After the Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army was quickly rebuilt, and the rebuilt New Fourth Army had seven divisions and an independent brigade under its jurisdiction, with Chen Yi as the commander and Liu Shaoqi as the political commissar. Of these seven divisions, the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army was the weakest, and when the Seventh Division was first established, there was only one Nineteenth Brigade and one Advancing Regiment, while the other divisions had three brigades under their command.
The troops of the Seventh Division were also fragmented and chaotic, and when it was first formed, the total strength was only more than 1,900 people, and the large troops were newly reorganized from the local guerrillas, and their combat effectiveness was not strong, and their equipment was also very poor. The commander of the Seventh Division was Zhang Dingcheng, but at that time Zhang Dingcheng was in the Military Academy of the Central Party School in Yan'an, and he had not been on the job, and the work of the Seventh Division had always been the responsibility of the political commissar Zeng Xisheng.
The area of activity of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army is mainly in the Chaonan Mountains and Wudong, which is mainly centered on dongjia Mountain, east to Shijianbu, west to Renjia mountain, about 30 miles long, south to dustpan field, north to Chao Lake, about 10 miles wide; Wudong is mainly in Liuzhou, Linjiangba, Sangong, Tianjiaqiao and other places. This area is not large, and it will be attacked by the Kuomintang army and the Japanese puppet army at any time.
When the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army was first established, the situation of struggle around it was indeed cruel, and its own strength was also very weak, but
The Anhui River area where the Seventh Division is located, in the heart of the Japanese Kou in central China, guarding the throat of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and both sides of the Huainan Railway, close to Nanjing and Wuhu, the strategic position is very important.
Persisting in the struggle here will help the New Fourth Army of Central China to develop south and west, and provide a forward base for future counterattacks against the Japanese Kou.
At that time, the Seventh Division still had some favorable points, that is, the mass base in the Anhui River area was very good, and the party organizations in the Anhui River area already had a certain foundation as early as the 1927 Revolution, and the local people were very supportive of the New Fourth Army, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, they gave great help to the New Fourth Army in terms of manpower and material resources.
The Anhui River area is not only densely populated, but also rich in products, and is the home of fish and rice in central China, which also provides great convenience for the development of the Seventh Division.
After Zeng Xisheng took office, he first began to grasp the economy of the Anhui River region, and without strong economic support, the troops could not develop and grow. At the beginning of 1942, when Zeng Xisheng went to the New Fourth Army Headquarters and the Central China Bureau to report on his work, he dug up economic and military talents everywhere. At that time, the Central China Bureau had set up a financial and economic committee headed by Zeng Shan, and the deputy directors were Zhu Yi and Fang Yi.
After Zeng Xisheng found Zeng Shan, he asked him to send someone to the Anhui River area, but at that time, the economic talents in Zeng Shan's hands had long been hollowed out, only
Cai Hui is in central China
Study at the Party School. And Cai Hui was also stared at by many people, Tan Zhenlin, commander of the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army, had already set his sights on Cai Hui, and Zeng Shan also intended to let Cai Hui go to the Central China Bureau Financial and Economic Committee to preside over the relevant work.
However, after zeng shan considered it for a while, he felt that the Anhui River area was suitable for economic development, so he transferred Cai Hui to Zeng Xisheng's seventh division. Later, Zeng Shan also sent Tan Wei, Xu Deming, and a number of other financial and economic cadres to the base area of the Seventh Division in the Anhui River to help the Seventh Division develop its economy.
After Cai Hui arrived at the Seventh Division, he immediately extensively organized and mobilized the masses, learned the spirit of Nanniwan, promoted the large-scale production movement, and called on the officers and men of the troops and peasants to open up wasteland and cultivate land.
In 1944, when the combat task was relatively mild, a total of 7,000 mu of wasteland was reclaimed in the base area, tens of thousands of mu of cotton were planted, more than 10 million trees were planted, and countless livestock and poultry were raised.
