Sticks beat roe deer scoop fish, pheasants fly into the rice pot, this is a description of the Northeast region. The resources of the northeast region are very rich, whether it is mineral resources, forestry resources, food resources, the northeast region is very rich, but unfortunately after the September 18 Incident, it was occupied by the Japanese.
At the End of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China in May 1945, Chairman Mao emphasized:
"The northeast region is very important, and with the northeast, we have the basis for victory." It is necessary to prepare 20 to 30 brigades, 150,000 to 200,000 people, to leave the military region and send the generals to the northeast region. ”
The reason why Chairman Mao has been keeping an eye on the northeast region is because the northeast has rich resources, a complete industrial system, and a dense railway network. More importantly, Chiang Kai-shek also had no basis for rule in the northeast, which was originally the territory of the Fengjun army, and then was occupied by the Japanese, and Chiang Kai-shek never formed a practical control over the northeast.
In August 1945, after hearing the news that the Soviet army had sent troops to the northeast, Chairman Mao and Zhu De immediately ordered Li Yunchang's department in eastern Hebei and Wanyi's department in Shandong to quickly advance to the northeast. Subsequently, a large number of cadres from Yan'an were also successively sent to the northeast region to help build base areas.
On August 8, 1945, when the 1.5 million Soviet Red Army launched an attack on the Kwantung Army entrenched in the northeast region of China, the Chinese Communist Party had an armed force operating together with the Soviet Army, which was the 88th Brigade of the Soviet Far Eastern International, which was reorganized from the remnants of the Anti-Japanese League, and the brigade commander Zhou Baozhong was formed. During the war against Japan, this force was parachuted to the front line in advance, and cooperated with the Soviet army to eliminate the Kwantung Army and retake major cities in the northeast.
On August 11, 1945, five days before Japan's surrender, Zhu De issued an order order ordering Li Yunchang to immediately lead his troops to the northeast, cooperate with the Soviet army to eliminate the Japanese army, and establish political power in the northeast.
Li Yunchang, commander of the Jireliao Military Region, graduated from the Huangpu Phase IV and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising. After receiving the order, Li Yunchang ordered the establishment of the Northeast Forward Work Committee, which was transferred to eight detachments of three military sub-districts of the Jireliao Military Region, with a total of 12,000 people and thousands of local cadres in two detachments, and marched northeast in three ways.
The 16th Military Subdistrict of Jireliao, led by Zeng Kelin, was the largest force, with two main regiments and a Korean detachment totaling more than 4,000 people. After Zeng Kelin arrived at Shanhaiguan, there were more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops in Shanhaiguan and refused to surrender to the Eighth Route Army. The walls of Shanhaiguan were strong, but the Eighth Route Army had guns and no cannons, and there were no conditions for attacking the city, so in order to clear the obstacles for the follow-up troops, Zeng Kelin decided to first clear the outlying strongholds, surround Shanhaiguan, and then find a way to fight down.
After Zeng Kelin cut off the Japanese retreat, he encountered a group of Soviet troops pulling three cannons, and Zeng Kelin asked them to cooperate in the attack on Shanhaiguan. Although the Soviets hesitated for a while, they quickly agreed, and with the cooperation of the Soviet artillery, Zeng Kelin quickly took down Shanhaiguan, captured a large amount of equipment, left a unit at Shanhaiguan, and the rest of the troops continued to march to Shenyang.
On September 4, Zeng Kelin arrived in Jinzhou, and with the cooperation of the Soviet army, disarmed the Japanese puppet army in the city, Zeng Kelin left a regiment to guard Jinzhou, and marched to Shenyang with four advance companies. On September 5, Zeng Kelin came to Shenyang by train, and the Soviet army saw so many Chinese soldiers carrying weapons, did not know where they came from, and did not allow them to get off the train, let alone allow them to enter the city.
Zeng Kelin explained to them for a long time before the Soviets agreed to let them get out of the car. When the people in the city knew that a Chinese army was coming, they immediately went to the street to welcome them, and many people followed the troops forward and back, as if they were marching on a festival. The Soviets saw that this team was so popular and their attitudes improved greatly. Two days later, General Kravchenko, the supreme leader of the Soviet army in Shenyang, cordially received Zeng Kelin.
Zeng Kelin, with the support of the Soviet army, quickly moved to establish the Shenyang Garrison Headquarters in Shenyang, with Zeng Kelin as commander. At that time, the Soviet army was worried about the attitude of the Americans and did not allow Zeng Kelin to play the banner of the Eighth Route Army, so Zeng Kelin established a democratic regime in the northeast in the name of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and expanded the army.
At that time, the situation in Shenyang was also very chaotic, there were Japanese people in the city, there were puppet troops, and there were Soviet troops who were busy collecting Japanese property and dismantling the machinery and equipment of the military factories all day long, and the city was full of homeless people wandering the streets. As soon as Zeng Kelin gave the order, many people immediately signed up to join the army.
