In August 1949, the Guangdong-Guizhou border guerrilla column suddenly received an order from its superiors to assemble all the troops fighting in Chaoshan and command Comrade Lin Meinan, director of the political department of the column, to carry out the task of blocking the front line of Kunlun Mountain and jointly defend the Dabeishan base area. After the guerrillas' hard fighting, the enemy was finally defeated, and when the prisoners were interrogated, it was discovered that the number of this group of enemies was the 118th Division of the 18th Army.
In the Huaihai Campaign, this watchman unit had been wiped out by the Central Plains Field Army, and why it appeared again now made the fighters of the border column feel very confused. And the number used by this army is indeed the number of the 18th Army under Huang Wei Yang Botao, the commander of which had become a prisoner at that time, but was rebuilt by Hu Lian. However, when our army found this number, it did not pay much attention to it, and this also left a huge hidden danger for the later Battle of Kinmen. Because many facts have also proved that the troops rebuilt after the annihilation of Chiang's army are like scum in combat effectiveness, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it.
Hu Lian escaped by luck in the Huaihai Campaign, when the Battle of Shuangduiji was about to end, the commander of the 12th Corps, Huang Wei, deputy commanders Hu Lian and Wu Shaozhou, each escaped in a tank. However, there were problems with two tanks on the way, Huang Wei and Wu Shao were captured by the People's Liberation Army, and Hu Lian was only slightly injured because the tank did not have problems, and finally escaped.
After Hu Lian fled to Jiangnan, he took out 32 pieces of shrapnel after treatment, and saved his life. During February 1949, He Yingqin, who had just taken office as the premier and minister of national defense, was instructed and directly intervened by Chiang Kai-shek to transfer Hu Lian, who had just recovered from his injuries, to the post of commander of the Second Border Training Command, and put him in charge of recruiting and training troops in Jiangxi.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek had been forced to go into the wilderness, and he himself was beyond the reach of the whip, so he could not directly rebuild the 12th Corps. In addition, He Yingqin is working for "Li Dai**", and he and Bai Chongxi are not very interested in Hu Lian, so this training commander was forced to agree.
In the eyes of He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, recruiting troops in the same place is completely exhaustive, and they don't expect Hu Lian to toss anything, but after three months, they regretted their appointment. After Hu Lian got this appointment, he immediately rushed to Shangrao, Jiangxi, and began to search here for the remnants of the defeated soldiers who had not been captured by the People's Liberation Army on the Huaihai battlefield before.
Because the cavalry regiment of the 18th Army remained here in Guzhen near Bengbu, on the outskirts of Shuangduiji, there were about 800 people, and more than 1,200 people from the 18th Division and the 114th Division each escaped from Shuangduiji. This also included the commander of the 18th Army, Yoon Jun. After gathering these remaining officers and soldiers, together with some miscellaneous more than 2,000 people, they all became the basis for the reconstruction of the Hu Chain troops.
Not only that, Hu Lian's recruitment methods were very cruel, and also put forward the slogan of crazy arrest of strong men, at that time the national period was the implementation of the armor protection system, the indicators were issued layer by layer, and even pulled and caught, so that the soldiers could be quickly recruited. Therefore, in just two months, the Second Training Command directly cobbled together more than 40,000 people.
Not only that, Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng also actively coordinated for this purpose, and prepared enough equipment for the three armies for Hu Lian's newly formed troops, and all of them were the latest American-style equipment. It is precisely in the case of money and people that Hu Lian can form a large-scale and regular army in a short period of time, and also has a well-equipped **.
After the unit is formed, what name will it use?Because Chen Cheng was more nostalgic, he felt that he would continue to use the 11th Division and the 18th Army, but Hu Lian didn't agree much, so he used the 18th Army and the 10th Army. Then Hu Lian with his own rebuilt troops, appeared in the Battle of Kinmen, so that our army was greatly shocked, when the enemy was outnumbered, the 28th Army of Sanye was still very brave, in the entire Battle of Kinmen, the commanders and fighters of our army killed a large number of enemies, and Hu Lian's corps had more than 10,000 people annihilated, although later defeated, but also worthy of people's respect.