The Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition is an anti-Japanese armed force active in the northeast under the leadership of our party, and its full name is the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. Under extremely difficult conditions, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Resistance League persisted in fighting the Japanese army, demonstrating the indomitable will of our Chinese nation to resist the war. Northeast China is the earliest area occupied by Japan, where the japanese army's forces are very powerful, and the Anti-Japanese Coalition must overcome various difficulties on the one hand, and on the other hand, it must deal with the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, and their situation is very difficult.
In 1940, the scope of activities and personnel of the Anti-Japanese Coalition was greatly reduced, the Anti-Japanese League first part entered the Far East, in the Soviet Union this part of the Anti-Japanese League received Soviet training and equipment supply, etc. On August 1, 1942, the Anti-Japanese Coalition in the Soviet Union was reorganized into the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Teaching Brigade, for the sake of confidentiality, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance Teaching Brigade was called the 88th Independent Infantry of the Red Banner of the Soviet Union in the Far East, and this Anti-Japanese Alliance Teaching Brigade was very special.
When the Teaching Brigade was established, the total number of anti-Coalition commanders and fighters in the Soviet Union was only 700, and even the establishment of a regiment was not enough, but the soviet Union gave a brigade, and the missing soldiers were supplemented by the newly joined Eastern ethnic minorities in the Far East of the Soviet Union.
Moreover, the munitions finance and weapons supply of this brigade will be officially included in the budget of the Far Eastern Army, officers and soldiers enjoy the same treatment as the Soviet Army, awarded ranks, salaries, etc. At that time, the brigade commanders and battalion commanders of the teaching brigade were awarded ranks according to the Ranks of the Soviet Union.
According to soviet regulations at that time, the formation of the instruction brigade was 4 infantry battalions, 1 radio company, 1 mortar company, and 1 teaching company. Each battalion had two companies with 3 platoons per company; each battalion was armed with 6 heavy machine guns, each company was equipped with 9 light machine guns, and each platoon was equipped with 15 submachine guns. This troop configuration and firepower configuration are quite good. There are also provisions for the appointment of cadres of the teaching brigade.
At that time, the brigade, battalion, and company officers held the main posts by the anti-coalition cadres, and the deputy posts were held by the Soviet army, and the Soviet army also awarded military ranks to the cadres of the teaching brigade.
The brigade commander was a lieutenant colonel. The deputy brigade commander, the brigade chief of staff, and the directors of the brigade headquarters are majors. The battalion commander and deputy battalion commander are captains. The company commander and deputy company commander are captains. Platoon commanders may be awarded the ranks of lieutenant and second lieutenant, and soldiers shall be awarded the ranks of sergeant, sergeant, corporal, superior soldier, and private.
The brigade commander Zhou Baozhong was made major (promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1943), the brigade political instructor Li Zhaolin was made major, and the brigade deputy chief of staff Cui Shiquan was made a lieutenant
The first battalion: Battalion Commander Captain Kim Il Sung, Battalion Political Commissar Captain Anji. The second battalion: Battalion Commander Lieutenant Wang Xiaoming, Battalion Political Commissar Captain Jiang Xintai (later renamed Jiang Jian). In the third battalion, the battalion commander, Captain Xu Hengzhi (who was not yet succeeded by Captain Wang Minggui), and the battalion political commissar, Captain Jin Ce. The fourth battalion, the battalion commander, Lieutenant Chai Shirong, and the battalion political commissar, Lieutenant Ji Qing.
The company commanders and company instructors under his jurisdiction were basically the rank of captains, and when it was strange, Zhou Baozhong, who was a brigade commander, did not participate in the awarding of titles in New China later, he served as vice chairman of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, director of the Political and Legal Committee of the Southwest Military and Political Committee and minister of civil affairs after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and when he was awarded the title, he was awarded the Order of August 1 of the First Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the First Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class, and the qualifications of these three first-class medals were generals. Moreover, Zhou Baozhong was the main founder of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army and one of the main leaders of the anti-Japanese guerrilla war in the northeast region, and it was absolutely appropriate to be awarded the title of general, but he did not participate in the award.
However, many of the subordinates of Zhou Baozhong's teaching brigade became founding generals, and the commanders of the second battalion, Wang Xiaoming and Wang Minggui, and the commander of the third company of the second battalion, Peng Shilu, and others were later founding major generals.
Captain Kim Il Sung, commander of the first battalion of the brigade, who later became the head of state of North Korea, and the deputy chief of staff of the brigade, Captain Choi Seok-gwan (Choi Yong-jin), who later became the vice chairman and deputy commander of North Korea, was the second number one in Korea during the Kim Il Sung era.
At that time, he was the deputy political commander of the first battalion of the teaching brigade, Andi Ji, and later became the chief of the general staff of the Korean People's Army. Lieutenant Kang Sin-tae (Kang Kin), deputy commander of the Political Deputy Battalion of the Second Battalion, was one of the founders of the Korean People's Army and served as chief of the general staff with the rank of lieutenant general. Lieutenant Kim Choe, deputy commander of the political battalion of the third battalion, later became the deputy prime minister and minister of industry in the DPRK cabinet, and was the general of the general. The company commander, Captain Choe Hyun, later became the National Defense Minister of Korea, with the rank of Grand General, and his son Choe Yong Hae was now the Deputy Commander of North Korea.
The company commander, Lieutenant Park Deok-san (kim il), later became deputy prime minister and minister of agriculture and forestry. Company Commander Captain Kim Kwang-chi later became North Korea's deputy cabinet minister and vice chairman, with the rank of grand general. Platoon leader Lieutenant Park Sung-chul later became North Korea's vice president. There was also Wu Zhenyu, who was born as a soldier, who later served as the first deputy minister of national defense and the chief of the general staff and vice chairman of the People's Army, with the rank of marshal, and another named Li Yihe, who later became the marshal of North Korea.
It can be seen from this that there were many Korean officers and soldiers in the teaching brigade at that time, and these people later returned to Korea and became the first generation of leaders and senior generals of the DPRK.