The cadres of the Red Fourth Front, even at the regimental level, did not have a single breed in the later War of Resistance And The War of Liberation, and they were all good men at the top, but there were two people, although they served as regular army-level cadres in the Red Fourth Front, and the Liberation War did not have any outstanding performance in the Northeast Field Army.
1. Cheng Shicai
Cheng Shicai
Cheng Shicai was born on August 8, 1912 in Chengjiawa, Xuanhuadian, Lishan County (now Dawu), Hubei Province. In 1930, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and joined the Communist Youth League of China in the same year. In 1931, he transferred to the Communist Party of China. He was a political instructor, regimental commander and political commissar of the Special Agent Company of the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division of the Red Fourth Front. He participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region and the Red Fourth Front's Western Expedition. From February to June 1933, he participated in the anti-"three-way siege" in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region. Later, he served as the political commissar of the 90th Division of the Red 30th Army, the commander and political commissar of the 88th Division, the deputy commander, the acting commander, and the commander of the army, and led the troops to participate in the battles of Yinan, Yingqu, and Xuanda. In the anti-"six-way siege", he led his troops to carry out a large-depth detour, and under the command of Xu Qianqian, together with other troops, surrounded and annihilated more than 10,000 Kuomintang troops in the Huangmaoya area. Later, he led his troops to participate in the Battle of Jialing River. During the Long March, he fought with Li Xiannian and annihilated the 49th Division of the Nationalist Army in the south of Huzong, opening the door for the Red Army to march to Gannan. In October 1936, he was ordered to lead his troops to cross the Yellow River in the west. After the defeat of the Western Route Army, he led the remnants along the Qilian Mountains to the west, fought for more than 40 days, arrived in Xinjiang, and preserved a number of backbone cadres for the party. In 1938, he entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. In 1939, he was appointed chief of staff and commander of the 12th detachment of the Jichare Advancing Army, and participated in leading the opening up of anti-Japanese base areas in Pingxi and Pingbei. Later, he served as the president of the anti-Japanese Military and Political University branch and the deputy director of the 4th Department of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee. During the Liberation War, he served as commander of the Liaonan Military Region, deputy commander of the Liaodong Military Region, commander of the Andong Military Region, and commander of the Western Liaoning Military Region, and participated in the battles of Siping, Anshan, Benxi, Sibao Linjiang, and Liaoshen. After the founding of New China, he served as the first deputy commander of the Public Security Army, the deputy commander of the Shenyang Military Region, and the commander of the Shenyang Garrison District. From 1975 to 1985, he was the deputy commander of the armored corps of the People's Liberation Army.
In 1930, Cheng Shicai joined the Red Army, in just five or six years, he became a military commander, although he was an agent, but after all, he also commanded an army, and was the main force of the Red Fourth Front, we know that during the Red Army period, there were many armies that were empty shelves, but the army of the Four Fronts had to command at least 10,000 or 20,000 people, and this speed of progress can be called divine speed.
However, due to Zhang Guotao's erroneous line and the influence of the defeat of the Western Route Army, as a cadre at the military level, he was inevitably unaffected in the future; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he used to work in the Pingxi base area, serving as the chief of staff of the base area, and cooperating with Xiao Ke in his work, but Xiao Ke made a mess in the Pingxi base area, not only killing Gao Zhiyuan, but also forcing Song Shilun and Deng Hua away.
At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cheng Shicai led his troops to take the lead in entering the northeast, laying the foundation for our army's large-scale advance into the northeast, but in the Liberation War, except for a brief time as commander of the three columns of Dongye, he basically engaged in the work of the military region, and he basically did not participate in the more fierce battles, of course, the credit was basically not his.
Second, Zhan Caifang
Zhan Caifang is also a native of Hong'an, Hubei Province, born in 1907, which is the oldest among the lieutenant generals in 1955, which has little to do with his later contributions
As one of the older generals of the Red Fourth Front, Zhan Caifang still participated in the revolution under the influence of Mr. Dong Biwu. In the Red Fourth Front, Zhan also held a very high position, serving as the political commissar of the Red 9th Army and the 31st Army, and Chen Xilian, Chen Zaidao, Qin Jiwei and others were his subordinates at that time. Even Xu Shiyou, who had a fiery temper, also respected Zhan Caifang for three points, after all, when Zhan was the political commissar of the Red Ninth Army, Xu Shiyou was a deputy commander. Even Li Xiannian would call Zhan the old squad leader
After the Long March, like many cadres of the Four Fronts Army, Zhan Caifang also suffered unfair treatment, during the War of Resistance, he has been working in North China, tepid, during the Liberation War, the Jidong area where he worked was assigned to the Northeast Liberated Area, and became Lin Zong's subordinate, Zhan finally became the commander of the 9th Column
In the position of commander of the column, Zhan Caifang showed a high military quality, whether it was the annihilation of the 49th Army of the Northeast Army, or in the battles of Jinzhou, Liaoxi, Yingkou and other battles, his nine columns made outstanding achievements, especially the Jinzhou offensive, the ninth column was the first to break through the city wall, and captured Fan Hanjie and others.
Tianjin attacked the stronghold, and Zhan Caifang's 9 columns finally won the core stronghold of Yaohua Middle School. He made great contributions to the liberation of Tianjin as soon as possible.
Zhan Caifang's Red Army period was a cadre at the military level, and after the War of Liberation was fought, he was still a military-level cadre; this is indeed rare in the history of our army; of course, Zhan Caifang was still relatively respected by the cadres of the previous four fronts: Marshal Xu Qianqian called him an "old comrade-in-arms," Chairman Li Xiannian called him an "old squad leader," and Generals Chen Xilian, Chen Zaidao, and Qin Jiwei called them "old leaders."
Whether it is Cheng Shicai or Zhan Caifang, the same point is that the military cadres of the Red Army period also served as the commander of the column in Siye, that is to say, after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was basically no development, and they were in a state of standing still, and the military-level cadres of the other four fronts, such as Li Xiannian, served as the commander of the Central Plains Military Region, Xu Shiyou, in the second year of the Liberation War, he served as the commander of the Shandong Corps, Wang Jian'an, the deputy of Xu Shiyou in the Jinan Campaign, and in 1949, the whole army was reorganized and also served as the commander of the corps. Although Xu Shiyou and Wang Jian'an's progress was not fast, they lagged behind Chen Xilian, but they were also considered to be decent, but the progress of the former four-front army cadres in Dongye was indeed not fast; in Dongye, Han Xianchu, Liu Zhen, Hong Xuezhi, and others all came from the Dabie Mountain base area, and their positions during the Red Army period were far lower than those of Cheng Shicai and Zhan Caifang, but they all came to the top and became founding generals, and I don't know whether it was because of Lin Zong's selection and employment of people, or the reason for the ability of Cheng Zhan and the two