What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In the spring of 1940, in order to strengthen leadership over the War of Resistance behind enemy lines in Shandong, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the Northern Bureau of the CPC successively sent a telegram to the CPC Central Committee proposing to send Xu Xiangqian, deputy commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhu Rui, director of the Organization Department of the Northern Bureau of the CPC, to Shandong to "form a central leadership." "Xu and Zhu unified command of Zhang (Jingwu), Li (Yu), Chen Luo, Xiao Hua, and (Peng) Xuefeng troops in the name of commander and political commissar of the first column of the Eighth Route Army." ”
Among them, "Chen Luo" was Chen Guang, acting commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Luo Ronghuan, political commissar.
On May 4, the Northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China issued a notice: "Organize the first column of the Eighth Route Army to unify the command of all regular and guerrilla units in Shandong and Xiaohua District north of the Yellow River, with Xu Xiangqian as commander and Zhu Rui as political commissar." Xu and Zhu were the top leaders of the Shandong army.
However, after Xu Xiangqian and Zhu Rui arrived in Shandong, the first column of the Eighth Route Army did not achieve leadership over the 115th Division.
Why?
In fact, speaking of which, it is still an optimization problem of organizational leadership.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, the Eighth Route Army successively formed six columns, of which two were the fourth column, one was established in 1938 in Pingxi (North), and the other was established in Yongcheng, Henan in 1940. Of these six columns, only the First Column of the Eighth Route Army took on the task of the main division of the Eighth Route Army.
In the Eighth Route Army, there were originally three divisions, all under the direct command of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. After the establishment of the first column, several problems arose:
As the main division, the 115th Division added a first-level leader between the headquarters, and in the notice issued by the Northern Bureau, the 115th Division was under the direct command of the headquarters of Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army, resulting in multiple command systems.
The establishment of three divisions by the Second and Eighth Route Army was the result of the negotiations with the Kuomintang and the regular main force confirmed by the Nationalist government. The 115th Division was subordinate to the 1st Column (division level) of the Eighth Route Army, and it was easy to demote the 115th Division. This is clearly undesirable.
Therefore, in the end, the first column of the Eighth Route Army did not achieve direct leadership over the 115th Division.
That is, the unified command of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong has not actually been solved.
In view of this embarrassing situation, in 1943 the Party Central Committee decided to implement unified leadership in each anti-Japanese base area, and the Shandong Column (that is, the former First Column) was merged with the 115th Division, and Luo Ronghuan served as the commander and political commissar of the Shandong Military Region, and the political commissar and acting commander of the 115th Division.
As a result, Luo Ronghuan became the supreme leader of the CPC's Shandong War of Resistance. In this way, the leadership problem that Shandong had been lingering behind enemy lines in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was finally solved. Subsequently, a gratifying situation emerged in the Shandong War of Resistance, and the Eighth Route Army completely "unified the world."
Judging from the process of resolving the issue of unified leadership of the Shandong armed forces, even during the war years, the CPC attached great importance to the leadership system and attached great importance to its scientific nature. It is precisely because of this that the army led by the CCP can make the administration and highly efficient, which is beyond the reach of other armies.