The East China Field Army, abbreviated as Huaye, was an iron horse division formed in 1947 by the merger of the Central China Field Army led by Commander Su and the Shandong Field Army led by Chen Laozong. On the battlefield of liberation, this field army swept across East China and annihilated a large number of Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops in several battles. For example, the well-known reorganized 74th Division, Huang Baitao's 25th Army, Qiu Qingquan's Fifth Army, and a large number of Chiang Kai-shek's concubines, American-style ace troops, were all wiped out by the East China Field Army on the battlefield of liberation.
On the battlefield of liberation, the East China Field Army created such brilliant achievements and made great contributions to winning the victory in the war of liberation, winning the victory in the revolutionary war, and making great contributions to the founding of New China. This unit also built the East China Field Army into a mighty division with the joint efforts of General Chen laozong and Commander Su, with a strength of about 400,000 troops and 12 columns in the heyday. The commander of each column is a famous general who has been in the battlefield for a long time, a general who has been trained from the fire of war, and after a long period of tempering, he finally became one of the commanders of the twelfth column of the East China Field Army.
Ye Fei, commander of the first column of Huaye, was the fierce general that Commander Chen Laozong used in every battle. Wei Guoqing, commander of huaye's second column, was a military and political general. He Yixiang, commander of the Third Column of Huaye, was a famous general who was good at fighting tough battles, and was once invited by Liu Shuai of the Central Plains Field Army to Nakano to talk about the experience of attacking strong points, and then the commander of the Third Column was replaced by Sun Jixian. Tao Yong, commander of the Fourth Column of Huaye, is also a famous general who has been in the battlefield for a long time, and is one of the fierce generals who are more important to the deputy commander, and whenever there is a big battle, Tao Yong is the first to bear the brunt of it and take the lead.
Wang Bicheng, commander of the Sixth Column of Huaye, was also a tiger general, and since the establishment of the East China Field Army, almost all the battles waged against the enemy army were involved by General Wang Bicheng, including The deputy commander of the column, Pi Dingjun, who was also a fierce general. The commander of Huaye's Seventh Column was Cheng Jun, who was also a fierce general known for his bravery and good fighting. Wang Jian'an, commander of the Eighth Column of Huaye, was a general who was both superior in military and political affairs and in both culture and martial arts. Xu Shiyou, commander of the Ninth Column of Huaye, and Nie Fengzhi, both belonged to the brave generals and made great contributions to the cause of the Liberation War. Song Shilun, commander of the Tenth Column of Huaye, was a famous general who was good at blocking and attacking, and he had the idea that the platoon of cannons would not move, and it must be said that the tenth column was not moved. Guan Wenwei, commander of Huaye's 11th Column, was a military and political general. Chen Qingxian, the 12th Column of Huaye, was also a famous general who grew up in the war.
The above 12 generals served as commanders of the Huaye Column during the Liberation War. These twelve tiger generals are all sharp knives that belong to the battlefield of liberation. However, among the 12 column commanders, one column commander was the only one who had been wounded on the front line during the Liberation War.
He was Cheng Jun, commander of Huaye's Seventh Column.
General Cheng Jun, Hubei Shishouren, participated in the Shishou People's Uprising in 1927, joined the Anti-Imperialist Grand Alliance, and joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1930. In his revolutionary career, Cheng Jun also stepped up step by step, successively serving as an investigator, squad leader, platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, deputy regimental commander, regimental commander and other positions. Along the way, Cheng Jun has also accumulated rich combat experience. It is after such a tempering that he has become a tiger general who dares to fight.
During the Liberation War, he first served as the commander of the Seventh Division of the Shandong Field Army. After the two field armies were combined, Cheng Jun served as the commander of the Seventh Column and participated in the command of major battles such as Subei, Laiwu, Menglianggu, Huaihai, Dujiang, and Shanghai. In these battles, Cheng Jun made great achievements, but he was also wounded.
In 1947, Chiang Kai-shek launched a third all-out offensive against the Liberated Areas of Shandong. It was also during this campaign that the East China Field Army surrounded Hu Lian's reorganized 11th Division in Nanma, preparing to eat the reorganized 11th Division, one of the five main forces of the Nationalist army. Participating in this encirclement and annihilation battle were The Ninth Column, the Sixth Column, and the Second Column of Huaye. Cheng Jun's Seventh Column, and three regiments of the Bohai Naval Region, were responsible for severing the link between Hu Lian's forces and Huang Baitao's integrated 25th Division. Chiang Kai-shek's order was to let Huang Baitao's reorganized 25th Division rescue the besieged Hu Lian at all costs.
You must know that Huang Baitao is a tough general, and the reorganized 25th Division is also a national army unit with strong combat effectiveness. That is to say, in the fierce battle between the reorganized Twenty-fifth Division and the Seventh Column of Huaye, commander Cheng Jun personally went to the front line to command the battle in order to boost morale, and in the fierce battle between the two sides, the commander of the Seventh Column, Cheng Jun, was unfortunately wounded, becoming the only column commander among Huaye's 12 column commanders who had been wounded during the Liberation War.