Beginning in March 1941, the enemy continued to promote the campaign of "strengthening public order" in North China, further engaged in military, economic, cultural and other battles, and often "swept the liberated areas" on a large scale.
Later, he died.
The 1st and 2nd Columns, the 3rd Column, plus the 386th Brigade and the 212th Brigade together formed the Taiyue Column, with Chen Geng as the commander-in-chief of the column.
Later, Chen Geng once again formed the Taiyue Southward Advance Detachment and opened up the Yuenan Anti-Japanese Base Area.
After Japan's unconditional surrender, according to the order of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, the main force of the Taiyue Military Region was organized into the Fourth Column, and Chen Geng served as the commander of the Fourth Column.
The "strong" team led by Chen Geng commanded five brigades, and later the brigade commanders all became army commanders.
One of the five brigade commanders was Zhou Xihan.
After the outbreak of the civil war, Chiang Kai-shek began to launch a large-scale all-out offensiveZhou Xihan, commander of the 10 Brigadewas ordered to attack Zhao Cheng.
At that time, Zhao Cheng was made ofYan XishanThe 39th Division guarded it, and the guards were quite strong.
Chen Geng hit Zhou Xihan with one **, and asked him to take the task before dusk the next day to surround and annihilate all the enemies, you know, Zhou Xihan's opponent isHuang Zhengcheng
In this battle, Zhou Xihan was also very serious, he deployed his 30th regiment to meet the enemy head-on, and the 29th regiment was responsible for a roundabout flank attack, if the battle situation was unfavorable to the enemy, they were very likely to flee to the west, so Zhou Xihan arranged an additional 28th regiment to ambush in the area of Chenyan, ready to stand by at any time.
As soon as the two armies met, the battle started quickly, Zhou Xihan made a quick decision, quickly let the 30th regiment go to battle head-on, and also put the ambush soldiers directly into the battle, Chen Yan was surrounded by water, and Huang Zhengcheng himself was also surrounded.
After the battle, Zhou Xihan reported: "Huang Zhengcheng was caught, and there were two major generals. ”
Later, Zhou Xihan's 10th Brigade also took part in the famousBattle of Huaihai, under the direct command of Chen Geng, he was responsible for striking at the enemy's 5th Army, and at each stage, he was able to successfully complete the task, leaving behind many legendary stories.
InHuang BaitaoAfter the Corps was annihilated, the army was divided into three groups, and Chen Geng was sent to command a group army composed of the 4th, 9th, 11th and Henan-Anhui Soviet Independent Brigades.
Therefore, during this period of time, the command of the entire 4th column was handed over to Zhou Xihan, which was enough to see Chen Geng's trust in him.
Zhou Xihan is Chen Geng's favorite general, which has been an open secret for a long time.
In February 1949, there was a major change in the internal establishment of the PLA, and the Fourth Corps was also established under this circumstance, with Chen Geng as the commander.
There were three corps under the command of the Fourth Corps, and Zhou Xihan jumped from brigade commander to army commander.
In the days that followed, Zhou Xihan did not live up to Chen Geng's hopes, and in mid-December 1951, he became the chief of staff of the Navy, and at the end of 1958, Zhou Xihan became the deputy commander of the Navy and the chief of staff of the Navy.
Zhou Xihan has always played an important role in the modernization of the armed forces, and he was present in the first missile test, and he also planned a joint exercise of the navy, army, and air force against the background of the atomic bomb war.
General Chen Kang is also a big man who has experienced a hundred battles, and the reason why he is called "Iron General" is related to many glorious deeds since he came to Rong.
For example, in 1935, the Red Army wanted to cross the Jialing River, but it encountered a lot of resistance, and the Sichuan warlords at that timeDeng XihouThe commander of the gendarmerie under his command arranged for three regiments to guard the area around Jianmen Pass.
On the Red Army's side, the task of attacking Jianmen Pass was handed over to Chen Kang, and after receiving the order, Chen Kang did not have a trace of expression on his face, and said loudly to the soldiers: "Follow me!" ”
Subsequently, the troops rushed forward like a tide, and in this battle, Chen Kang was seriously wounded.
When the division commander saw the situation, he immediately said to Chen Kang: "Do you want to replace you?" ”
Chen Kang resolutely said that he could, so he said: "Don't worry, chief, we will definitely be able to hold on!" ”
He led his troops to charge again and again, crushing all the enemy in a small ravine, red.
1. The conditions for the smooth rendezvous of the Red Fourth Front Army in western Sichuan were created.
In the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Kang took the lead, including the famous one"Battle of Shentouling".In addition, he won many wars, and with these excellent performances, he was also used by the organization.
