During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although the number of Victories won by the Chinese army against Japan was small, there were still some troops that could hurt the Japanese army, such as the 10th Army of Commander Li Yutang in the Battle of Changsha, and the 74th Army led by Wang Yaowu, which was known as the "Anti-Japanese Iron Army".
After Wang Yaowu's promotion, the 74th Army changed several commanders, and later changed its name to the 74th Division, and its number of troops did not change much, but after Wang Yaowu, the most famous of the 74th Division was Zhang Lingfu, but in the Battle of Meng Lianggu, Zhang Lingfu was killed.
When the Kuomintang mourned for Zhang Lingfu, but forgot his three brigade commanders, almost no one cared about the small brigade commanders, the author today specially introduced to you the fate of Zhang Lingfu's three brigade commanders, one of whom held a high position after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
On the eve of the 74th Division's participation in the Battle of Menglianggu, the division had three brigades under its command, namely the 51st Brigade, the 57th Brigade, and the 58th Brigade, and its brigade commanders were Chen Chuanjun, Chen Shuyun, and Lu Xing.
Chen Chuanjun, a native of Fujian County, Shandong Province, graduated from the Huangpu Fifth Phase, and after Zhang Lingfu's headquarters was captured in the Battle of Menglianggu, Chen Chuanjun, as a brigade commander, prepared to flee with his troops, served as a regimental commander in the 74th Army, and participated in many anti-Japanese battles.
In the Battle of Menglianggu, Zhang Lingfu was killed, the command post was destroyed, the remnants of the entire Nationalist 74th Division had basically no way to retreat, Chen Chuanjun was captured, and there were two theories about his capture, the first of which was that he tried to escape after being captured and was shot.
There is also a theory that Chen Chuanjun was sent to the labor camp, where he performed well and was later released, but his whereabouts are later unknown, and these two claims cannot confirm which one is true, but one thing is certain, there is no news after Chen Chuanjun was captured.
The commander of the 57th Brigade, Chen Shuyun, a native of Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, was a graduate of the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he also participated in many battles against Japan, such as the Battle of Changsha, the Battle of Changde, and the Battle of Xiangxi.
In the Battle of Menglianggu, Chen Shuyun was captured, he was imprisoned in Heilongjiang Jiamusi First Prison, it is said that he performed well in prison, in 1975 received amnesty, after his release Chen Huyun returned to Nanjing to live, as a member of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, can be called a high position.
Chen Shuyun died of illness until 1983, at the age of 79, among the three brigade commanders, Chen Shuyun's fate was the best, and the commander of the 58th Brigade, Lu Xing, was the worst one in the field, Lu Xing served as a regimental commander and deputy division commander during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and he was the brigade commander of the major general.
In the Battle of Menglianggu, Lu Xing, like Zhang Lingfu, was shot by the People's Liberation Army in battle, and was posthumously awarded the rank of lieutenant general by the Kuomintang, and his death was really not worth it.