In October 1948, a plane landed in Xi'an to refuel. At this time, Han Liancheng on the plane made a phone call to Yu Jishi, director of the Third Bureau of the Presidential Office, claiming that he was going to meet the principal. After Yu Jishi received the call, he immediately arranged a special car to wait at the Nanjing airport.
Who knows, it was this phone call that saved Han Liancheng's life.
In his early years, Han Liancheng served in Ma Hongkui's army and participated in the Northern Expedition. According to records, The first time Han Liancheng met Chiang Kai-shek was in May 1930, during the Great War in the Central Plains.
As we all know, it was the Great War in the Central Plains that determined Chiang Kai-shek's status. In May 1930, at the critical moment of the Central Plains War, Lao Jiang personally went to the front line to direct the battle, and his headquarters was located at a railway station in Shangqiu.
Unexpectedly, Feng Yuxiang's cavalry surprised the Shangqiu Railway Station and surrounded Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters. It should be known that the cavalry in Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army was extremely strong in combat effectiveness, while Jiang's troops were extremely mobile, and it was difficult to provide support at the first time, and they could only be passively beaten.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek can be said to be called heaven and earth. In a hurry, Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly asked for help from the troops stationed in Guide, but before the telephone could be opened, the enemy cut off the telephone line.
Although he did not receive the order, Han Liancheng still guessed that the headquarters was attacked and immediately led his army to help. From this, we can see Han Liancheng's sensitivity and determination to fight.
Chiang Kai-shek was surprised to see Han Liancheng, who had come to "save the car." After the battle, Chiang Kai-shek met with Han Liancheng. At that time, Han Liancheng was only in his early 20s, but he was already the leader of the regiment. Jiang thought that he was a student of Huangpu and asked him which issue it was.
This time, Han Liancheng was asked, and he didn't know how to answer. It was still his chief of staff, Yang Jie, who spoke in time to explain the situation. Perhaps in order to resolve the embarrassment, or to repay Han Liancheng's life-saving grace, Chiang Kai-shek immediately said that Han Liancheng would be recorded as a third-term student of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Since then, Han Liancheng has been regarded as a concubine by Jiang, and his status has also risen, and he has been deeply trusted by Jiang. Of course, it is not easy to gain Chiang Kai-shek's trust. If there is no real material, it is not easy to talk about it if you want to base yourself on the National Government in Nanjing.
Han Liancheng was quick-witted, erudite, and had a unique understanding of the war situation, and every battle he was able to analyze for Chiang from different aspects. The stronger the ability, the greater the attention it receives. In addition to Chiang Kai-shek, Bai Chongxi, a big man of the Gui clan, also greatly appreciated Han Liancheng.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Han Liancheng was dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's policy of "taking care of the outside world before going inside," and under the struggle of Premier Zhou and Ye Jianying and other comrades, he established comradely relations with the party and secretly engaged in work under the leadership of Premier Zhou, becoming the "invisible person" of our party around Chiang Kai-shek.
After the victory of the all-out War of Resistance, Han Liancheng saw the dawn of peace, but his own Principal Jiang had long been determined to launch a civil war, which made Han Liancheng disheartened.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Chiang intended to reuse Han Liancheng and entrusted the Kuomintang 46th Army to his full command.
At the beginning of 1947, Chiang Kai-shek personally formulated the "Battle of Lunan" plan to attack our East China Field Army from the north and south of the Longhai and Jiaoji lines. Han's 46th Army was reorganized into the 46th Division, which was placed under the command of Li Xianzhou. But no one expected that Han Liancheng would inexplicably "disappear" after the Battle of Laiwu was fought.
It was his "disappearance" that disrupted Li Xianzhou's entire plan and deployment, and the 7 reorganized divisions of the Kuomintang were annihilated in this battle, and Wang Yaowu also issued that famous exclamation:
More than 50,000 people, unconsciously in 3 days were wiped out, Lao Tzu is to put 50,000 pigs there, called the communist army to arrest, 3 days can not be caught ah!
