Li Xianzhou saw the prime minister and mentionedyears of unresolved problems
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We are very grateful for your support. In the Battle of Laiwu in 1960, Lieutenant General Li Xianzhou of the Kuomintang Army was captured by our army. After serving 13 years in the prison for war criminals, he was pardoned by our country.
Soon after, Li Xianzhou was received by ***. Since Li Xianzhou graduated from the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and is a student of ***, he is no stranger to ***.
As soon as they met, Li Xianzhou directly asked *** a question, he said that he had been thinking about this question for the past 13 years, but he had never found an answer.
Han Lian is with us, you can ask him directly. Li Xianzhou suddenly realized. So what is the background of this Han Liancheng? And what are some of his heroic deeds?
In the Battle of Laiwu that year, how did he successfully break through? These need to find answers from Han Liancheng's life experience.
Han Liancheng was born in Guyuan County, Ningxia in 1908, his father was a Qing military sentry officer, and his family was once well-off, so he studied in private school for seven years. However, when he was 15 years old, his parents fell seriously ill at the same time, which led to the family's decline, and in desperation, he dropped out of school to work as an apprentice in the shop.
But Han Liancheng couldn't stand the exploitation of the shopkeeper and soon resigned and went home. His parents couldn't let him stay at home, so he used the name of "Han Guizhang" to apply for a fake middle school diploma for him, and let him join the teaching team of Feng Yuxiang's subordinate Ma Hongkui and become a cadet soldier.
Despite the bumpy road, Han Liancheng relied on his talent and courage to constantly gain reuse.
With his wit and bravery, Han Liancheng was promoted from an ordinary cadet to the position of regiment commander in just a few years. In 1929, the contradiction between Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek became public, and Feng Yuxiang began to rebel against Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Kai-shek saw through the internal contradictions of Feng Yuxiang's subordinates, and he used a lot of money to win over Feng generals, Ma Hongkui and others, so that Feng Yuxiang's forces were defeated without a fight.
Han Liancheng also switched to Chiang Kai-shek. However, Feng Yuxiang was unwilling to lose, so he joined forces with Yan Xishan to launch a large-scale attack on Chiang Kai-shek's army, and soon the war spread to the military town of Xuzhou.
Chiang Kai-shek personally went to Shangqiu, Henan to supervise the battle, and Feng Yuxiang's troops led the cavalry to attack the airport and surround Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters, which was full of crises. After receiving the reinforcement order, Han Liancheng personally led the main force to Zhuji Station, fought hard to repel the enemy army, and successfully saved Chiang Kai-shek's life.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was desperate, praised Han Liancheng again and again: "You did a very good job, you did a very good job!" ”
Han Liancheng attracted the attention of Chiang Kai-shek because of his heroic performance. Chiang Kai-shek mistakenly thought he was a Whampoa student, so he kindly inquired about his enrollment. However, Han Liancheng reluctantly told Chiang Kai-shek that he was not a Whampoa student.
Despite this, Chiang Kai-shek still admired Han Liancheng very much, decided to list him as a third-term student of Whampoa, and suggested that Ma Hongkui promote him to brigade commander. However, Ma Hongkui became jealous, sent Han Liancheng to the political training class of the ** Military Academy in Nanjing, and colluded with relevant personnel to put him under house arrest.
Han Liancheng was unable to seek direct help from Chiang Kai-shek due to the obstruction of the school, but he was fortunate to be able to meet Chiang Kai-shek when he visited the military academy to comfort the teachers and students. After learning about the situation, Jiang immediately instructed Chen Guofu, chairman of Jiangsu Province, to arrange for Han Liancheng to take up his post.
Chen Guofu arranged for Han Lian to become the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Security Force Cadre Training Corps, and asked him to go to the Army University for further study so that he could better qualify for important posts. During this period, Han Liancheng became acquainted with Bai Chongxi's secretary, Shimring, who deeply admired Han Liancheng and recommended him to Bai Chongxi, which made Bai Chongxi deeply impressed Han Liancheng.
