After the end of the Liberation War, a large number of former senior Kuomintang generals were sent to the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center for reform. Due to the good reform policy, most people live quite comfortably. Only Liao Yaoxiang, the former commander of the Ninth Corps, was actually attacked by several former colleagues in prison because of old things.
What is more interesting is that Liao Yaoxiang's old boss Du Yuming went to enlighten him, but instead he fell into a complaint, making Du Yuming cry and laugh. In the meantime, it is necessary to talk about liao yaoxiang and lead the New Sixth Army into the northeast.
First, Liao Yaoxiang's glass heart
Liao Yaoxiang was gased out of heart disease, the direct cause of which was that when he was fighting in the northeast, all kinds of troops looked down on other units, including the New First Army with the same root and the same origin, and the commander was the famous Sun Liren.
How to look down on it? The most typical example is the Battle of Siping.
At that time, Sun Liren's New First Army and Chen Mingren's Seventy-first Army first fought four draws and became a glue. Liao Yaoxiang led the New Sixth Army to support, and the result was a fight, and Lin Biao led the army to withdraw.
This situation often occurs in wars.
The troops in the front attacking reached a critical moment, and the most feared thing was that someone would support them and take credit. If it is a general with high emotional intelligence, it will definitely reflect to the superiors, we are just cooperating, the new first army and the seventy-first army are the real heroes.
But Liao Yaoxiang was too proud. Everywhere he boasted, one regiment of our army could withstand one division of the communist army. It doesn't matter if you blow yourself, the key is to bring the Seventy-first Army into it. Liao Yaoxiang said that the 88th Division of the Seventy-first Army was assigned to me as a reserve, but I don't think it is necessary at all, and the combat effectiveness level of the two sides is not at the same level, and it is not easy to cooperate.
Chen Mingren, commander of the Seventy-first Army, was angry when he heard this. You can do it, why orchestrate us, my Seventy-first Army has provoked you.
The New First Army was also not happy, the success of the Battle of Siping, Liao Yaoxiang was not modest at all, all kinds of credit to his head, all kinds of spotlights all shone on the head of the New Sixth Army, and the blood of the New First Army under Siping City was in vain? At the press conference in Siping, Sun Li was so angry that he simply refused to interview.
There are many similar things, and the sources of the Northeast National Army are also quite mixed, and all units have resentment against the New Sixth Army and Liao Yaoxiang.
When they entered the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center, everyone became prisoners of the order, and Liao Yaoxiang's retribution came. Many generals of the Northeast Nationalist Army openly and secretly stimulated Liao Yaoxiang, and even some low-level generals also stimulated Liao Yaoxiang in front of him, saying, You are powerful, the five main forces, you alone buried two, you are really a hero of the CCP.
This means that the New First Army and the New Sixth Army of the Kuomintang Army in the Black Mountain Blockade Battle all collapsed, and it was Liao Yaoxiang, the commander of the Ninth Corps, who commanded these two armies at that time.
Don't look at Liao Yaoxiang who was very proud at that time, people who were too proud, in fact, could not withstand too much stimulation. One after another, Liao Yaoxiang had a heart attack, and when he was afraid, he lay on the bed panting heavily. Gong Delin's management cadres had to intervene to make the nationalist war criminals maintain basic respect for each other.
Du Yuming came to persuade him to look away, but Liao Yaoxiang said grievously: "Brother Guangting, your brother also has a certain responsibility for causing such a situation now." This time, it was Du Yuming's turn to cry and laugh: "What you said, how did you rely on me?" I didn't say anything about you. Liao Yaoxiang smiled bitterly.
Then again, where does Liao Yaoxiang's pride come from? What does pride have to do with Du Yuming?
Second, twice reduced to proud capital
Liao Yaoxiang is the sixth period of Huangpu, and his seniority is much shallower, and he has no good temperament in front of many Huangpu brothers. But the New Sixth Army, led by him, has a rather glorious past.
