Huo Shouyi

Huo Shouyi

Huo Shouyi (1898-1967), a native of Liaoning Province, was the commander of the 112th division of the 57th army of the National Revolutionary Army in the Northeast military system during the Anti Japanese war. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Huo Shouyi was promoted to lieutenant general of the Kuomintang. In September 1948, he was reorganized into the PLA. General Huo was transferred to the Training Department of the military academy as a researcher. He was a member of the first to fourth sessions of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the second to fourth sessions of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. He died in 1967.

Life of the characters

Huo Shouyi (1898-1967), a native of Benxi, Liaoning Province, joined the Northeast Army in his early years. He has successively served as battalion commander, regimental commander, brigade commander, etc. During the Anti Japanese War, he served as division commander of the first and second divisions, commander of the Ninth Army and commander of the twelfth army. He was a famous general of the Anti Japanese war. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he served as the commander of the 12th division. In July 1948, he was captured by the people's Liberation Army in Yanzhou, Shandong Province. In the period of new China, he was released after accepting the reform. He was persecuted and died unjustly on June 12, 1967. It was rehabilitated in 1980.

Revolutionary deeds

Before the "Xi'an Incident", Huo Shouyi was in Northern Shaanxi, defending the territory and bordering on the Red Army. He was ordered by Zhang Xueliang to cover a large number of progressive people into the Soviet Area, including American journalist snow. Therefore, he is still friendly to the Communist Party. During the Anti Japanese period, both brigades of the division had field service regiments under the control of the Communist Party, and each regiment had propaganda teams under the leadership of the Communist Party. Wan Yi, head of the 667 regiment of the 334 brigade, later became the founding lieutenant general of the PLA.

After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was detained by Chiang Kai Shek, and the Northeast Army was led by Xuezhong. At the beginning of the Anti Japanese War, Chiang Kai Shek transferred Yu Xuezhong's department to Shandong. Yu Xuezhong's department had the 51st army and the 57th army. At that time, the Su Lu theater headquarters and the 51st army of Yu were stationed in Yilu mountain area, the 111th division of the 57th army was stationed in Rizhao Juxian mountain area, and the 112th division was stationed in Lunan, which was in a crisscross situation with the 115th division of the Eighth Route Army.

On December 28, 1939, the peasants' Self Defense Corps of the four counties of Lintan Feiyi, led by the Communist Party, held a meeting in guanlizhuang, Feixian County, and invited county magistrate Li Changsheng to attend. After Li Changsheng brought some security forces to the meeting hall, he proposed to inspect the Self Defense Corps as a county magistrate, forced the Self Defense Corps to set up guns and gather in line, and then ordered his subordinates to shoot. Six cadres and members of the Self Defense Corps were killed and more than 20 were injured on the spot. This is the "guanlizhuang Massacre" that shocked Lunan.

Li Changsheng is the magistrate of Fei County appointed by Shen Honglie. Although Shen Honglie was born in the Northeast Army, he was determined to join Chiang Kai Shek. He had a political attitude and was an expert in fighting against the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army. Li Changsheng is the nephew of Miao Chengliu, commander of the 57th army. Miao Tongshen is a representative of the reactionary forces in the Northeast Army. Li Changsheng relied on Shen Honglie and Miao Chengliu as the backstage and fought against the Eighth Route Army and the progressive masses everywhere.

Huo Shouyi insisted on resisting Japan and opposing friction. In dealing with the guanlizhuang incident, he helped the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army crowd out Li Changsheng, the diehard county magistrate.

At school, Huo Shouyi was concerned by Zhang Xueliang because of his intelligence and self-improvement. After graduating from the senior police academy, Zhang Xueliang asked him to return to the northeast and continue to study in the Jilin army officer training office. In the coaching department, Huo Shouyi's erudition and enterprising spirit are appreciated by Zhang Xueliang.

