LV Zhengcao

LV Zhengcao

LV Zhengcao (January 4, 1904 - October 13, 2009), formerly known as LV Zhengchao, is a must. Fengtian province Haicheng county (now Liaoning Province Haicheng City) people. When I was 8 years old, I studied in my village primary school. In 1918, he became an apprentice in a silk reeling factory. He joined the Northeast Army in 1922. In 1923, he entered the Northeast lecture hall to study. After graduation, he served as company commander, battalion commander, major adjutant and captain of the 53rd army of the Northeast Army, chief of staff of the 116th division, and head of the 647 and 691 regiments. In 1933, he took part in the Anti Japanese war in Rehe. In 1936, he organized the Anti Japanese and national salvation vanguard of northeast armed comrades, served as the general leader, and participated in the Xi'an Incident. He joined the Communist Party of China in May 1937.

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he served as commander of the people's self-defense army in central Hebei, commander of the third column of the Eighth Route Army, commander of the central Hebei military region and director of the central Hebei administrative office, and deputy commander in chief of the general headquarters of the central Hebei region. In 1943, he served as commander of the Jinsui military region and member of the Jinsui branch of the CPC Central Committee.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as vice minister and acting Minister of the Ministry of Railways of the Central People's government, commander of military transportation of the Central Military Commission, and Minister of military transportation of the general staff of the people's Liberation Army. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955. In 1964, he served as deputy commander in chief of the southwest railway construction headquarters, commander and political commissar of the construction site headquarters, and the first political commissar of the railway corps. He was Minister of the Ministry of Railways in 1965. He was vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee from June 1983 to March 1988.

On October 13, 2009, comrade LV Zhengcao, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China and a long tested proletarian revolutionist, died in Beijing at the age of 106. He was the last founding general to die.

Life of the characters

Early experience

On January 4, 1904, LV Zhengcao was born into a poor peasant family in Shanhou village, Maoqi Town, Haicheng County, Liaoning Province. As a child, he witnessed the burning, killing and looting of his hometown by the Japanese army, and his heart was full of hatred for the invaders. He changed his name to "Zhengcao" and was determined to become a soldier when he grew up, practice his skills and fight against the Japanese aggressors. In 1922, LV Zhengcao joined Zhang Xueliang's guard brigade. The next year, he was admitted to the Northeast lecture hall. After graduation, he served as Zhang Xueliang's adjutant and secretary.

Agrarian Revolution

In 1929, he served as the chief of the staff of the 16th brigade of the 116th division of the Northeast Army, and in 1932, he served as the head of the 647 regiment of the 116th division of the Northeast Army. He led his troops to Rehe to fight against the Japanese army. In contact with the Communist Party members in the Northeast Army, he began to accept the Anti Japanese proposition of the Communist Party of China. In the spring of 1934, LV Zhengcao led his department to take charge of the task of Beiping city defense, strictly preventing the Japanese army from seeking opportunities to control the city defense of Beiping. In June 1935, in the fight against the defectors' attempt to capture the city of Peiping with the Japanese army, he commanded the troops to attack, intercept, encircle and annihilate, and wiped out all the rebels. There were no casualties in the city defense forces. During the "12.9" movement in 1935, LV Zhengcao supported the patriotic action of the students in Beiping, instructed the troops to take the initiative to cooperate with the students' demonstrations and help them enter the city, which was welcomed and praised by the students. In September 1936, LV Zhengcao established the Northeast armed Anti Japanese and national salvation vanguard in Beiping, and served as the commander in chief. Soon after, he was transferred to Xi'an by Zhang Xueliang to work as an office worker in Zhang Xueliang's residence. On December 12, 1936, LV Zhengcao took part in the Xi'an Incident launched by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng. During the incident, he contacted the Chinese Communists who came to Xi'an to discuss the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party for many times, listened to Zhou Enlai's instruction, deeply realized the greatness and correctness of the CPC's Anti Japanese national united front policy, and strengthened his trust in the CPC. After the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, LV Zhengcao returned to the 647 regiment of the Northeast Army. At the beginning of 1937, the revolutionary activities of the Communist Party members in the 647 regiment aroused the vigilance of the reactionary officers at the top of the Northeast Army, who demanded that the 647 regiment be separated and mixed with other forces. According to the instructions of the northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, LV Zhengcao led his department to accept the reorganization and became the head of the new 691 regiment to continue the Anti Japanese and national salvation activities. In May 1937, with the approval of the northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, LV Zhengcao joined the CPC.

