[Summary: As an opponent of the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek is actually one of the people who know the Communist Party best. Before the Anhui Incident, he once said to Tang Enbo, commander of the Third Theater: "You must be careful of the Communists, as long as you relax a little, one of them can pull up a team with empty hands!" This also shows from another aspect that Chiang Kai-shek is extremely afraid of the Communist Party. Peng Xuefeng was the one who "bare-handedly" pulled up the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army. 】
Today we will talk about how Peng Xuefeng pulled up the New Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army "empty-handed."
General Peng Xuefeng
1. Peng Xuefeng 11 rode Yan'an down to Henan.
In May 1938, the mad Japanese occupied Xuzhou, and then quickly moved west to occupy a large area of Henan.
Against this background, the Central Military Commission sent Peng Xuefeng, chief of the Eighth Route Army's Staff Office, to Henan to take charge of the military work of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee. Of course, it is not entirely correct to say that Peng Xuefeng is a person, this time he brought Zhang Zhen, Teng Haiqing, Zhou Shiyuan and others from Yan'an, a total of 11 people.
Peng Xuefeng's first stop was Zhugou in The Mountains of Henan.
Gao Jingting, the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, set off from here, and Peng Xuefeng also set off from here
Zhugou was a garrison left behind by the 4th detachment of the New Fourth Army led by Gao Jingting after it advanced eastward, and at that time there was less than one battalion of troops, about 300 people.
After Peng Xuefeng came to Zhugou, he quickly reorganized and improved the combat effectiveness of the troops left behind on the one hand, and began to quickly recruit local armed forces on the other hand.
At that time, the Henan Provincial Party Committee also had two other local anti-Japanese armed forces in eastern Henan: one was the Xihua County Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army, with about 1,500 people; the other was the third detachment of the Yudong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment in Sui County and QiXian County, with about 1,000 people.
In September 1938, on the basis of the Zhugou Garrison, Peng Xuefeng reorganized and trained a brigade (with two companies under its jurisdiction), plus the direct subordinate team of the brigade, totaling 373 people, which was the original foundation for Peng Xuefeng to establish the New 4th Division of the New Fourth Army.
Speaking of the "family base" of this brigade, it is really pitiful: the whole brigade has only more than 100 inferior rifles, two light machine guns, and ammunition and other materials are extremely scarce.
In Zhugou, Henan, a large number of party and state leaders have come out
Second, the two-legged approach of integration and expansion has rapidly expanded the troops and become one of the most capable units of the New Fourth Army to fight.
With this "seed," Peng Xuefeng led his troops to Xihua County, Henan Province, and began to reorganize the Xihua County Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army in Wu Zhipu and Xiao Wangdong's third anti-Japanese guerrilla detachment in Eastern Henan.
After the reorganization was completed, the name of the unit was called the Guerrilla Detachment of the New Fourth Army, which had three brigades and a guard company under its jurisdiction, with a total of 1,020 officers and men and more than 700 guns, Peng Xuefeng as the commander of the detachment and political commissar, Wu Zhipu as the deputy commander of the detachment, and Zhang Zhen and Zhou Shiyuan as the chief and deputy chiefs of staff.
Since then, Peng Xuefeng's New Fourth Army has entered a period of rapid development, and after more than two months, it has developed into three regiments (small regiments) with a total of 1735 people and 1138 guns.
(Note: This formation of regiments is important because the troops are beginning to have a framework, as long as there are people, just go to Riga.) ）
The principal responsible persons of the three regiments were: Zhang Taisheng, commander of the 1st Regiment, and Li Yao, political commissar; Teng Haiqing, commander of the 2nd Regiment; and Tan Youlin, political commissar; Zhou Shiyuan, commander of the 3rd Regiment, and Kong Shiquan, political commissar.
Of course, relying only on their own development is still too slow, and another way of development is to integrate, reorganize, and transform!
By 1939, Peng Xuefeng had successively incorporated the guerrilla units led by Lu Yuting, the governor of Yongcheng County, and Hu Xiaochu's Xihua People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army, and reorganized them into the 1st And 2nd General Brigade of the Guerrilla Detachment, with two regiments under its jurisdiction each; at the same time, Peng Xuefeng also collected some local miscellaneous armed forces east of the Jinpu Railway and established the 4th General Brigade (under the jurisdiction of three regiments).
By April 1940, Peng Xuefeng's guerrilla detachment of the New Fourth Army had already impressed people, in addition to the above four general units, there were Teng Haiqing's 2nd Regiment, Zhou Shiyuan's 3rd Regiment, Special Agent Regiment and three independent regiments.
It took only two years for Peng Xuefeng to develop 15 regiments (small regiments), plus the local troops in the base area, and the total strength of the whole detachment reached about 18,000 people!
The Central Military Commission reorganized Peng Xuefeng's troops into the 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army, and Peng Xuefeng, Zhang Zhen, and Xiao Wangdong served as column commanders, chiefs of staff, and directors of the Political Department, respectively.
Peng Xuefeng (left) poses with Chen Yi and Zhang Yunyi
The Memorial Hall of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, in Xinxingji, Woyang County, northern Anhui Province, is a key cultural relics protection unit in Anhui Province
After the outbreak of the Anhui Incident, Peng Xuefeng's 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army was renamed the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, with 4 brigades under its jurisdiction and the Fourth Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, with a total of 20,000 people in the division.
Brigade Commander Liu Zhen of the 10th Brigade, Political Commissar Kang Zhiqiang (under the jurisdiction of two regiments); 11th Brigade Commander Teng Haiqing, Political Commissar Kong Shiquan (under the jurisdiction of three regiments); 12th Brigade Brigade Commander Tan Youlin, Political Commissar Lai Yi (under the jurisdiction of two regiments); Xiaoxian Independent Brigade Brigade Commander Zhong Hanmin, Political Commissar Li Zhongdao.
In August 1941, the 4th Division established the Cavalry Regiment, the only cavalry regiment in the New Fourth Army.
Third, died young, otherwise it would be a proper founding general of the republic!
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army has always been the most capable unit in the New Fourth Army except for the First Division.
But what is very regrettable is that the division commander Peng Xuefeng was killed in Xiayi County, Henan Province in September 1944, and Chairman Mao shed tears of sadness after hearing this news, saying: "A small Balizhuang actually broke one of my generals!" ”
Indeed, if Peng Xuefeng did not sacrifice, he would definitely be one of the founding generals!
Because Su Yu, the commander of the First Division of the New Fourth Army, Zhang Yunyi, the commander of the Second Division, Xu Haidong, commander of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army (who took over after Gao Jingting was killed), and Huang Kecheng, the commander of the Third Division, were all generals, while Li Xiannian, the commander of the Fifth Division, Tan Zhenlin, the commander of the Sixth Division, and Zhang Dingcheng, the commander of the Seventh Division, who were not generals, had all become vice premiers of the State Council for 55 years!
By 1945, at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the unit that Peng Xuefeng had personally developed had grown from the initial 11 horsemen to Henan in Yan'an, from 373 to more than 30,000 (and more than 20,000 local armed forces had been formed), annihilating at least 50,000 enemy troops.
General Peng Xuefeng and his wife Lin Ying, the two had a son, named Peng Xiaofeng
[Conclusion: Of course, among our great Communists, there are many, many people like Peng Xuefeng who can "empty-handedly" pull up a team and open up a big situation, they are like precious fires, usually seemingly inconspicuous, but soon they will be able to "spark the spark of stars and can burn the plains"! 】