Xiangyang has been a place of contention since ancient times, from the Wei shu dispute at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Xiangyang War in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which can be described as a long-standing war.
In the War of Liberation, our army also launched the Xiangfan Campaign, but the difference is that when the Mongol army besieged xiangyang city, which had been helpless for less than half a century, our army declared liberation in only half a month.
In this battle, the main commanders of our army were Wang Jinshan, and the others were Kang Ze and Guo Xunqi.
Kang Ze we introduced before, the famous big secret agent, then who is Guo Xunqi?
In fact, Guo Xunqi was a real sichuan army elder, once the first fierce general under Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, and the Red Army tried to take Sichuan several times during the Long March, but guo Xunqi was blocked outside the gate.
But Guo Xunqi is also very interesting, as long as your Red Army does not enter Sichuan, we will live in peace, if you hit my Sichuan idea, I will fight for my life. In desperation, the Red Army could only choose to cross the Jinsha River into Yunnan.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance in 1937, Guo Xunqi also ushered in his own highlight moment, leading his troops to participate in the defense of Nanjing.
In the face of the arrogant Japanese Sixth Division, Guo Xunqi risked his life and personally led the charge, and as a result, he was hit in the thigh by the Japanese bullet, but Guo Xunqi still did not go down the line of fire, insisted on commanding the battle, and was sent to the hospital until the end of the battle.
After Guo Xunqi recovered, he was promoted to the commander of the 50th Army and transferred to the southern Anhui region. Although it was a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Chiang Kai-shek strictly forbade the generals of the Nationalist army to negotiate privately with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and even often engaged in friction. However, these orders were taken as a deaf ear by Guo Xunqi, who not only took the initiative to contact the New Fourth Army, but also fought fiercely, and ran to have a few drinks with Mr. Chen and others at every turn.
Guo Xunqi saw that the New Fourth Army was in short supply, he had provided 30,000 rounds of ammunition and thousands of sets of uniforms, in order to cover the new Fourth Army deputy commander Zhang Yunyi to go north, Guo Xunqi even personally led people to escort, even Chiang Kai-shek gave him a secret telegram, he often took it to share with the New Fourth Army, like a family.
However, because he was too close to the New Fourth Army, Guo Xunqi was eventually targeted by Lao Jiang, and not only dismissed the commander of the 50th Army, but also sent to Chongqing under house arrest.
It was not until the eve of the Xiangfan Campaign in 1948 that Guo Xunqi was reinstated, and the reasons were nothing more than three points: First, the Kuomintang army was in decline, and there were really not many generals who could handle it; second, most of the generals stationed in Xiangfan at that time were Sichuan troops, and Kang Ze could not command these people at all, so he found Guo Xunqi, a veteran general of the Sichuan Army, to sit in the town; finally, Kang Ze was a secret agent and did not know what it was to fight as a soldier, so Lao Jiang found Guo Xunqi as his assistant and served as the deputy commander of the Fifteenth Appeasement District.
When he heard that he was going to be Kang Ze's deputy, Guo Xunqi, who had always been outspoken and fast-talking, actually broke out and scolded, saying that what was kang ze? Let Lao Tzu be his assistant, no way!
However, under the persuasion of everyone, Guo Xunqi also changed his mind, and although he was aggrieved to be Kang Ze's deputy, it was better to be able to contact his own troops than to be put under house arrest and waste the rest of his life, so he took office hard.
When it came time to really start the fight, Kang Ze could not trust Guo Xunqi, and he commanded in a chaotic manner, and the result was conceivable, and both of them soon became prisoners of Wang Jinshan.
When they heard the news that Guo Xunqi had been captured, Mr. Chen and Liu Bocheng also specially instructed him to send him to the headquarters to entertain him.
Guo Xunqi, Mr. Chen and Liu Bocheng had long been acquaintances, and under the persuasion of the two, they decided to return to Sichuan to instigate an uprising.
Unfortunately, Guo Xunqi was intercepted by the Nationalist army on the way and sent to Nanjing to continue under house arrest. It was not until after Chiang Kai-shek left the field, after his old classmates traveled in many directions, that Guo Xunqi was released and returned to Chengdu.
After returning to Chengdu, Guo Xunqi did not forget his task, continued to instigate an uprising, and made great contributions to the peaceful liberation of Chengdu.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Xunqi served as the deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Communications and the deputy director of the Water Conservancy Department, and died of illness in 1959 at the age of 64.