Preferential treatment of prisoners of war has always been the policy of our army.
But a Kuomintang commander was shot in 1951. He was a capable general under Bai Chongxi, and was also a famous anti-Japanese general, but he also committed heinous crimes during the War of Resistance Against Japan. This person was Li Benyi, commander of the Kuomintang Seventh Army.
In 1902, Li Benyi was born in a peasant family in Rong County, Guangxi Province, and from an early age, his family could not eat a few full meals, and Li Ben began to live by working for others in his teens. Although he came from a peasant family and did not read much, Li Benyi's calligraphy is admirable, and it is said that he can write well with his feet.
He joined the army at the age of 18, and because of his bravery in battle and repeated military achievements, he fell into a reputation of "dead beats and bad fights" in the army. As a rising star of the new Gui clan, Li Benyi dared to fight and was not afraid of death on the battlefield, and was appreciated by Bai Chongxi, who felt that he was a material that could be made, so he sent Li Benyi to the Nanning Military Academy for further study. After graduating from the military academy, Li Benyi was appointed as the commander of the 1026th Regiment of the 513th Brigade of the 171st Division.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in the Battle of Songhu, the Seventh Army of the Kuomintang Army suffered a crushing defeat, in order to buy sufficient time for the large troops to transfer, Li Benyi was ordered to lead the 1038th Regiment to block the Japanese army in the area of Jiaxing, Zhejiang.
In the face of the swarming Japanese army, Li Benyi ordered him to die in Jiaxing, and with the dilapidated fortifications and the Japanese army entangled for several days, successfully covered the main retreat of the Seventh Army, and Li Benyi's troops were only less than two hundred from a few thousand!
What is even more legendary is that after receiving the order to retreat from his superiors, Li Benyi led the remnants, in the absence of ships, swam across the Fuchun River en masse and returned to the team smoothly.
From then on, Li Benyi was transferred to Dabie Mountain to fight guerrilla warfare with the Japanese. At first, Li Ben fought against the Japanese army, often giving them a blow in the back when the Japanese were not paying attention, capturing many Japanese and obtaining many Japanese weapons, invisibly increasing his combat effectiveness. However, after the Anhui Incident, Li Benyi and the New Fourth Army had long-term friction, and more than 30,000 people of the New Fourth Army and the revolutionary masses were successively clamped down by Li Benyi to death.
In the summer of 1945, Chiang Kai-shek's Gui 7th Army secretly cooperated with the enemy and puppets in an attempt to launch a large-scale "sweep" of the anti-Japanese base area west of Huainan Road in an attempt to completely drive the New Fourth Army out of huainan. After the defeat of the 176th Division, Li Benyi finally decided to play the trump card in his hand and let the 171st Division play. After the First World War, the 7th Brigade of the New Fourth Army successfully killed and wounded more than 300 enemy and captured 600 enemy.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek sent his generals to various regions to accept the surrender of the Japanese, among which the city that Li Benyi was in charge of was Bengbu, but he led his troops to Nanjing, in order to preemptively collect wealth.
As a result, this matter spread to Chongqing, and Li Ben suddenly became the target of public criticism, especially Li Benyi came from a local faction, so those Huangpu generals fell into the well, and finally Bai Chongxi stood up and suppressed this matter, otherwise Li Ben might be sent to a military court.
In the Battle of Menglianggu, because of the ineffective reinforcement of the 74th Division, Chiang Kai-shek did not want others to say that he had attacked the local army, so he moved out of the matter of Li Benyi leading his troops to collect wealth in Nanjing, and sentenced Li Benyi to 3 years in prison.
But after all, the Seventh Army was a concubine of the Gui clan, and Li Benyi was Bai Chongxi's confidant and beloved general, and he was released three months later, and there was no loss after he came out, and he was still the commander of the Seventh Army of Steel.
In 1948, li Benyi ambushed the People's Liberation Army at Qingshuping in accordance with Bai Chongxi's deployment, and he took advantage of the fact that the People's Liberation Army was not prepared, and caught the pursuit troops of the People's Liberation Army by surprise. However, the People's Liberation Army, which returned to the gods, immediately concentrated its forces to besiege the 7th Army, and this so-called elite steel Seventh Army of the Gui Army was defeated by the Plaster army in this way.
In this battle, the Seventh Steel Army was almost completely destroyed,
Chief of Staff Deng Dazhi, Division Commander Zhang Ruisheng, Liu Yuejian, and a large number of other officers were captured, and Li Benyi, as the commander of the army, fled south in a hurry and fled into Guangxi.
Under the orders of Bai Chongxi, he reorganized the Seventh Army and the 171st and 172nd Divisions under his command. Originally, he still wanted to resist, but in December 1949, he was jointly suppressed by Erye and Shino.
Li Benyi, as a military commander, also gave up resistance and chose to surrender.
Because Li Ben's ability is particularly outstanding, so,
After capturing the Nationalist lieutenant general Li Benyi alive, Lin Zong decided to give him a chance to reform himself and let him work as an instructor at the Wuhan Military Academy to help the Communists train a large number of brave soldiers
。 But Li Tianyi, who could not recognize the situation at that time, categorically refused this excellent opportunity!
Since he refused to cooperate, Li Tianyi was no different from other captured enemy troops, so he was sent directly to a prisoner-of-war camp and reformed inside like other captured enemy troops.
According to the custom of our party's army, prisoners are generally given preferential treatment, and for senior generals, they are reformed in labor camps. However, due to Li Ben's many evil deeds, the upper echelons ordered a summary execution. After the judgment of the people,
In August 1951, Lee Ben-il was because
"Massacre of 30,000 people"
He was sentenced to death for other crimes and executed by firing squad on the same day, making him the only senior general in the Nationalist army to be executed.