Whampoa Phase I (204).
*Lieutenant General - Deng Chunhua.
Deng Chunhua (1900-1970), also known as Shiren, alias Junshi, was a native of Hexiang Township, Lingao, Guangdong Province (now Heqing Town, Danzhou City, Hainan Province). Graduated from Haikou Huamei Junior High School and Guangdong Law and Political College. In May 1924, he entered the first team of the Whampoa Military Academy.
After graduation, he successively served as the platoon commander of the 1st Regiment of the Whampoa Military Academy, the company commander of the 1st Brigade of the Party Army, and the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 40th Regiment (Regiment Commander Huang Jie) of the 14th Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In 1928, he was promoted to the commander of the 40th Regiment of the 141st Division, and in the same year, the unit was reorganized and downsized, and he served as the battalion commander of the 2nd Division, and later promoted to regiment commander.
In February 1929, he concurrently served as an executive member of the Special Party Department of the Second Division. In September of the same year, he was transferred to the 15th Independent Brigade and served as the commander of the 2nd Regiment. The department was originally a new division formed by the remnants of Yue Weijun, and was reduced to Wuhan in September 1929. At the end of the same year, the "Daye Rebellion" led by Cheng Zihua occurred in Deng Chunhua's regiment.
In February 1930, the 15th Independent Brigade was transferred from Wuhan to Jiangxi to "encircle and suppress" the Red Army. Most of them were annihilated by the Red Army in the Battle of Shuinan, and later transferred to Anhui for rectification. After the end of the Central Plains War, he was transferred to Henan in October of the same year and served as a guard and road guard.
In April 1931, the 15th Independent Brigade was renumbered as the 33rd Independent Brigade, and Deng Chunhua was still the commander of the 2nd Regiment, and in the same year, he participated in the rebellion against Shi Yousan.
In January 1932, after the outbreak of the 128-Shanghai Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai, he rushed to the aid of Shanghai with his troops, and when he arrived at Zhenjiang, the two sides had ceased fighting, so they were stationed on the spot. In the same year, he went to Anhui to participate in the fourth "encirclement and suppression" of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet region, and in January 1933, he was transferred from Anqing and successively went to Hubei and Jiangxi to participate in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army.
In 1933, he was promoted to deputy brigade commander and regiment commander of the 33rd Independent Brigade, and in November of the same year, the 33rd Independent Brigade was reorganized into the 93rd Division, and he served as the deputy commander of the 93rd Division, and participated in the fifth "encirclement and suppression" of the ** Soviet area.
In 1935, when the 93rd Division was pursuing the Red Army on the Long March, it was ambushed by the Red Army on the Wujiang River in Guizhou.
In July 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the 93rd Division went to East China, and in March 1938, it participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang. Later, the 93rd Division was expanded into two brigades, serving as deputy division commander and brigade commander, and in 1939, when fighting the Japanese army in Huanggang, the troops suffered heavy losses, and Deng Chunhua was seriously wounded. After recovering from his injuries, he was transferred from the first-line army and served as the director of the Fifth Supplementary Training Department of the Military and Political Department in Ji'an, Jiangxi.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he joined the Nanjing ** Training Corps, and was sent to Zhejiang in 1946 as the commander of the Liyun Division.
In 1947, he was elected as a delegate to the "National Assembly".
In 1948, he served as the deputy director of the Ninth Recruit Training Department in Shaoguan (Director Chen Pei and Zhong Bin).
At the beginning of 1949, he served as the deputy commander of the 1st Ninth Army (Army Commander Zhong Bin), and in April of the same year, Song Xilian was promoted to the director of the Sichuan-Hubei-Hunan Border Pacification Office, invited Zhong Bin to serve as the deputy director of the Sichuan-Hubei-Hunan Border Pacification Office, and sponsored Zhong Bin to take over his position as the commander of the Corps, and Deng Chunhua took over Zhong Bin as the commander of the 19th Army. Garrisoned in Shaoguan, Qingyuan, Huiyang and other places in Guangdong.
In October 1949, the People's Liberation Army liberated Guangzhou, and the 1st Ninth Army retreated to the Bailian, Nada, and Calais areas of Hainan to garrison, and Deng Chunhua served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Hainan Garrison General Headquarters (Commander-in-Chief Chen Jitang). At the end of the same year, the Hainan Garrison General Headquarters was renamed the Hainan Defense General Headquarters, with Xue Yue as commander-in-chief and Deng Chunhua as deputy commander of the third road (commander Rong Youluo) of the Hainan Defense General Headquarters.
In 1950, he went to Taiwan with the army and served as the commander of the Kaohsiung Fortress, and later served as the commander"Ministry of Defense"Lieutenant General Gao Shen.
He died in Taipei in August 1970 (September 1978).