The Seventh Corps of the Third Field Army was renamed by the former Shandong Corps on January 22, 1949, and had jurisdiction over four corps, namely the 21st Army, the 22nd Army, the 23rd Army and the 35th Army. The commander, political commissar and chief of staff of the Seventh Corps have already shared with you in the recent article, and then I will tell you who is the commander and political commissar of these four armies? How did they end up?
The 21st Army was renamed by the former 2nd Column in January 1949 and had 3 divisions under its command. The military commander's name is Teng Haiqing, and the political commissar's name is Kang Zhiqiang.
Commander Teng Haiqing (1909-1997) was a native of Jinzhai, Anhui Province, who had let cattle burn charcoal in his early years, joined the Red Army in 1930, served as a company commander of the 10th Division of the Red 4th Army, a platoon commander of the division headquarters communications team, etc., participated in the Long March of the Red Fourth Front, was assigned to the New Fourth Army after graduating from the War of Resistance, served as the commander and political commissar of the 2nd Brigade of the Guerrilla Detachment, the commander of the 11th and 9th Brigades of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, and after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the 6th Division of the 2nd Column of the East China Field Army, the deputy commander of the 13th Column, and the commander of the 2nd Column. Commander of the 21st Army of the 7th Corps of the Third Field Army. He was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955, retired in 1987, and died on October 26, 1997, at the age of 88.
Political Commissar Kang Zhiqiang (1912-1986) is a native of Xingguo, Jiangxi, he worked as a tailor from primary school as a blacksmith, when he was 18 years old, the Red Army came to Xingguo from Fujian, he joined the Red Army without his family, experienced five arduous anti-"encirclement and suppression", participated in the 25,000-mile Long March that shocked the world, and after entering the front line of the War of Resistance, he successively served as the director of the Political Office of the 689th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the political commissar of the regiment, the director of the Political Department of the Newly Organized First Brigade, and the political commissar of the 344th Brigade. Political Commissar of the 9th Brigade of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army and Political Commissar of the Fourth Military Region of Huaibei. He was awarded the rank of vice admiral in 1955 and later served in the Navy, where he died on 1 November 1986 at the age of 74.
The 22nd Army was renamed from the former 3rd Column in February 1949 and had 3 divisions under its jurisdiction. The military commander was named Sun Jixian, and the political commissar was named Ding Qiusheng.
Military commander Sun Jixian (1911-1990) was a native of Cao County, Shandong Province, and joined the Party in 1932. In 1935, Sun Jixian, then commander of the 1st Battalion of the Red 1st Regiment, personally led 17 warriors to cross the Dadu River, which became a classic battle on the long march of the Red Army. After the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, he successively served as the chief of staff of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the Jinpu Detachment of the 129th Division, the commander of the Second Detachment of the Shandong Column, the commander of the Second Brigade, and later the commander of the 4th Division of the Shandong Military Region and the commander of the 22nd Army of the Third Field Army. He was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955 and later served at a missile test base, leaving in June 1982 and dying in April 1990 at the age of 79.
Political Commissar Ding Qiusheng (1913-1995) was a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, joined the Red Army in 1930, and served as the political commissar of the 41st Regiment of the 14th Division of the Red 9th Army, the political commissar of the 215th Regiment of the 73rd Division of the Red 25th Army, and participated in the Long March. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he insisted on going to the front line, and as a result, he was demoted, and then reinstated as the political commissar of the Engineering School of the Central Military Commission, and finally embarked on the front line of the War of Resistance in August 1942, serving as the director of the political department of the 1st Brigade of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, the director of the political department of the Lunan Military Region, and the political commissar of the 3rd Column of the East China Field Army. He was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955 and died on 4 January 1995 at the age of 82.
The 23rd Army, renamed from the former 4th Column on 28 January 1949, had 3 divisions under its jurisdiction. The military commander is Tao Yong, and the political commissar is Lu Sheng.
Tao Yong (1913-1967) was a native of Huoqiu County, Anhui Province, joined the Red Army guerrillas in 1929, and served as a company commander, deputy battalion commander, battalion commander, deputy regimental commander, regimental commander, instructor and division commander of the 35th Regiment of the Red Fourth Army. Tao Yong successively served as the commander of the 4th Regiment of the 1st Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division, the commander of the 3rd Column of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region, the commander of the 4th Column of the East China Field Army, and the commander of the 23rd Army.
Lu Sheng (1911 ~1997), a native of Qionghai, Hainan, joined the Party in 1932, was sent by the organization to southern Fujian to engage in military struggle, joined the Red Army in 1933, after the Long March of the main force of the Red Army, he led his troops to persist in three years of arduous guerrilla warfare in southern Fujian, and served as the commander and political commissar of the Third Independent Regiment of the Southern Fujian Independent Regiment, the commander of the Yunhezhao Independent Battalion of the Red Army, and other positions. After the southern Red Army guerrilla unit was reorganized into the New Fourth Army, he served as the commander and political commissar of the 4th Regiment of the Second Detachment of the Fourth Army, the political commissar of the Suwan Detachment of the Jiangnan Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the Fourth Sub-district of the Central Jiangsu Military Region, etc. He later served as the director of the Political Department of the 7th Column of the Central China Field Army, the political commissar of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the East China Field Army, and the political commissar of the 23rd Army of the Third Field Army.
The 35th Army was formed in February 1949 by merging the rebel forces led by Wu Huawen, the former commander of the 96th Army of the Kuomintang Army and the commander of the reorganized 84th Division, and the former Lu Zhongnan Column during the Battle of Jinan, with Wu Huawen as the commander and He Kexi as the political commissar.
Commander Wu Huawen (1904-1962) was a native of Ye County, Shandong Province, who had followed Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, and Wang Jingwei in his early years, and after the victory of the War of Resistance, he was incorporated by Chiang Kai-shek. In the Battle of Jinan, under the powerful military and political offensive of our army, Wu Huawen led more than 20,000 people to revolt on the battlefield, contributing to the liberation of Jinan, and later he led his troops to participate in the Battle of Crossing the River, occupied the Presidential Palace in Nanjing, and planted the red flag on the Presidential Palace. After the liberation of the country, he resigned from the military and transferred to local work, where he died in April 1962 at the age of 58.
Political Commissar He Kexi (1906-1982) was a native of Emei, Sichuan, who joined the Party in 1929, engaged in intelligence work in the Kuomintang area in the early days, joined the New Fourth Army after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and successively served as deputy commander of the Third Route Army of the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, commander of the Zhejiang Eastern Guerrilla Column of the New Fourth Army, political commissar of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Column of the Shandong Field Army, and political commissar of the 35th Army. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general, and then transferred to local posts, and died of illness in Hangzhou in 1982 at the age of 76.
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