Today I want to introduce you to an anti-Japanese hero with a bumpy fate, he once led his subordinates to create a glorious record of defeating 200,000 Japanese troops in World War I, but after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he not only did not get the treatment that a national hero should have, but also almost became a beggar, his name is Li Yannian.
Li Yannian was a big red man around Chiang Kai-shek, who had been born and died for him many times. During the Northern Expedition, the Northern Expeditionary Army was blocked on its way north and was almost surrounded by misery, at which time Chiang Kai-shek ordered Li Yannian to stop the Japanese army with fewer enemies and more enemies, the other side was more numerous than himself, and his weapons were much more advanced than his own, and Li Yannian's task could be described as very difficult.
Many people thought that Li Yannian could only delay for a while and would not be of much help to this war after all, who knew that Li Yannian actually dragged on for two full days and two nights, completed the task brilliantly, and bought enough time for Chiang Kai-shek. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Yannian also had many outstanding performances.
He rose all the way up, from small regimental commander to military commander to commander. In the 1940s, Li Yannian participated in the Battle of Tongguan, and in order to pass this checkpoint, the Japanese army invested 200,000 troops, and they were menacing, and Chiang Kai-shek was worried and decided to send his most powerful general Li Yannian to block it. Li Yannian's ability was indeed quite outstanding, he struggled to resist, and under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, he still saved Tongguan, and after this battle, Li Yannian's fame in the army was getting higher and higher, and his prestige was getting higher and higher.
However, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, with the advent of the War of Liberation, Li Yannian's situation began to become grim, the trees fell and scattered, and many Kuomintang members surrendered to us, and Li Yannian was an elder of the Kuomintang, so he went to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek without hesitation.
However, after arriving in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek did not give Li Yannian a corresponding return, and he was still jealous of his right to speak in the military field, and in order to find a proper reason for suppression, Chiang Kai-shek asked him why he abandoned Fuzhou and fled without issuing clear instructions.
At this time, Li Yannian discovered how narrow-minded Chiang Kai-shek was, and the chief of staff was aware of his intentions, deliberately framed Li Yannian for rebellion, and fabricated a lot of evidence. In fact, as long as he investigates a little, Chiang Kai-shek can find that Li Yannian was wronged, but Chiang Kai-shek was already suspicious of him, and naturally he would not bother to help him defend himself, so Li Yannian became a prisoner of the order.
Not long after he was in prison, Li Yannian became seriously ill, and he had nowhere to go after he was released from prison on parole. In order to survive, he had to beg everywhere, but the basic food and clothing was always a problem, and finally ended up with a depressed ending.
Resources:
"Li Yannian, General of the Republic of China", "Li Yannian of the Three Li of Shandong"