In this way, it seems that he should be awarded the rank of general. However, General Xiao Ke has his own views on rank. Xiao Ke once said that some comrades-in-arms died and some were injured on the battlefield. I'm also a man who almost died. I can judge the grade or not.
General Xiao Ke's open-mindedness has attracted more and more people to "complain" that Xiao Ke should be awarded the title of general. In fact, if you care about it seriously, according to the standard of 1955, there will be five hard requirements in the evaluation, while Xiaoke has two that do not meet.
Someone once blamed Marshal He Long for Xiao Ke's failure to be awarded the rank of general, saying that Xiao Ke had misunderstandings and contradictions with Boss He during the Red Army period, which led to Xiao Ke's failure to be awarded the rank of general. This statement is obviously vulgar, and the ranking level cannot be determined by someone's likes and dislikes.
The root cause is determined by the general's own conditions. 1955 The first criterion for evaluating a general is that he was a Red Army cadre at or above the division level during the Agrarian Revolution. During the Red Army period, Xiao Ke was the head of the Sixth Red Army Corps and also served as the deputy commander of the Second Red Army.
The first criterion is Xiao Ke, whose rank was much higher than the division level during the Red Army period, and the second criterion is Xiao Ke, who was a cadre above the brigade commander of the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War, and Xiao Ke was the deputy commander of 120 Division.
The first and second standards require Xiao Ke to fully meet the requirements, which are also obvious, so many people think that Xiao Ke should be awarded the rank of general, but let's take a look at the latter. The third requirement is that he served as a cadre at the corps level in the War of Liberation.
Xiao Ke served as deputy commander of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region during this period, and also served as chief of staff of the four fields after Liu Yalou. These two posts are not lower than the corps level, so the third one is also in line, which means that the five standards require the third one.
The fourth criterion is that after the founding of the People's Republic of China and before the Grand Marshal, during this period, he served as eight ministers or defense ministers in the headquarters and commander of special forces, while Xiao Ke only served as deputy chief of staff, which Xiao Ke did not meet. In addition, Xiao Ke did not meet the fifth criterion.
Article 5 is more demanding, and it is necessary to have served as a member of the National Defense Commission. Xiaoke only joined the Committee on 1959, and it is precisely Articles 4 and 5 that are the important standards to reflect the level.
It was these last two requirements that did not meet, which led to Xiaoke not being rated as a general. However, it's not bad to be the first in the founding of the people's Republic. Among the ten generals, only Xu Guangda, Xu Haidong and Zhang San became generals for special reasons, and the rest of the generals reached at least four or five standards.