Gongdelin Prison is a special prison set up by our party after the Liberation War to hold high-ranking generals. Here, the war criminals underwent a decade-long reform, during which many remarkable stories took place, the most notable of which was the "final showdown between China and Japan", one of the "three major battles". The level of this duel was so high that even the infantrymen who charged were held by Kuomintang lieutenant generals, which is really amazing. The captured Kuomintang generals, despite being in Gongdelin Prison, were not convinced by the defeat. Many remained convinced that the Communists could not defeat the Kuomintang.
After the end of the Liberation War, one of the activities that these Kuomintang generals were most interested in was to review the battles of the national ** team on the sand table they made themselves. After a long discussion, they found three "back-stabbers" and blamed them for the defeat of **. The first to bear the brunt was Lao Jiang. ** The generals agreed that the defeat on the battlefield was not because they and their troops were defeated by the PLA, but because Lao Jiang always liked to interfere in operations and often carried out micro-manipulations on the battle situation, which was actually giving people a head.
In the later stages of the Huaihai Campaign, Du Yuming repeatedly suggested that Lao Chiang withdraw the main force from the battlefield to avoid being surrounded by Su Yu. He even devised an ingenious battle plan that could help the main force get out of danger in the Huaihai Campaign. What's even more brilliant is that Du Yuming even took into account Lao Jiang's bad command Xi and deliberately asked the troops to turn off the radio station to prevent Lao Jiang from interfering with the retreat. The second person to bear the blame is Chen Cheng. The Kuomintang generals believed that, despite his prominent position, he had focused all his energies on the internal power struggle, which had led to a chaotic Kuomintang army, a multitude of factions, and a great impact on combat effectiveness.
As a military intelligence department, the military commander is supposed to provide useful intelligence to combat units, but it fails to fulfill this responsibility. On the contrary, it has infiltrated the underground party and become a sieve within the Kuomintang party, government, and army, which is undoubtedly a dereliction of duty. According to the generals, they believed that the reasons for the defeat were varied, but never held them responsible. When the PLA emerged victorious, they considered it a complete fluke, so it was inevitable to express dissatisfaction with such an outcome. However, when the Volunteer Army defeated the American ** team, which was regarded as a heavenly army by the ** generals, in Korea, everyone's faith completely collapsed.
They could not understand how the Volunteer Army was able to defeat the American army so easily, which also gave them a completely new understanding of the actual combat effectiveness of the squadron. The victory of the Volunteer Army changed the attitude of generals like Wang Yaowu and Du Yuming, who actively participated in the reform. In this context, the "Three Great Battles" of Gongdelin broke out. Allegedly, war criminals were reformed. Among the three major battles in the Gongdelin, the first battle was called "encirclement and suppression of Liu Zhi" by the ** generals, which occurred during the Spring Festival of one year.
At that time, the war criminals of Gongdelin asked the director for a fat pig to perform the sacrifice ceremony, and the director met their request, but asked them to kill the pig with their own hands. In order to encircle and suppress this fat pig, the Kuomintang generals used the military commander Wang to send a special agent Shen Zui and 8 other generals, and finally succeeded in "killing" this "pig general". As for why this battle was called "encirclement and suppression of Liu Zhi", it was entirely because the Kuomintang generals were very disgusted with Liu Zhi. Liu Zhi already had the nickname of "General Pig" in the army, and other generals generally held strong dissatisfaction with him.
They believed that other generals relied on their professional skills to eat, and that Liu Zhi fought purely by luck, which made many people very dismissive of him. Liu Zhi knew that luck could not always favor him, so he found another way to specialize in sycophancy, and successfully infiltrated the KMT's top brass through this skill. In the fiasco of the Huaihai Campaign, in addition to Lao Jiang's blind command, Liu Zhi also did his best. The "cafeteria civil war" within Gongdelin also broke out very quickly, and the factional struggle within the Kuomintang was once again staged here. The captured ** generals also brought this tradition to Gongdelin.
The ** war criminals in Gongdelin are mainly divided into two factions, namely the military command system and the Chen Cheng civil engineering department, and the representative figures are Wang Shaoshan and Huang Wei respectively. Wang Shaoshan, an old spy, is quite capable, and as soon as he arrived in Gongdelin, he volunteered to become an insider of the prison management department, making small reports all day long, and the die-hard Huang Wei naturally became the target of his special attention. The Kuomintang generals had always been hostile to the military commanders, because Chiang liked to arrange spies in the army, which led to resentment between the two sides, and eventually a fierce conflict broke out in the canteen of Gong Delin. If it weren't for the highly respected Du Yuming to come forward and stop it, the consequences would be unimaginable.
One of the most famous battles in the Meritorious Forest was the "Sino-Japanese War", which was also the most significant in terms of impact and scale. The incident originated when the ** generals Liu Zhenxiang and Zheng Tingjian went to the small coal mountain of Gongdelin to dig coal, and accidentally found several Japanese playing tennis. The two didn't want to pay much attention to it, but unexpectedly, the tennis ball rolled to Liu Zhenxiang's feet. The Japanese actually ordered Liu Zhenxiang to return the tennis ball, which caused Liu Zhenxiang's displeasure. Liu Zhenxiang is a famous anti-Japanese general in my country, and he fought bloody battles with the Japanese army on weekdays, so he couldn't allow the other party to be so arrogant, so he threw the tennis ball back.
In an unexpected incident, Liu Zhenxiang clashed with the Japanese. According to reports, at that time, the Japanese forgot that they had been defeated, and they actually stepped forward to slap Liu Zhenxiang, but Liu Zhenxiang used an over-the-shoulder throw to level them out, and the two sides immediately fell into a scuffle. This news quickly spread to the other ** generals, angering everyone, who rushed to the scene to support, and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese who came to help. At that time, the lineup of ** was very strong, and the generals at the rank of lieutenant general charged bravely, and the generals were responsible for directing the entire battle.
With the concerted efforts of everyone, the Japanese were soon defeated and retreated. It is said that after Du Yuming learned of the incident, he personally verbally praised the combatants, and the generals even jokingly called the battle "a big victory in a small coal mountain." Detailed information about this incident can be found in [1] "China's No. 1 Prison" Qincheng Prison [Citation date: 2013-10-3].