The 120th Division, derived from the reorganization of the Red Second Front, made them face unique challenges in the allocation of cadres. The Red Second Front Army was formed by the merger of the Red Army, so most of the cadres of the 120th Division came from the Red Army, but there were also heavyweights of the former Red First Army.
This composition of cadres from different base areas and units has made the 120 th Division form three "hills," and how to balance each "hill" has become an issue that must be seriously considered when allocating cadres.
Although at the time of its formation, the 120 Division had only 140,000 people, the smallest of the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army, but they showed good strength in the task of defending the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area and were an important member of the Eighth Route Army.
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When the Second and Sixth Army Corps met, the number of personnel of the Red Sixth Army Corps was significantly less than that of the Red Second Army Corps due to the large losses in the Western Expedition. However, the Red Sixth Army retained a large number of cadres, so it accounted for a larger proportion of the cadres of the Red Second Front.
In the core decision-making level, in addition to ** and Guan Xiangying, who are the leaders of the Red Second Army from the Honghu Soviet Region, Ren Bishi, Xiao Ke, and **Li Da are all leaders of the Red Sixth Army from the Hunan and Jiangxi Soviet Regions.
Organizationally speaking, Ren Bishi was the core of the Red Second Front Army, but ** was the de facto soul figure. At the time of the establishment of the 120th Division, ** was appointed as the division commander, and Xiao Ke was the deputy division commander, they were the chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Second Front Army, representing the Red Second Army and the Red Sixth Army.
According to this logic, the former chief and deputy political appointees of the Red Second Front Army should be Bi Shi and Guan Xiangying as the chief and deputy political commissars of the 120th Division. However, Ren Bi held the important position of director of the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army and did not go out with the 120th Division, so Guan Xiangying became the director of the division's political training office, which was actually the political commissar.
When accepting the reorganization, cadres must be assigned according to Chiang Kai-shek's establishment.
Li Da was originally scheduled to serve as the chief of staff of the division, but was transferred to the 129th Division, and the chief of staff of the 120th Division became Zhou Shidi, he was not airborne, but the chief of staff of the Western Army Li Da was selected as the chief of staff of the Red Second Front Army after being transferred away, and then when he was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, he served as the chief of staff of the 120th Division.
Zhou Shidi was a participant in the Nanchang Uprising, and although he had a period of detachment during the revolution, he served as a faculty member at the Red Army University and accompanied the team during the Long March.
Although he has less experience in important leadership positions, he was once a famous general of the Northern Expedition who graduated from the first phase of Whampoa, and others were once his subordinates. Therefore, it is entirely justified for him to serve as chief of staff of the 120 Division.
In the 120th Division, Guan Xiang should be the director of the Political Training Office, so the deputy director of the Political Training Office should be the former political commissar of the Red 6th Army Corps. However, ** went to the 359 Brigade as a deputy brigade commander and transformed into a military cadre.
Therefore, the post of director of the Political Training Office was held by Gan Siqi, former director of the Political Department of the 6th Red Army Corps and deputy director of the Political Department of the 2nd Front Army of the Red Army.
Group photo of cadres above the company level of the 359 Brigade 717 Regiment, of which Li Quan, Chen Waiou, Yan Fusheng, Liu Zhuanlian, and ** from the right in the first row hold important positions in the Political Department of the 120th Division, Huang Xinyuan is the director of the Security Bureau from the Red 2nd Army, Zhang Pinghua is the propaganda minister of the Red Second Front, Chen Xiyun is from the Red 6th Army and is the head of the Supply Department of the Red Second Front, and Liu Yunsheng is the political commissar of the Ministry of Health of the Red Second Front.
Despite the fact that they left the army system after liberation and went to local posts, they were still eligible for the rank of major general. The 120th Division has two brigades, the 358th Brigade and the 359th Brigade, the 358th Brigade is mainly evolved from the Red 2nd Army Corps, and the 359th Brigade is mainly composed of the Red 6th Army Corps.
* Dinner with the cadres of the 120th Division at the victory celebration, the brigade commander Lu Dongsheng was originally appointed, he was a member of the special department, he once escorted ** to Xiangxi to get acquainted, and later became the commander of the main division of the Red 2nd Army.
However, Lu Dongsheng did not arrive at the post because he studied at Kang University and studied at the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union, and the deputy brigade commander Zhang Zongxun ** brigade commander. There are two reasons why Lu Dongsheng did not take office: one is that some people accuse the Second Front Army of having a serious "warlord style", and the spearhead is pointed at **, Lu Dongsheng is dissatisfied with this, and argues with reason, and as a result, he is detained.
The organization sent him to study abroad, not only to cultivate talents, but also to keep him away from the land of right and wrong, which is actually a kind of protection for him. Another theory is that the Red Second Front Army, which has been criticized for its "warlord style," is mainly concentrated in the 2nd Army Corps, which has been separated from the leadership of the General Headquarters for a long time and is very independent, and it is inevitable that it will have a "paternalistic" style.
After the three main forces joined forces, some cadres of the Red First Front Army were dissatisfied with the "warlord style" of the Red Fourth Front Army, and openly criticized the Red Fourth Front Army on many occasions.
Zhang Zongxun, Li Jingquan, and Chen Bojun, the three veteran leaders of the Red Army, have common experiences. They joined the Red Army after the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and held important positions in the Red First Army, the Red Fourth Front, the Red Second Front, and the three main forces, and their footprints spread throughout the Red Army period.
During the Liberation War, the 120th Division under the joint leadership of Zhang Zongxun and *** had a total of 4 brigade commanders and deputy brigade commanders under its jurisdiction, of which ** was from the original Red Second Front Army, and the remaining three were from the First Army.
This is the concrete embodiment of the principle of "all lakes and four seas" that the chairman has always advocated. In the process of the reorganization of the Red Army into the Eighth Route Army, this principle was also effectively implemented and implemented.