At about 3 p.m. on January 15, 1949, in the headquarters of the 17th Corps located in the building of the Tianjin Xingang Engineering Bureau, commander Hou Jingru was "listening to the battle" through the window, when the northeast field army's attack on Tianjin was fiercely underway, and the gunfire rumbled. Listening to it, Lieutenant General Hou Jingru of the Army suddenly felt that something was wrong, because the sound of gunfire was obviously fading, and Commander Hou was a graduate of the Huangpu Phase I, and immediately knew that it was not good:
Broken, Tianjin must not be able to hold on, Chen Changjie is afraid that he is also fierce and ji less!
Hou Jingru immediately called out to the communications staff officer, and the oral telegram was urgently sent to Beiping and Nanjing, to the effect that Tianjin was lost, and there was no need to defend Tanggu any longer, and requested that the south be withdrawn. Hou Jingru knew very well in his heart that once the downtown area of Tianjin was completely conquered by the Northeast Field Army, the next one would definitely be Tanggu's turn, and it would be too late to run again, so he hoped for the stars and the moon to wait for Fu Zuoyi and Lao Jiang to call back, because to retreat without order was to "flee from the battlefield", that is, to go to the military court.
At this time, the officers and men of the Jiang Army in the entire Tanggu area had already understood the current situation, and all the troops were panicked and looked forward to getting on the ship early and slipping away. The most anxious was duan hu, the commander of the 87th Army, but his relationship with Hou Jingru had always been not harmonious, and he was embarrassed to call directly to inquire, so he ordered his subordinates to invite Li Diqiu, chief of staff of the corps.
Li Diqiu had just arrived at the military headquarters, and Duan Hu split his head and asked, "Did the commander get instructions?" The regimental chief of staff shook his head like a rattle: I don't know!
I. The enigmatic life of Lieutenant General Hou Jingru of the First Phase of Huangpu.
Hou Jingru of the Yongcheng clan of Henan Province, was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924, and during the two eastern expeditions of the school army, he performed very eye-catchingly, and his thinking was also very demanding, and he was introduced to the party by Zhou Gong the following year, and in 1926, he participated in the Northern Expedition within the formation of the First Army, and served as the regimental chief of staff of the 14th Division of the army.
In 1927, he assisted Zhou Gong in organizing the third armed uprising of the Shanghai workers, defeated the warlord troops entrenched in Shanghai, and participated in the Nanchang Uprising in August of the same year. This revolutionary qualification can go straight after the founding general Chen Geng. Unfortunately, after 1931, he lost contact with the party for various reasons and had to sneak back to his hometown to live idly.
In 1932, under the recommendation of Yuan Shouqian, a huangpu fellow, he became the chief of staff of the 30th Division of the 22nd Route Army of Ji Hongchang, and from then on embarked on another path, and in 1935 he was promoted to major general of the Syrian Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hou Jingru was successful in killing Kou, and was promoted all the way to the chief of staff, division commander and commander of the army, and by 1943 he was already the commander of the 92nd Army of the Central Army.
The predecessor of this 92nd Army was the 21st Division of the basic unit of the Jiaodong warlord Liu Zhennian, and was later annexed by Lao Jiang, Liu Zhennian was killed (see the author's previous article for details), and Li Xianzhou of the Huangpu Phase I was ordered to take over the position of division commander, so Hou Jingru's relationship with Li Xianzhou was quite good, basically Every time Li Xianzhou was promoted, Hou Jingru followed suit.
When the 92nd Army was first formed in 1938, Li Xianzhou was the commander of the 21st Division under the jurisdiction of Hou Jingru; in 1943, Li Xianzhou was promoted to commander-in-chief of the 38th Group Army, and Hou Jingru became the commander of the 92nd Army. It is worth noting that when Li Xianzhou was the commander of the army, the army also had another more famous division under its jurisdiction at that time, that is, the 95th Division, known as the "Zhao Zilong Division", the division commander was Luo Qi of the Huangpu Phase I, and in the Battle of Tashan in "The Great Armageddon", Hou Jingru and Luo Qi, the two division commanders of that year, appeared together again.
