There are thousands of anti-Japanese war dramas, but most of them are hand-tossed devil plots, which can't withstand too much scrutiny, and the logical confusion and embarrassment can make it very deductible out of three bedrooms and two living rooms. Of course, there are also many dramas, which we know are unreasonable, but because of the simple plot and the cool point of the whole process, it has also been loved by many audiences, such as the Yan Shuangying series.
Zhou Weiguo, the protagonist of "Snow Leopard", is an anti-Japanese hero who joined our army from the national army, and he has also grown from a student to a qualified revolutionary soldier in the TV series.
In this regard, Yutian-kun made two assumptions: one is the rank that has been staying in the national army, and the other is the rank after joining our army in the TV series.
Zhou Weiguo (stills)
First of all, I have been in the ranks of the national army
Zhou Weiguo in the TV series was after the first Battle of Yesonghu in 1931, because his girlfriend Chen Yi joined the revolution and said goodbye, in order to save this relationship, he chose to refer to the military school, and this military school is the famous Whampoa Military Academy. Because the military academy moved to Nanjing after 1930, it was also called the Nanjing Army Military Academy.
So this timeline of Zhou Weiguo is correct, if you take his entry into school in 1932 as an example, he should be all 8-9, and then around 1934 Zhou Weiguo went to the Germany Army Officer Academy to study, this prototype should be the two major generals of the fifth military department:
Liao Yaoxiang and Qiu Qingquan.
The two universities of the National Army bully Liao Yaoxiang and Qiu Qingquan
After returning to China, Zhou Weiguo directly joined the Battle of Songhu and served as a battalion commander of the German Armament Division with the rank of major. With Zhou Weiguo's qualifications in the eighth phase of Whampoa, it is indeed no problem to be the battalion commander of the ace German armament division, for example, Xie Jinyuan was the commander of the 88th Division at that time, he was the fourth phase of Whampoa, and he was the commander of the colonel (the rank of Quanxu may be lieutenant colonel).
During the defense of Nanjing, Zhou Weiguo suddenly became the regiment commander, from the battalion commander to the regiment commander in 3 months, it can be seen that the front-line battle situation is very tragic, and there is a high probability that the commander of his regiment was martyred, and Zhou Weiguo went up because of his merits.
During the Battle of Nanjing, although he fought bloodily in Xia Mountain, he still failed to prevent the fall of Nanjing, and his fiancée, who was a teacher in a girls' school, also died in order to protect his innocence and rushed into the school with the Japanese army, Zhou Weiguo was rescued by his adjutant Zhao Hu, all the way north and joined Qingfeng Village.
Zhou Weiguo, who served as the head of the major regiment (stills)
So what if he stays in the national army all the time?
We can look at his military trajectory in combination with the archetypal figure of history. After Qiu Qingquan and Liao Yaoxiang broke through, they also participated in the later Battle of Lanfeng with other German armorers, but because Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie of the Huangpu lineage escaped from the battle, the national army with an absolute advantage in strength could only be defeated, and Zhou Weiguo, as a regimental commander, naturally could not reverse and avoid this battle situation.
There is a high probability that he will retreat with the main force of the Central Army, and because he has studied in Germany, Zhou Weiguo is likely to join the Fifth Army with the highest level of education like the prototype Liao Yaoxiang and Qiu Qingquan.
According to the configuration of the 5th Army at that time, there were many officers like Zhou Weiguo who had drunk foreign ink from abroad in the 5th Army, and there was a high probability that they were about the deputy regiment commander or chief of staff (rank lieutenant colonel, Quanxu rank major).
The atmosphere of the 5th Army is relatively enlightened within the National Army, Du Yuming, Zheng Dongguo and others are typical representatives of the Shaozhuang faction, and Lao Jiang personally keeps an eye on it, which naturally allows Zhou Weiguo to play.
When it came to the Kunlun Pass Incident, according to Zhou Weiguo's temperament, he would definitely fight bravely to kill the enemy in battle.
The commander of the 22nd Division of the National Army in "Expeditionary Force" (stills)
In 1942, Du Yuming led the 5th Army into Burma to fight, and in the Burma operation, the new 22nd Division and the 200th Division of the core of the 5th Army performed very well, destroying about 4,500 enemies. However, in the process of retreating back to China, the 200th Division and the new 22nd Division suffered heavy losses, assuming that Zhou Weiguo could successfully return from Savage Mountain, he would either go to Kunming with the 200th Division for training, or go to Lamgara with the 22nd Division to receive American-style training.
Zhou Weiguo, who received military special operations in Germany, is likely to go to Lamgar for training and join the new 6th Army system (composed of the new 22nd Division), and then continue to fight as the commander of the new 22nd Division.
At that time, the New 6th Army had a total of 3 divisions, the new 22nd Division, the 209th Division or the 14th Division of the Youth Army, according to Liao Yaoxiang's subordinates, the most likely is the commander of the New 22nd Division (the historical prototype is Li Tao)
Major General Zheng Tingjian after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Weiguo was roughly the same as him
After the start of the Liberation War, the New 6th Army entered the Northeast under the leadership of Liao Yaoxiang, and achieved a lot of victories in the early stage of the war, causing great trouble to our army, but after 1947, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the initiative on the battlefield was grasped by our army, and the New 6th Army was also expanded into 3 armies after Chen Cheng came, according to Zhou Weiguo's qualifications, it is likely that he may be the commander of the New 6th Army like Li Tao, or the commander of the 49th Army where Zheng Tingji is, before the Liaoshen Campaign, should be promoted to lieutenant general commander in Liao Yaoxiang's corps (Quanxu's rank is colonel).
