Our eight thousand athletes have been sacrificed to the death, the enemy's offensive has not weakened, and the future is uncertain. If the position exists, I will be alive and see the throne. If the position is lost, I will die on the battlefield, and I will be anointed with wild leather. He won the Victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and as a famous anti-Japanese general, when you crossed wusongkou by ship, if there were waves like mountains, then I came to see you.
This is a suicide note written during the Battle of Songhu in 1937, when Guo Rujie, chief of staff of the 14th Division of the National Revolutionary Army and commander of the 42nd Brigade, led more than 8,000 officers and men to fight with the Japanese army in a bloody battle. This letter of desperation was widely circulated in the Kuomintang army, and many Kuomintang generals took Guo Rugui as an example and fought bloody battles with the Japanese army, but what no one expected was that Guo Rugui, as a senior general of the Nationalist army, was an underground party member of the CCP.
Among the many underground workers in the People's Liberation Army, Guo Rugui's experience is quite legendary, he was born in 1907 in a family of scholars, and his cousin is guo Rudong, a famous general in the Sichuan Army. In 1926, under the influence of progressive ideas, Guo Rujie entered the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and joined the Communist Party of China in 1928.
After Guo joined the Communist Party, he was sent to work underground in his cousin Guo Rudong's troops, but as the situation became increasingly tense, Guo Ruzhi lost contact with his superiors. His cousin Guo Rudong also guessed Guo Rujie's identity and did not dare to leave him in his own army, so he sent him to the Japanese non-commissioned officer school to study, Guo Ruzhi felt that it was good to go to Japan to learn some real skills, and could contribute to the revolution in the future.
In April 1931, Guo Entered the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officers. After the September 18 Incident, Guo Rugui and some Chinese students were very indignant and dropped out of school to return to China. After returning to China, Guo Ruzhi entered the Army University to study, he studied at the Army University for three years, graduated with the first place, and after graduation, he was recommended by Yang Jie to serve as an instructor at the Army University.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Guo Rugui felt that the time had come, so he was recommended by his classmates to serve as the chief of staff of the 14th Division to which Chen Cheng belonged, and the commander of the 14th Division was a graduate of the Huangpu Phase I
Huo Yuzhang. When they first arrived in the army, many people felt that Guo Rugui was unreliable and would only talk on paper, but Guo Rugui quickly showed them his military talents and was trusted by everyone.
After the battle began, because the battle situation was too fierce, Zeng Yuehan, the commander of the 42nd Brigade of the 14th Division, became afraid of war, and the commander of the 14th Division
Huo Yuzhang was worried that he would make a mistake, so he asked Ling Zhaoyao, deputy commander of the 14th Division, to take over the command, but Ling Zhaoyao was not willing to go to the front, and finally Huo Zhaozhang looked at the chief of staff Guo Rugui again, and Guo Rugui said: "Sacrifice your life for the country, the duty of a soldier, what to be afraid of, I will go." So Guo Rugui served as the brigade commander of the 42nd Brigade.
After Guo Rugui sent his troops up, he immediately launched a fierce battle with the Japanese army, during which the friendly and neighboring troops retreated one after another, and several regimental commanders under Guo Rugui also advised him to retreat, but Guo Rugui still fought to the death and wrote the famous letter of death. After a few days of bloody fighting with the Japanese, the brigade's more than 8,000 men had lost more than 2,000 people, mostly wounded and logisticians.
At the Battle of Songhu, Guo Rugui became famous in the First World War, was heavily valued by Chen Cheng, and gradually became one of the thirteen Taibao under Chen Cheng. After that, Guo Rugui successively served as the chief of staff of the 54th Army, the chief of staff of the 20th Group Army, and the commander of the provisional 5th Division. During the Battle of Wuhan, the Third Battle of Changsha, and the Battle of Western Hubei, Guo Ruzhen's extraordinary strategic vision also attracted chiang kai-shek's attention. In February 1945, on the recommendation of Minister of War Chen Cheng, Guo Rugui was appointed as the minister of war
He is the deputy director and director of the Military Affairs Administration, who is in charge of the establishment and equipment of all military divisions throughout the country, and is also the vice president of the National Defense Research Institute.
