In 1944, Wang Jiaben, commander of the Seventy-ninth Army, was martyred in the battle against the Japanese army in the later stages of the Battle of Changheng!
Commander Wang Jiaben was the first general to die fighting with the Japanese army with a bayonet since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
At that time, the Seventy-ninth Army was under the jurisdiction of the 194th Division of the 98th Division and the Provisional Sixth Division. What happened to the commanders of these three divisions?
Commander of the Ninety-eighth Division Xiang Minsi
He successively served as the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 309th Regiment of the 155th Brigade of the 52nd Division, the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 587th Regiment of the 294th Brigade of the 98th Division, the deputy commander of the 584th Regiment of the 292nd Brigade, the commander of the 588th Regiment of the 294th Brigade, the deputy brigade commander of the 226th Brigade of the 76th Division and the commander of the 451st Regiment, the brigade commander of the 42nd Brigade of the 14th Division, the deputy commander of the 98th Division and the director of the Political Department, the commander of the 98th Division, the deputy commander of the 79th Army, the commander of the 110th Army, the deputy commander of the 110th Corps, the deputy commander of the 110th Corps and the commander of the 110th Army. Later, he served as a standing committee member of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy director of the Animal Husbandry Department of Shandong Province, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture, and deputy director of the Bureau of Agriculture (reorganized by the Department of Agriculture).
Commander of the 194th Division, Gong Chuanwen
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the brigade commander of the 294th Brigade of the Ninety-eighth Division of the Seventy-ninth Army, the deputy commander of the Provisional Sixth Division, the commander of the Sixth Guerrilla Advance Column of the Xiang'e-Gansu Border Region, the commander of the 194th Division of the 79th Army, the brigade commander of the 194th Brigade of the Reorganized 79th Division, and the commander of the 194th Division of the 79th Army. In the winter of 1949, he led the remnants of the Seventy-ninth Army to revolt in Sichuan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a counselor of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, a member of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Unity Committee of
Zhao Jiping, commander of the Provisional Sixth Division
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as chief of staff of the 128th Division, brigade commander, deputy division commander and division commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Provisional Sixth Division
In 1949, he died of illness.
The first commander of the army, Xia Chuzhong
The third military commander, Fang Jing