In 1943, the 3rd Military Subdistrict of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region had three regiments and two districts, the 2nd Regiment, the 42nd Regiment, the Cavalry Regiment, and the 6th and 7th District Regiments.
Li Xiang, Cheng Shaofu, Tang Zi'an, Du Wenda, and Ren Maohui were all regimental commanders and district captains of the 3rd Military Sub-district.
Li Xiang, who joined the Red Army at the age of 16, served as a post-duty officer and trumpeter in the ranks of the Red Army, and was injured many times in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" and long marches, but he insisted on not falling behind with his tenacious fighting spirit. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as battalion commander, deputy regimental commander and chief of staff, regimental commander, and division commander in the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and has been fighting in the front line of the anti-Japanese struggle against the enemy.
Cheng Shaofu joined the Red Army at a younger age than Li Xiang, when he was only 13 years old, and his so-called height was not as high as a gun. In the ranks of the Red Army, he first served as a messenger, and then as a platoon leader and company instructor, and participated in the Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the political instructor of the 6th Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the acting regimental commander of the 11th Regiment of the 3rd Military Subdistrict of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the deputy regimental commander of the 2nd Regiment, the commander and political commissar of the 2nd Detachment, the leader of the 7th District Brigade, and the commander of the 42nd Regiment. He was awarded the rank of Major General in 1955.
In 1930, at the age of 18, Tang Zi'an left the Kuomintang Lu Diping unit and joined the ranks of the Red Army, becoming a Red Army soldier. In the Red Army units, he successively served as the deputy company commander of the 57th Regiment of the 19th Division of the Red 12th Army and the company commander of the 5th Division of the Third Red Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the commander of the Cavalry Regiment, the chief of staff of the Third Military Sub-district, and the chief of staff of the Ji-Jin Military Region. He was awarded the rank of Major General in 1955.
Du Wenda is the district captain of the 6th District team. He also joined the Red Army at a very young age, only 16 years old, first as a service soldier, as a platoon leader of the Red First Army with the battalion school, a company instructor, the secretary of the general branch, and other positions, and participated in the Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the chief of the organization section of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the political commissar of the guerrilla detachment of the 3rd Sub-district of Jizhong Province, and the leader of the sixth district team. He was awarded the rank of Major General in 1955.
The life of Ren Maohui, the leader of the 7th District Team, is unknown.
The above-mentioned comrades-in-arms who served as regimental commanders in the same military subdistrict all took part in the War of Liberation and later participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as military commanders respectively. However, Commander Li Xiang died on the Korean battlefield, and he also became the highest-ranking officer in our volunteer army who died in Korea.
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