What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The Fifth Army of the National Revolutionary Army was born in October 1938 in Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, this unit is also the earliest modern armored unit formed by Chiang Kai-shek, because of the great victory at Kunlun Pass in the Battle of Guinan, won the title of Iron Horse Xiong Division, and the Fifth Army also jumped into the ranks of the main force of the Nationalist Army with this battle.
Later, he participated in the Battle of Yunnan and Burma and the Great Counteroffensive, and made great contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance. At the same time, the Fifth Army also produced five tough generals, such as commander Du Yuming, Qiu Qingquan, Zheng Dongguo, Liao Yaoxiang, and Dai Anlan, who died in the War of Resistance, all of whom had served as division commanders in the Fifth Army. So, what was the outcome of the remaining four fierce generals in the later liberation war? Let's move on (in no particular order).
Qiu Qingquan
The first Qiu Qingquan, who graduated from the second engineering section of the Whampoa Military Academy, was a rare talented general in the Nationalist Army, with profound cultural skills, and also went to the German Army University to study, which was considered to be a complete combination of literature and martial arts. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was transferred back to China by Chiang Kai-shek as the deputy commander of the Two Hundred Divisions (the commander of the division at that time was Du Yuming), the only mechanized division in the division, but after Du Yuming was promoted to commander, he served as the commander of the newly formed 22nd Division, leading his troops to participate in the Battle of Kunlun Pass, as well as the Battle of Longling in Western Yunnan, in these battles, Qiu Qingquan performed well, fought and was not afraid of death, so everyone called him Qiu Crazy.
After the Liberation War, he fought against our army many times and achieved certain results, and soon after, because he sat back in the Battle of Eastern Henan and watched the Annihilation of the District Shounian Corps and was reprimanded by Chiang Kai-shek, Qiu Qingquan, who was in a fit of anger, took a leave of absence to go home to guard filial piety. But later, Chiang Kai-shek urgently needed military personnel to fight for him, and sent someone to ask Qiu Qingquan and make him the commander of the Second Corps, and Qiu Qingquan was very happy to take up his post after hearing the order. Unfortunately, he was killed in the Battle of Huaihai (posthumously awarded the second rank general). He was also one of the senior generals of the National War who were willing to sacrifice for Chiang Kai-shek in the Liberation War.
Liao Yaoxiang
The second Liao Yaoxiang, although he was a huangpu sixth-term student, but his achievements and military achievements surpassed his seniors, he was considered to be one of the better mixed in the six periods, and he also studied at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, because he studied mechanized cavalry in France, so after returning to China, Chiang Kai-shek arranged him to the Fifth Army, when the Fifth Army was the only mechanized unit, for Liao Yaoxiang, it was considered to be applied to what he had learned, when he served as chief of staff, and later served as the deputy commander of the newly organized 22nd Division.
Liao Yaoxiang's greatest achievement was the creation of the New Sixth Army, the number one trump card in Guozhen, which was trained by Liao Yaoxiang and equipped with all American equipment, claiming that the nationalist army was invincible. In the later Liberation War, Lu Zheng had outstanding performances in the Northeast Battlefield, which made the Northeast Field Army overwhelmed, but in the end, the Black Tiger Mountain area was annihilated in the Liaoshen Campaign, and even Liao Yaoxiang himself was captured.
The third Du Yuming, who was born in the first phase of Huangpu and the soul of the commander of the Fifth Army, like Liao Yaoxiang, Qiu Qingquan, and Zheng Dongguo all belonged to his subordinates, and Du Yuming was a veteran general in the First Phase of Huangpu, who was known as Chiang Kai-shek's fire-fighting captain in the Liberation War, and also the Huangpu general whom Chiang Kai-shek relied on most during the liberation period. He successively commanded two major battles in the Liberation War, such as the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign, but was later captured in the Huaihai Battle.
Jeong Dong-kook
The fourth is Zheng Dongguo, who is also a first-term student of Huangpu, it is said that he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy or impersonated, no matter what the reason, he was also through his own struggle, hard work, to get the approval of Chiang Kai-shek, moreover, Zheng Dongguo also served as a division commander in the 52nd Army, originally he was the next commander, but because Guan Linzheng was biased towards his compatriot Zhang Yaoming, like Chiang Kai-shek proposed to let Zheng Dongguo serve as a deputy commander, the angry Zheng Dongguo resigned and took leave to return to his hometown.
Soon after, he was invited by his friend Du Yuming to serve as the commander of the honorary first division of the newly organized 11th Army (also later the Fifth Army), which became an anti-Japanese force under his leadership. Moreover, he also served as the commander of the New First Army, but later promoted to the post-commander-in-chief, and the commander was Sun Li.
However, in the later Liberation War, he insisted on resisting in the Battle of Changchun, fighting until the last soldier, who knew that at this time Zeng Ze led the troops to revolt, helplessly he could only lay down his weapons and surrender, and later received preferential treatment from our army and did not become a war criminal.