In the first half of the last century, the Chinese nation was in a deep and fiery situation, and experienced many major wars such as warlord melee, war of resistance against Japan, and war of liberation.
In order to protect themselves, many generals had to defect many times, such as Wu Huawen, a "political prostitute", Hao Pengju, and Zhang Qi, a "job-hopping general".
For these nationalist generals who led the uprising, the PLA soldiers gave the greatest tolerance, not only treating them well, but also granting them official positions. However, after the "job-hopping general" Hao Pengju led the uprising, he became the only Kuomintang general to be shot by the People's Liberation Army.
Hao Pengju was born in 1903 in Lingbao, Henan Province, to a wealthy squire family. His superior family situation made him enter the school early and study at the Henan Provincial Fourth Normal School in Luoyang. In 1920, at the age of 17, he joined Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army.
Hao Pengju read books, shrewd and witty, and was quickly appreciated by his superiors, and in 1925 he was appointed as the captain of the Northwest Cadre School.
In the same year, under the arrangement of Feng Yuxiang, Hao Pengju was sent to the Kiev Artillery School of the Soviet Union for further study. Unfortunately, this person is eager to make a contribution. When he heard outside that Feng Yuxiang would swear to teach in the Northern Expedition in Wuyuan, he immediately gave up his studies and returned to China.
Such a move caused Feng Yuxiang to be very disgusted, and he was no longer reused.
In 1930, the Central Plains War between Feng and Yan united against Chiang Kai-shek broke out, but unexpectedly, the Feng-Yan coalition army was defeated by Chiang Kai-shek.
Seeing that Feng Yuxiang was finished, Hao Pengju immediately united with his Fellow Henan compatriots and betrayed Feng Yuxiang, who treated him with great kindness, and counterattacked, leading people to fall to Chiang Kai-shek.
Hao Pengju originally thought that he would be used by Chiang Kai-shek, but unfortunately he was not a Huangpu concubine, but a miscellaneous army, and naturally he was not valued by old Chiang Kai-shek, so he arranged for him to be under Hu Zongnan, commander of the First Theater, and became a lieutenant colonel's aide-de-camp.
During this period, in order to become an official, Hao Pengju did his best to do his best, and first joined the "Blue Cloth Society", a secret agent organization of the Kuomintang, in order to be loyal to Chiang Kai-shek and at the same time curry favor with Hu Zongnan.
Unfortunately, his song was always not trusted by Hu Zongnan.
In this regard, Hao Pengju was angry, so he spread his dissatisfaction with Hu Zongnan and also hooked up with the wife of Hu Zongnan's regiment leader.
At this time, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, Hao Pengju on the front line let the Japanese army not fight, but made a "peach incident", and when the soldiers fought in blood, they stabbed others in the back.
Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered him to be detained and severely punished, and Hu Zongnan directly arrested him and put him in prison.
Seeing that the catastrophe was imminent, Hao Pengju immediately bought off the detainees and escaped.
Chiang Kai-shek did not give him a job, and Hao Pengju went to find someone else. At this time, Wang Jingwei publicly announced his surrender to Japan and established a puppet nationalist government in Nanjing.
When the opportunity came, Hao Pengju immediately wrote a letter to Wang Jingwei, saying that he was currently in a difficult situation and was willing to support his proposal for peaceful national salvation.
Wang Jingwei was in urgent need of a group of people to serve him, so in February 1942 Hao Pengju was appointed as the chief counselor of the pseudo-military attaché office, and concurrently served as the chief of education of the Training Corps of the CSA General School.
In January 1944, Wang Jingwei decided to establish "Huaihai Province" in Xuzhou, and Hao Pengju was appointed governor of the province, and he adhered to Wang Jingwei's will, recruited 4 armies and more than 70,000 troops, actively opposed communism, and fought against the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.
The funniest thing is that he also instructed the traitor literati to publish "The Theory of Hao Pengju" in the newspaper to brag about themselves, saying that they were "overwhelmed by the liver and brain, and after death" for Japan.