During the Liberation War, Chen Kang served as the commander of the 13th Brigade of the 4th Column of the Nakano Army.
In order to cooperate with Liu Deng's army to leap into Dabie Mountain, he was ordered to play the main force of the 4th column, and successfully lured Li Tiejun, commander of the Fifth Corps of the Kuomintang, and 30,000 troops to circle around Funiu Mountain, successfully exhausting the enemy.
Li Tiejun was completely stunned, and accidentally fell into the ambush circle of the People's Liberation Army, in this battle, he had 20,000 people annihilated, and Li Yingcai, the chief of staff under Li Tiejun, was also successfully captured.
Li Yingcai also sighed: "Half of this battle was defeated, and half was dragged down. ”
Among them, Chen Kang plays an extremely important role.
At the end of 1949, when the flames of the Liberation War had burned to the southern tip of the motherland, Chen Kang, then deputy commander of the 13th Army, led three main regiments from Nanning and laid down Mengzi Airport all the way, cutting off all the retreats of the Kuomintang.
Later, he fought together with other units for more than 50 days and nights, liberated the entire territory of Yunnan, and captured Tang Yao, deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army, and made great meritorious contributions.
In 1952, Chen Kang was promoted to the position of commander of the 13th Army, which was also another famous general under Chen Geng's command who became the commander of the army.
Later, he came to the Kunming Military Region to take up the post of deputy commander, and during his tenure, he trekked through mountains and rivers many times to understand the operational problems in the mountains and jungles, and explored a set of special training methods, which were also specially made into a documentary for the whole army to study.
Cha Yusheng's personality is very hot, he is the type that says the same, and on the battlefield, this fiery temper will be transformed into high morale.
Zha Yusheng is a native of Lu'an, Anhui Province, and has joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army since 1931.
In the first four anti-"encirclement and suppression", Zha Yusheng participated in all of them, and later in the battles of Tianshuipu, Yuci, and Jianmen Pass, Zha Yusheng also showed his heroic and tenacious side, and participated in the 25,000-mile Long March with the army.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Cha Yusheng started as a company commander and became a deputy brigade commander all the way, and he played a major role in the siege of the Sixth and Ninth Routes.
In the later War of Liberation, he served as the brigade commander of the 22nd Brigade under Chen Geng, and participated in many battles including Pinghan, Eastern Anhui, Huaihai, River Crossing, and Liangguang.
Therefore, after the founding of New China, Zha Yusheng gradually changed from a deputy army commander to a military commander.
Moreover, Zha Yusheng also participated in the five battles to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and after returning to China, he made great contributions to the modernization and regularization of the frontier and the army.
In 1955, he was also awarded the rank of major general and was elected as a delegate to the Ninth National Congress.
Senior General Chen Geng once commented on Li Chengfang, the commander of the 11 th Brigade: Comrade Li Chengfang is a commander with strategic vision.
Li Chengfang also joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in the late 20s of the last century, and participated in many anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region.
After the Long March, Li Chengfang began to improve himself from a theoretical point of view, and entered the Kang University to study.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Chengfang served as the deputy commander of the Third Brigade of the First Column to Resist the Enemy and Fight to the Death, and participated in the "Nine-Way Siege" to crush the Japanese army.
During the strategic stalemate stage, Li Chengfang came to the First Division of the Taiyue Military Region as deputy commander.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the brigade commander of the first brigade of the Taiyue Column, and on September 10 of that yearShangdang CampaignInitiated, together with his brother troops, he captured the county town of Changzi on the periphery of Changzhi, and launched a fierce attack on the 12th, which lasted three hours of fierce fighting, annihilated more than 10,000 people, and achieved the final victory of the Shangdang Campaign.
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek launched a full-scale civil war, and Chen Geng was determined to annihilate the enemy in the area of Fushan and Linfen.
At dawn on the 23rd, Li Chengfang commanded his troops and annihilated five companies of the Second Regiment of the First Brigade of the Kuomintang, and the two sides formed a stalemate.
Later, the 10th Brigade under Chen Geng annihilated the enemy's 1st Brigade HeadquartersBattle of LinfuIn the end, it won a complete victory, and the major result of this battle was to completely smash the Kuomintang's attempt to flank the north and south.
In 1948, Li Chengfang was transferred to the Ninth Column of the Central Plains Field Army as political commissar, and the commander of that meeting was the famous Qin Jiwei, and the troops participated in the Huaihai Campaign.
