The war against U.S. aggression and aid to Korea that broke out in October 1950 was a major battle for New China to defend itself and its country, and it was also a battle for our country to show its national prestige. Coinciding with the end of the War of Liberation, the Chinese Army has more than 5 million soldiers, and the perennial war has tempered the soldiers of many of our troops.
Every field army general wanted to be able to go to Korea to fight for the country. Among the troops participating in the war, the core main force was the former Siye officers and men, who invested a large number of generals to go to Korea. This is not only the desire of individuals, but also the needs of the country.
For example, four famous generals, Deng Hua, Han Xianchu, Liang Xingchu, and Liu Zhen, all played a prestigious role in the Korean battlefield. However, it is strange that Li Tianyou, one of the strongest generals in the four fields in the War of Liberation and the commander of the old first column, was unexpectedly absent from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Chen Mingren, who was the commander of the 21st Corps in 1949, also did not have the opportunity to lead his army to North Korea.
In the case of tight fronts, why are the two brave generals absent? Known for their outstanding military prowess and strong command, Lee Anden and Chen Mingren were awarded founding generalships in 1955. In 1947, General Chen Mingren had not yet revolted and was still serving as the commander of the 71st Army in the northeast battlefield.
Led the unit to defend Siping City. At this time, the northeast troops underwent farmland reform and training north of the Songhua River, and the quality of their troops and the quality of combat were greatly improved; they overthrew the passive situation and began to shift from defense to offense, changing the passive situation on the northeast battlefield.
In June 1947, more than 100,000 troops led by Li Tianyou's Dongye Column attacked Siping City, which was the third battle in Siping, the third Siping Campaign. Chen Mingren relied on more than 30,000 people to resist the other side's 100,000 troops, and Li Tianyou himself was full of confidence, but in the end, he was repelled by Chen Mingren.
The third attack on Siping Castle became one of Higashino's worst defeats. Higashino Lee Tianyou Higashi lost more than 13,000 people due to improper command of the siege method. This was a serious defeat in the Northeast Theater in 1947. This is because our military strength has slowly surpassed the Northeast Nationalist Army.
After this battle, Li Tianyou was criticized by the commander of the field army and the military committee, and asked for self-examination, and General Li Tianyou has always been grumpy about this matter. Since then, he has regarded Chen Mingren as an enemy and has always wanted revenge. However, shortly after Chen Mingren was transferred from the northeast battlefield by the Nanjing side.
Li Tianyou summed up his experience of defeat and led an army to conquer Siping City within a year, but he never had the opportunity to confront Chen Mingren again, and he felt very depressed. In August 1949, Chen Mingren led a troop uprising in Changsha, which was later changed to the Siye Formation.
In other words, the two former "mortal enemies" were now comrades in the same camp, at this time, the War of Liberation was nearing the end, and fighting broke out on the Korean battlefield the following year, and both generals wanted to participate in this operation, especially General Chen Myung-in, who repeatedly made requests to his superiors, hoping to assign him to the Korean battlefield as soon as possible.
Although Chen Mingren was a general in the Kuomintang army before, the Military Commission was not afraid of this matter, as was the case with Zeng Zesheng and Dong Qiwu, who were of the same origin. Both of them played an important role in the Korean battlefield. However, in the war against U.S. aggression and aid to South Korea, neither Chen Myung-in nor Lee Wastrothou was able to travel to North Korea.
Together, they carried out another important task assigned by the Military Commission: the suppression of bandits in Guangxi Province. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the phenomenon of banditry in Guangxi was the most serious, so we had to send many troops to eliminate these bandits. Compared with other provinces, Guangxi has its own peculiarities.
The most powerful local faction in the Kuomintang army, the Li Bai Gui Army, was originally founded in Guangxi Province and has established an extensive militia training system in the region over the past 20 years. The first is that more than half a million people are paramilitary personnel who have long been indoctrinated and trained militarily by warlord groups.
The second was that the War of Liberation was fought from north to south, and by the end of 1949 many armed forces had been defeated and fled into the mountains of the southern part of the continent. Geographically, Guangxi is naturally the most affected area. Chen Mingren's Twenty-first Army was not the first to be sent to Guangxi.
General Li Tianyou was the deputy commander of the 13th Army, leading the army in battle against bandits in Guangxi. Due to the generous policies of the People's Liberation Army in the early days of the suppression of bandits, the bandit leaders caught were not necessarily shot, but most were released. However, bandits are rampant in Guangxi, so the overall progress of the crackdown on bandits is not smooth.
In order to speed up the suppression of the bandits, the Military Commission sent General Chen Mingren to lead the 53rd Army to Guangxi, where two prominent generals fought side by side. After the two met, they laughed and talked about the battle in Siping a few years ago. The two men held each other's hands tightly, and Chairman Mao was very pleased with the alliance between the two generals in Guangxi. I believe that they will be able to completely eliminate the bandits in Guangxi.
Conclusion: Facts have proved that Li Tianyou and Chen Mingren not only successfully completed the important task of suppressing bandits, but also jointly eliminated hundreds of thousands of bandits, spies and rogues in Guangxi within two years. In battle, I will no longer think about the past and become close friends. Although the two prominent generals failed to take part in the war against the United States and aid to Korea, their cooperation in suppressing bandits and the transformation of their relationship became a good story.