In the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were countless martyrs who sacrificed themselves in the war against aggression, of course, there will be captured soldiers in war, for a general of a very high rank, it is not terrible to die on the battlefield, the terrible thing is to be captured by the enemy is the most desperate, after all, this is a shame, of course, there are also a very few who were captured by the enemy, they were able to escape the danger smoothly, and later they were once active on the anti-Japanese battlefield. Today, I would like to introduce you to a lieutenant general of the National Army, whose name is Ye Zhao.
Speaking of Ye Zhao, we must first talk about his early behavior, his hometown is Yunfu Xinxing Shuimei Village in Guangdong, although this village is remote, but there are several celebrities in the same village, Ye Jizhuang, who served as the head of the General Logistics Department of the Red Army in the same period, was also born in this village, although Ye Jizhuang is one year younger than Ye Zhao, but in terms of generations, Ye Jizhuang is one generation higher than Ye Zhao, the same generation as his father, so Ye Zhao has to call him a cousin.
Ye Jizhuang and Ye Zhao, in the same village, are also of the same clan, the young two went to private school together to study the Four Books and Five Classics, and then entered the Mingde Primary School together to study, the two were inseparable, the relationship was relatively close, when they graduated from primary school, the two went to apply for the military school together, they came to the Guangzhou Army Primary School to participate in the enrollment registration, as a result, Ye Zhao, who was one year older, was admitted as he wished, and Ye Jizhuang, who was one year younger, fell off the list with a weight difference of so many pounds, there was no way, and then he was admitted to the Guangdong Public Law and Politics School in Guangzhou. Since then, Ye Jizhuang and Ye Zhao have parted ways and embarked on their own different paths in life.
After graduating from the School of Political Science and Law, Ye Jizhuang successively worked as a judge, journalist and education, then engaged in revolutionary activities, and joined the organization, during the revolutionary war years, he participated in and led the Baise Uprising, served as the director of the General Supply Department of the Central Red Army, followed the Long March of the Red Army to northern Shaanxi, has always been engaged in logistics supply work, during the War of Resistance, Ye Jizhuang served as the director of the General Logistics Department of the Eighth Route Army, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became a cadre at the ministerial level.
After graduating from the army primary school, Ye Zhaoze entered the road of joining the army, first as a junior officer in the First Division of the Guangdong Army, because of his academic qualifications and some experience on the battlefield, he was slowly promoted to a middle-level officer, successively served as deputy major regimental deputy, lieutenant colonel regiment chief of staff, and other positions, once participated in the suppression of red organizations on Hainan Island, and was promoted to major general division commander because of his meritorious service Among them, he once wrote a letter exhorting him to go to his command and find a high-ranking position.
Unexpectedly, after receiving the letter, his cousin Ye Jizhuang also returned a letter, hoping that he would abandon the secret and surrender to the light, not to fight for the warlords, and to fight for the just cause and the lofty interests of the people.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in an all-round way, this pair of cousins and nephews can be said to have walked to the same front; his cousin Ye Jizhuang became the logistics director of the Eighth Route Army, the director of the material bureau of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and other posts, engaged in financial and economic work, and he and our army relied on itself and struggled hard to organize well, especially for the rear army to reclaim the land, develop the salt lake, set up textile, quilt, pharmaceutical, paper-making and other factories, as well as the development of export trade, and establish a complete set of supply systems for the Eighth Route Army, thus making great contributions to the development and growth of our army.
At this time, Ye Zhao was also promoted, as the commander of the 66th Army, during which he participated in the Battle of Songhu, the result of heavy losses to the troops, he himself lamented that "Guangdong's capital, all lost to me", he led the remnants of the retreat from Shanghai, and was appointed as the person in charge of defending Nanjing, at the beginning he vowed to "defend Nanjing to the death, coexist and die with Nanjing", which sounded quite bloody.
After the start of this battle, because there was no danger to defend the outer positions of Nanjing, the defenders' positions were quickly broken by the Japanese mechanized troops and directly attacked the city, at this time, Ye Zhao's troops were responsible for the defense of the Zhongshan Gate and xuanwumen, and he instructed the troops to build a preparatory fortification for street battles and fight with the Japanese army.
However, the main forces of the two divisions of the Japanese army attacked in coordination with infantry, artillery, tanks, and aviation, frantically launched a comprehensive general attack on each position, all the garrison positions were destroyed, and they were in a hurry, and their superiors ordered the breakthrough to retreat, because the number of people who broke through was too large, causing serious chaos, and there were crowds of people looking for equipment to cross the river everywhere, and everyone was like headless flies crashing and flying around, and they would not know the soldiers, the soldiers would not know the generals, and no one would listen to anyone's command. When the military headquarters finally broke through the siege to count the number of people, it found that the military commander Ye Zhao was missing.
It turned out that in the process of the charge, the commander was too many people and too complicated, and soon lost contact with the large troops, surrounded by all the refugees like a tide, he fled alone, mixed in the refugee group, hiding under the beds of the common people, seeing the Japanese army searching, chanting "Nan Ya Amitabha Buddha, heaven bless", at this time, a team of Japanese troops came and captured him.
However, at this time, Ye Zhao was wearing the uniform of an ordinary soldier, he claimed to be a man in the army, the management of the Japanese army saw that he was indeed unassuming, and did not want to be an officer, did not realize that he was a lieutenant general, so he asked him to be a brother in the team, carrying water for the Japanese army to cook, transport ammunition, and do some chores. On the way, Ye carried his luggage and advanced with the Japanese soldiers. Staying at night, he slept on the grass pile, there was no guard, and Ye Zhao, who was born as the commander of the First Army, was intolerable, who had suffered such a crime. Just when the Japanese did not pay attention to him, he took the opportunity to successfully escape. After Ye hit-and-run back to Guangzhou, he also made reports on the "Nanjing Breakthrough" by guangdong officers in various places, and portrayed the impersonation of his brother-in-law and the carrying of the enemy's luggage.
After the fall of Nanjing, Ye Zhao was promoted to deputy commander of the 9th Army and commander of the 28th Army (one level older than the army, generally two corps or more than one Class A army). He led his troops to participate in the Nanxun Line operations in Jiangxi, fought fierce battles with the Japanese army in De'an, Lushanjiao, Wanjialing, and other places, achieved some results, and was promoted to commander-in-chief of the group army.
During the Liberation War, Ye ren was appointed commander-in-chief of the Xiangyue-Guangdong-Gansu Border Region and commander of the Guangzhou Garrison, and at this time the People's Liberation Army was in a state of flux, and he led more than 600 remnants of his troops to flee to his hometown in a vain attempt to resist in this area. Once again, he used his ability to escape, and he broke out alone, dressed as a local business businessman, and escaped in a barge.
At this time, Ye Zhao's cousin Ye Jizhuang was already standing on the review platform of the founding ceremony, waving to the millions of liberated people, and the villagers of Xinxing Shuimei Village said that if Ye Zhao had heeded this cousin's advice and abandoned the dark and cast light, then the end of his life would have been a different situation.