Some say that the New Sixth Army is an elite expeditionary force and has fought many victorious battles in Burma. But this is not worthy of much pride, the New Sixth Army and the New First Army are fighting in Burma, everyone's battle record is half a pound and eight two, and among the five main forces, the Fifth Army, the reorganized Seventy-fourth Division, and the reorganized Eleventh Division all have their own merits.
Take it out and brag about how shallow you are.
The New Sixth Army was proud only after two surrenders.
At 12 o'clock in 1944, the New Sixth Army had transferred two of its three divisions back to China to participate in the War of Resistance. At that time, it fought the Japanese army in western Hunan and completed the final blow, and the Japanese army surrendered.
On August 21, 1945, the Chinese government decided to surrender at Zhijiang, Hunan Province, under the command of He Yingqin, then commander-in-chief of the army. The New Sixth Army was selected as a surrendered unit to monitor the movements of more than 50,000 remnants of the Japanese army in the Zhijiang area.
Liao Yaoxiang was inexplicably excited, in fact, they did not participate much in the Battle of Xiangxi, and they were selected as surrendered troops, completely relying on the prestige played in Burma and the prestige of the New Sixth Army's all-American armaments. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to show the world the powerful image of China's anti-Japanese army through the New Sixth Army.
On the same day, the Japanese surrender representative landed at Zhijiang Airport in a fighter jet. The aircraft's fuselage was heavily bullet-ridden, symbolizing Japan's defeat at the hands of China in battle.
After landing, the New Sixth Army dispatched a majestic honor guard, from the airport to the landing venue, more than ten kilometers, full of the new Sixth Army's majestic officers and men. Tens of thousands of people crowded the sides of the road, and hundreds of journalists from various countries came to the venue and slapped at the representatives of the Japanese surrender and the officers and men of the New Sixth Army.
Liao Yaoxiang's political honor suddenly rose, and he couldn't help but feel good about himself. This kind of honor is the first one, and no one can compare.
Who would have thought that not long after, another heavyweight surrender task was handed over to the New Sixth Army: Nanjing.
This surrender was national, and the highest representative of the Japanese army in China, Okamura Ningji, surrendered to China.
Chiang Kai-shek ordered the New Sixth Army to be fully responsible for the honor guard and vigilance tasks of Nanjing' surrender. In front of reporters from all over the world, He Yingqin inspected the honor guard of the New Sixth Army.
All the vigilant troops at the descending venue were elite soldiers selected by Liao Yaoxiang's energy, with a strong body, eyes like a tiger, wearing a steel helmet, carrying a backpack, tying leggings, and all beautiful weapons and guns, looking very imposing.
Before the meeting, the American Wei Demai reminded Chiang Kai-shek that in order to prevent the Japanese from making trouble or even committing suicide at the venue, we must take precautions. Chiang Kai-shek therefore ordered all the on-site vigilance units of the New Sixth Army to carry bullets and immediately take control of the Japanese representatives as soon as something happened.
Fortunately, the representatives of the Japanese army were already disheartened at this time, and when they saw the mighty New Sixth Army, they had no ghostly thoughts.
This surrender activity once again taught the world the prestige of the Kuomintang army, and at the same time made Liao Yaoxiang's pride soar.
why? He cared more than just the brilliance of his face.
As a soldier, he understands that the only thing that can make others remember you is your guns.
So what does he care about? Chiang Kai-shek's trust.
In fact, some people originally proposed that the surrender of Nanjing could allow the new First Army to also participate, and everyone should participate in the good things. But Chiang Kai-shek refused, citing Sun Liren. This man has always been unruly, and when Savage Mountain retired from the army, he directly refused Chiang Kai-shek's orders. Moreover, he was not an officer trained by the Whampoa Military Academy, but a representative of the Foreigners. He can fight without falsehood, the New First Army and the New Sixth Army, twin stars, the record in Burma is on a par with each other. But such people are unreliable and cannot be used to it. Liao Yaoxiang was different, but he was a huangpu high-ranking disciple, and he was very obedient, and he was just used to carry out this important task.
At once, comparing the new first army, Liao Yaoxiang did not mention how proud he was.
At the same time, Liao Yaoxiang also stepped on the head of the 74th Army.
