For Chiang Kai-shek, the Whampoa Military Academy is actually the beginning of his career, chiang kai-shek later became chairman of the Kuomintang Military Commission and chairman of the party, but what he liked to hear most was the word "principal."
Many of the graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy later became prominent figures of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, such as Hu Zongnan, Du Yuming, Zheng Dongguo and others of the Kuomintang, Xu Xiangqian, Chen Geng, Lin Biao and others of our party.
Among these Huangpu graduates, the most special one is the founding lieutenant general Han Liancheng, because he has never entered the gate of the Whampoa Military Academy, but he is specially approved as a graduate of the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Han Liancheng is a native of Ningxia, born in 1909, when he was a teenager, due to his family's poverty, he did not study for several years in private school, he began to work for others, when he was 16 years old, the Whampoa Military Academy went to his hometown to recruit soldiers, his mother was bent on making her son an officer, so she borrowed the diploma of Han Guizhang from the gansu Provincial No. 2 Middle School from the owner of the odd job, so that Han Liancheng impersonated to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy.
In the end, Han Liancheng did not go to the Whampoa Military Academy, but came to the Officer Training Corps of the Seventh Division of the Northwest Army and became a student soldier.
From then on, Han Liancheng served in Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, and in 1926, Han Liancheng participated in the Northern Expedition, and in the army, he became acquainted with a Communist Party member, Liu Zhidan.
Liu Zhidan told Han Liancheng what imperialism is, what feudalism is, and why the poor are always poor, Han Liancheng was deeply shaken, he gradually developed the idea of joining the Communist Party of China, Liu Zhidan was very optimistic about Han Liancheng, and also specially designated people to contact him alone.
However, due to the failure of the Great Revolution, the Communists were sent out by Feng Yuxiang, and Han Liancheng lost contact with the party organization before he succeeded in joining the party.
In 1930, during the Great War of the Central Plains, Chiang Kai-shek personally came to the front line and was working on the command car at Guide Station, when suddenly Feng Yuxiang's cavalry division commander surprised The Guide Station, Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters was in danger, and Yang Jie, who was then a staff officer of the General Headquarters, knew that there was a regiment of the Northwest Army stationed in Kaocheng County, and immediately called for help.
As soon as the phone was called, before he could clarify the task, the phone line broke.
The regimental commander of this regiment was none other than Han Liancheng, who was very confused when he received the call, and after thinking about it, he thought that it was the General Headquarters asking for help, so he immediately led his troops to Guide to rescue him.
Yang Jie knew that Han Liancheng was not a graduate of Huangpu, so he said it, and after Chiang Kai-shek heard it, he did not hesitate, and immediately gave instructions: Han Guizhang,the leader of the independent regiment of the Sixty-fourth Division (Han Liancheng's former name), saw the danger and was ordered, loyal and courageous, and a graduate of the third phase of the chartered military academy, included in the student register, and the internal general order was known.
As a result, Han Liancheng became a person who did not attend the Whampoa Military Academy, but was a graduate of Whampoa.
This also shows that Han Liancheng became a candidate for Chiang Kai-shek's concubine in his heart from the miscellaneous units of the Northwest Army, and in 1935, Chiang Kai-shek specially approved him to go to the third phase of the special class of the Army University for further study, which shows the importance that Chiang Kai-shek attaches to him.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at the recommendation of Bai Chongxi, Han Liancheng became a senior staff officer of Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater, and came to serve in the Gui clan at that time, and Chiang Kai-shek was very happy, because he was trying to send people to infiltrate the Gui clan.
After Han Liancheng arrived in the Gui department, he did more difficult things, took the initiative to go to the dangerous side, suffered more hardships, and talked less, thus opening up the situation, and he successively served as brigade commander, division commander, chief of staff of the 16th Group Army, and other positions.
Han Liancheng had always been in the Kuomintang troops, so he did not join the Red Army or the Eighth Route Army.
