In order to resist the war and save the country and liberate the masses of the people, our revolutionary ancestors established such a people's army as the Red Army, and after years of development, it has grown into a force to be reckoned with in the war-torn land of China.
At that time, the Red Army was divided into the Red First Army, the Red Second Front, the Red Fourth Front, the Guerrillas of the Eight Southern Provinces, and the Northern Shaanxi Red Army, and each Red Army had many outstanding generals.
Among them, the fame of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi is slightly unknown compared to several other Red Army, but their role cannot be underestimated.
At that time, northern Shaanxi was relatively backward, Chiang Kai-shek's strength was not strong here, and the small warlords could not develop and grow.
It was on such a land that the Red Army in northern Shaanxi was established, condensing the awakened proletarian fighters in various places, establishing a people's armed force with combat effectiveness, echoing several other Red Army armies, and laying a solid foundation for the establishment of new China.
However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the achievements of the generals of each Red Army team were not the same, and the Red First, Second, and Fourth Fronts and the guerrillas in the eight southern provinces were all promoted to marshals, but only the Red Army in northern Shaanxi did not have marshals.
The Red Army in northern Shaanxi added four additional corps after the victorious meeting with the main force of the Red Army, and from the experience and achievements of these four army commanders, we may be able to glimpse a little bit.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > The Twenty-seventh Army- He Jinnian</h1>
He Jinnian was born on October 1, 1910, and when he was young, he was once a famous hero in the local jianghu, who was righteous and proud, and often fought unevenly.
Later, he came into contact with the ideas of the Communist Party of China and believed that following the Communist Party was the right way to let the fathers and elders of the village live a good life, so he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1928 and thus became one of the founders of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.
At that time, he brought more than twenty people to join the revolution and became an indispensable and important commander after the establishment of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.
From 1934 to 1935, He Jinnian successively served as the deputy commander of the cavalry brigade, the political commissar of the guerrilla detachment, the chief of staff of the general headquarters, and the commander of the 1st Regiment of the Independent Division in the northern Shaanxi guerrillas.
Accumulating rich experience in various posts, he then led his troops to meet with the Forty-second Division and participated in the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation.
Since then, he has successively participated in the second and third anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations, making important contributions to welcoming the arrival of the Central Red Army.
In December 1936, Chairman Mao personally signed a military order appointing He Jinnian as the commander of the Red Twenty-seventh Army, becoming one of the four newly established corps of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.
In 1947, banditry in the northeast became more and more rampant, and He Jinnian was ordered to come to Hejiang, northeast China, to serve as the commander of the Hejiang Military Region and carry out the task of suppressing bandits.
Xie Wendong, Zhang Yuxin, Li Huatang, Sun Rongjiu and other local bandit bullies were swept away, including traitors who colluded with the Japanese.
This crackdown on bandits has really consolidated the northeast base area, so that the local people can live in peace, and the revolution can develop with confidence, and the famous novel and TV series "Lin Hai Xueyuan" was created based on one of the prototypes of He Jinnian's suppression of bandits.
Later, He Jinnian successively served as deputy commander of the Northeast Military Region, commander of the air defense force, commander of the garrison, and commander of the armored corps, and finally in the list of awards in 1955, He Jinnian was awarded the rank of major general.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > The Thirtieth Army, Yan Hongyan</h1>
Born on October 26, 1909, Yan Hongyan came from a poor family and attended a private school for a while, but eventually had to drop out of school because his family did not have the money to pay tuition.
At the age of 15, Yan Hongyan had to join the warlords of northern Shaanxi as a big soldier in order to survive.
However, during his time as a soldier, Yan Hongyan came into contact with the ideas of the Communist Party and gradually began to accept Marxism. A year later, Yan Hongyan resolutely joined the Communist Party of China.
In March 1936, Yan Hongyan served as the commander of the 30th Army and became one of the representative figures of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.
