Speaking of Fu Zuoyi, I think everyone is familiar with him, especially in the recent hit drama "Armageddon", this person has been mentioned repeatedly.
General Fu Zuoyi is not only a generation of "famous anti-Japanese generals," but also a wise man who understands the overall situation and takes the overall situation into consideration.
In addition, General Fu Zuoyi also had a nickname, called "Seven Roads and a Half". Why is there such a name?
Before solving this problem, let's briefly introduce General Fu Zuoyi!
Figure | General Fu Zuoyi
A generation of famous anti-Japanese generals
Fu Zuoyi, also spelled Yisheng, was born in June 1895 in Linyi, Shanxi, an outstanding general in the National Revolutionary Army.
In 1911, Fu Zuoyi participated in the Xinhai Revolution and officially entered his revolutionary career. Later, due to his bravery in battle, he successively served as regimental commander and division commander in the Jin army;
After the defeat in the Battle of the Central Plains, Fu Zuoyi led his army into Suiyuan and successively served as the commander of the 35th Army of the Jin Sui Army and the chairman of the Suiyuan Provincial Government.
In 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Fu Zuoyi led the troops to fight in various anti-Japanese battlefields.
At the beginning of November 1937, when Niangziguan was in a hurry, Yan Xishan urgently convened a meeting of senior military generals and proposed a plan to "defend Taiyuan and rely on the city for field battles".
Of course, Yan Xishan's move was only to preserve his own strength, not to fight the Japanese wholeheartedly, because before this, he had already transferred the main force of the Jin army to Linfen and other places.
So much so that at the meeting, many generals were silent and unwilling to give Yan Xishan cannon fodder.
Just when everyone bowed their heads and did not say a word, Fu Zuoyi, with the belief of putting the interests of the country first, resolutely stepped forward and asked Yan Xishan for orders to take on the heavy responsibility of defending Taiyuan.
It should be known that at that time, Fu Zuoyi's men only had the strength of two brigades, and there were many new recruits who had just been added to his troops, and the combat effectiveness could be imagined.
On the 6th of that month, the Japanese Fifth Division began to attack the outskirts of Taiyuan, and under the powerful artillery fire of the Japanese army, the troops stationed outside the city began to retreat, and Yan Xishan's previous plan of "Yicheng Field Battle" was completely frustrated.
At this critical moment, Fu Zuoyi made up his mind to die, inspired his subordinates to kill the enemy bravely, and vowed to defend Taiyuan to the death.
Fu Zuoyi wrote in a letter to his hometown: "As long as there is still a breath, I will vow to fight the Japanese and Kou to the end and sacrifice my life for the country. ”
As the saying goes: "a soldier bears a bear, a bear bears a nest", now this sentence should be changed, called "a soldier male one, will be a male nest".
Encouraged by Fu Zuoyi's spirit of treating death as a return, all the officers and men of the army held the determination to die and bravely killed the enemy.
However, the Japanese offensive was still too fierce! Two days later, the Japanese army broke into the city, and the enemy and we engaged in a fierce street battle.
At dusk on the 8th, after Chiang Kai-shek ordered a retreat, Fu Zuoyi led his troops to break through.
In the Battle of Taiyuan, due to the heroic struggle of Fu Zuoyi and his subordinates, they successfully covered the safe transfer of Wei Lihuang, Sun Lianzhong and other troops. Although the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, it also paid a considerable price and could no longer continue to attack the south.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Fu Zuoyi was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the "Suppression General" in North China.
During this period, although he helped Lao Jiang to do some things, as the balance of the war gradually tilted toward our side, Fu Zuoyi also began to move closer to our side.
In early 1949, General Fu Zuoyi promoted the peaceful liberation of Peiping, thus enabling the centuries-old cultural capital to be well preserved.
Fu Zuoyi was not only a generation of famous anti-Japanese generals, but also a wise man who understood the overall situation and took the overall situation into consideration.
The origin of the nickname "Seven-and-a-Half"
Regarding the origin of the nickname "Seven Roads and a Half", there are many opinions, roughly boiling down, there are mainly the following three!
First, it originates from The Japanese;
The main reason why some people think this is because in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Fu Zuoyi was more active in fighting against Japan, and in some specific tactical styles, he was very similar to our "Eighth Route Army."