Counter-Japanese War

After the Anti Japanese war broke out, LV Zhengcao led his troops to the front line. From September 15 to October 11, 1937, they fought three fierce battles with the Japanese army in Yongdinghe, Banbidian and meihua towns in North China. In the battle of Meihua Town, the 691 regiment killed and wounded more than 700 Japanese soldiers at a small cost. This was the first time that the Japanese aggressors suffered heavy losses in Hebei Province, effectively attacking the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors. On October 14, 1937, LV Zhengcao presided over a meeting of officers and men representatives of the whole regiment in Xiaoqiao Town, Jinxian county. He decided that the 691 regiment would be separated from the Northeast Army and reorganized into the people's self-defense army. He served as commander and established party organizations in all the regiments under his command. The army became a people's armed force under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people's self-defense army made many remarkable achievements in the Anti Japanese struggle. At the end of October 1937, with the support of local Party organizations and anti Japanese armed forces, LV Zhengcao led the people's self defense army to conquer Gaoyang County and kill Yin Songshan, the leader of bandits and traitors, which shocked the whole central Hebei region and made the people's Anti Japanese sentiment even higher. There was an upsurge of active participation in the army, and the people's self defense army rapidly expanded to more than 5000 people. In order to lead the revolutionary team well, LV Zhengcao contacted the Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region and asked to lead the people's self-defense army to receive training and learn from the good tradition and style of the Eighth Route Army and the experience of carrying out the Anti Japanese struggle. In May 1938, according to the order of Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region, the people's self defense army and Hebei guerrilla army were unified into the third column of the Eighth Route Army, and the central Hebei military region was established. LV Zhengcao was appointed commander of the central Hebei military region and commander of the third column of the Eighth Route Army. Under the leadership of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region, he led the troops to actively carry out guerrilla warfare in the central Hebei plain relying on the broad masses of the people. In half a year, LV Zhengcao commanded his troops to fight against the Japanese puppet army more than 100 times. After opening up the base area of Hebei Province in the Qing Dynasty, we cooperated with the Party committee of Jizhong district to speed up the construction of Jizhong Anti Japanese base area. The base area quickly developed to dozens of counties with a population of about 7 million. Jizhong Anti Japanese War Academy was established, and the number of troops in the military region increased to about 100000. In January 1939, the 120th division of the Eighth Route Army advanced into the middle of Hebei Province. In February of the same year, according to the instructions of the Central Committee, the central military and political Commission of Hebei was established with he long as secretary. Under the leadership of he long, LV Zhengcao, together with other members of the military and political Commission, strengthened the normalization construction of the troops in central Hebei, further developed the Anti Japanese base area in central Hebei, expanded the Anti Japanese base area in Shanxi Chahar Hebei, and effectively attacked and restrained the Japanese aggressors. Mao Zedong once wrote an inscription, praising Jizhong Anti Japanese base area as "a model for upholding plain guerrilla war and people's armed struggle". In the autumn of 1940, according to the instructions of the Eighth Route Army headquarters, LV Zhengcao led the troops in central Hebei to participate in the famous hundred regiment war. He organized the troops to launch the battle of attacking Zhengtai Road, and extensively attacked pinghan Road, Beining Road, Jinpu Road, Shide road and Cangshi road. More than 500 kilometers of roads and railways were destroyed, 20 bridges were bombed, more than 27000 Jin of electric wires were harvested, and more than 1300 Japanese puppet troops were killed, which effectively prevented the pinghan road enemy from reinforcing Zhengtai road. He organized and directed the campaigns in Renqiu, Hejian, Dacheng and Suning, successively annihilated more than 1500 Japanese and puppet troops, pulled out 29 enemy strongholds, destroyed most of the enemy and puppet organizations in this area, and smashed the enemy's plot to establish rule in the central area of Hebei Province. Led by LV Zhengcao, his troops fought bravely and were not afraid of sacrifice. He achieved brilliant results and made outstanding contributions to our army's overall victory in the hundred regiments war. He was praised by the general order of the Eighth Route Army. From 1941 to 1943, in order to smash the enemy's "nibbling" attack and "sweeping", LV Zhengcao led the officers, soldiers and the masses of the army to flexibly use new tactics such as mine warfare, tunnel warfare, mushroom warfare and cattle fighting in the plain without danger and in the extremely cruel environment, making the enemy suffer a lot and always in fear. In November 1943, LV Zhengcao was transferred to the post of commander of Jinsui military region. In the autumn of the same year, he was a member of the Jinsui branch of the CPC Central Committee (later a member of the Standing Committee). Together with Lin Feng, then acting secretary of the Jinsui branch of the CPC Central Committee and political commissar of the military region, he insisted on implementing the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong on "squeezing out the enemy" and led the army and the people of the Jinsui border region to carry out the anti "mopping up" campaign in autumn, so that the border region could get a fundamental improvement according to the terrain. In April 1945, LV Zhengcao participated in the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in Yan'an and was elected as an alternate member of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he served as deputy commander in chief of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and commander of the West Manchurian military region, deputy commander of the Northeast military region and director of the Northeast Railway General Administration, Minister of the Ministry of Railways of the Northeast People's government, member of the Northeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, deputy director of the Ministry of Railways of the Central Military Commission and deputy commander of the railway corps.

War of Liberation

During the war of liberation, LV Zhengcao was a member of the Northeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the West Manchurian branch, the first deputy general commander of the Northeast People's autonomous army, the commander of the West Manchurian (Liao re) military region, the Deputy General Commander of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, and the deputy commander of the Northeast military region and Northeast Field Army. He actively organized the struggle against bandits and hegemonism and made major contributions to the establishment of a consolidated base area. In July 1946, the Northeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee decided to set up the Northeast Railway Administration, with LV Zhengcao as the director and political member of the administration. He also served successively as the Minister of the Ministry of Railways of the Northeast administrative committee, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Railways of the Military Commission and the commander of the protection and transportation

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