In November, Wang Jingwei fell ill and died in Nagoya, Japan, and seeing that the war situation was gradually becoming clearer, Hao Pengju immediately sent Qiu Bo to Chiang Kai-shek and wrote a letter expressing "allegiance."
After Japan announced its surrender, Chiang Kai-shek, who was bent on waging a civil war, was the right time to employ people. To this end, Lao Jiang decided to "disregard the previous suspicions" and implement a policy of "appeasement" against the Wang and pseudo-personnel.
As a result, Hao Pengju successfully "abandoned the dark and cast the light" and became the commander-in-chief of the kuomintang's newly organized 6th Route Army.
This is not the end of it, because he has been a traitor and bears a notoriety, Chiang Kai-shek's gang looks down on him, and some even openly extort money from him.
Soon after becoming a senior Kuomintang general, Hao Pengju received an order to go to Taierzhuang on the front line of "suppressing the communists."
To block Taierzhuang, Chiang Kai-shek used almost all miscellaneous troops. At this time, Hao Pengju was faced with a dilemma: in front of them were the brave and good fighting units of the New Fourth Army, and behind them were the well-equipped Kuomintang regular army.
Obviously, the Nationalist government wanted him to become cannon fodder on the battlefield, and Hao Pengju was not willing to sacrifice himself in an inexplicable way, so he contacted Marshal Chen Yi through Zhang Runsan, deputy director of the Political Department, and expressed the idea of leading the troops to surrender.
Under the mediation of Liang Shuming and others, the military commander Chen Yi sent Hao Pengju's classmate Zhu Kejing in the Soviet Union to persuade him to surrender. In January 1946, Hao Pengju immediately announced an uprising in Taierzhuang, and after the uprising, he met with Chen Yi and asked to send someone to reform his troops.
Chen Yi welcomed it and reorganized his unit into the "Central China Democratic United Army" and stationed it in Ganyu County.
However, after the uprising, Hao Pengju did not sever ties with the Nationalist government. In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek openly tore up the armistice and launched a full-scale civil war.
When Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale attack on the Liberated Areas, Hao Pengju was frightened by the position of the black cloud pressing down on the city, and he felt that Chiang Kai-shek would win, so he immediately changed his face and became the commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang 42nd Group Army.
Chen Yi was on the front line of the Battle of Lunan
What is even more vicious is that under the pretext of commemorating the first anniversary of the uprising of the Central China Democratic Coalition Army, he also sent invitations to the organs at all levels of the New Fourth Army, hoping to sweep Chen Yi and others away and send a "generous gift" to Chiang Kai-shek.
Fortunately, Chen Yi and the heads of various organs did not come, and the trap plan was not successful. Unwilling to accept defeat, Hao Pengju then tied zhu Kejing, who was then secretary general of the New Fourth Army, to the Kuomintang to ask for credit.
Zhu Kejing was tortured in prison, and in the end, he was secretly killed by Kuomintang agents in Nanjing.
After Hao Pengju rebelled again, Chiang Kai-shek, who did not trust him, gave him the title of the 42nd Army and ordered him to garrison the East China Field Army and attack the People's Liberation Army.
In just one day, Hao Pengju's two divisions were completely annihilated by the East China Field Army, and he himself was captured.
After receiving the battle report from Hua Ye's second column to capture Hao Pengju, Chen Yi immediately wrote a poem "Showing Hao Pengju" with a pen and reprimanded Hao Pengju:
Teach Er to be a man and not to be a man, and To teach Er not to be a dog.
And now I am swooping down on Seoul, still teaching myself to divide people and dogs.
In order to survive, the shameless Hao Pengju also knelt down to Chen Yi to beg for forgiveness, and Chen Yi naturally looked down on him, but because of the needs of the united front, he did not kill him, but only transferred him to the north with other captured high-ranking Kuomintang officials.
On the way to escort, Hao Pengju took advantage of the lack of preparation, forcibly escaped, and was finally shot dead by a PLA soldier, ending his shameless and ridiculous life.