The Soviets handed over the Japanese Kwantung Army's Arsenal in Sujiatun, Shenyang, to Zeng Kelin for guarding, and Zeng Kelin immediately opened the warehouse and ordered the troops to carry the ammunition, bringing out a total of 30,000 rifles, thousands of machine guns, more than 100 guns, and a large amount of military supplies. At a banquet, the Soviet general had deliberately embarrassed Zeng Klin, let Zeng Klin drink a glass of liquor, gave him an arsenal, Zeng Klin drank 12 cups, poured on the spot at the banquet, but also got 12 arsenals as desired.
Zeng Kelin also took the opportunity to rapidly expand his troops, successively establishing eight brigades, a heavy artillery brigade, a mixed artillery brigade, a tank regiment, and a cadet regiment, and also received a flying brigade of the Japanese Kwantung Army, captured more than 30 aircraft, and more than 300 Japanese pilots and ground crews. The Jireliao Military Region has expanded from 12,000 before the customs clearance to 120,000.
On September 14, 1945, Marshal Malinlowski's representative, Colonel Berurusov, flew from Shenyang to Yan'an with Zeng Kelin to negotiate with Commander-in-Chief Zhu De on related matters.
After arranging for Colonel Beruru rossov, Liu Shaoqi urgently summoned the members of the Politburo to a meeting, and Zhu De, Ren Bishi, Peng Zhen, Chen Yun, Ye Jianying, and other major leaders all listened attentively to Zeng Kelin's report on the situation in the northeast. Zeng Kelin reported on the relevant situation in the northeast and asked the central authorities to quickly send cadres to the northeast to establish a democratic regime.
After listening to Zeng Kelin's report, the principal leaders of the Politburo did not sleep all night, held a one-night meeting, and finally decided to send 100 regiments of cadres and 100,000 troops from central China and north China to the northeast, preferring to abandon the southern base areas and seize the northeast and gain a foothold in the northeast.
Zeng Kelin's move did strengthen the central authorities' determination to send troops to the northeast, but Zeng Kelin's promotion was not as good as the cadres who entered the northeast later. Zeng Kelin, because of his meritorious service in the northeast, first became the commander of the Shenyang garrison district, and then served as the deputy commander of the Liaodong Military Region, apparently the position was demoted, when his commander Xiao Hua later became the founding general, and another deputy commander, Cheng Shicai, later the founding lieutenant general.
Soon after, in order to adapt to large-scale mobile warfare, the troops in the northeast region were reorganized, and Zeng Kelin served as the commander of the third column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, which was later the famous Dongye Third Column and the Siye 40th Army, this time his deputy commander was Han Xianchu, later the founding general. Zeng Kelin was indeed talented, but in the face of Han Xianchu, a god of war-level figure, Lin Biao quickly straightened out Han Xianchu, who had outstanding military ability, and Zeng Kelin was transferred to the Liaonan Military Region as a commander, which was subordinate to the Liaodong Military Region and was a third-level military sub-district, and was obviously demoted again.
In 1948, Zeng Kelin was transferred from the commander of the Liaonan Military Region to the deputy commander of the Seventh Column of the Northeast Field Army, and his commander was the later founding general Deng Hua. Later, the 7th Column of the Northeast Field Army was reorganized into the 44th Army, and Zeng Kelin served as the deputy commander of the 44th Army, when the deputy political commissar of the 44th Army, Tan Furen, was later a founding lieutenant general.
After the Battle of Pingjin, Siye formed a tank division, and Zeng Kelin was transferred from deputy commander to tank division commander, although he still retained the treatment of deputy army rank, but his position was demoted. After the founding of New China, the Platon Air Force was established, the first unit of the PLAAF was established according to the organization of the Soviet Army, the fourth mixed brigade of the air force, Zeng Kelin was transferred from the army to be the brigade commander of the fourth mixed brigade, the three flying regiments under the command of the brigade, later expanded into three aviation divisions, Zeng Kelin also learned the flying technology, became the first general who can fight in the sky.
Zeng Kelin's legendary career was not over, and in April 1952, the Naval Aviation Corps was established in Beijing, marking the birth of another branch of the Navy. After the establishment of the Naval Aviation Corps, Zeng Klin was transferred from the Air Force to the Navy, serving as deputy commander of the Naval Aviation Corps and commander of the First Aviation Division, and later as the Director of Naval Logistics and the Commander of naval aviation.
In 1955, Zeng Kelin was awarded the rank of major general, and during the Liberation War, many of his subordinates were awarded lieutenant general, admiral. But General Zeng kling did not complain, whether in the Army, or in the Air Force, or in the Navy, he made his own contribution.