193565438+1On October 9th, after the Red 25th Army captured Zhen 'an County, it built a revolutionary base area in the border area of Hubei and Shaanxi, established Soviet regimes in several districts, townships and villages, and developed and strengthened local armed forces. In late February, the * * * Hubei-Shaanxi Special Committee and the Hubei-Shaanxi guerrilla headquarters were formally established, with Guo Shushen as the secretary of the Special Committee (later Zheng Weisan) and Chen Xianrui as the commander of the guerrilla headquarters. At this time, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth guerrilla divisions under the jurisdiction of the headquarters and the headquarters combat battalion (expanded from the seventh company) have grown to more than 2,000 local armed forces. At the beginning of April, the Soviet government of Hubei-Shaanxi border region was established in Yuanjiagoukou, Shanyang County (under the jurisdiction of two counties and seven or eight district-level red regimes). Chen Xianrui was elected as a member of the CPC Central Committee in Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi. After a great victory in Yuanjiagoukou, the Red 25th Army left Zhong Nanshan in July 13, threatening Xi 'an. On June 16, the provincial party committee led the Red Twenty-five Army from Fengyukou, Chang 'an County to the north and continued the Long March. At the same time, the provincial party Committee has written to Li and Li twice, giving specific arrangements and instructions on the actions of the Red 25 th Army and adhering to the principles and tasks of the struggle in southern Shaanxi. However, due to various reasons, these two instructions were lost on the way, so Zheng Weisan and others could not understand the direction of the Red Fifteen Army.
After the main force of the Red 25 th Army left, the Kuomintang army still carried out "zoning and clearing" on the revolutionary base areas in Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi with more than 20 regiments, and the struggle situation was extremely severe. Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan and Shaanxi were hit hard by the enemy, and the guerrilla division of the Ninth Route defected to the enemy, and other roads suffered heavy losses. The base area is at stake! At that time, the two special committees in Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi, who stayed in the base area, learned from the newspaper that the Red Fifteen Army had moved to Longnan and Longdong, so they held a joint meeting in Liangjiafen, Shangnan County on September 9, and the two sides agreed to form the special committee in Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi (also known as the special committee in southern Shaanxi) to unify their leadership and persist in the struggle. Zheng Weisan served as Secretary of the Special Committee. Li and others are members of the special committee. According to the decision of the Special Committee, the Battle Battalion of the General Command of the Hubei-Shaanxi Guerrilla, the Guerrilla Divisions of the Sixth and Seventh Roads and the Guerrilla Brigade of the Western Region of Yangshan, together with the four guerrilla brigades of the Hubei-Shaanxi Guerrilla Division, formed the 74th Division of the Red Army. On October 6th, 65438/KLOC-0, the Red 74th Division was formally established in Nianziping, Shangnan County, with Li as the political commissar. The division has more than 700 people, organized into two battalions, a pistol regiment and a spy company. After the establishment of the Red 74th Division, it persisted in guerrilla warfare independently in the border areas of Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi, consolidating and expanding this hard-won base area.
1935 12.6, Chen Xianrui commanded the Red 74th Division to win the bronze flag in the first battle, annihilated a battalion of the 40th Army of Pang Bingxun 1 15 Brigade, and killed more than 100 people below the enemy battalion commander.
After the war, Chen Xianrui quickly assembled the third and fifth guerrilla divisions, supplementing and expanding the Red 74th Division. 193565438+On February 26th, the Red Seventy-four Division captured Ningshan County in one fell swoop and annihilated more than 300 peacekeepers. Then capture Foping County and destroy one enemy. At this time, the Special Committee and the Red Seventy-four Division established a new revolutionary base area between Ningshan and Foping, established the Central Working Committee of Ningfo, and established a number of district and township grass-roots political power and local armed forces. 1936 Before the Spring Festival, when the Second Shaanxi Guard Brigade attacked from south to north, the Red 74th Division left the northern Qinling Mountains on New Year's Eve and went straight to the territory of Household County to mobilize the masses to fight local tyrants and distribute movable property, and had a rich Spring Festival. This action forced the enemies of Xi and Baoji to send troops to intercept them. However, the Red Seventy-four Division quickly transferred to Qinling Mountains, opened Foping County for the second time, and annihilated a newly formed security force.
