Among the more than 1,000 founding generals of the People's Republic of China, there is a major general who was born in the Whampoa Military Academy, joined the party very early, participated in the Nanchang Uprising, but lurked in the enemy camp for more than 20 years according to the party's instructions, and did not lead his troops back until the end of 1948.
Liao Yunzhou, born in 1903 in Liaojiawan, Fengtai County, Huainan City, Anhui Province, was admitted to the Fifth Artillery Department of the Huangpu Military Academy in 1926. On October 10, 1926, the National Revolutionary Army conquered Wuchang on the Northern Expedition. In order to recruit talents, Chiang Kai-shek decided to set up another Huangpu branch in Wuhan, and the fifth batch of political, artillery, and engineering students of the Huangpu school were ordered to move to Wuhan to study, and Liao Yunzhou was among them.
Not long after coming to Wuhan, Liao Yunzhou got acquainted with Jing Renqiu, a famous red ** of our party, and under the introduction of Jing Renqiu, Liao Yunzhou joined our party. In July 1927, Liao Yunzhou graduated and was appointed as a second lieutenant and platoon commander of the artillery regiment of the Wuhan National ** Second Front Army, and also participated in the Nanchang Uprising on August 1.
After the Nanchang Uprising, the rebel army went south to Chaoshan, but unexpectedly lost, Liao Yunzhou was also defeated and captured in Meixian County, Guangdong, and then escaped and returned to his hometown. After that, Liao Yunzhou followed the party's instructions and lurked into **, starting a 20-year latent career. In the end, on the Huaihai battlefield, he led his troops to revolt and gave Huang Wei a fatal blow.
Speaking of the first intersection of Liao Yunzhou and Huang Wei, there is another story.
In 1938, the Battle of Wuhan was in full swing, and the Songpu Division of the Japanese army invading China was besieged by the squadron, and the Japanese troops outside the encirclement naturally wanted to save the Songpu Division. Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater who presided over the Battle of Wuhan, ordered the defenders who were too large on the periphery of Wuhan to shrink and concentrate in order to ensure the complete annihilation of the Songpu Division, and block the Japanese troops who came to the rescue.
At that time, Liao Yunzhou was the commander of the 656th Regiment of the 110th Division under Tang Enbo's Corps, and also received an order from Xue Yue to transfer his position and shrink the defensive line. In the previous peripheral operations, Liao Yunzhou fought well, and just annihilated a heavy battalion of Japanese invaders in Pingjiang, Hunan, and captured a lot of equipment. In order to be promoted to master more troops as soon as possible, Liao Yunzhou took some of the trophies to visit Huang Wei, the commander of the nearby 18th Army, and asked Huang Wei to borrow a few cannons by the way.
Like Liao Yunzhou, Huang Wei is also from Huangpu, but he is the first phase and can be regarded as Liao Yunzhou's senior, but Liao Yunzhou also has an elder brother Liao Yunze who is also in the first phase. With these two layers of relationship, coupled with the unity of the Huangpu Department and the loot sent by Liao Yunzhou, Huang Wei happily sent Liao Yunzhou eight artillery pieces.
During this visit, Liao Yunzhou and Huang Wei had a very happy conversation, Huang Wei wanted to cultivate a few more henchmen, and Liao Yunzhou wanted to use Huang Wei's energy to further develop.
Huang Wei's eight artillery pieces were not given in vain, and Liao Yunzhou was worthy of being a high-achieving student from the Huangpu artillery department. In the ensuing battle, Liao Yunzhou used eight artillery pieces sent by Huang Wei and four mortars sent by his brother troops to fight a beautiful ambush battle.
Here's the thing, Liao Yunzhou returned to the garrison after visiting Huang Wei, because of the delay, the rest of the friendly troops had already moved to the contraction position in advance, leaving Liao Yunzhou's 656th Regiment alone to face the Japanese who rushed to the rescue. In order to get rid of the danger, Liao Yunzhou led the team to quickly retreat westward, and the Japanese army pursued them relentlessly. When the troops rushed to a mountain col at the junction of Hubei and Jiangxi, Liao Yunzhou felt that blindly retreating was not the way to go, and the morale of the army was easy to be weakened, so he chose to take advantage of the favorable terrain to block the attack on the spot.