Shortly after the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, Bai Chongxi was invited by Chiang Kai-shek to go to Nanjing to discuss the anti-Japanese plan. During this period, Bai Chongxi met Han Liancheng himself, and after several nights of long talks, he was attracted by Han Liancheng's talent and decided to recruit him to the Gui Army as the deputy commander of the 17th Division.
However, the Gui family's view of the door is extremely serious, and Han Liancheng has just arrived and suffered a lot of discrimination and rejection. However, he adhered to the principle of "fame over profit", was willing to undertake difficult and dangerous tasks, and finally succeeded in resolving the contradiction and gaining a firm foothold in the Gui system.
In the spring of 1940, when Chiang Kai-shek held a military conference in Liuzhou, he found that his beloved general had been bought by the Gui family with a high salary. He was dissatisfied with this, so he transferred Han Liancheng to his side and made him a lieutenant general in the chairman's chamberlain.
Han Liancheng took refuge in our party and made meritorious contributions in Laiwu. After Han Liancheng was transferred to Chongqing, he had no place to live for the time being, so he borrowed to live in the house of his friend Zhou Shiguan in Ma Hongkui's department.
Zhou Shiguan's identity on the face is the representative of Ma Hongkui's office in Chongqing, but his real identity is actually the underground party of the Communist Party of China. Because it was in the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at that time, Zhou Shiguan did not shy away from it, and often hosted banquets at home for leaders of the Chongqing Office of the Communist Party of China.
After hearing and witnessing, Han Liancheng gradually realized the corruption and incompetence of the Kuomintang and the vitality of the Communist Party, so he came up with the idea of defecting to the Communist Party. Therefore, when he visited Zhou Shiguan's home again, he looked for an opportunity to have an in-depth exchange with him and expressed to him his willingness to join the Communist Party.
**After learning more about the situation, he said frankly: "Your wish is very worthy of recognition, and our party welcomes your joining." However, proceeding from the current overall situation, it is more important to use your identity and status to unite the Kuomintang to resist Japan together.
However, this may require you to make some sacrifices. ”
Han Liancheng replied briskly: "Although I have grievances, I am burdened with the black cauldron of the Kuomintang, and my heart is uneven. * relieved: "People may misunderstand you, but I hope you understand." ”
Since then, Han Liancheng began to carry out secret intelligence work under the direct leadership of ***, providing a large amount of political and military intelligence for our party. In the blink of an eye, the eight-year War of Resistance ended, and Chiang Kai-shek provoked a civil war.
Han Liancheng's 46th Army was sent to the Shandong battlefield and became the main force.
After seeing his own people beating his own people, Han Liancheng was very anxious and decided to get in touch with the Communist Party at all costs. After many attempts, he finally connected with Dong Biwu and expressed a strong willingness to revolt.
Dong Biwu immediately reported Han Liancheng's plan to the East China Bureau through the ** secret radio station. The East China Bureau is located in Linyi, Shandong, and Shu Tong, director of the Political Department, presides over the daily work.
After receiving the secret telegram, Shu Tong said very happily: "This is a force that cannot be underestimated, tens of thousands of people, beautiful equipment and equipment, we can't find such a relationship with lanterns, this is our great luck." ”
If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger. You have the potential to change the tide of the battle. ”
After receiving the instructions, Shu Tong immediately met with Han Liancheng as a friend. Han Liancheng said straight to the point: "I invited you to come just to make my request in person." ”
Shu Tong replied with his usual frankness: "The most important thing between friends is mutual understanding and trust, and I believe that we will cooperate happily." "After in-depth discussions, they finally reached a number of agreements.
**, who commanded operations on the front line, was very satisfied after hearing Shu Tong's report and praised them for making a great contribution. According to the agreement, Shu Tong sent an experienced liaison officer to Han Liancheng's army to become his new "secretary".
