Wang Hongkun has served as a military commander and military political commissar in the Red Fourth Front For a long time, and it can be said that he has made great achievements in battle. From the beginning of the War of Resistance, his achievements and fame were much smaller.
In fact, this is inseparable from his choice.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although he served as the commander of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division, he did not go to the front line to resist the Japanese, but led the brigade headquarters and the 770 regiment to garrison the Longdong region and guard the gate of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
The enemy they directly faced was not the Japanese army, but Hu Zongnan's troops, to prevent friction between the nationalist army.
After working for a few months, he went to Yan'an to study. Until 1939, according to the situation of the anti-Japanese struggle and the development of the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines, it was necessary to consolidate the tasks of North China through guerrilla warfare. The central authorities decided to send a large number of cadres to the front, and Wang Hongkun was among them.
He was sent to Ji'nan, where the situation of struggle was more complicated, where there were not only Japanese puppet troops, but also Kuomintang troops, as well as volunteer armies and bandit armed forces in various places.
At that time, the Eighth Route Army troops in southern Hebei included the eastward column led by Chen Zaidao, and the 769th regiment and 689 regiment led by Xu Qianqian's deputy division commander.
Wang Hongkun was originally assigned to work in the EastWard Column, but after Liu Deng arrived in Ji'nan, he told him that the Ji'nan Military Region had been established and that he would serve as the deputy commander of the military region.
At that time, when the Ji'nan Military Region was established, it could be said that it was poor and white, and there was only one company of troops that could command. In order to strengthen the strength of the military region, this company and a guerrilla group formed a special regiment and played a huge role in the plains war of resistance.
Although Wang Hongkun is the deputy commander of the military region, he has always been responsible for local armed work.
In 1940, Chen Zaidao's troops merged with the Ji'nan Military Region to form the new Ji'nan Military Region, with Chen Zaidao as commander, Song Renqiang as political commissar, and Wang Hongkun as deputy commander. His superiors transferred Fan Chaoli and Liu Zhijian to chief of staff and director of the political department.
Except for Song Renqian, all three of them were from the Red Fourth Front and were very familiar with them. In terms of seniority, Wang Hongkun was deeper, and Chen Zaidao was once his old subordinate.
After the strength of the Ji'nan Military Region was strengthened, the work was carried out much smoothly, and the expansion of the troops was very rapid, with 4 brigades and 5 military sub-districts under its jurisdiction.
In 1940, he had the opportunity to study at the Party School of the Headquarters, and during his studies, Mr. Peng talked to him and hoped to transfer him to the base area of the Jilu Border Region as the commander of the military region.
The Jilu Border Military Region was institutionally subordinate to the 115th Division, and Xiao Hua once led an eastward anti-Japanese advance column to fight a war of resistance behind enemy lines in the Jilu Plain, but later left.
Wang Hongkun did not want to go, he still wanted to return to work in the Ji'nan Military Region, after all, the work here is going well, and the military region is basically acquaintances, which is also convenient for carrying out work.
He talked to Deng Xiaoping, the political commissar of the 129th Division, about his opinions, and eventually asked him to stay in Ji'nan to work.
During the war of resistance against Japanese aggression for several years, he had been serving as a deputy in the military region, and in terms of record and fame, he seemed to be somewhat low-key.