At the end of the Liberation War, a large number of Kuomintang prisoners of war were gathered together and detained at the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center in Beijing for centralized reform. And this point in time also happened to be around the outbreak of the Korean War. In the early days of the war, the northern armies made rapid progress and occupied an overwhelming advantage. In September 1950, the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army, MacArthur, commanded reinforcements to land from The Port of Inchon, the Korean People's Army was cut into two sections due to the length of the front, the situation on the peninsula quickly deteriorated towards the unfavorable situation, and the United Nations army swung its division north across the 38th Line, which also seriously endangered the homeland security of our country. Under delicate circumstances, how did the captured Kuomintang prisoners of war react in Gongdelin?
Although they once fought on the battlefield of liberation and became prisoners of our army, most of the generals of the Nationalist army had received military education and had a certain degree of patriotism, and there was no particularly abnormal behavior at this time. As for whether the old Chiang regime can be revived, there are no expectations, and most people hope to make a good transformation in Gongdelin and strive for a good way out. However, there are also a small number of people who are exceptions, especially a former lieutenant general of the national army, who actually shouted in the management office: It is going to change the sky!
This person is Wen Qiang, a special agent of the Military Command. Wen Qiang had deep ties with our army, was a senior cadre of the Red Army, served as the commander of the Red First Division, and then ran away because of misunderstanding and joined the Kuomintang camp. Because of this, he had a special kind of stubbornness and resentment in his bones, more stubborn than the average general of the old Jiang Concubine clan, and refused to repent after being captured. In the management office, the Kuomintang prisoners of war all had the right to read books and newspapers, and in a new issue of the People's Daily that he saw, the news of the increase in the number of US troops in Inchon was truthfully published. Although Wen Qiang was once a secret agent of the military command, he was not only sensitive to intelligence, but also had certain military knowledge; in the later stages of the Liberation War, he served as an important general under Liu Zhi's General Xu Prefecture, and during the Battle of Huaihai he was also the deputy chief of staff of the Forward Command Post, and it was in this great battle that he was captured by our army.
After reading the newspaper, Wen Qiang analyzed that although the Soviet Union was strong after the end of World War II, its social economy had not yet recovered, and it was not an opponent of the US military, especially the US military also had a nuclear deterrent capability. After the US military increases its troops in Korea, it is bound to sweep across the peninsula and push into the Yalu River, and if the national troops on the island of Taiwan can seize the opportunity, the consequences are self-evident. Wen Qiang played his own small calculation, could not help but be excited, and then he wrote out more than 5,000 words of situation analysis without hesitation, which was very arrogant. He speculated that the U.S. military is strong, the Chinese and North Korean armies cannot defeat them, and the Chinese mainland is also a great threat. Wen Qiang was very overwhelmed, and he thought that this was an opportunity for the Kuomintang army to "counterattack", so he shouted: It is going to change the sky.
Objectively speaking, this stubborn former nationalist general was able to draw such a conclusion based on his cognition and judgment before he was captured, as well as a comparative analysis of the military strength and hardware strength of all parties. Regrettably, however, he fought against our troops in the Kuomintang army for many years, and until he was captured, he could not really figure out the real reason for his defeat. The Chinese military and civilians have been fully armed, not afraid of power, pure military strength can not completely determine the outcome of a war, and finally in this war of founding the country, the volunteer army successfully defeated the United Nations army, maintaining homeland security and national dignity.
The victory of the volunteer army has impressed a large number of Kuomintang prisoners of war in Gongdelin, and Du Yuming, Yang Botao, Qiu Xingxiang, Qin Daoshan, and others have been the most important, who have greatly appreciated the brave performance and combat ability of the volunteer army in Korea, and have jointly written more than 60,000 words of research on THE tactics and weapons and equipment of the US army in the management office for the reference and use of the volunteer officers and men. Compared with these former nationalist generals, Wen Qiang's performance was too poor. Diehards like him were finally granted one last chance to pardon in 1975, after watching many of their former colleagues re-enter society early, but he refused to admit war crimes and wrote a letter of remorse.
It is worth mentioning that the premier was already seriously ill at this time, he was Wen Qiang's teacher at the Whampoa Military Academy, and before he died, the premier specially summoned Wen Qiang, who had been pardoned, in front of his sickbed, and conducted one last education. Before Wen Qiang left the organization that year, he also made a special trip to the prime minister to complain, but unfortunately he could not see it. Because of this incident, the prime minister has always felt that he has the responsibility to re-educate Wenqiang, and he realized this wish before his death. At this time, Wen Qiang truly repented, and after returning home, he wrote a poem "After waking up, I know regret the day", revealing his true feelings. In 2001, Wen Qiang died at the age of 94.
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