The Red First Army, the Red Second Front Army and the Red Fourth Front Army were the three main forces of the Red Army, of which the Red First Army, also known as the Central Red Army, was formally established in August 1930. On November 25, 1931, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission was established, and the General Headquarters of the Red Front Army was abolished, and in this context, the command of the Front Army was directly vested in the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and in June 1932, the number of the Red Army was restored.
Today we are going to talk about this person is a high-ranking general of the Red Army, after the abolition of the General Headquarters of the Red Army, the General Political Department was established, he served as deputy director and acting director of the General Political Department of the Red Army, his name is He Chang, and he is also the youngest member of the Central Committee in the history of our party. So, what is the story of He Chang?
He Chang was born in 1906 in Lishi County, Shanxi Province, into a family of intellectuals and received a good education from an early age. In 1918, He Chang was admitted to Lishi County Senior Primary School, during which he came into contact with many progressive young people who returned from other places, and under their influence, He Chang's thinking became more and more active, and he began to participate in various anti-imperialist and anti-feudal patriotic movements, and his ideological consciousness was greatly improved.
In May 1921, He Chang and others established the first Communist Youth League (Socialist Youth League) in Taiyuan, and they also regarded further research and propaganda of Marxism as an important task. During that period, He Chang and others not only widely propagated Marxism among aspiring young people and guided them to progress and light, but also expounded revolutionary principles among the working masses and guided them to struggle for survival and liberation.
Against this background, the revolutionary situation in Shanxi was in full swing, and behind this, He Chang did a great deal of work and made important contributions to the development and growth of the revolutionary forces in Shanxi. In 1923, He Chang joined our party and became an honorable party member, and it was also in this year that He Chang went to Beijing and entered the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League to work.
After that, He Chang traveled to Beijing, Shanghai and other places to propagate the revolutionary ideas of our party among the progressive youth, during which he served as the director of the propaganda department of the Southern Bureau, the secretary of the Northern Bureau and the secretary of the Shunzhi Provincial Party Committee, and other important positions, in 1927, the 21-year-old He Chang also participated in the "Fifth National Congress" and was elected as a member of the Fifth Central Committee, becoming the youngest member of the Central Committee in the history of our party.
In 1932, He Chang went to work in the central base area, served as deputy director and acting director of the General Political Department of the Red Army, and participated in and led the struggle against "encirclement and suppression" in the central base area. In October 1934, after the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the main force of the Central Red Army embarked on the road of the Long March, while He Chang chose to stay in the Soviet area and persist in guerrilla warfare in southern Jiangxi.
During that period, He Chang not only preserved the revolutionary forces in the base areas, but also effectively contained the military forces of the Kuomintang reactionaries and coordinated the Long March of the main forces. It should be noted that the hardships of persisting in guerrilla warfare in the base areas left behind are no less arduous than those of the Long March, and the Red Army left behind not only faced the difficulty of lacking food and clothing, but also was extremely short of medical and health supplies......
Even in spite of such difficulties, He Chang never wavered in his revolutionary confidence, on the one hand he told the soldiers about the necessity of the revolution, and on the other hand, he also told the soldiers about the truth of the revolution, and actively did a good job in unity work, and in the extremely difficult environment, he still maintained the stability of the ranks and insisted on fighting wits and courage with the Kuomintang reactionaries.
Unfortunately, on March 10, 1935, when He Chang led his troops to break through, he was ambushed by the enemy. In the course of the battle, He Chang was unfortunately shot and died heroically at the age of 29.