In August 1937, the famous Red 31st Army was reorganized into the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, with Chen Geng as its brigade commander. The brigade had two regiments, including the 772nd Regiment, which was an ace unit. Later, this regiment gradually developed into the famous 13th Army. According to statistics, this unit produced many founding generals. For example: General Xie Fuzhi, Lieutenant General Wang Jinshan, Lieutenant General Chen Kang, Lieutenant General Sun Jixian... However, why did Wang Bo, the second chief of staff of this regiment, not receive a military rank?
Wang Bo
Wang Bo, a native of Xuanhan, Sichuan, was born in 1908. Because he was born poor, he did not have much education, and he has always lived a relatively poor life. Fortunately, his uncle Wang Weizhou was admitted to a military academy and became a regimental commander. With the help of his uncle, his living standards have improved qualitatively. However, Wang Weizhou soon got tired of the warlord melee, took the initiative to break away from the Sichuan army and joined the party. Under his influence, Wang Bo, who was only 20 years old, also secretly joined the party.
After the two uncles and nephews joined the party, they have been carrying out the peasant movement in eastern Sichuan and preparing for an armed uprising. They have lost many battles, but they have lost many battles. By 1931, the guerrilla group had grown to more than 2,000 commanders and fighters. In this regard, Wang Weizhou and Wang Bo have made indispensable contributions. In 1932, Wang Bo was promoted to the captain of the second detachment because of his outstanding military achievements. At this time, the team had only three detachments. It can also be said that he is one of the founders of our party and our army in eastern Sichuan.
Wang Weizhou
In 1933, this unit (the Eastern Sichuan Guerrilla Army) and the Red Fourth Front met in victory. Subsequently, the Eastern Sichuan Guerrilla Army was reorganized into the 33rd Army of the Red Fourth Front. According to statistics, there are more than 10,000 commanders and fighters in the whole army, with Wang Weizhou as the commander and Yang Keming as the political commissar. This unit has three divisions under its jurisdiction, namely: the Red 97th Division, the Red 98th Division, and the Red 99th Division, and the three division commanders are Ran Nanxuan, Jiang Qunlin, and Wang Bo. This year, Wang Bo was only 25 years old.
After the establishment of the Red 33rd Army, it participated in the famous Anti-Six Road Siege Campaign in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region. In this battle, this force was deployed in the eastern front between Wanyuan and Xuanhan and Daxian, uniting fraternal forces against the enemy's fifth and sixth roads. In addition, the Red 33rd Army drew out a regiment to monitor the enemy troops in the direction of southern Shaanxi. According to statistics, our army has more than 20 regiments on the eastern front, with a total of less than 40,000 people. The enemy threw in more than 40 regiments, with a total of no less than 80,000 men and horses.
Yang Keming
In this battle, the Red 33rd Army has always shown tenacity. Especially near the town of Miaoba, Wang Bo led his troops to ambush thousands of enemy troops. After a night of fierce fighting, our army quickly annihilated more than 1,000 enemy troops. At the same time, Wang Bo's troops also lost hundreds of warriors. In addition, this unit successively broke through the enemy troops Chen Guoshu, Wang Sanchun and other bandits, and once again annihilated nearly a thousand enemy troops. When the enemy army was weak, our army launched a full-scale counteroffensive. As the second echelon, this unit once again performed outstandingly.
The Red 33rd Army had more than 10,000 men, but most of them were recruits and were in short supply of weapons and ammunition. They won the battle with extraordinary courage and perseverance, but lost at least one division. So, after the war, the unit was downsized to two divisions. In the same year, the Red 29th Army in southern Shaanxi was betrayed by traitors and almost completely destroyed. Therefore, Zhang Guotao had some views on some local armed forces that had been incorporated by our army, including the Red 33rd Army, which had a large number of intellectuals.
Zhang Renchu
In this context, a large number of commanders and fighters of the Red 33Rd Army were arrested. Subsequently, Jiang Qunlin, Ran Nanxuan, Gong Kanyan, Wu Zhitai, and other commanders at and above the regimental level were killed. Even the military commander Wang Weizhou and the political commissar Yang Keming were dismissed from their military posts. As a commander of the main division of the Red 33rd Army, Wang Bo was naturally affected. However, he was born poor, bitter and bitter, and there was also the protection of Wang Weizhou and Yang Keming, so he luckily escaped this fate.
However, he was transferred away from the main force and went to a military academy of the Red Fourth Front as the chief of education. As for the heroic unit of the Red 33rd Army, it withdrew from the stage of history on the Long March. A regiment of this army was led by Zhang Renchu and was incorporated into Yang Chengwu's 4th Regiment of the Red First Army. The rest of the army was incorporated into the Red 5th Army and later fell to the Hexi Corridor. According to investigations, the remnants of this unit were mainly distributed in a regiment of the 43rd Army of the Later Fourth Field Army.
