Chapter 18 017. Moved to Taihang and built meritorious deeds——Zhou Jianping, Commander of the Fourth Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region

Zhou Jianping was born on August 26, 1892 in Tangkuang Village, Xuanwei County, Yunnan Province. He joined the Yunnan New Army when he was 18 years old, participated in the 1911 Revolution and the National Defense Uprising, and served successively as squad leader, platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, and regiment leader. More than 10 years of military career, went out of Yunnan to Sichuan, fought against Guangxi and conquered Guangdong.The failure of democratic revolutions made him disgusted and dissatisfied with the melee between warlords. In September 1923, he left the Yunnan Army and returned to Zuoyuan Village, Shuangkuang Town, Jinxi County, Jiangxi Province. In 1925, he went to Yang Ruxuan's division in Ganzhou to serve as the commander of the supply battalion, and later as the staff officer of the major of the division.Encouraged by the Northern Expeditionary Army's entry into Hunan, Zhou Jianping resolutely left Ganzhou, defected to the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and conquered Nanchang with the army.

At this time, Zhu De, a member of the Communist Party, served as the director of the Nanchang Public Security Bureau and the head of the third army officer training group.As early as in the Yunnan Army, Zhou Jianping served under Zhu De's subordinates. When he heard that Zhu De had come to Nanchang, he immediately went to meet his old superior.Reunited after a long absence, Zhu De pointed out the direction for Zhou Jianping after a long talk.One day, he confided to Zhu De his desire to join the Communist Party. In the spring of 1927, introduced by Zhu De, Zhou Jianping joined the Communist Party of China.On August 1 of this year, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising.He went south with the troops to the Chaoshan area of ​​Guangdong and was besieged and failed by the enemy. He went to Shanghai to find the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

In 1929, the Party Central Committee sent him to the northeast of Jiangxi.There, the Yi (Yang) and Heng (Feng) Soviet areas led by Fang Zhimin lacked military commanders.He changed his name to go there, and when passing through Duchang County, Jiangxi Province, he got in touch with the Duchang County Committee of the Communist Party of China, participated in leading the Wangjiadun armed uprising on August 23, and created the first brigade of the Northeast Jiangxi Red Army. In October, Zhou Jianping served as the head of the first independent regiment of the Jiangxi Red Army. In June 1930, Fang Zhimin, Shao Shiping, Zhou Jianping and others expanded and established an independent division of the Red Army in Fangjiadun, Yiyang County, mainly based on the Red First Regiment, which later developed into the Red Tenth Army.Zhou Jianping served as the army commander and Shao Shiping served as the political commissar.The Red Ten Army moved to the vast areas of Fujian and Jiangxi, and participated in previous anti-encirclement and suppression struggles.

After the Long March, the main force of the Red Army, Zhou Jianping served as the commander of the 24th Division of the main Red Army. He stayed in the Central Soviet Area and persisted in the struggle. In January 1935, the Red Twenty-Fourth Division suffered heavy casualties in the breakout. In early March, it met with more than 100 people from the Third Independent Regiment of the Jiangxi Red Army in the Anyuan Mountains, and then jointly established a military and political committee with the Xingning Special Committee of Guangdong. Vice President. In the arduous guerrilla warfare, Zhou Jianping led the troops to climb mountains and forests, travel day and night, deal with the enemy, and minimize the loss of troops.Due to the harsh environment and weak health, Zhou Jianping finally fell ill.In May of this year, under the escort of underground traffic officers, he and Chen Zhengren sneaked to Shanghai for treatment.After recovering from illness, under the arrangement of the party organization, he arrived in Yan'an in 1936 and successively served as the section chief of the second section of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the director of the military department of the Northern Shaanxi Provincial Committee.

