In 1949, General Chen Mingren made an excessive demand before the uprising, but the chairman agreed to it

In the later stages of the Liberation War, the Chinese People's Liberation Army had a special unit in the combat sequence, and the name of the army was the "First Corps of the People's Liberation Army of the Chinese Kuomintang", which seemed strange to people, and was formed in an extraordinary period and existed for 77 days.

In late July 1949, the People's Liberation Army captured important cities such as Yueyang and Pingxiang, and the forward troops had reached the outskirts of Changsha.

At this time, forced by the situation and in order to conform to the trend, Cheng Qian, director of the Kuomintang's Changsha Appeasement Sub-Bureau and head of the province, and Chen Mingren, commander of the First Corps of the Kuomintang Army stationed in Changsha, began to contact Li Minghao and other PLA peace negotiators to discuss the uprising.

After Li Minghao entered Changsha, he met with Chen Mingren and advised him to abandon the dark and turn to the Ming Dynasty at an early date.

The news soon reached the ears of Chiang Kai-shek, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi. Chiang Kai-shek and others were very anxious and immediately decided to use the high-ranking official Houlu to win over and appease Chen Mingren.

On July 30, Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren officially dismissed Cheng Qianben from various posts and appointed Chen Mingren as provincial head.

Subsequently, it was announced that the Changsha Sui Bureau would be abolished and the Provincial Appeasement General Headquarters would be established, with Chen Mingren as the commander-in-chief; Cheng Qian would be the president of the Guangzhou Examination Institute.

Chiang Kai-shek, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi also asked Yan Xishan to come forward and sent Huang Jie, vice minister of national defense, and Deng Wenyi, director of the Political Work Bureau, as lobbyists to carry heavy gold to Changsha to lobby and persuade Chen Mingren to stick to Changsha. Two Huangpu Phase I students said to Chen Mingren: "Brother Ren is the proud protégé of the principal, and in the past, the president treated Brother Ren not thinly, and appreciated and promoted you." Now that the president has fallen to this point, I and other Huangpu students should never throw themselves into the well and fall into injustice! ”

Chen Mingren was a famous general in the Nationalist Army, who had fought with the Northeast Field Army on Siping Street in 1947, and in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's solicitation, he was once again plunged into a fierce contradiction in his heart.

While Chen Mingren was hesitating, on August 3, the Hunan Daily published a message with a banner headline on the front page to the effect that": "Chen Mingren's 100,000 troops in Hunan must lay down their weapons and look up to Fu Zuoyi." ”

When Chen Mingren saw this news, he was immediately furious, and immediately sent someone to summon Li Minghao, and angrily asked: "Is the PLA side sincere in the end, I still have more than 100,000 troops under me, and we can still fight." Fu Zuoyi was besieged as an alliance under the city, I have not yet been besieged, I can fight, retreat can be defended, how can it be compared? ”

Li Minghao hastily enlightened him, saying: "This is not the intention of the PLA side, I hope not to be too careful, the top leaders of the PLA have instructed that this peace movement be characterized as an uprising, not a surrender, but a partial peace through peace negotiations." ”

Chen Mingren said: "What kind of negotiations are not negotiated, anyway, it is the same, I only ask you what will happen to this provincial head of state in the future?" What about the troops? If the seal is to be surrendered, and the troops are to surrender, is it not surrender? I don't want to surrender, I only want to be worthy of the praise of the father, worthy of friends, so I have to put this mess aside, and listen to what you want to do. I immediately flew out of here and went to port. ”

Chen Mingren had concerns and moods in his thinking, and he even made excessive demands.

Chen Mingren demanded that the skeleton of the provincial head of state and the First Corps be preserved, and that the name of the units to be revolted be "The People's Liberation Army of the Chinese Kuomintang." The Hunan People's Liberation Army Headquarters of the Chinese Kuomintang was established.

The name of the rebel troops was "Chinese Kuomintang People's Liberation Army", and Li Minghao said that he must consult his superiors about this.

