During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were 11 regular units led by the Chinese Communists, including 4 divisions of the Eighth Route Army (115th Division, 120th Division, 129th Division and Yang Chengwu Independent Division), and 7 divisions of the New Fourth Army, for a total of 11 divisions. However, of the 11 pairs of division commanders and political commissars, only one pair was a male and female partner.
Then the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army.
Among them, the division commander and political commissar is Li Xiannian, and the deputy political commissar is Chen Shaomin.
Li Xiannian, Zheng Weisan, and Chen Shaomin were together
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Shaomin and Li Xiannian originally each brought one unit.
In June 1939, they held a meeting at the top of Yangma Dashan in Jingshan County, and reorganized the two units into the Eyu Independent Guerrilla Detachment of the New Fourth Army, with Li Xiannian as commander and Chen Shaomin as political commissar.
Subsequently, the independent guerrillas were expanded into the New Fourth Army's Eyu Advancing Column, still one commander and the other political commissar.
As a political commissar, although Chen Shaomin was a woman, she was able to write and fight, and after joining forces, she often led a unit alone to negotiate and fight against the Japanese army and the recalcitrant army.
Chen Shaomin, deputy political commissar of the Eyu Advance Column of the New Fourth Army
Once, Chen Shaomin led the first detachment of the advancing column from the east to the west of the Pinghan Line. When passing through the Dongshuang River at night, due to the sudden hissing of the military horses, they were detected by the Japanese sentry by the river and opened fire, and the Japanese soldiers in the gun tower of the nearby station desperately shot flares and shots. Chen Shaomin was very calm and ordered his troops to prepare for battle while crossing the river. She said: "The Japanese army was fierce in front of the nationalist army, but they were afraid of our New Fourth Army and did not dare to fight with us at night, so they hid in the shell of the turtle and fired their guns indiscriminately, and did not dare to come out." We ignored him and continued to cross the river. ”
The troops continued westward.
The Japanese waited for a while without moving, and more than 100 people took a light train to explore the south. Chen Shaomin ordered his troops to hide in the hills on both sides of the railway, preparing to be annihilated when the enemy train returned. At dawn, when the light train returned to the ambush area, Chen Shaomin gave an order, the officers and men jumped up, a burst of grenades, which caught the enemy off guard, and more than 100 ghost soldiers were all destroyed.
The Japanese were sweeping
In the Eyu Border Region, the puppet army is also a major scourge.
Among them, Li Youtang's troops fought with more than 2,000 gunmen to dominate one side and mutilate the people. Once, when Chen Shaomin commanded the New Fourth Army to fight another Japanese army, Li Bu took the opportunity to attack. Chen Shaomin then decided to eliminate him.
One day, she led the 1st and 3rd regiments from the top of the Jingshan Mountains and directly attacked the lair of Li Youtang's puppet army. Foggy. The New Fourth Army fought fiercely for two days and one night, and Li Youtang was so frightened that he left his troops and fled alone, and all seven brigades of puppet troops were annihilated, while the New Fourth Army suffered no casualties.
Chen Shaomin was a famous female general of the New Fourth Army, and the Japanese and puppet armies were frightened, and the Kuomintang also hated her to the bone.
In early 1940, the former enemy headquarters of the Kuomintang Fifth Theater held a military conference, asking the New Fourth Army to take on the task of protecting the Beijing-Hankou Railway, and also delineated a section of area to "coordinate the recovery of the land." Chen Shaomin immediately saw the other side's conspiracy and said: "They want us to concentrate the main force on the railway line, so that we can catch it all." ”
Group photo of the leaders of the New Fourth Army, chen Shaomin in the middle
Therefore, she decided to shift the main force to the Yingshan area far away from the railway line, and sent Kong Hua to lead a squadron to the area designated by the Kuomintang to act on camera.
As Chen Shaomin expected, when Kong Hua led the team to the railway line, the Kuomintang recalcitrant army immediately surrounded them in a pre-set bag-shaped position and launched a fierce attack on them. Upon receiving the report, Chen Shaomin immediately led the main force to return to reinforcements and resolutely returned fire on the recalcitrant army.
As a result, Bao Gang, the commander-in-chief of the recalcitrant army, was killed by the New Fourth Army commanded by Chen Shaomin.
After the war, the Kuomintang conspiracy was exposed, but it did not dare to disclose the truth, and had to say that it was a "misunderstanding."
After the Anhui Incident, the Eyu Advance Column was officially reorganized into the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army, with Li Xiannian as the division commander and political commissar, and Chen Shaomin as the party secretary and then deputy political commissar, still as a partner.
Two years later, Zheng Wasan was transferred from elsewhere to serve as the political commissar of the 5th Division, and Chen Shaomin was mainly responsible for the construction of the district party committee and local government. However, once the battle was tense, she put on her armor again. Later, the border area produced a "female general" brand cigarette, on which the female general Prancing Horse raised a gun, and many people said that she was Chen Shaomin.
Chen Shaomin
Chen Shaomin is a rare female leading cadre who has directly led the armed struggle for a long time in the CPC, and she has been legendary all her life and is known as "a heroic master among women."
From left: Li Ne, Chen Shaomin, Lin Doudou, Ye Qun
Chen Shaomin was with Sister Deng