The TV series "New Fourth Army" was broadcast in 2003, and the drama starred Wu Jing'an, Liu Zhibing and other actors, reflecting the history of the New Fourth Army from its formation to its growth until it drove out the Japanese invaders. As a historical drama, the drama portrays the main characters of the New Fourth Army, such as Ye Ting, Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, Su Yu, etc.; and the main characters such as Yuan Guoping and Zhang Yunyi are not many shots, and even in front of the camera, they do not mention which character it is; as for Peng Xuefeng and Luo Binghui, they even exist only in the lines. What is more colorful is the fictional characters such as Huang Jianghe, Yu Xiuying, Li Tao, and Xie Chenglong, but these fictional characters reflect the real historical existence of the story at that time.
From left: Chen Yi, Su Yu, Fu Qiutao, Zhou Enlai, Zhu Kejing, Ye Ting
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, let us once again review this drama, explore what real stories the fictional characters in this drama carry, remember the blood of the ancestors, and forge ahead.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > the Huangjiang River</h1>
This drama is mainly connected by the fictional character huangjianghe.
In the play, Huang Jianghe was originally an aide-de-camp of Zhou Enlai, and in the "813" incident in Shanghai, in order to pursue the whereabouts of Xiang Ying and Chen Yi, he met his future partner Mei Qing and his old superior General Ye Ting. After going deep into the mountains and jungles, looking for the Red Army guerrillas left behind after the Long March of the Red Army. After the guerrillas were concentrated and reorganized into the New Fourth Army, they were left behind by their old superior General Ye Ting, and Xiang Ying asked them to prepare the headquarters, and later set up the eastward advance detachment, serving as the chief of staff of the advance detachment, participating in the Weigang ambush battle, the Battle of Huangqiao, etc., and went all the way between southern Anhui, jiangnan, and northern Jiangsu. After the Anhui Incident, he led some personnel to successfully break through and continued to run in the front line of the anti-Japanese resistance.
The fictional character Huang Jianghe has different characters in different periods.
Like the Huangjiang River in the play, General Long Feihu began as an aide-de-camp of the Zhou Gong from the Xi'an Incident, mainly responsible for the security of the Zhou Gong, and guarded the security of the Zhou Gong for eleven years before and after, and after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chairman Mao went to Chongqing to negotiate and was responsible for Chairman Mao's security. In March 1947, he was appointed as the commander of the Central Column, and later served as the deputy political commissar and political commissar of the 82nd Regiment of the 28th Division of the 10th Column of the East China Field Army. From June to September 1949, he served as the deputy political commissar of the 82nd Division of the 28th Army of the 3rd Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the political commissar of the division, the deputy political commissar of the military, the deputy political commissar of the Fuzhou Military Region, the deputy to the Fifth National People's Congress, and the alternate representative of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955 and died of illness on July 1, 1999.
Like Huangjianghe, General Lai Chuanzhu served as the chief of staff of the Military Headquarters in the early days of the establishment of the New Fourth Army, mainly responsible for the preparation of various organs of the Military Headquarters. General Lai Chuanzhu (3 April 1910 – 24 December 1965) was a native of Ganxian County, Jiangxi Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927, led the armed rebellion of the peasants in Dabu, Ganxian County in January 1928, and then went to Jinggangshan, participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles in the Central Soviet Region many times, and then participated in the Long March with the team. In January 1938, he was appointed chief of staff of the New Fourth Army Headquarters, in 1939 he was appointed chief of staff of the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army, and in November of the following year, he was appointed chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army in central China. During this period, he participated in the defense of the Half Pagoda Set, and served as the chief of staff of the New Fourth Army after the Anhui Incident. After the liberation war began, he rushed to the northeast and swept all the way from the northeast to Hainan Island with the Fourth Field Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he participated in the appraisal work, and in 1955, when he was awarded the title, he took the initiative to resign as a lieutenant general, but after the Central Military Commission studied and decided to finally award the title to the general. He died of illness in 1965.
In the play, Huang Jianghe led Yu Xiuying and other remnants to break through in the "Anhui Southern Incident". The only unit in history that formed a breakthrough was the first column led by General Fu Qiutao. At the beginning of the incident, the radio station of the first column was destroyed by the enemy, and it was not affected by the decision of the military department Xiang Ying, and the troops quickly broke through, and finally more than 2,000 people in the column successfully broke through. General Fu Qiutao (1907.8.3–1981.8.25), a native of Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. He participated in the Pingjiang Rebellion in 1927 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1929. After the Long March of the Central Red Army, it led the guerrillas to hold firm. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the deputy commander of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army and the commander of the 1st Regiment, and the "Anhui South Incident" successfully led a unit to break through. After the reconstruction of the New Fourth Army, he served as the deputy commander of the 7th Division and went to yan'an in 1943 to study at the Central Party School. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955 and died of illness in 1981.