1February, 936, when the enemy concentrated 10 and many regiments attacked Ningfo area, the Red Seventy-four Division marched westward from Foping, annihilated Huayang and Jiangkou town militia groups along the way, and went straight to Shuangshipu (now Fengxian), an important place on the Shaanxi-Gansu border, and successively annihilated more than 400 people in this area and Huangniupu militia group. Between Shuangshipu and Huangniupu, roads, bridges, telephone poles and wires were broken, and traffic on Sichuan-Shaanxi highway was interrupted for half a month. Five enemy cars were intercepted and a batch of food and materials were seized. The Red Seventy-four Division raided Shuangshipu from a distance, and Fengxian and Baoji were in a hurry. The northwest "anti-bandits" headquarters in Xi' an also had to send planes for reconnaissance for several days. This continuous combat action, coupled with the crusade launched by the Red Army at this time, just formed the strategic cooperation between the East and the West.
On February 28th, 1936, the enemy's 49th Division chased after us, and the Red 74th Division turned around and crossed the snowy Taibai Mountain. After more than half a month of fighting, we broke through the encirclement and interception of four or five enemy regiments and successfully returned to Ningfo area at Dongjiangkou for a short rest. At this moment, Cheng Fucai, a former Red 15th Army pistol regiment soldier, arrived at Dongjiangkou from northern Shaanxi via Guanzhong, and delivered important documents such as the August 1st Declaration and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Task on the Current Situation and the Party. On March 24th, Zheng Weisan wrote a report on the establishment of the Red Seventy-four Division and related information to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China under the pen names of him and Chen Xianrui, handed it to Cheng Fucai and brought it to northern Shaanxi. In mid-September, 1936, several enemy troops stationed in southern Shaanxi mostly moved to the west. Judging from this sign, Chen Xianrui estimated that the war on the Shaanxi-Gansu border was in an emergency, but he didn't know about the Red Second Army on the Long March northward. At that time, it had occupied Liangdang, Huixian and Kangxian successively, and besieged Fengxian. In order to grasp the situation and cooperate with the action, Chen Xianrui immediately sent a pistol regiment to follow the enemy to the west, while tracking reconnaissance and harassing the enemy.
Chen Xianrui then led the Red Seventy-four Division to Zhen 'an, Yang Shan and Shangnan areas, and then attacked the Henan-Shaanxi border eastward, from Jingziguan to jiepai town via Xiping, cutting off the traffic of Xijing Highway in one fell swoop, attracting and containing the enemy. At that time, Gong Feng, the chief garrison commander of Shangxian County, was ordered to "suppress the general" in the northwest, resumed traffic on Xijing Highway, and led the first detachment of the Ranger Corps and its subordinate Shaanxi security team to gallop along the highway. 165438+1October 14. The Red 74th Division beat off Gong's attack in one fell swoop, killing nearly 100 enemies, capturing one enemy lieutenant colonel officer alive and seizing many guns and ammunition. After the war, the Red Seventy-four Division went north again, sweeping the vigilante groups in Guanpo, Cao Lan, Lingyukou, Shijiapo and other places on the border between Henan and Shaanxi, and went north to "fight Huashan". The troops circled three big circles at the foot of Huashan Mountain, and sent several troops to Huashan Mountain to put up slogans and make a big scene. The news that "the Red Army is making trouble in Huashan" spread like wildfire, causing the enemy to be in a hurry everywhere. This surprise attack effectively cooperated with the victory of the three main forces, the Red Army, and the Battle of Shanbao after the meeting. Later, Mao Zedong praised Chen Xianrui: The main force of the Red Army launched an operation in the western front, and you made trouble in Huashan in the east. You cooperated well, very well!
