The Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army has nine corps, of which Huang Kecheng, the political commissar of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division, served as the commander and served as the political commissar.
In 1941, the newly established 3rd Brigade of the New Fourth Army was originally under its jurisdiction.
Seventh, eighth, and ninth brigades. In September 1944, the 7th Brigade was attached to the 4th Division. In 1945, the Third Army was formed, an independent brigade was formed, and later it was transferred to the leadership of the Seventh Army.
After the end of the Sino-Japanese War, the 7th Brigade and the Independent Brigade were reorganized, and at present, the 3rd Division is under its jurisdiction.
The 7th, 8th, 10th Brigade and the Independent Brigade, totaling 37,000 people.
On September 23, 1945, he was ordered to advance from northern Jiangsu to the northeast. Before leaving, Huang reorganized the army into more than 35,000 men, including four brigades and three special missions.
Under the leadership of Huang Kecheng, after nearly two months of arduous marching, in late November, the 3rd Division reached the western part of Jinzhou. Subsequently, it was incorporated into the newly established "Northeast People's Self-Defense Army" and worked under the direct leadership of local autonomy.
At the beginning of 1946, the "Northeast Autonomy **" was renamed the "Northeast Democratic League," and Lu Zhengcao served as the deputy commander and deputy political commissar of the West Manchurian Military Region. A few months later, due to the recall-back of Lü Zhengcao, Huang Kecheng was promoted to commander of the West Manchurian Theater, and he returned to the Kuomintang army to take charge of logistics support in the rear.
The three divisions and four brigades of the New Fourth Army, except for the seventh brigade, which is subordinate to the National *** Command, the other three brigades are all subordinate to the West Manchurian Army.
In July 1946, the West Manchurian Military Region underwent a large-scale reorganization, and the three brigades under the jurisdiction of the West Manchurian Military Region (the Eighth Brigade, the Tenth Brigade, and the Independent Brigade) were reorganized into three brigades headed by Liu Zhen.
Soon, the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, which was subordinate to the National Army, merged with the 7th Division of Shandong to form six corps, with Chen Guang of the 115th Division as the commander, and after a few months, Hong Xuezhi served as the chief of staff of the three divisions.
Among the three special service regiments, the No. 1 ** Regiment is a special service regiment belonging to the Third Division, and the No. 2 ** Regiment is subordinate to the Eighth Brigade of the Third Division, subordinate to the Huai'an Detachment, subordinate to the Eighth Brigade of the Third Division, subordinate to Fudong, subordinate to Funing, and subordinate to the Eighth Brigade of the Third Division.
In 1946, the 1st and 2nd Special Service Regiments were all merged into the newly established 6th Regiment of the West Manchurian Military Region, the 3rd Special Service Regiment was changed to the Changnong Regiment, and then the 1st Independent Regiment of the West Manchurian Military Region was merged into the 1st Regiment.
In August 1947, the three independent divisions of the West Manchurian Army were merged into the "Seventh Column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance", and the commander-in-chief was Deng Hua.
In addition, the 5th Independent Division of West Manchuria, which was composed of the headquarters of the 3rd Division of the former Eighth Route Army and the 3rd Secret Police Force, was also incorporated into the 12th Vertical and 36th Division of the Northwest Military Region. Zhong Wei, the commander of the 12th Column, was once the commander of the 10th Brigade of the 3rd Corps.
The first three armies of the Northern Jiangsu Military Region left by Huang Kecheng, the local armed forces of the Yanfu Military Region, were later reorganized as the 11th Column of the East China Military Region, and the local armed forces of the Huai Naval Region were also reorganized as the 12th Column of the East China Military Region.