History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
From the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the 1970s, the Beijing Gongdelin Management Office imprisoned and reformed more than 200 senior Kuomintang generals captured in the Liberation War, and the civil war criminals who could enter here for reform basically started with the rank of major general of the Nationalist Army, and the first-line generals included military commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders, corps commanders, and appeasement district chiefs. Among so many former senior Kuomintang officials, who are the real "big guys"? Today, let's take a look at the five highest-ranking Kuomintang prisoners of war, and even the high-ranking officers of the corps commander of more than 100,000 troops cannot be shortlisted for this list.
5th place, Song Xilian, with the rank of lieutenant general. Song Xilian was a patriotic general during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, serving as the commander of the 36th German Mechanization Division of Chiang Kai-shek's ace at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and later became the commander-in-chief of the 11th Group Army, the commander of the 14th Corps during the Liberation War, and until the end of the war, he was promoted to the director of the Chuanxiang E'e Sui Bureau. It has 3 corps under its jurisdiction and is in charge of more than 200,000 troops, and its status is not much better than that of the commander-in-chief. If we simply talk about military power, Song Xilian is second only to Du Yuming among prisoners of war. After His release in 1959 and his settlement in the United States, General Song, who had a good character, lived to the age of 86 and continued to campaign for peaceful reunification between the two sides of the strait in his later years.
4th place, Du Yuming, with the rank of Lieutenant General. The number of troops that Du Yuming had commanded ranked first among all the Kuomintang prisoner of war generals in Gongdelin, and it was far ahead. In 1948, he successively served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Suppression General and the Xu General Suppression General, and was actually responsible for the overall military situation of the two theaters, commanding the total strength of the troops to exceed one million people. It was not that Du Yuming was incompetent, the Kuomintang army in the three major battles was difficult to save the defeat, and eventually "Commander Du" was also reduced to prisoners of war. Like Song Xilian, he was released early because of his good attitude toward reform and became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1981, Du Yuming died of illness in Beijing.
3rd place, Kang Ze, rank of Lieutenant General. Kang Ze was different from the above two, although he also served as the governor of the Appeasement District in Xiangyang, he was a big secret agent, one of the founders of the Revival Society, and originally did not belong to the front-line generals of the Nationalist Army. Even a military leader like Dai Kasa was once respectful in front of Kang Ze. Kang Ze was able to rank third not entirely out of his status in the Kuomintang intelligence circles and the military circles, but because of his superior political status. This person was among the standing committee members of the Kuomintang Central Committee (as strong as Du Yuming was only an ordinary member of the Central Committee), and originally had a very good political future in the Nationalist government, but in the end he was defeated and captured. Kang Ze was released from prison in 1963 and died of illness in Beijing four years later.
2nd place, Tang Yao, rank of Lieutenant General. Tang Yao's military rank was higher than that of several others. This person served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army in late 1949. If it had been in 1946, this position would have hanged all senior prisoners of war in this article. However, in connection with this special time node, the Kuomintang army has basically withdrawn from the mainland in its entirety, and it is obvious that Tang Yao remained in the southwest of the country, and originally this post of deputy commander-in-chief was left to Gu Zhutong, who knew that the fierceness was more auspicious and less, so he appointed Tang Yao to this "important" post. Tang Yao was very satisfied with this false post, and originally planned to make a decision to stick to the last moment before flying away from the mainland, but because the Kuomintang intelligence was inaccurate, he was captured by the fast-moving People's Liberation Army troops in the Yuanjiang area of Yunnan, and Tang Yao became the highest-ranking Kuomintang prisoner. In 1962, Tang Yao fell ill and died in the management office, and could not wait for the pardon.
The 1st place, Wang Lingji, was lieutenant general plus the rank of general. In fact, Wang Lingji, who was born in the Sichuan Army, was an old warlord with outstanding qualifications, but he hardly brought soldiers during the Liberation War. The reason why it ranks first among the captured bosses is because of its special rank. Among all the captured Kuomintang generals, Wang Lingji had the highest rank and the only lieutenant general plus general, which was simply the most junior Kuomintang general rank, second to the second rank of general. What is the concept of this rank? Hu Zongnan, a famous general of the central army and the elder Jiang Concubine, had 240,000 troops when he was the military and political commander of the northwest, and he only added the rank of general to the rank of lieutenant general, which shows how high Wang Lingji's rank is. However, because he was too old, he did not wait for the day of his release from prison and died of illness at the age of 84.