After the outbreak of the Xi Incident, Zhou Enlai wrote to the Red Seventy-four Division from Xi, and sent Zhang Guohua, Long and confidential radio personnel to find the Red Seventy-four Division. Li Tao conveyed the Xi incident and the relevant spirit of the CPC Central Committee. According to the instruction of the Central Military Commission, the Southern Shaanxi Military Commission was established, with Chairman Zheng Weisan and Vice Chairman Li Tao. The Red Seventy-four Division was renamed South Road Anti-Japanese Army, commander Chen Xianrui. At this time, the Red 74th Division was ordered to maneuver between Tongguan and Lingbao to cooperate with the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army to prevent the Kuomintang "Rebels" from attacking Xi 'an. 1937 65438+1On October 22nd, the Red 74th Division was ordered to arrive in Shangxian area, and successfully joined forces with the Red 15th Army Corps which cooperated with friendly forces in the south. Xu Haidong, Cheng and Wang Shoudao, leaders of the Corps, spoke highly of the Red 74th Division's independent adherence to guerrilla warfare in southern Shaanxi.
At the same time, in the negotiations with the Kuomintang about the Red Army Garrison, Chiang Kai-shek proposed to allow Xu Haidong and Chen Xianrui to give up southern Shaanxi and advance to the north of Weihe River. When Mao Zedong decided to let Xu Haidong leave southern Shaanxi, he "insisted that Chen Xianrui stay in southern Shaanxi" on the grounds that "the indigenous army in southern Shaanxi was unwilling to open the Weibei River and was unable to force it". After negotiations with Gu, this agreement was finally reached. The purpose of designating this garrison is to cooperate with the Red Army in northern Shaanxi and prevent the civil war from happening again.
1At the beginning of February, 937, after the Red Fifteen Army Corps was evacuated from southern Shaanxi, the Red Seventy-four Division was stationed in Zhen 'an and Zhashui around the Spring Festival. Later, due to the difficulty in supplying grain and grass, it was moved to Dayukou, Chang 'an County for garrison training and consolidation. At this time, there are more than 2 100 people in three regiments of the whole division. 1August, 937, Chen Xianrui was ordered to lead the Red 74th Division to Sanyuan, where he was reorganized into the rear office of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and later became the fourth regiment of the Northwest Left-behind Corps and the second regiment of the First Brigade. 1944 10, Chen Xianrui was appointed as the deputy brigade commander of the first police brigade, and the second regiment of the brigade was ordered to form the third detachment of the anti-Japanese guerrillas in western Henan (under the jurisdiction of the seventh and ninth regiments, Chen Xianrui was appointed as the commander and political commissar). Together with the fourth detachment, they crossed the Yellow River from Yan 'an via jia county, then crossed the Yellow River from Lvliang via Yuanqu Taiyue, advanced into western Henan, and developed and expanded the anti-Japanese base areas. After the third detachment arrived in Dengfeng, Yuxian and Linru areas, it was renamed the Third Military Division of Henan Military Region (detachment and military division), and Chen Xianrui was appointed as the commander and political commissar of the Third Military Division.