One day in late August 1937, on the hillside of Yunyang Town, Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province, the sun was shining brightly, and the Red Army's anti-Japanese expedition swearing-in meeting was being held.The Red Army soldiers who had just put on new military uniforms were impassioned and sang loudly: Just after this swearing-in meeting, the Central Military Commission appointed Chen Guang as the brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhou Jianping as the deputy brigade commander to lead the troops across the Yellow River to the Anti-Japanese Front.In November of this year, Zhou Jianping and Liu Daosheng went to both sides of the Hutuo River to open up the Pingshan and Yuxian areas of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, and Zhou Jianping served as the commander of the Fourth Army Division.As soon as he participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan, he came to the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain.In order to establish an anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines, Zhou Jianping brought a teaching camp and drove it into Hongzidian in Pingshan County.Here, the teaching battalion formed several work teams to go deep into various villages behind the enemy to mobilize and organize the masses.Zhou Jianping personally led a work team, calling himself "Squad Leader".Within a few days, many surrounding villages successively organized Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Forces.Zhou Jianping decided to attack Wangtian Village, attack the enemy, and give the devil a blow.He sent someone to notify several nearby work teams, and they immediately gathered together to form a platoon, and at the same time selected 30 bold and strong self-defense players to fight together.The comrades advised the commander to stay on the mountain and command, but he came to the village.This is his old habit, often after the battle is deployed, he goes to the front to command and fight with the soldiers.

The next day, when the Japanese reinforcements arrived, they saw nothing except more than 30 corpses and some wounded with broken legs and arms. The Eighth Route Army and guerrillas had long since disappeared.Since then, the news of the Eighth Route Army moving to Taihang has spread in Jinchaji. On December 11, the Fourth Military Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was formally established in Hongzidian, and at the same time the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association was established.When the devils heard the news, they immediately dispatched more than 1,000 people from the Shitai Line to attack Hongzidian and wipe out the four divisions in one fell swoop.Zhou Jianping immediately asked his superiors for instructions, and transferred two regiments of the 3rd, 4th, and 4th Brigades, under his unified command, to ambush on the Xiliang Mountain in the west of Xinzhuang;

The arrogant devil pounced on Xinzhuang with his chest out and his gun in his shoulder.When all the Japanese troops entered a valley between the two mountains, Zhou Jianping gave an order, and in an instant, gunshots and grenade explosions sounded like a storm, beating the devils and everyone on their backs, crying ghosts and wolves howling. More than 1,000 devils were wiped out except for a small number who escaped.The news of victory spread, and all the soldiers and civilians in the Taihang Mountains were proud. In just a few months, great changes have taken place within the jurisdiction of the four districts.The anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the masses was very high, young and middle-aged people signed up to join the Eighth Route Army one after another, and soon three district teams were established to attack the enemy everywhere.The self-defense forces and children's regiments in each village were also very active, standing guard and harassing the enemy.The Japanese troops who invaded Hongzidian were attacked by the Eighth Route Army. They were worried day and night, and they withdrew to Pingshan City within a few days.

The development of partitions promoted the great alliance of anti-Japanese forces.Under the patient education of Zhou Jianping, a local armed force with 3 battalions, the Lianzhuanghui, was co-organized with the 3 district teams of the sub-district and unified under the leadership of the fourth sub-district.The anti-Japanese forces developed rapidly in the Taihang Mountains behind the enemy lines and on both sides of the Hutuo River. In his 30-year military career, Zhou Jianping was born and died in the hail of bullets, leaving 7 gunshot wounds on his body.In the difficult environment behind the enemy lines, in order to establish an anti-Japanese base area, he worked day and night and became sick from overwork. In addition to the recurrence of injuries, he also contracted myelitis.But he still went from house to house as usual, calling on the militia to join the army and fight, mobilizing women to actively support the front, and telling revolutionary stories to children when he had time.Sometimes when the pain in his back was severe, he would grit his teeth, hold out for a while, and then continue working.

In March 1938, Zhou Jianping lay in bed and couldn't get up.At that time, there was only one medical team in the Fourth Army Sub-division, and there was a shortage of medicines. The sub-division did everything possible to purchase medicines from enemy-occupied areas at any cost.The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region also sent Ye Qingshan, Minister of Health of the Military Region, to treat him specially, but his condition did not improve. At 3 pm on June 13, Zhou Jianping passed away suddenly.Before he died, he said to Liu Daosheng, the political commissar of the division, and Shao Shiping, the commissioner who were waiting beside him, his comrades-in-arms who shared life and death together: "I participated in the struggle against three emperors (Xuantong, Yuan Shikai, and Zhang Xun), and I didn't count until I joined the Communist Party. I have embarked on the real revolutionary road, although I have not seen the liberation of the whole of China, but I believe that the Chinese revolution will surely win, and then please send my greetings to the people in the base areas!"