He wasThe commander of the army, the rank of deputy state, and his son is a famous physicist
Hou Jingru was an activist in the early days of our party and was deeply appreciated. However, in 1931, when the government imposed a repressive rule, he unfortunately lost contact with the party organization and had to return home.
Later, after being recommended by a friend, Hou Jingru joined the Kuomintang army and served as a division commander and army commander. During the War of Liberation, he returned to the communist camp and drew a successful end to his life.
Hou Jingru, a young talent from the Central Plains, was intelligent and studious since childhood, and was admitted to a junior college in 1918 with excellent results, and then continued his studies at the school after it was upgraded to an undergraduate school.
During this period, he was influenced by progressive ideas, began to contact the CCP, and gradually moved closer to the communist camp. In 1924, the party organization arranged for him to go south to apply for the newly established Whampoa Military Academy, fortunately, he met Grandpa Mao, who valued his talent and potential very much.
After careful investigation, Grandpa Mao admitted him as a first-term student, and the same class with him were all well-known figures, such as Chen Geng, ** and Du Yuming. During his studies at the Whampoa Military Academy, he followed the Whampoa Student Army twice to conquer the old Cantonese warlord Chen Jiongming.
Soon after, he was introduced to the party organization by ***. The following year, he participated in the Northern Expedition as a regimental staff officer. However, after the defeat of the Great Revolution, he went to serve in the team of Mr. He and participated in the Nanchang Shouyi.
After the rebel troops were blocked in the south of Guangdong, they retreated to Jiangxi, and Hou Jingru was immediately summoned to Shanghai to assist in underground work. His deeds show the loyalty and bravery of a revolutionary who has a firm faith.
In 1931, someone defected to the enemy and leaked a lot of key information about the underground party in Shanghai. ** Deeply worried, he immediately ordered all comrades to stop the work at hand, keep a low profile, and wait for the opportunity.
Hou Jingru lost contact with the organization because of this, and in desperation, he chose to return to his hometown. However, when the Whampoa classmates saw that Hou Jingru was depressed at home, they took the initiative to invite him to serve as the chief of staff of a division of the Northwest Army.
In 1935, he was promoted to major general and was transferred to the commander of a division of the 92nd Army. In the following years, he led his troops to conduct guerrilla warfare in the Huaibei area, and successfully attacked the Japanese army's transportation lines many times, causing great trouble to the enemy.
In 1941, he received an order to march east to Shandong and launch a counterattack against the Japanese puppet army together with friendly forces in the Second Theater. In this battle, they annihilated thousands of enemies and achieved remarkable results.
After that, he was promoted to the commander of the 92nd Army in 1943 and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and for a time became the best among the generals of the national government.
In 1945, Hou Jingru led his troops to Wuhan to accept the surrender of the Japanese invaders in Central China, and at the end of the year, he was airlifted to Beiping with his troops to consolidate the defense line in North China and prevent the people's armed forces in Guannai from entering the northeast.
By the end of 1948, the battle situation in the Northeast Battlefield was already quite severe for the Kuomintang, and the People's Liberation Army besieged Jinzhou, the throat of North China and Northeast China, with heavy troops, intending to block the passage of western Liaoning, prevent the Northeast ** from escaping, and defeat them one by one.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek immediately gathered the North China troops after receiving the news, and ordered Hou Jingru to command the eastward advance to support Jinzhou. However, the troops were blocked by our side at Tower Hill, and their progress was very difficult.
This greatly annoyed Chiang Kai-shek, and he immediately sent another general to take command of the troops in Hou's place, but still failed to break through our defenses. Soon after, the city of Jinzhou fell, and the Kuomintang troops in Tashan, fearing that they would be "pursued by the victory" by the People's Liberation Army, hastily withdrew to North China.
In 1947, the CCP persuaded Hou Jingru to rejoin the revolutionary ranks, and Hou Jingru accepted this suggestion. So he kept the messenger of the Communists by his side as an adjutant, and replaced the military commander within the unit in order to better control the unit in case of emergency.
After the Liaoshen Campaign, he expected that Dongye would enter Guannai and attack Tianjin and Beiping together with the North China Liberation Army. In order to facilitate the PLA to capture important places in Gyeonggi, he ordered his descendant troops in Beiping, the 92nd Army, to cooperate with the PLA to encircle and annihilate Fu Zuoyi's troops at a critical moment.
After the liberation of Tianjin, he sailed south to Fuzhou. At this time, the government agents had begun to suspect him, but they had no substantial evidence, so they never attacked him.
In 1949, he traveled to Hong Kong under the pretext of visiting his mother. During this period, on the one hand, he contacted the party organizations in Guangdong, and on the other hand, he instigated an uprising in his old department in Fuzhou and assisted the People's Liberation Army in taking Fujian.
In 1952, he took the train north to Beijing and finally officially returned to the red family. In 1989, at the age of 87, he served as the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and enjoyed the treatment of vice national level.
In 1992, he died at the age of 92. His son Hou Boyu studied in many prestigious universities, devoted himself to the study of physics, and achieved a number of great scientific research results.
He died in Xi'an in 2010 at the age of 80.
Hou Jingru, a general full of patriotic zeal. He made outstanding contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and he has been silently supporting the People's Liberation Army during the War of Liberation, and his achievements are outstanding.
If he had not lost contact in 1931 and had returned to the party organization, he would undoubtedly have become an outstanding commander in the people's armed forces, fighting in the north and south, protecting his homeland, and with his talent and experience, his achievements would have been very high.