Of course, whether it is based on Li Tao or Zheng Tingji, they were all captured by our army in the Liaoshen Campaign.
Therefore, assuming that Zhou Weiguo did not join our army after breaking through in Nanjing, he was very likely to enter Du Yuming's Fifth Army Department, and in the Liberation War, he was awarded the position of commander of the ace army.
In the national army, Li Tao is the ultimate template for Zhou Weiguo (stills)
Let's talk about the rank after joining our army
And if you follow the plot interpretation of the TV series and the novel, after Zhao Hu rescued Zhou Weiguo, he went all the way north, resisted Japan in Qingfeng Village, and then followed to accept the leadership of the Eighth Route Army of Hutou Mountain.
In the Eighth Route Army, Zhou Weiguo first started as a platoon commander (at that time, Qingfeng Village was incorporated into our army), and gradually became a company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander and military division commander, and then followed the Shandong Eighth Route Army out of the customs to join the Northeast Battlefield, and quelled the conspiracy of the Japanese army in Tonghua, and led the army to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Zhou Weiguo who participated in our army (stills)
In Yutianjun's view, according to Zhou Weiguo's resume, there is a high probability that he will be a major general.
First of all, Zhou Weiguo should be regarded as restarting his military career after joining our army, and his promotion to regiment commander in more than 7 years of the Anti-Japanese War is very fast, and at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the regiment commander (commander of the military division) of our Eighth Route Army base area will most likely become the main column after entering the northeast, such as the division commander of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th columns.
And most of these division commanders were awarded the rank of major general when they were awarded the title.
Zhou Weiguo after the end of the Anti-Japanese War (stills)
For example, the troops of the Jiaodong Military Region that followed Wu Kehua into the northeast were incorporated into the 4th Column, of which Major General Jiang Xieyuan, the commander of the 12th Division of the 4th Column.
is the commander of the 16th Regiment of the Jiaodong Military Region, and also serves as the commander of the third-level army division under Jiaodong (similar to the Hutoushan Base Area), and in 1952, he also served as the chief of staff of the Hainan Military Region, but he did not participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
During the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as the battalion commander of the 3rd Detachment of the Shandong Column, the commander of the 9th Regiment, and the deputy brigade commander (regimental level) of the Military Region Garrison Brigade during the Anti-Japanese War.
Therefore, Zhou Weiguo, who served as the commander of the military division and the head of the regiment in Shandong during the Anti-Japanese War, is naturally more in line with the rank of major general.
General Jiang Xieyuan
That is the founding major general of our army - Zhou Wenzai.
Coincidentally, both of them are surnamed Zhou, and they are also from southern Jiangsu (Zhou Wenzai is from Suzhou), and Zhou Weiguo was called Zhou Wen before he changed his name.
The experiences of the two are actually very similar, they are both from rich and noble families, Zhou Wei is a veteran of the revolutionary party in the country, and Zhou Wen is a rich family in the general's family. After becoming an army, General Sun Wenzai joined the Whampoa Military Academy, and it was the 6th issue at the same time as Liao Yaoxiang, while Zhou Weiguo in the TV series was the 8th-9th issue, but the overall difference was not much.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the two Zhou Wen fought in the Soviet Union and China in the general's appearance, and became the political commissar of the independent regiment of the Soviet Union and Tai County, and then mainly served in the rear and the political department, while Zhou Weiguo was the military commander.
In the War of Liberation, he served as the organization director of the 7th Column and the 10th Corps of our army, mainly for political work.
Zhou Wen is in general
Does that mean that Zhou Weiguo, as a military commander, has a higher rank than his prototype Zhou Wenzai?
The answer is, not necessarily.
What we have to know is that Zhou Weiguo was born as an insurrectionary soldier, which is very different from Zhou Wenzai, who was a witness and participant in the August 1st Uprising, and he joined our army halfway, which is a bit like Major General Chen Ruiting, commander of the Sanye Special Forces Column.
Therefore, there is actually a lot of difference between the two sides, so Zhou Weiguo is most likely a major general.
Is it possible that it is a colonel or a lieutenant general? Actually, this possibility is very low.
Let's talk about the rank of colonel first, although he was transferred from the national army, but Zhou Weiguo is a very tactical thinking and highly qualified military talent, so he is a key training object in our army, and his resume is similar to Chen Ruiting.
Zhou Weiguo, who leads the Snow Leopard Commando, is a special operations genius (stills)
The lieutenant general himself is a deputy corps and a regular army-level general in our army, and Zhou Weiguo is at most at the level of an ace army division commander in our army, or a deputy army commander and chief of staff of the army, and it is difficult to evaluate such a position as a lieutenant general.
And there is an invisible rule in the lieutenant general of our army, that is, if you want to be promoted to lieutenant general, you need to have participated in the Long March, such as the famous general Xie Fang, the former chief of staff of the Volunteer Army and the chief of staff of the Corps, and later failed to be promoted to lieutenant general, there is more or less this reason in it (he used to be a member of the Northeast Army, and he joined our army during the Anti-Japanese War).
Major General Xie Fang (stills)