Among the founding major generals, there were many generals with deep qualifications and high positions during the Red Army period. According to the positions of the Red Army period, it is not too much to be awarded a lieutenant general, like the founding major general Wu Chengzhong. He was the political commissar of the division when he was in the Red Army, and was the brigade commander in the liberation period, and he did not rise but surrendered, and was finally awarded the rank of He.
Wu Chengzhong, who joined the Red Army in 1929, started as a soldier in the Eyu-Anhui base area and rose all the way to squad leader, platoon commander, company commander, regimental political commissar, deputy division commander, and division political commissar. After Eyuwan participated in three anti-encirclement and suppression battles, and after the Red Fourth Front withdrew west to Sichuan and Shaanxi, he participated in the anti-three-way encirclement and suppression and the anti-six-way encirclement and suppression.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Red Fourth Front was reorganized into the 129th Division, and Wu Chengzhong became the deputy regimental commander and commander of the military sub-district from the political commissar of the division. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it repeatedly smashed the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese puppet army, and took the initiative to attack, opening up the basis for the anti-Japanese resistance behind some enemy lines in The Dabie Mountains.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Wu Chengzhong's troops were reorganized into the Independent 2nd Brigade of the Central Plains Military Region, participated in the Central Plains Breakthrough, and covered the withdrawal of the main force with another brigade. In 1948, he served as a brigade commander in the 2nd Column and 4th Brigade of the Central Plains Military Region, and actively cooperated with the main force of the Central Plains Field Army to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Huang Wei Corps.
After the founding of New China, this veteran brigade commander was promoted to political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Henan Provincial Military Region and commander of the Xuchang Military Subdistrict. In later ratings, he was rated as a paramilitary, was awarded the rank of major general, and was awarded the Order of August 1st Class, the Order of Independence of the Second Class, and the Order of Freedom of the First Class. According to his seniority in the Red Army, at least a lieutenant general, why did he fight lower and lower?
From the middle and late stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Chengzhong's position was no longer in the main sequence. During the liberation period, although the Central Plains breakthrough had some achievements, compared with Pi Dingjun dragging hundreds of thousands of troops, his military merit was still somewhat worse. Moreover, in the later period, his troops did not enter the sequence of the Central Plains Field Army, natural battles were fought less, and the promotion of small battles was very slow, and more importantly, when the Central Plains broke through, he fell behind, and only found the troops in 1948.
After the liberation, he was promoted from brigade commander to political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Military Region, and if he was awarded the rank of military rank before liberation, he was not among the generals at all.