Yang Bangzi was the regiment commander during the Red Army, and later the first and third corps were merged and became a company commander, and when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he was a deputy battalion level, then a regiment commander, and then he descended all the way, and then rose all the way up, becoming the commander of the army division, and he can do this, and his background is absolutely inseparable!

This is also why when Commander Huang of the Sixth Division was going to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, the Military Region wanted to help Yang Bangzi to the position of commanding the two military divisions, in fact, in addition to his combat exploits and command ability, the most important thing was that Yang Bangzi went from Yan'an to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Matian, and then to Jinchaji, he was the most important person of the Red One bloodline! Rest assured, absolutely trustworthy!

"Mountain" is another name (or common name) for groups with different base areas and different military sequences during the revolutionary war. Due to historical reasons, our army is composed of large and small "hills," and along with the changes in the situation of the revolutionary war, the various "hills" have been divided, reorganized, and derived, and the relationship is very complicated.

The "mountain" of our army was formed by history, and it is not the result of man-made "gangs." Moreover, the various "hills" also made great contributions during the revolutionary war. Therefore, the historical position of the "mountain" was laid down by the contributions made by this group during the revolutionary war.

I talked about the red one system earlier, and let's talk about several other systems. Red Second Front Army: The Second Front Army was actually formed towards the end of the Long March, and was always called the Red 2nd and 6th Army Corps at the beginning.

The Red 2nd Legion is He Long's troops. After the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, He Long did not go to the Soviet Union to study like Liu Bocheng and Ye Jianying, but returned to his hometown of Hunan and Hubei Xila and established the Red 4th Army. Later, it merged with the Red 6th Army of Zhou Yiqun, Duan Dechang, and Xu Guangda in the Honghu area. Creation of the Red 2 Corps. At its peak, the team reached 30,000 people. But both political leaders had side effects and affected the development of the troops. First of all, Deng Zhongxia came to implement the Lisan line, which caused great losses to the troops; Later, Xia Xi implemented Wang Ming's line, and he was even more indiscriminate, suspicious of everything, and put everyone in danger, and the leading cadres from the 6th Army were almost killed, and at one time there were only three and a half party members left in the whole army: He Long, Xia Xi, Guan Xiangying and Lu Dongsheng. The corps was also reduced to the Red 3rd Army.

The Red 6th Army was originally the Central Red Army system, and its predecessor was the Red 8th Army of the Red 3rd Army and the Red 18th Army of the Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi local troops. Later, in order to contain the enemy and reduce the pressure on the central Soviet region, he went north in advance, led by Ren Bishi, Xiao Ke, and Wang Zhen, and rushed from the Hunan and Jiangxi regions to the west of Hunan and Hubei to join the 2nd Army Corps and act together.

Due to Ren Bi's high status in the party, the two legions were able to solve the Xia Xi problem and save the fate of the Red 2nd Legion. After the 2nd and 6th Army Corps joined forces with the Fourth Front Army. According to the instructions of the central government, the 2nd and 6th Army Corps plus Luo Binghui's 9th Army Corps (at that time, it was under the command of the Fourth Front Army. renamed the 32nd Army) was combined into the Red Second Front Army.

The representatives of the Red Second Front Army were Marshal He Long and General Xiao Ke.

Red Fourth Front Army: The predecessor of the Red Fourth Front Army was the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Red Army established by the Jute Uprising, the Shangnan Uprising, and the Liuhuo Uprising. The earliest part was the Seventh Army formed by the remnants of the Jute Uprising, which was later renamed the 31st Division of the 11th Army; The Shangnan uprising force was the 32nd Division; The Liuhuo uprising force was the 33rd Division. After the death of the founder, Commander Wu Guanghao, Xu Xiangqian took over as the commander. Later, the 11th Army was renamed the Red 1st Army, and Xu Jishen served as the commander. Later, the 1st Army merged with Cai Shenxi's 15th Army (developed from the remnants of the original 3rd Army and 8th Army) and was renamed the Red 4th Army, with Kuang Jixun and Xu Xiangqian successively serving as commanders; At the same time, Hubei, Henan and Anhui established a new army, the 25th Army; Soon, the 4th Army and the 25th Army were combined into the Red Fourth Front Army, with Xu Xiang as the former commander-in-chief and Chen Changhao as the political commissar, which was actually controlled by Zhang Guotao. After the Red Fourth Front Army was transferred to Sichuan, the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area was established there, with five armies and nearly 100,000 people in its heyday. Zhang Guotao, the No. 1 person of the Red Fourth Front Army, Chen Changhao, the No. 2 person, and Xu Xiangqian, the No. 3 person, but Zhang Guotao is in charge politically.