In this blocking battle, Liao Yunzhou, with his excellent command, successfully blocked a complete division of the Japanese army for more than a day, destroyed more than 20 tanks, and annihilated hundreds of Japanese troops, while none of his own troops were **. Because of this battle, the National ** Committee also issued a special commendation order. Liao Yun became famous in the battle on Monday, and Huang Wei also boasted of Bole. Later, according to the party's instructions, Liao Yunzhou broke away from Tang Enbo and joined Huang Wei and became Huang Wei's confidant.
On November 6, 1948, the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army jointly launched the Huaihai Campaign. Liu Zhi, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Xuzhou Suppression Headquarters (short for Bandit Suppression Headquarters), ordered Huang Wei's 12th Corps to move closer to Xuzhou.
Huang Wei's 12th Corps has more than 120,000 people in 4 armies, all of which are equipped with American equipment, and are the main force of the army. In view of this, our party decided to destroy and annihilate Huang Wei's corps at any cost.
At this time, Liao Yunzhou was the commander of the 110th Division of the 85th Army under Huang Wei, and the two brigades and four regiments under his command were the first-class main forces of the 85th Army.
With the covert support of Liao Yunzhou and the rest of the intelligence officers, at the end of November, the troops of our Central Plains Field Army besieged Huang Wei's corps in the vertical and horizontal 7 with Shuangdui as the centerIn an area of about 5 kilometers, although Huang Wei was surrounded, he did not panic. Relying on his strong troops, he decided to select an elite division from each of the four armies to break through in unison, and the 110th Division, as the first-class main force of the 85th Army, was naturally selected.
The four all-in-one mechanics broke through strongly, and it was still very successful, and Liao Yunzhou decided to interrupt Huang Wei's plan. So when Huang Wei invited Liao Yunzhou to discuss the breakout, Liao Yunzhou immediately agreed, and proposed that it would be better to have the 110th Division take the lead if the four divisions went hand in hand, and if the 110th Division fought well, it would quickly follow up and expand the results.
Huang Wei was so pleased to see that Liao Yunzhou was so considerate. In order to make Liao Yunzhou's breakthrough smoother, a large number of tanks and howitzers were specially transferred to the 110th Division. However, what he didn't know was that Liao Yunzhou had already made up his mind to lead his troops to revolt in the name of breaking through the siege, and with Liao Yunzhou's precise planning and the close cooperation of our front-line troops, Liao Yunzhou successfully led the 110th Division to revolt.
After learning that Liao Yunzhou led his troops to revolt and defect to our army, Huang Wei was furious and scolded Liao Yunzhou for not paying attention to righteousness and being a traitor to the party-state, and he didn't know if he knew that Liao Yunzhou had joined our party as early as 1926.
Liao Yunzhou's uprising was not just a simple loss of an elite division for Huang Wei, in the previous Huaihai battlefield, there had been an uprising led by Zhang Kexia and He Jifeng respectively. The successive uprisings have seriously dealt a blow to the confidence and fighting spirit of the soldiers. It can be said that Liao Yunzhou's uprising was a turning point for Huang Wei's corps to break through and fail.
On December 6, our army launched a general attack on Huang Wei's corps, and in just ten days, Huang Wei, commander-in-chief of the corps, Wu Shaozhou, commander of the 85th Army, and others were captured, and all the 120,000 troops of the four armies were annihilated.
Finally, after Huang Wei was captured, he was imprisoned in Beijing's Gongdelin Prison for reform along with Du Yuming, Song Xilian and others, and was pardoned as the last batch of Kuomintang war criminals in 1975. After Huang Wei was released from prison, he and Liao Yunzhou also met, and the two talked for several days, and the past grievances naturally turned into smoke in this sincere conversation.
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