Chapter 53 Gui Shengfang

Gui Shengfang (1915-1999), was born in Weiyang, Shaanxi. In 1932, he traveled from Xi'an to Sanyuan through the provincial party committee traffic officer to join the Weibei guerrillas.After meeting with the 26th Red Army on Taoquyuan in Chunhua, the team was sent to Xuejiazhai, the revolutionary base of Zhaojin, to repair guns for the Red Army guerrillas.He joined the Communist Party of China in the same year, and He Qinyu was the first two mechanical repair workers of the 26th Red Army.Together with the director, Hui Zijun, they overcame many difficulties and used primers and medicines secretly purchased in Xi'an, copper coins, hemp money, and old bullet casings collected in Xiangshan Temple under extremely crude conditions.Self-made gunpowder made ammunition for the Red Army, and developed very lethal weapons such as "braided grenades".

In October 1933, he participated in the battle to defend Xuejiazhai.After the failure of the defense battle, he was detained in Longjiazhai, where he instigated the soldiers guarding the village to surrender.After the surrender troops were besieged, they went to Laoyeling area to join Zhang Xiushan and Gao Jinchun's cavalry regiment, and served as the captain of the Yaoxi guerrilla group of the 26th Red Army and the instructor of the Cavalry Regiment Company of the 42nd Division of the 26th Red Army. After 1936, he served as Minister of the Military Department of the Zhongqi County Party Committee and head of the Guanzhong Independent Regiment.During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as the political commissar of the Health Department of the Left Behind Corps of the Eighth Route Army and the political commissar of the field hospital, and the director of the Political Department of the Trilateral Army Division of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Sui Joint Defense Army.During the War of Liberation, he served as the deputy director of the Political Department of the Longjiang Military Region and the director of the Political Department of the Ninth Independent Division of the Northeast Field Army.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the director and deputy political commissar of the Political Department of the First Public Security Army, the political commissar of the Public Security Division of the Chinese People's Volunteers, the political commissar of the Guard Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Public Security Army, the political commissar of the First Chemical Defense Corps School, and the political commissar of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Chemical Corps Department. Department director, deputy political commissar and consultant of Luda Garrison District.Promoted to the rank of major general in 1964.He was awarded the Second Class August 1st Medal, the Second Class Independent Freedom Medal, and the Second Class Liberation Medal.