(Early years Hou Jingru)
The 92nd Army was successively assigned to the command of the Fifth and Sixth Theaters, and in September 1945, it accepted the surrender of the Japanese army in Wuhan, and then airlifted Beiping, and then took charge of the surrender of the Japanese army in North China. It was at the beginning of his tenure in Peiping that Hou Jingru was reunited with zhou Gong, a teacher in the Huangpu period and the REPRESENTATIVE of the CCP's "military investigation", and his old classmate General Chen Geng, during which he also had a pleasant conversation with Chen Geng about wine, which was mentioned in Chen Geng's memoirs, but did not specify the specific content of the conversation.
At least before and after the victory of the War of Resistance, Hou Jingru was certainly not an underground party member lurking in the enemy camp, he was already in the other camp, and it was impossible to openly entertain Chen Geng because that would violate the principle of underground work.
2. During the Liaoshen Campaign, Hou Jingru was in charge of the "Eastern Advance Corps".
In early September 1948, when the Northeast Field Army marched south to the western Liaoning battlefield, under Fan Hanjie's desperate request for help, the old Jiang Yan ordered Wei Lihuang and Fu Zuoyi to send troops to help, and the Shenyang side was of course preparing to send Liao Yaoxiang's "Westward Marching Corps", while Fu Zuoyi in North China received the following order:
Abandoning Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, the elite 13th Army of the Central Army stationed there, plus the Ace 35th Army of Fubu stationed in Beiping, together with the 54th Army of Jinxi to form the "Eastern Advance Corps".
However, Fu Zuoyi did not resolutely implement this deployment, only afraid that his old housekeeper would suffer losses or be out of control, so his actions were grinding and rubbing, and there were many excuses. Later, Fu Zuoyi came up with a plan to sneak attack Shijiazhuang, and old Jiang had no choice but to change his mind not to abandon Chengde, and formed the Seventeenth Corps with the 92nd Army and the 62nd Army as the backbone, with Hou Jingru as the commander and Liu Chunling and Lin Weili as the deputy commanders.
On October 11, 1948, in view of the fact that Jinzhou was already surrounded by the Northeast Field Army, the 54th Army stationed in Jinxi and Huludao, which was originally under the command of Fan Hanjie, was assigned to the command of the 17th Corps, and soon renamed the "East Advance Corps" to aid Jin, with Hou Jingru's 17th Corps headquarters and the headquarters of the "East Advance Corps" (the independent 95th Division directly under the general command of the General Commandery, the 39th Army transferred from Yantai, Shandong Province, was under the temporary command of the East Advance Corps, but not in the combat sequence of the 17th Corps, this should be made clear).
(Fan Hanjie stills)
Due to the slow movement of various units of Chiang Kai-shek's army, the enemy in Jinzhou continued to ask for help, and the troops who finally reached the Jinxi and Huludao areas were counted as three divisions of the 62nd Army, two divisions of the 39th Army, one division of the 92nd Army, the independent 95th Division directly under the direct command of the "North China Suppression General", and four divisions of the 54th Army, for a total of eleven divisions. Hou Jingru didn't like this errand at all, he was leisurely and leisurely in North China, why did he run to the ice and snow outside the guan?
Moreover, this so-called "EastWard Marching Corps" is basically a hodgepodge; there is only one division in his concubine unit, and what is the 54th Army's Que Hanqian and the 62nd Army's Lin Weili are not so heedful to greetings, and what is even more infuriating is that Old Chiang also sent the teacher commander of the 95th Division, a classmate of the Huangpu Phase I, and the "Presidential Palace Field Inspector Group Leader" Luo Qi to supervise the battle.
Uncomfortable in his heart, of course, the movements under his feet were very slow, the Tashan Blockade Battle began on October 10, and the corps headquarters led by Hou Jingru and the 21st Division of the 92nd Army of the Concubine Army did not arrive from Tangshan "by train" Shi Shiran until the afternoon of October 11.
(Que Hanqian stills)
Under the stubborn obstruction of two columns of our Northeast Field Army, the enemy's "EastWard Advancing Corps" attacked for four consecutive days, but it also failed to break through our Tashan defense line, but instead lost troops and broke the generals. Old Jiang was not satisfied, and on October 16 he ordered Chen Tie, the "deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Suppression Army," to take over the command of the Eastern Advance Corps, and on October 21, he was replaced by Du Yuming, who had just arrived in the northeast.
In other words, Hou Jingru, the "commander of the Eastern Advance Corps," only worked for five days before he stood aside.
