There is such a Kuomintang army, and in its military history, the history of two uprisings, one after the other, is recorded.
It was still this Kuomintang uprising unit, and the names of the two division commanders, one before and one after the other, were only one word apart.
Everyone may wonder how the same unit could have revolted twice, and whether the names of the two division commanders had been duplicated?
In fact, the record in military history is not mistaken, the unit of this two uprisings is the 110th Division of the Kuomintang Army, and after the 110th Division led by the former major general Liao Yunzhou in the Huaihai Campaign uprising, the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek used the name of the 110th Division and appointed Liao Yunzhou's cousin Liao Yunzhou to be the commander of the new 110th Division.
They also had a cousin named Liao Yunze, a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang army.
The three brothers are all from Liao Jiawan, Fengtai, Anhui, all graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, and all of them have the rank of general, so many similarities are really rare.
The eldest of the three brothers, Liao Yunze graduated from the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, joined the CCP in 1925 and participated in the Nanchang Uprising. Later, for some reason, he broke away from the organizational relationship and successively served as the commander of the Kuomintang Provisional 14th Division, the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Army, the commander of the 96th Army, the deputy commander of the 19th Group Army, and the deputy commander of the 8th Appeasement District.
Liao Yunsheng was younger than Liao Yunze, a fourth-term student at the Whampoa Military Academy, who participated in the Northern Expedition and once left the army for idleness because he had participated in anti-Chiang Kai-shek activities. After the outbreak of the civil war, Chiang Kai-shek asked the liao family boss to return to Anhui to recruit troops and horses, and formed a provisional first division, which was recommended by Liao Yunze and others, and his cousin Liao Yunsheng became the deputy commander of the division.
Liao Yunzhou is the youngest of the three brothers, but he is the most famous of the three brothers. In 1927, Liao Yunzhou joined the Communist Party of China and participated in the Nanchang Uprising, after which he was ordered to "hide for a long time". During the Battle of Huaihai, Liao Yunzhou, then commander of the 110th Division of the Nationalist Army, led an uprising at a critical moment.
In the hit drama "Bright Sword", there is a story in which Li Yunlong's best partner Zhao Gang went deep into the enemy camp and decisively killed Shi Yiquan, the field inspector of the Nationalist army, and cooperated with Liao Yunzhou to successfully launch a pre-battle uprising. Although the storyline in the TV series has been artistically processed, it basically retains the original historical appearance and reproduces the thrilling scenes at that time.
Chiang Kai-shek was angered by Liao Yunzhou's "rebellion", and he sent Liao Yunze to Guangzhou with a single order. However, Chiang Kai-shek was reluctant to abolish the 110th Division's designations, and he gave the new 110th Division to the provisional 1st Division, and Chiang Kai-shek unexpectedly appointed Liao Yunzhou's cousin Liao Yunzhou to be the commander of the division.
After this appointment was announced, many bureaus and outsiders within the Kuomintang party and the military were stunned; on the one hand, they were amazed at chiang kai-shek's generosity this time, so could he not know about the brotherly relationship between Liao Yunzhou and Liao Yunsheng? He actually assured liao Yunsheng of the "chair" of the commander of the new 110th division; some people said that they could not understand or guess thoroughly, and did not know which trick Chiang Kai-shek was playing.
Liao Yunsheng was naturally not an ordinary person, he graduated from the Huangpu IV Period, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the Advancing Column and the commander of the 117th Division, and was awarded the Order of Loyalty and the Victory Medal for his meritorious service in killing the Japanese Kou.
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek is not unaware of the brotherly relationship between Liao Yunzhou and Liao Yunsheng, and the reason why he let Liao Yunsheng serve as the commander of the new 110th Division is largely to stabilize the military's heart and win people's hearts, and at the same time show his generosity of "ignoring previous suspicions".
Chiang Kai-shek was still secretly wary of Liao Yunsheng, and he successively ordered Wang Zhonglian and Li Yannian to strengthen the surveillance of Liao Yunsheng, and at the same time deployed many concubine troops around the new 110th Division of the Nationalist Army.
Chiang Kai-shek never expected that the reality was even worse than he had guessed, because Liao Yunzhou had just led his troops to revolt on the Battlefield of Huaihai, where the two brothers Liao Yunze and Liao Yunsheng had already sent people to contact him...
After the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River Graben, Liao Yunsheng received orders that, in order to preserve its strength, the Nationalist 110th Division would be ordered to withdraw to Yiwu, Zhejiang. Liao Yunsheng felt that the time had come to revolt, because of repeated and repeated failures, the Kuomintang troops were panicked, and Chiang Kai-shek's troops were already stretched at this time, and there were no more extra troops staring at the 110th Division.
On May 2, 1949, after Liao Yunsheng led the new 110th Division to Yiwu, Zhejiang, a secret meeting was held that night attended by the leaders of various regiments, Liao Yunsheng bluntly proposed the decision to hold an uprising on the spot, and the leaders of the regiments attending the meeting all expressed that they did not want to fight for the Chiang family dynasty anymore and were willing to follow their division commanders in the uprising.
Liao Yunsheng immediately made a decision, hit the iron while it was hot, and drove out overnight, under the leadership of the CCP guerrilla guide who had been secretly in contact, along the way cut down electric poles, pickpocketed rails, and cut off communications, and in the early morning of the next day, the 110th Division drove to Huangzhai Town, and Liao Yunsheng immediately issued an uprising.
Because the time of the uprising was very tight, Liao Yunsheng's cousin Liao Yunze in Guangzhou had not yet received the news of the uprising, and the Kuomintang had already issued a "wanted order" for Liao Yunze, fortunately, Liao Yunze had good connections within the Kuomintang party and the military, and he got the contents of the "wanted order" one step ahead of time, and resolutely fled Hong Kong, avoiding the danger of being arrested by Kuomintang agents.
During his time in Hong Kong, under the leadership of the underground party organization of the South China Bureau of the CPC, liao Yunze, together with the patriotic general Hou Jingru of the Kuomintang, successfully countered the uprising of the 318th Division of the Kuomintang Army and contributed to the liberation of the whole country.
Everyone will definitely care about the fate of the three liao brothers in the future, and here are all for you.
In 1952, Liao Yunze returned to China at the call of the New China and successively served as deputy secretary general and vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, as well as a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and a member of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. On September 27, 1987, Liao Yunze died.
After liao Yunsheng's new 110th division revolted, the troops were incorporated into the 12th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Yunsheng transferred to local work, successively serving as deputy secretary-general of the Nanjing Municipal Urban Construction Commission, director of the Nanjing Municipal Real Estate Administration Bureau, chairman of the Nanjing Municipal Revolutionary Committee, vice chairman of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and alternate member of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. On August 20, 1981, Liao Yunsheng died in Nanjing.
After Liao Yunzhou's nationalist 110th Division revolted, the troops were reorganized into the 42nd Division of the 14th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, with Liao Yunzhou as the division commander. Liao Yunzhou also served as the principal of the Senior Artillery School and the secretary of the party committee after liberation, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955, he was also a member of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, a standing committee member, a vice chairman of the Central Supervision Commission, and a member of the Sixth and Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a director of the Huangpu Military Academy Alumni Association, and died of illness in Beijing on May 11, 1996.
The same Kuomintang army number, the two division commanders before and after led the uprising, which is only one case in the Liberation War, and it is also rare in the history of world wars.