Because of this, the Japanese puppet army often foolishly did not know whether Fu Zuoyi's troops were nationalist troops or the Eighth Route Army, causing a considerable degree of confusion to the intelligence system of the Japanese army.
Therefore, there is the name of "seven and a half roads", which means that it is very similar to "eight roads".
Second, Fu Zuoyi was more "pro-communist" during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression;
Readers familiar with the history of the War of Resistance Against Japan should know this!
At the end of 1937, Fu Zuoyi was appointed commander of the Northern Route Army in the Second Theater, and his 35th Army was expanded into the Second Division and The First Brigade, stationed in liulin town in northwestern Jin.
At that time, there was only a river between Fu Zuoyi's troops and the He Longbu of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army in northern Shaanxi, and the messengers of the two sides were constantly coming and going, exchanging information, establishing joint defenses, and exchanging information.
Later, Fu Zuoyi established the Political Work Committee of the North Route Army, accepted a large number of party personnel into the work of his troops, and learned from the excellent political work and combat methods of the Eighth Route Army.
At that time, Fu Zuoyi only had two divisions under him, but the directors of the political departments of these two divisions, Yan Youwen and Kang Baoan, were both communists.
In addition, many of the responsible persons in the "Political Work Committee of the Northern Route Army" were basically cadres sent from Yan'an.
It is worth mentioning that Fu Zuoyi also formulated the "Code of Conduct for the Political Department of the Northern Route Army" and the "Ten Disciplines" at that time, many of which were very similar to the "three major disciplines and eight points of attention" of the Eighth Route Army.
For example, in the "Ten Disciplines," Fu Zuoyi made strict stipulations on the marching, camping, and combat of the troops, and the most important point was to earnestly ensure the interests of the masses of the people.
These practices of General Fu Zuoyi have greatly deepened the relationship between the military and the people, and have been praised by the common people, and at the same time, they have demonstrated the good atmosphere of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the United Resistance War.
However, Yan Xishan was very jealous of this, and he maliciously attacked Fu Zuoyi to bring his troops to "redder", calling Fu Zuoyi's Thirty-fifth Army the "Seven Roads and a Half", and even once sent a secret telegram to Chiang Kai-shek to ask for Fu Zuoyi's replacement.
After the outbreak of the War of Liberation, although Fu Zuoyi fought a civil war with Chiang Kai-shek for more than two years, and was once hated by our side to grit his teeth, the incense and fire between the two sides were still unbroken, and when Suiyuan peacefully revolted, Yan Youwen and Kang Baoan were still representatives of Fu Zuoyi.
It is worth mentioning that after our People's Liberation Army conquered Tianjin and cut off Fu Zuoyi's escape route by sea, Fu Zuoyi planned three paths for himself: first, he fled south to meet Chiang Kai-shek; second, he fled west to join the Ma family army; and third, he stubbornly held Beiping and stubbornly resisted. But which way to go, Fu Zuoyi is always difficult to determine.
Therefore, Yan Youwen urged Fu Zuoyi: My department is not a concubine, and it is not a wise move for Jiang to flee south, and now that he has lost North China, how can old Jiang let you go? Turning to the Ma family army, now the entire City of Beiping is surrounded by the People's Liberation Army, where it is still possible to go out; as for sticking to Beiping and stubbornly resisting, it is even more foolish, if the two armies fight, this hundred-year-old city will be destroyed, then you will become a sinner for eternity.
Finally, Yan Youwen pointed out to Fu Zuoyi the "fourth way" - to lead his troops to surrender to the Communist Party!
Finally, Fu Zuoyi began negotiations with our party!
On January 22, 1949, in accordance with the peace agreement, Fu Zuoyi began to lead his troops to withdraw from Beiping and accept the reorganization of our party. Peiping City has since been peacefully liberated.
Third, Fu Zuoyi's army was very simple from top to bottom;
In the impression of most of us, the generals of the nationalist army are all "rich and oily" lords, and those who are not greedy or corrupt have become different kinds. This is true even for superior officers, not to mention junior officers and men.
However, Fu Zuoyi, who was also a general of the Nationalist Army, himself was clothed and coarsely clothed, which can be said to be relatively rare among the Kuomintang military and political personnel at that time. So much so that to the so-called orthodox Kuomintang officials, Fu Zuoyi seemed to be a "tu ba lu."
In this way, Fu Zuoyi is called "Seven Roads and a Half", which is not surprising!
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