From September to November 1948, after the Liaoshen Campaign, a large number of Nationalist generals became prisoners of the People's Liberation Army. Some of these high-ranking Kuomintang prisoners of war saw the general situation clearly and actively joined the revolutionary ranks; some were full of disbelief, feeling that the victory of the Plakmen was entirely due to coincidence. Liao Yaoxiang is one of the more typical ones. At a banquet specially held by General Liu Yalou to entertain the captured senior Kuomintang generals, Liao Yaoxiang not only spoke wildly, but also smashed his wine glass in public. No, General Liu Yalou then invited a person, and after Liao Yaoxiang saw this person, his attitude immediately took a 180-degree turn and punished himself with three cups of atonement.
Who was the person invited out by General Liu Yalou, what was his relationship with Liao Yaoxiang, and what special talent did Liao Yaoxiang have, and who was so arrogant?
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Mention Liao Yaoxiang, it is true that he is not an ordinary person. Liao Yaoxiang, born in 1906, made a wish to serve the motherland at a young age. In 1926, after graduating from high school, Liao Yaoxiang abandoned his pen and was admitted to the sixth phase of Huangpu and became a cavalry cadet. Four years later, in the examination for publicly assigned international students organized by the Whampoa Military Academy, Liao Yaoxiang achieved good results in the top three, but he was brushed off because of his short stature and length. Liao Yaoxiang, who originally thought that he had no chance to study abroad, suddenly won the favor of Chiang Kai-shek and was able to study in France under the strong recommendation of President Jiang. At this point, Liao Yaoxiang regarded Chiang Kai-shek as a re-creation parent and was grateful for the kindness of his acquaintance.
In 1936, with the first outstanding result in this major, after graduating from the mechanized cavalry major of the Saint Cyr Military Academy in France, Liao Yaoxiang returned to China and served as the commander of the major company of the Kuomintang cavalry team.
After the "Lugou Bridge Incident", Liao Yaoxiang was transferred to the Kuomintang 2nd Brigade as a lieutenant colonel staff officer and participated in the famous defense of Nanjing. After the fall of Nanjing, Liao Yaoxiang, who was besieged in the city, staged a drama of "escaping from danger from the tiger's mouth" and successfully led his troops to break through the siege. After reaching Hankou, Liao Yaoxiang promptly summed up the experience and lessons of this campaign under the title of "Experience in the Battle of Nanjing and Improvements That the Nationalist Army Should Have in Building the Army in the Future," and reported the report to Chiang Kai-shek.
At this time, the Kuomintang troops, which were constantly crushed by Japanese mechanized troops on the battlefield, made Chiang Kai-shek anxious. President Chiang realized that the Kuomintang army urgently needed to set up its own mechanized unit to counter the Japanese army. He Yingqin, who was ordered to form the unit, encountered difficulties in the selection of the commander of the mechanized force.
Liao Yaoxiang, who had studied mechanization expertise at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France, entered He Yingqin's sight, but Liao Yaoxiang's identity at this time made He Yingqin feel quite embarrassed. As the commander of the kuomintang's first mechanized unit, his official rank must have been a major general, but Liao Yaoxiang was only a lieutenant colonel at that time. Undecided, He Yingqin sent Liao Yaoxiang's information to Chiang Kai-shek and asked President Chiang kai-shek to consider it himself.
Liao Yaoxiang, who was born in the Huangpu family and who had been handpicked to study in France, recently wrote out the experience and lessons of the Nanjing Campaign and reported with all his heart, and Liao Yaoxiang was simply the most precious treasure in Chiang Kai-shek's eyes. With the phrase "promotion out of the box", Liao Yaoxiang was promoted from lieutenant colonel to major general and was appointed chief of staff of the 200th Division, the first mechanical division of the Kuomintang. Soon, the 200th Division was expanded into the Fifth Army, and Liao Yaoxiang successfully became the deputy commander of the 22nd Division of the Kuomintang Fifth Army.
Shortly after leaving the school, Liao Yaoxiang completed the promotion road that many people could not complete in their lifetime in just two years, and was promoted two levels in a row, directly promoted from lieutenant colonel to major general. Liao Yaoxiang became the first person in the Kuomintang army to be hand-picked by Chiang Kai-shek, and his feelings for Chiang Kai-shek were of course different from those of ordinary people.
