What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Whampoa Military Academy believes that everyone is familiar with it, it is a famous military school in modern history founded by Mr. Zhongshan during the Republic of China. For the two parties, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have trained many outstanding generals, and the students who have come out of here have also influenced the trend of modern history. For example, Wang Yaowu, Liao Yaoxiang, Qiu Qingquan, Song Xilian, Du Yuming, and others were all students who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, including General Chen Geng of our party, Marshal Xu Xiangqian, Lin Zong, and others who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy.
It can be said that the above are all famous generals in modern history, however, there is another high-achieving student in the Whampoa Military Academy, he is Liu Zongkuan. Although this person is not very high-ranking in the nationalist army group, he has become the number one meritorious hero of our party's liberation of the southwest during the Liberation War. This has to start from Liu Zongkuan's life experience.
Liu Zongkuan
Liu Zongkuan, a native of Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province, was a student of Normal University before he joined the army, because, under the influence of the May Fourth Movement, Liu Zongkuan, who was flesh and blood, chose to join the army to serve the country. At the same time, the unit he joined was General Yang Hucheng's 17th Route Army. Because of his good handwriting and culture, Liu Zongkuan was very favored by General Yang Hucheng and let Liu Zongkuan serve as his clerk. His main job was to write some combat orders and convey documents for General Yang Hucheng.
But these jobs are not what Liu Zongkuan wants. His dream of joining the army was to go into battle to kill the enemy and defend his family and defend the country. Therefore, on the recommendation of General Yang Hucheng, Liu Zongkuan was admitted to the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. Please note that at that time, the Whampoa Military Academy was not for anyone to enter, but was required to take a written test. Among all the students in the third phase, Liu Zongkuan won the first place in the written test and officially became the third batch of cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy.
The third batch of cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy
During his studies at the Whampoa Military Academy, Liu Zongkuan excelled in all disciplines and was known as a high-caliber student at the Whampoa Military Academy. After that, he was sent to the second special class of the Army University to study, please note that during the period of Lu University, Liu Zongkuan was also very excellent, and walked out of the school gate with the first place when he graduated. At that time, he was also awarded an honorary certificate by Chiang Kai-shek himself, and for a while, Liu Zongkuan was called Wu Zhuangyuan of Lu Da.
However, learning does not mean that he is a good military scientist. Friends who may know history know that Lin Zong, the famous god of war in our party, is a Huangpu IV student, and he has performed mediocrely in school, which can be regarded as a middle school student. But after going to the battlefield, he became a generation of famous generals. Therefore, if you study well in a military school, you can only say that you are rich in theoretical knowledge, but you cannot practice it. You must know that there is still a big difference between marching and fighting and the theoretical knowledge in textbooks.
Liu Zongkuan with his wife
Therefore, after Liu Zongkuan walked out of the school gate, his performance in his future military career was not as beautiful as his performance in the school. In the nationalist camp, they were engaged in some staff work, including in the later period of the War of Resistance, they rarely went to the front to fight, and they were responsible for some staff officers, intelligence and other work in the rear.
But one thing that was very correct in his life was to secretly join our Party during the War of Resistance. Since then, he has become an invisible general, and he is an invisible general lurking next to Chiang Kai-shek. Because Liu Zongkuan was in charge of the staff work of the headquarters, he was relatively close to the United Front Command. After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Liu Zongkuan, who was the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Army, provided a lot of important information. It also made a certain contribution to the victory of the War of Liberation. You must know that during the period of the War of Liberation, the underground comrades of our Party, as well as the intelligence personnel and stealth generals who lurked around Chiang Kai-shek. They all made great contributions to the victory of the War of Liberation.
Liu Zongkuan's greatest contribution was when the Second Field Army liberated the Great Southwest, and he played a great role. After the outbreak of the Battle of the Crossing River, Chiang Kai-shek led his troops to retreat to the southwest and set up the headquarters in Chongqing. In order to prevent the communist army from attacking the southwest, Chiang Kai-shek held the supreme military conference in Chongqing, the topic of which was how to defend the southwest, and it just so happened that Liu Zongkuan also participated in this meeting, and Chiang Kai-shek also asked him to give his opinions. For Chiang Kai-shek, this is undoubtedly digging his own grave, but for our army, it is a great good thing.
After the meeting, Liu Zongkuan put forward Chiang Kai-shek's deployment in the southwest and the battle plan for the distribution of troops. Through the underground party comrades, it was transmitted to Liu Deng, the commander of the Second Field Army. With this important piece of information, it will be much easier to liberate the southwest, and only by knowing oneself and knowing oneself can one win every battle. Therefore, during the Southwest Campaign, the First Field Army could achieve consecutive victories, and Liu Zongkuan played a great role. Therefore, after the liberation of the southwest, Liu Shuai said: Comrade Liu Zongkuan is the first major hero in the liberation of the southwest, and one person can reach 100,000 male soldiers, making a great contribution to the liberation of the southwest.