China's peaceful liberation was not easy to come by, and a great deal of manpower, material and financial resources were expended in the War of Resistance Against Japan. At that time, the whole country was bent on fighting against the Japanese and the Kosovars, and both the Party and the Nationalist troops rose up to resist, making the enemy pay a terrible price, and finally being beaten out of China. Although the enemy was beaten away, the civil war was not over, and the People's Liberation Army and the Nationalist Army began to fight again.
The civil war lasted for four years, and the nationalist army's armament, firepower, theoretical knowledge, and other aspects were superior to our army, and there were many outstanding military talents, such as Liao Yaoxiang. He led the Nationalist troops to cause great difficulties to our army, but he was captured in the battle in the northeast, and was later selected by Commander Liu as a teacher at the military academy.
Liao Yaoxiang is a native of Hunan, born in 1906, his family was not bad at that time, in today's words, at least a well-off family, at least eat and wear without worry. His grandfather was a private school gentleman, responsible for teaching the children in the private school every day, and when he reached the age of private school, he naturally began to learn knowledge from his grandfather.
Liao Yaoxiang has a talent for reading, intelligence and sensitivity, and has good reaction and receptivity. After six years of private schooling, the basic knowledge of the school will be completed, and if you take the exam very smoothly, you will be admitted to the prefectural elementary school to continue school. He still had excellent grades in primary school, and when he graduated, he was admitted to a private middle school in Changsha to continue his studies.
Liao Yaoxiang, who graduated from middle school, was already an adult, and at that time, the Whampoa Military Academy vigorously enrolled students, and Liao Yaoxiang also had the idea of joining the revolution and chose to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy. He was a sixth-term cavalry officer at the military academy, where he not only excelled, but also met many like-minded partners.
Four years later, he wanted to study abroad to learn more advanced military theory. Originally, he was in the top three in the test results, but he was brushed off because of his outrageous appearance. Later, under the recommendation of the leader, he successfully went to France to study, and it was his solid learning and accumulation since childhood that allowed him to charge forward in the later actual battle.
Liao Yaoxiang studied in France for more than five years and did not return to China until 1936; the leaders of the Nationalist army may have made great mistakes in politics, but his vision of people is really poisonous, and many generals of the Nationalist army are extremely good. Since he mainly studied cavalry, Liao Yaoxiang served as the company commander of the cavalry of the Nationalist Army after returning to China, and opened the road of actual combat.
Liao Yaoxiang led his troops in two of the most exciting battles, one was the Kunlun Mountains against the Japanese army, and the other was the bitter battle in India and Burma. Kunlun Mountain was originally the result of the Japanese army's painstaking layout to strive to sweep away the haze of defeat in taierzhuang and other places in front of it, but this war ushered in a greater defeat.
This battle not only caused heavy casualties to the Japanese army, but most importantly killed a Japanese regimental commander, which greatly boosted the morale of our army. In the burmese theater later, Liao Yaoxiang's troops undertook the task of covering the retreat of the large troops, they had to maintain a high degree of vigilance and flexibility, and finally under his command, they successfully pinned down the enemy for more than ten days, winning valuable time for the large troops of our army to transfer.
He beat off the Japanese devils, but Jiang Still tirelessly wanted to seize power. The civil war lasted for four more years, and the Nationalist army changed from a friendly army during the anti-Japanese period to an enemy army in the liberation period. The degree of militarization and mechanization of the troops led by Liao Yaoxiang is among the best, and coupled with his extremely high military attainments, he has posed no small threat to our army.
In 1948, when the war was carried out, our army's combat strategy was perfect in the Northeast Theater, and the enemy was caught off guard; Chiang Kai-shek's troops were taken down by hundreds of thousands of people in one fell swoop, but our army's troops did not have the policy of killing them all, but the prisoners were actively transformed and used by us. Many generals and soldiers of the Nationalist army, including Liao Yaoxiang, became prisoners of our army.
At that time, the main person in charge of the Northeast Theater was Chief of Staff Liu, who knew very well that if these Kuomintang generals could be used by our army in the future, they would certainly be of great use. Therefore, he also specially set up a banquet in the camp to express the sincerity of our army, but the scene at the banquet that should have been a harmonious drink did not appear, Liao Yaoxiang did not give Liu Chief of Staff a little face, and he was not moved by the toast of Liao Yaoxiang.
With a look of arrogance and disdain, Liao Yaoxiang felt that our army's troops could not win the war, but if they could win, they would win the battle, wouldn't they? Moreover, the soldiers are not tired of deception, which is also a strategy in war. At this time, Chief of Staff Liu knew that he could not confront him and began to reason with him, saying that only a team that won the hearts and minds of the people could win in the end, and even his predecessor, General Zheng, had already surrendered.
As everyone knows, Liao Yaoxiang did not believe it, because Jiang Someone had always claimed to the Nationalist army that General Zheng had died in battle, in order not to shake the hearts of the army and let them always serve themselves. Until General Zheng personally came over, Liao Yaoxiang was a wise man, and seeing that General Zheng also knew the ins and outs of the matter, and naturally knowing that the Nationalist army had no future, he raised a glass to apologize to Chief of Staff Liu.
Liao Yaoxiang and other Nationalist generals were imprisoned in Gongdelin for reform. In 1951, China wanted to set up a military academy to train military professionals, and this matter was the responsibility of Commander Liu, who was also the dean of the military academy.
After thinking about it, he thought of Liao Yaoxiang. First, because he has received a good professional education in the military field, he is not only an outstanding graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, but also has gone abroad to study and study abroad, and he is certainly much stronger than the generals of our army in theory. Second, he also had excellent practical combat experience and performance during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was able to combine theory and practice, and was able to achieve more with less in teaching.
Liao Yaoxiang thought that if he was captured, he would not be able to emerge, and even freedom would become a luxury, but what he did not expect was that someone told him to invite him to be a teacher for the plasters of the People's Liberation Army. This made him unbelievable and felt that there was a cat in it, but then Commander Liu personally came to him and explained the reason for it, and he felt that he could try it.
So this nationalist prisoner became a teacher at our military academy. Sure enough, just as Commander Liu expected, he successfully combined his theoretical knowledge and practical experience, winning the applause of the officers and men, and there was no situation in which anyone disrespected or distrusted him. In the end, Liao Yaoxiang was released for his outstanding contributions, and he was also freed.
After all, in that war-torn era, it is not that people can now look back at history from the perspective of God and judge who is right and who is wrong. At the time, they may have only been following the command, and the cruelty on the battlefield may be far more cold-blooded than that filmed in the TV series; right or wrong is less important under the danger that the gun may pierce the head at any time.
Although he was born in the national army, the revolution did not matter sooner or later. Later, he suddenly woke up, stood in the right camp, and shared the military theoretical knowledge and actual combat experience he himself learned with the plasters of the People's Liberation Army soldiers at the military academy, and cultivated a large number of outstanding military talents for the follow-up construction of our country.