On January 23, 1947, the Lunar New Year, the East China Theater of Double Happiness approached the gate, one was to win the Lunan Victory, completely annihilated the Kuomintang reorganized 26th Division, the reorganized 51st Division and a fast column a total of more than 53,000 people, and captured two lieutenant generals. The other was the formal establishment of the East China Field Army, with Chen Yi, Su Yu, and Tan Zhenlin as the main leaders.
After successive defeats in Subei and Lunan, Chiang Kai-shek's clique hastily planned the so-called "Battle of Lunan", gathered 23 reorganized divisions, and advanced north and south, in a vain attempt to occupy all the liberated areas in Eastern China and force the Platon Army to retreat to the north of the Yellow River. The Ou Zhen Corps on the southern front pursued the strategy of "concentrating troops, fighting steadily and steadily, advancing hand in hand, and avoiding prominence", and directly attacked Linyi, the capital of the Shandong Liberated Area.
After careful study, Chen Yi and Su Yu believed that it would be difficult to find an isolated enemy on the southern front, so they targeted the Li Xianzhou group on the northern front.
According to the deployment of Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng, the northern front was under the responsibility of Wang Yaowu, commander of the Second Appeasement District and chairman of Shandong Province, but Wang Yaowu, who was scheming and calculating, did not move himself, but handed over the strength of the three armies to the command of deputy commander Li Xianzhou. Just as the enemy on the southern front was advancing to Linyi at a rate of ten miles a day, Su Yu had already commanded HuaYe's main force to move north to the vicinity of Laiwu, waiting for Li Xianzhou's group.
Wang Yaowu, who was under the remote command in Jinan, sensed that Huaye's troops were moving northward, so he urgently ordered Li Xianzhou to retreat across the line, but Chen Cheng, who was under the command of Xuzhou, firmly believed that the East China Field Army had been defeated in Linyi and was "fleeing" towards the north of the Yellow River.
While reprimanding Wang Yaowu for not being able to retreat, he directly ordered Li Xianzhou to secure the positions of Xintai and Laiwu and "not let the communist army escape across the Yellow River."
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Li Xianzhou was sandwiched in the middle, suddenly south and north, and finally on February 19, 1937, he was surrounded by Huaye's several road armies in laiwu and Yanzhuang. At this time, the war situation changed, and Wang Yaowu, in order to make Li Xianzhou's group quickly shrink to Laiwu, sent the 77th Division of the 73rd Army on the Jiaoji line to reinforce Laiwu south through Boshan.
Based on this change, Su Yu decided to launch a battle on February 20, first annihilating the 77th Division in the Boshan area by ambush. The task of ambushing the 77th Division was led by Xu Shiyou's Ninth Column and Wang Jian'an's Eighth Column, and the ambush site was set at Hezhuang, 30 miles south of Boshan City and more than 60 miles north of Laiwu City.
The Ninth Column of Huaye was an old unit of the Jiaodong Military Region, all of whom were Shandong disciples, who had rested for three months before being incorporated into the Sequence of the East China Field Army, and arrived in the Nanma area on February 16 to stand by. After receiving the mission on February 19, after ten hours of rapid march over the mountains and mountains, it arrived at the vicinity of Hezhuang that night and set up an ambush.
At 10:30 a.m., Xu Shiyou and political commissar Lin Hao were waiting for the battle to begin at the headquarters, and the staff officer walked in and reported: "The enemy 77th Division has arrived in Hezhuang ahead of schedule. Xu Shiyou immediately put down the wine glass in his hand and issued an order: "Launch a battle in advance, the 25th Division will attack Hezhuang, and the 26th Division will block the southern reinforcements and the enemy who fled." ”
That night, under the command of Chen Yi and Su Yu, Huaye's multi-road army launched a general attack on Laiwu. At about 23:00, Nie Fengzhi, chief of staff of the Ninth Column and commander of the 25th Division, reported to Xu Shiyou
"Rushed into the headquarters of the 77th Division and killed the division commander Tian Junjian!" Xu Shiyou shouted, "What is a division commander, let me catch the commander!" ”
The next morning, the 77th Division had been largely annihilated, and after an inventory of the captives, it was found that Li Xianzhou's lieutenant general Of the 73rd Army, Han Jun, had been captured. Sure enough, a military commander was caught, and the political commissar Lin Hao invited Xu Shiyou to take a look at it, but Xu Shiyou said: "The defeated generals under him, so without being beaten, I will not see Xu Shiyou!" ”
On the afternoon of the 23rd, Xu Shiyou received a call from Chen Yi, commander of Huaye, and learned that Laiwu had won a victory and that Li Xianzhou had been captured alive during the breakthrough, but a remnant of more than a thousand enemies sneaked into Tusikou and fled with the remnants of the New 36th Division in the direction of Boshan. Xu Shiyou immediately ordered Nie Fengzhi to lead the 73rd Regiment to open the pockets of the enemy in the Hezhuang area. When the enemy poured in like birds of prey, our army was greeted by a row of shells, and in the shout of "surrender the gun and not kill," most of the thousands of enemies were taken prisoner without firing a shot.