In Chiang Kai-shek's Lunan battle plan, he wanted to besiege our army in the Linyi area and annihilate it. When Han Liancheng learned of this plan, he immediately passed it on to the East China Field Army through his "secretary".
* According to Chiang Kai-shek's operational deployment, he first took the initiative to abandon Linyi and created the illusion that two columns were advancing westward. Then, he ordered seven columns to secretly go north, and besieged the 50,000 troops of Li Xianzhou's corps in the Laiwu area of Shandong in one go.
Han Liancheng skillfully delayed the time for Li Xianzhou to break through, so that our army could successfully block all the retreats of the Kuomintang army.
In the early morning of February 23, Li Xianzhou ordered a breakthrough, but Han Liancheng had already arrived at the headquarters of the East China Field Army under the escort of the underground party. Due to the loss of command, the 46th Army fell into chaos, and our army completely annihilated the 50,000 defenders of Laiwu in only two hours, and all officers above the battalion level, including Li Xianzhou, were captured.
After the end of the Fenggaojie Liang Battle, ** personally met Han Liancheng and held his hand tightly to express the warm greetings of the officers and soldiers of Huaye. However, unexpectedly, Han Liancheng took the initiative to propose: "After careful consideration, I decided to go to Nanjing and continue to do something for the Communist Party and the people." ”
* asked with concern: "Chiang Kai-shek is a suspicious man. In the Battle of Laiwu, all three of his armies were annihilated, and the commander was all captured, and only you survived.
It's unbelievable, would they believe it? Han Liancheng said with conviction: "If it were someone else, Chiang Kai-shek might be suspicious, but to me, he would not have doubts, because I am his savior." ”
* felt that Han Liancheng's words made sense, so after reporting to **, he secretly sent someone to escort Han Liancheng to the 46th Army's stay in Qingdao.
Han Liancheng returned to Nanjing by ship from Qingdao. Sure enough, Chiang Kai-shek spoke highly of Han Liancheng's successful escape from the "bandit area", and he praised Han Liancheng's courage and wisdom, calling him a lone hero of the party-state.
Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him to join the army for the Kuomintang ** government. Although the post of joining the army appeared to be an idle post on the surface, in fact it was in charge of operations and had an important impact on the strategic policy of the Kuomintang.
Through his position, Han Liancheng influenced the Kuomintang and made it formulate many absurd combat strategies, resulting in one defeat after another for the Kuomintang and increasingly overstretched its troops. In order to cope with this situation, Chiang Kai-shek sent Han Liancheng to his hometown in Gansu in April 1948 as the commander of security, hoping that he could use the advantages of his hometown to recruit soldiers and horses to alleviate the plight of the Kuomintang's shortage of troops.
However, Han Liancheng's real intention was to use Chiang Kai-shek's support to build up his own troops and contribute to the Communists in the future decisive battle in the northwest.
Han Liancheng was in danger, but the CCP underground party provided protection and support, helping him successfully evade the pursuit of Kuomintang agents, secretly flee to Hong Kong, and arrive in Xibaipo in January 1949 under the arrangement of the underground party.
**When I saw Han Liancheng, I quipped: "My small thatched house can not only command our own army, but also mobilize Chairman Jiang's million-strong army!" ”
General Han Liancheng was one of the founding heroes of New China. After he was appointed deputy chief of staff of the First Field Army, he personally instigated the uprising of the 119th Army and the 173rd Division of the Kuomintang, and made great contributions to the establishment of New China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Han Liancheng was proposed to be awarded the rank of general by the organization, but after he learned the news, he took the initiative to find *** and said that he should retire after the peaceful founding of the country and not fight for the rank.
His noble sentiments and humble qualities are admirable.
At Han Liancheng's insistence, the organization finally awarded him the rank of lieutenant general. He ended his legendary life on February 27, 1984. Before he died, he left his last words: "I hope that my funeral can be carried out in the most simple way ......."As a party member, I have successfully fulfilled the tasks assigned to me by the party, both inside and outside the party, and I can end my life without regrets. ”
His high style and bright festival are deeply moving.