First of all, the original book or TV series didn't say that Zhang Dabiao was dead, so please don't talk nonsense.
In the first half of "Bright Sword" in Zhang Dabiao's play, Zhang Dabiao's appearance rate is still very high, and he fought a lot of fierce battles with Li Yunlong. Li Yunlong also appreciates this subordinate. The lout said bluntly, "I am very satisfied with this battalion commander", which is a great affirmation of Zhang Dabiao.
During the Huaihai Campaign, Li Yunlong, who was the division commander of the second division of a column in Hua Ye, personally led the commando team to perform the interspersed task. On the way, he accidentally met Chu, and the two sides exchanged fire. Chu Yun Fei was hit by a bullet, while Li Yunlong was hit by a shell and was seriously injured. He was admitted to a field hospital. Since then, Zhang Dabiao has disappeared, along with Xing Zhiguo, the deputy head who boarded the plane with Li Yunlong.
Why don't you write about Zhang Dabiao later? This should be the author's original intention, because after the Huaihai Campaign, the war of liberation has come to an end, and the focus of the second half of the plot is not on the war, so Zhang Dabiao should go.
So, here's the problem. If Zhang Dabiao had been in the military system and participated in the Liberation War after the Huaihai Campaign and lived to 1955, what rank would he be awarded?
Let's look at Zhang Dabiao's resume first. According to the novel "Bright Sword", he was the platoon leader of the broadsword team under the Song Dynasty of the Northwest Army and participated in the Battle of xifengkou. Later, in order to resettle his old mother, he deserted and joined the army. I don't want to wait until he returns to the village. My old mother and other villagers were killed by the Japanese army. Zhang Dabiao hated the Japanese army and joined the Eighth Route Army led by * * *.
Xifengkou is the Great Wall Pass at the junction of Hebei Province and Jehol Province, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base areas established by the Eighth Route Army are also in Shanxi, Hebei and Jehol, so it makes sense for Zhang Dabiao to join the Eighth Route Army geographically, but the time is a little different. The Battle of xifengkou took place at 1933, while the Eighth Route Army entered Jin at 1937, which means that Zhang Dabiao left. But in any case, Zhang Dabiao joined the Eighth Route Army at 1937, which should be correct.
In the first battle of the play-the ambush in Wolangyu, Zhang Dabiao was already the company commander of Li Yunlong's new corps. In the battle, Zhang Dabiao showed a strong fighting capacity, and a Japanese lieutenant was hacked to death. By 1940, when Li Yunlong attacked Pingan County, Zhang Dabiao was already the battalion commander of an independent regiment, and his staff expanded to more than 2,000 people, almost the size of a main regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
1948 During the Huaihai Campaign, Zhao Gang, then deputy political commissar of a column, came to the command post of the Second Division in Li Yunlong. When he found that Li Yunlong was not there, only Xing Zhiguo and Zhang Dabiao were there, he asked them where they had gone. Xing Zhiguo and Zhang Dabiao have to tell the truth. It turned out that Li Yunlong took Duan Peng's reconnaissance company to perform interspersed tasks. To this end, Zhao Gang also made a fire and opened a division, but he was not in the command post.
This is Zhang Dabiao's last appearance. At this point, his position is already the division chief of staff. Now we know Zhang Dabiao's resume clearly. We have been following Li Yunlong since 1937 joined the Eighth Route Army. About 1938 served as company commander, 1940 as battalion commander and 1948 as division chief of staff. If you still follow Li Yunlong, when Li Yunlong is promoted to commander, Zhang Dabiao will probably be promoted to army chief of staff with him.
So, what is the rank of army chief of staff? Many people take it for granted that the general will never get away when he sees a military post, but this is not the case. The position of army chief of staff, although it sounds like a position at the corps level, is actually not as good as the following teachers, not to mention the ranks of commander and military political commissar.
To give a few examples, Liu Yalou was the chief of staff of the Northeast Field Army during the Liberation War, and he was also called Lin Luoliu with Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan. However, when awarded the title in 1955, commander Lin Biao and political commissar Luo Ronghuan were both marshals, and Liu Yalou was a general, which was two levels behind. Zhang zhen was San Ye's chief of staff in the late period of the People's Liberation Army War, but so was he when he was awarded the title. Chen Yi, commander and political commissar of Sanye, was awarded to the Marshal, and Su Yu, deputy commander and political commissar, was awarded to the Admiral, while Zhang zhen was just a lieutenant general, three or four grades short.
In the final analysis, this is related to the nature of the staff's work. Military staff spend most of their time in the command post, giving advice to the commander-in-chief, which is probably equivalent to the ancient staff, so it is difficult to accumulate meritorious military service, and the reward is mainly based on meritorious military service, so it is relatively unfavorable in this respect.
This conclusion can be traced back to Zhang Dabiao. If he follows the path of battalion commander, colonel and division commander, maybe he can really get a major general in the end, but I don't know why he takes the path of staff officer. His chief officer, Li Yunlong, was born in the old Red Army and was awarded the post of Major General and Commander. Zhang Dabiao was a junior and joined the Eighth Route Army on 1937. That's why 1955 was awarded the title. It's the last day for him to be awarded a senior colonel.