In the movie "The Heroes of the Volunteer Army", some division-level cadres of the Volunteer Army appeared in the film with their real names, such as Yang Dayi, commander of the 112th Division of the 38th Army, Yu Jingshan, political commissar, and Jiang Chao, commander of the 118th Division of the 40th Army, which is rare in previous films.
The first batch of volunteer troops to fight in KoreaThere are 6 corps with 18 infantry divisions. In the backCome onofGreatIn the awarding of titles, these 18 division commanders have different titles due to their different qualifications and the size of their combat exploits.
Yang Dayi, commander of the 112th Division, was a native of Sichuan, joined the Red Army at the age of 14, served as a communicator in the 30th Army of the Red Fourth Front Army, participated in the anti-six-way siege in the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area, and was also a survivor of the Western Route Army. At the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he was the commander of the 4th Regiment of the Shandong Binhai Naval District, which was also one of the main regiments of the Shandong Eighth Route Army. After advancing to the northeast, Yang Dayi first served as the regiment commander, and was promoted to the deputy commander of the 1st Vertical and 1st Division before the Liaoshen Campaign, and was not promoted to the commander of the 112th Division until the Siye Army went south to Guangxi to suppress bandits.
Jiang Chao, the commander of the 113th Division, was a native of Hebei, two years older than Yang Dayi, joined the Northeast Army at the age of 17, secretly joined the organization after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and after his identity was exposed, he rebelled with a company of people and defected to the Eighth Route Army led by Wan Yi. This unit was later expanded into an independent regiment, with Jiang Chao as the commander, and this regiment was the predecessor of the 339th Regiment of the 113th Division. During the Liberation War, he served as chief of staff of the 1st Vertical and 2nd Division, and did not serve as the commander of the 113th Division until after the liberation.
Zhai Zhongyu, the commander of the 114th Division, was a native of Shandong, the same age as Yang Dayi, and was just 30 years old when he was liberated. His experience is similar to Zhao Gang in "Bright Sword", they are all patriotic students who participated in the "129" movement, they enlisted in the army after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and were sent to Wan Yi's Northeast Army to engage in secret military movements, organized an uprising in 1942, and then served as a regimental commander in the Shandong Binhai Naval District, and served as a regimental political commissar in the 1st Vertical and 3rd Division after marching into the Northeast, and then promoted to deputy division commander and division commander.
Among the three division commanders of the 38th Army, only Yang Dayi, the commander of the 112th Division, was an old Red Army with red roots, and the other two only joined the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War. Yang Dayi was awarded the rank of major general in 1955, and Jiang Chao and Zhai Zhongyu were both colonels.
When the title was conferred in 1964, Jiang Chao, who served as the chief of staff of the ** Military Region, was awarded Major General, and Zhai Zhongyu returned to China to study in the Soviet Union, and later served as the deputy chief of staff of the Corps, the chief of staff of the brigade garrison area, the deputy commander of the army, the political commissar of the Jilin Provincial Military Region, the deputy chief of staff of the military region, and the director of the logistics department of the military region, and retired in 1987. Until his death, he did not become a general, which is relatively rare among the division-level cadres of the Volunteer Army.
The three division commanders of the 39th Army were Wang Liangtai, commander of the 115th Division, Wang Yang, commander of the 116th Division, and Zhang Chengcheng, commander of the 117th Division. When the title was conferred in 1955, Wang Liangtai and Zhang Chengcheng were both major generals, while Wang Yang, who had made remarkable achievements in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, was a colonel.
Wang Liangtai's situation is similar to Yang Dayi, both are from Sichuan, and he joined the Red Fourth Front Army in 1933, but Wang is two years older than Yang. The difference is that Wang Liangtai is there.
After the 1st and 4th Front Armies met, they were transferred to the 1st Army and participated in the Battle of Lazikou (similar to the experience of the founding lieutenant general Zhang Renchu) and the Battle of Hepingxingguan (served as the company commander of the 685th Regiment). During the Liberation War, he served as chief of staff of the 5th Division of the 2nd Column of Dongye, and was later promoted to deputy chief of staff of the column, and was transferred to the commander of the 4th Division (115th Division) after the victory of the Liaoshen Campaign.
Wang Yang, a native of Shanxi, was one of the youngest commanders of the Volunteer Army, only 29 years old at the time of liberation. He also did not have the resume of the Red Army period, only went to Yan'an in 1937 and joined the organization, after graduating from Kang University, he went to his hometown southeast of Jin to join the anti-sweeping operation of the Eighth Route Army, starting from the deputy platoon commander and working until the commander of the 2nd Vertical 5th Division of the First Main Division of Dongye, and took over the class of the famous general Zhong Wei. The 116th Division can be said to be one of the most brilliant divisions of the Volunteer Army, severely damaging the 1st Division of the US Cavalry, capturing the black company of the US Army alive, breaking through the Imjin River, and connecting Pyongyang Seoul, with no less combat achievements than several divisions of the Banzai Army.
