On February 16, 1938, the 28th Army of the former Hubei-Henan-Anhui Red Army merged with the Hubei-Henan Red Army guerrillas to form the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army. The detachment was headed by Gao Jingting, Lin Weixian as chief of staff, and Xiao Wangdong as director of the Political Department.
The Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army consists of seven regiments, one pistol regiment and a directly subordinate detachment, with a total number of more than 3,100 people, the largest number among the detachments.
The 1st Battalion of the 244th Regiment of the former Red 28th Army, part of the plainclothes team and recruits together formed the 7th Regiment of the New Fourth Army; The former Red Army guerrillas in the Hubei-Henan Border Region were reorganized into the 8th Regiment; The former Special Service Battalion of the 82nd Division of the Red 28th Army, the Hubei *** Regiment, some plainclothes teams and recruits were organized into the 9th Regiment; The pistol regiment of the former Red 28th Army, part of the plainclothes squad and recruits formed the pistol regiment.
The fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army included the headquarters of the fourth detachment, the seventh regiment of the fourth detachment, the eighth regiment of the fourth detachment, the ninth regiment of the fourth detachment, and the pistol regiment of the fourth detachment. Gao Jingting served as the commander of the fourth detachment, and other major cadres also held the positions of regiment commander and political commissar.
General Gao Jingting was one of the important leaders of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, joined the Red Army in 1928 and joined the Chinese Communist Party. With his brave fighting spirit and good organizational ability, he quickly rose to prominence, and served as chairman of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Provincial Soviet and secretary of the Guangshan County Party Committee, political commissar of the 75th Division of the Red 25th Army, commander of the Red 82nd Division, political commissar of the Red 28th Army, and commander of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army.
However, due to a mistake, he was mistakenly killed on the morning of June 24, 1936 in Qinglongchang, Feidong County, Anhui Province. Lin Weixian is a revolutionary martyr from Jiahe District, ** County, Henan Province.
He joined the Red Army in December 1929, after which he joined the Komsomol and in 1932 he switched to the Communist Party. Lin Weixian participated in the Agrarian Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and served as the political instructor of the special service battalion and company of the Eastern Hubei Guerrilla General Headquarters, the instructor of the Red 25th Army Company, the battalion political commissar, the regimental political commissar, the commander of the Red 82nd Division, the staff officer of the Red 28th Army Military Headquarters, the chief of staff and deputy commander of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, the chief of staff of the third detachment and the head of the advance regiment, the deputy chief of staff and chief of staff of the 7th Division of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the 19th Brigade, the deputy commander of the 7th Column of the East China Field Army, the commander of the reserve regiment of the East China Military Region, Deputy Commander of the Songhu Garrison District and other positions.
After the founding of New China, General Lin Weixian successively held important posts such as deputy commander of the public security forces of the East China Military Region, acting commander and commander of the Zhejiang Military Region, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Nanjing Military Region, and deputy commander of the Wuhan Military Region.
At the 1955 ceremony, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. During his career, General Xiao Wangdong served as director of the Political Department of the Fourth Detachment, captain and political commissar of the Anti-Japanese Advance Team, director of the Political Department of the 6th Detachment, director of the Political Department of the 4th and 2nd Divisions of the New Fourth Army, director of the Political Department of the Central China Military Region, director of the Political Department of the 10th Column of the East China Field Army, and director of the Political Department of the 10th Corps of the Third Field Army.
General Xiao Wangdong, born on November 26, 1916 in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, joined the Red Army with his uncle at the age of 15, and served as the secretary of Gao Jingting, the commander of the Red 82nd Division, and later served as the regiment commander, political commissar, and chief of staff in the Red Army's Fifth Road Guerrilla Division, the Red 245th Regiment, and the 7th Regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army.
After his life style problems were discovered, he defected to the Gui troops, and was later executed by Zhang Yichun, deputy commander-in-chief of the 21st Gui Group Army.
Martyr Zhou Junming, a native of Queshan, Henan Province, was born in 1902. In 1919, he joined the army and joined the Northwest Army of Feng Yuxiang's department and participated in the Northern Expedition. After participating in the Ningdu Uprising in December 1931, he joined the Red Army and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year.
