In the military history of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the local Red Army troops once formed 118 independent divisions . Among them, the Northern Fujian Independent Division was a team formed by the Red Army's Northern Fujian base area. It made important contributions to the creation of the Northern Fujian Soviet Area.
After the main force of the Red Army went on the Long March in October 1934, the Northern Fujian Division Committee of the Communist Party of China that stayed in the Northern Fujian Soviet Area unified all departments under its jurisdiction into the Red Army's Northern Fujian Independent Division. This is the origin of the Northern Fujian Independent Division of the Red Army.
When the independent division of the Northern Fujian Red Army was established, it was mainly under the leadership of the Northern Fujian District Committee. Among them, the division commander of the independent division was martyr Huang Ligui, the division political commissar Lu Wenqin, and the director of the political department Huang Huairen.
Huang Ligui, a native of Pucheng, Fujian Province, participated in the revolution in 1927 and served as battalion commander of the Special Agent Battalion of the Military Department of the 10th Red Army, company commander of the 10th Red Army, and commander of the 58th Regiment of the 7th Red Army. Huang Ligui is a veteran Red Army member who came out of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Soviet Area. After the 10th Red Army was transferred back to the Central Soviet Area, he followed the main force southward and served successively as the Red Army company commander, regiment commander, division commander and other positions.
In July 1937, Huang Ligui was ordered to lead the security platoon to report to Huang Dao, secretary of the Fujian and Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. While passing through Wutong Temple in Shaowu, he was suddenly attacked by the Kuomintang security group. Unfortunately, Huang Ligui died heroically at the age of 31.
Lu Wenqin was born in Huangmei County, Hubei Province in 1905. He once served as a member of the Huangmei County Committee of the Communist Party of China and the commander of the Red Army's East Fujian Independent Division. Lu Wenqin was the founder of the Huangmei County Party Organization of the Communist Party of China. After the Red Army went north for the Long March, he stayed in and continued to fight in northern Fujian , and once served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Northern Fujian Special Committee.
In August 1936, Lu Wenqin led his troops to fight in Ningde City, Fujian Province. During this battle, he was unfortunately shot and died at the age of 31.
Huang Huairen, a native of Hengfeng, Jiangxi Province, participated in the Yiheng Uprising in 1927. He served as Chairman of the Soviet Government of Qianshan County of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Qianshan County Party Committee, and Political Commissar of the Independent Regiment of the Northern Fujian Division of the Red Army. Huang Huairen was an old subordinate of martyr Fang Zhimin. When Fang Zhimin organized the peasant uprising in Hengfeng, he served as the captain of the county guerrilla brigade and was the main leader of the farmers in Yiheng.
In February 1935, the Kuomintang security group launched an attack on our peasant army in Qianshan County. In order to cover the main force's breakout, Huang Huairen personally commanded from behind. On the 27th, he was killed by traitors in Kengkuoping, Shanxi Province during an armed disaster. He was only 33 years old.
After the establishment of the Northern Fujian Independent Division, it was mainly responsible for liaison work with various districts in Fujian. At that time, the Eastern Fujian Independent Division led by General Ye Fei was also established in Fujian. In order to join forces with this force, Huang Ligui and Lu Wenqin took the initiative to lead the division in launching battles such as Guangze and Taining. After more than three months of fierce fighting, the Northern Fujian Independent Division not only successfully escaped from the enemy's encirclement, but also successfully reached the eastern Fujian area.
In 1936, with the approval of the Northern Fujian Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Northern Fujian Independent Division and the Eastern Fujian Independent Division formed the new Fujian and Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. Huang Dao became the new Provincial Committee Secretary of Fujian and Jiangxi Province, and Huang Ligui, Ruan Yingping and others were appointed as members of the Provincial Committee.
In August 1936, the Kuomintang reactionaries launched a new round of "encirclement and suppression" in our Soviet area in northern Fujian. In order to break the enemy's encirclement, the Fujian and Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China sent Comrade Zeng Jingbing to serve as the acting political commissar of the Northern Fujian Independent Division. In this way, the Northern Fujian Independent Division was unified under the command of the Fujian and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee.
Zeng Jingbing, a native of Qiongshan, Hainan, participated in the revolution in 1927 and joined the Party in 1931. He served as Propaganda Minister of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Director of the Political Department of the Northern Fujian Military Division of the Communist Party of China, and Secretary of the Children's Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Zeng Jingbing went to Thailand to study in his early years. After returning to the Soviet Area, he continued to supervise the work of the Communist Youth League in the Central Soviet Area and was the main person in charge of the Youth League Committee of the Soviet Area.
After the establishment of the Northern Fujian Independent Division, Zeng Jingbing participated in the leadership of the Northern Fujian Independent Division as the director of the Organization Department of Fujian and Jiangxi Provinces. During more than three years of guerrilla warfare , he led his troops to fight in various parts of Fujian and made important contributions to the expansion of the Northern Fujian Independent Division.
In January 1938, the Red Army was reorganized into the New Fourth Army. With the approval of the Southeast Bureau of the Communist Party of China, Zeng Jingbing served as the newly reorganized Secretary of the Fujian and Jiangxi Special Committee and the Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, and was fully responsible for the reorganization of the New Fourth Army. The following year, the New Fourth Army established the Wuyi Cadre School, and Zeng Jingbing also took charge of military education.
Although Zeng Jingbing was a political cadre, he commanded many battles during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, and was once elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee. During the Anti-Japanese War, he was the Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the outbreak of the Liberation War, he served as the commander and political commissar of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Guerrilla Column of the People's Liberation Army. During the more than three years of the Liberation War, he cooperated with the main force to liberate Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places, and made important contributions to the People's Liberation Army's liberation of the entire province of Fujian.
After the founding of New China, Zeng Jingbing successively served as Secretary-General of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died of illness on May 27, 1967, at the age of 55.
When Zeng Jingbing came to the Northern Fujian Independent Division, the Soviet area in Northern Fujian was going through the most difficult period since the counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression". In order to break the enemy's siege and retain this revolutionary force, Zeng Jingbing first dispersed his troops to various districts, and then sent key personnel to secretly organize forces in various places.
Finally, under his strong leadership, the Northern Fujian Independent Division regained a new lease of life, and the division quickly grew to more than 1,000 people.
In October 1937, the Fujian-Jiangxi Provincial Committee and the local authorities of the Kuomintang launched negotiations for cooperation in the anti-Japanese war. With the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Northern Fujian Independent Division was reorganized into the 5th Regiment of the Third Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and the division's historical mission came to an end.
Since its establishment in 1935, the Northern Fujian Independent Division has waged a continuous guerrilla war for more than three years. During this period, three leaders including division commander Huang Ligui and director of the division's political department Huang Huairen sacrificed their lives for the country. This unit is also full of talents and will always be missed by the people.
