Luo Ronghuan

Luo Ronghuan

Luo Ronghuan (November 26, 1902 - December 16, 1963), formerly known as Luo Shenzhen, was named Yahuai and was a patriarch. He was born in Nanwan village, Hanshui Township, Hengshan County, Hunan Province. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Luo Ronghuan was appointed Procurator General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and member of the political and Legal Committee of the State Council. The founder of the people's Republic of China, one of the top ten marshals of China.

Luo Ronghuan is a long tested and loyal communist fighter, a firm Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionist, statesman and militarist, one of the founders of the people's Liberation Army and the people's Republic of China, the founder of the political work of the people's Liberation Army, the marshal of the people's Republic of China, and an outstanding leader of the party, the state and the army.

Life of the characters

Since 1919, he has studied in Changsha Xiejun middle school and Qingdao University, and participated in patriotic activities against warlords and imperialism. In the autumn of 1926, after graduating from Qingdao University, he went to Guangzhou to organize peasant associations in his hometown and fight against local tyrants and evil gentry.

In April 1927, he studied at Sun Yat sen University in Wuchang, joined the Communist Youth League of China, and then transferred to the Communist Party of China. In July of the same year, he was sent to Nantong city of Hubei Province to engage in the peasant movement, and participated in organizing the peasant armed forces in Tongcheng and Chongyang. In the same year, he took part in the uprising in southern Hubei Province and served as the party representative. He served as a party representative of the secret service company and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi. After Sanwan adaptation, he entered Jinggangshan with Mao Zedong and successively served as party representative of the secret service company of the first division of the first army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army (initially known as the workers' and peasants' Revolutionary Army), party representative of the 31st regiment battalion of the 11th Division of the Fourth Army, and party representative of the second column. We should actively establish grass-roots Communist Party organizations in the army, implement a democratic system, respect and care for soldiers, and oppose the style of warlords.

At the end of 1929, he participated in the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Army of the Communist Party of China (Gutian Conference) and was elected a member of the former enemy Committee of the Fourth Army.

In August 1930, he served as secretary and political member of the Fourth Military Commission.

In March 1932, he was the director of the Political Department of the first Legion. In the first to fourth anti "encirclement and suppression" struggles, he led the political work of the army, and organized the army to mobilize the masses, fight against local tyrants, divide the fields, raise money for food, and expand the ranks of the Red Army. After the fourth anti "encirclement and suppression" campaign, he was re appointed director of the Political Department of Jiangxi military region, inspector of the General Political Department, and director of the mobilization department. He also served as the commander of the expanded Red Army commando. The leaders made outstanding achievements in expanding the Red Cross.

In January 1934, he was elected as the alternate executive member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Republic of China and won the Red Star Medal. In September of the same year, he served as director of the Political Department of the 8th Corps. During the Long March, the 8th regiment was withdrawn, and he successively served as inspector of the general political department and deputy director of the Political Department of the 1st regiment. After arriving in Northern Shaanxi, he took part in the eastern expedition.

In June 1936, he joined the University of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese Red Army and served as the first political commissar in training senior cadres.

In January 1937, he served as director of the rear Political Department of the CMC, and in July he served as director of the Political Department of the 1st Corps.

At the beginning of the Anti Japanese War, he was the director of the Political Department of the 115th division of the Eighth Route Army.

In September 1937, he led the Political Department of the division and a small number of troops to mobilize the masses in Fuping, Quyang and Lingshou along the Shanxi Hebei border to organize Anti Japanese armed forces and establish Anti Japanese democratic regime.

In 1938, he went to Lvliangshan area and fought with acting division commander Chen Guang in Wucheng, jinggou and xuegongling to defend the Yellow River. In the autumn of the same year, he participated in the enlarged Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and then served as a political commissar of the 115th division.

At the beginning of March 1939, he and Chen Guang led the division headquarters and the first main force of the 115th division into Shandong, and took part in commanding the battles of Fanba and Liangshan, which severely damaged the Japanese puppet army. He resolutely carried out the CPC Central Committee's principle of upholding independence and autonomy in the United Front, emphasized uniting the Anti Japanese friendly forces and patriotic progressives, and isolated and attacked the Kuomintang diehards who created friction. The 115th division led by him fought side by side with the Shandong column of the Eighth Route Army, which was composed of Shandong people's Anti Japanese uprising armed forces. They mobilized the masses successively in western Shandong, southern Shandong, border areas of Hebei and Shandong, central Shandong and coastal areas, established Anti Japanese democratic regime, developed people's armed forces, and consolidated and expanded Anti Japanese base areas.

In August 1941, he served as secretary of Shandong military and political Commission. In the winter of the same year, more than 50000 Japanese puppet troops "swept" the Anti Japanese base area in central Shandong. The Shandong Branch of the CPC Central Committee and the division headquarters of the 115th division were surrounded by the Japanese puppet troops in LiuTian, Yishui. He accurately analyzed the enemy's situation, grasped the opportunity, and led his troops to move to Linyi, the Japanese occupied area, and jumped out of the enemy's encirclement. Later, he returned to the central area of the base area, led the army and the people to persist in the struggle, and defeated the largest "sweep" carried out by the Japanese army in Shandong.

