In 1943, Liu Changyi was the regimental commander of the 13th Regiment under the 6th Military Subdistrict of Taihang of the Eighth Route Army.
At that time, the commander of the 6th Military Subdistrict of Taihang was Zong Fengzhou, and the political commissar was Xie Fuzhi, who had two regiments under the jurisdiction of the 13th Regiment and the 2nd Regiment of The Jigan Regiment.
Commander Zong Fengzhou was a native of Gaocheng, Hebei Province, born in August 1912, joined the Party in 1933, organized an anti-Japanese guerrilla group in Gaocheng in 1938, served as a brigade commander, joined the Eighth Route Army in 1939, served as the commander of the 29th Regiment of the newly organized 10th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the chief of staff of the Taihang Military Region, the commander of the Division, and other positions at the time of the Liberation War, and during the Liberation War, he served as the deputy brigade commander of the 6th Column and 16th Brigade of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, the deputy brigade commander of the 17th Brigade, the deputy division commander of the Second Field Army, participated in the battles of Huaihai and Crossing the River, and later participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. He was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955 and promoted to the rank of major general in 1964.
The commander of the 2nd Regiment of the Jigan Was named An Zhongkun, who was born in 1915 in Xingtang County, Hebei Province, joined the 106th Division of the Nationalist Army in his early years, and was appointed as a martial arts instructor because he learned martial arts from an early age. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he joined the Pinghan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and served as the commander of the Second Regiment of the Basic Cadre Regiment, the commander of the Xingtai Regiment, and the commander of the Independent Regiment of the New 10th Brigade. Because of his strong martial arts skills, he often killed the Japanese army with a gun and a knife, and was regarded as the "first tiger general of the Pinghan Column" and "one of the most fierce young regimental commanders" at the headquarters of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Unfortunately, on November 17, 1949, he was shot and killed in the Battle of Chongqing in the Southwest, at the age of 34.
Finally, when the title was first awarded in 1955, He surpassed the commander of the military sub-district, Colonel Zong Fengzhou, and directly awarded the lieutenant general Liu Changyi, the commander of the 13th Regiment of the former Taihang 6th Military Subdistrict.
Liu Changyi's original name was Liu Changyi, why he changed his name, there is a small story.
In 1945, Liu Changyi led his troops to fight the Kuomintang Provisional Fifteenth Army and captured an enemy officer. It was learned from the captured officers that their commander was also named Liu Changyi. After investigation, it was confirmed that the name of the commander of the enemy's Fifteenth Army was indeed Liu Changyi. In order to show the difference, the name was changed to "Liu Changyi".
Liu Changyi, a native of Huang'an, Hubei Province, was born in 1914 and joined the Red Army in 1929, serving as a platoon commander and company political instructor of the 75th Regiment of the 25th Division of the 9th Army of the Red Fourth Front, the chief of the Political Affairs Section of the Political Department of the Red 9th Army, and the deputy regimental commander and regiment commander of the 76th Regiment of the 27th Division. Participated in the Long March. He fought bravely and was known as the "fierce fly" in the army. He has experienced more than a thousand battles and adventures more than a hundred times, with his head, face, hands, legs, waist, back, crotch, and hips, and none of them are injured. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as chief of the reconnaissance section of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, chief of staff of the third team of the Youth Column, chief of staff of the 3rd Column of the Shanxi Youth Anti-Enemy Resistance Brigade, and deputy commander and chief of staff of the Third Division of the Taihang Military Region. During the Liberation War, he was the commander of the Third Brigade of the First Column of the Central Plains Military Region, the commander of the People's Self-Defense Army of Western Anhui, and the deputy commander of the Third Column of the Second Field Army, and participated in the Battle of Huaihai and the Campaign to Liberate the Great Southwest.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in the first rank of our army. It surpassed Zong Fengzhou, the commander of the 6th Military Subdistrict of the Taihang Military Region, by two full ranks. Awarding military ranks is a comprehensive consideration of a soldier, one looks at seniority and the other looks at the record. Judging from the comparison between Zong Fengzhou and Liu Changyi, although Liu Changyi was a subordinate of Zong Fengzhou at that time, his seniority and battle record were obviously stronger than Zong's, and from the fact that Xie Fuzhi, who was the political commissar of the military sub-district at that time, was also rated as a general, it was also reasonable that Liu Changyi was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
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