Luo Guangwen

Luo Guangwen

Luo Guangwen (1905-1956) was born in Zhongxian County, Sichuan Province. He was admitted to Tokyo higher normal school in 1924 and artillery section of Japanese army sergeant school in 1927. In 1929, he graduated and returned to China. He served as a major weapons instructor and captain of the military corps in Huangpu Military Academy, Guangdong Province. In 1931, he served as commander of the artillery battalion of the 14th division of the 18th army of the national revolutionary army. He has successively served as commander of the 18th division, commander of the 18th army, commander of the 4th corps and commander of the 15th Corps. He is a lieutenant general of the national revolutionary army.

During the Anti Japanese War, Luo Guangwen led his troops to fight bravely, always fighting in the front line of the Anti Japanese war. He made many contributions and was known as a famous Anti Japanese general. In December 1949, Luo Guangwen led the uprising in Pixian County, Chengdu. Luo Guangwen died in 1956 at the age of 51.

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Luo Guangwen, a native of Zhongxian County, Chongqing, was the sixth commander of the 18th army of the national army. He was the only general in the Civil Engineering Department of Chen Cheng's family who took the initiative to revolt. Luo Guangwen graduated from the Japanese army sergeant school in 1930. After returning to China, he served as the instructor of the central army officer school. In 1935, he served as the head of the 98th division of the national army. In 1937, he was promoted to the chief of staff. After that, he successively served as the commander of the 18th division, the 18th army and the 87th army.

During the war of liberation, Luo Guangwen served as commander of the 14th army, commander of the 4th corps, commander of the 7th training area, commander of the 15th corps and commander of the 108th army. In December 1949, he led an uprising in Sichuan Province and joined the Chinese people's Liberation Army. He was a member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference in 1954 and director of the Department of forestry of Shandong Province in 1955. He died of illness in 1956 at the age of 51.

Military career

1930s

In August 1929, he graduated and returned to China. He served as a major weapons instructor in Huangpu Military Academy and the seventh artillery captain.

In the autumn of 1930, Luo Guangwen went to Chen Cheng's 18th army as commander of artillery lieutenant colonel. He managed the army well and trained well, which won Chen Cheng's appreciation.

In May 1931, Luo Guangwen went to Jiangxi with the army to take part in the second encirclement and suppression. In February of the next year, he served as chief of staff of the 40th brigade of the 14th division. In 1933, the 14th division was expanded to the 98th division, and Luo served as the head of the 588 regiment.

In August 1937, the 18th army was ordered to take part in the battle to defend Shanghai. The 98th Division launched a fierce battle with the Japanese army in the area of Yuepu Baoshan.

In the winter of 1938, the 18th army was transformed into the 18th division, and Luo served as division commander.

On the eve of the Anti Japanese War, Luo was the major general of the 42nd brigade of the 14th division of the 18th army.

After the "August 13" Songhu campaign broke out in the 26th year of the Republic of China, Luo went to Luodian area with the 14th division. On the evening of September 1, Luo led the 42nd brigade to retreat to gujiajiao, beitangkou and Majiazhai. After the fall of Shanghai, Luo took part in the battle of blocking the Japanese pursuit team in Guangde. In June of the 27th year of the Republic of China, the battle of Wuhan began, and Luo led his troops to guard the Rui (Chang) Wu (ning) highway on the west side of Nanxun road. In September, Luo was promoted to the post of deputy division commander of the 18th division of the 18th army. Li Fangchen, the division commander of the 18th army, fled for fear of losing the Guichi fortress, so Luo acted as division commander. After Luo took office, he led the Ministry to Yiyang to carry out strict training, and put forward: "gamblers should be killed, corrupt should be killed, women should be raped, and disturbing people should be killed.".

In the 28th year of the Republic of China, Luo was officially promoted to be a division commander and moved to Bishan and Beibei in Chongqing, where he served as Chongqing garrison. In May of the 29th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army divided troops to attack Yichang by water and land, in an attempt to open the door to Sichuan and advance to Chongqing, the capital of the Japanese army. In early June, Luo was ordered to lead the Ministry to reinforce Yichang. In August, the whole division arrived in Yichang, and Luo led the Department to take up the task of city defense. At dawn on the 11th, Japanese troops attacked Yichang and Luobu fought bravely. In April of the Republic of China, Luo was promoted to deputy commander of the 18th army. In May, the Japanese army mobilized 60000 troops to attack western Hubei, with 10000 troops to attack Shipai fortress. Regardless of his own life and death, Luo personally went to the front line to command, so that the enemy made no progress. After half a month of hard fighting, he completely recovered to the pre war situation. Luo Yinzhi won the national government's highest award, the blue sky and white sun medal, and was promoted to lieutenant general of the 18th army. A silver shield is given to Luo Guangwen as a token of encouragement.

1940s

In the spring of 1940, the 13th division of the Japanese army suddenly forced Yichang, and the Military Commission dispatched 18 troops to guard it. After several days of fierce fighting, Yichang was lost, and Peng Shan, the commander of the army, was removed from his post, and Luobu would rest in Chongqing.

On April 10, 1943, the Japanese army attempted to break through the Yangtze River defense line, threatened Chongqing, forced the national government to surrender, and launched an offensive against western Hubei. Luo Guangwen personally came to the front line and withstood the repeated Japanese attacks. On the 30th, the Japanese army retreated by itself and the western Hubei campaign ended, which was called the great victory in Western Hubei. For this, Rowe was awarded the order of the day.

In 1944, Chen Cheng transferred Luo Guangwen to the post of commander of the 87th army.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the number of 87 army was withdrawn. In the spring of 1946, Luo Guangwen was appointed commander of the 14th army and commander of Chongqing garrison.

