History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
During the Liberation War, our army used the tactic of concentrating forces to form local superiority and annihilated a large number of Kuomintang troops, but there was one battle that was very special, that is, the Battle of Laiwu in February 1947. At the critical moment of this battle, the main force of the Nationalist army was still there, and a main commander actually left the battlefield alone and hid in an inconspicuous small shop, until the end of the campaign, the Nationalist troops were completely annihilated and then quietly returned to Nanjing.
The main force of the Kuomintang in the Laiwu Campaign was the Li Xianzhou Clique, which had more than 60,000 troops under its jurisdiction, including the 46th Army and the 73rd Army. Because the enemy did not expect that huaye's main force had quietly moved north from Linyi on the south side, it fell into the encirclement of nearly 200,000 troops of our army. At this time, Li Xianzhou could only reduce losses as much as possible by commanding the troops to break through. At the critical moment, the commander of the Kuomintang 46th Army suddenly disappeared, and Li Xianzhou searched for no results (it was not a trivial matter to lose a military commander after the defeat of the battle), which delayed the breakthrough, and at the same time, the 46th Army had no supreme commander, and its combat effectiveness was suddenly reduced. As a result, in less than 3 days, more than 50,000 people of Li Xianzhou's group were annihilated, most of whom were captured, including Li Xianzhou himself.
This Kuomintang commander, who mysteriously disappeared on the battlefield, was named Han Liancheng. The reason why he suddenly disappeared from the Kuomintang army during the Battle of Laiwu was because, according to the guidance of our liaison personnel, he had already consulted with the subordinate regimental commanders as a reason, left the headquarters of the Nationalist army, and quietly entered a small shop in the western suburbs, hiding in the basement of the shop until the Nationalist army was completely annihilated. In other words, General Han was actually already a member of our side at that time. Why? Han Liancheng belonged to Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army in the early days, belonged to the standard "miscellaneous generals", and out of patriotism, he had long volunteered to join our army. However, after interviewing the prime minister during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was secretly arranged to lurk in the Nationalist Army, and it was also because the Kuomintang and the Communists were still cooperating in the War of Resistance, and Han Lian did not join the Party for a long time, let alone disclose his identity.
Since the 46th Army was the foundation of the Gui army, not Han Liancheng's concubine, it was very difficult to directly lead a large-scale uprising, but it was very difficult to disrupt the 46th Army and delay The Li Xianzhou clique, and Han Liancheng still succeeded in doing so. After Han Liancheng left the shop, it was actually difficult to continue to lurk. The real lurking work is not as calm and ingenious as in the spy war drama: Li Xianzhou has 60,000 people in the department, and as a commander, he can't escape, and how can Han Liancheng run out of the army alone? It is difficult to give a perfect explanation to the top brass of the National Army. However, Han Liancheng was very bold, and instead of making his identity public in the uprising on the spot, he decided to continue to lurk in a desperate way in order to develop more key intelligence from Nanjing. After returning to Nanjing, Han explained to Old Chiang how to escape the siege, falsely claiming that he had saved his life by pretending to be a beggar, but eventually escaping punishment and suspicion, and staying in the upper echelons of the government to become a lieutenant general's senior staff officer.
But in 1949, Han Liancheng could not revolt any longer, because the Kuomintang secret service had obtained evidence of his contacts with our side, and if it were not for the rescue of General Zhang Zhizhong, who advocated peace between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Han Liancheng would have lost his life. Han's lurking career is comparable to that of legendary agent Guo Rujie. In the second year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Han finally joined the party as he wished, and because of his special contribution to the cause of liberation, Han Liancheng later returned to his hometown of Northwest China and served as vice governor of Gansu, and in 1955 he was awarded the rank of founding lieutenant general. In 1984, the old general Han died of illness in Beijing.