In fact, after the Battle of Laiwu, Han Liancheng's identity was doubted. At that time, Du Yuming reported to Jiang a situation, saying that his subordinates had captured a regimental-level cadre of Chen Yi's troops, and learned from him about The conspiracy between Han Liancheng and Chen Yi, saying that Han Liancheng had "betrayed the party-state."
After Han Liancheng learned of this, he immediately confronted Principal Jiang and said indignantly:
I am responsible for Lunan's defeat, but I am not a Communist! If Du Yuming can come up with real evidence, I am willing to impose military sanctions, otherwise, he will bear the responsibility of framing!
Chiang Kai-shek stared at Han Liancheng without saying a word, but in the end he chose to trust and took the initiative to exonerate Han Liancheng: "
You students are at odds with each other, and don't attack each other by betraying the party-state
！ As everyone knows, Jiang's trust in Han Liancheng caused even greater failures afterwards.
Of course, Chiang Kai-shek did not doubt, which does not mean that others did not doubt, and Kuomintang Defense Minister He Yingqin had already set his sights on him.
In 1948, Chiang ordered Han Liancheng to be appointed to Gansu as a security commander. But when he arrived in Gansu, he found that the original commander had become a brigade commander. This is actually a signal, reducing his strength, indicating that Nanjing already has some doubts about him.
In September of the same year, Han Liancheng's wife gave birth to a son in Nanjing, and Han Liancheng took a leave of absence to return to visit. Who knew that a few days later, Ye Xiufeng, director of the Central Bureau of Statistics, came to visit.
You know, the old lady in Ye Xiufeng's family and Han Liancheng's family are all good and very familiar, and it is precisely because of this that the relationship between Ye Xiufeng and Han Liancheng is very "iron".
During this visit, Ye Xiufeng very vaguely reminded Han Liancheng, saying that he had heard a lot of rumors about the Battle of Lunan, which was very unfavorable to Han Liancheng. He also said that if Han Liancheng could not prove his innocence, he, the director of the Central Bureau of Statistics, would have to act according to orders.
After Ye Xiufeng's reminder, Han Liancheng began to observe the surroundings. Sure enough, around his residence, there was an extra book and newsstand and a shoe repair stall. Both places are the only way to get in and out of Han house cars and people.
A few days later, Han Returned to Lanzhou. Not long after, he received an invitation from Zhang Zhizhong for dinner. In fact, this dinner, Zhang Zhizhong is for the purpose of ordering Han to practice. At the dinner table, Zhang Zhizhong handed Han Liancheng an unsealed letter and asked him to help pass it on to Chiang Kai-shek.
Han Liancheng opened the envelope and found that it contained the newspaper of the day. How could Zhang Zhizhong do such a ridiculous thing?
Soon, He Yingqin called and asked Han Liancheng to return to Nanjing, and arranged a plane for her. In fact, He Yingqin already had the exact evidence of Han Liancheng's "rebellion", and this time he asked him to return to Nanjing in order to arrest him. However, due to Chiang Kai-shek's trust in Han, it was inconvenient to publicly arrest him.
Han Liancheng also sensed the abnormality, and just as the plane stopped in Xi'an to refuel, Han Liancheng immediately made a phone call with Yu Jishi and made it clear that he was about to fly to Nanjing and wanted to meet with the principal.
Yu Jishi did not know He Yingqin's plan, and after learning of this, he immediately arranged a special car to wait at the airport and picked up Han Liancheng before He Yingqin started to move.
In this way, He Yingqin's plan to secretly arrest Han Liancheng was disturbed by a phone call from Han Liancheng.
Later, Han Liancheng officially joined the Communist Party of China in 1950 and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955. When He Yingqin laid out all the evidence of Han's "betrayal of the party-state" in front of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek knocked down the glass on his desk, angrily pointed at He Yingqin's nose and said: "
If you hadn't demoted him to a lieutenant general as a brigade commander, how could he have defected to the Communists?
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Regarding Han Lian's willingness to follow the Communist Party, Premier Zhou once answered this question in five words:
The power of faith! ”