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After the Anhui Incident in 1941, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China took an important step in a tit-for-tat manner, with the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China issuing an order on January 20 to rebuild the Military Department of the New 4th Army, appointing Chen Yi as acting commander and Liu Shaoqi as political commissar.
On January 25, 1941, the New 4th Army Headquarters was re-established in Yancheng, northern Jiangsu Province, and unified the New 4th Army and the Eighth Route Army troops operating south of the Longhai Railway into 7 divisions and 1 independent brigade of the New 4th Army, with a total of more than 90,000 people, of which the most eye-catching of the 7 divisions was the 1st Division, division commander Su Yu, and political commissar Liu Yan. The 1st Division was reorganized from 3 columns under the former 4th Army's Northern Jiangsu Headquarters, with 3 brigades under its jurisdiction.
The first brigade, brigade commander and political commissar Ye Fei.
Ye Fei, whose original name was Ye Qiheng and formerly known as Ye Chen, was born in May 1914 in Quezon Province, Philippines, to a Mixed-Race Chinese-Philippine family. His father, Ye Sunwei, was a native of Jintao Town, Nan'an, Fujian Province, and a small businessman of overseas Chinese. In 1900, he crossed the ocean to the town of Awang in Quezon Province, Philippines to earn a living. He married Miss Mercato, a native, and had two sons, the second son, General Ye Fei, whose Filipino name was Sisto McCarto Diongo.
In 1918, when he was only 4 years old, Ye Fei was sent back to China by his father, where he studied at Xiamen Zhongshan Middle School and Provincial No. 13 Middle School, in May 1928, Ye Fei joined the Chinese Communist Youth League, in March 1932, he joined the Communist Party of China, and founded the Mindong Revolutionary Base Area and the Red Army Guerrillas. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army in eastern Fujian was reorganized into the New Fourth Army, and then followed Su Yu in the Southern Expedition to the Northern War, and was Su Yu's most capable general. But in 1949, he was blamed for the defeat at the Battle of Kinmen.
Ye Fei was awarded the rank of general in 1955 and died in Beijing on April 18, 1999, at the age of 85 due to illness.
The second brigade, brigade commander Wang Bicheng, political commissar Liu Peishan.
Wang Bicheng was born in 1912 in Xiaozhai Village, Chengmagang Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province. He joined the Red Guards in 1928, joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1929, joined the Communist Party of China in 1930, participated in the 1st to 4th anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles in the Eyu-Anhui Revolutionary Base Area, the "Three-Way Siege" in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area, the Xuanhan Anti-"Six-Way Siege", the Yanling Victory, the Battle of Huangqiao, and other battles. He died in Nanjing on March 13, 1989 at the age of 77.
Political commissar Liu Peishan, born in 1912, once used the names Sanzai and Shanzai. A native of Chaling Seven Townships in Hunan Province, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
The Third Brigade, Brigade Commander Tao Yong, Political Commissar Liu Xiansheng.
Tao Yong, whose original name was Zhang Daoyong, was born on January 21, 1913, to a poor peasant family in Huoqiu County, Anhui Province. He lost his father at an early age, was forced to herd cattle at the age of 7, joined the Communist Youth League of China in February 1929, and joined the guerrillas in Henan Shangcheng in April of the same year. In May 1932, he transferred to the Communist Party of China. He served as a squad leader, platoon leader and company commander of the 32nd Division of the Red 11th Army. He participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region and the Red Fourth Front's western expedition into Sichuan. He led his troops to participate in the struggle to open up the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region and the anti-"three-way siege" and anti-"six-way siege" operations. After accompanying the Red Fourth Front's Long March to northern Shaanxi, he served as the instructor of the Red 9th Army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was transferred to the deputy chief of staff of the 1st Detachment of the New Fourth Army, during which Chen Yi changed his name, omitted zhang's surname, and took the original name "Daoyong" as "Tao Yong", he was Su Yu's right-hand man, with outstanding military achievements, especially in November 1950, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, successively served as deputy commander, acting commander and political commissar of the 9th Corps of the Chinese Volunteer Army, and participated in the Second and Fifth Campaigns. He was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955. He died in Shanghai on January 21, 1967.
Liu Xiansheng was born in June 1901 to a poor peasant family in Shitan District, Xiangtan County. He joined the Party in 1924 and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation. He was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955. He died in Nanjing on October 12, 1977, at the age of 76.
The commander of the 1st Division was Su Yu, known as the God of War, while Ye Fei, Wang Bicheng and Tao Yong were known as Su Yu's three musketeers and could fight well, so the combat effectiveness of the 1st Division was the strongest among the 7 divisions. These three brigades later moved to the north and south of the Great River, the land of Qilu, and the Huanghuai Plain, and continued to grow and develop in the war, becoming several main units of the Central China Field Army, the East China Field Army, and the Third Field Army.