During the Liberation War, Yan Hongyan was the deputy commander of the Third Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, participated in a large number of important battles, and made great achievements.
When advancing into Dabie Mountain, the troops lacked clothes and clothing, some soldiers could still hold on, and some wounded really couldn't hold on.
At this time, Yan Hongyan gave full play to his strong points, did a lot of work for capitalists and businessmen, basically solved the problem of eating and wearing, and enabled the soldiers to continue to persevere, which was praised by Deng Xiaoping.
Later, Yan Hongyan led his troops to participate in the Battle of Huaihai, the Battle of Crossing the River, and the Battle of Liberating Southwest China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became a local official and was in charge of the economic development of Chongqing, Yunnan, Chengdu and other regions.
When he was awarded the rank in 1955, Yan Hongyan was awarded the rank of general, which many people did not expect.
Because at that time, the title was generally awarded to those who served in the army system, at that time Yan Hongyan had already left the army and transferred to Sichuan Province as vice governor, and it was surprising that Yan Hongyan was awarded the rank of general.
Some people believe that Yan Hongyan was able to serve as a general because he picked up the omission of his old superior He Jinnian, and some people believe that Yan Hongyan was a representative of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, so he was awarded the title of general.
In fact, Yan Hongyan's name was added by the chairman, who believed that Yan Hongyan had long been consistent with the central authorities, had a positive and diligent work attitude, and could be called a bow, so no matter what position he was in, he should be awarded the rank he deserved.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > the Twenty-eighth Army, the Song Dynasty Wheel</h1>
In the recent hit film "Changjin Lake" on the theme of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Song Shilun, commander of the Ninth Corps, left a deep impression on many people, and he was actually from the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.
On September 10, 1907, Song Shilun was born in Huangcun, Liling Beixiang, Hunan Province, and later entered Wu Peifu's officer teaching corps to study.
At the age of 19, Song Shilun was admitted to the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and also joined the Communist Youth League, and joined the Communist Party the following year.
At that time, the Kuomintang plotted to frame the Communists, and Song Shilun was also implicated in prison, after which he began to form guerrilla groups and conduct guerrilla battles with the enemy, and in the same year he was incorporated into the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
In several anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the Central Soviet Region, Song Shilun had excellent performances, and he also participated in the Long March with the army, and after arriving in northern Shaanxi, he became an important general of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.
In 1936, Song Shilun served as the commander of the Thirtieth Army, but soon after handed over to Yan Hongyan, and later Song Shilun served as the commander of the Xxxviii Army.
What really made the Song Dynasty famous was the Battle of Chosin Lake during the Period of The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea can be roughly divided into five major campaigns, and the Battle of Chosin Lake was one of the decisive battles in the second large-scale campaign.
The first batch of people's volunteers into Korea in that year needed time to rest and replenish supplies after experiencing battles with the US army, and General MacArthur of the US army was about to launch a Christmas offensive, and in such an emergency situation, the Ninth Corps led by Song Shilun was ordered to rush to the front line battlefield.
At that time, for the sake of secrecy, the combat mission was only transmitted to the battalion level, and many soldiers did not know where to go to fight on the train, until the temperature was getting colder, and everyone realized that it was to cross the Yalu River to fight the Americans.
Due to the tense battle situation, the Ninth Corps hastily entered the DPRK and many difficulties arose.
For example, the original plan was to start the battle plan on November 25, 1950, but the Ninth Corps could not be in place on time, and after the request of song Shilun, the combat time was changed to the 27th two days later.
Logistics were also a major problem, and the location of the invasion of Korea was temporarily changed, so the Ninth Corps failed to change into winter clothes as planned, and many heavy firepower could not be brought to the front line.
On the night of November 27, Song Shilun led the Ninth Corps to launch a formal offensive, dividing the United Nations army led by the United States into four locations around Chosin Lake, preparing to divide the encirclement and break through each according to the plan.
