Chiang Kai-shek has always favored the generals of the concubine clan, and the logistics supply of weapons and equipment has always been given priority, while those miscellaneous generals have often turned a blind eye to those miscellaneous military officers, even if the miscellaneous army has made great achievements!
Liu Ruming, whom I introduce today, is such a miscellaneous army general who is not welcomed by Chiang Kai-shek, he is a native of Xianxian County, Hebei Province, born in a poor peasant family, when his father died of illness when he was 13 years old, and he was raised by his mother and sister spinning and weaving.
Liu Ruming knows gratitude, as an adult, he is very filial to his mother, he is very generous to the villagers and the soldiers under him, he is known as "Liu Shanren", he has been out of the army since he was 17 years old, he once said frankly, "I am a profession as a soldier, to reduce the burden for my mother!" ”
He joined Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, because he had read books, he was arranged to be a clerk, followed Feng Yuxiang in battle and made many military achievements, and in 1924 he was promoted to the commander of the first brigade of the guard brigade.
When the Great War of the Central Plains broke out, Liu Ruming was appointed commander-in-chief of the 5th Route Army, and Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly sent people with letters to woo Liu Ruming, and in the face of the high-ranking official Houlu Liu Ruming, who was unmoved, he said: "I joined the army for 18 years, and Mr. Feng promoted me from a pawn to a commander-in-chief. ”
Under Chiang Kai-shek's rebellion, many of Feng Yuxiang's subordinates surrendered one after another, but only Liu Ruming and a few other generals were not moved, and his reply to Chiang Kai-shek was: "The eldest husband would rather be a general with a severed head than a general who surrenders!" I am afraid that this is also one of the reasons why Chiang Kai-shek will not want to see him in the future.
After Feng Yuxiang left the field, Liu Ruming led the remnants of more than 8,000 people to be absorbed by Zhang Xueliang and reorganized into the 29th Army, with song Zheyuan and Liu Ruming as deputy commanders, in 1933, the 29th Army added the 2nd Division, Liu Ruming became the commander of the 2nd Division, and he led the troops to participate in the Great Wall Resistance War.
The 29th Army took over Zhang Xueliang's troops to defend Xifengkou and Luo Wenyu, and the Japanese army suffered a crushing defeat at Xifengkou, so it changed the direction of attack and focused on Luo Wenyu, and Liu Ruming led more than 6,000 people of the 2nd Division to fight the Japanese army to the death on the Great Wall line around Luo Wenyu.
The Japanese army never expected that Luo Wenyu would become the second Xifengkou, Liu Ruming personally led a large knife team to ambush the Japanese army at the mountain pass, and his performance as a pioneer greatly inspired the soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy one by one, and the two sides engaged in a hand-to-hand combat for up to 5 hours.
Killed more than 1,000 Japanese troops, the 2nd Division lost more than 400 people, after three days of bloody fighting, the Japanese lost more than 3,000 people, unable to launch another attack, had to retreat, after the war, in 1936, Liu Ruming was promoted to lieutenant general, the 2nd Division was changed to the 143rd Division, stationed in the Zhangjiakou area.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Ruming participated in many battles against Japan, he not only resisted Japan himself, but also sent his two sons to the battlefield, his eldest son Liu Tieshan was the air force, the Chinese air force at that time basically had no return, and his son was indeed killed.
Afterwards, even He Yingqin, who had never been selfless, was overwhelmed by Liu Ruming and personally sent a telegram of condolences, in the later Liberation War, although Liu Ruming was appointed commander of the 8th Corps, he did not want to engage the People's Liberation Army, basically "fled by the wind", fled to Taiwan and was idle by Chiang Kai-shek, and died of illness on April 28, 1975, at the age of 80.