The First and Fourth Front armies first united and then split during the Long March, resulting in serious antagonism between the two armies. Originally, there were many soldiers on the four sides, but first Zhang Guotao's strategy of going south failed, and then the Western Route Army failed, and the two armies all lost, only ** led a small force to escape, and even the commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian asked for food before returning to northern Shaanxi, which made Zhang Guotao very weak, and since then the two sides have reversed their offense and defense. Most of the generals of the Fourth Front Army entered the Red University for training, especially after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, many of them were assigned to other units and did not return to the original Red Fourth Front Army.

The representatives of the Red Fourth Front Army were Marshal Xu Xiangqian, Hong Xuezhi, Xu Shiyou and other generals.

Northern Shaanxi Red Army: In terms of size and influence, the Northern Shaanxi Red Army cannot be compared with the three main Red Armies, but it has played an extremely important role in the survival of the Red Army. Speaking of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, we cannot fail to mention the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Red Army first. When the main force of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Red Army marched westward to Sichuan, it left behind a small force, the Red 25th Army, led by Shen Zemin, Xu Haidong, and Wu Huanxian, to fight guerrillas in the local area, and Liu Huaqing, later vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, was this unit. However, it was difficult for this army to continue to gain a foothold under Chiang Kai-shek's heavy encirclement, so after Shen Zemin's death, the army commanders Cheng Zihua and Xu Haidong sent by the central government also began the Long March, and reached northern Shaanxi first. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, they found that there were two small base areas of Liu Zhidan, so the two troops merged and established the Red 15th Army Corps, with Xu as the commander, Cheng as the political commissar, and Liu as the deputy commander.

The authentic Red Army of Northern Shaanxi is actually very weak, but this small army has a big man Gao Gang, who was once trained as a successor, and his status is tied with Liu and Zhou.

When the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, it was reduced from 80,000 to 8,000 at the time of departure, and the 1st and 3rd Army Corps were merged into the 1st Army Corps, so the 15th Army Corps joined in to form the new Red First Army. Xu Haidong obeyed the command of the central government and was of great help to the central government. Therefore, I have always been grateful to Xu Haidong, calling him "a person who has made great contributions to the Chinese revolution". Although he later took a long recuperation due to injury and did not work, he was still ranked second in the rank of general when he was awarded the title in '55.

2. The Anti-Japanese War period

During the Anti-Japanese War, the original four mountains gradually evolved into five mountains.

The 115th Division has already said, the 120th Division Commander He Long, the Deputy Division Commander Xiao Ke, and the Director of the Political Department Guan Xiangying. Under the jurisdiction of the 358 Brigade, the brigade commander Zhang Zongxun. for the original 2 Corps troops; 359 Brigade. Brigade Commander Chen Bojun and Deputy Brigade Commander Wang Zhen. for the original 6 Corps troops. Because He Long attached too much importance to the united front, the division did not pay attention to the establishment of base areas, and its development has been slow, and it is the weakest of several units, and the Jinsui Military Region established by this division is much smaller than that of other major base areas. Serving as the deputy commander of the 120th Division was the most glorious time of Xiao Ke's life, and then he was no longer ambitious. The other two deputy division commanders in the Eighth Route Army, Nie Rongzhen and Xu Xiangqian, were both marshals later, but Xiao Ke was only awarded the rank of general, mainly because of the meeting of the Second and Fourth Front Armies. Xiao Ke supported Zhang Guotao and was regarded as a "traitor". Although Wang Shusheng also resolutely supported Zhang Guotao when the First and Fourth Front Armies met, he was a member of the Fourth Front Army, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he could forgive him, and he was still awarded the rank of general in 55 years. And Xiao Ke is Mao's old subordinate in Jinggangshan, so he can't tolerate it.

Liu Bocheng, commander of the 129th Division, Xu Xiangqian, deputy division commander, and Zhang Hao, director of the Political Department (**cousin). After the restoration of the commissar system. Deng Xiaoping succeeded Zhang Hao, who had left his post due to illness, as political commissar. It has 385 brigades under its jurisdiction. Brigade Commander Wang Hongkun, the former 4th Army unit; 386 Brigade, brigade commander Chen Geng, is the original 31st Army unit. The scope of the division's activities was mainly in the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan regions, with the 385 Brigade as the main establishment of the Taihang Military Region, the 386 Brigade as the main establishment of the Taiyue Military Region, as well as Chen Zaidao's Southern Hebei Military Region, and later, the 115th Division's Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region was also placed under the jurisdiction of the 129th Division.