Zhang Chengcheng is a native of Hubei and joined the Red Army at the age of 14. He was from the Red 25th Army, and he has been serving in the 344th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, and the 2nd Column of Dongye, and has never left this army, so he is the veteran of the 39th Army. He was the commander of the 117th Division in the late Liberation War, and was promoted to the commander of the 39th Army after returning from the Korean War.
As in the case of the 38th Army, Wang Liangtai and Zhang Chengcheng, who joined the army during the Red Army era when the title was awarded, were both major generalsWang Yang, who lacked a resume in the Red Army, was awarded the rank of colonel. However, when Wang Yang was awarded the title in 1964, he was awarded the title of major general, which was also an affirmation of his outstanding military achievements.
The three division commanders of the 40th Army were Deng Yue, commander of the 118th Division, Xu Guofu, commander of the 119th Division, and Luo Chunsheng, commander of the 120th Division. These three are all old Red Army, Deng Yue and Xu Guofu are from the Fourth Front Army, and Luo Chunsheng is from the First Front Army. Deng Yue and Xu Guofu were both major generals in 1955.
Deng Yue was only 12 years old when he joined the Red Army, and experienced the whole process of the Red Fourth Front Army from Hubei, Henan, Anhui to Sichuan, Shaanxi, and was very young but very old. During the Liberation War, he was the commander of the 3rd Vertical and 7th Division of Dongye, under the leadership of Han Xianchu, he fought from the northeast to Hainan Island, went abroad to fight the first battle of Liangshuidong, won the first battle abroad, and was promoted to deputy commander in 1951, and after returning to China, he also served as the commander of the 38th Army, the deputy commander of the two large military regions, and the rank even exceeded some lieutenant generals.
Xu Guofu was older than the above, and he was 35 years old at the time of liberation. He participated in the Lu'an Rebellion, and he was also a veteran of the Red Fourth Front Army, and he was the oldest among the division commanders of the Volunteer Army.
Deng Yue and Xu Guofu are undisputed major generals in terms of qualifications and military merits. The most regrettable thing is Luo Chunsheng, the old revolutionary who participated in the anti-encirclement and suppression in the Jiangxi Soviet District, was attacked by the enemy in 1952 and died heroically, otherwise he would have been the founding major general.
Among the three division commanders of the 42nd Army, Su Kezhi, commander of the 124th Division, and Wang Dao, commander of the 125th Division, all joined the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War, and they were both awarded colonels in 1955 and promoted to major generals in 1964. Huang Jingyao, commander of the 126th Division, joined the Red Army in 1931, but his promotion was slow, he was only a platoon commander in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and during the Liberation War, he was a regiment commander of the 2nd Column of Dongye, and the 5th Column (42nd Army) was promoted to deputy division commander and division commander after its establishment.
It may be because the 42nd Army is the latest army to be established in the Northeast, and it has fought relatively few battles. Huang Jingyao was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955, but he was promoted to major general in 1961, which was also an affirmation of the old Red Army.
The 50th Army was an insurrectionary force, and their three division commanders, Bai Zhaoxue, Long Yao, and Wang Jiashan, were all from the Yunnan Army, and they were all transferred to local posts after returning to China after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, so they were not awarded titles.
Among the first six armies to enter the Korean War, the 66th Army from North China has not received much attention, and the three division commanders Yang Youshan, Cheng Shaofu, and Song Yulin are not very famous. But all three were awarded major generals, of which Cheng Shaofu and Song Yulin were major generals in 1955, and Yang Youshan was a major general in 1964.
The reason why there is a sequence of awards is related to the order of participation in the revolution. Cheng Shaofu and Song Yulin both joined the Red Army in 1930 and both came from the Red Army. Yang Youshan and Jiang Chao were in a similar situation, they were originally from the Northeast Army, and they only joined the organization after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.
In short, of the 18 division commanders of the first batch of volunteers to fight in Korea, except for Luo Chunsheng, who died and the three division commanders of the 50th Army were transferred to the local area, 13 of the remaining 14 were successively awarded the rank of major general. Although the revolution is in no particular order, the existence or absence of a Red Army resume does have a major impact on the evaluation of qualifications.
In addition, in the movie "The Heroes of the Volunteer Army", the creator fictionalized a character named Li Moyin. According to the setting in the film, Li is an old Red Army in 1929. If there really is such a person, then his qualifications are older than most division commanders. But in the film, he is basically an ordinary combatant, which is really unreasonable.