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Author: Yi Pin Wen team a constant single step, no authorization to ban the transfer!
At the Gutian Conference in 1929, when Chairman Mao introduced Luo Ronghuan to the comrades attending the meeting, he sincerely said, "Luo Ronghuan is a talented person and a very good leading cadre, and we found out late for this comrade." This was the earliest evaluation of Luo Ronghuan by Chairman Mao that could be found so far. There is no reason why Chairman Mao spoke so highly of Luo Ronghuan, and Luo Ronghuan was the only one who was awarded the rank of marshal in 1955 without the rank of marshal for his outstanding military merits.
Luo Ronghuan's ability to obtain this supreme top honor in the military, the real things that happened in time and in the course of history, are undoubtedly the best illustrations. Luo Ronghuan is a talented person and a very good leading cadre, and it is enough to express only a little here.
[Luo Ronghuan in the Anti-Japanese Base Area of Shandong]
Zheng Rong years know the true colors of heroes. When the smoke of the anti-Japanese war was ignited on the land of China until early March 1939, in accordance with the orders of the CPC Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Luo Ronghuan and Chen Guang led 5,000 troops of the 115th Division to Shandong and opened up a new anti-Japanese battlefield behind enemy lines.
Keep in mind that at the beginning of March 1939, Luo Ronghuan's troops from Shanxi Province were only 5,000 people, and by the time of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, Luo Ronghuan had 270,000 regular troops under his command, accounting for one-third of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. It does not include local paramilitary organizations such as county brigades and district squads established in various counties and districts. Among all the anti-Japanese base areas established by the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army at that time, this was the most powerful military group and the most stable base area.
【Luo Ronghuan in the great cause of building an army】
Why Luo Ronghuan was able to expand his army of 5,000 people to such a huge military group as 270,000 people, there is no doubt that he relied on his unique personality charm and, more importantly, his unique ideological and political work methods, to achieve such remarkable results.
Time back to March 1939, when Luo Ronghuan led the 115th Division into the territory of Shandong Province, although objectively speaking, the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China had established three county-level anti-Japanese democratic regimes and base areas in Penglai, Huangxian, and Yexian, almost all the cities and most of the country were suffering under the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou.
[Japanese trophy captured by the 115th Division]
Even more because of the numerous mountainous areas in Shandong Province, the inconvenience of transportation, and the fierceness of the people's customs, this special geographical condition and humanistic factors have formed a complicated situation in which the enemy, the pseudo, the stubborn, and friendly armies coexist, including militia groups composed of local patriots who resolutely resisted the war, and there were also several battles organized by the Kuomintang army, such as the "Battle of Taierzhuang.", after the original structure was broken up, they failed to withdraw the remaining Kuomintang troops, as well as the anti-Japanese armed forces led by the Communist Party of China who persisted in the War of Resistance, of course, including those who betrayed the country and sought glory. A patchwork of hedonistic traitors and puppet armies. In the face of the above-mentioned complicated situation, uniting all forces that can be united to fight the vicious Japanese imperialism is an important proposition of the Eighth Route Army entering Shandong to engage in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression behind enemy lines. Adhering to this aim, after Luo Ronghuan and his troops arrived in Shandong, in addition to holding a joint meeting with the principal comrades of the Shandong Provincial CPC Committee in a timely manner, they carefully listened to the anti-Japanese situation in Shandong and looked for the main direction of attack that needed work. In the end, armed groups adhering to the anti-Japanese resistance were formed, actively explaining to them the anti-Japanese concept of the Eighth Route Army, warmly welcoming the contingents that were willing to accept the reorganization and joining the Eighth Route Army, and not reluctantly joining for the time being. At the same time, we should continue to persist in maintaining good relations with the friendly forces of the Anti-Japanese Resistance, and if we need to cooperate with the friendly forces in battle, we should promptly dispatch capable forces to provide support, so as to reduce the pressure on the friendly forces, jointly eliminate the effective forces of the Japanese army, and expand the influence of the Eighth Route Army in the enemy-occupied areas.
