During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were a total of 12 eighth route army offices in the eighth route army, namely the eighth route army office in Shaanxi, the office in Jin, the Nanjing office, the shanghai office, the Wuhan office, the office in Xiangzhou, the office in Guizhou, the office in Chongqing, the office in Yu, the office in Lanzhou, the office in Xinjiang, and the Guiyang traffic station.
The eighth route army office in Shaanxi was formerly known as the Red Army Liaison Office, located in Xixianzhuang No. 1, Xi'an City, after the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, the Red Army Liaison Office was renamed the Eighth Route Army Office in Shaanxi, and its first office director was Wu Yunfu. Wu Yunfu was the founder of radio, served as the political commissar of the 3rd Bureau of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission during the Red Army period, and after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as deputy director of the Finance Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government and deputy director of the 4th Department of the Central Party School.
The Eighth Route Army Office in Jin was established in 1937, with Peng Xuefeng as the first director, after the liberation of Taiyuan, the office was moved to Linfen, and Wang Shiying and Cao Yanxing successively served as the director. We are all too familiar with Peng Xuefeng, who was the commander of the 6th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army after the Anhui Incident, and later died heroically in the Battle of Balizhuang in Xiayi County, at the age of 37.
The Nanjing office of the Eighth Route Army was established in 1937, and the first director of the office was Ye Jianying, who was awarded the rank of marshal after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Shanghai office of the Eighth Route Army was located at No. 21 Foch Road, Shanghai, and the first director was Pan Hannian, who had been engaged in underground work for a long time, and was not awarded a military rank after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and later after the fall of Shanghai, the office was abolished. The Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army was established at the end of 1937, and the first director was Qian Zhiguang, who had been engaged in logistics work for a long time, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was once the vice minister of the Textile Industry Department, and was awarded the title in 1955, and he did not participate in it.
In 1937, Wang Lingbo began to establish the Eighth Route Army Office in Hunan Province, and later after the Pingjiang Massacre, for safety reasons, the head of the office was evacuated, and the office was abolished. Most people are not familiar with Wang Lingbo, he was originally a Member of the Kuomintang, seeing that the Kuomintang was becoming increasingly corrupt, he resolutely threw himself into the CCP, worked in the Shanghai Central Bureau, after the central bureau was destroyed, Wang Lingbo was imprisoned for 2 years, and was released from prison after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1940, Wang Lingbo returned to Yan'an to work, but died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in 1942 due to overwork.
The Eighth Route Army Office in Guizhou was established at the end of 1938, the first director of the office was the famous CCP intelligence "giant" Li Kenong, after the Anhui Incident, the office was abolished, transferred to Chongqing, renamed the Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing, the director is still Li Kenong. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Kenong was awarded the rank of general, and he was also one of the few generals in the army at that time who had not been on the battlefield, and he was also a rare "intelligence general". The Eighth Route Army's office in Yu is located in the Xinxiang area, and is under the responsibility of the artillery "giant" Zhu Rui, who was a general of the Red Army at the rank of a military commander who served as the artillery commander of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army during the Liberation War, and later died heroically in 1948. If Zhu Rui did not die, he would at least be a general after the founding of the country.
The Eighth Route Army's office in Lanzhou was established in January 1937 as Peng Jialun, who was succeeded by Wu Xiuquan after Peng Jialun left office. Peng Jialun was the political commissar of the 8th Column of the Red Army, engaged in political work for a long time during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and served as the liaison director of the General Political Department of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army during the Liberation War. It is worth mentioning that the second director, Wu Xiuquan, was temporarily awarded the rank of major general during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but he was not awarded a military rank after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The first director of the Eighth Route Army's office in Xinjiang was the famous revolutionary Chen Yun, who was once deputy director of the Northwest Financial and Economic Office, known as the "red treasurer," who presided over the central financial work for a long time, and was not awarded a military rank because he was not in the army system after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The Guiyang Traffic Station of the Eighth Route Army was established at the end of 1938, which is considered to be the late establishment of the office, and the first traffic station director was Yuan Chaojun, who was also a famous financial figure of the Republic, engaged in economic work for a long time, and served as the director of the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In summary, among the directors of these offices, only one marshal and one admiral appeared after the establishment of the country.