After the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the third detachment of Chen Xianrui was reorganized into the independent third brigade of the Central Plains Military Region (still under the jurisdiction of the seventh and ninth regiments), and Chen Xianrui served as brigade commander. 1February, 946, Dushan Brigade merged with the 15th Brigade of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, retaining the 15th Brigade designation and administering the 43rd, 44th and 45th regiments. Brigadier General, Wang Haishan, political commissar Chen Xianrui. On June 26, when the troops of the Central Plains Military Region broke through, the brigade commander Wang Haishan led a 45 th regiment to cooperate with the Central Plains Bureau and the leading organs of the military region, and broke through to Shangnan County in southern Shaanxi in mid-July. Chen Xianrui, the political commissar, led the 43rd and 40th regiments, followed the action of the first column (owing to the first brigade) in Wang Shusheng, South Road, crossed the Xianghe River in Pinghan Road West, and entered the Wudang Mountain area in northwest Hubei on 1946 in late July. According to the instruction of "blooming in situ", Chen Xianrui led two regiments to carry out guerrilla activities in Fangxian, Zhushan and Yunxian border areas, actively containing and destroying the enemy, and opened up a guerrilla base area centered on Wudang Mountain. At this moment, Chen Xianrui was suddenly ordered to lead his troops back to Shangluo, and became the deputy commander and chief of staff of the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi Military Region. This long-distance transfer was originally agreed by Zheng Weisan and Li Xiannian for a simple and sufficient reason: because of two years of guerrilla warfare in southern Shaanxi, I know the local situation like the back of my hand, which is convenient for leadership and struggle. According to the telegram of Central Plains Bureau, Chen Xianrui led his troops to the west from Damuchang, north of Fangxian County, in early September of 1946, bypassing Baihe County and crossing the Hanshui River from lengshuitan. After that, he quickly went north along a road he had traveled in the past, crossed the mountain at the border of Yunxi, repelled the heavy interception of the enemy along the way, crossed the steep one, two and three Tianmen, and soon entered Shangluo area.
When the Central Plains broke through, the whole army suffered heavy losses. Chen Xianrui's two regiments left more than 1 1,000 people. They broke through to the 45th regiment in Shangluo ahead of time, and suffered even greater losses along the way. After arriving in Shangluo, the 15 brigade was renamed the 5th Army Division, with commander Wang Haishan and political commissar Tang Chenggong. At that time, the first, second, third and fourth army divisions of the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi Military Region were established in August. 15 brigade entered Zhashui, Ningshan, Foping and other counties according to the general division, and the 5th Army Division was established in late September. The leading members of the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi Military Region are commander Wen Jianwu and political commissar Feng Wang. After Chen Xianrui arrived, he led Cai Jiachuan and Liu Xianping from Luonan, east of Shangxian County, to the Fifth Division for guidance and help. This is an extremely difficult long journey. Because the strength is weak, it is more difficult than entering Shangluo from Wudang Mountain. The towns and traffic arteries along the way are blocked by the enemy, and they will be chased and blocked by the enemy anytime and anywhere. He led a company, familiar with the terrain and roads, sometimes interspersed with circuitous roads, and sometimes walked at night. After more than half a month's fighting, he finally reached Ningshan area. Due to the serious enemy situation, the troops of the Fifth Army Division moved from time to time and could not be found in time. He searched for troops in Ningshan, Zhashui and Zhen 'an border areas and tried to get in touch with the division leaders. After more than half a month of hard fighting, he finally found the troops of the fifth army division in the west of Yangshan.
1946 65438+February, the enemy was heavily besieged and the situation became more severe. The main force of the military region led by Wen Jianwu and Feng Wang was forced to move to Lushi in western Henan. 1February, 947, with the approval of the central authorities, the Party Committee, military region and administrative office of the border region of Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi crossed the Yellow River to rest in Jincheng, Shanxi. At the same time, according to the decision of the district party committee and the military region, Chen Xianrui, together with Han Dongshan, political commissar of the fourth military region, was responsible for assembling and reorganizing the subordinate units of the military regions and preparing to cross the river into Shanxi. After some contact and assembly, more than 2,700 people from each division were finally assembled to form the second column of the military region, with Chen Xianrui as commander and Han Dongshan as political commissar. The newly formed second column set out from western Henan, crossed the Yellow River from Mianchi to the north on March 20, and then arrived in Jincheng via Yangcheng to meet the main force of the military region (the