As we all know, at the beginning of the Long March of the Central Red Army, there were 5 corps, namely the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th and 9th Armies. Among them, the strongest is undoubtedly the Red 1 Army, which was developed from the Zhu and Mao Red Army in the Jinggangshan period, and the leadership team of the corps is very strong: the regimental commander and political commissar are Lin Shuai and Nie Shuai, the chief of staff is Zuo Quan and Zhu Rui, the first 3 are from the Whampoa Military Academy, and Zhu Rui is the "returnee" of the Soviet Union.
At that time, the three divisions under the jurisdiction of the Red 1 Army, namely the Red 1st Division, the Red 2nd Division and the Red 15th Division, the commander and political commissar of each division were also very good generals. Who are they? How did they end up?
Let's start with the lesser-known Red 15th Division, which was abolished shortly after the Start of the Long March. The Red 15th Division, formerly known as the Young Communist International Division established in August 1933, consisted of seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenagers who were very famous at the time, and Xiao Hua, the political commissar at the time, was only 17 years old. At the beginning of the Long March, the commander of the Red 15th Division was Peng Shaohui, and the political commissar was Xiao Hua.
Peng Shaohui was born in 1906 in Shaoshanchong, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, and is the most authentic fellow of great people. He participated in the Pingjiang Uprising led by Mr. Peng and Huang Gongluo, and in 1933 he lost his left arm in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation, thus becoming a famous one-armed general of our army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Peng Shaohui served as a brigade commander in the 120th Division. During the Liberation War, he returned to Peng Zong's command and was the first commander of the 7th Army of the People's Liberation Army. In 1955, Peng Shaohui was awarded the rank of general, and on April 25, 1978, Peng Shaohui attended the Air Force Combat Conference with a serious illness and unfortunately died in the line of duty.
Xiao Hua, the political commissar of the Red 15th Division, was a native of Xingguo, Jiangxi, who had partnered with Yang Dezhi in the late Long March, served as the political commissar of the Red 2nd Division, served as the deputy director of the Political Department of the 115th Division in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and later served as the commander and political commissar of the Anti-Japanese Advance Column in the eastward march, opening up the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Jilubian, at this time only 22 years old, he had the reputation of "Doll Commander". In 1955, xiao Hua, 39, became the youngest founding general of the People's Liberation Army. In 1985, Xiao Hua died of illness in Beijing at the age of 70.
The Red 1st Division is the main force of the Red 1st Regiment, not only the commander of the division is famous for its political commissar, but the following regimental commanders and political commissars are even more famous: for example, Yang Dezhi, the leader of the Red 1st Regiment, Huang Yongsheng, the leader of the Red 3rd Regiment, and Deng Hua, the political commissar of the Red 2nd Regiment.
The commander of the Red 1st Division was Li Jukui, a native of Anhua, Hunan, who was also a famous general who came out of the Pingjiang Uprising, and later Li Jukui was transferred to the Red 9th Army of the Red Fourth Front as chief of staff. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Jukui served as chief of staff of the 386th Brigade, and gradually switched to logistics work after arriving in the northeast during the Liberation War. In 1955, Li Jukui was not awarded the title because he left the army to serve as minister of the petroleum industry. In 1958, Li Jukui returned to work in the army, so he was given the rank of general, the last founding general to be awarded the title. In 1995, Li Jukui died at the age of 91.
Lai Chuanzhu, political commissar of the Red 1st Division, was born in Ganxian County, Jiangxi in 1910, and has been serving as the chief of staff of the New Fourth Army after the Anhui Incident, during the Liberation War, Lai Chuanzhu served as deputy commander of the East Manchuria Military Region, political commissar of the 6th Column, political commissar of the 43rd Army, and later partnered with Deng Hua as the political commissar of the 15th Corps, and in 1955, Lai Chuanzhu was awarded the rank of general. Unfortunately, Lai Chuanzhu died young in 1965.
Finally, let's take a look at the two commanders of the Red 2nd Division, another main division of the Red 1Stours.
The political commissar of the Red 2nd Division at that time was the famous Liu Yalou, a native of Wuping, Fujian, Fujian. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Yalou went to the Soviet Union to study at the Frunze Military Academy, participated in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, and was a major general in the Soviet Red Army. During the Liberation War, Liu Yalou served for a long time as chief of staff of the Democratic Coalition Army (Northeast Field Army) and later as commander of the 14th Corps. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Yalou became the first commander of the Air Force of the People's Liberation Army and was naturally one of the founding generals. Like Lai Chuanzhu, Liu Yalou died untimely in 1965, and both lived only 55 years.
So who is the commander of the Red 2nd Division? He was the most lamentable outstanding general Chen Guang.
Chen Guang was born in Yizhang, Hunan in 1905, participated in the Shonan Uprising, and was once the acting commander of the Red 1st Army after the Red Army's Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Guang served as the brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade, and later acted as the commander of the 115th Division, and together with Luo Shuai, led the main force of the 115th Division to the anti-Japanese battlefield in Shandong, which was no less senior than those generals. Unfortunately, Chen Guang did not wait for the day of the title, and died in 1954 for various reasons.