After Du Yuming was pardoned, the war criminals in Gongdelin had a great response, and even felt a little incredible. Because he had a very good personal relationship with Chiang Kai-shek, he was also considered one of Chiang Kai-shek's most loyal subordinates.
In June 1924, Du Yuming was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy and was the first student of Whampoa. The military academy should be no stranger to everyone, it was a legend, trained a large number of outstanding generals, many of our country's founding generals are also Whampoa graduates, and because Chiang Kai-shek once served as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, so many Whampoa students and Chiang Kai-shek have a special teacher-student relationship, and Du Yuming is one of them.
Du Yuming was the absolute backbone of the Whampoa department in the Kuomintang army, and he entered the army after graduation. At the beginning, Du Yuming's performance was not too impressive, and he was not promoted quickly among Chiang Kai-shek's direct students, and it was not until the Anti-Japanese War that he showed his outstanding military talent.
At that time, he first won the Battle of Kunlun Pass against Japan in the Battle of Guinan, which inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Fifth Division, and later went to Burma as a member of the military expedition to China, Burma, India, and Malaysia, and became one of the senior commanders of the expeditionary force.
In the expeditionary operation, he also showed a completely different attitude from Sun Liren, another famous anti-Japanese general, compared with the tough Sun Liren, Du Yuming is obviously more "obedient".
For example, he knew that following Chiang Kai-shek's orders and climbing the mountain would bring great losses to the troops, but Du Yuming still obeyed the order and showed absolute personal loyalty, so he was quickly reused. At the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he helped Chiang Kai-shek disarm Long Yun in Yunnan, which also made him Chiang Kai-shek's confidant from then on.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the Northeast became the focus of contention between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and Chiang Kai-shek transferred Du Yuming to the Northeast as the commander of security, which is enough to show how much Chiang Kai-shek trusted Du Yuming, otherwise he would not have given him such a heavy responsibility.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Du Yuming successively served as the deputy commander of the Xuzhou Suppression and the commander of the Second Corps, and was already one of the absolute military and political cores under Chiang Kai-shek. Later, in the list of 46 war criminals issued by Xinhua News Agency, Du Yuming could be ranked 36th, and it can also be seen that he used to be among the people.
Chiang Kai-shek was usually in danger in the middle and late stages of the Liberation War, so he transferred Du Yuming to **, because Du Yuming was a "fire-fighting general" in his heart, in fact, compared with other Kuomintang generals, Du Yuming did have more advantages, after all, his military combat command ability was still good among the senior Kuomintang generals. Therefore, whether it is in the Liaoshen Campaign or the Huaihai Campaign, we can see Du Yuming commanding the Kuomintang army.
It's just that at that time, the People's Liberation Army was already the will of the people, and the Kuomintang was not united, and it was comprehensively suppressed by senior generals of our party such as ** and Su Yu, so even if Du Yuming tried his best, he still failed to save the defeat. At the end of the Huaihai Campaign, after the general trend of the Kuomintang had gone, Du Yuming was defeated and captured.
However, unlike the Kuomintang side, which has always exaggerated the miserable life of Du Yuming who spent decades in purgatory after being captured, in fact, he was treated favorably by the People's Liberation Army at that time, and under the careful care of medical personnel, the stomach ulcer and other chronic diseases he suffered from for many years of war gradually improved.
Seeing that the People's Liberation Army was so disregarding his past suspicions, Du Yuming was very moved, and he was also very cooperative during his detention, almost answering any questions, and letting him do whatever he wanted, no different from a model prisoner. In short, throughout the process of accepting the transformation, Allah was very recognized, which relieved the PLA of great pressure.
In 1959, the people wanted to carry out the first batch of amnesty for the prisoners in Gongdelin Prison, and at that time, considering that Du Yuming had made outstanding contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and he was also actively repentant and reformed in Gongdelin Prison, so he was also included in the first batch of amnesty list.
After Du Yuming received the notice of amnesty from the Supreme People's Court and was successfully released, it also caused a lot of heated discussions in Gongdelin Prison, after all, Du Yuming is a descendant of Chiang Kai-shek and the mainstay of the Liberation War, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is one of the main culprits.
And it is incomprehensible to them that such a person could be one of the first people to be released from prison by amnesty. After all, in their original understanding, it was already the bottom line that a war criminal like himself was not sentenced to death, and they never thought that anyone would be able to see the light of day again.
After seeing Du Yuming's ending, it was difficult for the other war criminals in the Gongdelin not to think: What we have is not as serious as Du Yuming's crimes, if we sincerely accept reform, will we be able to be pardoned one day? Are we willing to return to the arms of the people and correct our past mistakes, and there is still hope for the rest of our lives?
And the thoughts of these war criminals are also what our party is willing to see. After all, the situation of the Kuomintang war criminals in Gongdelin Prison is much more complicated than that in other places, and the difficulty of reform is too great, because they have been working for Chiang Kai-shek for a long time, they are loyal believers of the old Chiang, and their reactionary ideas have been deeply rooted.
Their so-called "gentleman does not care about the two masters" mentality has not been able to turn around for a long time, which has caused my party a great headache. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek's henchmen of Du Yuming's level have become a successful case of transformation, making a good start for them, and even being released smoothly, how can their hearts not be turbulent?
At the end of writing, let's talk about Du Yuming's ending. At that time, after his release, he did not choose to go to the United States to reunite with his family, and certainly did not go to Taiwan, but remained on the mainland with gratitude. And the people also gave him enough respect and arranged him to serve as the commissioner of the Museum of Culture and History, so that he could strive to record his past experience truthfully, and since then he has a certain guarantee in the second half of his life.
In fact, we cannot kill all the high-ranking Kuomintang officials with a stick, and many Kuomintang generals also made outstanding contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japan. During the War of Liberation, many of them chose the wrong path, and they were just their own masters, although this is a stain on their lives, but their historical achievements should not be erased. As long as they are actively reforming and willing to continue to contribute to the people, we welcome them.