In 1949, the Central Military Commission decided to form a strong corps based on the 3rd Regiment of the Southbound Working Group (most of the 4th Division of the Former Northeast Military Region). This corps is the 15th Corps, the leaders of the corps are all well-known figures, and their chief and deputy commanders are Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, He Jinnian and so on.
Today, I will tell you who are the commanders of the three divisions under the 48th Army of the 15th Corps. What happened next?
The commander of the 48th Army of the 15th Corps was General He Jinnian, the second deputy commander of the corps, and there were four divisions, including the 142nd Division, the 143rd Division, the 144th Division, and the 161st Division.
The commander of the 142nd Division was Ou Fufu.
Born in 1913, Ou Zhifu was born in 1913 and joined the peasant movement as an adult, and in 929 he participated in the Baise Uprising and became a soldier of the Red Army. Later, he accompanied the Red Seventh Army thousands of miles north to meet the Central Red Army division, participated in the second, third, fourth, and fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the Central Soviet Region, and followed the Long March of the Central Main Red Army to northern Shaanxi.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ou Fufu successively served as deputy battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion, deputy regimental commander and regimental commander of the Special Service Regiment of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters. During the Liberation War, Ou Fufu successively served as brigade commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army, commander of the Rezhong Military Subdistrict, commander of the Independent 1st Division of the Rehe Provincial Military District, commander of the 31st Division of the 11th Column of the Northeast Field Army, and commander of the 142nd Division of the 48th Army of the Fourth Field Army.
The commander of the 143rd Division was Li Guanghui.
Born in 1912 in Pingjiang, Hunan Province, Li Guanghui joined the Red Army in 1929 and successively served as an instructor of the machine gun company of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the 5th Red Army and an officer of the Democratic Movement of the Political Department of the 5th Division of the 5th Division of the Red Third Army, and participated in the Long March.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the political officer of the Political Department of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the political commissar of the 12th Brigade of the Third Sub-district of Jin-Cha-Ji, the political commissar of the 20th Regiment, the commander and political commissar of the 42nd Regiment, the political commissar of the 10th Regiment of the Pingbei Subdistrict, and the political commissar of the Teaching Corps of the Pingxi Military Region; during the Liberation War, he successively served as the political commissar of the 5th Independent Brigade of the Jicha Military Region, the political commissar of the 2nd Independent Division, the division commander, the commander of the 32nd Division of the 11th Column, and the commander of the 143rd Division of the 48th Army of the Northeast Field Army.
The commander of the 144th Division was Zhou Renjie.
Zhou Renjie, also known as Zhou Baoqiu, was born in 1912 in Chaling, Hunan, joined the Red Army in 1930, and successively served as the company commander of the 23rd Division of the Red 8th Army, the commander of the 17th Division of the Red 6th Army, the chief of staff of the 51st Regiment, the regimental commander, and the commander of the 16th Division of the Red 6th Army.
After the victory of the Long March, he successively served as the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Left Guard Corps, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the Jizhong Column of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the commander of the Independent 3rd Division of the Ji-Cha-Reliao Military Region, the deputy commander of the 11th Column of the Northeast Field Army, the deputy commander of the 48th Army of the Fourth Field Army and the commander of the 144th Division.
The commander of the 161st Division was named Han Meicun.
Han Meicun was born in 1901 in Huarong, Hunan Province, and later served as the chief of staff of the 25th Division of the 52nd Army, the commander of the 145th Regiment of the 73rd Brigade of the 25th Division of the 52nd Army, the chief of staff of the 25th Division of the 52nd Army, the chief of staff of the 566th Brigade of the 195th Division of the 52nd Army, the chief of staff of the 195th Division of the 53rd Army, the commander of the Kunming Defense Command, the commander of the unit directly under the Northeast Security Commander's Headquarters, the mayor of Fuxin City in Rehe Province and the commander of the 3rd Detachment of the Northeast Security.
On May 1, 1947, he led three companies of his subordinate unit to hold a battlefield uprising in Rehe Lingyuan, and later served as the commander of the Independent 1st Brigade of the National Salvation Army of the Rehe Democratic Coalition Army, the commander of the Independent 6th Division of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and the commander of the 161st Division of the 48th Army of the People's Liberation Army.
So, what happened to the commanders of the four divisions of the 48th Army?
The commander of the 144th Division, General Chou Jieren, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955, higher than that of Commander He Jinnian, who later took part in the operational command of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and died on January 22, 2001 at the age of 89.
The commanders of the 142nd and 143rd Divisions, Ou Fufu and Li Guanghui, were awarded the rank of major general in 1955, and General Ou Fufu died in February 1999 at the age of 86; General Li Guanghui died on March 24, 2003 at the age of 91.
General Han Meicun, who led the uprising during the Liberation War, was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955 and died on November 27, 1996, at the age of 95.