first column) that arrived in advance. During the rest of the troops, Li Xiannian, Zheng Weisan, Chen Shaomin, etc. He came to Jincheng from Yan 'an, presided over a meeting of leading cadres at or above the regimental level, and summarized the experience and lessons of the breakthrough of the Central Plains. Chen Xianrui attended this important meeting. After the meeting, the first and second columns of the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi Military Region were unified into one column, namely the twelfth column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army. In late July, the party committees, military regions and administrative offices in Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi regions were immediately revoked. At this point, Chen Xianrui also transferred from his old army. 1In July, 947, the Central Military Commission ordered Chen Xianrui to be transferred to the position of deputy commander of the 38th Army of the Northwest Democratic Coalition. At that time, the PLA was changing from strategic defense to strategic counterattack. At this time, the 38th Army was organized by Chen Geng Xie (Fuzhi) Group. On the night of August 22nd, 1947, the 38th Army crossed the Yellow River from Maojin, Pinglu, successively captured Huixing Town, Zhang Mao Store, Kannonji and other places, and cut off the traffic line of Longhai Railway. After conquering Lingbao and Ganxiang (1954 merged into Lingbao), he was ordered to lead the 17th Division and 22nd Brigade to pursue the enemies fleeing westward along Longhai Road and reach Tongguan. At the same time, it also covered the main force's return to the east and captured Shaanxi County. 17 division annihilated two battalions of 1 regiment in the battle of Cheshanyu in the southern tableland of Tongguan, and then repelled the siege of four enemy regiments in the battle of Yaodizhai.
On September 23, the Central Military Commission telegraphed Xie Chen: "From the beginning of the 38th Army, we approached Tongguan and pretended to attack and confuse the enemy; With the Liu () brigade attached to the 38 th Army, it immediately marched westward, captured Luonan, Shangxian, Shangnan and four counties with cameras, and mobilized the masses to create base areas. " On this basis, Chen Xianrui led the 38th Army 17 division and training group, and set out from Nanyuan, Tongguan on September 24th, entered Taiyukou and marched into southern Shaanxi. On 28th, they arrived at Yecun Village in Shangxian County via the inspection department, Shijiapo and Jingcun in Luonan County, and joined forces with the 12th Brigade (Liu Brigade) who first arrived in Longjuzhai (now Danfeng County). On the 29th, Chen Xianrui led Zhang Fuzhen, the division commander of 17, Liang, the political commissar, and Zhao Shoujie, the minister of operations, and Liu, the brigade commander of 12, and Li Yao, the political commissar, held a joint meeting in Shangluo town. The two sides agreed that the 12 th Brigade would be responsible for the area south of Danjiang, and move to Yang Shan, Zhen' an and northwestern Hubei to create a base area in southern Shaanxi; 17 division contained the enemy in the area north of Danjiang, covered and cooperated with 12 brigade to expand to the south, so as to ensure the safety of the brigade's flank, and at the same time commanded the independent regiment in southern Shaanxi (changed from the 38th Army Training Regiment) to fight on the spot.
When the two armies entered southern Shaanxi, it was tantamount to putting a knife on the back of Hu Zongnan Group! This will directly play a strategic containment role, closely contain the enemy in southern Shaanxi, and better cooperate with the battlefields in northern Shaanxi and the Central Plains. Two days later, the enemy reorganized the 65th Division, namely Luonan and Shangxian, and launched an attack. Due to the serious enemy situation, the 12 brigade was forced to move to the south of Lushi after capturing Wuguan and Shangnan counties. In order to cover the eastward movement of 12 brigade, 17 division stopped the enemy in front of Yan 'gang Village and Shangluo Town, then went north through Liangcha River east of Longju Village, and reached Cao Lan and Guanpo west of Lushi, resting and standing by. During this period, the 17th Division held an enlarged meeting of the Division Party Committee in Guanpo. At the meeting, Chen Xianrui first conveyed the instructions on entering southern Shaanxi to establish a base area, and asked the participants to recognize the situation clearly, define their tasks, build up their confidence, enhance their fighting spirit, and prepare for an extremely difficult winter to realize this glorious strategic task. He also put forward a set of operational principles combining guerrilla warfare with mobile warfare in time, combining the actual situation in southern Shaanxi and his personal feelings of persisting in struggle in southern Shaanxi. He said that in order to gain a firm foothold in southern Shaanxi, we must adopt flexible tactics of "beating around the bush, beating about the bush, taking advantage of loopholes, and attacking the middle road", skillfully deal with the strong enemy, stall the enemy, consume the enemy, and find opportunities to annihilate the enemy, and never fight hard with the strong enemy. In order to confuse the enemy, he also asked the troops to constantly change their titles and call them "the division of the three brigades", bluffing and making it difficult for the enemy to find out the truth.
