In May 1988, the famous anti-Japanese general Sun Liren finally ended his 33-year house arrest and walked out of his apartment in Taichung. However, only two years after regaining his freedom, Sun Liren died of illness in his apartment in the western district of Taichung City.
Sun Liren was a famous anti-Japanese general with outstanding merits, made countless military exploits, and was also awarded the Medal of Honor of China, Britain and the United States. However, why was he ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to be imprisoned for 33 years in the prime of life?
What kind of history is hidden behind this?
Sun Liren's father, Sun Xize, was a man in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. He was exposed to his father's intelligence from an early age, and showed extraordinary wisdom from an early age.
At the age of nine, Sun Xize was appointed prefect of Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong, and his family moved to live in Qingdao City, Shandong Province. At that time, Qingdao was still a forcibly leased sphere of influence by Germany, and many Germans lived there.
One day, Sun Liren was picking up stones to play on the beach in Qingdao, and several German urchins ran over, not only snatched Sun Liren's stones, but also slapped him twice and insulted him.
As a Chinese, Sun Liren suffered humiliation on his own land. This experience deeply saddened him, and he decided to join the military to win glory for his country and nation.
At the age of 12, Sun Liren moved his family to Peking to study, at the age of 14, he was admitted to the preparatory class of Tsinghua Gengzi Indemnity with the first grade in Anhui Province, and obtained a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Tsinghua University at the age of 23.
Persistent in his pursuit of knowledge, after graduation, he won the opportunity to study abroad at official expense with his outstanding performance at Tsinghua University, and entered Purdue University in the United States in 1923 to further study civil engineering.
Sun Liren, who studied abroad, realized the gap between China and Western countries in terms of modern military, so he gave up the construction industry and devoted himself to military education. After returning from school, he successively served as a lieutenant military training captain and the head of the special forces corps of the tax police of the Ministry of Finance in the National Party Affairs School, and was proficient in importing, and was appreciated by Song Ziwen of the "Song family" and became a training instructor.
On July 7, 1937, the flames of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were ignited, and Sun Liren's legendary life began. In the Battle of Songhu, with the strength of the tax police special forces, he repelled the Japanese army who forcibly crossed the Suzhou Creek seven times.
In March 1942, he was ordered to lead the new 38th Division to capture the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, known as the "King of Jungle Operations".
He was tenacious, and although he suffered thirteen wounds in the Battle of Songhu, he still resisted the enemy tenaciously and did not flinch. After the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma in 1942, he successfully repelled several times the enemy with a regiment of less than 1,000 troops, and was awarded the Medal of Honor of China, the United States and the United Kingdom.
He is not blindly obedient, not stupid and loyal, rejects the jungle crossing plan of his superior Du Yuming, and makes miraculous achievements with his witty strategy. However, such an upright character also laid a hidden danger for his later solitary confinement.
The conflict between Sun Liren and his superior, Du Yuming, can be traced back to the First China-Burma-India Campaign in 1942. At that time, the Chinese Expeditionary Force won the Battle of Ringanqiang, but the British ** team, which was the Allied force on the battlefield, did not perform well, and the Allies had to decide to retreat.
There are two routes of retreat: one is to cross the tropical jungle of the Savage Mountains in northern Burma, make a great detour, and return to China; The second was to retreat in the direction of British India. Du Yuming, deputy commander of the First Route Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, resolutely obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders and decided to go north through the tropical jungle of the Savage Mountains and return to Yunnan.
Sun Liren, then the commander of the newly formed 38th Division, after careful consideration, decided to follow the advice of General Stilwell, chief of staff of the Chinese theater, and withdraw to British India.
The primeval forest savage mountain, the endless forest is deep and dense. Poisonous insects, mosquitoes and flies breed here, and leeches are rampant and harassing constantly. Du Yuming struggled, exhausted and unable to move forward, so he could only rely on a stretcher to move slowly.
Finally, after successfully contacting Chiang Kai-shek, he was deeply saddened to learn that half of his troops had died in the jungle. Chiang Kai-shek, moved by his loyalty, decided to let him lead his army to India.
