Among the modern cultural relics in the collection of the Zhejiang Jiaxing Museum, there is a black-and-white photo of Li Quansheng. Li Quansheng in the photo has a slightly serious expression and is wearing a military uniform. Looking closely, there were already several holes in his clothes, and even the words on his badge were illegible. So what kind of story is there in him?
A native of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, Li Quansheng joined the Communist Party of China as early as April 1927 and was one of the early party members in Wuxing District, and later served as the secretary of the Yuanjiahui District COMMITTEE of the CPC, the organizing committee member of the Huzhou Central County Committee of the CPC, the member of the Linghu District Committee, and the secretary of the Huzhou County Committee of the Communist Youth League.
After the Battle of Songhu in 1937, Huzhou fell, and the area around Wuxing Changchao was repeatedly invaded by the Japanese army, and the people complained bitterly. Faced with the fragmentation of his homeland, Li Quansheng began to organize progressive youth in the surrounding areas to plan the establishment of guerrilla forces and armed defense of his hometown. The Changchao "People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" was proclaimed in late January 1938, with Li Quansheng as its director. The unit was mainly composed of young peasants in Changchao and the surrounding areas, with a total of more than 100 people, divided into 3 squadrons, and in order to strengthen political propaganda work, it also published the anti-Japanese publication "Zhan Sheng Bao".
After the establishment of the troops, Li Quansheng strengthened the building of the contingent in accordance with the spirit of the "Ten Programs for Resisting Japan and Saving the Country," and more and more young people and peasants rushed to defect, and the army grew to nearly a thousand in its heyday. The local people called this anti-Japanese armed force the "Changchao Army." In the battle, Changchao's troops fought with the Japanese army more than 10 times, and achieved outstanding results in the Luotianyang Ambush And the Battle of Shengshan. According to statistics, from the establishment of the unit to the dissolution, more than 480 Japanese puppet troops were killed, which was called the "tiger unit" by the Japanese Kou.
In order to unite the anti-Japanese forces, the New Fourth Army Headquarters and the Huzhou Regional Party Organization attached great importance to the work of winning over Li Quansheng's troops. In June 1938, the first detachment of the New Fourth Army sent Wu Linfeng, a cadre of the democracy movement, to the ministry to understand the situation, to tell Li Quansheng about the party's anti-Japanese national united front propositions, and to introduce the political work and the work of the democracy movement of the New Fourth Army, which was responded to by Li Quansheng. During this period, Wu Linfeng developed 6 party members in the Changchao army.
In February 1939, after the establishment of the Zhejiang Special Committee of the CPC, it implemented the work policy of the Zhejiang Provincial CPC Committee on "relying on Lang Yulin's troops, uniting Li Quansheng's troops, winning over Zhu Xi's troops, establishing anti-Japanese armed forces, and opening up guerrilla base areas in western Zhejiang.", and successively sent He Qianqiu and many other party members and cadres to work in the department. In May 1939, the Changchao army established a general branch of the party under the leadership of the special committee directly under its command. Since then, the number of party members in the ministry has grown to more than 30, and 7 party branches have been established successively. The Changchao unit became one of the anti-Japanese armed forces with the best political quality and the greatest influence in the anti-Japanese war area in western Zhejiang.
After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered a stalemate, the anti-communist features of the Kuomintang government were increasingly exposed. In order to control the anti-Japanese guerrilla forces in the Jiahu area, the Kuomintang Zhejiang Provincial Government began to reorganize local anti-Japanese armed forces and self-defense teams. Li Quansheng's troops refused to accept reorganization, and were besieged by the "First Advancing Force of Jiangnan" of the Kuomintang Army and its 13 miscellaneous troops gathered, and suffered heavy losses. Soon after, it was forcibly reorganized into an "independent brigade directly under the first advance of Jiangnan", and then reorganized into "the fifth detachment of the first guerrilla column in western Zhejiang". In February 1940, the troops were transferred to Wuyi, eastern Zhejiang Province, and incorporated into the Third Regiment of Zhejiang Provincial Security, the former political workers were dismissed, and the CCP members in the troops were ordered to withdraw. Li Quansheng was stripped of his military powers and transferred to the post of county magistrate of Tongxiang County, and the Changchao army ceased to exist.
After Li Quansheng was transferred to tongxiang county, he took over his duties as a major general senator of the Zhejiang Western Bureau and the general inspector of Wuxing County, and lost contact with the party organization. In March 1945, at the request of Lang Yulin, the county magistrate of Wuxing County, the anti-Japanese democratic government of the New Fourth Army, Li Quansheng was appointed director of the Ludong Office of Wuxing County and the head of the anti-Japanese democratic government of Shuanglin District. Later, due to the betrayal of traitors, Li Quansheng was arrested by the Japanese Kou and placed under house arrest in Huzhou.
After the Japanese surrendered, the New Fourth Army sent people to take Li Quansheng out, retreated north with the army, and was incorporated into the Third Regiment of the First Brigade of the First Column of the East China Military Region, and participated in the Battle of Yanzhou in Shandong, after which Li Quansheng has been working in Shandong. He rejoined the Communist Party of China in 1948 with approval. In March 1949, Li Quansheng died of illness in Yishou County, Shandong Province. In 1952, the Zhejiang Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau posthumously awarded Li Quansheng a revolutionary martyr.
In the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Quansheng and the "Changchao Troops" led by Him filled the gap in the Chinese regular army's resistance to Japan in western Zhejiang, not only eliminating some of the Japanese and pseudo-existing forces and repeatedly sabotaging the Japanese army's "sweeping" plan, but also blocking the offensive front of the Japanese army and striking at the arrogance of the Japanese army.
