The 1955 award was the first major title awarded by our army, and many people understand that this time the award is not entirely based on military merit, but also includes seniority and representatives.
Among the 798 major generals, Duan Suquan is one of the more "wronged", because he became the political commissar of the division at the age of 18, but later became a major general, one of the important reasons is that he lost contact with the party organization for 3 years, which affected his award.
Among the 55 generals, there was actually such a special general, because he had been away from the army for 5 years, but because of his huge contribution, his superiors finally awarded him the rank of general after consultation, and this person was Zhou Shidi, who served as the division commander during the Nanchang Uprising.
Zhou Shidi was born in 1900 in Guangdong Lehui (now Qionghai, Hainan), and when he was a teenager, he attended private schools, primary schools, middle schools, and during the May Fourth Movement, Zhou Shidi actively led the student movement, and after that, he served as a primary school teacher.
In 1922, Zhou Shidi left his hometown and went to Guangzhou to seek a way to save the country, at that time, Guangzhou was full of revolutionary atmosphere, and soon, Zhou Shidi became acquainted with Xu Chengzhang, the leader of the Hainan Revolution.
Under the influence of Xu Chengzhang, Zhou Shidi joined the "Qiongya Review Society", a peripheral organization of the Communist Party of China, in 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy was established and began to enroll students, Xu Chengzhang encouraged the people of the "Qiongya Review Society" to actively apply for the examination, and Zhou Shidi became a member of the first phase of Huangpu in the first examination.
After graduating from the first batch of students, Zhou Enlai suggested that Sun Yat-sen establish an ironclad team, that is, in this year, Zhou Shidi officially joined the Communist Party of China, and since then, he has served as deputy captain and captain of the ironclad team.
In 1925, the Guangdong warlord Chen Jiongming took advantage of Sun Yat-sen's serious illness to launch a rebellion, and the ironclad convoy went to suppress it, and the leaders of the ironclad convoy at that time were all communists, so it is also said that the ironclad convoy was also the first armed force led by our party.
Later, under the planning of Zhou Enlai, the ironclad convoy was merged into Ye Ting's independent regiment, and Zhou Shidi was appointed as the commander of the first battalion, during the Northern Expedition, Ye Ting's independent regiment was the vanguard, and the first battalion was the vanguard of the vanguard.
Zhou Shidi successively participated in the command of the Battle of Tingsi Bridge, the Battle of Hesheng Bridge and other battles, during the Battle of Wuchang, Zhou Shidi commanded the death squad and attacked the city wall in one fell swoop, forcing more than 30,000 enemy people to surrender, after this battle, Zhou Shidi was appointed as the acting regimental commander of the independent regiment.
In 1926, the Independent Regiment had been reorganized into the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division, with Zhou Shidi as the regimental commander, in 1927, Zhou Shidi led the troops stationed in Jiujiang, on August 1, the Nanchang Uprising broke out, the 25th Division Commander Li Hanling found Zhou Shidi, he hoped that Zhou Shidi would not go with the Communists.
Zhou Shidi flatly refused, and Nie Rongzhen, who was the former secretary of the Nanchang Uprising, informed Zhou Shidi that after the Nanchang Uprising, a train was immediately sent to let the people of the 25th Division participate in the uprising and transport the heavy materials to the train first, and Zhou Shidi met Xu Jishen, the former battalion commander of the Ye Ting Independent Regiment.
Xu Jishen told Zhou Shidi that the Nanchang uprising broke out and asked him to hurry back to the troops, and on the same day, Nie Rongzhen arrived, and they discussed taking the troops away in the name of wild training.
When the rebel troops came to De'an Station, the commander of the 25th Division, Li Hanling, led the people to chase after them, Zhou Shidi commanded the troops to counterattack, and the next day, they came to Nanchang with more than 3,000 people, Zhou Enlai was very happy, the 25th Division was reorganized into the Second Division, and Zhou Shi was the commander of the division.
After the Nanchang Uprising, the troops went south as planned, fighting and walking along the way, due to the strength of the enemy, the uprising finally failed, Zhou Shidi was ordered to go to Hong Kong to find the party organization, at the end of 1927, Zhou Shidi came to Hong Kong and met Li Lisan, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
While waiting for orders here, Zhou Shidi fell ill, and here he met his fellow villager Chen Chaopeng, who learned that Zhou Shidi was hospitalized and rushed to visit him, when the Guangzhou uprising failed, many people were arrested, and martial law was imposed on the street.
Zhou Shidi listened to Chen Chaopeng's words, and without waiting for the order of his superiors, he went to Nanyang privately, and as a result, he left the team.
After leaving the team, Zhou Shidi successively joined the third party led by Deng Yanda, etc. In 1931, due to the anti-Chiang Kai-shek movement, Zhou Shidi was arrested, and after Song Qingling learned of it, he rushed to the rescue.
After escaping from danger, Zhou Shidi joined the Kuomintang 19th Route Army, in 1933, the 19th Route Army held the Fujian Incident against Chiang Kai-shek, wanted to contact the Red Army, Zhou Shidi was willing to be a "liaison", he and Pan Hannian, when in contact, mentioned his idea of returning to the army.
In 1934, the Fujian Incident was suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek's troops, and Zhou Shidi went through all kinds of hardships and came to the Central Soviet Region.
After more than 5 years of leaving the team, Zhou Shidi returned to the team, and Zhou En: "You are back." ”
During the agrarian revolution, Zhou Shidi successively served as the chief of the command section of the cadre regiment of the Central Military Commission, the chief of staff of the Red 15th Army, and the chief of staff of the Red Second Front.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, the kuomintang and the communist party cooperated for the second time, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Zhou Shidi was appointed chief of staff of the 120th Division.
During the Liberation War, Zhou Shidi successively served as commander and political commissar of the Northern Jinbei Field Army, deputy commander of the 1st Corps of the North China Field Army, and commander of the 18th Corps.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Shidi successively served as deputy commander of the Southwest Military Region, commander of the Air Defense Force of the people's liberation army in Chinese, and deputy director of the training directorate.
When he was awarded the title in 1955, although Zhou Shidi had the experience of leaving the team for 5 years in history, his contribution to our party in history was extremely great, and many comprehensive factors were considered, so Zhou Shidi was awarded the rank of general and won three first-class medals.
Compared with Zhou Shidi, when he was the commander of the Nanchang Uprising, he was now a general, which is also reasonable.
Due to his illness, Zhou Shidi rarely appeared in public after that, and in 1979, he died of illness at the age of 79.
Throughout Zhou Shidi's life, the final outcome is actually quite good, for his own departure from the team, Zhou Shidi said: "The main thing is that his proletarian position is not firm, and the manifestation of pessimism after the failure of the Nanchang and Guangzhou uprisings." ”
Salute to the older generation of revolutionaries.