In 1937, the Central Red Army in northern Shaanxi was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army in consultation with the Kuomintang government in order to resist Japan. At that time, the Eighth Route Army had three divisions and six brigades under its jurisdiction. The two brigades of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, one in 1938 and the other in 1940, did not exist, because they were moving in a greater direction, so the 343rd Brigade and the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division were not very famous.
The two brigades of the 120th Division and the two brigades of the 129th Division were basically abolished in 1945 and merged with other units into columns. These six brigades, all of them made outstanding achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and made great contributions to the Chinese people's resistance to the invasion of Japanese imperialism and ultimately to the great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, according to the most battles fought with the Japanese army, the most famous is the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division led by Chen Geng, and the battles of Changshengkou, Qiqi Village, Huangyadi, Shentouling, and Xiangtangpu have not only been written into the history of the Chinese army, but also have become the focus of foreign military research.
However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the hearts of the Chinese people, the most famous was not the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division led by Chen Geng, but the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division. When the 359th Brigade was first formed, Chen Bojun was the brigade commander and Wang Zhen was the deputy brigade commander (in October 1937, because Chen Bojun led the 718th Regiment and the first battalion directly under the brigade, they remained in the shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia jurisdiction, and the System was established by the Eighth Route Army's Left-behind Corps, and Wang Zhen was changed to the brigade commander), under the jurisdiction of the 717th Regiment formed by the Red 6th Army and the 718th Regiment formed by the 32nd Army of the Red Army, with a total of more than 5,000 people. The 359th Brigade cooperated with the Kuomintang army in the battles of Xinkou and Taiyuan, and fought the Shaojiazhuang ambush battle, the upper and lower waist streams, and other battles, but these battles did not have the great impact of the battles fought by the 386th Brigade.
Why are they the most famous? Because, at the end of 1940, the 359th Brigade was ordered to enter Nanniwan to carry out a large-scale production campaign and achieved great achievements, the chairman's inscription praised the 359th Brigade as the "vanguard of economic development", the famous "Nanniwan", Chinese people, men, women and children can sing, there is a lyric, is "fighting and producing, the 359th Brigade is a model", so, who does not know the 359th Brigade? Of course, their fame is the biggest.