In people's minds, there are many generals of the Nationalist army who have defected to the army led by the Communist Party, and they have revolted and joined the People's Liberation Army; in fact, many generals of the army led by the Communist Party have defected to the Nationalist army, and they are traitors who have joined the Nationalist army.
The ones introduced today were originally the Eighth Route Army, one was the commander of the security of the Yuwan-Anhui Soviet Border Region, the other was the deputy brigade commander of the 6th Brigade of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army and the commander of the 18th Regiment, and the other was the commander of the 17th Regiment of the 6th Brigade of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army, and they were Geng Yunzhai, Wu Xinrong, and Liu Ziren. They pulled out the team together to join the national army, but the world was uncertain, and finally revolted back to the camp of the people, for the outcome of these three people, I believe everyone wants to know, may as well guess first.
Before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Geng Yunzhai was a district chief of the Kuomintang in Xiao County, Anhui Province, and after Xiao County was occupied by the Japanese army, he single-handedly pulled up an anti-Japanese armed force, and he repeatedly won guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army. Later, the New Fourth Army took a fancy to this armed force that dared to fight and dared to fight, sent people to consult, and incorporated Geng Yunzhai's armed forces into the New Fourth Army and organized it into the Third General Brigade of the Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and the captain was of course Geng Yunzhai.
However, the good times were not long, in August 1940, the organization transferred Geng Yunzhai to the Yuwan Su Border Region as a security commander, leading the border area armed resistance against Japan, which was nothing, the most important thing was that his two regiments were incorporated into the Eighth Route Army Fourth Column Special Service Regiment, leaving 400 people for him, so he was very angry, thinking that this was unloading the furnace, and ran back to his hometown Xiao County, Wu Xinrong, deputy brigade commander of the 6th Brigade of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army and commander of the 18th Regiment.
This Wu Xinrong was also reorganized from the local militia of Xiao County, because not long ago, Tan Youlin, the commander of the 6th Brigade, was transferred to Yan'an, and he thought that he could become a brigade commander, but he did not want to be replaced by the old Red Army Rao Zijian, so he was very dissatisfied with the organization, believing that this was nepotism in the feudal period. After Geng Yunzhai arrived, he and Wu Xinrong immediately hit it off, complaining together every day, discussing how to walk together for the future road.
Regarding the ideological problems of the two of them, the leader of the Fourth Column got the news at the first time and decided to send Wu Zhipu, political commissar of the 6th Brigade and political commissar of the Security Command, to do their work, which was the first step, and if the first step did not work, the second step would be taken, which is often referred to as Plan B. Liu Ziren, commander of the 17th Regiment of the 6th Brigade, detained the two men in the name of inviting guests.
This Liu Ziren was originally an officer of the Northwest Army, and later left his hometown to serve as the commander of the Yongcheng County Security Brigade, and in August 1939 he led the troops to join the New Fourth Army, serving as the deputy commander of the 1st General Brigade of the Guerrilla Detachment of the New Fourth Army and the commander of the 1st Regiment, and in 1940, the unit was incorporated into the Eighth Route Army, serving as the commander of the 17th Regiment of the 6th Brigade of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army. Liu Ziren performed very well under the leadership of the party, and he joined the party early, plus his regimental political commissar Cai Yong and other cadres were mostly old Red Army, so the organization entrusted this arduous task to his 17 regiments.
Liu Ziren, who had received the task, felt sad and on the surface expressed his determination to carry it out, but secretly told Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong that on December 10, when Wu Zhipu and his party arrived at Dongcaozhuang near the 17th regiment's station, they decided to invite Geng and Wu to come to LiuBu's station for dinner at 12:00 a.m. on the 12th in the name of Liu Ziren. After discussion, Liu Ziren, Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong reached a plan to rebel, and on the night of the 11th, more than 40 cadres, including Cai Yong, the regimental political commissar of the 17th Regiment, Zhou Dacan, deputy regimental commander, and Mi Yunhui, director of the Political Department, were imprisoned.
On the 12th, because of Wu Zhipu's personal prestige, Geng Yunzhai and Wu Xinrong did not dare to kill him easily, but put him under house arrest, and later Wu Zhipu escaped after thousands of hardships. That night, more than 40 cadres of the 17th Regiment who were detained by Liu Ziren broke through, and in the fierce battle of grabbing guns, Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou Dacan, Director of the Political Department Mi Yunhui, and Commissioner Wen Zhiping were killed, and only 12 people ran out, including a young political office officer named Xu Chunyang, later a lieutenant general of the Republic.
After the incident, the organization put forward the strategy of "resolutely fighting Liu, isolating Geng, and winning over Wu", and after a long period of hard work, although it gave Liu Ziren great trauma, he never won the three people over or captured them. This incident rapidly deteriorated in the situation in the Yuwan-Anhui-Suzhou Border Region, causing the Eighth Route Army to lose its consolidated rear and causing great losses.
After Geng Yunzhai rebelled, he was appointed by the Kuomintang as the commander of the first guerrilla column in the Sulu-Yuwan Border Region, and at first he held great power, but over time, he was transferred to a vacant post, and when the balance of victory in the Liberation War tilted, he returned to the People's Liberation Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was detained during the town counter-movement, and was later released, dying of illness in 1962.
After Wu Xinrong surrendered to the enemy, the 18th Regiment was organized into the third detachment of the first column of the Kuomintang Sulu Yuwan Border Region, and he served as the leader of the detachment, but what was unexpected was that he fell seriously ill in 1942 and died. After his death, the troops were taken over by his younger brother Wu Xinyuan, who led an uprising in 1944 and was organized into the Independent Brigade of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, returning to the embrace of the people again.
After Liu Ziren's defection, his fate was more complicated and eighteen, and he was initially appointed by the Kuomintang as the deputy commander of the first column and the commander of the second detachment of the Sulu Yuwan Border Region, but later gradually became less reused, and he defected to the Japanese army as a puppet army division commander. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Ziren's unit was absorbed by the Nationalist Army and served as the commander of the newly organized 54th Division, and in 1949 he was still a major general division commander and led the troops to revolt in Bazhong. In March 1951, Liu Ziren was executed.