The former guerrillas of the eight southern provinces were reorganized into the new Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which included the troops left over from the former Central Red Army, such as Chen Yi and Su Yu; It also includes the troops left behind by the original Red 25th Army, such as the Gao Jingting Division; There are also small troops that no one belongs to, such as Ye Feibu in Mindong. Although it was an army, its rank could only be on par with the division of the Eighth Route Army. This creates a new hill. However, the central government sent a large number of troops from the Eighth Route Army to join the New Fourth Army, which greatly changed the composition of the New Fourth Army; later, only Su Yu's 1st Division and Tan Zhenlin's 6th Division were relatively pure New Fourth Army troops, and the other divisions were all troops of the original Eighth Route Army. There is also a special situation: Although the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army is nominally part of the New Fourth Army, it is under the direct leadership of the central government, but it is actually a small hill. His troops were neither composed of the original southern guerrillas, nor did the troops of the Eighth Route Army go south, but developed by themselves from Yan'an with some cadres in the past. After the Anti-Japanese War, the Central Plains Military Region was established, and it was more clearly separated from the leadership of the New Fourth Army.

During the War of Liberation, the original pattern of the five mountains remained unchanged, but the region changed dramatically.

Northeast: After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Central Committee was originally going to send ** to the Shandong Military Region to take over the old troops of the 115th Division, but he was reassigned to go out of the customs immediately on the way and seize the territory in the Northeast with the Kuomintang.

The central government's dispatch of troops from the northeast of Guandong was basically a review of the units of the former 115th Division that were scattered during the Anti-Japanese War. The old units of the Shandong Military Region (developed from the former 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division) and the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army (developed from the 344th Brigade of the former 115th Division) entered the northeast by sea and land, and established a base area in the northeast. Subsequently, the Northeast Military District and the Northeast Field Army were established. At this time, this unit was no longer exactly the "Red Front Army" in the original sense, and there were many cadres of the Fourth Front Army among the senior commanders. Cheng Zihua's Jichareliao troops originally belonged to the Jinchaji Military Region, but in the early days of the Liberation War, the Jinchaji and Jicha Reliao were defeated, and the Jinchaji and Jichareliao were cut off by the Kuomintang troops, and the Jichareliao troops were then reassigned to the command of Dongye.

The Northeast (Siye) has produced two marshals, three generals and a large number of famous generals: the representative figures are the first marshal (the party, government, and the army leader - secretary of the Northeast Bureau, commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army), in the army, there are Marshal Luo Ronghuan, General Huang Kecheng, General Xiao Jinguang, General Tan Zheng, as well as Liu Yalou, Li Tianyou, Han Xianchu, Hong Xuezhi, Deng Hua, Huang Yongsheng, Lu Zhengcao and a number of other famous generals. In terms of party and government, there are also Chen Yun, Gao Gang, Zhang Wentian, etc.

North China: The "mountain" in North China belongs to the branch of the "115th Division". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Jin-Cha-Ji was divided into two divisions, like other strategic regions, with the main force organized into a field army, and the military region managing local troops and logistics supply. After Liu Deng's army moved south, the original Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region merged with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to establish the North China Military Region. In 1949, when the whole army was reorganized, the North China Field Army did not join the field army sequence, and was not awarded the title of "field army", and the three corps were directly under the command of the central government (the first corps carried out the siege of Taiyuan alone; The 2nd and 3rd Corps were placed under the unified command of Dongye Lin, Luo, and Liu). Later, the 18th and 19th Corps were assigned to the First Field Sequence.

East China: After the Shandong troops dominated by the original 115th Division marched into the northeast, the former Shandong Military Region was handed over to the New Fourth Army, with Chen Yi as commander and commander of the New Fourth Army, and the Central China Military Region and Field Army were established on the territory of the former New Fourth Army, with Zhang Dingcheng as the commander of the military region. At that time, the Central China Military Region was under the command of Chen Yi. At the same time, Chen Yi's command of the former Eighth Route Army units of the Shandong Military Region was not smooth, and the commanders of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army clashed from time to time, and the troops were insufficient due to the division of troops, so the situation in the East China battlefield in the early days of the Liberation War was not optimistic. In view of this, the central authorities decided to merge Central China and Shandong into the East China Military Region and the East China Field Army, thus getting rid of the passive situation.

Among the five "hills" formed during the Liberation War, the three "hills" of Northeast China and East China (Shandong, Central China) and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei (North China) are connected by blood, and they all have an inseparable blood relationship with the 115th Division. (To be continued......)