During the Liberation War, our army wiped out a total of 8.07 million nationalist troops. So why did Old Chiang Kai-shek, who had such a huge army, lose so much in just over three years? Look at the encounters of these two famous generals of the national army. During the Liberation War, many senior nationalist generals performed very badly on the battlefield, such as the famous anti-Japanese generals Xue Yue and Wang Yaowu, who did not show the standards they should have, let alone Hu Zongnan and Tang Enbo.
However, there are two senior generals of the Nationalist Army who have performed very well on the battlefield: Chen Mingren and Sun Liren. Chen Mingren defended Siping with inferior troops, which was one of the few defeats of Dongye in the northeast; the new first army led by Sun Liren created a lot of trouble for the Northeast Field Army on the battlefield. It is said that these two people are so capable of fighting that they should be reused by old Chiang, but surprisingly, they were both abandoned by old Chiang in the summer of 1947. Chen Mingren returned to Nanjing to work as an idle high counselor, while Sun Liren was sent to train new recruits. So why did Old Jiang abandon these two people?
Let's start with Sun Liren. Among the senior generals of the Nationalist Army, Sun Liren was definitely a clear stream, he never withheld military salaries, nor did he collude with them, so that in his later years, he had to sell eggs for his children to study. Sun Liren graduated from the Virginia Military Academy in the United States and was in the same class as the famous World War II general Patton. After returning to China, he served in Song Ziwen's Tax Police Corps, during which he created a set of training methods of his own, which were very effective and became known as sun's exercises.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Sun Liren led the Taxation Police Corps to participate in the Battle of Songhu, and repeatedly fought bloody battles with the Japanese army, with more than a dozen pieces of shrapnel in his body and almost died of serious injuries. Soon after, he went abroad to fight with the expeditionary force, and broke through the Japanese encirclement with a thousand troops in Ren'anqiang, saving more than 7,000 British troops and making a name for himself in world war. However, due to the fact that the British army had been frightened by the Japanese army, they had no fighting spirit and blindly fled to India. The lonely expeditionary force was in danger of being encircled by the Japanese and could only retreat.
At that time, Lao Jiang ordered Du Yuming to lead an expeditionary army back from Savage Mountain, but Sun Liren resolutely opposed it. He believes that the environment of Savage Mountain is dangerous, mosquito miasma is rampant, and the troops have no logistical support, so it is too difficult to cross Savage Mountain. To this end, he advocated charging at the Japanese army from the front, tearing open a breakthrough and retreating to India. In the end, Du Yuming led the main force back from Savage Mountain, and the troops suffered great losses. Sun Liren led his troops to kill a bloody road from the encirclement of the Japanese army and withdrew to India, with minimal losses.
Judging from the results, Sun Liren's approach is much higher than That of Du Yuming. It is reasonable to say that he should be commended and reused by Lao Jiang, but the result is exactly the opposite, but instead Du Yuming, who suffered heavy losses in the army, was reused by Lao Jiang and became the commander of the Northeast Security. The reason for this is that Sun Liren did not choose to return from Savage Mountain, disobeyed Old Chiang's orders, and committed Old Chiang's great taboo. Old Jiang employs people, mainly looking at three points, the first is Huangpu graduate, the second is Zhejiang compatriots, and the third is absolute obedience. None of these three Sun Liren were occupied, so although he performed well on the battlefield in the northeast during the Liberation War, he was still abandoned by Lao Jiang.
Let's talk about Chen Mingren. Chen Mingren graduated from The First Phase of Huangpu and was considered to be the protégé of old Chiang Kai-shek. However, he was born with a straight nature, and repeatedly disobeyed lao Jiang's orders, which made lao Jiang very embarrassed and eventually abandoned. During the Eastern Crusade against Chen Jiongming, Chen Mingren performed very well, in order to win him over, old Jiang gave Chen Mingren a medium to introduce Liao Zhongkai's daughter to him, but was unexpectedly rejected by Chen Mingren on the grounds that he could not bear to abandon his wife, which made Old Jiang very faceless. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Mingren once again confronted Lao Jiang in front of everyone in Kunming, and tore off his lieutenant general's seal and threw it on Old Jiang's desk.
Old Chiang always liked to use more obedient people, preferring his orders to be carried out to the letter by his subordinates, even if these orders seemed very stupid in hindsight. For example, Hu Zongnan, Liu Zhi, Tang Enbo and others, although the war was a mess, but because they had always been obedient to old Jiang, they were constantly reused, and they held heavy troops in their hands. However, Sun Liren and Chen Mingren, because of their outstanding military talents, were dissatisfied with the fact that old Chiang Kai-shek had repeatedly confronted him, and was beaten into another book by Old Chiang kai-shek and discarded. In his later years, when Xue Yue commented on Old Jiang, he unceremoniously said that he "would rather use slave talents than talents." Old Jiang employed people only on his own likes and dislikes, Sun Liren and Chen Mingren were abandoned only because they refused to blindly obey, and incompetent people such as Hu Zongnan, Liu Zhi, and Tang Enbo were constantly promoted.