Before and after the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, some cadres were unstable and were transferred around, such as He Jinnian.
He Jinnian was born in the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he stayed in northern Shaanxi as the head of the garrison regiment of the left-behind corps, and started a long-term 8-year rear defense work. The main duty of the left-behind corps was to defend the Party Central Committee, prevent the Japanese puppet army, and also prevent the Kuomintang recalcitrant army from creating friction. At the same time, it was responsible for the elimination of bandits, the development of production campaigns, etc.
Before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he worked in the trilateral region, and later fought in Inner Mongolia and other Yikezhao Leagues and Kuomintang reactionaries, and the victory of the Anti-Japanese War was in response to the uprising of the 11th Brigade, and he galloped inside and outside the Great Wall for many years. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he dealt with the aftermath of the uprising of the 11th Brigade, left the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area, and followed Mr. He to the northwest of Shanxi.
Speaking of the northwest base area of Shanxi, it was opened and led by Mr. He before 1943, and it was a large theater base during the Anti-Japanese War, which was the same as the Jinchaji led by Nie Rongzhen, Shandong led by Luo Ronghuan, and the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu base led by Liu Deng. After that, the Jinsui Military Region and Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia merged to form the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Jinsui Joint Defense Army, and the Jinsui Military Region became a second-level military region, with Lu Zhengcao as the commander.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu Zhengcao was transferred to the Northeast, and the Jinsui Military Region once again became a major war zone, and Mr. He continued to lead. He Jinnian went to the Jinsui area for a period of time and went to Zhangjiakou of the Jinchaji Military Region led by Mr. Nie.
Not long after he was in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the Kuomintang tore up the armistice agreement, launched a large-scale attack on our army in the northeast, occupied Siping, entered Changchun, and entered Jilin, confronted our army across the Songhua River, and clamored to attack Harbin and Mudanjiang and other big cities. At this time, he led more than 100 military cadres into the northeast, and arrived in Qiqihar from Zhangjiakou, where he met the leaders of the West Manchurian Military Region.
He arrived in the Northeast much later than the other generals, and his troops arrived from September to November 1945, and he arrived in August 1946. To transfer him to the Northeast, first, to strengthen military leadership, the troops need to be expanded, and backbone forces are needed; He has a wealth of experience in banditry. At that time, the higher authorities demanded that the main road be opened to occupy the two compartments, mobilize the masses to the foundation, and establish base areas, etc., but banditry was rampant in the rear, and suppressing bandits was the first priority and the overwhelming task. Only build solid
Base areas, the front line can win the battle, and a steady stream of support.
In the area of suppressing bandits, there are few troops in the rear and lack experience, such as the Hejiang Military Region and the Heilongjiang Military Region, which are the places with the most bandits. The commander of the Hejiang Military Region turned out to be Fang Qiang, who was born as a political worker, and during the agrarian revolution and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he commanded and fought not many battles on the front line.
Fang Qiang's contribution is not small, because it is not easy to form the army, and it is not easy to develop and grow. The reason why the superiors asked He Jinnian to be the commander was because Hejiang had the most bandits and were the most rampant, and they had to be eliminated as soon as possible to stabilize the rear.
On the basis of Fang Qiang, He Jinnian also had his own set of methods, exterminating the remaining three bandits in July and August, and completing the tasks assigned by his superiors.
In the spring of 1947, these two military and political chiefs were transferred to serve in combat units. Perhaps considering that they did not have much experience in commanding field troops, Fang Qiang served as an independent division commander for a period of time, and originally let him serve as the deputy commander of the column, while He Jinnian served as the commander of the cavalry column, and later changed to the deputy commander of the 7th column, and during the winter offensive, he replaced Deng Hua to command the battle, and after the experience of the 7th column, he was transferred to serve as the commander of the 11th column.
In 1949, when the army was reorganized, He Jinnian served as the deputy commander and commander of the corps, while Fang Qiang was promoted from deputy commander to army commander and participated in the campaign to liberate the south and go to Zhongnan.