Speaking of Chen Mingren, I believe everyone is familiar with it, especially when he took the initiative to abandon the dark and turn to the light in the Liberation War, which made many people admire him very much. Chen Mingren was originally a fierce general in the first team, and still remembered that in the Battle of Huizhou in 1925, Chen Mingren took the lead in leading a platoon of troops to the top of the city, and successfully opened the city gate, laying an important foundation for the final victory of the Battle of Huizhou. After the victory of the Battle of Huizhou, Lao Jiang was very happy, personally inscribed the banner, not to mention, but also ordered to blow the military trumpet three times, and promoted Chen Mingren to battalion commander on the spot.
Of course, Chen Mingren is not an official Whampoa cadet, he was merged into the Whampoa Military Academy by the Guangzhou Army Lecture Hall, but this does not affect Lao Jiang's appreciation of him. It is also for this reason that Chen Mingren and Cheng Qian, the veteran of the Hunan Army, had a special teacher-student relationship very early, and earlier than Lao Jiang, which is why Chen Mingren has always unswervingly followed Cheng Qian's steps in the end. In fact, during his studies at the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Mingren's fiery temper was not popular, and he even openly contradicted Lao Jiang.
Everyone knows that Lao Jiang is actually a person who is not open-minded, because Chen Mingren confronted Lao Jiang on the spot, and was ordered by Lao Jiang to have the military police tie him up at that time. However, Lao Jiang still attached great importance to Chen Mingren's talent, so he only gave a slight punishment. So in 1942, Chen Mingren was appointed deputy commander of the 71st Army, which was obviously promoted, but in fact it was not the same thing. What's even worse is that Chen Mingren has been in the position of deputy army commander for more than three years, which is indeed aggrieved enough for him.
It was not until 1945 that the 71st Army was restructured, and Chen Mingren was justifiably appointed as the commander of the army. However, his classmates Du Yuming, Song Xilian and others were already the commander-in-chief of the group army, and the gap between Chen Mingren and them was still relatively large. Fortunately, the relationship between Chen Mingren and his classmate Du Yuming was not bad, so in the 1947 Siping Campaign, Du Yuming urged all ministries and air forces to fully support Chen Mingren, which is also an important reason why Chen Mingren finally held Siping despite paying a heavy price.
Lao Jiang was still very happy that Chen Mingren was desperately defending Siping, and even invited Chen Mingren to visit Xuanwu Lake with him in order to show his appreciation, and the relationship between the two was instantly very close. But such a beautiful situation did not last long for Chen Mingren, and just when Chen Mingren thought that he could be promoted by winning the battle, he received a dismissal order. It turned out that this time coincided with Chen Cheng's entry into the Northeast, and the three fires of the new official took office, and they burned on Chen Mingren's head at once. And Lao Jiang knew that this was inappropriate, but in order to support his confidant Chen Cheng, he finally chose to sacrifice Chen Mingren, and Chen Mingren's resentment against Lao Jiang was buried in his heart.
Later, although Chen Mingren joined Bai Chongxi's command, he never sincerely served anyone. It was not until Cheng Qian's thinking changed to our party that Chen Mingren began to think about his future. However, at that time, Chen Mingren still had a lot of concerns, he did not want to work for the Kuomintang headed by Lao Chiang, but he was afraid that he would be liquidated because of his past events. After learning about Chen Mingren's concerns, our party successively sent a number of comrades who were close to Chen Mingren to do his ideological work, and finally moved Chen Mingren to carry out the Changsha Uprising. But what is surprising is that half of the original 80,000 horses of the Changsha Uprising defected, what is the reason for this?
It turned out that for the sake of secrecy, Chen Mingren, except for a very few henchmen, the nearly 80,000 officers and men of the entire corps knew nothing about the Changsha uprising, let alone the ideological mobilization work about the uprising. Therefore, when most of the officers and men did not know the details, chaos appeared when the uprising was carried out, and many officers and soldiers even took advantage of the chaos to defect on a large scale. It is certainly a good thing that Chen Mingren acted in secrecy, but it was indeed a major negligence because he was too careful to neglect the actual control of the troops. Although our party quickly organized a strong force to pursue it southward after learning of this, it still allowed most of the rebels to escape from the encirclement of our army.