Before we mentioned the Kuomintang's first general Wang Yaowu, but in fact, there is another Nationalist general who has also been given a very high evaluation, it can be said that in the hearts of many Kuomintang generals, he really deserves the reputation of the first fierce general, he and Hu Zongnan are called "Erhu", and the Nationalist Army has said such a sentence: Ten northwest kings, not worthy of one Kinmen king!
In fact, this praise personally feels very correct, although Hu Zongnan is the first person to be a protégé of Tianzi, his real command and combat ability is indeed criticized, and many people say that Hu Zongnan would not have been a heavy weapon of Chiang Kai-shek, and he could only be a battalion commander at most.
And our protagonist today, the "King of the Golden Gate," Hu Lian, is indeed very powerful, having broken through three times under the siege of Su Yu, the "God of War" of our army, and is really worthy of what the instructor said: "Hu Lian of the Eighteenth Army is as cunning as a fox and as brave as a tiger." It is advisable to avoid it, preserve strength, and wait for the opportunity to win. ”
Since graduating from Huangpu, Hu Lian began to enter Chen Cheng's civil engineering department, because Hu Lian was indeed outstanding in ability and repeatedly established meritorious achievements on the battlefield, so Chen Cheng was extremely important to Hu Lian, and his position was constantly rising.
If you want to say that Hu Lian's most famous battle, it is necessary to return to the War of Resistance Against Japan, which is the famous Shipai Fortress Defense War. I believe that many people have heard of this battle, but he is known as "China's Stalingrad Defense War", and its tragic degree is shocking!
Because the geographical location of the stone tablets is too important, Chiang Kai-shek naturally urged Chen Cheng to send elite soldiers and good generals to hold them, and the stone tablets must not be lost, otherwise the old Chiang Kai-shek will naturally have to deal with them seriously. So which general did Chen Cheng have to send to garrison Shipai? There is no doubt that it is the famous Hu Lian, so Hu Lian's 11th Division went to Shipai.
At that time, Hu Lian naturally understood the importance of the stone tablets, the Japanese army will definitely send heavy troops to attack, so this battle can be said to be more fierce and less auspicious, before the start of the stone pai defense war, Hu Lian thought that he was likely to die, so he also specially left a letter to his old mother, which can also be regarded as a way to express his determination to kill and become a benevolent country.
As a result, Hu Lian's 11th Division successfully resisted the large-scale attack of the Japanese army, after all, the geographical location of Shipai was indeed very dangerous, even if the Japanese army had aircraft artillery, but Hu Lian was a general after all, and under his layered deployment, it was indeed a very heavy price for the Japanese army.
Subsequently, Hu Lian was naturally greatly valued by Chiang Kai-shek, and he became famous in the world for this reason, and was awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun. At the end of the Liberation War, Hu Lian was appointed commander of Kinmen Island, and his duty was to guard Kinmen Island, and the Battle of Kinmen at that time was lost to Hu Lian.
At that time, our People's Liberation Army launched an attack on Kinmen Island under the leadership of General Ye Fei, but it did not expect that there was a problem in intelligence this time, and the number of nationalist troops was far more than we expected, so our People's Liberation Army was isolated and helpless, and finally suffered a fiasco.
As for Hu Lian, he was naturally once again commended by Chiang Kai-shek and promoted to a second-class general, and in his later years, Hu Lian liked to study astronomy and history, and for this reason he also wrote several books, such as "Kinmen Reminiscences" and "Vietnamese Observations" and so on.
On June 22, 1977, Kuomintang Army General Hu Lian died of a heart attack in Taipei at the age of 70.