Commander Hou was also happy to be idle, and from then on he did not contribute to the work, and he was not responsible for any problems, until he sat and watched Jinzhou being conquered by Dongye and Fan Hanjie was captured. On October 26, 1948, Du Yuming did not dare to counterattack Jinzhou at all, and was afraid that the Dongye army that had freed his hand would attack the Jinhu area from the south, so with the consent of Lao Jiang, he ordered all the units to flee from the land and sea, and the "East Marching Corps" formed to aid Jin was scattered and yellow.
Third, Hou Jingru was the supreme commander of the Jintang defensive area.
In fact, after the Northeast Field Army conquered Jinzhou, it was originally preparing to annihilate the enemy's "EastWard Marching Corps" stranded in the Jinxi and Huludao areas, but then temporarily changed its operational plan and swung its division north to seek out and annihilate Liao Yaoxiang's "Westward Advancing Corps" in the Black Mountain and Dahushan areas, which allowed the enemy's "Eastward Advancing Corps" to slip away. Among them, Hou Jingru led the corps headquarters, the 21st Division, and the independent 95th Division, which suffered heavy losses, but still retreated to the Jintang area, and was immediately appointed by Fu Zuoyi as the "Commander of the Jintang Defensive Area".
Before the Pingjin Campaign began, Fu Zuoyi set up a "one-word long snake array" and divided it into three main defensive areas: Zhangjiakou, Beiping, and Tianjin, and the commanders of the defensive areas were Sun Lanfeng, commander of the Eleventh Corps, Li Wen, commander of the Fourth Corps, and Hou Jingru, commander of the Seventeenth Corps. Among them, the Jintang Defensive Area originally had the 62nd Army, the 86th Army, the 87th Army and the 92nd Army, and the strength of the troops could be described as strong, that is to say, Hou Jingru was the supreme commander of the Tianjin and Tanggu areas.
On the one hand, it is only a matter of time before the Northeast Field Army enters the pass, so north China is not a place to stay for a long time; on the other hand, the Battle of Huaihai has also begun, and if Jiang's army is defeated in East China, the situation in North China will be even more dangerous.
Therefore, he made up his mind to stay and control the Tanggu haikou, and when he found that the situation was not good, he immediately fled, so he sent an urgent telegram to Lao Jiang and Fu Zuoyi respectively, demanding that the main force control the Tanggu haikou be controlled. However, Xibaipo's strategy was to "start from the western front", so Fu Zuoyi's attention was attracted to Guisui, Zhangjiakou and other places, and did not pay attention to Hou Jingru's requirements, but asked Hou Bu"
It operates in the northwest of Tanggu and north of Tianjin to detect the movements of the People's Liberation Army
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Hou Jingru was greatly dissatisfied with this, and complained to his left and right confidants about Fu Zuoyi: "Commander Fu has always been more flexible in using troops, so why did he swim around with his troops this time?" At present, the defensive deployment of the troops should be finalized as soon as possible and every effort should be made to strengthen the fortifications, otherwise, the battle will be rushed and the outcome will be unimaginable." Fu Zuoyi ignored him at all, and also transferred the 92nd Army, 86th Army, 62nd Army and other units to the Beiping or Western Front battlefields, almost making Hou Jingru the commander of the light pole.
During this period, Fu Zuoyi also transferred his old brother Chen Changjie in the Jin Sui Army to serve as "deputy commander of the Jintang Defensive Area and commander of the Tianjin garrison", and at the same time entrusted the 184th Division, the 326th Division, and the 333rd Division to Chen Changjie to undertake the task of tianjin garrison. Hou Jingru's corps headquarters and the independent 95th Division, as well as the newly built 318th Division of the 92nd Army (the three main divisions of the army were transferred to Beiping), were squeezed into the Tanggu area, and the "Commander of the Jintang Defensive Area" instantly became the "Commander of the Tanggu Garrison".
Hou Jingru was greatly dissatisfied, but he had no choice, he was well aware of Fu Zuoyi's serious distrust of the generals of the Central Army, fortunately, Tanggu could be defended and run, which was much better than trapping Tianjin downtown. In early December 1948, Fu Zuoyi transferred the 62nd Army and the 86th Army back to Tianjin and placed them under the command of Chen Changjie, and at the same time made it clear that the 17th Corps was only responsible for guarding the mouth of Tanggu, and the only reinforcement for Hou Jingru was to order the 87th Army to enter Tanggu from Tangshan and return to The Construction.