Originally, the 74th Army had also made great achievements in battle, and was also given two flying tiger flags by Chiang Kai-shek, which was an ace in the domestic battlefield. When Nanjing was surrendered, there were also calls for the 74th Army to participate in the surrender. However, due to various intertwined reasons, some rumors were that Chiang Kai-shek did not trust Wang Yaowu (commander of the Fourth Front, former commander of the 74th Army, a native of Shandong, and had a straight personality), and some rumors that Zhang Lingfu's reputation for killing his wife was not good, and so on, which led to the defeat of the 74th Army, which had been driven to the outskirts of Nanjing, and one of its divisions was also assigned to the command of the New Sixth Army and was responsible for the defense of Wuxi and Changzhou.
What about Feihu, it was not for me Liao Yaoxiang to lay a hand, Liao Yaoxiang was proud to the extreme.
Third, the northeast has repeatedly won victories and began to burn buns
In February 1946, the New Sixth Army was urgently transported to the northeast to seize the northeast.
Liao Yaoxiang's previous experience is very interesting, although he joined the army very early, in 1926 he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, but never to the front-line troops, in 1930 by the public sent to study abroad, to the French Saint Cyr Military Academy to study, 1936 only returned to China. That is to say, he did not fight with the Chinese communist army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance, he fought all the way south, and later went out of the country in one fell swoop and participated in the expeditionary army's campaign in India and Burma. It was not until 1946 that Liao Yaoxiang faced off against the Chinese communist army for the first time.
Before that, he had heard many colleagues say that the Chinese Communist army was very flexible and very strong, and it was difficult to fight. Liao Yaoxiang never believed it.
In terms of military accomplishment, he was a high-achieving student of the Whampoa Military Academy and the French Military Academy, and in this regard, even his old commander Du Yuming admired him for three points. I heard that most of the communist generals were mud-legged people who could not read a few characters, and they were not on a level at all.
In terms of equipment and firepower, the New Sixth Army has all American weapons, and its firepower is very powerful; the weapons of the communist army are mainly light weapons, and there are few cannons.
Sure enough, there were several battles, and as Liao Yaoxiang expected, he won them all.
For example, in the Battle of Panshan, the New 22nd Division, the most powerful "Tiger Division" under Liao Yaoxiang," sent a regiment of two infantry brigades of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army (the strength of which was equivalent to two divisions of the Nationalist Army), and after three days of fighting, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army suffered more than 1,200 casualties, while the regiment of the New Sixth Army suffered only more than 700 casualties.
The regiment reported to Liao Yaoxiang that the communist soldiers had never seen the American flamethrower, and when our army sprayed flames at the enemy, the communist soldiers did not know what it was, and actually drilled into the sea of fire to get warm. A regiment of the communist army was burned by a flamethrower...
Another example is the Battle of Shahousuo in December 1947, when the 2nd Column of Dongye set its sights on two regiments of the New 22nd Division of the "Tiger Division" of the New Sixth Army, and this battle Dongye took advantage of the time and place, and one of the battalions killed the headquarters of a regiment of the 22nd Division. Unexpectedly, this regiment was not in danger, and taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Dongye troops, they actually organized a counterattack on the spot, and all kinds of weapons were very well arranged, and almost wrapped dumplings in the Assault Battalion of Dongye.
After a fierce battle, the Dongye troops were difficult to ride on the tiger, and they could not attack and swallow, so they had to fight and retreat, and suffered great losses.
There were many similar battles, and Liao Yaoxiang arrogantly said that the communist army was just like this, this kind of unit was simply vulnerable, and I really didn't know how the nationalist army fought in the past.
Dongye was repeatedly bitten by the New Sixth Army, and the generals held their breath and spread a smooth phrase: to eat vegetables, you must eat cabbage hearts, and you must fight the New Sixth Army.
This kind of treatment, Mo said, is the new first army that originates from the same source as the New Sixth Army, and even the first-class main forces of the National Army, such as the Seventy-first Army and the Fifty-second Army, cannot be mixed. The affirmation from the opponent is definitely the greatest, so Liao Yaoxiang looks down on the friendly army even more and prides himself on being the main force of the five main forces of the national army.
