As the saying goes, "a soldier can kill but not be disgraced", for a person with lofty ideals, ambition can not be humiliated. During the Tang Dynasty, the governor of Guangzhou, Pei Ling, was imprisoned by Tang Xuanzong, remembering his previous achievements, Xuanzong could not think of how to deal with him, and could only call several prime ministers to discuss together, one of the prime ministers proposed a cane punishment, and the other chancellor resolutely disagreed with this punishment, believing that the soldiers could not be humiliated, and Tang Xuanzong agreed with his views and cancelled the punishment.
In ancient times, there was Pei Ling, and now there is the "Changsheng General" Chen Changjie, who has been a horse for a lifetime.
Chen Changjie's early life
Chen Changjie was born in an ordinary peasant family, the family is poor, in order to make a living, the mother can only wean his milk early to make money for others to make money to support the family, although the money earned by the mother makes life a little better, but there are too many children in the family, there are always places that cannot be taken into account.
In order to make the family live better, his mother abandoned him in the ancestral hall outside the village, and the brothers and sisters who were kept in the dark pestered their mother every day, only to learn that their mother left him in the ancestral hall, and the brothers and sisters could not bear to hold him back.
When he was a child, under the care of his older brother and sister, he was born white and fat like a porcelain doll, because he loved this younger brother, and his brother gave him the opportunity to read.
At the same age, when the little friends were still playing with mud, when they were at home, Chen Changjie had already begun to go to private school, and because of his cleverness and cleverness in the private school, Chen Changjie was also appreciated by the teacher Tian Chungan, knowing that Chen Changjie's family was poor and specially exempted from his tuition, and later Chen Changjie was admitted to the Fuzhou Normal School with excellent results, but he did not have money to pay tuition, and this tuition fee was funded by Tian Chungan.
Bidding farewell to his parents and brothers, Chen Changjie came to Fuzhou with the grace of his teacher, where he experienced the first turning point in his life - joining the rebel army.
At that time, the Xinhai Revolution had just broken out, Chen Changjie was always worried about the situation in the country although he was on campus, he knew that this battle was of the utmost importance, and under the left and right thoughts, he resolutely decided to join the Fuzhou student army to go north, but unfortunately, this group of student troops had not yet reached their destination, the north and south had agreed to make peace, the student army was forced to disband, and Chen Changjie, who was bored, returned to Fuzhou with his friends and transferred to the Wubei Academy to study.
When training in the Martial Arts Academy, Chen Changjie often wondered when he would be able to ride the red dust like the famous general Guan Yunchang, beheading the enemy under the horse, with this expectation, Chen Changjie stepped up training, and sometimes did not sleep at night to train until late at night.
In training, he never cried bitterness, did not shout tired, time is like flowing water, never returned, soon Chen Changjie graduated, after graduation he was sent to the seventh cavalry section of Baoding Officer School to study.
Outstanding battle achievements, often victorious general
After entering the military academy, Chen Changjie unexpectedly met his former classmate Fu Zuoyi, who was no longer what he used to be, and with a big wave of his hand, he promoted Chen Changjie from a small soldier to a probationary platoon leader of the Seventh Infantry Regiment of the Jin Army.
Although Fu Zuoyi was promoted, Chen Changjie knew that if he was not worthy of the position, he would be brushed off, and after understanding the truth, he was very strong when he went to the battlefield, rushing to the forefront of every battle, and made many battle achievements in the past few years, from a probationary platoon leader all the way to acting regiment commander and brigade chief of staff, and on the eve of 1927, he was promoted to brigade commander of the fifteenth brigade in one fell swoop.
In 1930, the first united front of the Chinese Communists was completely broken, the 15th Brigade was ordered to expand into the 11th Division, and went south to participate in the anti-Chiang Kai-shek "Central Plains War".
Just when the revolutionary situation was in full swing, Feng Yuxiang's subordinates defected, and the Kuomintang army was able to take advantage of the situation, so that Chen Changjie's Eleventh Division was attacked by the enemy on its back and could not move.
In order to preserve the troops, Chen Changjie ordered the troops to return to Shanxi and wait for the instructions of the Central Military Commission, and after waiting anxiously for two days in Shanxi, the order of the Central Military Commission came down, and the Eleventh Division was reorganized into the 208th Brigade, and Chen Changjie was responsible for commanding the troops to break through.
