Speaking of the cadre regiment of the Central Red Army, many friends familiar with history are not unfamiliar, he was founded on the eve of the Long March of the Red Army, under the jurisdiction of four battalions and a cadre team, with a total strength of more than a thousand people. The main task of the cadre regiment is to serve as the vanguard of the CMC column, responsible for vigilance and cover along the way, so it is also known as the "Royal Forest Army" of the CMC column.
Although the number is not large, the level of the cadre regiment is very high, the most common soldiers are platoon commanders and above, looking at the whole army, there is only one such regiment. It is precisely because of the high level of the cadre regiment that his regimental commander and political commissar are also well-known figures. At that time, the head of the cadre regiment was Chen Geng, who later became the founding general, and the political commissar was Song Renqian, who was awarded the rank of general in 55 years.
Among the cadre regiments, the highest rank is the upper cadre, where every soldier is at or above the battalion level. So who were the captains and political commissars of the cadres at that time? At that time, the captain of the shanggan team was Xiao Jinguang. On January 4, 1903, Xiao Jinguang was born in Zhaozhou Port under the Yuelu Mountains in Changsha, Hunan Province, where most of the families made a living by ferry. When Xiao Jinguang was two years old, his father and grandfather died of illness one after another, and his mother struggled to make a living with 6 children.
Xiao Jinguang was the sixth oldest in the family, with three older brothers and two older sisters. In order to make ends meet, the brothers had to go up the mountain every day to cut firewood, and then pick up orange islands to exchange rice. The two sisters followed their mother to help others embroider flowers, earn change to subsidize the family, and life was very difficult, and General Xiao Jinguang later recalled this period and said that "there has never been overnight food in the family." Soon after, Xiao Jinguang's eldest brother and third brother both went to the town to become apprentices, and after leaving the school, they became cooks, and the life at home slowly improved, and Xiao Jinguang was able to study because of this.
In the summer of 1920, Xiao Jinguang rushed to Shanghai to learn Russian and receive revolutionary education, and a year later went to the Soviet Union with Ren Bishi and others to study, and returned to China in the autumn of 1924. At that time, during the period of Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, Xiao Jinguang was sent to the 6th Division of the 2nd Army of the National Revolutionary Army as a party representative with the rank of lieutenant general, which was the highest starting point among all the founding generals, and he later joked that he had "only been promoted to two ranks in his life (lieutenant general to general)". After the defeat of the Great Revolution, Xiao Jinguang went to the Soviet Union again to study, and returned to China in 1930, serving as the political commissar of the Red 5 Army and the Red 7 Army.
After the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign began, Due to Li De's wrong command, Li Chuan fell. Li De not only did not review his mistakes, but also pushed the responsibility to Xiao Jinguang and removed him from his post. After the establishment of the Cadre Regiment of the Central Military Commission, Xiao Jinguang served as the captain of the Shanggan Brigade, and after the Zunyi Conference, Xiao Jinguang was transferred to the Chief of Staff of the Red Third Army. After that, Xiao Jinguang participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation successively, and made many military achievements. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the commander of the navy and made important contributions to the construction and development of the mainland navy, and in 1955 Xiao Jinguang was awarded the rank of general.
The political commissar who was partnering Xiao Jinguang in the Shanggan team at that time was Yu Zehong. Born in February 1903 in Yibin, Sichuan, Yu Zehong joined the revolution at the age of 19 and worked in Shanghai, Hubei and Tianjin. In 1934, Yu Zehong came to the Central Soviet Region and entered the Red Army University to teach, and after the establishment of the Shanggan Brigade, he served as the political commissar. After the Red Army's Long March reached Tashi, Yu Zehong was sent to southern Sichuan to engage in guerrilla warfare. On December 15, 1935, due to the traitor's informant, the guerrilla group led by Yu Zehong was surrounded by the enemy, and he himself unfortunately died in battle at the age of 32.