Fourth, he was connived by Du Yuming
If it is only Liao Yaoxiang who burns the bun himself, there is not much of a problem. The key is that at that time, the big guys of the northeast national military system did not come out to point out and beat the Liao family, but blindly indulged and habitually, and any good thing let him go up, which encouraged his excessive arrogance.
Several of the main commanders of the Northeast Nationalist Army actually did not have a very smooth life.
For example, Sun Liren. When Du Yuming was a security commander in the northeast, he had various quarrels with Sun Liren. why? Sun Liren was also an arrogant man, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, who spoke English and spoke as much as Chinese. When in Burma, he and the American Stilwell fought fiercely, and Du Yuming and Zheng Dongguo were a bit unaccustomed to Sun Liren.
After arriving in the northeast, Sun Liren was also a father who did not hurt his mother and did not love, and the New Sixth Army came first in the Battle of Siping, robbing the credit of the New First Army, and Sun Liren openly scolded Liao Yaoxiang for being too uninteresting. This is actually referring to Sang Scolding Huai, you Commander Du Yuming is too eccentric and does not regard the New First Army as his own.
After the Battle of Siping, Du Yuming commanded various units to attack Changchun, declaring that whoever entered Changchun first would be rewarded with one million yuan. Sun Liren openly disobeyed the order and said he would not go. Why? At that time, the stationing positions of the various armies were different, the New Sixth Army was the closest to Changchun, the New First Army was the farthest, and at that time, the communist army withdrew to the north, and Changchun was almost an empty city, which was not obviously to give him Liao Yaoxiang a great contribution.
Du Yuming repeatedly persuaded and forced orders, but Sun Liren still did not listen, and as a result, the contradictions between the two sides became public. Du Yuming sent a letter of complaint to Chiang Kai-shek, who had long been unaccustomed to Sun Liren's style, and immediately transferred Sun Liren to Taiwan and asked him to train troops in Songshan.
Chen Mingren, the hero of the Battle of Siping, was not much better.
Du Yuming stepped down as the commander of the Northeast Security Due to illness, and Chen Cheng took his place. Who is Chen Cheng? No matter where you go, what you do, whether things are urgent or slow, the first priority is to grasp personnel.
After Chen Cheng arrived in the northeast, he installed various of his own cronies. But there are only a few important positions, and if you use a person, you have to abolish a person. Chen Mingren unfortunately became the target of Chen Cheng's exclusion, and was first transferred from the Seventy-first Army as a corps commander and left the army on which he was famous. Later, he was accused of conniving at the robbery of grain by the troops, and Chen Cheng dismissed him categorically.
Some people may inevitably ask, why is Chen Cheng's boy so domineering, Chen Mingren is a meritorious minister, and he is a high-ranking general at the level of lieutenant general, how can he say that he will withdraw? In fact, Chen Cheng is also a very smart person, he knows that Chen Mingren has a bad temper and has never been likable. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was once questioned by Chiang Kai-shek for the tattered clothes worn by soldiers. Chen Mingren openly asked, "I can't blame anyone else for this, only that the military uniforms and fabrics distributed by the chairman of the committee are too bad, and the brothers will wear it for a few days and fight a few battles." Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he almost withdrew him, but at that time the War of Resistance was in a hurry, and he was retained for a new post. Chen Cheng only understood Chiang Kai-shek's attitude and dared to do Chen Mingren.
The three commanders of the Northeast Nationalist Army who could fight the most were transferred, and only Liao Yaoxiang was still there. Not only was he still there, but he also gained more and more power, becoming the commander of the corps and actually taking charge of the New Sixth Army (Li Tao, the continuing commander of the New Sixth Army, was a hardcore subordinate of Liao Yaoxiang, who had always been under Liao's orders).
You say Liao Yaoxiang can he not be proud!
Among them, it is not unrelated to Du Yuming's consistent connivance, support and even shielding. Liao Yaoxiang said that Du Yuming also had responsibilities, and he really did not say anything nonsense.
Where does the princess's illness come from?
But to say that it was all connived by Du Yuming is a bit of an exaggeration.
