In the history of New China, the 1955 award ceremony is not only a glorious affirmation of the heroic soldiers, but also a concentrated display of their extraordinary experience.
In this context, the figures of Chen Mingren, Tao Zhiyue, and Dong Qiwu, the three founding generals, are particularly conspicuous.
Their experiences were different from those of others, as they were all high-ranking generals of the Kuomintang army, and they chose to stand on the right side of history at the critical moment of the Liberation War, and their choices not only changed their personal fate, but also affected the course of the war to a great extent.
They can put the overall situation first, and our party will naturally not be mean to them, and in line with the principle that meritorious service should be rewarded, when the title was conferred, all three of them were awarded the rank of general.
Today we are going to talk about General Tran Minh Ren. When he rebelled in Hunan, something unexpected happened.
In 1949, the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party came to an end. Chen Mingren had always been an important military figure in the Kuomintang until that decisive moment, when he issued a shocking uprising statement in Changsha, choosing to turn his back on the Kuomintang and defect to our party.
This decision violently shook the morale of the Kuomintang and aroused the wrath of Chiang Kai-shek. He slammed the table and angrily ordered his henchman Bai Chongxi to lead his troops to quell the sudden rebellion.
Bai Chongxi stayed in Hunan for a period of time and was familiar with Chen Mingren, so he immediately led people to Changsha, preparing to block this "traitor".
Bai Chongxi's plane first airdropped leaflets in Changsha to spread rumors, saying that our party had pretended to surrender and that Chen Mingren and Cheng Qian had already been killed by our party.
This trick really worked, and several army commanders who originally followed Chen Mingren were immediately timid, did not dare to revolt again, and led their troops to retreat to southern Hunan.
At the beginning, it was Cheng Gang, the commander of the 102nd Army. He fled south with the whole army and directly took refuge with Bai Chongxi.
Then there is Xiong Xinmin, the commander of the 71st Army, and Du Ding, the commander of the 100th Army, these two are also thieves, and they are still illusioned by the Kuomintang, and they also rushed towards Bai Chongxi's base camp with their subordinates.
The incident happened suddenly, which caught Chen Mingren off guard. The soldiers under his command ran away more than half of them at once. Only a small number of faithful brothers remained.
Having lost the main force, Chen Mingren was anxious at the moment, knowing that the situation was urgent and that immediate action was necessary. So, he picked up the ** and dialed the Siye Headquarters to ask for support.
After picking up Chen Mingren's **, Siye immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately ordered the 40th, 46th, 49th, and 18th armies to come to the rescue.
Although these four units of our army also rushed south, because of the different starting places and the long journey, when they finally arrived in Changsha, those rebels who defected did not know where to go.
A total of nearly 40,000 rebels defected, which made Chen Mingren feel very uncomfortable. Of course, most of the rebel rebels were later reduced to cannon fodder on the battlefield and were wiped out by our army.
Although the uprising suffered heavy losses and the main force was torn apart, Chen Mingren's uprising still had a major impact on the situation of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. It directly led to the rout of ** in Hunan, so that our army quickly took Hunan.
Chen Mingren's actions also inspired more ** uprisings to join our party, setting off an upsurge of uprisings across the country, and accelerating the end of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.