In "Bright Sword", Chu Yunfei is a respectable opponent, even in different camps, but the patriotic heart and military ability are still very good, but unfortunately one person cannot stop the trend of the world, in the face of the national army fleeing without a fight, he can only angrily say a sentence "More than 50,000 people, just 3 days after going online, collapsed." Even if it is more than 50,000 pigs, the communist army can't catch it for 3 days! ”
This sentence is not completely fabricated, in the Battle of Laiwu, Li Xianzhou's more than 50,000 people were wiped out by the People's Liberation Army in three days, so angry that Wang Yaowu scolded, "More than 50,000 people, unconsciously in 3 days were wiped out, Lao Tzu just put 50,000 pigs there, called the communist army to arrest, 3 days can not be caught!" ”
Wang Yaowu couldn't figure it out, and Neither could Li Xianzhou. One of the points that Li Xianzhou was still grumbling about was that tens of thousands of his men had not run away, and why one of his commanders could escape alone did not understand it until decades later.
After the Battle of Lunan, Chiang Kai-shek was not willing to immediately formulate the "Battle of Lunan" and was determined to mobilize more than 300,000 troops from 23 integrated divisions (armies) to attack the Linyi area and force our army to engage in a battle.
The lineup this time was absolutely luxurious, the southern front was 8 reorganized divisions and 20 brigades commanded by Ou Zhen, the central front was Zhang Lingfu's reorganized 74th Division; the northern front was Wang Yaowu's corps, which advanced to Lunan in three ways at the same time, and Chiang Kai-shek's close confidant Chen Cheng personally sat in Xuzhou to supervise the battle.
Seeing that the enemy army was fierce, the East China Field Army led by Chen Yi adhered to the idea of "surviving people lose ground, and people and land gained both sides" decided to retreat first and voluntarily abandoned Linyi.
This made Chen Cheng very excited, thinking that our army was afraid to retreat without a fight, and at the same time when occupying Linyi, he sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek to brag about the "Great Victory in Linyi."
Chiang Kai-shek was also very happy to "take advantage of the victory to pursue", ordered the southern front to continue to advance north, and urged Wang Yaowu of the northern front to go south, intending to annihilate Huaye in one fell swoop in the Yimeng Mountains.
Wang Yaowu did not want to go, he had always been cautious, and he knew that the main force of the East China Field Army was not damaged, and the risk of attack was too great, so he was reluctant to send troops.
Photo: Wang Yaowu
However, Chen Cheng repeatedly demanded, and even said in the end, "Quickly follow the previous order, there is no need to desecrate!" In desperation, Wang Yaowu had no choice but to let his deputy commander-in-chief Li Xianzhou lead the team and lead two armies to attack Xintai and Laiwu.
Li Xianzhou was a bit unfavorable, originally with the 12th Army and the 46th Army, but the commander of the 12th Army, Huo Shouyi, did not listen to his command, wang Yaowu had to change to the 73rd Army, and the two armies attacked Laiwu and Attacked Xintai in parallel, and finally met at Laiwu City.
Both routes overlapped on both sides of the mountain, and could only be walked from the road in the canyon, and the area of the circle was so small that it was very easy to be ambushed. Wang Yaowu also considered this at first, so he was reluctant to send troops, but his superiors forced him to do nothing, and he could only pray in his heart not to be ambushed.
Of course, praying was useless, and the East China Field Army decided at the beginning to eat Li Xianzhou's 50,000 people and crush Chen Cheng's combined attack attempt.
The 73rd Army soon encountered the East China Field Army, and one division was annihilated, and the division commander Tian Junjian was also killed. Such a big move by our army made Wang Yaowu perceive the danger, and he hurriedly ordered Li Xianzhou to move and move closer to the other troops first.
Photo: Li Xianzhou
After Li Xianzhou got the order, he decided to break through the next day, but Han Liancheng, commander of the 46th Army, said that there were still many troops fighting, and now they were too scattered, leaving the soldiers and running, who would sell their lives in the future?
Li Xianzhou felt that this was reasonable, and decided to rectify the day the next day, eat breakfast the day after tomorrow, and then leave. In this way, Li Xianzhou's corps almost stayed where they were for a day.
On the third day after receiving the order, Li Xianzhou's army was about to leave, when Han Liancheng suddenly said that a regiment of the 46th Army was surrounded and could not be withdrawn, and it was necessary to take command. Li Xianzhou felt that it was rare for him to be so righteous, so he said to him, "You go quickly, we are waiting for you here." Han Liancheng left with a guard platoon.
Left and right waited, waiting for more than 50 minutes, during which Li Xianzhou repeatedly sent people to find Han Liancheng and could not find it, and the commander of the 73rd Army, Han Jun, repeatedly requested the army before the army set off. It was also more than 50 minutes that the three or four regiments of Huaye ran to the first line of Tusikou to increase the fire point and completed the pocket array.
