The Eighth Route Army went deep behind enemy lines to resist Japan and insisted on guerrilla warfare in the mountains, that is to say, the troops of the Eighth Route Army must rely on the mountains and establish a solid base area. So, what base area did the 386 Brigade led by Chen Geng establish?
This is also very famous, the Taiyue revolutionary base area, the base area established the Taiyue Military Region. Many people may be confused, what is Taiyue? The base area opened up by the 386th Brigade is based on the Taiyue Mountain in Shanxi, which runs through the north and south, so it is called the Taiyue Military Region and the Taiyue Revolutionary Base Area.
The Taiyue Military Region, which was a mighty earthquake in north China, stepped out of three columns in succession, that is, the four corps of the Later Second Field Army. So, which three columns? Who are the column commanders? What rank did they later have?
First of all, of course, the fourth column led by Chen Geng was the first one. The commander was Chen Geng ( Chen Geng , a native of Xiangxiang , Hunan. The fourth column was called the Taiyue Column at the beginning, which was a disciple of the Taiyue Military Region. The fourth column originated in the Taiyue Military Region, which is the glory of the Taiyue Military Region.
We say that the Taiyue Military Region and the 386Th Brigade are closely linked. Chen Geng, commander of the Fourth Column, was the first brigade commander of the 386th Brigade and the first commander of the Taiyue Military Region. The Fourth Column was the first trump card of Liu Deng's army, and once fought independently and alone.
The Second Field Army was established, Chen Geng was promoted to commander of the Fourth Corps, and the Fourth Column was reorganized into the Thirteenth Army and the Fourteenth Army, with the commanders zhou Xihan and Li Chengfang, both founding lieutenant generals. Chen Geng was the fourth greatest founding general.
The second is the Eighth Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, established in 1947. Was the Eighth Column also sent to the Taiyue Military Region? Of course, do you know who the commander of the Eighth Column was? Wang Xinting, Hubei Xiao touching.
The 386 Brigade was established, and Wang Xinting was the brigade's political commissar and Chen Geng's important partner. Wang Xinting also served as the political commissar of the Taiyue Military Region. During the Liberation War, Chen Geng commanded the Taiyue Column, and Wang Xinting served as the commander of the Taiyue Military Region, and he became the helmsman of the Taiyue Military Region.
The Eighth Column formed by the troops of the Etheric Yue Military Region was initially subordinate to the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, and later changed to the command of the North China Military Region, becoming the backbone of xu qianqian corps in the North China battlefield and participating in a series of liberation wars in the Shanxi battlefield. The Eighth Column developed into the Sixtieth Army, and the first commander was Wang Xinting, who was the founding general.
The third was the 15th Column of the North China Military Region, commander Liu Zhong, a native of Shanghang, Fujian. Liu Zhong previously served as the political commissar of the 386 Brigade and the last brigade commander of the 386 Brigade. He also succeeded Wang Xinting as commander of the Taiyue Military Region.
In 1948, the taiyue military region unit under the command of Liu Zhong was reorganized into the 15th column, which was the last column out of the Taiyue military region and the largest column. The fifteenth column, like the eighth column, was under the command of Xu Qianqian in the Shanxi battlefield and fought against Yan Xishan's troops.
The fifteenth column was reorganized into the Sixty-second Army, and the commander was Still Liu Zhong, a founding lieutenant general who lived very long and died in 2002 at the age of 96. Liu Zhong is also a legendary general, at the age of 77, he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, after surgery, lived for nearly 20 years, creating a miracle of anti-cancer.