In 1937, the Kuomintang and the Communists began the second cooperation, according to the agreement between the two sides, the Red Army guerrillas in the eight southern provinces were reorganized into the New Fourth Army. After the establishment of the New Fourth Army, the first commander was Ye Ting, the political commissar was Xiang Ying, and the chief of staff was Zhou Zikun.
On this issue, Ye Ting and they went to Yan'an specifically, and finally, on the recommendation of the chairman, selected Yuan Guoping. What is this Yuan Guoping? Why did he get the chairman's appreciation and become the first director of the political department of the New Fourth Army? Let's move on.
Yuan Guoping, born in 1906, a native of Shaodong County, Hunan Province, can be described as an excellent political worker in our army. Yuan Guoping was admitted to Hunan First Normal University in his early years, and the chairman was still an alumnus, and soon after, he came to the Huangpu Military Academy to study in the fourth phase, focusing on politics. After returning from school, Yuan Guoping participated in the Northern Expedition, the Nanchang Uprising, and the Guangzhou Uprising, and he had a little more fortitude as a soldier in his bookish anger.
During the Jinggangshan struggle, Yuan Guoping's political work was fully utilized, and he became a regimental cadre at a young age. He successively served as director of the Political Department of the Third Red Army, deputy director of the General Political Department of the Red Army, deputy director and acting director of the Political Department of the Red Army, and was later awarded the Second Class Red Star Medal for his outstanding contributions to the anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yuan Guoping was sent to the New Fourth Army and immediately served as the director of the political department of the New Fourth Army. He actively opened up anti-Japanese base areas, carried out guerrilla warfare, and united people from all walks of life to jointly resist Japan, and the New Fourth Army achieved rapid development and gradually grew in strength. But at the same time, the rise of the New Fourth Army also attracted Chiang Kai-shek's exclusion and dissatisfaction. In January 1941, the New Fourth Army was attacked by the nationalist army on the way north, and at a critical moment, Yuan Guoping led his troops to fight back, and in the fierce battle, he was shot several times and finally fell in the grass in the ditch.
At eight or nine o'clock that night, when more than a hundred people in the military guard company broke through, they inadvertently found Yuan Guoping, who was blurred with flesh and blood, and everyone immediately surrounded him and shouted, "Director Yuan, Director Yuan." Yuan Guoping opened his eyes weakly, and then said, "You go your way, hurry up and break out, leave me alone." But the warriors were not willing to leave the chief alone in any way, and finally took turns carrying Yuan Guo's parallel army on their backs.
On the way, they were found several times by the nationalist troops, stopping and stopping along the way, and finally only thirty or forty people were left. Yuan Guoping could not bear it and once again begged the soldiers to leave him alone, but everyone said that they wanted to live and die together, and no one agreed. In desperation, in order not to involve the soldiers, Yuan Guoping took advantage of the fact that people did not pay attention to the pistol from his pocket, and finally pulled the trigger to commit suicide, only 35 years old. After Yuan Guoping's sacrifice, his body was first buried on the spot, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he moved to the Yuhuatai Martyrs Cemetery in Nanjing, where he was admired by thousands of people. So what about yuan guoping's children and descendants? Let's move on.
Yuan Guoping's wife, Qiu Yihan, is also an old revolutionary, and they have a son and two daughters. The eldest daughter was sent to her grandmother's house in her early years and later her whereabouts are unknown. The younger daughter was sent to her grandmother's house to raise her, but unfortunately died. The only son, named Yuan Zhenwei, grew up to follow in his father's footsteps, joined the army, and later grew up to become a civilian rear admiral of the People's Liberation Army, serving as a member of the expert group of the Naval Command College and a doctoral supervisor of naval combat command.