Mechanic in the Battle of Kunlun Pass
After serving as the commander of the first mechanized unit of the Kuomintang, Liao Yaoxiang lived up to the expectations of the people, applied the professional knowledge he learned in the Saint-Cyr Military Academy to the greatest extent in army building, and soon built the 200th Division of the First Mechanized Division of the Kuomintang into a model, becoming an ace army under Chiang Kai-shek and playing a role that could not be underestimated in the anti-Japanese battlefield.
In order to meet the needs of the development of the situation in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the 200th Division was expanded into the 11th Army, and Liao Yaoxiang was transferred to the deputy commander of the 22nd Army. In November 1939, in order to meet the needs of the all-out war of aggression against China, the Japanese army sent the elite 5th Division and a brigade, known as the Iron and Steel Division, to land at Longmen Port in the North Bay in an attempt to cut off the transportation hub of Guangdong and Guangdong and occupy Nanning.
On December 4, the Japanese army captured Kunlun Pass, the Kuomintang mobilized five army groups in the four major theaters to participate in the battle, and the Fifth Army of Liao Yaoxiang's mechanized division also threw itself into the battle, and was ordered to attack Kunlun Pass.
Liao Yaoxiang personally led a mechanized regiment to Kunlun Pass and set up an ambush in the Liutang area to cut off the Japanese retreat. The heavily besieged Japanese army asked the Taiwan Mixed Brigade for help. Liao Yaoxiang led his troops to wait in silence, and after all the Japanese reinforcements had entered the ambush circle, he led the tank regiment to cooperate with the large troops, and used the mobility and flexibility of the tank troops and the steel body of the tank troops in the enemy position to be invincible, killing the Japanese army and holding its head, and showing the style of the Chinese mechanized army.
At the Battle of Kunlun Pass, Liao Yaoxiang and the Fifth Army won a complete victory, killing the Japanese major general Brigade Commander Masao Nakamura and annihilating more than 5,000 Japanese troops. Liao Yaoxiang and his mechanized troops also became famous for this battle, becoming a famous general in the Kuomintang army and successfully promoted to the commander of the 22nd Army.
Expedition to Burma
Shortly after being promoted to commander of the 22nd Army Division, in 1942, Liao Yaoxiang was ordered to lead an expedition to Burma to cooperate with the Allied forces in fighting against Japan.
Just arrived in Burma, Liao Yaoxiang suffered a major strategic adjustment, the British decided to abandon Burma, the receiving troops have been withdrawn, in the face of several times the Japanese army, caught off guard, Liao Yaoxiang's troops were caught off guard, and only 3,000 people were left in the end, so they had to retreat to India, and merged with sun Liren's 38th Division, which arrived earlier, to form a new army, with Zheng Dongguo as the commander.
A year later, the Second Burma Campaign began, Liao Yaoxiang and his troops once again entered the lion tiger poisonous snake infestation, the miasma-filled Savage Mountain, launched a fierce attack on the headquarters of the Japanese 18th Division Corps, annihilated more than 5,000 Japanese troops, and captured the Japanese Guanfang Great Seal. Such results were highly praised by the US commander Stilwell, and Chiang Kai-shek called Liao Yaoxiang's 22nd Division the Tiger Division.
Encouraged, Liao Yaoxiang took advantage of the victory to pursue, and led the 22nd Division to annihilate more than 10,000 Japanese troops in the Battle of the Menggong River Valley, completely reversing the decline of the Allied forces in the Burmese battlefield. Liao Yaoxiang was also awarded medals by the American, British and Nationalist governments for his outstanding performance on the burmese battlefield.
After the battle, Liao Yaoxiang summed up the lessons learned in the war against Japan in a timely manner and compiled the law of jungle warfare and the law of village and town operation.
He was captured at the Battle of Liaoshen
In February 1946, Liao Yaoxiang was ordered to lead the New Sixth Army to land on Qinhuangdao and compete with the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in the Northeast Battlefield. In the early days, Liao Yaoxiang's army was in an absolute superiority, once attacking the city and plundering the land, and soon invaded Changchun. But the wheel of history cannot be changed by individuals.