Xu Guofu
According to statistics, the Red 33rd Army produced a large number of founding heroes, such as: Junior General Zhang Ren, Major General Hu Bingyun, Major General Wang Liangtai, Major General Wu Chengzhong, Major General Wu Shi'an, Major General Liu Xinquan, Major General Zeng Xianchi, Major General Li Zhongquan... During the Red Army period, most of them were Wang Bo's old subordinates, or commanders of the same level as Wang Bo in the same system. However, since leaving the Red 33rd Army, Wang Bo has been serving as the chief of staff of various units, and has never been alone since.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Bo came to the 772nd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and was appointed as the second chief of staff of this regiment. He assisted the regimental commander Ye Chenghuan and commanded the famous Battle of Changle Village. According to statistics, in this battle, the 772nd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the brother troops annihilated more than 2,000 Japanese troops. However, it was very unfortunate that the regimental commander Ye Chenghuan was seriously injured in this fierce battle, and immediately martyred! After hearing the news, both Wang Bo and Brigadier Chen Geng were devastated.
Lee Chung-kwon
In 1940, our army established the New 8th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Zhang Weihan served as the brigade commander, Xiao Yongzhi as the political commissar, Zhou Guangce as the chief of staff, and Wang Youping as the director of the political office. The brigade has three regiments with a total of no less than 4,000 commanders and fighters. According to some old Eighth Road recollections, Wang Jinshan served as the deputy brigade commander of this brigade, and Wang Bo also came to this unit to change into the chief of staff of the brigade. It is very regrettable that I have not yet inquired about the specific timing of this appointment.
According to the recollections of Xu Guofu, a veteran of the Red Army, in 1942 he served as the acting regimental commander of the Ji'nan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. This regiment belonged to Wang Bo's New 8th Brigade. In a fierce battle, no less than 3,000 Japanese pseudo-regiments surrounded the regiment. However, under the command of Wang Bo, Xu Guofu, Yu Xiaohong, and others, this unit preferred to die and became more and more courageous. In the end, our army successfully broke out of the encirclement. According to statistics, our army annihilated more than 200 enemy troops and inflicted more than 500 self-inflicted losses.
Wang Bo and Wang Weizhou
Realistically speaking, Wang Bo's culture is not high, and his temper is not good. He had deep qualifications, but because of his early experience of being criticized, he never served as a military commander again. He fought bravely, but he lacked stamina and made slow progress, and he did not adapt to the mode of operation such as a large corps. As a result, his career has been stagnant. Until the end of the victory of the War of Resistance, he remained a brigade chief of staff. At the same time, many of his old comrades-in-arms and old subordinates have already assumed the position of brigade commander.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Bo came to the northeast. On Cao Lihuai's recommendation, he served as chief of staff of the First Garrison Brigade of the Jilin Military Region. The brigade commander of this brigade was Kim Kwang-hsa, later a general in the Korean People's Army. The political commissar was Xie Fumin, later chairman of the Nationalities Committee of the National People's Congress. In the northeast, he remained active and later became chief of staff of the 9th Column of the Northeast Field Army. His old subordinate, Li Zhongquan, was then the deputy political commissar of the 9th Column and concurrently served as the director and political commissar of the political department.
Xiao Hua and Wang Xinlan
It is said that Li Zhongquan felt that Wang Bo's position was too low. One day, he met the old chief Wang Weizhou and proposed to adjust Wang Bo's position. However, Wang Weizhou directly refused, and he also said the following sentence: Wang Bo did the same in the army, and many outstanding comrades were sacrificed. It can be seen from this that an old Red Army's high wind and bright festival! In 1949, Shino waved his division south. Subsequently, Wang Bo was reappointed chief of staff of the 138th Division of the 46th Army and chief of staff of the Changsha Garrison Command.
It is very regrettable that shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Bo transferred to the local area. At the local level, he served as the director of the office of the Yunnan Bureau of Metallurgical Industry and was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Because of this factor, he did not receive a military rank. In fact, he could have earned the rank of colonel or even a colonel. If it were not for the lack of stamina and the low position during the War of Resistance and the War of Liberation, he would even have hoped to obtain the rank of major general or lieutenant general.
Wang Weizhou and He Long
However, as an old Red Army member and an old party member, Wang Bo never complained in any way. Moreover, he has always worked hard and always actively completed any work tasks given by his superiors. In addition, he is a man of great affection. For his uncle Wang Weizhou, he has always respected him. Moreover, he has always been happy to help those old subordinates, especially some old Red Army scattered among the people. With his unremitting efforts, our party found and properly resettled the orphan of martyr Yang Keming.
Wang Weizhou, former vice chairman of the Southwest Military and Political Committee, and Wang Bo, former director of the office of the Yunnan Provincial Bureau of Metallurgical Industry, were born. In addition, more than 20 of Wang Weizhou's family and relatives also participated in the Long March. The most famous of these is Wang Weizhou's nephew Queen Xinlan. She joined the Red Army at the age of 9 and the Long March at the age of 11. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, she was awarded the rank of colonel and served as deputy political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Lanzhou Military Region. As for her husband, he was the famous General Xiao Hua.