Looking closely at Liao Yaoxiang's experience, the reason why he is too proud and too blind is because he sees few things and receives fewer hammers.
After Liao Yaoxiang returned to China, he plunged headlong into the War of Resistance. At this stage, the Kuomintang factions tended to be flat, and all kinds of warlords and factions temporarily stopped fighting under the pressure of subjugation of the country and the extinction of the species.
Later, Liao shi went to the Burmese battlefield, although the environment of the Burmese battlefield was harsh, but the political environment was relatively simple, and the generals du Yuming and Zheng Dongguo, who controlled the expeditionary force, were all students of the Whampoa Military Academy, and they were all high-ranking disciples whom Chiang Kai-shek trusted very much. Chen Cheng briefly served as the commander of the expeditionary force, but he did not actually take command, and the stinky style of domestic factional rolling did not contaminate the expeditionary force.
There are no factions at the top, and the atmosphere of the troops is much purer than that of the country, which is also an important reason for the repeated victories of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army.
In the more than twenty years of history of the National Army, a pure land like this is really rare. Or rather, nothing more. This is a great good thing for the combat effectiveness of the troops, but it is not a good thing for Liao Yaoxiang.
His political thinking can be said to be a blank piece of paper, there is no dark understanding of interpersonal relations and superior-subordinate relations, he does not know the severity of the stab in the back, nor does he understand what kind of heavy consequences will be brought about by arrogance and domineering, nor has he been punished with false accusations, so words and deeds are inevitably a little naïve. This is the root cause of his princess disease.
After Liao Yaoxiang was captured, Liu Yalou, chief of staff of Siye, personally came forward to feast on the nationalist generals who had been captured, surrendered, and revolted in the northeast battlefield.
Liao Yaoxiang was still sick at that time, and felt that she was the first in the world, and that soldiers would be afraid of no one. When Liu Yalou kindly advised him not to be obsessed, Liao Yaoxiang actually said solemnly, "Your communist army does not understand tactics, and if you give me the same strength and firepower, you will not be able to defeat me."
Liu Yalou smiled: "How many troops you want to use, how much firepower you want to use, is up to you, and we have no restrictions on you." We have more and more People's Liberation Army, why don't you send more troops up? ”
What Liao Yaoxiang wants to defend, think carefully, from the strength of the army to the battlefield, from the battlefield to the politics, from politics to the people's hearts, and then to the chinese national fortunes. He scratched his head and couldn't answer at all.
But he was a military man who quickly changed the subject, saying: "If President Chiang agrees to my plan to retreat from Yingkou, I can at least maintain the strength of one or two armies." I am confident in this. ”
Liu Yalou smiled: "General Liao, I think the first characteristic of military intelligence is to be able to distinguish between what can be done and what cannot be done, and not just wishful thinking. ”
It is a pity that Liao Yaoxiang was still sick at this time, and she always felt that she had too many specialties of ordinary people. But in the face of Liu Yalou's questioning that went straight into the soul, he was powerless.
Liu Yalou gave Liao Yaoxiang a certain amount of military dignity and never spoke ill of him.
After arriving at Gongdelin Prison, Liao Yaoxiang and a group of war criminals of the Nationalist Army met in the same capacity, and those generals who had been angry with him in the past would not pretend to be colored, what to say, what to say, some to be afraid of, and some to be sarcastic, so that this General Liao was not bothered.
In the old days, there was such a qi. However, he had not been overthrown by factions before, and he did not have a deep understanding of the ugly side of his colleagues in the national army, believing that everyone was a gentleman with a pure heart for the country. Suddenly facing the dark side of life, General Liao, who was sick with a glass heart, even though he was over fifty years old, faced with the collapse of ideals and the devouring of human nature, surrendered again on the spiritual level.
Later, he knowingly chose to dodge.
Immersed in theoretical study all day, memorizing a "Critique of the Gotha Program" word for word, the prisoners called "nerds".
It was only that he was stimulated by a heart attack, but it fell forever, and he died in 1968 because of a heart attack.
The damage that dark age had done to him, although it had been delayed for several years, had finally come.