In the autumn of 1947, the Battle of Qingjian broke out, and the commander of the Nationalist 76th Division, Liao Ang, was responsible for defending the area, and graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy. After leaving the school, he served the elder Jiang and was also known as General Changsheng.
Therefore, Hu Zongnan arranged for him to defend here, and Liao Ang believed that it was very difficult to defend with a division, because my army used 2 columns to capture this place. Using 2 columns to fight a division must have concentrated the main force to fight, so it is natural to seize this place.
In order to reduce casualties, Mr. Peng asked Xu Guangda, the commander of the Three Columns, to write a letter of persuasion to Liao Ang, because both of them were graduates of Huangpu. But with what he knew, he thought he wouldn't eat this set.
In the end, Commander Xu obediently wrote, and in his letter he analyzed the stakes in detail, hoping that he would lead the uprising so that the people would not suffer from war. Liao Ang did not play his cards according to the routine, and he actually killed the messenger.
It seemed that it was necessary to have a short engagement, and Commander Xu and Liao Ang fought very fiercely, the former concentrated artillery and bombarded fiercely, and the latter desperately resisted through the strong fortifications, that is, did not retreat, and fought for three days and three nights without a victory or defeat. However, a regimental commander of the third column of our army was sacrificed, so it can be seen that this Liao Ang did have two brushes.
Commander Xu was distraught, and the commander of the first column, Zhang Zongxun, was even more panicked than he was, and he quickly called Commander Xu and asked what to do. Commander Xu immediately adjusted his deployment, combining a frontal assault with a roundabout battle, attacking on both sides and gradually narrowing the attack range.
At this time, Zhang Zongxun also wrote a letter of persuasion to Liao Ang, they were also classmates, and he was still unmoved after receiving the letter, and still insisted on continuing to fight.
Boss Peng had no choice but to give an order to let everyone prepare for the general attack. In fact, at this time, it was obvious that the enemy was bound to lose, some of Liao's subordinates had begun to waver, and the army's morale was already unstable, but he refused to surrender, and wanted to hold out until the end, waiting for reinforcements to come to meet
In the end, reinforcements did not come, he was also captured by our army, when he was brought to Commander Xu, he was asked why he did not surrender, he was still very stubborn, insisting on his own ideas, thinking that the mission of the soldiers was to stick to the end, even if they died, they would hold on, but to his surprise, he would fail so quickly.
Commander Xu saw that he was so stubborn, and he patiently told him a lot of big truths. He said that if you are still not convinced, I will give you another division, let's try again, in fact, Liao Ang has already confessed his fate at this time, he knows in his heart, even if he fights again, he will still lose very badly.
Why? Because in the course of the Kuomintang army's combat, there were no reinforcements. He only had one division, it was obvious that the number was too small, the eggs touched the stones, fortunately, he was still very lucky, did not directly die on the battlefield, even after being captured, he was summoned by Mr. Peng.
After a while, he was released and followed the large army to Taiwan, of course, as a defeated general, the old Chiang naturally did not continue to reuse him, so he later went to the United States to stay for more than thirty years.
In 1997, he died of illness in a foreign country at the age of 96.