After Li Minghao reported chen Mingren's ideological fluctuations to the top commander of our army, the top commander (chairman) pondered and said: "In order to protect the people from the harm of war, we should proceed from the overall situation of the war of liberation. We can agree to his request, the structure of his first corps will not move first, he suggested using the name of the first corps of the Chinese Kuomintang People's Liberation Army, although his mind is still a little twisted for a while, but there is also his reason, if it is suddenly renamed the People's Liberation Army, first, there will be confusion in command, and second, military and political personnel who may stimulate the Kuomintang uprising, I think we can first give him a unit name of 'the first corps of the Chinese Kuomintang People's Liberation Army', and then do it according to the situation after reorganization. "On the question of whether the post of head of Chen Mingren Province is retained.

The supreme chief (chairman) said: "His position is not yet hot, he will not be able to get by when he immediately resigns, he wants to be, I think he can still let him continue to be a member, and in the future, the Military and Political Committee will be set up, and he can also be allowed to serve as a member." We are not Chiang Kai-shek, and we do not engage in the same set of internal and external differences. If Chen Mingren is won over and settled down, it will not only be of great benefit to stabilizing the situation in Hunan, but will also enable those middle elements who are still hesitating to make up their minds to lean over as soon as possible, which will be of great benefit to the liberation of all of China and to the reconstruction of China. ”

Li Minghao immediately visited Chen Mingren and informed him of the decision of the supreme commander of our army.

Chen Mingren was stunned. Originally, he had drawn up the name of "the first corps of the Chinese Kuomintang People's Liberation Army" and felt that it was contradictory and did not become a "system", which was very excessive, but he did not expect that the supreme commander (chairman) of our army actually agreed to it.

Chen Mingren sighed for a long time, he knew that the only way out at present was to go to the light, otherwise it would be self-destruction.

On the afternoon of August 4, 1949, a new page was turned in the history of Hunan. Chen Mingren and Cheng Qian led 3 armies, 9 divisions and 3 security divisions, totaling more than 120,000 people, to revolt in Changsha. More than 30 Kuomintang military and political leaders in Hunan signed the uprising and electrified!

On August 5, the 138th Division of the 46th Army of the Fourth Field Army entered Changsha City, and Changsha was peacefully liberated.

On August 14, Chen Mingren organized the rebel forces into a corps named "The First Corps of the People's Liberation Army of the Chinese Kuomintang", with Chen Mingren as the commander of the corps and Li Jue, Wei Zhen, Fu Zhengmo, Tang Shengming, and Wang Jinxiu as deputy commanders.

Later, after a series of studies, the vast number of commanders and fighters of the "First Corps of the Chinese Kuomintang People's Liberation Army" had a correct understanding of the uprising and reorganization, and they strongly demanded that the troops be changed to Chinese people's liberation army. Chen Mingren also strongly demanded that it be adapted as soon as possible.

On September 29, 1949, according to the instructions of the commander and the telegram of the Central Military Commission, the Fourth Field Army proposed to reorganize Chen Mingren's department into one corps, two corps and six divisions, and the name of the unit was set as the 21st Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

On November 1, 1949, the First Corps of the People's Liberation Army of the Chinese Nationalist Party was officially renamed the 21st Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

The 21st Corps, commander Chen Mingren, political commissar Tang Tianji, had jurisdiction over the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Armies. At this point, the title of "Chinese Kuomintang People's Liberation Army" that existed for 77 days was abolished.

On December 2, 1949, the 21st Corps of the People's Liberation Army held a grand inaugural meeting in Liuyang County.

Chen Mingren, radiant and dressed in a straight People's Liberation Army uniform, presided over the inaugural meeting and announced the orders of the Central Military Commission. When he spoke, he said with high excitement: "From today onwards, our corps has embarked on the road of light and has begun to be reborn!" ”

In 1955, General Chen Mingren was awarded the rank of general in the People's Liberation Army.