Li Yuan was an outstanding general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, who was both wise and courageous, and who repeatedly performed miraculous feats.
Not only because of his outstanding performance during the war, but also because of his experience in the revolution, which was also very different. Why?
In fact, he once spent time in the ace army of the Kuomintang army, and later joined the revolution of our army.
What the hell is going on here? It can make a person in the ranks of the national army turn to the people's liberation army.
This happened during the War of Resistance.
He was born in Henan, his original name was Guan Junyan, and he was also from the Whampoa Military Academy. However, when he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy in 1934, he was already a student of the 11th term of Whampoa, so his qualifications were too shallow compared to those brothers. However, the skinny camel was bigger than Ma, no matter how shallow the qualifications, after all, he was a student of Huangpu, or very promising, so in 1937, after graduation, he was assigned to the 87th Division of the Kuomintang Central Army.
This was the ace unit of the Kuomintang Central Army.
He was sent to the division headquarters as a messenger and later participated in the Battle of Songhu.
On 11 October, he had just arrived on the fifth day of the 87th Division when he took part in the fighting. The division commander assigned him to Dachang to give orders to Chen Yiding, commander of the 260th Brigade, telling him to hold his position.
When he reached the 260th Brigade, the Tanks of the Japanese Kou attacked, and the two sides engaged in fierce fighting, and the situation was very tense. This was the first time he saw Riko, and he was instantly enraged, and immediately the soldier next to him said, "Let's borrow your rifle." Then he raised his gun and shot 2 Japanese kos in one fell swoop.
It was the first time he had met an enemy, and it was also the first time he had destroyed an enemy, killing not only one, but also one.
However, the Nationalist forces did not defeat the powerful Japanese in Shanghai, and they had to retreat on November 26.
It was the 20th day he reached the 87th Division.
When the war was fought on November 8, the Japanese landed from Hangzhou Bay and cut the back road of the Nationalist army. The Chinese defenders had collapsed, and the 87th Division withdrew to Wuhan. As the ace division of the Central Army, there were 30,000 people before the war, and fewer than 7,000 people after the war.
During the Battle of Songhu, he felt the corruption and incompetence of the Kuomintang army, as well as the scene of the army collapsing. When he and his classmate, comrade-in-arms Ruan Qing, went to Nanjing to convey orders to the military office in Ningbo, he made a decision about the turning point of his life: to join the Eighth Route Army, which was stubbornly resisting the war. Later he said why:
"My personal experience of the Songhu War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression made me very suspicious of Chiang Kai-shek's command ability. Therefore, the 2 of us went to Nanjing not only to pass orders, but the most important purpose was to find the office of the Eighth Route Army and take us to Yan'an.
Unexpectedly, the office of the Eighth Route Army was withdrawn. They could only return to Wuhan and wait for their friend Liao Bin to join us in our army.
After Liao Bin returned to Wuhan, the three immediately went to the Wuhan office of the Eighth Route Army and asked to go to Yan'an.
Unexpectedly, Luo Binghui of the office did not agree.
But the three of them were not discouraged. The next day I went again and saw Dong Biwu. Mr. Dong received them cordially and said, "Your ideas are very good, and we are very pleased. But I also hope you will think clearly about it. Northern Shaanxi is very poor, with scarce materials and difficulties in life. To get to Yan'an, you need to pass through Xi'an, and there are many Kuomintang agents on the road. If caught by them, it would be very dangerous and there would be a risk of being killed. Consider these two points. ”
The three men replied firmly: "We have made up our minds to go to Yan'an, not afraid of difficulties and obstacles, not afraid of suffering." ”
In view of the determination of the three, Mr. Dong and Luo Binghui finally agreed to their trip to join the army.
After a long journey, on April 6, they arrived in Yan'an smoothly and entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.
At this time, he was only 21 years old.
Shortly after he enrolled, due to his outstanding performance, he became the class leader of the 6th class, joined the party a month later, and became a teacher in the third month.
Later, he asked to leave the school and go to the front line to fight, and he was transferred to the first team of the teaching battalion of the 359th Brigade of our army, and he successively served as deputy captain, battalion chief of staff, deputy battalion commander and battalion commander.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, he followed the 359th Brigade into the northeast, where he was promoted to regimental commander and led his troops in many sinister battles. In 1948, he was appointed as the commander of the 85th Regiment of the 29th Division of the 10th Column, and ordered the 85th Regiment to fortify the front line of Black Mountain and Dahu Mountain, resolutely block Liao Yaoxiang's corps, and ensure that our army annihilated the enemy in Jinzhou. The Black Mountain Blockade Battle was carried out on the front line of Xiaobaitaizi and Wang Carpenter Tun, he directly came to the defensive position of the Ninth Company of the First Line, led the troops to counter the enemy's crazy attack in the rain of bullets and bullets, he was not afraid on the battlefield, personally took up the gun to fight with the enemy, blocked the enemy attacking us with a platoon of troops, and won the battle. In the Area of Dahushan, Liao Yaoxiang's Corps was divided and surrounded, and after a bitter battle, Li Dinglu, chief of staff of the enemy's New Third Army, was captured alive. Dozens of light and heavy machine guns and artillery vehicles were captured, and finally liao Yaoxiang corps was annihilated with brother troops, completing the task of the Montenegro blockade battle. In February 1949, he was promoted to chief of staff. The division has no deputy commander, who presides over the division's day-to-day military work.
In this way, he went from a soldier in the Nationalist Army to a senior general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
However, his most brilliant thing was the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
Because his education was too low, there were several people in the division who were more qualified to be the division commander than him. In order not to bury his military talents, he was organizationally put in this position, and several division commanders of the 47th Army were transferred.
He was only 34 years old.
In Korea, he led the entire division to the fifth battle, the Summer and Autumn Campaigns. In the Autumn Campaign, he led the entire division stubbornly against the mighty American army, the First Army, the First And Third Divisions, the latter ten times more numerous than himself. In addition, it also pushed the position toward the enemy army by more than ten kilometers, creating a successful example of our army's position defense operations, and Li Yuan's pioneering methods of operation such as tunnel operations left a glorious page in the history of our army's warfare. Not only was he praised by the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, but Yang Dezhi, commander-in-chief of the Nineteenth Army, said: "We must learn from him." ”
After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he was promoted to deputy commander of the army. Interestingly, the other two people who defected with him to our army at that time, Liao Bin later became the deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, and Ruan Qing became the first secretary of the Guilin Municipal Party Committee in Guangxi.
The friendship between the three lasted a lifetime.
On December 18, 2008, he died in Beijing at the age of 92 due to ineffective medical treatment.