During the war, he served as the commander of the 5th Army Corps of the Red Army, secretary of the Queshan County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Military Department of the Hubei-Henan Provincial Party Committee, captain of the Red Army Guerrilla Brigade in the Hubei-Henan Border, commander of the 8th Regiment of the New Fourth Army, deputy head of the 5th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, chief of staff of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army, commander of the Huainan Military Region and commander of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army, chief of staff of the Central China Military Region, and deputy chief of staff of the East China Military Region.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Vice Minister of Water Resources, Vice Minister of Forestry, Deputy Director of Heilongjiang Provincial Animal Husbandry Department, and Deputy Director of Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Agriculture.
Martyr Zhou Junming made outstanding contributions during the revolutionary war years, but he was unable to participate in the award because he had already left his post when the title was conferred in 1955.
Lin Kai, the head of Zhou Junming, the political commissar of the 8th regiment, the relevant records have not been found. Please provide information in the comment section. Zhao Qimin, chief of staff of the 8th Regiment, was born in September 1910 in Lantian County, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province.
He entered school at the age of 9 and entered the Xi'an Provincial First Normal School after graduation, and later dropped out of school to work as a farmer due to the siege of the warlord Liu Zhenhua. He joined the Communist Youth League in January 1928 and the Communist Party in February 1930.
Zhao Qimin served as chief of staff of the 78th Division of the 15th Red Army Corps, and later became the commander of the 8th Regiment of the 4th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the chief of staff of the 5th Detachment of the New Fourth Army and the political commissar of the 10th Regiment, the political commissar of the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Division, the political commissar of the 2nd Column of the Shandong Field Army and the political commissar of the 5th Brigade, the deputy political commissar of the Huainan Military Region and the political commissar of the 5th Brigade, the political commissar of the 7th Column of the Shandong Field Army, and the political commissar of the 34th Army of the Third Field Army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Zhao Qimin served as deputy political commissar and political commissar of the Navy of the East China Military Region, commander and political commissar of the Navy of the Central South China Military Region, commander and political commissar of the South China Sea Fleet, and deputy commander of the Navy, and became an important leader of the Navy.
He made an important contribution to the construction of the navy of the new China. At the 1955 investiture ceremony, General Zhao Qimin was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, which was an affirmation of his outstanding military and leadership skills.
Xu Xiangheng, formerly known as Xu Guanghua, is a native of Ganxian County, Jiangxi Province, born in 1913. He joined the Komsomol in 1930, became a communist party in 1932, and joined the Red Army in 1934.
During the war, he served as the chief of the Organization Section of the Political Department of the Northern Shaanxi Independent Division, the director of the Political Department of the 8th Regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the political commissar of the 10th Regiment of the Fifth Detachment, the deputy chief of the Organization Section of the Political Department of the Jiangbei Command, the director and political commissar of the Political Department of the 6th Brigade of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army, the political commissar of the 14th Independent Brigade of the Eastern Hebei Military Region, the deputy director of the Political Department of the Ninth Column of the Northeast Field Army, and the political commissar of the 136th Division of the 46th Army of the Fourth Field Army.
1.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Xu Xiangheng successively served as political commissar of the Communications Department of the Central South Military Region Headquarters, political commissar of the Second Bureau of the Military Region, political commissar of the Third and Sixth Bureaus of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, and director of the Political Department of the Henan Provincial Military Region.
In the 1955 award, he was awarded the rank of major general. 2.Gu Shiduo, formerly known as Gu Baihan, was born in Luoshan County, Henan Province, in 1915.
He joined the Communist Party in 1931 and joined the Red Army in the same year. He once served as the head of the Hubei Regiment, the commander of the 9th Regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and the deputy head of the Second Regiment of the Jiangbei Guerrilla Column of the New Fourth Army.
In the battle in August 1940, he died heroically at the age of 25. 3.Gao Zhirong was born in Macheng County, Hubei Province, in November 1914.
