The First Front Of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was one of the main forces of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army during the agrarian revolution, once called the "Central Red Army", and was the earliest of the three major fronts of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. The First Front Of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was established in August 1930, when the First Front of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, referred to as the Red Army, was formed after the Division of Liuyang, Hunan Province.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Red Army, there were eight armies under the jurisdiction of the Red First Army and the Red Third Army, with a total of more than 30,000 people in the whole army. Among them, the Red I Corps had five corps of the Third, Fourth, Twelfth, Twentieth and Twenty-second Armies, while the Red Third Army had only three corps of the Fifth, Eighth and Sixteenth Armies. The Red Third Army was established in June 1930 by the red fifth army and the red eighth army, in July 1930 from the Xiang'e Ganbian Independent Division, the first column of the red fifth army and a part of the guerrilla army into the Red Sixteenth Army, at the end of July, the red third army conquered Changsha and in August transferred to Liuyang and the red first army division after the merger into the red front army, at this time the three commanders of the red third army were Deng Ping, He Changgong and Kong Heyu.
Deng Ping was a native of Fushun (now Zigong), Sichuan, formerly known as Deng Shaozhang, who was admitted to the Wuhan Central Military and Political School (Wuhan Branch of the Huangpu Military Academy) in 1926, and after the defeat of the Great Revolution, he went to the First Regiment of the Independent Fifth Division in Hunan to engage in military movement work, and in 1928 he participated in leading the famous "Pingjiang Uprising", after which the Fifth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was established, and Deng Ping served as the chief of staff of the Fifth Red Army. After the establishment of the Red Fifth Army, deng Ping successively participated in the opening up of the Xiang'egan Soviet District and the struggle to defend Jinggangshan, and after the Red Fifth Army and the Red Eighth Army were merged into the Red Third Army in June 1930, Deng Ping served as the chief of staff of the Red Third Army and the commander of the Red Fifth Army.
Since then, Deng Ping has participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Central Soviet Region, and has successively served as deputy political commissar and education chief of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army School, chief of staff of the Eastern Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and chief of staff of the Third Red Army. In October 1934, the Central Red Army was forced to march, the Red Third Army served as the right front guard, and on February 26, 1935, Deng Ping was shot and killed in the battle to capture Zunyi City. Deng Ping was the highest-ranking general to die during the Red Army's Long March.
He Changgong was a native of Huarong, Hunan, who had gone to France to work and study, and after returning to China in 1924, he launched a student movement in his hometown, and during the Great Revolution, he formed a peasant self-defense army in Huarong, and later participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, making outstanding contributions to opening up the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area. In June 1930, He Changgong was appointed commander of the Eighth Red Army and participated in the battle to conquer Changsha. In the autumn of 1931, He Changgong and Deng Ping founded the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army School, and He Changgong served as the school's political commissar, and later served as the political commissar of the 13th Army of the Red Fifth Army, the commander and political commissar of the Guangdong-Gansu Military Region, and during the Long March, he served as the political commissar of the Central Teaching Instructor and the political commissar of the Red Ninth Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, He Changgong served as commander and political commissar of the Liangyan River Defense and vice president of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and during the Liberation War, he served as the first vice president of the Northeast Military and Political University and the director of the Military Industry Department of the Northeast Military Region. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, He Changgong turned to administrative work, and served as acting minister of the Ministry of Heavy Industry and vice minister of geology, and did not participate in the awarding of titles.
Kong Hepeng was a native of Pingjiang, Hunan Province, who organized the Peasants' Self-Defense Army during the Great Revolution, and later participated in the Pingjiang Uprising, where he served as the commander of the Egan Independent Regiment, the commander of the First Column of the Fifth Red Army, the commander of the Red Sixteenth Army, the commander-in-chief of the Xiang'e-Gansu Red Army, and the commander-in-chief of the Xiang'e-Gansu Military Region. In July 1934, Kong He's pet defected to the enemy and was known as the "first traitor of the Red Army". After surrendering to the enemy, Kong Hepet served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Jiangbei guerrilla attack and commander of the Fifty-fourth Division of the Provisional Formation of the Fifty-eighth Army, but was sentenced for corruption, and after being released from prison, he hid in Chongqing, Kunming and other places under a pseudonym, and was arrested by the public security organs in 1955.