In other words, when the Northeast Field Army was preparing to besiege Tianjin, Chen Changjie, deputy commander of the "Jintang Defensive Zone," instead grasped most of the troops in the area and stubbornly resisted in the downtown area of Tianjin, while his superior Hou Jingru could only lead a small number of troops to defend Tanggu.
There were 87th Army (reorganized from the 208th Division of the Youth Army), the Independent 95th Division, the 318th Division of the 92nd Army, the 3rd Brigade of the Traffic Police, the 5th Regiment of Hebei Security, and the Jintang Water Security Brigade, which were transferred from Tangshan, and the full strength of no more than 50,000 troops in five divisions, of which a considerable number of them were local security forces. From the allocation of troops, it can be found that the main force of Hou Jingru's unit is undoubtedly the 87th Army, which has never suffered a blow, and its strength accounts for more than half of the Tanggu defenders.
The predecessor of the 87th Army was the 208th Division of the Youth Army, which was originally stationed in Beiping to monitor Fu Zuoyi, but was strongly requested to be transferred by Fu Zuoyi for creating the "July Five-Year Massacre", and was initially moved to Tangshan, Hebei Province, and changed its name to the 87th Army before the Pingjin Campaign began (the divisions of the Youth Army were actually military-level formations similar to the "reorganized divisions", with three brigades under their jurisdiction), ideologically reactionary, and the structure was complete, because they had not really participated in the great war before.
The new commander of the 87th Army was Duan Hu of the Huangpu Ivy, who had also been the commander of the independent 95th Division, who was Luo Qi's man and a close general of the old Chiang Kai-shek, plus he had troops in his hands, and he was not so convinced of Hou Jingru. When Hou Jingru arranged the defense, Duan Hu pushed three blocks and four blocks, saying that he was not willing to stand in the front, and in the end, only the Independent 95th Division and the 3rd Brigade of the Traffic Police could serve as the frontal defense of Tanggu, and the Independent 95th Division suffered heavy casualties at Tashan and did not recover at all, and there were many dissatisfactions from the division commander to the soldiers.
Obviously, in the combat sequence of the Seventeenth Corps at this time, only the 318th Division was Hou Jingru's concubine unit, which also doomed Commander Hou to suffer a bit of splint gas.
Fourth, the great war was imminent, but Duan Hu and his men collectively demanded to run.
According to xibaipo's instructions, our "Pingjin Front Command" and the northeast field army headquarters were originally prepared to attack Tanggu first, and then close the retreat route to completely annihilate the enemy in Jintang. However, General Deng Hua, who was ordered to command three columns to attack Tang, after close observation and a tentative attack, found that the terrain of Tanggu was very unfavorable to our army's encirclement and annihilation of the enemy, and Hou Jingru had already put up a posture of escaping from the sea at any time, which was at most a crushing battle and had to pay a high price.
General Deng Hua then put forward his different views to Noji, and upon hearing that Liu Yalou, chief of staff of the field army, who had come to inspect the front, also supported this opinion after field research, and finally Dongye reported to Xibaipo for approval, and instead attacked Tianjin first and then captured Tanggu. On January 3, 1949, the Northeast Field Army was scheduled to attack the 2nd, 7th, and 9th Columns of Tanggu, and was ordered to transfer its defenses to participate in the siege of Tianjin city, and the main force of Zhong Wei's 12th Column (49th Army) was responsible for monitoring the enemy in Tanggu.
Zhong Wei, a famous general in Dongye, completely suppressed the tanggu defenders with the strength of only two divisions, and the People's Liberation Army launched a propaganda offensive at the front of the position every day, naming Hou Jingru to surrender with his guns, which made Hou Jingru annoyed. Just three days before the Tianjin Campaign began, Duan Hu, commander of the 87th Army, suddenly came to the corps headquarters with the three division commanders of his unit.
(Liu Yalou stills)
Hou Jingru asked you what you had come to do, and Duan Huan seemed to be respectfully saying: "Commander, the battle in Tanggu is tight, and the division commanders want to ask you for instructions." Hou Jingru patiently asked you what your high opinions were, and the generals of the Youth Army, who had always been arrogant and arrogant, shouted away, and one division commander said: "Tanggu has become a dead island, we cannot sit still, please ask the commander to take a stand," and the other said: "On behalf of the will of the officers and men of the headquarters, we ask the commander to order a retreat."
