From 1937 to 1945 was the most difficult period in China since the twentieth century, in order to counter the invading enemy, China launched a war of resistance against Japan by the whole people, and in the past eight years, China has gushed out countless heroes and heroes, and today I want to introduce to you this one is even more known as the "General of Changsheng", his name is Chen Changjie.
Chen Changjie was born in 1892, he is a native of Minhou, Fujian, born in a poor peasant family, his parents' income is not high, Chen Changjie has a number of older brothers and sisters, when he was born, his parents were worried about the livelihood of his family, because they were worried about not being able to feed him, Chen Changjie's parents could only bear to throw him into the ancestral hall. Chen Changjie's brothers and sisters could not bear it and picked him up again, which gave him the later household name General Changsheng.
Probably realizing that it is indeed not easy for his parents to raise themselves, Chen Changjie has been very sensible since he was a child, and reading is even more powerful. He could have become a great writer of letters, but in that era of war and chaos, Chen Changjie felt that literature could not save the country, so he went to a military academy to study.
After the end of his studies, Chen Changjie had a place in the Jin Army, because he was a young talent who could be flexible on the battlefield and had culture and education, and Chen Changjie's promotion path was very smooth. However, it took eleven years for Chen Changjie to rise from a small soldier to the position of division commander. Later, although Chiang Kai-shek took him under his command, he never cared about him until the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and Chen Changjie finally had the opportunity to shine.
The first was the Battle of Pingxingguan, where Chen Changjie and the Japanese army fought for nearly ten days before winning the victory, and the bloodiness of his performance made his evaluation in the army rise rapidly, and he was promoted to the commander of the 61st Army. Later, Chen Changjie and the 61st Army created many good achievements, almost never lost a battle, so people gave him the title of "General of Constant Victory".
Speaking of Chen Changjie, the "Jie" in the name means victory. Fate is sometimes so strange that a person's name is actually associated with his fate. In the war against Japan, Chen Changjie used his rich combat experience to repeatedly stop the Japanese army trying to capture Shanxi, and he held every inch of land. For the country and the people, he can be said to have made great contributions, when Chiang Kai-shek began to pay attention to him, and since then, Chen Changjie has been deeply used by Chiang Kai-shek.
From the perspective of a bystander, Chen Changjie is indeed a great hero of the Anti-Japanese Resistance, but from a political point of view, Chen Changjie is not such a perfect person. During the Liberation War, Chen Changjie had always supported Chiang Kai-shek, who had launched the civil war, and he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the "Commander of tianjin garrison" to guard Tianjin for Chiang Kai-shek.
In January 1949, when the People's Liberation Army attacked the city of Tianjin, Chen Changjie was captured by the People's Liberation Army at the age of 57. Because of his advanced age and considering his meritorious service to the country during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Fushun War Criminals Institute did not arrange for him to do heavy work. In 1956, Chen Changjie was imprisoned in the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center and reformed, becoming a Gongdelin war criminal. He was active in prison and enthusiastic about reform, so in 1959 he was released from prison as one of the first amnesty war criminals.
After being pardoned, Chen Changjie was organized and arranged to be a commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Secretariat of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and he has been engaged in literary and historical work ever since. Because of well-known historical reasons, in 1968, Chen Changjie committed the act of killing his wife, and after his wife's death, he also committed suicide at the age of 76.
Resources:
"What I Saw and Heard in the Reform of War Criminals" was drunk, and "Jin Sui War of Resistance" Chen Changjie