During the Liberation War, the most elite regiment of the Kuomintang was the Ninth Corps, which had the new 1st Army, the New 3rd Army, the New 6th Army, the 49th Army, the 52nd Army, and the 71st Army.
Among them, the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army are two of the five main forces of the Kuomintang troops, fully equipped with American equipment, and they are all veterans.
Such an elite corps, so who will be the commander? This person was a huangpu sixth-term student named Liao Yaoxiang.
Liao Yaoxiang is a native of Shaoyang, Hunan, born in 1906, when he was a child, he went to private school, primary school, middle school, in 1925, in order to report to the Whampoa Military Academy, Liao Yaoxiang's family raised the strength of the whole family to raise money for him, but in the end he did not get it.
When Liao Yaoxiang arrived in Guangzhou, the enrollment of the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy had ended, and he had no choice but to join the troops of the Hunan warlords and make a living first, and in 1926, he was admitted to the sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Liao Yaoxiang is a very outstanding person in learning, during the school, because of his good performance, attracted the attention of the principal Chiang Kai-shek, in 1930, in a study abroad examination, Liao Yaoxiang achieved a good result of the third place, but was brushed down, the reason is short, his appearance is not proud.
Liao Yaoxiang was so angry that he broke into Chiang Kai-shek's place late at night, and when Chiang Kai-shek was woken up, he asked what was going on, and the soldier said that a student of the Whampoa Phase VI wanted to see him.
When he heard that it was from the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek said that he would meet him.
Chiang Kai-shek listened to the reason why Liao Yaoxiang came to him, smiled, and said that there must be you on the list, and soon, Liao Yaoxiang's name was indeed among them, and he was escorted to the French Saint-Cyr Military Academy.
In 1936, Liao Yaoxiang graduated with the first place in the mechanized cavalry major and returned to China.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liao Yaoxiang served as the battalion commander of the lieutenant colonel, and subsequently, he participated in the Defense of Nanjing, etc. In early 1938, Chiang Kai-shek formed a mechanized division, the 200th Division, which coincided with Liao Yaoxiang's professional counterpart, and Liao Yaoxiang served as the chief of staff of the major general.
The unit was later expanded into the New 11th Army, with Liao Yaoxiang serving as deputy commander of the 22nd Division.
During the eight-year all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liao Yaoxiang successively served as deputy division commander, division commander, and military commander, and he led his troops to participate in the Battle of Kunlun Pass and the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain, during which he also went to Burma as a Chinese expeditionary force and made meritorious contributions to the War of Resistance.
In 1945, Liao Yaoxiang led the New 6th Army to Nanjing to accept the surrender of the Japanese army.
During the Liberation War, Liao Yaoxiang successively served as a military commander and commander of the Ninth Corps.
In October 1948, the Liaoshen Campaign broke out, Lin Biao led the Northeast Field Army to attack Jinzhou, Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered Liao Yaoxiang to command the Westward Advance Corps to support Jinzhou.
Not long after, Liao Yaoxiang set out with 110,000 people, and on October 15, Jinzhou was conquered, and Liao Yaoxiang decided to lead his troops back to Yingkou.
Lin Biao keenly saw an opportunity, Liao Yaoxiang's troops were now in the Black Mountain area 130 kilometers away from Jinzhou, which was very close to the large troops of our army, which was also a good opportunity to annihilate Liao Yaoxiang's clique.
As a result, the Montenegrin blockade war broke out, and its task was to block the enemy's support, Lin Biao led a large army to attack the Liao Yaoxiang group from Jinzhou, and he ordered: All columns do not need to find divisions, divisions do not have to find regiments, regiments do not have to find battalions, everyone can just look for Liao Yaoxiang.
Lin Biao's meaning was very simple, all the troops had only one task, that is, to eliminate the Liao Yaoxiang clique.
Soon after the defeat, he was captured by our army, and as a lieutenant general in the nationalist army and also a famous anti-Japanese general, our army gave Liao Yaoxiang a very good courtesy.
In November, Dongye held a banquet, and Liu Yalou came forward to entertain these captured Kuomintang generals, who had also just been captured, and their hearts were very bad, so Liu Yalou decided to give them a toast one by one to get closer.
The others saw that it was a high-ranking official of the People's Liberation Army, and they were very face-saving, and liu Yalou asked anything, and they answered anything, but when they arrived at Liao Yaoxiang's place, there was an accident.
Instead of drinking, he dropped his glass and said, "What kind of battle are you fighting?" I don't talk about tactics at all, please tell General Lin Biao, we will swing the troops away and fight again. ”
Hearing this, Liu Yalou gave a moment's hesitation, and the rest of the Kuomintang generals present were also stunned.
Seeing Liao Yaoxiang's unconvinced look, Liu Yalou was not angry, he was still very concerned about the emotions of these captured Kuomintang generals, so he did not speak, turned around and invited another person to come out.
After this invited person arrived, Liao Yaoxiang immediately ran forward to comfort him, it turned out that this person who was invited out was his Huangpu Phase I senior, not only that, during the War of Resistance, he was also the leader of Liao Yaoxiang, his name was Zheng Dongguo.
Zheng Dongguo was a first-term student of Huangpu, with high seniority and high status in the Kuomintang troops, on October 21, 1948, the People's Liberation Army attacked Changchun, Zheng Dongguo originally wanted to commit suicide, and was later abducted by soldiers to surrender.
Chiang Kai-shek did not know the specific situation, thinking that he had died in battle, when he was still in Nanjing to call on all the Nationalist troops to learn from Zheng Dongguo, Liao Yaoxiang was a little surprised when he saw Zheng Dongguo, and then he rushed up to comfort him and stopped making trouble.
At this time, he also understood in his heart that he was already a prisoner of the order, and he was indeed not good at Liu Yalou's attitude, and Zheng Dongguo's surrender also proved that the Jiang family dynasty was about to collapse, so Liao Yaoxiang returned to the wine table and toasted Liu Yalou three times to apologize.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Yaoxiang was arranged to reform in Gongdelin Prison.
In 1951, the Central Military Commission established the Nanjing Military Academy, and Liu Bo served as the dean, when the college was particularly short of teachers after its establishment, despite the doubts of others, Liu Bocheng strongly invited Liao Yaoxiang to come.
Liu Bocheng said: "We have invited you to be a teacher this time, and I hope that you will focus on three issues: First, talk about the tactics of small troops, forest combat methods, and urban and village battles you used in the Burmese battlefield; second, talk about your experience in the Liaoshen Campaign, you don't have to be afraid of this, as long as you talk about it realistically, we can talk about the strengths and weaknesses of both sides; finally, I hope you will provide some suggestions for our army building." ”
Liao Yaoxiang really couldn't imagine that Liu Bocheng had such a great courtesy to him: "I am worried that I will not speak well and live up to your expectations." ”
Liu Bocheng waved his hand: "You can rest assured that the moment you stand in the lecture hall, we are all your students." ”
Later, Liao Yaoxiang came to the academy as a teacher, and once, a student asked Liao Yaoxiang: "Teacher Liao, I am a regiment leader who participated in the Black Mountain Blockade War." I have a question for you, when the battle of resistance in Montenegro was at its most intense, if you had worked harder, you would have a great possibility of taking Montenegro and avoiding the total annihilation of the army. But why are you suddenly retreating? ”
Liao Yaoxiang paused, sighed, and said in a low tone, "At that time, the military spirit of our troops was already scattered. ”
In 1961, Liao Yaoxiang was released from prison as the third batch of amnesty war criminals, after which he successively served as a commissioner of the Cultural and Historical Materials Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and in 1968, he died of illness.