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In 1955, Duan Suquan, who was the commander of the Siye Eighth Column, was awarded the rank of major general, and he was also a "temporary major general".
The people who saw this scene showed different expressions, some ridiculed, some were puzzled, some sympathized, and some regretted.
Why did Duan Suquan make such a crazy move?
As we all know, the award of the title in 1955 was the first award of our army, which was very grand, and this award was also due to the fact that the Party Central Committee considered many factors, such as military merits, origin, qualifications, etc., but in general, it was mainly based on military merits.
In the War of Liberation, Siye is the most powerful and the most meritorious team among the four major field armies of our army, so when it comes to awarding titles, the generals from Siye are basically not low, and those who serve as column commanders should be lieutenant generals at the lowest, except for one accident, that is, Zhong Wei, who served as the commander of the 12th column, was awarded major general.
Zhong Wei was awarded the rank of major general because Qingshuping lost the battle, plus he did not participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, so, due to comprehensive factors, he became a major general, although it was unexpected, but it was also reasonable, but Duan Suquan, who served as the commander of the Eighth Column, was awarded the rank of major general, which was really unexpected, because it was not in line with his identity in terms of military merits or qualifications.
During the Red Army, 18-year-old Duan Suquan became a division-level cadre in 1934.
At that time, the Red 26th Army was preparing to return to Xiangxi from Guizhou, and in order to confuse the enemy, an independent division was specially left to cover the main force, and Duan Suquan was appointed as the political commissar of the independent division.
Although this unit is a division-level unit, the total number of people is only 800 and there are only more than 400 guns, which does not look like a team capable of fighting at all, but more like a containment team.
But despite this, under the leadership of the division commander Wang Guangguang and political commissar Duan Suquan, the independent division not only completed the task of covering the main force, but also insisted on conducting guerrilla warfare with the enemy for more than two months.
During the battle, Duan Suquan was unfortunately wounded, in order not to affect the team, the division commander placed him in the home of a fellow villager, while he continued to lead the troops to fight the enemy, unfortunately, two months later, the independent division was finally outnumbered and almost completely annihilated.
Duan Suquan was lucky to "escape", but what he didn't expect was that this incident became the sad place of his life later.
After recovering from his injuries, Duan Suquan had to beg all the way back to his hometown of Chaling, Hunan because he didn't find a team, and at home, in order to protect his own safety and not attract the attention of the enemy, he obeyed his father's order, married fellow villager Tan Qiuying, and entered a private school to study.
This kind of day has been going on for 3 years.
In 1937, under the notice of the villagers in the same village, Duan Suquan learned the location of the Red Army, and at the same time, he also knew that his old leader Ren Bi was in Taiyuan, Shanxi, so he immediately said goodbye to his father and wife and went to Taiyuan.
Ren Bishi was very surprised when he saw Duan Suquan for the first time, before that, he thought that Duan Suquan had sacrificed, and even had already held a memorial service for Duan Suquan, and at this time, when he learned that Duan Suquan was not dead, the joy in his heart can be imagined.
Later, with the help of the old leader Ren Bishi, Duan Suquan returned to Yan'an first and went to Kang Da to study for a period of time, until 1940, when he returned to the battlefield.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Duan Suquan began to show his prominence in the military field, first leading his troops to recover Zhangjiakou, an important town in northern Saibei, and then participating in the negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, fighting the enemy in the Rehe area.
In 1947, the Dongye Eighth Column was established, and the first commander was Huang Yongsheng, but Huang Yongsheng's life style was not good, and he did not listen to the orders of the Jireliao Military Region, so the Jireliao Military Region proposed to let Duan Suquan take over Huang Yongsheng's position.
Huang Yongsheng is Lin Biao's favorite general, Lin Biao is naturally reluctant to change, but he can't stand the insistence of the Jireliao Military Region, in the end, Lin Biao can only agree, and it is also with this emotion that Lin Biao is not friendly to Duan Suquan.
Duan Suquan is a real person, he feels that he is "in his position and seeks his own government", so during his tenure as the commander of the Eighth Column, he has always been conscientious and conscientious.
In September 1948, in order to completely liberate the Northeast, under the instructions of the Party Central Committee, Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan and others planned to prepare for the Liaoshen Campaign, and the first battle of this campaign was the Jinzhou Campaign.
If our army liberates Jinzhou, then a situation of "closing the door and beating dogs" will be formed outside the customs, and the liberation of the northeast can be said to be just around the corner.
In the minds of many generals, the Liaoshen Battle must be the last big battle in the Northeast, so many generals are holding their breath and want to create the last glory in the Northeast, and Duan Suquan is no exception.
But what Duan Suquan didn't expect was that the Eighth Column led by him left behind "controversy" in this battle
In the Battle of Jinzhou, the Eighth Column led by Duan Suquan, the first was to delay the opportunity in the blockade of the airport, and the second was to lose the position of Little Bauhinia Mountain and not report it, so that Lin Biao learned about it from the enemy's broadcast.
Regarding the delay of the fighter planes blocking the airport, the order given by the headquarters to Duan Suquan at that time is also worth scrutinizing, because at that time, the Ninth Column was obviously closer to the airport, but the Eighth Column was asked to blockade it.
In the end, the Eighth Column made a mistake, causing the enemy to reinforce two regiments, but Lin Biao, in his telegram to the Central Committee, exaggerated the two regiments into two divisions, and the Party Central Committee replied that the military orders should be tightened when the army was fighting, and that the Eighth and Ninth Columns should be criticized for delaying the blockade of the airport for two days. ”
For this reason, at the post-event meeting, Lin Biao severely criticized Duan Suquan, Duan Suquan is an honest man, and many rebuttals can't be spoken, so he can only endure it silently.
Regarding the loss of the position of Little Bauhinia Mountain, it was the mistake of the grassroots leaders of the Eighth Column, and even Duan Suquan was concealed, but unfortunately, as the head of the army, he was blamed by Lin Biao, and he should be, but he felt that it was too wronged.
Later, when attacking Jinzhou City, Lin Biao originally arranged for the Eighth Column and other brother troops to attack from east to west to withstand the enemy's pressure, but then Lin Biao changed the battle plan, leaving only the Eighth Column to attack the east city, while the other brother troops fought the west city.
In the face of this change, Duan Suquan didn't say much, and after the battle began, the brothers of the Eighth Column wanted to be ashamed, so they fought desperately, so that the Eighth Column was blocked by the enemy's main force, but although the situation was so dangerous, what people didn't expect was that the Eighth Column not only survived, but also the first among the brother troops to attack Jinzhou.
Afterwards, the Eighth Column went to Liaoxi and brilliantly completed the task of blocking Liao Yaoxiang's corps.
After the Liaoshen Campaign, what made people even more puzzling was that Duan Suquan, who had won the battle and made countless achievements, was demoted by Lin Biao to the head of the Operations Division of the Northeast Military Region.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Duan Suquan served as the commander of the Air Force of the Northeast Military Region.
So when the title was awarded in 1955, some people questioned his departure from the team that year (1934-1937), so Duan Suquan, a major general, is still a "temporary major general", the Red Army was the political commissar of the division, and he fought horses for decades, and finally got such a result, isn't this bullying?
Fortunately, Duan Suquan's career in his later years was still relatively good, he successively served as the deputy commander of the Fuzhou Military Region, the political commissar of the PLA Military Academy and other positions until his death in 1993.