He was a high-ranking official of the Nationalist army, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was almost executed by Lao Jiang for offending Hu Zongnan, but when our army marched into the great southwest, why was Marshal Liu Bocheng praised him for making "the first merit in liberating the southwest"?
This senior officer of the Nationalist army, who was praised by Liu Shuai as having made the "first merit in liberating the southwest", was actually an intelligence officer of our army lurking in the upper echelons of the Nationalist army, and he was General Liu Zongkuan.
Liu Zongkuan is a native of Pucheng, Shaanxi, and a high-caliber student of the third phase of Huangpu. According to the convention, the senior generals of the Huangpu National Army should be the concubines of the old Chiang Kai-shek, but Liu Zongkuan never enjoyed the preferential treatment of the concubines, because he was a soldier under Yang Hucheng of the Northwest Army, and going to Huangpu and studying at the Army University were also sponsored by General Yang, and later General Yang and Zhang Xueliang launched the "Xi'an Incident", which shows the environment in which General Liu is located.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Zongkuan successively served as a senior staff officer of the major general of the 38th Army Headquarters, chief of staff of the Shaanxi Provincial Military District Headquarters, and commander of the Seventh Detachment of the Central Military Academy.
After 1940, Liu Zongkuan was transferred to the army's provisional 15th Division, stationed along the Yellow River. He found that some officers and men in the ranks had committed illegal acts such as smuggling and trafficking drugs, so he ordered the detention of a regimental commander. Who knows, this regimental commander's background is very hard, he is the commander-in-chief of the 34th Group Army Hu Zongnan installed in the provisional fifteenth division of the concubine, from then on offended Hu Zongnan. The following year, in retaliation for Liu Zongkuan, Hu Zongnan directly falsely accused Lao Jiang and sent Liu Zongkuan to the Chongqing Military Justice Department for interrogation. Because the matter was a trumped-up crime, in order to take care of Hu Zongnan's face, he was sentenced to a few years, and when the draft judgment was sent to Lao Jiang's desk, someone secretly reported to him, this person was Yang Hucheng's nephew, and Lao Jiang was angry and approved two words: "Shoot!" ”
Fortunately, Liu Zongkuan's former teachers and classmates at the Army University were running around for this matter, and finally asked General Feng Yuxiang to intercede, and the sentence was changed to 13 years in prison. But he was actually only locked up for more than two years before being released on medical parole.
So, what exactly did Liu Zongkuan do, and he was praised as the "first merit of liberating the southwest"?
In January 1949, Liu Zongkuan was appointed as the deputy chief of staff of the Lieutenant General and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Office of the Southwest Military and Political Governor, responsible for the daily work of the staff officers. At this time, the Kuomintang had lost half of the country and retreated to the northwest and southwest.
Liu Zongkuan took advantage of the power in his hands to draw up a defense plan, deliberately leaving a gap in the southeast corner of Sichuan, secretly leaving a passage for the PLA to march southwest, and reporting this information to our army. On August 30, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek personally went to Chongqing to organize a military conference to discuss the defense plan. In order to ensure that the plan could be affirmed by Lao Jiang, Zhang Qun, and Hu Zongnan, Liu Zongkuan specially arranged for Hu Zongnan's deputy chief of staff to report on his behalf so that the plan could be adopted. The defensive plan laid out by Old Chiang Also quickly reached the desk of the chief of our army.
In mid-November 1949, after our army launched an attack from southeast Sichuan, old Chiang Kai-shek woke up from a big dream, but it was too late to re-deploy troops, and Song Xilian's troops had already been defeated. Soon the Kuomintang Southwest Military and Political Governor's Office began to withdraw from Chongqing for Chengdu.
Liu Zongkuan naturally did not want to go, and after arranging relevant affairs, he took his luggage to the home of Professor Yang Qing of Chongqing University in Shapingba and hid to welcome liberation.
Therefore, Marshal Liu later said when introducing Liu Zongkuan to the senior generals at the meeting of the Nanjing Military Academy: "Comrade Liu Zongkuan made a major contribution to the liberation war, especially the role played by the liberation of the southwest was better than that of 100,000 male soldiers, which can be called the first merit!" ”
Liu Zongkuan successively served as a senior senator of the Southwest Military Region, a supervisory member of the Southwest Military and Political Committee, a deputy director of the Tactical Professors Association of the Nanjing Military Academy, an adviser to the Central Committee of the Peasants' and Workers' Party, a vice chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Peasants' and Workers' Party and the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee, a member of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a vice chairman of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a vice president of the Chengdu Huangpu Military Academy Alumni Association, a president of the Chongqing Huangpu Military Academy Alumni Association, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died on 29 July 1992 at the age of 87.
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