Does the Eighth Route Army have only three divisions? It seems so, but it is not. To be precise, the Eighth Route Army has only three main divisions, and only two months after the establishment of the Eighth Route Army, a fourth division was built, that is, the independent first division of the Eighth Route Army.
The commanders of the three main divisions were all marshals, but what about this independent first division? The division commander Yang Chengwu was only a founding general. Why? Of course, this division can not be compared with the three main divisions, the number of only more than 7,000 people, originally the independent regiment of the 115th division, because the development is too fast, so it was expanded into a division.
This independent First Division had only three regiments under its command and no brigade formation. So, who are the leaders of the three regiments? What is their ultimate life achievement and outcome? These three regimental commanders can be clearly divided into three categories.
The first category, the Founding Generals. He was Chen Zhengxiang, the commander of the First Regiment, in fact, Chen Zhengxiang's seniority was even older than Yang Chengwu, he had participated in the Northern Expedition, and after joining the Red Army, he was a regimental commander in the Central Soviet Region like Yang Chengwu.
After the start of the Long March, Chen Zhengxiang became Yang Dezhi's favorite general and participated in the Battle of the Dadu River. The Eighth Route Army was established, and Chen Zhengxiang was the deputy commander of the regiment and Yang Dezhi's deputy. Later, he became Yang Chengwu's general. The political commissar of the first regiment was also relatively powerful, he was Luo Yuanfa, not only a founding lieutenant general, but also a hundred-year-old lieutenant general.
The second category, revolutionary martyrs, is Ji Guangshun, the leader of the Third Regiment. Ji Guangshun soon died honorably on the anti-Japanese battlefield and became a revolutionary martyr. The regimental political commissar of the Third Regiment was called Wang Daobang, who was Yang Chengwu's beloved general, the political commissar of the Sixty-fifth Army, who followed Yang Chengwu to participate in a series of battles, and also entered the Korean War after the founding of the Country, and was founded as a lieutenant general.
There is also the third category, which is more controversial, he is the leader of the second regiment, Huang Shoufa. Huang Shoufa was later shot. Why? Huang Shoufa, like Yang Chengwu, is a Native of Fujian, joined the Red Army as a teenager, and is also an old revolutionary.
During the Red Army period, Huang Shoufa served in the Red First Army for a long time and served as a regimental commander. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Huang Shoufa followed Yang Chengwu in battle in Jinchaji, served as the commander of the independent First Division, and after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was already the deputy commander of the column, and it should be said that he was a senior general.
Unfortunately, Huang Shoufa thought that he had made great merits for a long time, his warlord habits were serious, and his personal life style was not good, and he had a relationship with his nanny a few years after he got married. This was not allowed in those days and was a serious violation of discipline.
What is unexpected is that the bold Huang Shoufa actually developed to the point of murdering his wife, he just let the guards shoot and kill his wife, the guards refused, he took matters into his own hands, fired three shots at his wife, and his wife died on the spot.
The poor wife was already pregnant. Huang Shoufa is simply indignant and outrageous. Such revolutionary scum, of course, will not go unpunished. After his arrest, Huang Shoufa also refused to admit guilt, and he was not ashamed. After review, Huang Shoufa was finally executed by firing squad.
The political commissar of Huang Shoufa's second regiment was named Yuan Shengping, who later became a founding lieutenant general. Therefore, the three regimental commanders of Yang Chengwu's independent First Division later had very different endings, while the three regimental political commissars were all founding lieutenant generals.