After the enemy's 65th reorganization division was led to Shangluo, it crouched like an iron wall in Longjuzhai and Luonan, north of Danjiang, to prevent our army from entering the area again. 165438+1October 3, the 12th brigade was ordered to start from Wulichuan, Lushi, and the troops re-entered southern Shaanxi in three ways. In order to cooperate with the 12 brigade going south, the 17 Division and the Southern Shaanxi Independent Regiment undertook the cover task on both sides of Xijing Highway. 12 brigade crossed the highway and Danjiang River, and 17 division tightly contained the main force of the 65th division reorganized by the enemy in western Henan. 165438+1October 5, 17 division was completely surrounded by enemy branches, and the situation was very critical. In order to jump out of the enemy's encirclement, it was decided to leave the second battalion of the 50 th regiment of the division to cover the transfer of the main force and adhere to guerrilla activities behind enemy lines. The main force of the 17th Division passed through Shiziping, Wulichuan and Zhuyangguan to the north of Luanchuan and to the south of Lushi, thus containing the enemy of Funiu Mountain. When the enemy's reorganized 65th Division followed from south to east, the17th Division suddenly turned around and went north, arrived in Zhongshan Town, west of Luoning, then marched west, passed Chongyang, Guxian and Fanli, and recovered Lushi County on June 5438+065438+ 10/7. When the enemy reorganized the 65th Division to chase after him again, the 17th Division began to deal with the enemy again and returned to Guanpo and Cao Lan at the end of 165438+ 10. Hold the enemy's nose tightly like this, and make the enemy exhausted and fan the air everywhere.
After returning to Guanpo and Cao Lan, the Fifty Regiments and the Second Battalion, which stayed in Guanpo and persisted in the struggle, will gather in time for reconstruction. 65438+In mid-February, when the exhausted enemy reorganized the main force of the 65th Division and turned to the west in an attempt to encircle the 1st17th Division again, Chen Xianrui decided to continue to "beat around the bush" with the enemy and tightly contain the enemy in western Henan. After 10 days of hard fighting, it is difficult to get rid of the encirclement and interception of strong enemies. I decided to take 5 1 regiment 1 as the main action, cooperate with local guerrillas to launch guerrilla activities behind enemy lines, bluff, confuse and contain the enemy; The main force of the 17th Division entered Shangnan area from Zhuyangguan and other places in the west, crossed Xijing Highway and Danjiang River, and entered Zhulingguan area at the end of June+February in 5438. At this time, the 12 th Brigade has been launched in the area south of Danjiang, attacking the city and plundering the land, which soon opened up a new struggle situation. At the same time, it is determined to take the two regions in northwest Hubei as the central area and create the base area in southern Shaanxi. 1On New Year's Day in 948, the Fourth Army Division of Hubei and Shaanxi was established, with the 12th Brigade serving concurrently. After nearly two months of hard fighting, 17 division troops are exhausted and need to rest urgently. 1948 After New Year's Day, the 17th Division rested against the base created by the 12th Brigade in Longwangmiao area.
1948 1 mid-term, the enemy reorganized the 65th Division of Shangxian County and the Public Security Corps, invaded our base area on a large scale, and occupied Shanyang County on 1+8. In order to contain and mobilize the enemy, 17 division once again advanced into western Henan and began to deal with the enemy from the outside. In the dead of winter, the troops braved the snow and cold, waded across the Danjiang River, crossed the Xijing Highway, passed through Wuguan, Luanzhuang and Majiaping, and entered Cao Lan and Guanpo for the third time. At this time, the 5 1 regiment 1 battalion that stayed in the south of Lushi insisted on guerrilla activities. After completing the task of moving the main force of the cover division westward, after 38 days of hard struggle, the enemy was besieged four times, and then joined forces with the main force of the division on February 1 day.
