In October 1943, when he was ordered to lead a regiment to Yan'an, passing through the village of Hanluo in the northeast of Linfen, Shanxi, he took the initiative to capture fighter planes to ambush the Japanese army, and annihilated in one fell swoop the brigade commander of the Japanese Army's "Battlefield Spectator Regiment" of the Japanese North China Front, 6 daisaku squadron leaders and more than 120 officers below.
In the spring of 1944, after Wang Jinshan and his troops arrived in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, they formed a newly organized 4th Brigade at the Heishui Temple in Fuxian County, Shaanxi Province. The brigade commanders were general Wang Jinshan, political commissar Xu Liqing, deputy brigade commander and chief of staff Zhang Xianyue, and political department director Huang Zhentang.
The deeds of General Wang Jinshan are well known to everyone, and I will skip them here, but today I will mainly talk to you about who are the regimental commanders of the newly organized Fourth Brigade?
The New Fourth Brigade has three regiments, the regimental commanders are:
The 771st Regiment was headed by Wu Zongxian.
Wu Zongxian (1916 -1994.6), a native of Lu'an, Anhui Province, joined the Red Army in 1932 and served as a platoon commander, company commander and battalion commander of the Red 25th Army and the Red 31st Army, and participated in the Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the 711th Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the political commissar of the 10th Regiment of the Newly Organized Fourth Brigade, and the political commissar of the 11th Regiment, and at the end of 1943, he was transferred back to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and served as the commander of the 711st Regiment. Later, he served as the deputy brigade commander of the New Fourth Brigade, the commander of the 16th Division of the 6th Army of the First Field Army, and participated in the Yan'an Defense War, the Battle of Xifu, the Battle of Fumei, etc., and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
The 16th Regiment, regimental commander Cheng Yuechang.
Cheng Yuechang (1911 - May 1961), a native of Huang'an, Hubei Province, joined the Red Army in 1929 and served as a platoon leader of the International Regiment of the Young Communists of the Red Fourth Front, a platoon leader and company commander of the Red 31st Army, and a political commissar of the division hospital. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as an instructor of the health team of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, a battalion instructor, a political commissar of the New 1st Regiment, a political commissar of the 16th Regiment, and a regimental commander. Later, he served as the commander of the New Fourth Brigade, the commander of the 17th Division of the 6th Army of Yiye, and participated in the Yan'an Defense War, the Battle of Xifu, and the march into Xinjiang, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
The 25th Regiment, headed by Ge Haizhou.
Ge Haizhou (1912-2010), a native of Jinzhai, Anhui, joined the Red Army in 1929 and successively served as a platoon leader, instructor and political commissar in the Red 4th Army, the Red 25th Army, and the Red 31st Army, and participated in the Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the deputy commander of the guerrilla brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the director of the political department of the second brigade of the independent detachment, the commander of the 30th regiment of the 10th Brigade, and the commander of the 25th regiment of the New Ninth Brigade. Later, he served as the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Police Brigade, the deputy commander of the New 10th Division, the commander of the Rapid Advance Column of the Headquarters, and the commander of the Zhangye Military Sub-district. He participated in the Battle of Defending Yan'an, the Battle of Wazijie, the Battle of Xifu, the Battle of Fumei, the Battle of Lanzhou, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. He was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955.
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