In June 1942, Han Liancheng met with Zhou Enlai under the arrangement of others, and during the conversation, he wanted to join the Communist Party of China, but Zhou Enlai politely refused, saying that during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, our Party did not develop party members among the senior generals of the other side.
At the end of the conversation between the two, Zhou Enlai suddenly asked Han Liancheng, "Do you recognize a person named Han Guizhang?" Han Liancheng immediately said, "I am Han Guizhang." ”
Zhou En, who said that this was what Liu Zhidan had told him, mentioned that this name was familiar to both of them, and Zhou Enlai understood, and Han Liancheng also understood.
From then on, Han Liancheng established a relationship with the party and worked under Zhou Enlai, but at this time he did not join the party.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Han Liancheng, then the commander of the 46th Army, led his troops to Hainan to accept the surrender of the Japanese army, and before going to Hainan, Zhou Enlai told him to do his best to protect the Qiongya Party organization.
After arriving in Hainan, Han Liancheng took over the members of the Qiongya Column captured by the Japanese army, and he selected a county-level cadre to bring his letter to Feng Baiju, at that time, the Qiongya Column and the party organization lost the radio, and they could not judge whether Han Liancheng was his own person or not, so he failed to cooperate sincerely with Han Liancheng.
Later, Han Liancheng was also ambushed by the Qiongya Column, which caused the Kuomintang troops to attack the Qiongya Column in an all-round way, when Han Liancheng went to Nanjing to attend the meeting, and the chief of staff commanded the battle.
In October 1946, Han Liancheng attended the supreme military conference presided over by Chiang Kai-shek and learned about the Strategic Plan of the Kuomintang for a full-scale civil war and the strategic deployment of the two battlefields in the northwest and Shandong.
At the end of the meeting, Han Liancheng secretly went to Shanghai and handed over this top-secret information to Dong Biwu.
Before the Battle of Laiwu, Chen Yi sent people to contact Han Liancheng, and later, at the most critical moment of the war, Han Liancheng left the headquarters, leaving the troops leaderless and eventually losing.
After the Battle of Laiwu, Han Liancheng secretly went to huaye headquarters, and Chen Yi warmly welcomed him.
After that, Han Liancheng's identity was not revealed, he returned to Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek did not doubt him, and also appointed him as the deputy commander of the Eighth Appeasement District, after which Han Liancheng repeatedly used the convenience of his position to provide a lot of military and political intelligence for the party organization.
In 1948, He Yingqin grasped the true identity of Han Liancheng, and when he was preparing to secretly arrest Han Liancheng, he was informed by Han Liancheng's good friend Guan Linzheng, with the help of Guan Linzheng, Han Liancheng escaped the enemy's search and secretly took Hong Kong, and in November, he came to Pingshan County, Hebei Province.
Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De met with Han Liancheng many times, and Chairman Mao pointed at Han Liancheng and said, "There are you people around Chiang Kai-shek, and my small command headquarters not only commands the People's Liberation Army, but also mobilizes the millions of troops of the Kuomintang!" ”
Since then, Han Liancheng has successively served as deputy chief of staff of Ichino and deputy director of the Lanzhou Military Control Commission.
When he was in the northwest, no one knew about Han Liancheng's special experience, and Zhou Enlai entrusted Zhang Zongxun, deputy commander of the Northwest Military Region, and Gan Siqi, deputy political commissar, to be Han Liancheng's introduction to the party.
He told the two men: "Han Liancheng is a Communist Party member who has not formally gone through the formalities of joining the Party, and his actions are the oath of the most loyalty to the Party." ”
In 1950, Han Liancheng officially joined the party organization, and since then, he has successively served as deputy chief of staff of the Northwest Military Region and first deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region.
In 1955, Han was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Han Liancheng did not join the Red Army, the Eighth Route Army, or even joined the Party in 1950, but this did not matter, as Premier Zhou Enlai said, throughout the period of the New Democratic Revolution, Han Liancheng's actions were the most loyal oath to the Party, he was a Communist Party member who had not formally gone through the formalities of joining the Party.