History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
In June 1927, due to his outstanding military achievements, He Long was appointed commander of the Twentieth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In August 1927, He Long was fearless, firmly on the side of the Communist Party and the workers and peasants, and led his troops to participate in and participate in leading the Nanchang Uprising, serving as the commander-in-chief of the rebel army. In July 1936, according to the instructions of the central government, the Red Second and Sixth Armies formed the Red Second Front Army in Ganzi, with He Long as the commander-in-chief.
After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and He Long served as the commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In September 1937, he led the main force of the division to cross the Yellow River in the east, advanced behind the enemy lines, and cooperated with the Kuomintang army to launch the Xinkou Campaign against the Japanese army, and won victories such as the Yanmen Ambush.
In 1940, He Long led his troops back to northwestErn Jin, serving as secretary of the Military and Political Committee of Northwest Jinbei and commander of the Northwest Jinbei Military Region, leading the military and people of northwestern Jin to smash the Japanese army's "sweeping" many times, and commanding the Jinsui army and people to "squeeze out the enemy" and continuously expand and consolidate the Jinsui base area. Later, he transferred to the Guanzhuo Mountains in northwestern Jin, led his troops to crush the Japanese army's attack on northwestern Jin, successively recaptured seven county towns such as Ganlan and Wuzhai, and opened up anti-Japanese base areas in northwestern Jin.
However, during the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army was inferior to the other two divisions of the Eighth Route Army in terms of combat performance, the area of the base area, or the number of troops expanded and developed.
He Long was transferred back to Yan'an by the central government in 1942 and served as the commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Jinsui Joint Defense Army.
Why?
Because as early as four years ago, at the end of 1938, He Long was ordered to lead his troops into Jizhong, served as the secretary of the Jizhong Military and Political Committee, commanded the 120th Division and the Third Column of the Eighth Route Army to move to the Jizhong Plain, and successively fought in Dacao Village, Caojiazhuang, Xingjiazhuang, and Heima Zhangzhuang, and won four battles and four victories. In late April 1939, more than 800 people from the Yoshida Brigade of the 3rd Wing of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army carried out guerrilla sweeps, looking for the main force of the Eighth Route Army. After Receiving the information, He Long believed that the Eighth Route Army in this area concentrated the strength of seven regiments and more than six thousand troops, and he was a brigade, and he was alone and deep, and he could eat it! He was determined to seize this rare opportunity to fight a war of annihilation in an area of more than 140 square kilometers. After three days and nights of continuous fighting, although more than 700 Japanese troops were annihilated in several fierce battles of position exchange, Yoshida escaped from the encirclement with more than 100 Japanese troops. In this battle, the Eighth Route Army suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, and He Long himself was wounded in the battle due to the use of poison gas bombs by the Japanese.
In the Three Years' Liberation War, He Long, who had been bought by Chiang Kai-shek from 100,000 oceans, was silent, and his figure was no longer visible on the battlefield of the fierce battle, and people did not even know where he was. In fact, after the liberation war began, He Long was ordered to assist Peng Dehuai in organizing and commanding the troops in the northwest battlefield, and presided over the construction of the rear base areas, and was responsible for the financial and economic work of Shaanxi, Gansu, ning, and Jinsui. He actively led the people in the base areas to carry out land reform, concentrated the human, material, and financial resources of the border areas to support the front-line troops in combat, and made important contributions to the victory of the Northwest Liberation War.