On April 6, 1939, the 716th Regiment of the 358th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the Independent 5th Brigade of the Jizhong Military Region were combined to form the Independent 2nd Brigade, which had jurisdiction over the 4th Regiment, the 5th Regiment and the 716th Regiment to carry out the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the Jizhong area. Today, I will tell you about the several brigade commanders of the Independent 2nd Brigade, and who is the most powerful?
The first brigade commander was Wei Daguang.
Born in 1911 in Baxian County (present-day Bazhou), Hebei Province, Wei Daguang fled to Tianjin to work after being framed in his early years, and was arrested and imprisoned in 1936 for sabotaging the power distribution devices of Japanese businessmen opening factories in Tianjin. In prison, he met several Communists, and thus gained a new understanding of the revolution to save the country and the anti-Japanese salvation. After the July 7 Incident broke out, he took advantage of the chaos to get out of prison and returned to his hometown, mobilized some gun owners to take out more than ten large guns, and mobilized the masses to resist Japan with great fanfare, and put forward: "Good boys go to the battlefield and fight devils to protect their hometowns." He gathered a contingent of more than a thousand people and equipped them with mortars and light and heavy machine guns, becoming a unit with considerable combat effectiveness in the central Hebei region.
Later, he and more than a dozen local anti-Japanese armed forces formed an anti-Japanese coalition army called the "Twenty-seventh Detachment of the North China Anti-Japanese Coalition Army", with Wei Daguang as the commander, and the team quickly grew to more than 6,000 people. In 1938, the unit was reorganized into the fifth independent detachment of the Jizhong Military Region and became a people's anti-Japanese armed force under the leadership of the Communist Party. After the reorganization of the team into the independent 2nd Brigade, he served as brigade commander. In July 1939, Wei Daguang was instructed by his superiors to return to the Daqing River to collect local armed forces, encountered the Japanese army in the middle of the way, and died heroically in the fierce battle with the Japanese army, at the age of 28.
The second brigade commander was Zhang Zongxun.
After the death of former brigade commander Wei Daguang, the unit was renamed the 358th Brigade in September 1939, with Zhang Zongxun as the brigade commander.
Zhang Zongxun is a new Chinese general, deputy chief of general staff and general logistics minister, and is relatively famous. Born in 1908 and graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, he participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, went up Jinggang Mountain, and climbed snow-capped mountains over meadows. After the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, he served as the brigade commander of the 358th Brigade, leading his troops to the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, the Central Hebei Region, the Northwest Jin-Shanxi Region, and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and served as deputy commander of the Jinsui Field Army, commander and political commissar of the Lüliang Military Region. He died in Beijing on September 14, 1998, at the age of 91.
The third brigade commander was Peng Shaohui.
On April 26, 1940, the 358th Brigade was renamed the Independent 2nd Brigade, with six regiments under its jurisdiction: the 714th Regiment, the 5th Regiment, the 6th Regiment, the 9th Regiment, the 21st Regiment, and the 36th Regiment, with Peng Shaohui as the brigade commander.
Peng Shaohui is a new Chinese general, deputy chief of general staff and vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences. Born in 1906 in Xiangtan, Hunan, he joined the Red Army in 1928, participated in the Pingjiang Uprising and the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Central Soviet Region, and later participated in the Long March, where he served as division commander and army chief of staff during the Red Army period. After the All-Out War of Resistance, he served as the chief of staff of the 120th Division Headquarters and the head of the teaching regiment, and the brigade commander of the newly organized 358th Brigade. Later, he was transferred to the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. He died of illness on April 25, 1978, at the age of 72.
The fourth brigade commander was Xu Guangda.
Xu Guangda is a new Chinese general and vice minister of national defense. In 1942, after Peng Shaohui was transferred to the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, the brigade commander was succeeded by Xu Guangda. Xu Guangda was born in 1908 in Changsha, Hunan Province, graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, joined the Party in 1925, served in the 4th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and later served as a platoon commander and acting company commander of the 3rd Battalion, 75th Regiment, 75th Regiment, 25th Division, 11th Army, 11th Army, Nanchang Uprising. In 1930, he was sent by the central government to the Honghu Su District as a representative of the Party Central Committee and participated in the formation of the Red 6th Army. After being wounded in battle, he was sent to the Soviet Union for treatment and returned to China in November 1937. After returning to Japan, he served as the director of training, the chief of education, and the president of the 3rd branch school at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Later, he participated in the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. He died on June 3, 1969 at the age of 61.
The independent 2nd Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army had four brigade commanders who were indeed powerful, except for the first brigade commander Wei Daguang, who died heroically, while among the other three, 2 were generals and 1 was a general. Assuming that Wei Daguang does not sacrifice, let's talk about it, what rank will he be awarded?