For example, the "Gecun Defense War" in the TV series is the Guocun Defense War in the real history, and the support for Jiangbei is led by General Tao Yong, and in the play, Huangjianghe single-handedly rushed to the scene; the chief of staff of the Eastward Advance Detachment of the New Fourth Army was served by the martyr Xiong Menghui (who did not arrive due to illness), died in the "Anhui South Incident", and the local people buried it as an anti-Japanese hero and guarded his tomb, until 73 years after the martyr's sacrifice, he got in touch with the martyr's hometown.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > Jackie Xie</h1>
In the play, Xie Chenglong appeared as the commander of the WulongShan guerrilla group, killed a number of liaison officers due to lack of information, and after learning of the latest domestic situation, led the team to reorganize. Later, he went to the Jiangnan region with the advance detachment of the eastward advance, and after the establishment of the Jiangbei Command, he went to support northern Jiangsu. After the "Anhui Southern Incident", he insisted on fighting against Japan on the front line, and then he fell seriously ill.
General Luo Binghui (1897.12.22 – 1946.6.21) was born in Yiliang, Yunnan. In 1915, he joined the Dian Army as a soldier and was promoted to battalion commander. He participated in the War of The Protectorate of Yuan, the War of the Eastern Crusade and the War of the Northern Expedition. He secretly joined the Communist Party of China in July 1929 and later joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. He successively served as regimental commander, brigade commander, commander of the Second Column of the Sixth Army, commander of the Twelfth Army, Commander of the Twenty-second Army, and Commander of the Red Ninth Army. He was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Luo Binghui successively engaged in united front work in Wuhan in the name of deputy chief of staff and deputy commander, as well as opening up an anti-Japanese base area in eastern Anhui. When the Liberation War broke out in 1946, Luo Binghui served as the second deputy commander of the New Fourth Army and the second deputy commander of the Shandong Military Region, leading the Zaozhuang Campaign. On June 21 of the same year, he died of illness in Linyi, Shandong Province, and was buried in Linyi. He was one of the 36 military experts of the People's Liberation Army recognized by the Central Military Commission after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the play, Xie Chenglong supports the Half Pagoda Set, and he is seriously ill and still joins the shadow of General Luo Binghui in the front-line command.
General Ye Fei (1914.5.7 – 1999.4.18), born in Jintao Town, Nan'an City, Fujian Province, was the only founding general in China with dual citizenship. Formally joining the Communist Party of China in March 1932, the Red Army insisted on guerrilla warfare in the south after the Long March, and successively participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation. He was awarded the rank of General in 1955. In the play, after Xie Chenglong supported Jiangbei, he listened to Liu Shaoqi to carry out the "Gecun Defense War", Chen Yi scolded at the Jiangnan headquarters, and in history, General Ye Fei carried out the Defense Battle of Guo Village, and was also stomped on by Chen Yi who was far away in Jiangnan; in the play, in the Decisive Battle of Huangqiao, the body of Weng Da, commander of the Kuomintang Independent Sixth Brigade, committed suicide after suicide was obtained by Xie Chenglong's troops, and historically by General Ye Fei's troops.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > Li Tao</h1>
In the play, Li Tao and Huang Jianghe were both aide-de-camps of the Duke of Zhou at first, and then they were incorporated into the New Fourth Army by General Ye Ting, began to work in the military department, and then were transferred to the command of the southern Jiangsu army, constantly fighting against the Japanese in Jiangnan, Jiangbei, and Central Jiangsu, during which they formed a revolutionary couple with Yu Xiuying, and later died in the decisive battle of Huangqiao, at that time Yu Xiuying was pregnant.
In the play, Li Tao mentioned General Peng Xuefeng more than once, and he followed General Peng Xuefeng to many places.
General Peng Xuefeng (September 9, 1907 – September 11, 1944), born in Zhenping County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, joined the Red Army in his early years, participated in the "anti-encirclement and suppression" battles many times, and later participated in the Long March with the Central Red Army. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the director of the office in Jin. In September 1938, he formed the guerrilla detachment of the New Fourth Army, served as commander and political commissar, led the opening up of the anti-Japanese base area in the Yuwan-Anhui Soviet Border Region, and after the Anhui Incident, served as the commander and political commissar of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army. In 1944, during the westward march of the command post, he was killed by a stray bullet while commanding the battle in Balizhuang, Xiayi, Henan, at the age of 37, leaving his widow Peng Xiaofeng (a general in the People's Liberation Army when he grew up). In the play, Li Tao repeatedly mentioned that he turned to battle under General Peng Xuefeng when leading troops, and the shadow of General Peng Xuefeng was shadowed by General Peng Xuefeng when he sacrificed to leave yu Xiuying, who was pregnant, and was hit by stray bullets during the battle.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > Changshan Tiger</h1>
In the play, Chang Shanhu, the commander of the Shanyang Column, began to covet pleasure in Jiangbei and refused to carry out the eastward route formulated by the Party Central Committee and the New Fourth Army, and General Ye Ting personally went to Jiangbei to supervise. During this period, due to the instigation of his subordinates who wanted to defect and his own thinking did not turn around, he tried to lead the troops to run away, but was discovered in time and sent to Yan'an to study. After returning from study, become a good commander.