At the beginning of the battle, the Volunteers and the United Nations army were victorious and defeated.
With the passage of time, the United Nations army was gradually repelled by the exquisite tactics of the volunteer army, and in the process of retreat, it lost its armor and lost soldiers, and paid a huge price to successfully break through from the encirclement and interception of the volunteer army and withdraw from the battlefield.
Although the battle was won, the Ninth Corps of the Song Dynasty also suffered heavy losses.
Because of the lack of clothes and clothing, the soldiers had to rely on tenacious willpower to persist in fighting in the ice and snow, and many soldiers did not die of American bullets, but died of the cold winter in North Korea.
The 5th Company of the 242nd Regiment of the 80th Division of the 27th Army was the most tragic, only two people in the whole company survived, and all the remaining fighters froze to death on the position in a combat formation, which made people cry.
The insistence and sacrifice of the soldiers were not in vain, the victory at Chosin Lake was a great victory on the Eastern Front, the Ninth Corps defeated the United Nations Army, completely controlled the battlefield, and even annihilated a regiment of the US Army for the first time on the battlefield, setting a record in the history of our army.
At the same time, the US troops on the western front also suffered defeats, and the eastern and western fronts were defeated at the same time, so that the US troops began to seriously consider a comprehensive retreat.
It can be said that the performance of the Ninth Corps of the Song Dynasty in this campaign can be called a huge strategic victory that turned the tide of the war.
In 1955, because of his outstanding achievements, Song Shilun was awarded the rank of general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > The Twenty-ninth Army, Li Zhongying</h1>
Li Zhongying was born in 1910 in a family of extreme poverty, the family situation was very bad, he had to go to the county town as an apprentice to earn a living from an early age. At the age of 20, Li Zhongying joined the army with He Jinnian in order to make a living.
In the second year of joining the army, the northern Shaanxi guerrilla detachment was established, with Li Zhongying as the company commander, and in the following three years, he led the troops to fight everywhere and became an indispensable member of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.
In 1935, after the arrival of the Central Red Army in northern Shaanxi, the Red Army in northern Shaanxi was expanded, and the Twenty-ninth Army was newly formed, the commander of the army was originally Xiao Jinguang, and after Xiao Jinguang was transferred to the chief of staff, the commander of the Twenty-ninth Army was Li Zhongying.
In terms of military talent, Li Zhongying is undoubtedly excellent, but he is accustomed to living on the battlefield and is also dragged down by the habits of war.
After the liberation of Datong, there was no longer any fighting in North China, and at that time, Li Zhongying was the deputy commander of the Twenty-third Division of the Eighth Army of the First Field Army, and he could not stand such a quiet environment and applied to return to the northwest, where there was still an atmosphere of gun smoke.
Long-term exposure to the war environment, so that Li Zhongyinghun is full of scars, there are at least 15 bullet holes in his body, lung function is also seriously damaged by wartime injuries, and the sound emitted when breathing is like a bellows.
The medical technology of that era was not developed, and there was no way to completely heal Li Zhongying's injuries, and Li Zhongying had to smoke opium to relieve pain.
At that time, in view of Li Zhongying's special situation, the person in charge of the central government allowed him to smoke an appropriate amount of opium for medical treatment, but Li Zhongying could not quit after touching opium, and he has maintained the vice of opium smoking for many years, which made his already not very good physical condition worse, and his lung function did not improve, but he was more painful because of the damage caused by opium to the body.
Such a physical condition is difficult to cope with high-intensity work, and his superiors understand his difficulties and arrange some relatively easy jobs for him.
Li Zhongying has since served as the deputy director of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Department of Shaanxi Province, the deputy director of the Forestry Department, and the deputy director of the Water Conservancy Department, and his work is relatively stable, but he missed the award ceremony in 1955.
In 1961, Li Zhongying suffered an old wound left by the war, died of illness at the age of 51, and was buried in the Xi'an Martyrs Cemetery.