When cleaning up the captives, Nie Fengzhi also got an unexpected harvest,
Han Liancheng, commander of the Kuomintang 46th Army, was captured
。 After arresting such a high official, Nie Fengzhi was very happy, and was preparing to report to Xu Shiyou when the phone rang, Nie Fengzhi picked up the microphone, and it came from inside:
"I'm Chen Yi, and I heard that you arrested a high-ranking Kuomintang official?"
"Yes, his name is..."
"Hurry up and let it go!" Let go now! Chen Yi's tone was rather reproachful.
"Let go? Why? Nie Fengzhi was on fire at once.
Chen Yi was also angry: "This is the command! Let him go now! ”
After saying that, Chen Yi hung up the phone. Nie Fengzhi could only order, "Quick, let go of that bastard of the 46th Army!" ”
Subsequently, Nie Fengzhi found Xu Shiyou and learned that General Han Liancheng had already made contact with our party, and that in the Battle of Laiwu, he deliberately gave up command on the spot, hastening the collapse of Li Xianzhou's clique, and was a meritorious person.
Han Liancheng was originally in the Northwest Army, and submitted an application to join the party under the influence of Liu Zhidan, and after the failure of the Great Revolution, the Communists in the Northwest Army were purged, and Han Liancheng also lost contact with Liu Zhidan. During the Battle of the Central Plains, Han Liancheng had saved Chiang Kai-shek's life, and he had never attended the Whampoa Military Academy, and he was personally granted a student registration by chiang kai-shek and became his concubine. After that, Han's military qualities were favored by Bai Chongxi and he became the commander of the 46th Army of the Gui Army.
In 1940, he was transferred to Chongqing by Chiang Kai-shek and served as a senior staff officer in the chairman's attendant room, and it was in Chongqing.
Han Liancheng secretly met with Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu, saw the way out of China in the Communist Party, and offered to work in Yan'an.
At that time, it was still in the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and it was obviously not conducive to cooperation to let such a senior general come to Yan'an. Therefore, Zhou Enlai hoped that he would stay in the Kuomintang camp and play a greater role at the critical moment.
In this way, Han Liancheng lurked in the upper echelons of the Kuomintang. At that time in Chongqing, Han Liancheng, who had the same interests as Guo Rugui and Lü Wenzhen, often privately criticized the Kuomintang for its lack of democracy, corruption, and misleading the country, and wanted to organize a small group. Guo Ruzhen and Lü Wenzhen once tried to develop the organization, but Han Liancheng thought it was better to be cautious, and later learned that the object they wanted to develop was a military command agent. It can be seen that Han Liancheng is extremely cautious in lurking. At that time, Guo Rugui repeatedly expressed to Han Liancheng that he wanted to contact the Communist Party, but he did not identify himself.
Later, Guo Rugui also contacted the Communists and successfully lurked around Chiang Kai-shek, but he did not learn han Liancheng's identity until after liberation.
Han Liancheng made contact with the East China Field Army before the Battle of Laiwu began, and made a great contribution to the total annihilation of Li Xianzhou's clique. Chen Yi rode a horse to meet him, and Chen Yi tightly held Han Liancheng's hand and said, "General Han, I am late, please forgive me." He apologized to Han Liancheng. After listening to Chen Yi's apology, Han Liancheng's original grievances vanished. When Chen Yi asked Han Liancheng what his plans for his future work and what his requirements were, Han Liancheng's answer made Chen Yi's eyes widen in shock and disbelief. Han Liancheng repeated:
I'm going to Nanjing, re-forming an army for you!"
Han Liancheng wiped out his troops and returned to Nanjing as a "light rod commander" to report to Chiang Kai-shek on the process of "escaping from danger." Chiang Kai-shek not only did not blame him, but also praised him as a "lone hero." And said:
"Others are tied up after the battle, but you are willing to take risks and fight alone to return, which is really rare." Your troops are gone, and I'll give it to you again. ”
On the third day, Chiang Kai-shek gave him a letter of appointment and appointed him deputy commander of the Eighth Appeasement District and commander of the 46th Army. However, due to the economic depression and tight funds, Han Liancheng Zhang Luo did not build the 46th Army for half a year. Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to reappoint him as a senior staff officer.
After serving as a senior staff officer in Chiang Kai-shek's attendant room for more than half a year, one night Guan Linzheng, principal of the Army Military Management School, walked into Han Liancheng's bedroom and told him a "shocking secret." It turned out that Du Yuming had arrested a regiment-level cadre in Huaye and confessed that he had seen Han Liancheng and the plausible people's liberation army high-ranking officials in Laiwu City. Du Yuming quickly reported the incident to Chiang Kai-shek, and also revealed the matter to Guan Linzheng. Guan Linzheng's popularity in the Kuomintang was not very good, and Han Liancheng was one of his few friends who had been friends, so he hurried over to ventilate the news.
