Chapter 51 Kang Jianmin

Kang Jianmin (1916-1977), a native of Dingxi County, Gansu Province.When he was young, his family was poor. At the age of eighteen, he began to herd cattle and horses for the landlord's family, and galloped on the Loess Plateau on his barebacked horse. In 1930, he served as a soldier in the Lei Zhongtian Department of the 11th Brigade of the Kuomintang. In July 1932, he participated in the Xihuachi mutiny and served as a cavalry brigade soldier and squad leader in the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas of the Red Army. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1933.After the establishment of the Second Regiment of the Red Twenty-Sixth Army, he was incorporated into the cavalry company of the Second Red Regiment according to his characteristics of being good at riding and shooting.On horseback, he moved to the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet Area and charged into battle.Send files, repeatedly made military exploits.

In June 1933, he served as the secretary of the Red Second Regiment. After the Red Second Regiment failed to go south, he persisted in fighting.In the end, he was escorted to Xi'an Camp as a bugler, waiting for an opportunity to return to the team.Later, I met Liu Yueshan on Xi'an Street, and returned to the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base with 15 mechanical workers including Liu Yueshan, Wang Dingchao, and Hui Zijun. In September 1935, the 25th Red Army arrived at the Shaanxi-Gansu border base area, and formed the 15th Red Army with the 27th and 26th Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and served as the deputy head of the Cavalry Regiment of the 15th Red Army.The rear cavalry regiment was changed to a directly subordinate army, and Kang Jianmin served as the head of the regiment. In late September, he led the regiment to participate in the Battle of Laoshan.Before the start of the battle, the cavalry regiment hid in a ravine not far from Fangshan. After the battle started, he stepped on his horse, waved his whip, and led the cavalry regiment like a sharp knife into the position, occupying the frontier hill.And commanded the soldiers to shoot fiercely at the enemy, suppressing the enemy in a ravine, creating favorable conditions for the main force to wipe out the enemy.In this battle, one division of the enemy army was wiped out and more than 2,000 people were captured.Later, he took part in the battle of Yulin Bridge. He led the soldiers, sometimes being killed head-on, and sometimes attacking in a roundabout way, giving full play to the advantages of cavalry.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study, and later served as the commander of the Cavalry Regiment of the Eighth Route Army Left Behind Corps, the commander and political commissar of the Cavalry Regiment of the Security Command of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and the commander of the Cavalry Brigade of the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Joint Defense Army.He commanded this force and fought for a long time on the northern line of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region, and went deep into the Inner Mongolia region to mobilize the Mongolian and Han peoples.Launch anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare.

In the spring of 1945, he led his troops into Suidong and Suizhong areas, annihilated Wu Tuer, Eyou and the three puppet troops, and consolidated the anti-Japanese base areas.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he led his troops to rush to northern Shanxi, participated in the Datong Jining Campaign, and fought against the Kuomintang army that invaded the liberated areas, showing great power. In February 1949, he served as the commander of the first cavalry division of the reorganized First Field Army. September.He was ordered to reorganize the Suiyuan Uprising Army of the Kuomintang and served as the political commissar of the reorganized 36th Army.

In 1951, together with acting commander Wang Jianye, he led the 36th Army to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. After returning to China, he entered the Advanced Command Department of the Military Academy to study. After graduation, he served as the first deputy commander, chief of staff, and commander of the 63rd Army.He also served as the commander of the Shijiazhuang Garrison. In September 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general. In 1962, he served as deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region. After 1968, he concurrently served as the first secretary of the Party Committee of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, director of the Revolutionary Committee, a representative of the Fourth National People's Congress, a representative of the Seventh National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and an alternate member of the Ninth and Tenth Central Committees.

He died in Yinchuan on January 1, 1977.