After the September 18th Incident, Zhang Xueliang's northeast frontier army was transferred into the pass. Zhang Xueliang appointed Huo Shouyi as the leader of the guard division, led his department to the Nanyuan of Beiping, and took charge of the guard outside the former Shuncheng palace, Zhang's residence. In 1935, after the red army arrived at the Northern Shaanxi base after the Long March, Zhang Xueliang's northeast frontier army was transferred to the northwest. Huo Shouyi naturally followed and led his troops to the Luochuan area.

Luochuan is to the south of Yan'an, only a hundred li away from Yan'an. The task of the northeast frontier army is to encircle and control the newly stationed Red Army together with the northwest frontier army of Yang Hucheng. However, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng were extremely dissatisfied with Chiang Kai Shek's civil war policy. Instead of encircling and controlling the Red Army, they established an anti Japanese cooperative relationship with the Communist Party. Zhang Xueliang had frequent contacts with Yan'an and asked Huo Shouyi to ensure his safety. He repeatedly told Huo Shouyi: "if we want to resist Japan and fight back to our hometown in Northeast China, we must unite with the Communist Party.". Huo Shouyi deeply felt that he was right. He carefully planned and arranged to find effective candidates. He set up three hidden stations between Yan'an and Zhang's house in jinjiaxiang, Luochuan, to avoid the interrogation of the Kuomintang Central gendarmerie. This not only ensured the safety of Zhang Xueliang and his representatives, but also ensured the safety of the Communist Party's dignitaries from the mainland to Yan'an or from Yan'an to the mainland And accommodation arrangements, contact, route introduction, safe.

In 1936, Huo Shouyi was ordered to escort the visiting delegation from all walks of life in Shanghai to Yan'an and the American News Agency reporter snow from Xi'an to Yan'an. He also escorted two coal and oil barrels full of cash to Yan'an. All the arrangements were silent and smooth.

After the Xi'an Incident, the northeast frontier army was reorganized into the 57th army of the Chinese army, with general Miao Chengliu as its commander. It had two divisions under its jurisdiction: 111 division, with General Chang endo as its commander; 112 division, with Huo Shouyi as its commander.

Join in the Anti Japanese War

Through the reorganization, Huo Shouyi's guard division was further enriched, with a total force of 12000. Its task was no longer to guard, but to fight - to pull up to the front line to eliminate the Japanese aggressors.

After the July 7th Lugouqiao Incident broke out in 1937, the 57th army was ordered to enter the Lianghuai area of Jiangsu Province from Henan Fangdi to prepare for the battle. Before settling down, the "August 13" Songhu Anti Japanese war began again. The 111th division was stationed in Nantong to prevent Japanese invaders from landing and invading Northern Jiangsu.

After the battle of Jiangyin broke out, Wan Yi, the head of the 667 regiment of the 112 division, and other young commanders, burning with anger, volunteered to cross the river from Jingjiang overnight and stayed in Jiangyin for more than three months. On November 25 alone, nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers were killed and dozens of tanks were destroyed. Huashan fought hard for five days and nights, killing nearly 2000 Japanese soldiers and more than 5000 puppet soldiers, so as to achieve the expected goal of containing the Japanese army's westward advance and consuming its troops. The Japanese aggressors were restrained to advance to the west, and the Anti Japanese army was given a chance to deploy defense calmly. During the battle, Huo Shouyi was seriously injured by the Japanese artillery fire and had to be transferred to the rear for treatment. The battle command task of the 112 division was handed over to chief of staff Li Yuchun.

The continuous fighting of the 112th division enabled the Jiangyin fortress area to exert its resistance to the enemy, and enabled the capital garrison headquarters to deploy defense calmly. The fierce battle of the division shocked the Military Commission. Chairman Jiang heard the report, and pro telegram division Huo praised it: "commander in chief Liu Xing transferred to division Huo Shouyi, and the Department stuck to the fort and fought for many days, so that the rear friendly forces could be deployed calmly. Nanjing is safe. Special telegram rewards Zhongzheng.".