Du Yuming sacrificed the lives of thousands of soldiers to prove his loyalty, but despite this, he was eventually sent to India. This difficult experience laid the groundwork for him to face difficulties everywhere in the future.
In March 1946, the New First Army participated in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and entered the Northeast. The knot that the two had formed in Myanmar has expanded in the Northeast. Du Yuming thought that Sun Liren was too independent, while Sun Liren thought that Du Yuming was selfish, because the benefits were given to Liao Yaoxiang, the commander of the New Sixth Army of the Huangpu Department.
Considering that the relationship between the two could not be repaired, Chiang Kai-shek first transferred Sun Liren from the Northeast, and then transferred him to Taiwan Province in November 1947 as the commander-in-chief of the ** army and the commander of army training, responsible for the training affairs of **.
From then on, Sun Liren could never return to the battlefield where he once threw his blood.
Despite the setbacks, Sun Liren was not discouraged. Good people will try their best to change the situation and play to their strengths. In terms of discipline and appearance, Sun Liren requires the establishment of a team with tenacity; In terms of shooting technique and physical training, he adhered to the efficient method of training the new army in the Indian Ramgarh.
From September 1948 to January 1949, the People's Liberation Army fought three major battles and successfully annihilated the main force of the Kuomintang army, the Kuomintang fell into chaos, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling had no hope of seeking help from the United States, and in desperation, they were forced to resign on January 21, 1949.
When Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated in Taiwan on March 1, 1950, he began to liquidate dissidents. At this time, Sun Liren, who is not a Whampoa department and holds Taiwan's **, bore the brunt.
Although most of Sun Liren's subordinates have studied abroad, Sun Liren's style of doing things is more Western, unlike Du Yuming, even if he knows"Savage Mountain"It is full of difficulties, but it is also necessary to show loyalty to the country.
In addition, he also actively advocated the "nationalization of the army", which was in great conflict with the political work system that Chiang Ching-kuo later implemented in the army. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek first ostensibly promoted Sun Liren's position, but in fact deprived him of his actual military power and made him the chief of staff of the ** government without real power.
After that, Chiang Kai-shek used the "Guo Tingliang bandit spy case" to put a trumped-up charge on Sun Liren, which made him completely lose his influence.
My Sun Liren, who has fought bloody battles all his life, why is he so ignorant? However, all explanations seem weak. "The height is unbearable", Sun Liren began a 33-year solitary career.
Sun Liren was under house arrest in a remote military dormitory, living a miserable life, but he was accompanied by two of his favorite women, his wife Zhang Jingying and concubine Zhang Meiying.
Zhang Jingying is not Sun Liren's original partner, he once accepted his father's arranged marriage and married Gong Xitao, but Gong Xitao was unwilling to go to the United States with him, so he met Zhang Jingying, an 18-year-old Hunan girl, in the position of colonel of the military police teaching team of the Army, Navy and Air Force General Headquarters, and married her.
After Zhang Jingying was unable to have children, according to traditional thinking, she decided to take a concubine for her husband. In the end, she chose Zhang Meiying, who was born in the **, Zhang Meiying was honest and gentle, and gave birth to four children for Sun Liren.
During their house arrest, Zhang Jingying and Zhang Meiying have been by Sun Liren's side. In the most difficult times, General Sun even personally cultivated the wasteland and took lychees and guavas to the market to sell to support his family.
After losing 33 years of precious time, Sun Liren supported his family by raising chickens and vegetables, and cultivated four children of school tyrants, who lived a much more wonderful life than others. He is not proud when he is proud, he does not give up when he is frustrated, and he shows great tenacity and perseverance.
It was not until March 1988, when the Taiwan Supervisory Yuan announced that he had no intention of rebellion, that Sun Li regained his freedom.
Among Sun Liren's children, many of them graduated from well-known universities, two of them graduated from National Tsinghua University, one received a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Villanova University, and one adopted son, Jiejun, who is an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Waterloo in Canada.