"Preferential treatment of prisoners" is a very famous policy of the People's Liberation Army, which is based on humanitarianism and second, it is also to stimulate the other side to surrender and avoid more deaths and injuries. Especially in the war of liberation, in the face of compatriots in one country, our army has even brought into full play the policy of "preferential treatment of prisoners."
But then again, while we tolerate most people, others do not deserve preferential treatment for their crimes.
The anti-Japanese resistance has made meritorious contributions
When Guangxi was liberated, there was such a prisoner of war who was sentenced to be shot, this person was an enemy officer named Li Benyi, who was previously the beloved general of "Little Zhuge Ge" Bai Chongxi.
To say that this Li Benyi is really a strange person, not only the People's Liberation Army hates him, but even the Nanjing government is not accustomed to him. Li Benyi is a native of Guangxi and has an extremely poor family. When he was young, he worked as a servant, an apprentice, and a miscellaneous servant, even if he was a young age, he suffered all the hardships, and as Li Ben grew up day by day, his life became more and more difficult, no way, in 1920, 18-year-old Li Benyi chose to become a soldier.
Li Benyi's immediate boss was Bai Chongxi, but Li Benyi, who was a big soldier at the time, did not know that he would be mixed into Bai Chongxi's concubine in the future. His biggest dream at that time was to make more meritorious contributions on the battlefield, to be promoted, and to get a little more military pay. It may be true that there is a little talent on the battlefield, generally new recruits have to lose their souls and lose their souls on the battlefield for a while to adapt to it, but Li Benyi did not even use the adaptation period, and became a fierce general who killed countless enemies.
So he was promoted all the way, and Bai Chongxi admired a general like him very much, dared to fight a hard battle, was not afraid of death, and could also lead troops. Soon, the warlord Bai Chongxi and Lao Jiang fought, and Li Benyi, as the vanguard of Bai Chongxi's faction, made Lao Jiang suffer a lot. Since then, Li Benyi has become a famous general of the Gui clan.
But the relationship between the big men changed rapidly, and by the time of the War of Resistance, Bai Chongxi had become an ally of old Chiang. In the midst of the situation of the united War of Resistance throughout the country, Li Benyi also led his troops to Guangxi to participate in the Battle of Songhu. The result of the Battle of Songhu was a fiasco, but it achieved Li Benyi's meritorious name.
It turned out that Li Benyi's troops were too far away from the front line, and by the time he passed with his troops, the large front troops had already collapsed, so Li Benyi, who did not know what to do, suddenly became a defensive line for the withdrawal of large troops. Li Ben was also interesting enough, and since he had already come, he resolutely covered the withdrawal of the large troops, and after he broke off, he blocked the Japanese army. After this battle, the troops participating in the Battle of Songhu were full of gratitude and praise for Li Benyi.
Sin is hard to hide
But if this is the case, isn't Li Benyi a national hero? However, the Battle of Songhu was only one of the few shining points in Li Ben's life, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he killed far more compatriots than the Japanese.
The matter is still related to the old Chiang Kai-shek's desire to exclude dissidents; while confronting the Japanese in the face, he still did not give up the encirclement and suppression of the revolutionary base areas, so Li Benyi's main opponent during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was not the Japanese army, but the New Fourth Army. He led his troops to confront the New Fourth Army for many years in the Dabie Mountains, and this man did not have any idea of "preferential treatment of prisoners of war", and the New Fourth Army captured by him could hardly survive.
What is even more infuriating is that he also allowed his army to plunder and maim the people, robbing and killing the local people everywhere he went, and his behavior was no different from that of the Japanese. In Li Benyi's later trial, the most important crime was: "During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, more than 30,000 innocent people were mutilated."
Li Benyi had merit in fighting against Japan, but his merits were really not enough to atone for his crimes. During the War of Liberation, he also sided with our Party. In the Battle of Menglianggu, Li Benyi's Gui troops also participated in the battle, and the army suffered heavy casualties, but Li Benyi was unharmed, but he still could not escape the accusations of old Chiang.
After all, in the battle of MengLianggu, Old Jiang lost miserably, and what made him most angry was that there was no one to rescue Zhang Lingfu, and Li Benyi, who was a military commander at the time, received Zhang Lingfu's request for help, but in order to survive, he chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb. The crime of the Meng Lianggu Campaign was one of them, and the second was that old Jiang also learned that when Li Benyi led the Gui army through Nanjing, he actually pretended to be an official in Chongqing, entered Nanjing, and took bribes from officials large and small, which simply did not take the government seriously. Li Benyi was sentenced to three years in prison.
Jurisprudence is intolerable
However, as soon as Li Ben had Bai Chongxi, a good boss, he was imprisoned for only three months, and Bai Chongxi dredged up the relationship and fished him out, and the official was reinstated. However, even if the military post was not lost, Li Benyi's good life was almost over, after the Battle of crossing the river, the Gui clan's troops were almost completely annihilated, and Li Ben saw that the situation was not good, and actually directly left his troops and ran. At that time, the People's Liberation Army was busy cleaning up the battlefield, and Li Benyi directly disguised himself as a flower boy and went out of the city and ran all the way back to his hometown in Guangxi.
Li Benyi, who fled back alone, was naturally scolded by Bai Chongxi, but still did not treat him well. Bai Chongxi couldn't help it, he still wanted to fight another decisive battle with the People's Liberation Army at this point, there were not many generals under him, and although Li Benyi's character was worrying, he was at least a general who could be used.
So Li Benyi gathered in guangxi's east and west, and finally pulled up three more divisions with difficulty, and Li Benyi, who had soldiers in his hands, had some confidence in fighting, but he may not have expected that his subordinates were also the same goods as him, fighting was not good, escaping quickly, the PLA contingent arrived in a few days, the front line was defeated like a mountain, the strength of an army in the hall did not exert any combat effectiveness in front of the PLA, and often before the PLA arrived, the city hung a white flag.
Later in the battle, even several division commanders whom Li Benyi must have trusted chose to revolt, and in the end, Li Benyi, who was the commander of the army, had less than one division left in his hands, and the division commander of this division, seeing that the situation was not good, actually made the same move as Li Benyi at that time, leaving the large army and running away, and even the commander did not inform him, making Li Benyi become the commander of the light pole.
Li Benyi, who had high hopes for Bai Chongxi, did not want to play for Bai Chongxi's life at all, seeing that the situation was like this, he did not do two things endlessly, he also planned to run. However, for this opponent who was good at escaping, the People's Liberation Army had long been prepared, and before attacking Guangxi, all the fighters had recognized Li Benyi's photo, so Li Ben, who was disguised in disguise, did not even go out of the city gate, and was discovered by several soldiers.
In fact, after Li Benyi was captured, he still received nearly a year of "preferential treatment", but after a year of detention, the investigation of his cruelty to the people in that year has been clearly investigated, and the organization believes that such a person has committed a crime and should be executed by shooting to uphold justice, so in 1951, Li Benyi was executed by shooting in Anhui.
From an unknown small soldier to finally becoming a military commander, Li Benyi must have his ability, but he did not aim his gun at the enemy, but aimed at his compatriots, and since this is the case, his desolate end can only make people say a word of self-inflicted suffering.