Marshal
* 1907
† 1971
(林彪)
(Lin Piao)
| 1929-XX-XX | – | 1930-XX-XX | Commanding Officer 1st Column, 4th Red Army |
| 1930-XX-XX | – | 1932-XX-XX | Commanding Officer 4th Red Army, 1st Red Army Corps |
| 1932-XX-XX | – | 1935-XX-XX | Commander in Chief 1st Red Army Corps |
| 1935-XX-XX | Commanding Officer 1st Column | ||
| 1935-XX-XX | Commanding Officer Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment | ||
| 1936-XX-XX | Commandant of the Red Army Anti-Japanese College | ||
| 1936-XX-XX | – | 1937-XX-XX | Commandant of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military & Political College |
| 1937-XX-XX | – | 1939-XX-XX | Commanding Officer 115th (Communist) Division, 18th (Communist) Army Group |
| 1939-XX-XX | Commandant of the Pao-an (Communist) Military Academy | ||
| 1939-XX-XX | – | 1942-XX-XX | Envoy to Moscow |
| 1942-XX-XX | – | 1945-XX-XX | Commanding Officer 115th (Communist) Division, 18th (Communist) Army Group |
| 1945-XX-XX | Member of the Central Military Commission | ||
| 1946-XX-XX | – | 1948-XX-XX | Commanding Officer Northeastern Democratic Alliance Army |
| 1946-XX-XX | – | 1949-XX-XX | Chief of Northeastern Bureau, Communist Central |
| 1948-XX-XX | – | 1950-XX-XX | Commanding Officer 4th Field Army, People's Liberation Army |
| 1950-XX-XX | – | 1951-XX-XX | Recuperating in the Soviet Union |
| 1951-XX-XX | – | 1954-XX-XX | Vice-Chairman of Military Commission |
| 1954-XX-XX | Deputy Premier | ||
| 1955-XX-XX | – | 1969-XX-XX | Member of the Politburo, Central Committee |
| 1955-XX-XX | – | 1959-XX-XX | Vice-Chairman of National Defence Commission |
| 1959-XX-XX | – | 1971-XX-XX | Minister of National Defence |
| 1959-XX-XX | – | 1971-XX-XX | Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission |
| 1969-XX-XX | – | 1971-XX-XX | Member of the Standing Committee Politburo, Central Committee |
| 1969-XX-XX | – | 1971-XX-XX | Vice-Chairman of the Communist Party |
| 1971-XX-XX | Killed in an airplane crash |