In addition, in order to open up financial resources and develop the economy of the base areas, Cai Hui also vigorously promoted the development of the public-private partnership economy, promoted the development of private commerce and trade and handicraft industries, and established cigarette factories, printing plants, and paper mills in the Anhui River area, and sold their products to the Kuomintang area and the enemy-occupied areas.
Under the leadership of Zeng Xisheng, Cai Hui was also established
The Anhui River Trade Administration Bureau traded with the Kuomintang and the Japanese puppet army.
In order to cooperate with Cai Hui's economic war, Zeng Xisheng sent heavy troops
Stationed along the Tangjiagou river, the port and ferry port were strictly sealed, and rice was forbidden to leave the country without permission, and the Japanese puppet army could not receive grain and could only buy at a high price.
In addition to trade, transit taxes are also a major source of finance for the Anhui River region. At that time, Cai Hui also set up the General Administration of Cargo Management, set up cargo checkpoints in various major water and land transportation routes, and all the cars, ships, mules, and horses that transported goods were subject to taxation.
Some institutions have few professional tax cadres, usually local guerrilla leaders themselves, and even Japanese merchants who pass by have to pay taxes.
With the efforts of Zeng Xisheng, Cai Hui and others, the Seventh Division gradually changed from a weak brigade to a strong and strong brigade. The 7th Division's weapons and equipment were very well-equipped, they were all bought from the enemy-occupied areas at a cost of money, and tens of thousands of brand-new three-eight large covers were purchased. The Seventh Division also had its own arsenal, which exchanged rice for 91 pieces of equipment such as large and small lathes, planers, and drilling machines in Wuhu, and at the same time introduced a group of military engineering talents from the military department.
In March 1943, the Seventh Division Arsenal formed a production capacity, and when it withdrew to the north, it had grown to more than 800 people, and it could make bullets, grenades, grenades, bayonets, throwing barrels, mortars, shells, mines, etc., and transform and repair various types of guns and cannons, which was one of the main technical forces of the Military Production Department of the East China Military Region. The Seventh Division could not give the explosives, detonators, nitric acid, fuses needed to
Chemical agents, hardware tools, etc., were also purchased from areas controlled by the Japanese puppet army.
Compared with other divisions, the seventh division's supply standard is very high, the standard of food is ten yuan per person, and all the rice eaten is rice.
In addition to rice, pocket money is occasionally distributed, each person is given a toothpaste, three cigarettes per month, and during the New Year's Festival, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and fish are used to improve their diet.
The uniforms of the Seventh Division were specially approved by the Military Department, and all the more than 30,000 officers and men of the division used military uniforms sewn from imported tap cloth.
Within the New Fourth Army, there is a saying that the Seventh Division of The Rich and the Whole Army are a whole army, that is, the salary of one Seventh Division is enough to feed the entire New Fourth Army.
From the end of 1942 to the spring of 1945, only the Seventh Division handed over cash to the military headquarters, amounting to about 53 million french dollars (at the current price, it was 265,000 taels of gold).
Among them, in the year from January 1944 to January 1945, cash was handed over as high as 44 million yuan. According to the supply standards of the Kuomintang army at that time, 20 national army armor divisions could be supplied. The reason why the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army has developed so well is mainly because the New Fourth Army has one heart and one mind, and the main cadres are very clean, while the Kuomintang army internally withholds military salaries, is corrupt and corrupt, does not think of making progress, and oppresses the people.
When it was established on May 1, 1941, the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army had less than 2,000 troops, no more than 4,000 square kilometers of anti-Japanese guerrilla areas, and a population of no more than one million. By the time of the northern retreat in 1945, there were nearly 200,000 revolutionary armed forces (30,000 main forces, 156,000 local armed forces, and militias), with a base area of 22,500 square kilometers, 14 county-level political powers, and a population of more than 3 million.
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