The commander of the 40th Army of the 12th Corps of The Four Fields was Han Xianchu.
As we all know, Han Xianchu is a founding general who is known as a famous general of a generation, and there are many records of his achievements, especially in the liberation of Hainan Island in 1950, without the cooperation of the navy and air force, he personally led more than 30,000 people from the 40th Army and the 43rd Army to the Qiongzhou Strait at the great risk of losing his division to the Qiongzhou Strait, and more than 30,000 people in more than 400 wind sailing ships to cross the leizhou peninsula from the corner of the lamp tower and cross the sea to attack Hainan Island, which has been more famous all over the world ever since.
There are no weak soldiers under the so-called strong generals, and the division commanders of the three divisions under General Han are certainly not weak soldiers.
Han Xianchu's 40th Army consisted of the 118th Division, the 119th Division, and the 120th Division.
The commander of the 118th Division was Deng Yue, who joined the Red Fourth Front At the age of 12, crossed the snowy mountains and meadows three times, and finally arrived in Yan'an; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as deputy chief of staff and chief of staff of the Fourth Military Subdistrict of the Ji'nan Military Region, deputy regimental commander of the 10th Regiment of the New 4th Brigade of the 129th Division, deputy brigade commander of the 21st Brigade of the Eastern Union during the Liberation War, and deputy division commander and division commander of the 7th Division of the 3rd Column.
The commander of the 119th Division was Ning Xianwen, who joined the Red Army at the age of 17, served as a platoon commander of the traffic brigade of the Red Fourth Front, the leader of the traffic brigade of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, participated in the Long March, served as the leader of the teaching brigade of the Ji'nan Military Region during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the head of the special task force regiment, the commander of the 8th Division of the 3rd Column of Dongye in the Liberation War, and the commander of the 119th Division of the 40th Army of The Fourth Field. He led his troops in the battle against Yixian County, and after two days and nights of fierce fighting, he created a proud record of annihilating 4,700 enemy and capturing 2,700 enemy, and was later promoted to chief of staff of the 40th Army and participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The commander of the 120th Division was Zheng Dalin. Zheng Dalin joined the Feng Yuxiang Department of the Northwest Army in his early years, and later served as a soldier in the Jihongchang Department, and in 1930 he defected to the Red Army with 22 people, successively serving as the commander of the 1st Company of the Special Service Battalion of the 12th Division of the Red 4th Army, the company commander and deputy battalion commander of the 34th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Red 9th Army, and participated in the Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade, the commander of the regiment directly under the Bohai Naval Region, the deputy brigade commander of the 6th Brigade of the Shandong Military Region, and the deputy commander of the 17th Division of the 6th Column, the commander of the 9th Division of the 3rd Column, and the commander of the 120th Division of the Eastern United During the Liberation War. From the northeast, the division marched south to Hainan Island.
In September 1955, the first ceremony of awarding titles in New China, Han Xianchu was awarded the rank of general, Deng Yue, commander of the 118th Division, and Zheng Dalin, commander of the 120th Division, were awarded the rank of major general, while Ning Xianwen, who was also the commander of the 40th Army, was only awarded the rank of colonel.
According to relevant historical data, before the attack on Hainan Island, Ning Xianwen had already been promoted to chief of staff of the 40th Army, and at the moment of attacking the island, there was an incident of Ning Xianwen's "self-injury." According to General Ning himself or those around him, the real reason for this was that General Ning had a very beautiful small American pistol at that time, and when he was playing with it in private, he was wounded by misfire. But others did not think so, and at that time, some people thought that this was the purpose of Ning Xianwen's "self-harm", a vain attempt to escape the vicious battle of forcibly crossing the Qiongzhou Strait. But whether it is "misfire" or "intentional", such an accident must be punished.
As a result, Ning Xianwen was awarded the rank of colonel only when he was awarded the rank in 1955. But the party and the people still remembered his exploits in the national liberation struggle, and in 1962 he was promoted to major general and finally stepped into the ranks of the founding generals.
In 1994, Ning Xianwen died at the age of 81.
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