▲Situation map of the Liaoshen Campaign
Beginning in May 1948, with the rapid liberation of Yongji (present-day Jilin City, Jilin Province) and Siping City, Changchun, the former capital of "Puppet Manchukuo" and the capital of today's Jilin Province, was completely reduced to an isolated city, and hundreds of kilometers around it were liberated areas. The economic center - Shenyang.
Officers and men of the 60th Army of the Dian Army
Exhausted and oppressed, the idea of uprising was born
Among the Defenders of Changchun, the 60th Army was a newcomer who had just arrived. From a distance, it was a Dian Army unit from Yunnan, which was reorganized from the 6 brigades with the strongest combat effectiveness under the command of Long Yun, the "King of Yunnan" in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and gathered the financial resources of the whole province to replace a full set of French equipment, and was tempered several times on the subsequent anti-Japanese battlefield, and the battle achievements were outstanding. However, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was sent to Vietnam by "transferring the tiger away from the mountain" to be surrendered, and the central army troops stationed in the provincial capital Kunming seized the opportunity to launch the "Wuhuashan Incident", attacking the remaining Dian army troops at night, and forcing Long Yun, who had held the military and political power in Yunnan for 18 years, to go to Chongqing and take up the vacant post of president of the military senate. Subsequently, the 60th Army, along with other Dian troops stationed in Vietnam, was shipped directly to the northeast to fight the civil war.
Closer, the 60th Army was originally stationed in Yongji City, and later broke through all the way to Changchun, but due to interception on the way, all grain and truck equipment were lost. The officers and men who fought in the northeast region, which is full of spring in all seasons, to the icy and snowy northeast region have long been full of complaints and indignation. This time he entered Changchun empty-handed, and there was no food to pay, and the commander of the army, Zeng Zesheng, was forced to go to li Hong, the commander of the new 7th Army, to ask for help, Li Hong controlled the city's grain warehouses, airdrops, and airfields, and his subordinates had rice and white noodles, but only allocated half of the bean cakes from the horse materials raised to send Zeng Zesheng.
▲ The New 7th Army once expeditioned to Burma
There are elite new 7 army around them, and there are secret agents monitoring inside
New hatred and old hatred, coupled with the long-term political offensive of the Chinese communists against the 60th Army, finally forced Commander Zeng Zesheng to have the idea of uprising. However, he was always worried about the New 7th Army stationed in the same city, because the combat effectiveness of the army was really amazing, and its backbone, the New 38th Division, was originally subordinate to the New 1st Army, one of the "five main forces", and was the number one main force of the New 1st Army from the expedition to Yunnan burma, trained by the US military equipment, strong combat strength, and once single-handedly defeated the two main divisions of the Japanese and Kou.
Although the 60th Army was also a strong anti-war brigade, after entering the northeast battlefield, the 184th Division under its command rebelled at Yingkou, and the provisional 21st Division served as a rear guard on the way to Changchun, losing more than 8,000 troops, and only the 182nd Division was still in combat strength. Once the intention of the uprising was exposed, the 60th Army was absolutely powerless to resist the attack of the new 38th Division, not to mention that the army was newly incorporated into the provisional 52nd Division, which was reorganized from the military command and the Jilin Provincial Railway Traffic Police Corps, and was actually dedicated to monitoring Zeng Zesheng and two other division commanders.
▲The Battle of Jinzhou liberation
The city was about to be destroyed, and the commander presided over the meeting to announce the uprising
Despite the difficulties, the uprising is no longer in sight. On October 15, an elite news came out that Jinzhou City had fallen, and Fan Hanjie, deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Suppression And Director of the Jinzhou Command Post, was captured outside the city. The 93rd Army, another main force of the Dian Army, which together with the 60th Army, was called a "sister army", was also destroyed in the city, and many generals such as Commander Lu Junquan were put into the prisoner camp. Seeing that the overall situation in the northeast had been determined, Commander Zeng Zesheng went to the headquarters of the Provisional 21st Division and the 182nd Division overnight to organize an emergency meeting of officers at and above the battalion level.
At the meeting, Commander Zeng Zesheng explained to everyone in detail the current situation, publicly counted the crimes of the Kuomintang regime in bringing calamity to the country and the people, told all kinds of facts about chiang kai-shek and his concubines' central army in discriminating against, squeezing out, and suppressing the 60th Army, and finally put forward: "We are all Yunnan Robe Ze, today is to study our own fate and future, as far as we can speak bluntly, do not have any worries." The officers present saw that Commander Zeng, who had always been cautious in his rhetoric, said so, so they put forward one after another the idea of "surviving the anti-Chiang Kai-shek uprising."
▲ Zheng Dongguo, the general of Changchun and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General"
The commander of the New 7th Army was seriously ill, and the internal agents were exhausted
However, fortunately, the good news came from the New 7th Army, the commander of the army, Li Hong, was sick with wind and cold in bed, and could not take care of military affairs for 1 week, and his division commander had the plan of the division commander, and the regiment commander had the plan of the regimental commander, and he had no intention of fighting. As for the remaining provisional 52nd Division, Zeng Zesheng handled it simply and effectively, first ordering the division commander and 3 regimental commanders to meet at the military headquarters, and then forcing them to issue orders for an uprising to their subordinates with guns. On the evening of the 16th, the units of the 60th Army broke away from their original garrisons and transferred the original defense area to the 12th Column of the Northeast Field Army; before leaving, Zeng Zesheng ordered a telephone call from the corps headquarters and personally said to Zheng Dongguo: "The 60th Army has revolted, this is the unanimous demand of the officers and men of the whole army, and the troops have no choice but this way out, so please ask the commander for forgiveness." ”
▲The liberation of Changchun City
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