Hou Jingru understood that it turned out that this gang had "forced the palace" to ask to get on the ship and run away, and Hou Jingru, who had been holding back for several days, finally caught fire: "Okay, okay, I am the commander, I am responsible for the principal and Fu Commander, you must obey my orders, our task is to defend, not to retreat!" What is your collective blackmail, what is your intention?"?
Duan Hu and several division commanders really wanted to pull out their feet and slip away, but they did not dare to bear the crime of "retreating according to the order", and originally planned to flee together with Hou Jingru, but now the other side put up the commander's shelf, and did not dare to openly make a mistake, so they had to say in a gray and slippery manner: Since the commander has instructions, then we will go back first.
Hou Jingru looked at the backs of the older ones and scolded angrily: "What, I, the commander, simply can't do it."
(Film version of Armageddon)
While comforting his superiors, Li Diqiu, chief of staff, put forward his own opinion: "At present, the hearts of the various units of the Tanggu army are scattered, and once the position is broken, everyone rushes to grab the ship, and the result is bound to be a mess, and no one can run." It would be better to assign existing vessels to the various units, to carry bulky items to the ships in advance, and to allocate haikou according to the allocation of troops, and if necessary, to withdraw to the sea surface or the Changshan Archipelago under the cover of the Navy, waiting for the ship to be transported south".
Hou Jingru thought it was feasible, so he invited Ma Jizhuang, commander of the Navy's Third Fleet, to discuss, and Commander Ma agreed to the Army's approach, indicating that the Navy could assist in the battle and assist in the retreat. While talking, Commander Ma suddenly heard the sudden sound of guns and cannons at the front, immediately got up to bid farewell, and boarded the ship offshore at the speed of light, obviously worried that Zhong Wei's troops would really fight and would not be able to leave if they wanted to.
Fifth, Hou Jingru finally issued an order to flee Tanggu.
The Battle of Tianjin was officially launched on January 14, 1949, and by dusk the next day, the downtown area of Tianjin had been completely conquered by our Dongye Army, and the artillery fire of the Dongye Artillery Column began to extend to Tanggu, and shells fell near the headquarters of the Seventeenth Corps and the headquarters of the 87th Army, and the commanders of the army Duan Hu and the three division commanders were all mad, so they asked the chief of staff to inquire about the situation.
When Li Diqiu said that Hou Jingru had not received the order to retreat, Duan Huan was anxious, saying that he had received direct orders from Lao Jiang, and then took out a telegram from the "Presidential Office for Joining the Army": "
He ordered the camera to retreat south
Then he angrily said to Li Diqiu: "I hope you suggest that the commander make a decision immediately and not take advantage of the opportunity!"
Li Diqiu understood in his heart that this must have been Lao Jiang's previous telegram, Duan Hun was used to pull the big banner to make a tiger skin, and the ball was finally kicked to Fu Zuoyi, so he did not say whether he could leave in sorrow. Having said that, old Chiang Kai-shek directly intervened in the command of the army-level units beyond the General Headquarters and the Corps Headquarters, causing many orders to go out of the battle, and such a chaotic command system was justified invincibility?
After Li Diqiu returned to the corps headquarters, he conveyed the meeting with Duan Hu and others, as well as the proposal of the general of the 87th Army, to Hou Jingru, who had an impatient look on his face: "Ignore him, if you want to withdraw, you have to wait for Commander Fu to issue an order." If Hou Jing did not give the order, the front-line troops would have to resist hard, and by the night of January 16, the attacking troops of the Northeast Field Army had broken through the enemy's forward defensive positions and were developing in depth.
Duan Huan, who was mentally devastated, finally couldn't stand it and called Hou Jingru directly: "No, no, no, no, As a result, Hou Jingru still repeated the sentence: Without Fu Zuoyi's order, it could not be withdrawn.
It was not until the morning of January 17, 1949, that the headquarters of the Seventeenth Corps received a notice of withdrawal from the Beiping side, and it was the order conveyed to Nanjing in the original text, with a careless look, because at this time the Beiping peace talks entered the deep water area, Fu Zuoyi was just a routine affair, and he was no longer interested in paying attention to the life and death of this unit.
Hou Jingru finally waited for the official order, after a "boarding ship", tens of thousands of defenders in Tanggu began to crowd on the docks, people shouted horses and horses crowded on the ship, the degree of chaos is really indescribable, and the last to get on the ship was the commander of the 5th Regiment of the Local Armed Security Regiment, who reported to Hou Jingru with a weeping face: Commander, the troops of our regiment that stayed on the shore to cover the retreat of the large army were all finished!
