In addition to the nickname of "Captain of the Transport Brigade", Chiang Kai-shek also had a nickname called "Director of the Admissions Office of Gong Delin". Because of his blind command of the superior level, hundreds of generals of the Kuomintang army were captured in the Liberation War, and most of them were sent to the Gongdelin War Criminals Prison in Beijing to study and reform. Moreover, after the People's Liberation Army launched a strategic armageddon, the three major battles destroyed and destroyed millions of Kuomintang troops, losing their armor and armor, giving us the illusion that the Kuomintang generals were incompetent. In fact, in addition to the Five Tiger Generals in the Nationalist army camp, many generals are by no means mediocre, and many people have caused great trouble to the People's Liberation Army, such as Fu Zuoyi.
Fu Zuoyi, a native of Yuncheng, Shanxi, grew up with good academic performance, and was admitted to the Taiyuan Army Primary School with high scores in 1910. At that time, the revolutionary movement under the leadership of Sun Yat-sen was in full swing throughout the country, and Fu Zuoyi was also deeply affected by this new trend of thought, and Taiyuan also responded positively after the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, when Fu Zuoyi also fought against the Qing army as a platoon leader of the rebel army. After that, Fu Zuoyi relied on his excellent results to ensure that he was escorted all the way, and finally graduated from the Baoding Military Academy.
At that time, the warlords divided the territory, Yan Xishan can be said to be the "King of Shanxi", and Fu Zuoyi, who was originally from Shanxi, naturally joined Yan Xishan's Jin army. Later, he rose through the ranks by virtue of his own ability, and from 1918 to 1926, he became a lieutenant general in just a few years. In 1927, a war broke out between the Jin army and the Kuomintang army, and this battle also showed Fu Zuoyi's talent for defense to the fullest, and the Tianzhen town guarded by him was besieged by the Kuomintang army for three months without being defeated. In 1928, Fu Zuoyi led the troops to accept the fengjun reorganization.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Fu Zuoyi also responded positively, calling on all parties to unite and jointly resist the Japanese invasion, and under fu Zuoyi's leadership, he also won many victories such as the Suiyuan War of Resistance. At that time, Yan Xishan had already transferred the main force of the Jin army in order to preserve its strength, and the Japanese army led a large army to Taiyuan, and at the critical moment, Fu Zuoyi also stepped forward and took the initiative to ask Miao to defend Taiyuan by himself, although in the end it was lost because of the outnumbered, but Fu Zuoyi also brought a heavy blow to the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army did not have the strength to invade the south.
After the victory of the War of Resistance, the Nationalists and communists also fought to varying degrees, and Fu Zuoyi led his troops to successively capture a large area of northern China such as Suiyuan and Rehe, and maintained a high winning rate against the Plaster, winning more and losing less. Among them, the Battle of Suiyuan is also more representative, when the Japanese army has not yet officially surrendered, and the Troops of the Eighth Route Army at that time launched an attack on Fu Zuoyi's town of Guisui, but was repulsed by Fu Zuoyi. On the first day after the surrender of the Japanese army, Fu Zuoyi, under the instructions of Chiang Kai-shek, led tens of thousands of troops to quickly take over the nearby cities in preparation for the future attack on the Communist forces, and the Eighth Route Army was not willing to let the fruits of victory be plundered by the Kuomintang, so it decided to start first, gathering the strength of 14 brigades of Nie Rongzhen and He Long to launch the Suiyuan Campaign.
After a few days of heroic fighting, the Eighth Route Army also captured many cities, but the Kuomintang troops, under the instructions of Fu Zuoyi, quickly retreated once they encountered the attack of our army's large troops, and retreated to the central city to hold on to their strength, so nie Rongzhen and He Long's plan to annihilate their main force in the field was frustrated.
Soon the two sides entered a stalemate, and although the Eighth Route Army surrounded Guisui City, the siege did not progress smoothly due to the lack of artillery and siege experience. And Fu Zuoyi was not stupid enough to stand and be beaten, and organized many counterattacks, which greatly delayed the offensive momentum of the Eighth Route Army. After that, with the consent of the central government, it was decided to leave a part of the troops to continue the siege of Guisui, and the rest was led by He Long to fight in Baotou. Because of the wrong prejudgment of the strength of the Baotou defenders, the battle against Baotou was also very unsmooth, and the positions of the Kuomintang and the Communists were repeatedly pulled, and our army suffered heavy losses. Moreover, it was already winter at that time, and many soldiers were still wearing thin clothes, and the logistical support could not keep up. What's more, He Long's old disease recurred and he also suffered from a serious cold at the same time, and decided to abandon the siege under repeated weighing. The Jin Sui troops suffered this major defeat, many soldiers were depressed, and the morale of the troops was also affected.
After this battle, our army carefully reviewed the reasons for the defeat, believing that the dual military leadership of Nie Rongzhen and He Long had caused the troops to be unable to work together, and there were differences between the two on some important issues, resulting in the missed fighter. This incident gave the central government a reminder and reflection, and later sent Peng Dehuai to succeed He Long, and Suiyuan was peacefully liberated on September 19, 1949.