After the troops returned to Cao Lan and Guanpo in the north, the enemy reorganized the main force of the 65th Division and the local security team, and followed closely. In order to continue to mobilize and contain the enemy, on New Year's Eve (February 9), 17 Division turned east. After two or three days of emergency action, it arrived in the west of Luanchuan. After the Spring Festival, Pei Changhui, commander of the enemy's fifth corps, suddenly concentrated the forces of four divisions in western Henan, surrounded the seventeenth division in three ways, and threatened to "annihilate the seventeenth division of Funiu Mountain!" Due to the disparity between the enemy and ourselves, the 17th Division was completely in trouble and was ordered to move closer to Lushan. So, the 17th Division turned from the west of Luanchuan to the south, crossed Laojunling, and prepared to enter the eastern Lushan area via Xixia, Neixiang and nanzhao county. Who knows, when passing through Taiping Town, Xixia County, I suddenly found that a regiment of the 65th Division reorganized by the enemy had arrived in the town east, and occupied the position to build fortifications in an attempt to encircle the 7th Division/KLOC-0. 17 division was prevented from advancing eastward. In desperation, Chen Xianrui and the division leader * * * studied and analyzed the enemy's dynamics, and thought that the enemy had concentrated four divisions in the hinterland of Funiu Mountain, and its rear was definitely empty, so there was an opportunity. So he sent troops to quickly capture the two highlands in the southwest and northwest of Taiping Town, fought fiercely with the enemy on the defensive and quickly occupied the highlands. Then, the 17th Division turned around from Xixia County to the west, and went straight to Heiyan Town along the inexplicable ridge. After Heiyan Town, from Zhuyangguan, Wulichuan and Shuanghuashu, we entered Guanpo and Cao Lan for the fourth time. This flexible combat action finally got rid of the encirclement and attack of four enemy divisions. 1in March, 948, Chen Xianrui was transferred to the position of deputy commander of western Henan Military Region, and was ordered to lead his troops to carry out the task of suppressing bandits in western Henan. He led the 17 th Division and other subordinate units, and after more than a month's efforts, he basically eliminated the bandit armed forces in western Henan and connected western Henan with southern Shaanxi.
On May 2nd, 1948 and 17 divisions were ordered to take part in the Wanxi Campaign, and cooperated with the brothers to besiege Xixia Pass, capturing more than 700 enemies. After the Battle of West Anhui, Chen Xianrui commanded the 1st17th Division to move westward again. With the cooperation of Shangluo Army Division, Shangnan County was recaptured on May 1948, and Longju Village was captured again on May 2 1. At this point, the 17th Division entered southern Shaanxi, survived a snowy winter after eight months of hard fighting, and finally achieved the great strategic task of "seizing the northwest as a wing" based on southern Shaanxi. 1948 In May, the 1st17th Division led by Chen Xianrui formed the Southern Shaanxi Military Region with the 1st12nd Brigade * * according to the telegram of the Central Plains Bureau. Chen Xianrui was ordered to enter southern Shaanxi again. Before the establishment of the Southern Shaanxi Military Region, Commander Chen Geng conveyed the plan for the establishment of the Southern Shaanxi Military Region to Chen Xianrui, and asked him to be the political commissar of the upcoming Southern Shaanxi Military Region. There are two units in the Southern Shaanxi Military Region, and each unit should have an effective leader as the military and political leader. However, Chen Xianrui did not want to change his military and political leadership position, and proposed to stick to his old job and continue to engage in military work. When the Shannan Military Region 1948 was established on June 7th, Liu served as commander, political commissar, deputy commander and Li Yao as deputy political commissar. At that time, Chen Xianrui didn't arrive in time. Instead, he followed the instructions of Commander Chen Geng and led the 17th Division to conduct a new-style standout movement in Jingziguan area for more than two months. In mid-September, he went to Yunyang Shannan Military Region as deputy commander. At that time, the jurisdiction of the Southern Shaanxi Military Region included Liang Yun, Hubei. After 1950, Liang Yun was classified as Hubei.
