Since the Opium War, the Western powers have been eyeing the land of China, and with the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, the iron horses of the Japanese Kou quickly occupied the three eastern provinces, resulting in the fall of the three thousand miles of fertile land in the northeast.
For example, some patriotic soldiers of the former Northeast Army, along with guerrillas and some volunteer troops, established the Northeast Anti-Japanese League under the leadership of our party, and under extremely cruel circumstances, they still persisted in resisting Japan and waged a hard struggle against the Japanese aggressors for 14 years.
Under the conditions of the huge disparity between the enemy and our forces at that time, more than 50,000 soldiers in the northeast anti-japanese coalition troops have successively stained the battlefield with blood and sacrificed their lives for the country, among which the generals who are well known to the world include Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi, Xu Hengzhi, Wang Detai, Xia Yunjie, and others, most of whom are military-level cadres.
The person we focus on today is the general responsible person and supreme leader of the anti-Japanese resistance in the northeast front in the later period, and his name is Zhou Baozhong.
Zhou Baoyuan, whose original name was Xi Yulong, was born in 1902, he was born in Wanqiao Village, Dali County, Yunnan, graduated from The Yunnan Daowutang at the age of 22, after which he first joined the Dian Army, then went to Feng Yuxiang's troops, became the deputy commander of the Major General and the commander of the 52nd Regiment of the 18th Division of the 6th Army of the Nationalist Army in 1927, joined our party in the same year, was ordered by the organization in 1928 to go to Moscow to study, and then studied at lenin institute.
After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, Zhou Baozhong returned to China to accept the instructions of Zhou Gong and secretly went to the northeast, and his name "Zhou Baozhong" was also changed at that time.
After entering the northeast territory, Zhou Baozhong established the Suining Anti-Japanese Allied Army with the help of the local party organization, and then served as the chief of the general staff of the National Salvation Army, during which he led the team to fight many big battles.
In 1935, Zhou Baozhong developed and formed the 5th Route Army of the Anti-Japanese League, and he personally served as the commander of the army, and at that time there was a lot of commotion, causing the Japanese to directly increase tens of thousands of troops to Jidong, in a vain attempt to eliminate the anti-Japanese armed forces headed by Zhou Baozhong.
After the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Baozhong served as the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese League; despite the heavy killing opportunities around him, Zhou Baozhong was still active in the northeast battlefield with the Anti-Japanese League, and their footprints were all over the snowy fields of Linhai and the wild villages in the mountains and villages, which not only expanded the influence of our party, but also embodied the tenacious and indomitable anti-Japanese spirit of the communists, and wherever his contingent went, it was deeply supported and supported by the people of the northeast.
In the most arduous period of the Anti-Japanese War, not only Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi and other generals sacrificed one after another, but also the tragic story of eight women throwing themselves into the river, these eight female fighters were in the 2nd Route Army of the Anti-Japanese League commanded by Zhou Baozhong, the eight heroines could have broken through, but in order to cover the troops, only relying on three rifles, they attracted all the enemies to the past, until they ran out of bullets, they still did not yield, after smashing the guns, the group was not afraid of life and death, directly jumped into the choppy Wusihun River, heroic sacrifice, The youngest of them was only 13 years old.
In the winter of 1939, the leaders of the Anti-Japanese Coalition headed by Zhou Baozhong held a meeting in Mudanjiang, and the meeting decided to withdraw the troops to the Soviet Far East to wait for the recuperation machine.
In March 1940, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Committee of the Anti-Japanese League, the Anti-Japanese League carried out a major strategic transfer, and the First to Third Route Army successively crossed the Sino-Soviet border into the designated area of the Soviet Union, where it received Soviet militarization training.
In November of the same year, Chairman Mao personally wrote a telegram instructing the formation of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, making Zhou Baozhong the deputy commander of The Four Fields and participating in the command of the entire northeast army and deploying operations.
In the war to liberate northeast China, Zhou Baozhong still played an important role, and his troops fought with the enemy more than 800 times, annihilated more than 40,000 enemy personnel, and sent only 190,000 soldiers to the main force, and the weapons and equipment captured were innumerable.
In May 1949, Chairman Mao spent four hours in Beiping listening to Zhou Baozhong's report on the work of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, at which time the chairman and Zhou Baozhong met for the first time and had a detailed discussion.
Since then, the chairman has also met with Zhou Baozhong twice and praised him as a national hero, and later Zhou Baozhong also participated in the founding ceremony. After the founding of New China, Zhou Baozhong served as director of the Political and Legal Committee of the Southwest Military and Political Committee and vice chairman of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government.
It is said that when the rank was awarded in 1955, 7 generals in the Northeast Anti-Japanese League were awarded the rank of major general, and the other 3 were awarded the rank of colonel, and were later promoted to at least general from 1961 to 1964.
As the leader of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, the reason why Zhou Baozhong was not awarded a title in 1955 was related to his separation from the military at that time, but this was not the main reason, because he went to the Soviet Union in the late stage of the War of Resistance, and after returning from the Soviet Union, he retained a radio station and still had contact with the Soviet side, which seemed to be a bit taboo.
However, from the perspective of the overall situation, Zhou Baozhong still made great contributions in the history of the Northeast War of Resistance, and in February 1964, Zhou Baozhong died of illness at the age of 62.