Chapter 30 Yan Hongyan

Yan Hongyan (1909-1967), was born in Anding (now Zichang), Shaanxi. He was recruited into the army in 1924 and joined the Communist Party of China in April 1925. In October 1927, he participated in the Qingjian Uprising led by the Communist Party of China. In April 1931, he successively served as the deputy captain of the first brigade of the Shanxi guerrillas of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the squadron leader and the captain of the first squadron. In September, the guerrilla team was renamed as the northern Shaanxi guerrilla detachment and served as the leader of the detachment.

At the beginning of 1932, he served as the captain of the first detachment of the Northwest Anti-imperialist Allied Army. On February 12, the Northwest Anti-Imperialist Allied Army was reorganized into the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrillas of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.He successively served as the captain of the first brigade, the captain of the fifth detachment, and the commander-in-chief.He has led the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas to station in Zhaojin many times. In the middle and late September of 1932, after eliminating more than 400 members of the defense regiments in Fu, Tong, and Yao counties, the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas were chased and suppressed by the enemy He Quansheng and Gao Shuangcheng.Part of the three-way action.Yan Hongyan and Yang Chongyuan led troops to move around Zhaojin area. In mid-October, a batch of opium soil was obtained in Laoyeling, which solved the problem of supplies for the guerrillas for the winter.Since then, the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas have assembled in the Zhaojin area.

On December 24, 1932, when the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas were reorganized into the Second Regiment of the 26th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, they were wrongly accused of "opportunism" and "Shaoshan route". In the spring of 1933, he was sent to Zhangjiakou for military operations. In July 1934, the Shanghai Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China sent Yan Hongyan to study at the Red Army University of the Soviet Union. Appointed by the International Executive Committee in April 1935, he and Liu Changsheng returned to China and successfully completed the task of handing over the secret code composed of English letters to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Before the Red Army marched eastward in February 1936, Yan Hongyan was ordered to form the Yellow River guerrilla division and served as the division commander, and assisted Zhou Enqin in solving the problem of the Red Army's boats crossing the river.Soon, the Yellow River guerrilla division was incorporated into the Red Thirty Army, with Yan Hongyan as its commander.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Thirty Red Army was reorganized into the Third Guard Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, with Yan Hongyan as the head of the regiment. In 1939, the third and fourth regiments of the garrison and the artillery regiment were organized into the first garrison brigade, with Yan Hongyan as the political commissar of the brigade.

In 1940, he went to the Marxist-Leninist Academy and the military and political research class of the Left Behind Corps to study. In 1945, he participated in the "Seventh National Congress" of the Communist Party of China.In September of the same year, Yan Hongyan successively served as the deputy commander, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the third column, and participated in the battles of Dingtao, Southwest Shandong, and the Dabie Mountains. In May 1908, he led his troops to participate in the Huaihai Campaign. In February 1949, he served as the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Third Corps of the Second Field Army, and participated in the Battle of Crossing the River. Marched into Sichuan and Guizhou in November, liberated Chongqing, and Yan Hongyan served as the deputy director of the Chongqing Municipal Military Control Commission; in December, the Eastern Sichuan District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Eastern Sichuan Administrative Office were established.Yan Hongyan served as the deputy secretary of the district committee and director of the administrative office.

In July 1952, the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government were established. Yan Hongyan served as Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Vice Governor, First Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee, Political Commissar of the Chengdu Army, and Secretary of the Secretariat of the Southwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955. In 1956 at the "Eighth National Congress" of the Communist Party of China.Yan Hongyan was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee.

In the autumn of 1959, he was transferred to the first secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the first political commissar of the Kunming Military Region. During the "Cultural Revolution", Yan Hongyan was persecuted by Shi Shibiao, Jiang Qing, and Chen Boda, and died on January 8, 1967.After the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary group was crushed.The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China rehabilitated Zhaoxue for Yan Hongyan. In January 1978, Yan Hongyan's ashes were buried in Beijing.