In the War of Liberation, all those who were captured by our army would more or less suffer the calamity of imprisonment for a certain length of time. Looking at the entire liberation war, only a few people can be spared from prison. The general of the Nationalist Army that Uncle Long wants to talk about today was originally the commander of the reorganized 75th Division of the Nationalist Army, and was not captured in the Battle of Eastern Henan, and he was one of the few senior generals of the Captured Nationalist Army who was spared from imprisonment.
This nationalist general was named Shen Chengnian.
Shen Chengnian is a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, born in 1903, graduated from the 6th Transportation Department of the Whampoa Military Academy and the 11th class of the Army University.
Shen Chengnian is a native of Zhejiang, a fellow villager with Old Jiang, and a Huangpu student of Old Jiang, and can be said to be smooth sailing in his career. After graduating from Huangpu, he first interned in the Zhejiang Second Division, then served as a platoon commander and company commander in the 26th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the commander of the 2nd Zhejiang Provincial Security Brigade, the regimental attaché, and the leader of the Sixth Division Teaching Regiment. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Shen Chengnian was promoted to the commander of the 6th Division of the 75th Army, and in 1943 he was promoted to deputy commander of the 75th Army.
The 75th Army was a subordinate unit of chiang kai-shek, and most of the officers from division commanders to brigade commanders and middle and lower-ranking officers were zhejiang people. Later, the troops were downsized, the army was reorganized into a division, and the 75th Army became the integrated 75th Division. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the unit was transferred to the Yingshan and Huayuan areas of Henan to "encircle and suppress" the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, but the result was still a successful breakthrough by the New Fourth Army.
Shen Chengnian was nominally a division commander, but in fact he was a military commander, just like his later superior, Qiu Qingquan, who was the commander of the reorganized 5th Division, and later Qiu Qingquan became the commander of the expanded 5th Army, and Shen was still the division commander.
Although both of them were from Zhejiang and were also concubines of old Jiang, Qiu Qingquan, who was called "Qiu Crazy", did not pay attention to Shen Chengnian at all, and the relationship was very stiff.
Shen Chengnian had a harmonious relationship with Ou Shounian on the contrary. Ou Shounian was the nephew of General Cai Tingkai, who participated in the Nanchang Uprising in his early years, returned to the Kuomintang sequence after the failure of the uprising, and later served as the commander of the 7th Corps, and was Shen Chengnian's superior.
In June 1948, after occupying Kaifeng, the East China Field Army commanded by Su Yu took the initiative to withdraw from Kaifeng and waited in the Suixian area for the Kuomintang troops to come to Kaifeng's aid to "take the bait". Sure enough, Ou Shounian and Shen Chengnian led tens of thousands of reinforcements to the area of Longwangdian, more than a dozen miles east of Qixian County.
On July 1, when General Su Yu gave an order, they were wrapped in "dumplings" by our army. A few days later, when they were in two tanks and preparing to escape, they were intercepted by our heroic People's Liberation Army in the middle of the road and became prisoners of war of our army.
So, why was the later Shen Chengnian spared from imprisonment?
The reasons for this are probably the following reasons: First, it is related to his boss Ou Shounian, who is the nephew of the patriotic general Cai Tingkai, and his attitude is also very sincere after being captured, and he was released not long after, and soon after he was still serving in Guangzhou. Second, Su Yu's unit was the most capable of reforming prisoners in the War of Liberation, and after Shen Chengnian conducted study and education, he also quickly realized that the purpose of our party and our army was to fight for the interests of all the working people, and to take advantage of the principles and policies of our party and our army.
Therefore, Shen Chengnian soon served as the head of the teaching group of the Nanjing Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army, a researcher of the Military Historical Materials Research Office, and a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was able to die well at the age of 76.
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