There were still quite a few Nationalist generals who revolted in the War of Liberation, about 15 of them, namely Zeng Zesheng, commander of the 60th Army, who led the 60th Army in the Changchun Uprising in October 1948; Wu Huawen, commander of the Kuomintang 96th Army; Zhang Kexia and He Jifeng led more than 23,000 officers and soldiers to revolt in the Jiawang and Taierzhuang areas on November 6, 1948; Lu Han, the "King of Yunnan", announced the uprising on December 9, 1949, and also detained Li Mi and Shen Drun.
For example, Chen Mingren and Tao Zhiyue were awarded the rank of general in 1955, so which nationalist uprising general had the highest status? Some people say that it is Fu Zuoyi, but it is true that Fu Zuoyi's status in the Nationalist army at that time was very high, and his uprising well protected the historical ancient city of Beijing.
However, the highest-ranking rebel general of the Nationalist Army was not fu Zuoyi, but Cheng Qian. I believe that everyone should hear the big name of Cheng Qian, Cheng Qian is the official zhuang of Liling in Hunan, and he is also a talent in the late Qing Dynasty, who once followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen to participate in the Xinhai Revolution, that is an absolute Kuomintang elder figure.
In 1903, Cheng Qian was admitted to the Hunan Wubei Academy, and then was sent to Japan to study, that is, in the process of studying abroad, Cheng Qian met Song Jiaoren, Huang Xing and other veteran figures of the Kuomintang, and then Cheng Qian became a loyal follower of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
In 1912, after the founding of the Republic of China, Cheng Qian served as the head of the Hunan Military Department, but after the defeat of the war against Yuan Shikai, Cheng Qian was forced to flee to Japan. When Sun Yat-sen began to establish the Whampoa Military Academy, he initially served as the principal, but later for other reasons Chiang Kai-shek became the principal.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cheng Qian was appointed as a second-class army general of our army, and successively commanded the anti-Japanese campaigns of Pinghan Road and the Battle of Lanfeng, and after the surrender of the Japanese army, Cheng Qian served as the director of the Wuhan camp and was in charge of the military and political affairs of central China.
In the Kuomintang at that time, Cheng Qian's status was similar to that of such big men as Yan Xishan and Li Zongren of Shanxi, and it can be said that it was really the status of "one person above ten thousand people", that is to say, it was equivalent to the founding marshal of our new China.
In 1949, Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren sent representatives to conduct peace talks with our Party, and put forward eight conditions for peace talks, and on August 1, They sent out a peaceful telegram in their own name.
At that time, after Cheng Qian announced the uprising, he received the highest standard of reception, and the three people who were teachers, premiers and Zhu Laozong personally went to the train station to greet him. After the founding of New China, General Cheng Qian was appointed vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, which is a very high position, definitely higher than the position held by the 10 founding generals.
After that, General Cheng Qian successively served as vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, governor of Hunan Province, and vice chairman of the National Defense Commission.
In January 1968, General Cheng Qian was hospitalized for a fracture, and on April 9, he died of pneumonia causing massive bleeding at the age of 87.