Guo Rugui rose through the ranks of the Kuomintang army, but he was very disappointed with the Kuomintang, especially when he was the commander of the provisional 3rd Division, which reported more than 7,000 soldiers, but in fact only more than 2,000. The more than 2,000 officers and men have never received the money that should have belonged to them, and internal corruption is evident.
In May 1945, Guo Rugui secretly met with Dong Biwu and resumed contact with the underground party. After the outbreak of the civil war, Guo Rugui's position rose even faster, and in October 1946, Guo Rugui was appointed director of the Fifth Department of the Ministry of National Defense. In March 1947, on the recommendation of Chen Cheng, Guo Rugui was appointed as the first
Lieutenant General, Third Department of the Ministry of Defence (i.e., the Office of Operations), who is in charge of operations.
Each time after formulating a battle plan for the Kuomintang troops, one letter was copied to Chiang Kai-shek for review, and the other was sent to Ren Lianru, Dong Biwu's liaison officer, who in turn sent it to Yan'an through special channels and passed it on to Chairman Mao's desk. With Guo Rugui's planning and Chiang Kai-shek's cooperation, the Kuomintang army collapsed one after another and suffered heavy losses.
However, Guo Rugui's identity is not unknown, Du Yuming learned guo Rugui's true identity through some special channels, but he had no evidence. Once, Du Yuming reported to Chiang Kai-shek that Guo Rugui had passed, on the grounds that he was too poor and even had patches on the sofa, unlike the style of a Kuomintang officer. ”
In May 1948, after Gu Zhutong succeeded Chen Cheng as chief of the general staff, he asked Guo Rugui to continue to serve as the director of the War Department of the Ministry of National Defense, and Du Yuming told him: "Guo Rugui has ties with the Communist Party, and he must not be allowed to become the director of the War Department again." However, Gu Zhutong not only did not believe it, but also believed that Du Yuming was engaged in factional struggle and was sowing his resentment against Chen Cheng on Guo Rujie.
Before the Battle of Huaihai began, Du Yuming approached Chiang Kai-shek again, told him that he would not retreat according to the retreat plan formulated by Guo Rujie, and asked Chiang Kai-shek to keep it a secret. As a result, Du Yuming's retreat route was guessed by Su Yu, and as soon as he left Xuzhou City, he was surrounded by Huaye tuantuan. Du Yuming's move not only did not test Guo Rugui's identity, but on the contrary helped him wash away his "grievances", and Chiang Kai-shek trusted Guo Rugui even more, and in turn scolded Du Yuming not to engage in factional struggle, but to unite.
After the Battle of Huaihai, Guo Rugui decided to go to the southwest to lead troops and prepare for an uprising at the right time. In January 1949, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Guo Rugui as the commander of the 72nd Army, stationed in Sichuan. After the People's Liberation Army entered Sichuan, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Guo Rugui as the commander of the Twenty-second Corps, directly commanding the Twenty-first Army, the Forty-fourth Army, the Seventy-second Army, and three independent divisions as an outpost to prevent the People's Liberation Army from entering Sichuan.
At this time, Guo Rugui had already controlled the 72nd Army, so when the People's Liberation Army entered Sichuan, he led the troops to revolt and disrupted Chiang Kai-shek's military plans. After the founding of New China, Guo Rugui successively served as the director of the Transportation Department of the Southern Sichuan Branch Bureau, the instructor of the Nanjing Military Academy, and other positions, and enjoyed the treatment of deputy corps commander in his later years.
After Guo Rugui's uprising, he also hid his identity all the time, which made Du Yuming very confused. Before Du Yuming died of illness, Guo Rugui went to visit, and Du Yuming grabbed Guo Rugui's hand and said, "I ask you one last time, were you a Communist Party at that time?" Guo Rujie said: "We belong to different political views. ”
Guo Rujie is a person with extremely strong faith, and after retirement, he also took the initiative to teach English for free to the cadres of the Chongqing Garrison District, without a little shelf. The Chongqing Garrison District organized militia exercises, and Guo Rugui personally led the militia to climb mountains to train and teach the militia various tactics; organizationally, he was given a sum of money to repair his house, and he handed it all in as party fees; Guo Rugui enjoyed the treatment of a deputy corps member of the Chengdu Military Region after retirement, and according to the regulations, he was given a villa building, but he did not want it, so he lived in a bungalow with an area of more than seventy square meters.
On October 23, 1997, Guo Rugui unfortunately died in a car accident at the age of 90.