Which is the most ace division of the Eighth Route Army? Of course it was the 115th Division. This division not only had the largest number of people at the beginning of its establishment, reaching more than 15,000 people, but also the most well-equipped. Later, the number of marshals who came out of this division was also the largest, reaching 3 people. The 115th Division also had the most generals.
However, the 115th Division was a division with many disasters and difficulties, why? You see, division commander Lin Zong led everyone to win the ping-type Guan dajie and shocked the whole country. But just after 1938, an unfortunate accident occurred.
At that time, Lin Zong led his troops into Shanxi, because he had captured the Japanese army's war materials, Lin Zong put on the coat of the Japanese army on this day, rode a foreign horse, and his spirit was vibrant and refreshed. However, the Jin soldiers of Yan Xishan did not know Lin Zong, they only looked at clothes and did not look at people.
This outfit looked like a little devil, so Yan Xishan's soldiers shot at Lin Zong. This shot just hit Lin Zong's back and passed through his lungs, although it was not fatal, it left Lin Zong with a lifelong unhealed root.
Because he was so badly injured, Lin Zong had to leave the front line and go to Yan'an for medical treatment, and later to the Soviet Union. In this way, Mr. Lin disappeared from the anti-Japanese battlefield and did not return to China until the middle and late stages of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Lin Zong is gone, who will take over the position of commander of the 115th Division?
Chen Guang. Chen Guang was previously a brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade. Like Lin Zong, he also followed Mr. Zhu and President Chen to Jinggangshan, an old Red Army. In the Red First Army, Chen Guang served as the commander of the main Red Second Division, and after the Red Army's Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, Lin Zong went to the Red Army University as president, and Chen Guang took the post of commander of the Red First Army.
Therefore, it is very reasonable for Chen Guang to succeed him as the commander of the 115th Division. But please note that no one can replace Lin Zong's prestige, Chen Guang is only the acting division chief. Including the later Luo Rongheng, who was also the acting commander of the 115th Division.
Chen Guang became the acting division commander, and the position of brigade commander of his 343rd Brigade was naturally vacant. Who will take over? Li Tianyou. At the beginning of the Red Army's Long March, Li Tianyou, who was only 20 years old, was the division commander of the Red Army.
After the establishment of the Eighth Route Army, Li Tianyou was the commander of the 686 regiment, and Yang Yong, one of the "three Yangs", was his deputy and deputy regimental commander. But by 1938, Li Tianyou had been promoted to deputy brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade. By March, Chen Guang had gone to act as division commander, and Li Tianyou would naturally be the brigade commander, but he was also an agent.
So you see, less than a year after the establishment of the Eighth Route Army, in fact, it has only been more than half a year, and the commander of the 115th Division has been replaced, and the commander of the 343rd Brigade under its jurisdiction has also changed. However, what many people did not expect was that the commander of another brigade under the 115th Division was also about to be replaced.
What's going on?
The other was the 344th Brigade, whose commander was originally Xu Haidong. Xu Haidong led the 344th Brigade to participate in the famous Ambush of Pingxingguan, and then advanced into North China to carry out guerrilla warfare in depth. The war was raging, but Xu Haidong fell ill. In fact, Xu Haidong's illness was not accidental.
In that year, when Xu Haidong led the Red Twenty-fifth Army on the Long March, he was wounded many times, leaving serious wounds on his body. Throughout the liberation war period, and even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xu Haidong had to recuperate for a long time.
Xu Haidong fell ill and was going to Yan'an to recuperate, so who would take over his position as brigade commander of the 344 Brigade? Yang Dezhi, commander of the 685 regiment. In the summer of 1938, Mr. Zhu personally named Yang Dezhi as the deputy brigade commander of the 344th Brigade. After Xu Haidong left, Yang Dezhi took the post of acting brigade commander.