Along the way, Li Xianzhou kept saying to the left and right: Han Liancheng was so sympathetic to his subordinates, but we left a military commander to retreat, what is this like?
Pictured: Han Liancheng
The large army reached the line of Tusikou, Huaye's army suddenly killed, Li Xianzhou's corps was quickly divided and cut off, the 73rd Army and the 46th Army originally had a discordant command system, and the commander of the 46th Army was not there, the first to collapse, and then the chaotic troops fought separately.
In the end, more than 60,000 Nationalist troops were annihilated, and Li Xianzhou himself was taken prisoner and imprisoned in the war criminals management center. After learning of this news, Wang Yaowu said the famous words, and even Chiang Kai-shek scolded people: "The marching army does not even put down a flanking guard post, and the brains of decades of military career have grown on the head of a pig." It can be described as extremely angry.
But Han Liancheng ran out alone.
Han Liancheng returned to Nanjing to find Bai Chongxi first, Bai Chongxi did not suspect, and comforted him and let him relax. Then Han Liancheng went to see Chiang Kai-shek again.
During the Great War of the Central Plains, Chiang Kai-shek was surrounded by Feng Yuxiang's cavalry at the Shangqiu Railway Station, and there were only a small number of troops around him, and he almost confessed there, and Han Liancheng led an independent regiment to quickly rescue the driver, which allowed Chiang Kai-shek to escape from danger.
The Great War of the Central Plains was a battle that made Chiang Kai-shek's position stable, so Han's life-saving feat was of great significance, and it also made Chiang Kai-shek have great trust in him.
Even though Chiang Kai-shek scolded Li Xianzhou in the Battle of Laiwu, he did not blame Han Liancheng in the slightest, but instead relieved him that "as soon as he ran out, he immediately returned to Beijing, extremely loyal and courageous," and appointed Han as a senior staff officer in the chairman's attendant room. He also publicized in the press that Han Liancheng was a hero who "stood out from the siege alone."
Li Xianzhou's side was more miserable, these nationalist generals were all sent to the war criminals management center for reform, although they were all prisoners, but there was still a chain of contempt.
The worse the battle was fought, the lower the chain of contempt, and Li Xianzhou's nearly 60,000 troops were reimbursed for three days, and for a long time they were despised by other prisoners, until Liao Yaoxiang of the Liaoshen Campaign came to save him.
Li Xianzhou reformed for 26 years, and after being pardoned in 1973, he also went to Laiwu, and the revisit of the old place caused his thoughts, at that time, he said to the people around him: My 60,000 troops can't kill a road, how did the Han military commander break through alone?
The problem plagued him for years before it was solved in Beijing.
Once, when Li Xianzhou went to Beijing for a meeting, he met a central leader, and the leader asked him, "Do you have any difficulties that need to be solved?" Li Xianzhou said that question again.
The leader laughed and replied, "Comrade Han Liancheng is in Beijing, and you will see each other soon." ”
Photo: Li Xianzhou in his later years
A few days later, Han Liancheng found Li Xianzhou's address, apologized for his injuries in the Battle of Laiwu, and then revealed his deeds and interrogations.
It was Han Liancheng who believed that his identity had not been exposed, and with Bai Chongxi's appreciation and Chiang Kai-shek's trust, there would be no problem in returning to Nanjing, he said, "I will go back to Nanjing and organize another division and an army, and send you some American equipment." ”
Chen Yi originally did not approve of him going back, but Han Liancheng had already made up his mind, so he had to arrange a jeep to take him to Qingdao and then to Shanghai, and finally back to Nanjing. This is the process of his "breakthrough".
Han Liancheng later lurked in the Kuomintang for a long time, and Meng Lianggu and other battles also contributed, until November 1948, because He Yingqin had conclusive evidence of Han Liancheng's "tong communists" in the Laiwu Campaign, he went to the Liberated Areas.
Since then, Han Has served successively as deputy chief of staff of the First Field Army of the People's Liberation Army, deputy director of the Lanzhou Military Control Commission, and member of the Northwest Military and Political Committee.
When Premier Zhou was conferred the title in 1955, he originally thought that he would be awarded the rank of general, but Han Liancheng did not accept it, saying to Premier Zhou: "I should have retired after achieving success in the peaceful establishment of the country. Besides, you are the one who knows me best, what kind of rebel general am I? Besides, I did not do the revolution for the sake of fame and fortune. ”
In the end, Han Liancheng was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and at that time, the organization issued him gold bars according to the treatment of the rebel generals, and after he resigned several times, he turned around and paid the party fee again, which was really high and bright!