On December 6, the general offensive of the total annihilation of Huang Wei's corps began, and Li Chengfang commanded the ninth column to conquer a number of enemy strongholds, and finally cooperated with the brother troops to attack Shuangduiji, and finally, Huang Wei and Wu Shaozhou and others were all captured.
On February 14, 1949, the 14th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was established under Erye, and Li Chengfang assumed the position of first commander.
After becoming the commander of the army, Li Chengfang did not slow down his pace, and pursued the remnants of the Kuomintang all the way south after the battle of crossing the river, and won the victory of the "Liangyang Campaign", which wiped out more than 80,000 Kuomintang people.
At the end of that year, after the Battle of Qinzhou, Li Chengfang led his troops to annihilateBai ChongxiThe two corps seized a large amount of materials, which greatly increased the morale of the People's Liberation Army, which also has General Chen Geng's evaluation.
From 1950 to 1953, the troops experienced more than 800 battles, annihilated more than 20,000 roving bandits, and maintained social stability.
Moreover, during the period of the troops' contributions, Li Chengfang, as a senior cadre of the Southwest Military Region, also went to North Korea twice to study, and when he entered the DPRK for the second time, Li Chengfang also served as the acting commander of the 15th Army.
Later, Li Chengfang also held the post of second political commissar of the Kunming Military Region, and always put political and ideological work in the first place.
In 1965, Li Chengfang was also appointed as a member of the Third National Defense Commission.
General Chen Geng's vision is really not wrong, and Li Chengfang's later development path is really as he expected.
And the commander of the 12th Brigade under Chen Geng is Liu Jinxuan.
Who would have thought that this future founding lieutenant general was only a small soldier during the Northern Expedition.
In 1926, the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army recruited soldiers in Qiyang, Hunan, and at this moment Liu Jinxuan was cornered by life, and he also chose to join the army, hoping to change his fate.
During the training, he worked very hard, quickly learned a variety of military techniques, was recognized by his superiors, and soon after he was promoted to deputy company commander.
Later,Autumn Harvest Uprising, Nanchang UprisingThe outbreak also made Liu Jinxuan realize that the Red Army was the army of the poor, and joining the Red Army was the way he wanted to go.
In the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation, Liu Jinxuan was still in the 18th Division of the Kuomintang, but the Red Army adopted the tactics of encircling on three sides, annihilating the invading enemy, and capturing Liu Jinxuan's division commander alive.
Liu Jinxuan, who had long been full of yearning for the Red Army, chose to join the Red Army at this time.
After coming to the Red Army, Liu Jinxuan's political and ideological level has been greatly improved, in the Guangchang Garrison Battle, Liu Jinxuan was seriously wounded, and the troops also spread a lot of heroic deeds about him, after recovering from the injury, Liu Jinxuan was transferred to the battalion commander.
As his operational thinking became more and more mature, in December 1936, he assumed the post of chief of staff of the 91st Division of the 31st Army of the Red Fourth Front Army.
On the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he galloped on the battlefield of Taiyue against Japan, eliminated a large number of Japanese puppet troops behind enemy lines, and was promoted to the commander of the Third Army Division of the Taiyue Military Region during this period.
When Liu Deng's army was difficult to cross the Yellow River, Liu Jinxuan served as the brigade commander of the 4th Vertical and 12th Brigade.
Although the 12 Brigade is organizationally subordinate to the 4 Column, in many cases they are independently performing combat missions, as they are called"The partial division of the main force".Under the leadership of Liu Jinxuan, the political consciousness and combat level of the troops have been greatly improved.
After a year of arduous struggle, the troops conquered a number of important military sites, including Luoning, and also opened up a base area in southern Shaanxi.
In 1948, the Southern Shaanxi Military Region was established, and Liu Jinxuan was appointed as the commander of the Southern Shaanxi Military Region.
In June of that year, he led his troops to participateBattle of Xiangfan, and also captured alive the leader of the Kuomintang Three Youth LeaguesKangzeand others, which also completely smashed the enemy's defense system in the Central Plains.
By the end of 1949, the whole territory of southern Shaanxi had been liberated, and a large number of enemies were contained, cooperating with the PLA's operations in the northwest and western Henan.
Later, the South Shaanxi Military Region was ordered to participate in the Huaihai Campaign, and Liu Jinxuan's role was to constantly contain the Huang Wei Corps.
Later, on May 1, 1949, the 19th Army of the People's Liberation Army was established, and Liu Jinxuan, the commander of the Southern Shaanxi Military Region, became the commander of the 19th Army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Jinxuan was also awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
So far, the five brigade commanders under General Chen Geng have all handed over satisfactory answers.
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