Guan Linzheng did not know han Liancheng's details, but out of concern for his old friend, he suggested: "It is best to go with his wife tonight, to Shanghai or Hong Kong, and run to a place where the chairman of the committee cannot catch it." While talking to Guan Linzheng, Han Liancheng's mind spun rapidly, and he quickly had a countermeasure. He said to Guan Linzheng: "Even if I run to the end of the earth, I will be arrested, and the chairman of the committee did not say that he would arrest me immediately. I still can't go. ”
The next day, Han Liancheng took off his military uniform and hat, folded them neatly, walked to Chiang Kai-shek's office, and put his military uniform and military hat on the table. Chiang Kai-shek looked dazed and asked, "Practice, what are you doing?" Han Liancheng pretended to be angry and aggrieved and said: "There are rumors that I am a communist, and I ask the chairman of the committee to arrest and execute me, and I have no complaints." ”
Chiang Kai-shek knew that Du Yuming and Han Liancheng were at odds and said with a smile
"You classmates are not united, just say blindly, I don't care, you go and ask Du Yuming." ”
Han Liancheng came back to Du Yuming to ask the master of the crime. Du Yuming said in a protracted manner: "It may also be that the Communist Party has used a counter-plan for us!" ”
Nevertheless, the suspicious Chiang Kai-shek was also obviously not as trusting han as before, and transferred him to Lanzhou as the commander of the Gansu Provincial Security. Han Liancheng wanted to be a security commander in Gansu, although it was not as powerful as in the attendant room, but there were also tens of thousands of people in his hands. In the northwest, if there was a rebellion, he could directly contact Peng Dehuai, commander of the Northwest Field Army, so he sent his family to a relative's house in Shanghai to hide, and went to Lanzhou to report to the office of Zhang Zhizhong, the chairman of Gansu Province.
The next day, Zhang Zhizhong set up a banquet for Han Liancheng to pick up the wind and wash the dust. When Han Liancheng walked into the banquet hall, he found that only Zhang Zhizhong was sitting there, and the two ate silently. After the meal, Zhang Zhizhong handed Han Liancheng an envelope and said to him with an embarrassed face: "General Han, the wind is very tight, the storm is coming, you go back to the dormitory and read the letter again." ”
As soon as Han Liancheng arrived at the dormitory, he opened the envelope, and a plane ticket slipped down from it, and he picked up the ticket from the ground, and then spread out the letter paper, which read
"Nanjing has discovered your relationship with Chen Yi and ordered me to arrest you immediately and quickly escort you back to Nanjing." I'm risking letting you go to Hong Kong, you go, so you can do it yourself. ”
It turned out that on the day Han Liancheng left Nanjing, the military commander deciphered the telegrams sent by the Platon Army, learned of Han Liancheng's relationship with the Communist Party, and immediately reported to Chiang Kai-shek. This time, Chiang Kai-shek was also rude to his savior and sent an urgent telegram asking Zhang Zhizhong to arrest Han Liancheng.
After escaping from danger, Han Liancheng went to Hong Kong and found Pan Hannian according to the contact code. Subsequently, his wife and children also arrived safely in Hong Kong. Pan Hannian sent someone to escort Han Liancheng to the central organ of the COMMUNIST Party in Pingshan, Hebei Province, where Han Liancheng met Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Han Liancheng served as vice governor of Gansu Province and deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
In 1956, when Lieutenant General Nie Fengzhi visited Eastern Europe and passed through Lanzhou, he once again met Han Liancheng, who was also a lieutenant general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Nie Fengzhi stepped forward and shook Han Liancheng's hand and said:
"Deputy Commander Han, I'm really sorry, my family arrested my own family that time!"
Han Liancheng quickly shook his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay." Fortunately, at that time, you let go quickly, not only from you, but also from Chiang Kai-shek. If Premier Zhou and President Chen had not done a good job in secrecy work, I would have been 'expensed' by Chiang Kai-shek a long time ago! ”
Li Xianzhou, the deputy commander who was captured in the Battle of Laiwu, was actively reformed after being captured and was granted amnesty in 1960, but he always had a doubt in his mind, that is, he did not run away with 60,000 horses, how did Han Liancheng escape? In 1975, Zhou Enlai again invited Li Xianzhou, who was over 80 years old, to Beijing to stay at the Beijing Hotel, and coincidentally, Han Liancheng also lived there at this time.
Shortly after Li Xianzhou's stay, Han Liancheng came to visit and apologized as soon as he entered the door: "Brother Li, I'm sorry for you..."
Among the founding generals of New China, Han Liancheng can be said to be a very legendary general. On February 27, 1984, Han Liancheng died of illness, completing his legendary life.