The 14th Corps of the Kuomintang, which was reorganized and established in August 1948, was subordinate to the Central China Suppression Army, had jurisdiction over the 20th Army and the 28th Army, and was tasked with preventing the People's Liberation Army from crossing the river and entering the river in northwest Hubei. A year later, in November 1949, this corps was annihilated by our Fourth Field Army in the battles of western Hubei and eastern Sichuan.
So, why is this Kuomintang 14th Corps jokingly called the "Final Corps"?
Sending the end, everyone knows its meaning, it refers to the old man's life is in danger, children and other immediate relatives guard his side, listen to the last words, until the death of the relatives of this process. Therefore, to say that they are "the final army" undoubtedly has an ominous meaning.
The reason why the 14th Corps was jokingly called the "Sending End Corps" was mainly because the two commanders-in-chief of this corps had a surname of Song and a surname of Zhong, and later when they were defeated and captured, they were jokingly called "Song Zhong (Sending End) Corps" in the harmonic sound of their surnames.
So let's talk to you about who are these two commanders? What was the subsequent outcome?
The first commander, who was a well-known general during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was named Song Xilian.
Song Xilian was born in 1907, graduated from Huangpu I, joined our party in his early years, he successively participated in the Eastern Expedition, the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, especially during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he led his troops to participate in the Songhu War of Resistance, the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, etc. In the Battle of Shawoyu, Song Xilian led three divisions to severely damage the Japanese army, killing 4506 enemies and wounding 17380 enemies. In 1944, he led his troops to garrison the Nu River, led his troops into the siege of Longling in the face of wild smoke and miasma, and successively captured the border between Yunnan and Burma, which had been occupied by the Japanese army for a long time, and annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the commander-in-chief of the Xinjiang Provincial Garrison, the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Suppression of the Communists" in central China and the commander of the 14th Corps, the deputy commander of the Central China Military and Political Chief's Office, and the commander of the Appeasement Headquarters of the Xiang'e Border Region.
The second commander, although he was 7 years older than Song Xilian, had been working under Song for a long time, was a good brother of Song, and he was also a famous anti-Japanese general. His name is Zhong Bin.
Zhong Bin, a native of Xingning, Guangdong, also graduated from the first phase of Huangpu and participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition. Zhong Bin also participated in the Anti-Japanese War relatively early, after the 918 Incident, when he was in the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division, he participated in the 128th Songhu War of Resistance with the 19th Route Army, and was later transferred to Song Xilian's department as a regimental commander and became colleagues with Song. In the middle, Zhong Bin was once transferred to the military academy, but Song still thought of this good brother from time to time and recruited him to work together. Therefore, they almost all resisted the Japanese together during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, so they also became famous anti-Japanese generals at the same time.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhong Bin and Song Xilian were separated, and in January 1949, after Zhong Bin was promoted to the rank of commander of the 109th Army, Song Xilian, who was transferred from Xinjiang to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Central China "Suppression of the Communists" and commander of the 14th Corps, once again invited Zhong Bin to work with his 14th Corps, so he became the commander of the 14th Corps.
In November 1949, after the Song army was beaten all over the ground by our army, Zhong Bin and his staff fled by boat to Fuling and were captured by our army.
What was the outcome of the two commanders of the "Final Corps" after they were captured?
After being captured, Zhong Bin, Song Xilian and others were imprisoned together, so the two friends played chess all day for fun. Zhong Bin's chess skills are mediocre, often asking for repentance to let the chess, Song Xilian mule temper is fully displayed, not a son is allowed, and even smashes the chess pieces to tear the chessboard, and is ridiculed by his cell friend Wang Lingji as "the commander of the corps can give it to Zhong Bin, but he refuses to let it when he plays chess."
Later, the two were transferred to Beijing, and Zhong Bin jumped off a cliff and killed himself at the end of December 1949 while imprisoned in Jingshan, Beijing, at the age of 49, which was a pity.
Song Xilian entered Gongdelin to study and reform, at the end of 1959 was the first batch of amnesty, dissolved into the new society, served in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, went to the United States in 1980 to reunite with his children and settled down, died on February 13, 1993, at the age of 86.
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