After Chen Changjie received the order, he quickly formulated a breakthrough plan according to the enemy's situation, Chen Changjie was the first to break through a breakthrough, and the team took advantage of the situation to rush out of that breakthrough.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, in the face of the fierce offensive of the Japanese army, the vanguard troops sent by our army could not resist, were defeated and retreated, and seeing that the situation was not good, Chen Changjie was ordered to go to chi aid in the counter-offensive.
In just a few days, we fought 23 bloody battles with the Japanese army, and finally recaptured the position, and the joy of regaining the position had not yet passed, and an accident occurred, and the commanders chahar and Liu Ruming in the First Battle of Zhangjiakou were timid and ordered our army to hold still, resulting in the fall of Zhangjiakou, and the Seventy-second Division in Zhangjiakou once again fell into the enemy's encirclement.
At the time of life and death, Chen Changjie took over the command of the 72nd Division, unexpectedly led the division to rush to the direction of the enemy's dense concentration, and after a fierce battle, finally broke through successfully.
After the Battle of Nankou, the Seventy-second Division was combined into the Reserve Eleventh Army, Chen Changjie was ordered by the central authorities to be the commander of the army, the War of Resistance was carried out until September, the Japanese army reached Pingxing Pass, and it was about to break through the pass, Chen Changjie led his troops to fight in the starry night, and fought bloody battles with the Japanese army for 12 days and nights, winning a complete victory and boosting the morale of our army.
After the Battle of Pingxingguan, Chen Changjie's military might was greatly enhanced, and he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, with full authority to command the counterattack of the front-line troops, and on October 2, the Japanese army swept in again, Chen Changjie reacted quickly, using the method of digging tunnels to sneak into the enemy's front.
The new weapons of the Japanese army became waste in front of the tunnel, and when the Ammunition consumption of the Japanese army was almost the same, Chen Changjie led the army to counterattack and won the victory in one fell swoop, after the victory, Chen Changjie unified the army to the south, and fought more than a dozen victorious battles, known as the general who resisted daily victory.
In 1941, Chen Changjie was framed and defected to Fu Zuoyi in a fit of rage, who recommended him to Chiang Kai-shek, who appointed him deputy commander-in-chief of the Jinsui Border Region, and later transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Yikezhao League Garrison, responsible for commanding the 26th Division and the Seventh Cavalry Division to fight against the bandits.
Become a prisoner of war and endure humiliation and die
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended completely, and in December, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Chen Changjie as the commander of the Tianjin Garrison, and together with Fu Zuoyi, he was responsible for handling the affairs of Beijing and Tianjin, and later Tianjin beijing was liberated one after another, and Chen Changjie, as a war criminal announced by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, was detained in the detention center of the Military Justice Department of the North China Military Region of Hebei Province, and later moved to Gongdelin, Beijing.
In the detention center, Chen Changjie actively cooperated with the management personnel, performed well, and in his free time, he also bought revolutionary books at his own expense, and it was a whole day to see him so cooperative, and the detention center reduced the intensity of his labor, and Fu Zuoyi, who was already the minister of water resources of the Republic at the time, went to Gongdelin Prison to see him, and he was angry and kept glaring at Fu Zuoyi.
In March 1956, Fu Zuoyi spoke for prisoners of war at the Standing Enlarged Meeting of the Second National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, hoping to give them a chance to reform themselves, which was supported by many people present.
On December 4, 1959, Chen Changjie was pardoned and released from prison, and was personally received by Premier Zhou, and after more than ten years of imprisonment, Chen Changjie was finally reunited with his family.
Later, the central government took pity on his talent and appointed him as a commissioner of the Secretariat of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, responsible for compiling literature and history, and in just a few years, he wrote more than 300,000 words of historical documents. Such days did not last long, and during the ten years of turmoil he was treated unfairly and lost hope of life, ending his life on April 7, 1968, after killing his wife.
brief summary:
In Chen Changjie's life, there were several twists and turns, when he was a child, he almost became an outcast because of his family's poverty, fortunately, his brother and sister pitied him to raise him and provide him with education, although the fate was bad, he never gave up chasing his dreams. With the courage of the newborn calf who is not afraid of the tiger, he has broken out of the sky for himself.
On the battlefield several times, he put his life and death and disregarded it, and won many battles, but unfortunately he defected in the later stage and was imprisoned, but fortunately, he knew that he could change his mistakes, and in that environment, he could not forget to learn, which was admirable.