After Chen Xianrui took office, Liu, commander of the military region, led two regiments of the 12th Brigade and fifty-one regiments of the 17th Division to join the Huaihai Campaign in Nanyang from the east. During the Huaihai Campaign, Chen Xianrui organized and commanded 50 regiments of the 17th Division, 36 regiments of the 12th Brigade and two independent regiments of YunZhijun Division, and successively launched the Xunxian Campaign, the Huanglongtan Campaign and the Zhu Fang Campaign in northwest Hubei. After three battles, more than 3,000 people were wiped out, and Xunxian, Fangxian and Zhushan counties were recovered and released, consolidating and expanding the base areas.
1in March, 949, Liu led the main force of the military region to return to Jingziguan area. At this time, Comrade Zhang Bangying also went to Yunyang to serve as the first secretary of the Party Committee in southern Shaanxi and the first political commissar of the military region. According to the division of labor among the leading members of the military region, Chen Xianrui is responsible for suppressing bandits, building political power and training cadres. /kloc-in may, 2000, the whole army was reorganized, and the 19th Army was established on the basis of the southern Shaanxi Military Region (also the southern Shaanxi Military Region, under the organizational system of the Central Plains Military Region). Commander Liu, first political commissar Zhang Bangying, political commissar, deputy commander and deputy political commissar Li Yao. After the establishment of the 19th Army, it was placed under the command sequence of the First Northwest Field Army from May of1/,and the Party Committee and the Southern Shaanxi Military Region were also changed to the unified leadership of the Northwest Bureau and the Northwest Military Region.
At the same time, the Central Military Commission telegraphed Liu Deng on May 8: "... In June, the First Field Army began to hold campaigns to capture Tongguan, Xi, Baoji, Hanzhong, Tianshui and Longnan. I hope that Liu troops in southern Shaanxi will move to Hanzhong along the Hanshui River, and it is best to directly win Hanzhong and cut off Hu Zongnan's retreat to northern Sichuan. "On this basis, the Qian Zhi Command was established in the Southern Shaanxi Military Region on May 16, and it was decided that Chen Xianrui, the deputy commander of the Military Region, would concurrently serve as commander, and Shi Yizhi, director of the Southern Shaanxi Administrative Office, would concurrently serve as political commissar. After the 19th Army's westward campaign began, Chen Xianrui went all out to support the work ahead, sending a large number of staff to Liang Yun, Shangluo and other places to mobilize and organize the masses and support the front with practical actions. In June, Chen Xianrui went from Yunyang to Xi 'an via Shangluo, reporting to the Northwest Bureau and the Northwest Military Region. After the report, Chen Xianrui was stayed in the Northwest Military Region by Commander He Long to assist in the work. During this period, he participated in the research on the deployment plan of troops into Sichuan and the leadership of the party, government and army in Hanzhong area. After that, he marched into Hanzhong with the 18th Corps. On February 8th, 65438, the vanguard of 18 Corps joined forces with the 57th Division of 19 Army in Hanzhong. At this time, Chen Xianrui concurrently served as the director of Hanzhong Wushu Association.
After Chen Xianrui entered southern Shaanxi for the fourth time, it was only in the battlefield in southern Shaanxi that he won the final victory and ushered in the dawn of the liberation of southern Shaanxi. As far as Chen Xianrui's experience is concerned, it took 15 years from his first entry into Shangluo on February 8, 1934 to the liberation of Hanzhong on February 8, 1949, and he also experienced four arduous expeditions in southern Shaanxi. Four into southern Shaanxi, with a total time of five and a half years.