Among the founding generals of new China, each of them is a very characteristic person, but if you want to say that the promotion is the fastest, I am afraid that it will belong to General Wang Xinting, who only took three years to be promoted from a small soldier to a military rank, comparable to a rocket!
Wang Xinting was born in 1908 in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, to a family of peasants and small craftsmen, which can be said to be a good family compared to many comrades.
His parents also did handicraft work to sell money in addition to farming, so they had surplus money for Wang Xinting to study, and at the age of 7, he attended a private school in his hometown, which lasted until the age of 12. After that, he began to learn art and work according to the family's arrangement, earning money to subsidize the family.
Because of his several years of education, Wang Xinting's thinking was very progressive, and he always actively participated in the workers' movement and the peasant movement, and in the process also came into contact with and identified with the Chinese Communist Party, but he never had the opportunity to find an organization.
Until the spring of 1930, Xu Jishen led the Red First Army in the Eyu-Anhui base area to move in the Xiaohexi area, which was not far from Wang Xinting's hometown, so he joined the Red Army after obtaining the consent of his parents.
At first, Wang Xinting only served as an ordinary soldier in the first division, three regiments, one battalion, and one company, and was a strange warrior. Because of the excessive use of eyes in his early years of reading, Wang Xinting wore a pair of glasses, which was still relatively rare in the Red Army at that time.
With this pair of glasses, it looks like a weak scholar, but on the battlefield Wang Xinting is completely like a lifeless rush forward, after making a few meritorious achievements, he was promoted to squad leader, and also attracted Xu Xiangqian's attention.
Xu Xiangqian was then the deputy commander of the First Army and the commander of the 1st Division, and felt that this young man was a talent that could be created, so he arranged for him to do company clerks, although this position was not a big deal, but he was responsible for conveying orders from top to bottom, and there was more contact with the leaders, plus there was not much culture in the Red Army, so at the end of September Wang Xinting joined the party and was promoted to a company of political instructors.
In January 1931, after the Red 1st Army and the Red 15th Army were merged into the Red 4th Army, Wang Xinting served as the secretary of the 30th Regiment department and the director of the Political Department of the 10th Division, and in less than a year he achieved the regimental level, and the political work and military could be used.
For example, in the Battle of Sujiabu, Wang Xinting led his troops to surround the enemy army and had already taken advantage, but the enemy army was still doing a desperate and stubborn resistance, Wang Xinting suddenly let the troops cease fire, and took out the preferential treatment of the ocean and allowing the enemy to return home in exchange for the enemy's surrender. This allowed the Red Army to reduce its losses, after all, the enemy in a desperate situation would definitely fight desperately.
The fact that this warlord Xinting was able to defeat the enemy was the embodiment of military ability, and letting go of his life under the superiority was even more a talent for political work, and with a superior Who appreciated him, Xu Xiangqian, it was not surprising that he could get promoted.
In 1932, Wang Xinting followed the main force of the Red Fourth Front to the west and established the revolutionary base area of Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District. In 1933, Wang Xinting was promoted to director of the political department of the 12th Division, and after the 12th Division was expanded into the Red 9 Army, he served as the director of the political department of the Red 9 Army. At this time, Wang Xinting had only joined the army for three years, and the speed was surprising.
The most intuitive contrast is Lin Biao, Lin Biao has a lot of military talent, he became a military commander at the age of 23, but he joined the army in 1926 and served as the commander of the 4th Army of the Red 1 Army in 1930, And Wang Xinting was faster than Lin Biao!
After that, Wang Xinting's position was mainly related to political work, and after the Long March Division, he served as the director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Red Fourth Front Army and the director of the Political Department of the 31st Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the 129th Division, the political commissar of the 386th Brigade, and the political commissar of the Taiyue Military Region, especially in the 386th Brigade, which worked very well with Chen Geng, who once said that Wang Xinting was his Wolong Zhuge Liang.
The 386th Brigade's record is quite brilliant, it can be said that it is the trump card of the Eighth Route Army, all of which mainly depends on the death of the soldiers, and is also related to the command and leadership of Chen Geng and Wang Xinting.
During the Liberation War, Wang Xinting first served as the commander and political commissar of the 8th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, and achieved great success in Shanxi.
After the reorganization in 1949, he served as the commander and political commissar of the 60th Army of the 18th Corps, and the first deputy commander and deputy political commissar of the 18th Corps, which was further advanced to the regimental level. In 1955, Wang Xinting was awarded the rank of general.
Throughout the life of General Wang Xinting, from a scholar to a military service, he was not afraid of hardships and dangers, and made great contributions to the development of the Red Army and the liberation of the motherland.