The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army was a heroic unit on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, fighting against Japan more than 20,000 times and annihilating more than 500,000 Japanese and puppet troops, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders and liberating tens of thousands of Chinese compatriots. When the ranks were conferred in 1955, there were 3 marshals, 2 generals, more than 10 generals, and more than 30 lieutenant generals from this unit.
First, the marshal
Lin Biao: Division Commander
Nie Rongzhen: Deputy division commander, later changed to political commissar and created the Jin-Cha-Ji Anti-Japanese Base Area
Luo Ronghuan: Director of the Political Department, chen Guang led the department to shandong and established a base for the anti-Japanese resistance in Shandong
Second, the General
Xu Haidong: Brigade Commander of the 344th Brigade, who later led his troops to central China and served as deputy commander-in-chief of Jiangbei of the New Fourth Army
Huang Kecheng: Political Commissar of the 344th Brigade, who later led his troops to central China and served as the commander of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army
3. Admiral
Chen Shiyu: Chief of Staff of the 343rd Brigade
Yang Dezhi: Commander of the 685th Regiment, responsible for stopping the head during the Great Crossing of the River and the Pingxingguan War during the forced march
Li Tianyou: Commander of the 686th Regiment, in charge of the assault during the Battle of Pingxingguan
Deng Hua: Director of the Political Office of the 685 Regiment
Liu Zhen: Political Commissar of the 688 Regiment
Yang Yong: Deputy commander of the 686 regiment, led his troops to seize the Laoye Temple during the Pingxingguan War
Xiao Hua: Deputy director of the Division's Political Department, and later political commissar of the 343rd Brigade, together with Chen Guang, commanded the Guangyang ambush, killing and wounding more than 1,000 Japanese troops
Tang Liang: Chief of the Organization Section of the Political Department of the 343rd Brigade,
Huang Yongsheng: Deputy regimental commander of the Independent Regiment, like Xu Shiyou, is also good at fighting in large corps
Han Xianchu: Deputy commander of the 688th Regiment, led his troops to engage in a white-knife war with the Japanese army during the anti-"six-way siege", and was called "whirlwind commander" by his opponents during the liberation war.
Yang Chengwu: Leader of an independent regiment, flew to seize the Luding Bridge during the Long March, climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed meadows to open up roads, and conquered the natural danger of Lazikou
4. Lieutenant General
Liang Xingchu: Commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 685th Regiment. During the Great War, he rushed into the ranks of the Japanese army, directly fought with the Japanese army with bayonets, and stabbed more than 10 devils; in the second campaign to resist the United States and aid Korea, the US army was defeated, eliminating more than 12,000 US troops
Su Jing: Chief of the Reconnaissance Section of the Divisional Headquarters. He was good at reconnaissance and intelligence, and was praised by two marshals, Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen
Zhang Renchu: Commander of the 1st Battalion of the 686th Regiment. Like Liang Xingchu during the Battle of Pingxingguan, he led his troops to fight with the Japanese army in bayonets; during the Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he commanded the 26th Army to pursue and kill the US First Marine Division in the face of the snow and wind
In addition to them, there are Wu Xinquan, Zeng Guohua, Liu Xiyuan, Liang Biye, Chen Zhengxiang, Peng Mingji... In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, they fought all over the north and south of the great river, inside and outside the Great Wall, and became the strong backbone of the liberation army.
The predecessor of the 115th Division was the Red Army, which had experienced countless guns and bullets, and had broken through many difficulties and obstacles in the Long March. The whole division has been in the battlefield for a long time, from the division commander to the ordinary soldiers have experienced countless baptisms of war, so in the War of Resistance Against Japan, they swept across the land of North China, and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses and casualties.
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