The Jin Sui Army sprouted in the Xinhai Revolution, reached its peak before the Central Plains War, and then slowly went downhill, its strength and status dropped significantly, but it still maintained a complete structure. The Jin Sui army was led by Yan Xishan, and the main cadres were Shang Zhen, Xu Yongchang, Fu Zuoyi, Chu Xichun, Sun Chu, and others.
He was a fierce general under Yan Xishan, and his name was Chu Xichun. He is different from Yan Xishan in that he is not from Shanxi but from Lixian County, Hebei Province.
Chu Xichun was born in the cold gate, and after the early death of his parents, he and his grandparents were dependent on each other for their lives, and then they were able to complete their studies by taking the army primary school, the 1st Army Preparatory School in Qinghe, and the Baoding Army Officer School at public expense. After graduation, he went to Shanxi Cadre Training Corps and Cadet Corps of The Shanxi Xishan Department as a company commander. Soon after, he was transferred back to baoding military academy as a student captain, and Chen Cheng, who later served as vice president of the Kuomintang and president of the Executive Yuan, was his student when he was the captain of the major team of the 8th student team.
Later, due to warlord melee and school suspension, he once served in the direct warlord army, but was soon dismissed from his post, and it was not until 1927 that he served as the education chief of the Shanxi Officers' Teaching Regiment, and since then he has truly entered the Jin Sui Army. He successively served as chief of staff of the 7th Army of the National Revolutionary Northern Army, chief of staff of the 42nd Division and brigade commander of the 125th Brigade, and commander of the Peiping Garrison.
After the defeat of Yan Xishan in the Central Plains War, the troops were reorganized, and Chu Xichun was reappointed as the deputy commander of the 4th Army of the Northeast Border Defense Army and the commander of the Pingsui Railway Road Guard, but soon after entered the Army University to study.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chu Xichun served as the chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, and chief of staff of Yan Xishan's Second Theater Commander's Department, assisting Yan Xishan. During this period, he participated in the planning of various battles in Xinkou and Taiyuan, and was greatly appreciated and valued by Yan Xishan, and he successively served as the director of the 3rd Bureau of Shanxi Province, the deputy commander-in-chief of the 8th Group Army and the commander-in-chief of the North Road Combat Army, and the director of the 18th District Field Work Committee.
What made Chu Xichun famous was not the anti-Japanese battlefield, but the Datong Defense War from July to September 1946.
After Japan's surrender, Chu Xichun, then deputy commander of the Second Theater and commander of the 43rd Army, was ordered to seize Datong, which was of great military value. Occupying Datong is tantamount to cutting off the communication links between the three liberated areas of Jinsui, Jinchaji, and Luyu of the Eighth Route Army, and providing an opportunity for Yan Xishan to develop into northern Jin.
In order to compete for this important position, our army launched a peripheral operation against Datong on July 31, 1946. At that time, Chu Xichun only had about 19,000 troops in the Provisional 38th Division of the Kuomintang Army's Second Theater and the 5th and 6th Cavalry Divisions of the Northeast Advancing Army under the Twelfth Theater, as well as the Security Regiment, which held out for 45 days, resisted the repeated attacks of 100,000 people from Nie Shuai and He Shuai, and for a time his reputation was greatly shocked, and he also won a second-class Baoding Medal.
Then, chu xichun, who had won a battle record for the Jin Sui army for a while, and was in the limelight, why did he later break away from Yan Xishan's Jin army?
Guo Zongfen, who had been the commander of the 33rd Army of the Jin Army and later broke away from the Jin Army, said that Yan Xishan did not trust the people of other provinces, and as soon as he became a military commander, he would be relieved of his military power. Although Chu Xichun had managed well in Datong in recent years and had achieved good results, he was still suspected by Yan Xishan and set up constraints, which was one of the reasons.
Second, it offended local military and political leaders. During his time in Datong, Chu Xichun offended Meng Xiangzhi, director of the Datong Administrative Office,for shooting the traitorous doctor Wang Heng (because Meng and Wang were cousins), and Meng Xiangchun later falsely accused Chu Xichun of losing the instructions and seals of the documents as a communist agent activity, and fabricated charges to harm him.
Third, he commanded Han Buzhou, commander of the Provisional 38th Division of the Immovable Defenders. Chu Xichun was the commander of the 43rd Army, and the defender Han Buzhou was the commander of the 33rd Army, and during the Datong Defense War, the front line was in a hurry, chu Xichun ordered Han Buzhou to send reinforcements at 1 o'clock in the night, but there were no reinforcements at dawn, and it turned out that this Han Buzhou pretended to go out of the city to reinforce, but sat outside the city waiting for dawn, or the PEOPLE's Liberation Army's strong firepower was blocked, shirking responsibility.
Chu Xichun thought of the high-ranking generals who had already left Yan Xishan, such as Zhang Yinwu, Fu Zuoyi, Chen Changjie, and others, who were all mixed well, and he was also concerned about it.
In August 1947, Chu Xichun was invited by Chen Cheng, a student at the Baoding Military Academy and then the director of the Northeast Xingyuan, to serve as the general counselor of the Northeast Xingyuan and the commander of the Shenyang Defense, officially breaking away from Yan Xishan's Jin army system. Yan Xishan's Jin army also became weaker and weaker, and even vulnerable to the continuous departure of these high-ranking generals.
Chu Xichun later served as chairman of the Kuomintang Hebei Provincial Government, and in 1949 he participated in the Peiping Peaceful Uprising with General Fu Zuoyi and embarked on a bright path.
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