In mid-January 1949, the smoke of gunfire on the Huaihai battlefield dissipated. After Chen Guanzhuang was captured, the deputy chief of staff of the Xuzhou "Suppression General" Forward Command Post was escorted to Tengxian County along with other captured officers. The officers who knew him surrounded him and asked, "Is Chief Du captured?"Is Qiu Qingquan ***?Did Li Mi run out?Most of these officers are at the regimental and battalion level, and their knowledge is limited. They feel that ** is the person next to Du Yuming, and he must know the truth. But ** is also like them, scattered in the midst of collapse, and knows not much more than them. I have to say, wait and read the newspaper, there will be news in a few days. Du Yuming after being captured. Originally not supposed to be a prisoner of war. Although he graduated from Whampoa, he is not a person from the military circles and has always served in the military command. After Dai Li's death, the military commanders tore each other apart for power and profit, and they couldn't fight their opponents, so they had to go to Cheng Qian to find an errand, which can be regarded as jumping out of the military command spy system.
Until the battle of Xu Beng, Du Yuming, director of the Xuzhou "Suppression General" Forward Command Post, invited ** to be his deputy chief of staff. I don't know how he thought about it, he actually gave up his comfortable position in the rear and went to the front line where life and death were unpredictable. **I didn't know Du Yuming originally, but after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, **I stayed in the Northeast Office of the Military Command for a short time, and I dealt with Du Yuming, the commander of the Northeast Security Command. Everyone is a Whampoa classmate, so the conversation is naturally closer. Moreover, Du felt that Wen was frank and open-minded, not as insidious and weird as other military commanders, and he was simply a "clear stream" in the military command. The words are speculative, and the two have become confidants. **The reason why I listened to Du Yuming's words and went to Xuzhou to take office may be because "the person who is a confidant dies". Du Yuming, who took office as the commander of the Northeast Security Guard. I think that at the beginning, Cheng Qian once persuaded ** that Xu Beng's battlefield was more auspicious and less auspicious, so it was better not to go. But I didn't listen to it. If he stays by Cheng Qian's side, he will also have a part in the Changsha uprising in the future, and he still needs to undergo 25 years of transformation! .
The captured generals were first sent to the East China People's Liberation Army Officers' Training Corps, where they studied for several months and then sent to a library in the city of Jinan. It wasn't until one day that ** learned from the mouth of a guard soldier that Du Yuming was also locked up here, and the rebel general Chen Mingren had just come to see him. Although they were held together, the high-ranking prisoners of war were held in solitary confinement, so ** and Du Yuming had not met for several years. Du Yuming and ** met at the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center, and ** praised Du Yuming for being able to survive to this day, which is not easy. However, Du Yuming felt helpless about his situation, saying that he could only live one day at a time, and he had only one death in his heart to repay the principal's kindness. The next day, Du Yuming expressed his doubts to ** that he had not been able to understand - why did Chen Mingren revolt?Du was perplexed by Chen Mingren's loyalty and the act of the uprising, because Chen Mingren's bravery and fearlessness in the fierce battle with the ** troops in the northeast were admirable.
* strongly disagreed with Du's view, arguing that Chen Mingren's uprising was by no means a sham, and revealed a secret: Cheng Qian had criticized Du Yuming in front of him for relying too much on force, believing that mechanized troops could not be effective, and warned ** to be careful of becoming a prisoner after going to Xuzhou. This made Du Yuming realize that his vision had been limited to the small circle of the Whampoa Military Academy, and compared with Cheng Qian, he was too far away. Then, Du Yuming encountered a new confusion, this time because of his argument with Song Xilian. In the past, there was a difference between dignity and inferiority due to the distinction between military ranks, but now they are all war criminals, and they naturally talk to each other on an equal footing, and often argue fiercely because of different points of view. Du Yuming has been commanding the army for many years and has long been accustomed to Yiyantang, so he is quite uncomfortable with this way of learning. In an intensive study seminar, everyone discussed the topic of Stalin's call for signatures of people all over the world in support of the peace movement.
Song Xilian believes that as long as this movement is fully launched and people all over the world participate in signing, strong pressure can be formed, and those warmongers will no longer be able to start wars, so as to maintain world peace. However, Du Yuming believes that such a view is too optimistic, and he believes that it is necessary to make preparations with both hands, not only to carry out signature activities, but also not to give up military means, and that signatures alone cannot stop the warmongers, and the war must be stopped by war. However, at that time, Du Yuming's views became a minority and were attacked by a crowd. He was criticized, emotionally unacceptable, and could not let go for a long time. On this issue, Song Xilian's view is very clear. Du Yuming's biggest doubt lies in the evaluation of the Nanjing authorities in the War of Resistance Against Japan. In the speeches of the students, the denial of the role of Chiang Jun in the anti-Japanese resistance became the mainstream opinion, which Du Yuming could never agree with.
He himself did not object to Chiang's argument that he was passively resisting Japan, but Chiang's intention to destroy China was also clear, and it was also a fact that the Nanjing authorities actively dispatched troops to launch many battles. Not to mention anything else, Du Yuming himself once led his troops to inflict heavy losses on a Japanese brigade at Kunlun Pass, and also led the Chinese Expeditionary Force into Burma to fight. Most of these war criminals in Gongdelin have thrown themselves into the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and tens of millions of soldiers have sacrificed, and now their exploits have been wiped out, which is not only a matter of personal honor and disgrace, but also a matter of national integrityAgainst the historical background of that time, it was obviously inappropriate to affirm Chiang's anti-Japanese exploits, and those statements that denied the role of the frontal battlefield in the war of resistance were actually statements about the position. Du Yuming is not ignorant of this view, but it is emotionally difficult to accept for him to agree. Therefore, he could choose not to argue on other issues, but once the topic was mentioned in the discussion, he would certainly actively participate in the debate and firmly defend his views.
The study group eventually came to the conclusion that the current theoretical level of the participants was not high enough to draw truly objective and fair conclusions. Those who made meritorious contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression should not regard themselves as meritorious heroes, thus affecting their study and reform. I believe that future generations will be able to make a realistic evaluation. It was not until after the amnesty that Du Yuming learned that his subordinate Dai Anlan had died in the battle in Burma, and that the leaders of Yan'an, Mao, Zhou, Zhu, and Peng, had all sent elegiac couplets to the martyrs. After the liberation of the whole country, Guangxi also erected a monument for the fallen soldiers in Kunlun Pass. These things made Du Yuming deeply gratified and admired.