Before the Liaoshen Campaign began, although the strength of the Nationalist army on the northeast battlefield was as high as 500,000, it was surrounded by Lin Zong's army in several isolated cities and could not support each other. So who are these nationalist generals who are besieged in the northeast battlefield?
The first was Zheng Dongguo, who at that time was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General" and the commander of the 1st Corps, and was besieged by our army in Changchun. The second was Fan Hanjie, who was then the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression Command" and the director of the Jinzhou Command Post, and was besieged in Jinzhou by our army. The third was Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the Ninth Corps, and the last was Wei Lihuang, commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General".
These four nationalist generals were all well-known generals, of whom Zheng Dongguo and Fan Hanjie were both high-caliber students of the Huangpu Phase I, Liao Yaoxiang graduated from the Huangpu Phase VI, and Wei Lihuang, although he had not studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, was known as the first of the Five Tiger Generals of the Nationalist Army. Liao Yaoxiang's New Sixth Army and Zheng Dongguo's New First Army are both ace units of the Nationalist Army, and Fan Hanjie's military command ability is not weak, so they can be called the four tiger generals of the Nationalist Army in the northeast battlefield. So what happened to them after the Liberation War?
First of all, Fan Hanjie, who was captured by our army during the breakthrough, then entered Gongdelin for reform, was pardoned in 1960, and was also invited to serve as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, died at the age of 80, and was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
After five months of stubborn resistance, Zheng Dongguo eventually fell apart and was captured, and in 1954, the great man personally nominated him to serve as a member of the National Defense Commission, and 37 years later Zheng Dongguo died at the age of 88, and after his death, he was also buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
Liao Yaoxiang was also captured in the breakout and was granted amnesty in 1961, and seven years later, Liao Yaoxiang died of illness at the age of 62, and was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery after his death.
Wei Lihuang went to Hong Kong after the defeat, but returned to the mainland in 1955, after which he served as the vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, and died of illness in 1960 at the age of 63, after which he was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.