The unexplained disappearance of the commander on the battlefield was a very serious incident.
In the Battle of Laiwu, a Nationalist commander was once "missing", which eventually led to the defeat of the Nationalist army on the Laiwu battlefield, and 56,000 people in 7 integrated divisions of the Nationalist army were annihilated. After hearing the news, Wang Yaowu, the general of the Nationalist army, couldn't help but sigh: "More than 50,000 people were wiped out unconsciously in 3 days, Lao Tzu just put 50,000 pigs there and told the communist army to arrest them, and they couldn't catch them in 3 days!" ”
This "missing" commander of the Nationalist army was Han Liancheng, commander of the 46th Army, and then after the disappearance reappeared, he was not only not pursued, but also reused by lao Jiang, which had to make people feel that this person was not simple.
This man is really not simple.
Han Liancheng was a native of Guyuan, Ningxia, and in his early years he borrowed a diploma from Han Guizhang," a member of his clan, "Gansu Provincial No. 2 Middle School," and was admitted to the Ma Hongkui Officers' Teaching Corps of the Northwest Army, and then served in the Northwest Army. At that time, Feng Yuxiang hired many members of our party in order to transform his own team, and Han Liancheng was a peripheral member of our party and had close relations with Liu Bojian and Liu Zhidan.
During the Great War in the Central Plains, he joined Ma Hongkui in chiang kai-shek and sacrificed himself to save commander-in-chief Chiang Kai-shek in the battle, and the old Chiang, while being moved, rewarded him with a "Huangpu III student" and promoted to major general, and later was specially approved by the old Chiang Kai-shek to enter the third phase of the special class of the Army University, which can be described as a promising future.
Later, Han Liancheng joined the Gui Army with the support of the old Chiang Kai-shek, and because of his talents and insights, he was deeply trusted by Bai Chongxi, and the two had a close relationship, and they were promoted to the chief of staff of the Sixteenth Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, because of his long-standing admiration for our party's ideas and beliefs, after meeting with our party's Zhou Gong, he had feelings of seeing each other and hating each other, and he made it clear that he wanted to join the revolution and hope to join our party and go to Yan'an. However, considering that it was a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, it was impossible to blatantly recruit people from within the Kuomintang, so he became a secret worker under the direct leadership of Zhou Gong.
Therefore, this not simple Han Liancheng, after "playing missing", naturally no one dared to pursue his responsibility.
So, back to the question at the beginning of the article, where did Han Liancheng go after he disappeared?
On February 20, the Battle of Laiwu began. The units of Li Xianzhou's corps came to the designated meeting place to prepare for a breakthrough in the early morning of the 23rd, but at this time, Han Liancheng, the commander of the 46th Army, could not be found, and the troops began to mess into a pot of porridge. In fact, Han Liancheng had already been led by liaison officers sent by the East China Field Army to the front-line branch of the Xinhua News Agency on the afternoon of the day the battle began, and at this moment he was very happy to see Chen Laozong, commander of the East China Military Region, and Tang Xian, director of the Political Department.
When Mr. Chen consulted Han Liancheng on his next step. Han Liancheng proposed that he still go back to Nanjing, and he thought that Chiang Kai-shek's trust in him and Bai Chongxi's appreciation of him would certainly not be a big obstacle.
He told General Manager Chen: "My identity and actions have not yet been revealed, I will go back to Nanjing and organize another division and an army, and send you some American equipment." ”
Sure enough, after the total annihilation of the troops, when Han Liancheng, the commander of the Guangzhan Army, returned to Nanjing to meet Chiang Kai-shek, the old Chiang kai-shek even praised him for his "extreme loyalty and courage and praiseworthiness, and not only did he not receive punishment, but he also appointed him as deputy commander of the Eighth Appeasement District, senior staff officer of the chairman's attendant office, deputy chief of staff of the Northwest Xingyuan, and deputy commander of the Gansu Provincial Security Command.
In October 1948, Han Liancheng broke away from the Kuomintang for various reasons and returned to the people's ranks he had in mind, successively serving as deputy chief of staff of the First Field Army and deputy director of the Lanzhou Military Control Commission, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
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