He joined the Red Army in 1930 and joined the Communist Party the following year. During the war, he served as the political instructor of the Red 30th Army Company, the battalion political commissar, the political instructor of the Red 31st Army Special Service Battalion, the political commissar of the 9th Regiment of the 4th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the director of the Political Department of the Northeast Exiled Anti-Japanese Advance Team, the political commissar of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Column of the New Fourth Army, the commander and political commissar of the 4th Division of the 2nd Column of the East China Field Army, and the deputy commander of the 21st Army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Gao Zhirong served as commander of the Zhoushan Navy Base, deputy commander of the East China Military Region Navy, deputy commander of the East China Sea Fleet, and deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee.
In the 1955 award, he was awarded the rank of major general. Tang Shaotian is a native of ** County, Henan Province, born in 1910. In his early years, he joined the Red Army in 1932 and joined the Communist Party of China the following year.
He successively served as an instructor of the Red 28th Army Company, commander of the Red Army guerrilla unit, chief of staff of the 9th Regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, deputy head of the 15th Regiment, head of the Lai'an Detachment of the New Fourth Army, deputy director of the Military Station Department of the East China Military Region, deputy chief of staff of the Logistics Department of the East China Military Region, director of the Transportation Department of the Logistics Department, and director of the Vehicle Management Department of the Logistics Department of the East China Military Region.
Also in the 1955 award, he was awarded the rank of colonel.
Senior Colonel Tang Shaotian, director of the Political Department of the 9th Regiment, Chen Zhongwan, a native of Hubei, was born in 1915. He actively participated in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement and joined the Communist Party of China in the winter of 1935.
He successively served as director of the Political Department of the Yingshan County Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Brigade, secretary of the Huangmei County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Political Department of the Eighth Brigade of the Jiangbei Guerrilla Force of the New Fourth Army, political commissar of the 18th Regiment of the New Fourth Army, commander of the General Headquarters of the Eastern Hubei Guerrillas, and director of the Political Department of the Hubei-Anhui Border Military Region.
On March 28, 1945, while eliminating the recalcitrant bandit Liang Jinkui, he was unfortunately shot and died heroically. Zhan Huayu, the head of the pistol regiment, was born in Jinzhai, Anhui Province, in 1911.
He joined the Communist Party of China in 1930 and joined the Red Army the following year. During the war, he successively served as the commander of the pistol regiment of the Red 28th Army, the commander of the pistol regiment of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the 9th regiment, the chief of staff of the fourth detachment, the deputy brigade commander of the 5th Brigade of the New Fourth Army, the deputy chief of staff of the second division of the New Fourth Army, the chief of staff of the second column of the Shandong Field Army, the deputy commander of the 7th column of the East China Field Army, the deputy commander of the 25th Army, and the political commissar.
General Zhan Huayu: After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Operations Department of the General Staff, political commissar of the Surveying and Mapping Bureau, deputy political commissar of the ** Military Region, and deputy political commissar of the Fuzhou Military Region.
At the time of the conferment of the title in 1955, General Zhan was awarded the rank of Major General. Political commissar of the pistol regiment: Wang Shaochuan, a native of Jinzhai, Anhui Province, was born in August 1915.
He joined the Komsomol in 1929, transferred to the Communist Party in 1931, and joined the Red Army in 1932. During the war, Wang Shaochuan served as the party secretary of the 25th Army Corps of the Red Fourth Front Army, the political commissar of the pistol regiment, the political commissar of the guerrilla column, and the head of the independent regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the director of the Political Department of the 6th Brigade of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army, the director of the Political Department of the Reserve Corps of the East China Military Region, and the director of the Political Department of the Northern Jiangsu Military Region.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Wang Shaochuan served as director of the Political Department of the Jiangsu Military Region, political commissar of the 31st Army of the People's Liberation Army Army, executive deputy director and director of the Political Department of the Construction Engineering Department, and vice minister and director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Communications.
At the 1955 award ceremony, General Wang Shaochuan was awarded the rank of major general, demonstrating his outstanding contribution and extraordinary ability.