In Sichuan in the 1920s and 1930s, although the social economy was not developed, the local warlords rose up and attacked each other for territory. The strength of each warlord pulled out of the province may not be first-class, but he fought in Sichuan, Xikang and other places for twenty years, causing the destruction of life. Among them, the Liu clan produced two big men, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui, liu Wenhui and our party and our army have a very deep relationship, the Red Army period once "released water" to the Central Red Army during the Long March, and later maintained close contact and finally successfully launched an uprising.
During Liu Wenhui's tenure as the commander of the First Mixed Brigade of the Sichuan Army, he was favored by his more powerful nephew Liu Xiang (then commander of the Second Army), and the two once had a good relationship. Later, Liu Xiang fought with various warlords, and Liu Wenhui also sided with his own family, repeatedly fighting righteously. However, Liu Wenhui is not an ordinary warlord, he graduated from the Baoding Military Academy, there are a group of Baoding department disciples, with cultural quality and class origin, among the Sichuan warlords is relatively high level. After the expansion of his power, Liu Wenhui, whose army size reached 100 regiments and personally served as the commander of the Twenty-fourth Army, also ignited his ambition to unify Sichuan, which inevitably created a conflict of interest with his nephew Liu Xiang.
For the sake of territory and power, the two eventually turned against each other, and in the 1930s, the "Second Liu War" in Sichuan broke out, Liu Xiang himself was powerful, and with the help of the power of warlords such as Deng Xihou, liu Wenhui was finally defeated completely. However, Liu Xiang was also afraid that Deng Xihou would support his own self-esteem and have a new conflict with himself to become the next Liu Wenhui, so Liu Xiang also needed Liu Wenhui to contain Deng Xihou. So Liu Xiang did not kill his nephew, but gave him the territory of Xikang after Liu Wenhui confessed his mistake, and kept the only 20,000 remnants of soldiers, and the uncle and nephew did not completely tear their faces in the end, and Liu Wenhui was honestly low-key.
In 1934, the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in the Central Soviet Region failed, and only a long-distance strategic transfer could be carried out, and the 86,000-strong Central Red Army was reduced to 30,000 because of the defeat in the Xiangjiang Campaign. By the time he passed Liu Wenhui's defense zone, his strength had been greatly damaged, and it was very difficult to cross the 103-meter-long Luding Bridge. However, as mentioned earlier, Liu Wenhui had just gone through the confrontation with Liu Xiang, barely retained a glimmer of vitality and the territory of Xikang, and did not want to show all his strength to engage the Red Army. So Liu Wenhui perfunctorily perfunctorily let the old Chiang Kai-shek relax his guard, but only withdrew the wooden planks of the Luding Bridge, but did not completely blow up the chain bridge.
In the end, the Red Army's death squads captured the Luding Bridge after heroic struggle, and also successfully passed through Liu Wenhui's defense zone. Of course, this is only an analysis from the objective point of view of the enemy, and the main reason for the red army's successful transfer is the heroic tenacity and bloody sacrifice of the commanders and fighters. However, Liu Wenhui did not fight the Red Army to the death at that time, but still paved the way for future diplomatic relations between the two sides. He himself achieved his goal, retaining the strength of his troops. For Liu Wenhui, the Luding Bridge was preserved, that is, the local business channel was preserved, and Liu Wenhui's own wealth was also retained, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. Although Old Jiang and the Central Army were very dissatisfied, at that time, for Liu Wenhui, who was far away in Xikang, Old Jiang was temporarily out of reach, and objectively gave him time to recover his vitality.
In the early stage of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Xiang, the "King of Sichuan" who vigorously advocated the War of Resistance, fell ill and died, and the old Chiang Kai-shek had the opportunity to take advantage of it, and the pressure exerted on Sichuan and Xikang was very great. The shrewd Liu Wenhui deeply felt that the local warlords had limited strength, and they were not opponents of the old Chiang Kai-shek, and the only ones who might be able to resist the Central Army in the future were our party and our army. Therefore, from 1938 onwards, he secretly established contact with our side and told the Prime Minister that if there was anything that needed to be done, he would definitely cooperate. General Liu Wenhui's remarks also laid the groundwork for his uprising in the late stages of the Liberation War, during which relations between the two sides have always been very good, and Liu Wenhui has maintained secret communication with the premier.
Due to the continuous expansion of the central army after the middle and late stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the pressure of Lao Jiang on a number of warlords in the southwest was very large, and in 1945 Long Yun was placed under overhead house arrest, and Lao Jiang basically effectively controlled Sichuan and Yunnan, only Xikang barely remained in the hands of Liu Wenhui, but it was also precarious. Therefore, in the early days of the Liberation War in 1946, Liu Wenhui, chairman of xikang province of the Nationalist government, took the initiative to propose to the prime minister that he could lead the Twenty-fourth Army under his command to launch an uprising and respond to our army's operations.
But at that time, the Plaster had only more than a million regular troops, and it was on the defensive. The premier told Liu Wenhui to wait patiently for the opportunity and not to act rashly. Finally, three years later, before the Southwest Campaign in 1949, under the personal instructions of the premier, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, Pan Wenhua and other progressive generals launched an uprising in Peng County, Sichuan, which dealt a heavy blow to the crumbling Chiang Family Dynasty and greatly accelerated the liberation process of the southwest region. This time, Liu Wenhui finally became a hero of the people, washing away the disgraceful image of the warlords in the melee many years ago.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Wenhui served as vice chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and in 1959, he became the minister of forestry of the central government, and became a senior official at the ministerial level. He has always admired the prime minister's ability and personality, and the two are privately good friends who have been friends for many years. During Liu Wenhui's tenure as Minister of Forestry, he was once mistreated because of his pre-liberation experience, and the premier used various ways to protect him, which further enhanced Liu Wenhui's admiration and gratitude to the premier. In January 1976, the prime minister died of liver cancer, and Liu Wenhui's health at this time was also very bad, and he also suffered from cancer. But he still let people carry himself on a stretcher to the scene of the farewell ceremony, and looking at the body of the premier, Liu Wenhui was tearful and sad, and died of illness in June of the same year.
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