Anyone who has watched the TV series "Bright Sword" knows that Li Yunlong is a character who is not afraid of the heavenly king Lao Tzu, only to intimidate the brigade commander. Privately, Li Yunlong could throw a tantrum and scold others for not daring to quarrel with the brigade commander, but when the brigade commander shouted "Li Yunlong", Li Yunlong immediately obeyed, either nodding his head and waist, or like the frosted eggplant, the horizontal momentum had long been thrown out of the cloud of nine clouds.
So, when did Li Yunlong, the commander of the Independent Regiment, become a subordinate of the brigade commander? Did it start during the Eighth Route Army? Or did the two become acquainted as early as the Red Army?
According to the original work and TV series of "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong's hometown is in the Eyu-Anhui area, and he used to be a smith and a pure disciple of Dabie Mountain. After Li Yunlong eliminated the Yamazaki Brigade, Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the Japanese First Army, once asked the intelligence personnel to get a resume of Li Yunlong, which clearly stated:
Origin: Dabie Mountain, the border area between Hubei Province and Henan Province, China.
Resume: Li Yunlong participated in the jute riot organized by the CCP in 1927 and later transferred to the CCP Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. It has been learned that Li participated in the strategic retreat of what the Chinese Communists called the Long March, was a relatively senior officer in the Chinese Communists' army, and made many military achievements.
It can be clear that Li Yunlong was an old Red Army veteran who had already joined the revolution during the Eyu-Anhui period, a veteran of the Red Fourth Front, not a new recruit who joined the Red Fourth Front after entering Sichuan and Shaanxi after December 1932.
This was crucial to when Li Yunlong and Brigadier Chen Geng would get acquainted. Because Brigadier Chen Geng had served as a division commander in the Red Fourth Front, from September 1931 to October 1932, Chen Geng left the Red Fourth Front. If Li Yunlong had intersected with Brigadier Chen Geng during the Red Army period, then it should have been during this period.
First follow the old version of "Bright Sword" to reason
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Yunlong was subordinate to the 386th Brigade, which was the Red Thirty-first Army during the Red Army period.
The Red 31st Army was founded in July 1933 as the 73rd Division of the Old Red 25th Army. Why is it said that it is the old Red Twenty-fifth Army? Because the Red Twenty-fifth Army had two new and old branches, the old Red Twenty-fifth Army was established in October 1931, when the troops were still in the Eyu-Anhui base area, and there were three divisions under the 73rd, 74th and 75th Divisions. Later, due to the unfavorable situation, the Red Fourth Front withdrew from the Eyu base area, the headquarters of the Front took away the 73rd Division, and the remaining troops rebuilt the Red Twenty-fifth Army, which was the new Red Twenty-fifth Army under the command of Cheng Zihua and Xu Haidong, which later arrived in northern Shaanxi.
The predecessor of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, the 73rd Division of the Old Red Twenty-fifth Army, is Li Yunlong's old unit, and the Red 73rd Division is composed of the 31st Regiment of the Red 11th Division, the 28th Regiment of the Red 10th Division, and the 34th Regiment of the Red 12th Division of the Red Fourth Army.
Friends who are familiar with military history all know that at the junction of the three provinces of Eyu and Anhui in the Dabie Mountains, the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District is composed of three base areas in northeast Hubei, southeast Henan, and western Anhui, and these three base areas broke out in jute uprisings, Shangnan uprisings, and Liuhuo uprisings, and on the basis of these three uprisings, the 31st Division, 32nd Division, and 33rd Division of the Eleventh Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army were formed respectively.
In March 1930, the Red Eleventh Army was renamed the Red First Army, and the three divisions were successively renamed the Red 1st Division, the Red 2nd Division, and the Red 3rd Division, and as a participant in the Jute Uprising in Northeast Hubei, Li Yunlong should belong to the Red 1st Division. In mid-January 1931, the Red First Army and the Red Fifteenth Army joined forces to form the Red Fourth Army, which administered the Red 10th Division, the Red 11th Division, the Red 12th Division, and the Red 13th Division. The Red 10th Division was reorganized from the Red 1st Division and the Red 15th Army, and Li Yunlong should belong to the Red 10th Division at this time.
The Red 10th Division was the old foundation of the Jute Uprising, and It is likely that Li Yunlong was incorporated into the Red 73rd Division in October 1931 with the 28th Regiment of the Red 10th Division.
Chen Geng was transferred by the Party Central Committee to the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District in September 1931 and served as the commander of the 38th Regiment of the 13th Division of the Red Fourth Army. The Red 13th Division was formed by the guard regiment of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District, the Guangshan and Luoshan Independent Regiments of Henan, and the Huang'an Independent Regiment of Hubei.
