As we know, the New Fourth Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, whose full name was the new Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was subordinate to the combat sequence of the Nationalist army, and was reorganized from the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and guerrilla units that remained in the eight southern provinces to carry out guerrilla warfare after the defeat of the Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" campaign during the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation period. This army was the main force on the frontal battlefield of the Party-led War of Resistance.
After the Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army was rebuilt and reorganized from the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army south of the Longhai Railway, with a total of seven divisions under its jurisdiction and a total strength of more than 90,000 troops.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, su Yu, Zhang Yunyi, and Huang Kecheng, the commanders of the seven divisions of the New Fourth Army, were awarded the founding generals, and the division commanders of three divisions, Li Xiannian, Tan Zhenlin, and Zhang Dingcheng, were not awarded military ranks, and all became founding fathers and later held important leadership positions. Only Peng Xuefeng, the commander of the Fourth Division, died heroically.
After the reconstruction of the New Fourth Army, the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army was reorganized from the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army, and the division commander and political commissar Peng Xuefeng had four brigades under the jurisdiction of the 10th, 11th, 12th, and Xiaoxian Independent Brigades, and the first brigade commanders of these four brigade commanders were Liu Zhen, Teng Haiqing, Tan Youlin, and Zhong Hanmin.
Liu Zhen, whose original name was Liu You'an, was a filial piety in Hubei Province, who joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1933 at the age of 18 and entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University after the Long March. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Zhen successively served as the director of the political office of the 688th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division, the political commissar, the head of the Independent Regiment, the brigade commander of the 344th Brigade, the commander of the 4th Brigade of the 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the 10th Brigade of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, and the commander of the 10th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army. In 1955, Liu Zhen was awarded the rank of general.
Teng Haiqing, a native of Jinzhai, Anhui, joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1930, successively participated in the anti-encirclement and suppression and long march in the base areas of Henan, Anhui, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and after the establishment of the Eighth Route Army, he served as the commander of the teaching brigade of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division, and later entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study, and after graduation, he served as the commander and political commissar of the 2nd Brigade of the Guerrilla Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the Guerrilla Detachment, the commander of the 5th Brigade of the 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the 11th Brigade of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, and the commander of the 9th Brigade. In 1955, Teng Haiqing was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Tan Youlin, a native of Jiangling, Hubei Province, joined the Red Army in 1930, and then participated in the Long March with the Red 2nd Army, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the leader and political commissar of the teaching team of the 4th Detachment of the New Fourth Army in Zhugou, Henan, the deputy director of the Political Department of the Guerrilla Detachment in Eastern Henan, the political commissar of the 3rd General Brigade of the 6th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the 6th Brigade of the 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army, and the commander of the 12th Brigade of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army. In 1955, Tan Youlin was awarded the rank of major general.
Zhong Hanmin, a native of Zhongwafang Village, Dingli Town, Xiao County, Jiangsu Province (present-day Xiao County, Anhui), was admitted to the sixth phase of the Huangpu Military Academy in October 1926, and experienced the Zhongshan Ship Incident, the Northern Expedition, the 4.15 Massacre in Guangzhou, and the Changsha Ma-Ri Incident on the streets of Chen Corpse; participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, captured the Municipal Post Office, defended Xihaokou, and fought for three days; in 1930, he returned to his hometown to participate in the organization of the Huangkou Rebellion, serving as a party representative of the First Division of the 15th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and chairman of the Xiao County Soviet, leading the armed uprising of the peasants in Xiao County; the uprising failed and was wanted. Arrested and imprisoned, rescued by relatives and sentenced to imprisonment in the Suzhou Provincial Hospital, he was released on bail, and returned to his hometown to teach and publicize the anti-Japanese resistance.
After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhong Hanmin took over the organizational relationship and first served as a member of the central county party committee and the director of the United Front Work Department of Xiao County, and later as the county magistrate and independent brigade commander of Xiao County. After the establishment of the Xiaoxian Independent Brigade, it effectively cooperated with the Third Division and the Seventh Brigade to pursue and annihilate the fleeing enemy Liu Ruiqi, and then faced the Japanese puppet army that "swept up" from Xuzhou to the southwest of Xiao County, annihilated more than 500 enemy troops at the zulaolou and Qinglongji fronts, captured 10 light and heavy machine guns, more than 300 rifles, and returned to Xuzhou with remnants of the enemy.
However, the brigade was established under increasingly unfavorable circumstances, and after the friction between the Battle of Xiao Xiluohe and the Kuomintang diehards was damaged, the commander of the Fourth Division ordered the Independent Brigade to remain in xiao county except for one battalion led by Zhong Hanmin to persist in the struggle in Xiao County, and the rest of the brigade to go south to the north to participate in the anti-stubborn struggle.
After transferring to Ludong, Zhong hanmin was transferred to serve as a member of the county party committee of Pi Sui Tongling County, the director of the Joint Defense Office, and the president of the United Central Committee of the Suwan Border Region, and successively served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Second Prefecture Committee of Suwan province, a member of the Standing Committee of the Eighth Prefecture Committee of Central China, a deputy commissioner of the Special Office, and vice president of the Su Jianguo College in Yuwan Province.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the chief education officer of the Party School of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, a member of the Party Committee, the vice president of Nanjing Normal University, the vice president of Nanjing Art College, the dean and consultant of Nanjing Art College, specializing in education.
In the subsequent movements, Zhong Hanmin was shocked and treated unfairly, but he continued to teach and work silently until he was seventy years old, restoring his party age that began in the spring of 1928 and being treated as vice governor after his retirement. On January 29, 1992, Zhong Hanmin died in Nanjing at the age of 87 due to ineffective medical treatment.
His old superior, General Zhang Zhen, wrote an inscription for him: "Comrade Zhong Hanmin is an outstanding party member of our party, who has been engaged in white area work for a long time, and we worked together in the Huaibei base area during the War of Resistance Against Japan. ”