After the retreat from Jiangyin, some of the 112 divisions retreated to Jiangbei and some took refuge in Zhenjiang. They were organized into two regiments with 4000 troops and put into the Nanjing defense war.

The fierce battle in the south of the Yangtze River is in full swing, and the cloud of war in North China rises again. The Japanese sent troops from North China to concentrate on Taierzhuang in three ways: one was along Jinpu road to Tengxian County, Shandong Province; the other was landing in Qingdao to attack Linyi; the other was gathering warships in Lianyungang and preparing to land in Xuzhou along Longhai railway. The situation is very critical.

At that time, the guard force of Lianyungang was the tax police regiment of the Ministry of finance of the Kuomintang. It was difficult to deal with the strong enemy. Chiang Kai Shek ordered the 57th army to move northward under the unified command of Li Zongren, commander of the fifth theater, to take over the defense of the tax police regiment, stick to Lianyungang and prevent the Japanese invaders from landing. The 57th army headquarters is located in Suqian, and the 112th division headquarters is located in Yang leichuan's home in Guanmiao lane of Haizhou city. In order to ensure the port, the combat command post of the 57th army was stationed in Haizhou. The commander Miao zhengliu was also the commander of the 112th division. He stationed the 334 brigade with the strongest combat effectiveness in the division in the front and the brigade headquarters in Xinpu, under the unified command of the brigade commander Ma Wanzhen. The first line was set up by the 667 regiment of Wan Yi, who was brave and good at fighting. The 336 brigade is stationed in Fangshan and sticks to the area of Fangshan to ensure the smooth operation of Longhai railway.

General Huo Shouyi was eager to destroy the enemy. He left hospital early and came to the front line to continue to lead the Anti Japanese War of the 112th division. This has aroused the concern of the Communist Party and is gratified by the defense of Lianyungang port. Wu Zhigang, Zou Lufeng, Zhao Zhigang, Li Xin and other comrades of the CPC Su Lu Yu Wan special committee, who were guerrillas in Gaomi, Shandong Province, were rejected because of the separatism created by the reactionaries of CAI Jinkang's Ministry. They led more than 100 Communists and progressive youths from Zhucheng to Xuzhou. According to the organization's instructions, Zou Lufeng took more than 20 people to Luxi to participate in the Anti Japanese activities, and Wu Zhigang and Li Xin took more than 80 people to Lianyungang Huo Shouyi's department is working. Wu Zhigang's team was warmly received by Huo Shouyi, and all of them were recruited into 667 regiment of 334 brigade.

The Yangtze River Bureau of the CPC Central Committee fully understood the situation of the 57th army, especially the 112th division, which was reorganized by the Northeast company defense army. Knowing that it had a strong desire to resist Japan and restore its territory, it was determined to fight for it in many ways and make it a friendly anti Japanese army. Therefore, Zhang Wenhai and Gu Mu, inspectors, arrived in Xinpu in early February 1938 and formed the underground working committee of the 112th division of the CPC, with Wu Zhigang as secretary and Gu Mu and Li Xin as members.

After the establishment of the underground working committee of the 112th division of the Communist Party of China, it immediately started its work, first discussing the issue of Wan Yi, head of the 667 regiment, joining the party. Introduced by Zhang Wenhai and Gu Mu, on March 11, 1938, at Longhai apartment in Xinpu, Wan Yi swore to join the party under the party flag and became a special underground Party member who did not participate in the organizational life.

Wan Yi's 667 regiment headquarters was in the compound of Zhang ruobo's family in Chaodong street, Chaoyang town. His hospital, regiment political discipline office and literary and Art Troupe were all in Xinxian street. Wan Yi himself lived in the outer East Room of my family. Its subordinate battalions were stationed at Lianyungang port, repelling the Japanese invaders on the sea for many times.

Because Lianyungang could not be attacked for a long time, the Japanese aggressors closed down