Chen Geng during the Red Army period
On November 7, 1931, the Red Fourth Front was formally established, and the unit underwent another reorganization, and Chen Geng's Red 13th Division was changed to the Red 12th Division, with Chen Geng as the division commander. The original old 12th Division was abolished and the troops were merged into the Red 10th Division and the Red 11th Division.
In this way, the Red Fourth Front army had the Red 10th Division (division commander Ni Zhiliang), the Red 11th Division (division commander Wang Shusheng), the Red 12th Division (division commander Chen Geng), and the Red 73rd Division (division commander Liu Ying), the Red 74th Division (division commander Wang Mingguo), and the Red 75th Division (division commander Liao Rongkun) of the Red Twenty-fifth Army (commander Kuang Jixun).
It can be seen that Chen Geng, who served as the commander of the 12th Division during the Eyu-Anhui period, and Li Yunlong, who was the commander of the 73rd Division, had no superior-subordinate relationship.
Then follow the new version of "Bright Sword" to reason
However, in the new edition of "Bright Sword" and the "Prequel to Li Yunlong" written by the author Du Liang, Li Yunlong's resume has been supplemented and improved. According to the new editions of "Bright Sword" and "Li Yunlong's Prequel", Li Yunlong participated in the Western Route Army.
The Western Route Army was composed of the Red Ninth Army, the Red 30th Army and the Red Fifth Army of the Former Red Front, and Li Yunlong served as the commander of the 171st Regiment of the 25th Division of the Red Ninth Army. Naturally, in the real military history, the Red Ninth Army did not have the 171st Regiment. In fact, the Red Ninth Army had two divisions, the Red 25th Division including the 73rd Regiment, the 74th Regiment and the 75th Regiment; the Red 27th Division including the 76th Regiment, the 80th Regiment, and the 81st Regiment.
Since Li Yunlong is fictional, this 171 regiment naturally must also be fictionalized, otherwise it is not easy to use which real Red Legion in history corresponds.
However, there is a very key number here - the Red Ninth Army.
The Red Ninth Army was founded in July 1933 as an army expanded by the Red Fourth Front after entering Sichuan and Shaanxi, and its predecessor was the Red 12th Division that Chen Geng had brought during the Eyu-Anhui period. From this point of view, Li Yunlong from the Red Ninth Army (Lao Hong 12th Division) was indeed a subordinate of Chen Geng during the Eyuwan period.
Because Chen Geng was injured during the Fourth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" campaign in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region, he did not participate in the red fourth front's evacuation of Eyu-Anhui, but went to Shanghai for treatment, and was later sent to the central revolutionary base area in Jiangxi. After his old unit, the Red 12th Division, entered Sichuan and Shaanxi with the Front Army, it was expanded into the Red Ninth Army, and the first commanders and political commissars were He Wei and Zhan Caifang.
The Red Ninth Army was later incorporated into the Western Route Army, and after a heavy defeat, the troops were exhausted, and only a small number of people were left to return to Yan'an.
According to the new version of "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong took Shen Quan and a few other people with him, and finally was rescued by the Western Aid Army and returned to northern Shaanxi, and then reorganized into the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army along with the Western Aid Army.
After the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, due to this special relationship between Chen Geng and the Red Fourth Front, the Central Committee entrusted Chen Geng with a heavy responsibility and assigned him the commander of the 386 Brigade reorganized by the Red Thirty-first Army of the Red Fourth Front, and Li Yunlong continued to become a subordinate of the brigade commander as the commander of the third battalion of the 772nd Regiment and the commander of the independent regiment.
brief summary
Understanding the above contents, combined with the background and plot of the characters in "Bright Sword", we can conclude that according to the old version of "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong became a subordinate of the brigade commander during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; and according to the new version of "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong was already a subordinate of Chen Geng during the Eyuwan period.
It's just that according to Li Yunlong's position, when he crossed the meadow, he was a regimental commander, so in the Eyuwan period, he was at best a company-level cadre, and Chen Geng, as a division commander, was probably not very aware of the fact that there was such a company commander under his command, unless this company commander was particularly capable of fighting and could also cause trouble.
However, old Li is not particularly capable of fighting, especially able to cause trouble!
Of course, "Bright Sword" is just a TV series, Li Yunlong is also a fictional character, in fact, when we mention Li Yunlong, we are actually talking about a lot of Dabie Mountain disciples like Li Yunlong who came out of the Eyu-Anhui base area. Readers must not entangle Li Yunlong, the character in the play, and treat Li Yunlong as an ordinary soldier of the Red Fourth Front.
The argument of the above paragraph is only a speculation made by the author through the relevant plot of "Bright Sword". The purpose of this article is by no means to compare with the fictional plot, but in fact to introduce the source of the Red Fourth Front. As for whether it is reasonable or not, it can be discussed. If the arguments do not match the historical facts, please criticize and correct them.