In March 1943, he served as commander and political commissar of Shandong military region, political commissar and acting division commander of 115th division, Secretary of Shandong Branch of CPC Central Committee, and unified leadership of the party, government and army work in Shandong Anti Japanese Democratic base. He attached great importance to the party's ideological and organizational construction and led the rectification movement. In the most difficult years of the Anti Japanese War, he led the army and the people of Shandong Province to streamline their troops and administration, localize the main forces, strengthen the grass-roots construction of the company, carry out decentralized and mass guerrilla warfare, and put forward the "flanging tactics" of "when the enemy comes, we'll go" in response to the Japanese army's "sweeping" and "encroaching" on the base areas, thus reversing the passive situation of the Anti Japanese base areas in Shandong Province .

In 1944, a series of campaigns were organized to carry out local counter offensive, consolidating and developing Shandong Anti Japanese base area.

In 1945, the command troops launched a counter offensive in Shandong, controlled the Jinpu, Jiaoji and Longhai railways in Shandong, and recovered most of Shandong except Jinan and Qingdao. At this time, Luo Ronghuan's army was already the most powerful military group of the Communist Party in China, which had 270000 regular troops. He established the most powerful anti Japanese base of the Communist Party of China - Shandong Anti Japanese base. The number of regular soldiers accounted for one third of the Communist Party's army.

In June 1945, he was elected as a member of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, from the end of October 1945, the Shandong military region troops led by Luo Ronghuan set out one after another. Except for a few troops who went by land, most of them went to the northeast by boat in three groups. Shandong military region initiated the largest sea crossing operation in the history of our army. On October 24, Luo Ronghuan received a telegram from the central government, asking him to "lead the light command organs to the Northeast in a few days". In addition to more than 60000 regular troops, the Shandong military region also sent 20 basic regiments to the northeast, about 30000. In this way, after the end of the Anti Japanese War, Shandong military region sent 90000 cadres and soldiers to the northeast. Before and after Luo Ronghuan and his party arrived in the northeast, in addition to the cadres and soldiers led by Wan Yi and Xiao Hua, many troops from Shandong military region arrived in the northeast and became the backbone of the Northeast Democratic Alliance. The remaining 200000 regular troops also became the second field army and the main force of the second field army.

After marching into the northeast, he served as the second political commissar of the Northeast People's autonomous army and vice political commissar of the Northeast Democratic Alliance. After 1946, he served as Deputy Secretary of the Northeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, deputy political commissar of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, first deputy political commissar of the Northeast military region, and political commissar of the Northeast Field Army. He stressed breaking the illusion of peace, preparing for a long-term war, and actively implementing the CPC Central Committee's strategic policy of "giving way to the main road and occupying the two sides". He once proposed mobilizing the masses to create a northeast base. He organized and led the political work of the large military regiments in Northeast China. In 1947, the experience of complaint education of the third column was popularized in the army to enhance the fighting will of the officers and men and improve the combat effectiveness of the army. This experience was later popularized in the whole army under the instruction of Mao Zedong. He presided over the formation of the second-line corps and sent a large number of soldiers to the main force. The number of the Northeast Field Army (the fourth field army) will be increased from 110000 to 1.5 million, making it the most powerful of all the major field forces, accounting for one third of the total number of troops in China.

He took part in the command of the Liaoshen campaign. In the Liaoshen campaign, he resolutely carried out the strategic decision of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CMC) to fight Jinzhou first and close the Kuomintang troops in the northeast for total annihilation, which played a decisive role in winning the Liaoshen campaign.

In January 1949, he served as political commissar of the fourth field army. As a member of the CPC Pingjin front General Front Committee and the PLA Pingjin front political commissar, he took part in commanding the Pingjin campaign and presided over the negotiations on the peaceful liberation of Peiping. In May 1949, he served as the first political member of the fourth field army. After June 1949, he was appointed the Second Secretary of the central China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (later the Central South Bureau) and the first political member of the central China Military Region (later the Central South military region).

In September 1949, he attended the first Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and was elected a member of the Central People's Government in the same month.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as the procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and a member of the political and Legal Committee of the State Council.

In April 1950, he served as director of the General Political Department of the people's Liberation Army. In September of the same year, he concurrently served as director of the general cadre management department. He began to study the preparation for the implementation of military ranks, and began to preside over the evaluation of general ranks below general and major general ranks above in 1953.

In June 1954, he served as vice chairman of the people's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's government.

In November 1955, he served as secretary of the Chinese people's Liberation Army supervisory committee. In leading the political work of the whole army, he stressed carrying forward the fine tradition of the political work of the people's army and ensuring the normalization and modernization of the people's Liberation Army. He also presided over the formulation of the "Regulations on the political work of the people's Liberation Army (Draft)", led the "march towards culture" and put forward the "systematic, practical and steady" military political theory education policy.

In 1952, he led the preparation for the establishment of the Political College of the people's Liberation Army

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