【Luo Ronghuan in the Era of the Eighth Route Army, third from the left】
No matter how well the ideological and political work is done and how well the propaganda work is done, it is not as direct and effective as a victory in a battle. Soon after entering Shandong, Luo Ronghuan realized the extreme importance of winning on the battlefield. When it was learned that the Japanese puppet army had carried out a sweep of Fanba (northwest of Yuncheng), in order to show the prestige of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, it showed the people of Shandong that the Eighth Route Army was an army that could fight hard battles and fight vicious battles. Luo Ronghuan immediately ordered the main force of the 115th Division to attack. In addition, the Battle of Fanba was the first battle fought by the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, which was directly related to whether the Eighth Route Army could gain a foothold in Shandong. Before the war, Luo Ronghuan learned in detail about the combat arrangements and personally went to the front line to command, which greatly boosted the morale of the officers and men participating in the battle, and the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army who took on the offensive task even took the opportunity to win this battle as a greeting gift to their fathers and fellow villagers in Shandong, and the officers and men heroically killed the enemy and eliminated more than 800 people of the Yuncheng pseudo-security regiment in one fell swoop. Immediately, in the Lufang area south of Feicheng, the "Nine-Way Siege" of more than 8,000 Japanese puppet troops was smashed again, and the military prestige of the Eighth Route Army was played, and the confidence and determination of the people of Shandong to resist the Japanese to the end were firmly believed. The victories in these two battles invisibly expanded the scope of the base areas, allowing more young people to see that the Eighth Route Army was a real anti-Japanese armed force and joined the Eighth Route Army one after another.
[115th Division captures the county seat of Nichiza]
Under the command of Luo Ronghuan, the 115th Division not only opened up the situation in Shandong in a relatively short period of time, but also expanded the troops to establish a base area, changing the passive situation in which Shandong was at a low ebb. At the same time, Luo Ronghuan had great foresight, firmly grasped the favorable opportunity of the main japanese force going south, the rear empty, and the inability to compete with the Eighth Route Army for mountainous and rural battles, and promptly divided his troops to attack various places, and by 1941, the 115th Division had successively established anti-Japanese base areas in the Luxi, Lunan, Jilubian, Luzhong, and Coastal areas. The "railway guerrillas" that we are familiar with, blowing up bridges to fight devils, are the anti-Japanese armed forces that have been active on the railway line established by the Eighth Route Army in Lunan at that time.
The Anti-Japanese Base Area and the Anti-Japanese Battlefield in Shandong under the leadership of Luo Ronghuan gradually advanced towards the central cities of the Japanese Kou, which increasingly threatened the interests of the Japanese Kou in Shandong. The 115th Division had already made the Japanese feel as uncomfortable as a thorn in the back, so they formulated a plan and adopted the method of iron wall encirclement to completely eliminate the Luzhong anti-Japanese base area where the leading organ of the Eighth Route Army was located in Shandong.
【115th Division of the Eighth Route Army】
In the winter of 1941, with the cooperation of aircraft, the Japanese Kou gathered more than 50,000 puppet troops and adopted the method of step-by-step encroachment to carry out a brutal "sweep" of the Cpc Central Committee's Shandong Branch and the 115th Division's division and other party, government, and military departments. Luo Ronghuan, who has already served as the secretary of the Shandong Military and Political Committee, comprehensively presided over and was responsible for the party and government work in Shandong Province. In the face of the 50,000-day puppet army that was pouring in, he was extremely calm and calm, because facing so many things that were oppressed by the great enemy, Luo Ronghuan, who had experienced the agrarian revolutionary war, especially the five counter-encirclement and suppression, had long been unfazed. How to break out of the encirclement set up by the Japanese Kou, he finally waited for a favorable opportunity, and unexpectedly led his troops to move towards Linyi, the japanese occupation zone. This dangerous move was completely unexpected by the Japanese Kou, which caught the Japanese Kou by surprise, and finally jumped out of the enemy's heavy encirclement and thwarted the Japanese Kou's "sweep" of the leading organs of the Shandong Eighth Route Army.
【Marshal Luo Ronghuan's name is well deserved】
In the course of several years of fighting with the Japanese, Luo Ronghuan gradually mastered the combat experience of the Japanese and the Kosovars, which was more comfortable for the Eighth Route Army to develop and expand the anti-Japanese armed forces, establish and consolidate, and expand the work of the anti-Japanese base areas. In 1945, when Kou announced its surrender, the Shandong Eighth Route Army led by Luo Ronghuan successively liberated all the land except jinan, Qingdao, and several other large and medium-sized cities, creating a unit that recovered the most lost land in the eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Guannei. In particular, in late October 1945, Luo Ronghuan received a telegram from the central authorities, asking him to "lead the light command organs and go to the northeast within the day." Immediately mobilized nearly 100,000 regular troops to the northeast, unquestionably became the backbone of the Northeast Democratic United Army, quickly changed the military strength of the two sides in the northeast region, and laid a solid foundation for Lin Biao to launch the Liaoshen Campaign in the future and achieve a decisive victory in the Liaoshen Campaign. The troops who remained in Shandong also became the main force of the East China Field Army, and under the command of Chen Yi and Su Yu, they eliminated the ace of the arrogant Kuomintang ace, the new Seventy-fourth Division, and the victory in the Battle of Huaihai. It is precisely because of Luo Ronghuan's great achievements in developing and expanding the people's army that he deserved to become the only soldier who did not obtain the rank of marshal for military merit.
Reference: Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area
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