6. Zhong Wei led the 12th Column of Dongye to successfully liberate Tanggu.
In order not to let all the enemy in Tanggu escape, Zhong Wei, commander of the 12th Column of Dongye, and Yuan Shengping, political commissar, personally came to the front line and commanded the main forces of the 35th Division and the 36th Division to carry out a pursuit and annihilation operation. The 108th Regiment of the 36th Division was the first to rush into Xingang and captured all the enemies who had not had time to board the ship and flee, while the 106th Regiment found an enemy transport ship and a tugboat just ashore at a nearby ferry port, and Han Shoufang, commander of the first battalion of the 106th Regiment, shouted: "Drive the ship back"!
The enemy ships ignored them and tried to continue to accelerate and flee, and the Han shoufang immediately gave the order to fire a warning, and the mortars of the machine gun company fired a salvo, which frightened the enemy and hurriedly shouted: "Don't fight, don't fight, we will drive back immediately", so more than 1500 people on both ships were taken prisoner.
Until the night of January 17, 1949, the tanggu pursuit and annihilation victory ended, and the 12th column of Dongye annihilated more than 3,400 enemy troops, captured 44 artillery of various types, 125 light and heavy machine guns, 1773 rifles and military assets.
(Hou Jingru family portrait)
Of course, under the circumstance that the enemy had absolute superiority in sea and air, most of the enemy in Tanggu still ran away, and the 87th Army fled directly to Shanghai, and was later incorporated into Tang Enbo's "Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Garrison General Headquarters.". As a result, the Shanghai Campaign was basically annihilated by the Third Field Army, and this Duan Hu was quite able to escape, fleeing all the way to the Zhoushan Islands, but the remnants of the 87th Army were less than one division.
In desperation, Lao Jiang had to reorganize and piece together the Ninth Traffic Police Corps into a division to supplement the 87th Army, so the army had two groups of remnants of the 221st Division and the 222nd Division. Old Jiang was quite satisfied with Duan Hu's loyalty and "clever escape"; when he inspected Zhoushan, he also specially summoned He Jia Mian and in 1950 Duan Hu was transferred back to the island as "Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the General Headquarters of Defense" and became Sun Liren's deputy, which seemed to be very proud of the spring breeze for a while.
Epilogue of a complete reversal:
The hardcore concubine of the Huangpu IV period is duan hu character "Xiangquan", because he is a Hunan native, so he has another identity, in fact, he is the son-in-law of Cheng Qian, the elder of the Xiang Army, and general Cheng Qian's subordinates who fled after the Hunan uprising were many of the subordinates. In August 1952, Duan Hu, who had worked hard all the way to the island, was suddenly arrested by secret agents of the Secret Service on the charge of "knowing the bandits and not reporting them".
Duan Hu was imprisoned for a year and a half, and without any conclusive evidence or verdict, on February 3, 1954, together with his brother Duan Fu, brother-in-law Xie Xiaoqiu, and cousin Duan Huikai, they were all escorted to the execution ground for execution.
Hou Jingru fled to Fujian and was appointed deputy director of the Fuzhou Appeasement Office, during which time, with his acquiescence and support, the main force of the 92nd Army, including the 21st Division, the 56th Division, and the 148th Division, which remained in Beiping, was peacefully reorganized under the leadership of commander Huang Xiang (Huangpu Vii) and reorganized into the 19th Corps of the North China Military Region.
The last 318th Division fled from Tanggu to Hainan and eventually surrendered in Fuzhou, while Hou Jingru first left his post and went to Hong Kong to live in seclusion, and then returned to the mainland in 1952, where he served as counselor of the State Council
President of the Whampoa Alumni Association. Judging from Hou Jingru's performance in the later stages of the Liberation War and the outcome of his concubine's 92nd Army, his political stance has definitely changed, but at the precise point of time, it is sealed in the fog of history.
In 2002, at a meeting to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Hou Jingru's birth, the evaluation of the relevant departments was very intriguing: "
Comrade Hou Jingru's life was a life of enduring the test and baptism of protracted revolutionary struggle, a life of dedication, dedication, and dedication to the country and the nation, and a life of diligent pursuit of truth and light."