After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to cooperate in the anti-Japanese resistance, and the main force of the Red Army was reorganized into the 8th Route Army of the Revolutionary Revolutionary Army, with a total of 3 main divisions and 15 main regiments. Subsequently, the Eighth Route Army marched to the anti-Japanese front and fought with the Japanese Kou to the death when the weapons and equipment were far inferior to those of the opponent. According to incomplete statistics, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese puppet army fought more than 115,000 battles, killing and wounding more than 960,000 Japanese puppet troops and capturing more than 280,000 enemy soldiers. However, it also paid a great price of casualties, with more than 580,000 people wounded or killed on the battlefield, of which the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division was the most tragic.
The 386th Brigade was reorganized from the 91st and 93rd Divisions of the 31st Army of the Fourth Front of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with Chen Geng as brigade commander, Chen Zaidao as deputy brigade commander, and Li Jukui as chief of staff. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in full swing, the 386th Brigade, under the leadership of Chen Geng, successively won the changshengkou ambush, the qiquan village ambush, the huangyadi ambush, the Shentouling ambush, and the Xiangtangpu ambush, which dealt a heavy blow to the devils. Annoyed and ashamed, Rikou called out the banner of "specializing in the 386 Brigade".
After that, the Japanese Kou repeatedly dispatched heavy troops to besiege the 386 Brigade, and in the fight with the Japanese Kou, the 772nd Regiment of the 386 Brigade paid a heavy price, and the first regimental commander and three battalion commanders died heroically on the battlefield. Regiment commander Ye Chenghuan was unfortunately hit by enemy bullets in the valley of the Huzhang River and died heroically at the age of 24; Ding Silin, commander of the first battalion, was unfortunately killed at the age of 26 when he fought against the Japanese army in Yunzu Town; Guo Guoyan, commander of the second battalion, was killed at the age of 29 when he fought against the Japanese Kou in Taiyou Town, Wuxiang County; Yi Liangpin, commander of the third battalion, died heroically at the age of 33 while fighting the Japanese in the area of Xigaozhuang in Hebei Province.
The first regimental commander and three battalion commanders of the 772nd Regiment died heroically on the anti-Japanese battlefield, and all of them died young, which is really deplorable and admirable. Without their sacrifice for the country, we would not have the happy life we have today. So who was the deputy commander of the 772nd Regiment at that time? He is Wang Jinshan. Wang Jinshan is a native of Hong'an, Hubei Province, because his family was poor, in order to have food to eat, he began to herd cattle for the landlord's family at the age of 8 and began to work as a long-term worker at the age of 13. In 1930, the Red Army passed through his hometown, and Wang Jinshan, who was not yet 15 years old, joined the Red Army team, don't look at the young age, but he was very brave when he fought, and he was nicknamed "Wang Crazy".
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Jinshan served as the deputy commander of the 772nd Regiment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, during which he led his troops to set up an ambush in the village of Qiqi, annihilating more than 300 heavy troops of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, and the captured booty was enough to move for one day and one night. In October 1943, Wang Jinshan, then commander of the Second Sub-district of the Taiyue Military Region, commanded troops to set up an ambush in the village of Hanluo, completely annihilated more than 120 members of the Japanese "Field Watch Regiment" and killed the commander of the enemy major general brigade, Hattori Naoto. This plot was later moved to the TV series Liangjian and became Li Yunlong's proud work.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Wang Jinshan successively served as the commander of the 6th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army and the deputy commander of the Erye Third Corps, and led his troops to participate in the Battles of Shangdang, the Battle of Handan, the Battle of Dingtao, the Battle of Dabie Mountain, the Battle of Xiangfan, and the Battle of Huaihai. After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wang Jinshan led his troops into the Korean War, played an important role in the Fifth Campaign and the Battle of Shangganling, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955. After the founding of New China, he successively served as deputy commander of the Shandong Military Region, deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region, and deputy chief of staff of the Nanjing Military Region.