was compared. In order to balance the various "mountain", Han Wei took the initiative to make concessions. This is also one of the important reasons why he was only awarded the founding lieutenant general when he awarded the rank in 1955.
It can be seen from this that although the 1955 grand award was awarded the title of a military general based on qualifications, military merits, etc., the award alone cannot completely deny the merits of other comrades who did not rated the corresponding level of military rank. After all, revolution is for the people to be the ones. If it were just for the few stars on their shoulders, the heroes and martyrs back then might not have worked so hard, right?