In the summer of 1946, Luo Guangwen led 14 troops to attack southern Shanxi and supported Hu zongnan to attack Yan'an, the revolutionary base. In 1947, in the battle of Southwest Shandong and the first battle of yangshanji, the 66 division was completely annihilated. Wang Zhonglian, commander of the fourth corps, was removed because of ineffective rescue, and Luo was promoted to commander of the fourth Corps. In April 1949, the underground Party of Huaying Mountain carried out frequent activities to cooperate with the PLA. Luo Guangwen was ordered to search Huaying Mountain in the name of the director of the Sichuan Hubei border appeasement office, capture Wang Daijia and other 18 people, and then collectively shoot them. In the first ten days of November, Luo Guangwen was ordered to help song Xilian's troops advance to the east of Sichuan. In December, Chiang Kai Shek, Gu Zhu and Hu zongnan left Sichuan one after another, and the 18th Corps was surrounded. Under the persuasion of Deng xihou, they announced the uprising on December 25.

The course of the uprising

October 1949

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission ordered the people's Liberation Army to continue to march into the areas not yet liberated. In order to keep the southwest corner, Chiang Kai Shek flew from Taiwan to Chongqing again for deployment. Chiang Kai Shek decided to form the 15th corps with the seventh training headquarters as the main body, appointed Luo Guangwen as the commander of the corps and commander of the 108th army, and ordered to "ensure Chongqing and defend Sichuan". Chiang Kai Shek ordered Luo Guangwen to lead his troops to Tongzi, Guizhou, and set out to defend Loushan Pass in an attempt to stop the PLA from entering Sichuan from Guizhou.

November 1949

In early November, the second field army of the people's Liberation Army, with the cooperation of one division of the first and four fields, began to prepare for the liberation of the southwest. Chiang Kai Shek sent Hu Zong's troops to the southern suburbs of Chongqing to deploy, and Luo Guangwen led his troops to move quickly from Loushan Pass in Guizhou to Nanchuan area, in an attempt to delay the PLA's occupation of Chongqing. Luobu arrived in Nanchuan in mid November and set up a corps headquarters in the city. The headquarters of the 108th army is located in Nanwenquan, Chongqing. On November 27, the people's liberation army attacked the outskirts of Chongqing, dealt a heavy blow to the 15th corps of Luo Guangwen, and captured more than 5000 people from Luobu.

On November 28, Luo went to Chongqing to meet Chiang Kai Shek. Chiang ordered the 15th corps to be under the command of Yang Sen. Luo was unhappy and led the remnant troops to withdraw from Chongqing to the west of Chengdu.

December 1949

On December 25, 1949, Luo Guangwen, commander of the 15th corps of the Kuomintang army, led more than 22000 people to hold an uprising in andepu, Pixian County, Sichuan Province.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China in October 1949, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission ordered the people's Liberation Army to continue to march into the liberated Chiang Kai Shek area. In order to keep the southwest corner, Chiang Kai Shek made a final struggle and flew from Taiwan to Chongqing again for deployment. It is decided to form the 15th corps with the 7th training headquarters as the main body, and appoint Luo Guangwen as the commander and commander of the 108th corps, and Xiang Minsi as the deputy commander and commander of the 110th Corps. And make "ensure Chongqing, defend Sichuan" as the core deployment. He ordered Luo Guangwen to lead his troops to Tongzi, Guizhou, and set out to defend Loushanguan in an attempt to stop the PLA from entering Sichuan from Guizhou.

In order to fight for the Luo Guangwen uprising, the headquarters of the second field army of the people's Liberation Army sent Chen Jisheng to Sichuan to instigate the Luo Guangwen uprising. Chen Jihua had a special historical relationship with Jia Guangwen and Luo Guangsheng. At the beginning of 1949, when Chen Jisheng was transferred to Fu Zuoyi's deputy division chief, he uprised with general Fu Zuoyi in Beiping. In September 1949, Chen took the initiative to ask for the task of instigating Luo Guangwen's uprising. In early November, after Chen Jisheng met Jia Yinghua in Chongqing, he answered Jia's questions, such as why the national army could not defeat the Communist army and so on. He pointed out that this was a new system. If the old system was defeated by the new system, the national army would lose and the Communist army would win. At the same time, he advised Jia not to believe in the false propaganda such as the Communist wife and the arrest of general Fu Zuoyi in the uprising, and should abandon the secret as soon as possible. Soon after, Luo transferred Jia Yinghua to be deputy chief of staff of the XPCC. Jia asked Chen Tong to meet Luo in Nanchuan, but he didn't go there for some reason. Jia had to hand over the letter from Chen Jisheng to Luo Guangwen. After reading the letter, Luo told Jia to keep it absolutely secret and wait for the opportunity. At the same time, the underground Party organizations of the Communist Party of China are constantly striving for Luo Guangwen. Luo guangbin, Luo Guangwen's younger brother, is an underground member of the Communist Party of China. Under the leadership of the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China, he has been engaged in underground propaganda activities in Chongqing for a long time, and he often publicizes the political opinions and policies of the Communist Party of China to Luo Guangwen. Luo Guangwen had long known about Chiang Kai Shek's autocracy and ruthlessness. Therefore, the two-phase comparison strengthened Luo's confidence in the uprising.

On December 8, when Luo Guangwen and Jia Yinghua arrived in Chengdu, in the name of visiting relatives, they secretly drove to the defense area of Deng xihou's department in Guanxian county to contact and discuss the uprising with the Intelligence Department of the second field army of the people's Liberation Army.

13 days ago and later, the units of the 15th Corps arrived in Chengdu one after another. Luo began to reorganize the troops and reorganize the 108 army. The 110th army also made contact with the Corps. On the 16th, Hu zongnan ordered Luo Guangwen to command the 15th corps and the 2nd Corps

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