This precious photo was taken in 1939 and is a group photo of three military cadres of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
The first on the left is Zhu Liangcai, then deputy director of the Political Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, he was a primary school teacher in his early years, participated in the Hunan peasant movement led by Chairman Mao, in 1927 was at the trough of the revolution, Zhu Liangcai resolutely joined our party at this time, after the uprising in southern Hunan, he followed Mr. Zhu's uprising team to Jinggangshan, and once again saw the familiar Chairman Mao.
In 1930, he became the political commissar of the Red 9th Division, when he and the division commander Xu Yangang commanded the Red 9th Division to win the Longgang battle, severely damaged the enemy's 18th Division, and captured the enemy's division commander Zhang Huizan alive.
After the victory of the Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, Zhu Liangcai participated in the operation of the Western Route Army, but did not expect that the expedition finally suffered a big defeat, Zhu Liangcai, who was separated from the army at that time, walked alone in disguise and sneaked for more than a month, and returned to northern Shaanxi by begging all the way, although he returned to the army, his right arm was seriously injured, resulting in lifelong disability.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as director of the Political Department of the North China Military Region and political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, and was awarded the rank of general in 1955. In 1989, General Zhu died of illness at the age of 89.
Standing in the middle was Tang Yanjie, then chief of staff of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and head of the teaching regiment, who worked as an apprentice in Anyuan, Jiangxi Province as a child, participated in the famous Anyuan workers' strike, and later decided to devote himself to the revolutionary cause under the guidance of the workers' night school teachers. In 1927, Tang Yanjie, who performed well, was organized to study in the Soviet Union, and after returning to China in 1929, he was unfortunately arrested in Changsha, but fortunately, a few months later, the Red Third Army attacked Changsha and rescued him from prison.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was sent to the newly established Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region as chief of staff, and then successively served as the commander of the Hebei-Jin Military Region and the commander of the Beiyue Military Region, and in 1949 he was already the deputy commander of the 20th Corps, and in 1955 Tang Yanjie was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and died of illness in 1988 at the age of 79.
The last one is Zheng Weishan, then the political commissar of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region Teaching Corps, he joined the party at the age of 15, and Zheng Weishan, who was the deputy instructor of the Red Guards, joined the Red First Division with more than 70 Red Guards. In just three years, he made the jump from herald to commissar of the Red Army division.
At that time, the Red 88th Division led by him had very strong combat effectiveness, especially in the battle of Huangmaoya, and their division alone annihilated more than 14,000 Sichuan troops, which was famous for a while. Later, he participated in the Long March, the West Route Army action, in the Western Expedition he participated in the command of the forty miles of shop, Shuimoguan, Ni Jia Yingzi and other bloody battles, although the 88th Division achieved good results, but its own heavy losses, and then the troops were dispersed, the deputy division commander Xiong Dechen took Zheng Weishan, who had been unconscious, hid in a small village under the Qilian Mountain, and escaped the search of the Ma Jiajun under the protection of the villagers, and finally the two returned to Yan'an by begging all the way.
By 1949, Zheng Weishan was already the deputy commander of the 19th Corps, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the commander of the Beijing Military Region and the commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955, and General Zheng died of illness in 2000 at the age of 85.