Gao Jingting (August 12, 1907 – June 1939), a native of Xinxian County, Henan Province, participated in the Jute Uprising in 1927, joined the Communist Party of China in 1929, served as chairman of the Soviet Government of the Eyu-Anhui Special Administrative Region in July 1931, and in the autumn of 1932, he was appointed Secretary of the Southeast Henan Provincial Committee. After the Red Twenty-fifth Army was sent north in advance, Gao Jingting concurrently served as the secretary of the Northwest Anhui Provincial Committee. In January 1935, Gao Jingting presided over the reconstruction of the Red Twenty-eighth Army, served as the political commissar, and led the Red Twenty-eighth Army and the people of the Soviet Union to persist in guerrilla warfare in the Eyu-Anhui Border Region. In February 1938, the Red Twenty-eighth Army and the Guerrilla Army of the Southern Henan Red Army were reorganized into the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, with Gao Jingting as the commander of the detachment. In the battle against Japan, the Battle of Jiangjiahe, which was repeatedly fought by the fourth detachment, was the first battle recorded by the New Fourth Army and won a victory. Similarly, due to their own thinking, they failed to actively implement the eastward strategy, and they did not move in place after advancing eastward from Eyu and Anhui to central Anhui and northern Anhui. Influenced by the wrong route, his superiors secretly arrested him and mistakenly killed him after being detained in Qinglongchang, Feidong County, Anhui Province. It was not until 1975, when Mao Zedong personally ordered his rehabilitation, that the controversy over him subsided.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > Hu Fucai</h1>
In the play, Hu Fucai was originally the commander of the Zhangjialing guerrilla group, but after being reorganized into the New Fourth Army, he stayed in southern Anhui and led his troops to participate in the breakthrough in southern Anhui, becoming one of the survivors of the breakthrough. After the breakthrough, he served as the commander of the 72nd Brigade, and was martyred after being wounded in the encounter of Liu Huzhuang.
Tian Shouyao was born in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region, and moved to northern Shaanxi with the Red 25th Army, and after the formation of the Red 15th Army, he served as the commander of the Red 78th Division, and was a member of general Xu Haidong's command. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Tian Shouyao served as the commander of the second brigade of the newly organized Eighth Route Army, and after the Anhui Incident, he was transferred to the New Fourth Army as a brigade commander, and in 1943, he encountered the Japanese army on the way to Yan'an to study, and died heroically.
Peng Xiong, chief of staff of the 3rd Division, was born in the Red Third Army, participated in various counter-encirclement and suppression campaigns in the Central Soviet Region, and after the Anhui Incident, he was transferred to the New Fourth Army as the chief of staff of the Third Division, and died on the way to Yan'an with Tian Shouyao.
Luo Zhongyi and Liao Haitao were surrounded by the Japanese army in November 1941, and the brigade commander Luo Zhongyi and political commissar Liao Haitao led their troops to fight with the Japanese Kou in a bloody battle, repelling eight consecutive enemy charges, annihilating more than 700 enemy troops, and finally died of exhaustion. This is similar to the encounter between Hu Fucai and Liu Huzhuang in the play.
Among them, Xie Chenglong, Hu Fucai, and Gu Wudao also represented the process of the reorganization of the guerrilla groups in the eight southern provinces at that time, and some did not believe in the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and killed liaison officers; some credulously trusted the Kuomintang authorities and caused bloodshed; and sometimes they were reorganized after a long time.
There are also two female fictional characters, Yu Xiuying and Mei Qing, of which Yu Xiuying commanded the operation of the Half Pagoda Set, and there must be the shadow of General Lai Chuanzhu, as a rare female military and political cadre of the New Fourth Army, and the shadow of Chen Shaomin. Mei Qing represents more returned Chinese and overseas Chinese, abandoning their rich lives and destroying their families to relieve difficulties in order to resist Japan.
The above is a personal understanding of the fictional characters of the "New Fourth Army" TV series, and you are welcome to communicate normally.