After the "Anhui Incident", the New Fourth Army rebuilt its military headquarters, with 7 divisions and an independent brigade under its jurisdiction, with a total of 44 brigade commanders and brigade political commissars. Many of these 44 were promoted relatively quickly, and they became the commanders of the columns in the early days of the Liberation War. For example, Liang Xingchu, the commander of the Independent Brigade at that time, served as the commander of the Tenth Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in 1947; Wei Guoqing, the political commissar of the 9th Brigade, served as the commander of the 2nd Column of the Shandong Field Army in 1946, and in 1948, he was appointed commander of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and his promotion rate was quite fast.
However, there was one person who was an exception, he and Liang Xingchu, Wei Guoqing and others served as brigade commanders at the same time, but in the next 8 years he remained in place, and he was not promoted at the first level, which was the slowest brigade commander of the New Fourth Army. So who is this person? He was Peng Mingji, then commander of the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army. Peng Mingzhi was a native of Changning, Hunan, graduated from huangpu phase I, participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, and served as a platoon leader of the 4th Company of the Ye Ting Independent Regiment.
After the outbreak of the Nanchang Uprising, Peng Mingzhi served as the acting company commander of the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division. This qualification was very good, and the later founding general Xu Guangda was just a platoon leader at that time. Later, when the rebels marched south to Guangdong and passed through Sanheba, they were besieged by the superior forces of the Nationalist qian Dajun, and Peng Mingji was seriously wounded in the battle and was left at the home of the local people to recuperate. A few months later, Peng Mingzhi's wounds were healed, and he had planned to chase after the troops, but the pocket was empty, there was no travel expense, and the rebel troops had long been transferred, so he had to dispel this idea.
In order to make a living, Peng Mingji used a pseudonym to serve as a soldier in the 52nd Division of the Gui Clan. In the 52nd Division, Peng Mingzhi was in Cao Yingxin's heart in Han, secretly looking for organizations many times, ready to return to the army at any time. In 1930, Peng Meiji finally ushered in the opportunity to return to the team. In late August of that year, the Red Army attacked Changsha for the second time, and Peng Mingzhi took up the outpost in the town of Vaulting horse on the outskirts of Changsha. He decisively led the 9-member uprising of his squad and joined the Red Army.
After returning to the team, Peng Mingzhi was very successful and was soon promoted to deputy regimental commander. After the outbreak of the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the enemy relied on its superior strength to pounce on the position of the 19th Regiment of the Red 7th Division, and the battle was particularly fierce, and at a critical juncture, Peng Mingji, who was then the deputy commander of the 19th Regiment, drew a large knife from behind, took the lead in rushing into the enemy group, slashed left and right, and was covered in blood, and finally repelled the enemy.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Peng Mingzhi successively served as chief of staff, regimental commander, and commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. In late January 1941, he became brigade commander of the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army. From his return in 1930 to his appointment as brigade commander of the main force of the New Fourth Army in 1941, Peng Mingji's promotion speed in this period was not fast, but it was not too slow. But for the next 8 years, he stayed where he was, and he didn't rise to the next level until the beginning of 1949, when he was a brigade commander.
During these 8 years, Peng Mingzhi led his troops to conquer the north and south, and experienced thousands of battles. During his tenure as the commander of the 7th Brigade of the New Fourth Army, he commanded the troops to fight more than 1,500 large and small battles with the Japanese puppet army, and the enemy was frightened, Chen Yi called Peng Mingzhi's 7th Brigade "the main force of the main force in central China"; after the outbreak of the Liberation War, he led his troops into the northeast to fight, and completely annihilated a regiment of the Nationalist Army in Xiushui Hezi, which was the first annihilation battle of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in the northeast. Since then, Peng Meizhi has led his troops to participate in many important battles and battles, and his performance is very outstanding, but until 1949 he was still a brigade commander.
At this time, many of the people who held the same position as Peng Mingzhi during the New Fourth Army period became column commanders, and some even became corps commanders and political commissars, but only Peng Mingji was not promoted to the first rank. Why? The main reason was that he was seriously injured in the Siping Defense Battle in April 1946, and rested for more than a year, until he returned to the battlefield in 1948, and the period of recuperation invisibly affected his promotion.
However, the superiors did not forget Peng Mingji's military achievements, and in March 1949, the 13th Corps of Shino was established, and Peng Meiji was directly promoted from brigade commander to deputy commander of the corps, which was the only case in the history of our army. Since then, Peng Mingji has successively participated in and commanded the Battle of Pingjin, the Battle of Hengbao, the Battle of Guangxi and the Battle of Xiangguibian, and his performance is very outstanding. After the founding of new China, he was sent to Poland as an ambassador and became a famous general ambassador. In 1955, Peng Meiji was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. In May 1993, General Peng Mingzhi completed his legendary life at the age of 88.