In September 1948, the People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen Campaign, and 550,000 Kuomintang troops in the northeast were divided and surrounded by the PLA in Changchun, Shenyang, and Jinzhou. The situation was so critical, but the Kuomintang top brass fell into disagreement over operational policy, and Wei Lihuang, the kuomintang's top commander in northeast China, advocated holding the three major cities of Changchun, Shenyang, and Jinzhou, waiting for reinforcements to turn the tide of the war.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang in the rear, demanded that the Kuomintang troops retreat to Jinzhou, and that they be at odds with Fu Zuoyi in Northern China, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack the northeast. Until the moment the war broke out, the Kuomintang top brass still had not come up with a unified combat plan. Soon, Jinzhou was heavily encircled by the People's Liberation Army, the connection with Shenyang and Changchun was completely severed, and Jinzhou, which became an isolated city, was conquered by the People's Liberation Army in only three days, and more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops were scattered.
The Changchun defender Zeng Zesheng led an uprising, and the supreme commander of Changchun, Zheng Dongguo, understood that the general situation was gone, and surrendered with his troops. After losing two major towns in a row, Liao Yaoxiang, who was overwhelmed, dialed Chiang Kai-shek's telephone and asked for instructions on the later combat strategy.
Chiang Kai-shek ordered him to lead his troops to conquer Montenegro and retake Jinzhou, but who knows, the front-line commander-in-chief Wei Lihuang advocated holding Shenyang to wait for reinforcements. The fighter plane was fleeting, and the rear commander-in-chief and the front-line commander-in-chief had a disagreement, and Liao Yaoxiang, who was embarrassed at both ends, weighed the pros and cons, and finally chose to obey the instructions of the principal and lead the army out of Shenyang to aid Jinzhou.
This was simply sent to the door to find death, and the Northeast Field Army immediately formulated the operational policy of "luring the enemy to go deep and completely annihilating Liao Yaoxiang's troops in western Liaoning." By the time Liao Yaoxiang realized the PLA's intentions and led his army to retreat, it was too late. The Northeast Field Army issued orders to disrupt the formation, and all military operations were aimed at eliminating Liao Yaoxiang's troops.
During the siege of the Northeast Field Army, Liao Yaoxiang's 6 armies were quickly annihilated. Liao Yaoxiang, who was defeated, tried to escape in civilian clothes, but was quickly captured by the People's Liberation Army and became a prisoner of war. After the Liaoshen Campaign, in order to express our army's respect and sincerity for the captured senior Kuomintang generals, Chief of Staff Liu Yalou, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission, set up a special dinner party at the headquarters to entertain the captured senior Kuomintang generals.
Although the captured generals did not necessarily agree with their defeat at this time, the generals of the defeated army could not speak bravely, and when General Liu Yalou raised a toast, they all symbolically raised a glass in response.
Only Liao Yaoxiang looked like he did not accept defeat, and when General Liu Yalou gave him a toast, he actually picked up a wine glass and fell to the ground: "Do you PEOPLE's liberation army know how to fight, it is just opportunism." Seeing Liao Yaoxiang's reaction, Liu Yalou was not angry at all, but would
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Please come to the feast.
He was once the head of the Liao Yaoxiang Whampoa Military Academy, and was his direct superior during the expedition to Burma, and even his own direct leader in the northeast battlefield, before that, Chiang Kai-shek had always preached that Zheng Dongguo had sacrificed his life for the country and died on the battlefield.
At this point, Liao Yaoxiang understood the reason for the disastrous defeat of the Kuomintang army, relying on deception and false propaganda could not finally win the hearts and minds of the people, and Chiang Kai-shek had always refused to announce the true whereabouts of Zheng Dongguo, and instead portrayed him as a hero of the party-state, which was simply hypocritical and ridiculous. Seeing that his old superiors had changed course, Liao Yaoxiang's hope for the Kuomintang in his heart was completely extinguished, so he raised his wine glass and respectfully saluted Liu Yalou three times in a row, apologizing and admiring.
After liberation, Liao Yaoxiang entered Gongdelin for reform, was pardoned in 1961, and died of illness in 1968, and was buried in babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.