Invisible, but also stealth, in modern warfare surprising victory. Among the founding generals of the Republic, there is a figure on the espionage front who is still little known, who participated in and witnessed many major events in China's modern and modern history. He worked as a shepherd boy in the countryside, saved Chiang Kai-shek's life during the Central Plains War, and has since lurked around the top echelons of the Nationalist government. Li Kenong's evaluation: He is an invisible general.
Han Liancheng
Borrow a diploma to join the army
Ningxia Guyuan has a long history, and since the Conquest of the Foxes by King Xuan of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it has become a place where humanities gather. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when lives were ruined, the whole land of China was full of poverty and disaster. In March 1903, Han Liancheng was born into a poor family in Chengguan, Guyuan. His original name was Han Jizhou, and he attended a private school for seven years as a child. At the age of 15, due to his family's poverty, he had to drop out of school to herd cattle and sheep for the landlord's family. Every day he drove the sheep out to graze, cut grass, collect firewood, and do some chores that could not be completed. He did not have enough to eat, did not sleep well, and was often harassed, humiliated and scolded by the landlords. Han Liancheng, who had a strong disposition, couldn't bear it, and one day in a fit of anger, he smashed the altar jar of the landlord's house and ran away in anger.
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Through the relationship between relatives, Han Liancheng went to a small grocery store in Guyuan City as an apprentice. He wore ragged clothes and slept with a day
Night shop
The door panel, to do more than ten hours a day of work, the shopkeeper is not happy to punch and kick. Once, after Han Liancheng was beaten and escaped, he was chased back, and the shopkeeper scolded: "Can your boy still become an official when he runs out?" He stubbornly replied, "Then you don't dare to measure it!" Later, because of the dispute over the shopkeeper's wife's child, he injured the shopkeeper and was fired. Hot-tempered, with a bad reputation, no one in the county dared to hire him, and Han Liancheng had to lose his job at home.
In January 1925, Ma Hongkui's 5th Mixed Brigade was expanded into the 7th Division of the Northwest Army, recruiting troops everywhere. Desperate, Han Liancheng was not willing to live a hard life as a cow and a horse, and thought of joining the army. His mother borrowed a diploma from Han Guizhang, a member of the "Gansu Provincial No. 2 Middle School", and he was admitted to the Ma Hongkui Officers' Teaching Team in the name of Han Guizhang. From then on, Han Guizhang became his name and began his lifelong career as a horseman.
Desperately "save the car" to walk on the "stage"
In 1929, Jiang Feng turned against each other and met each other. Feng Yuxiang's troops surrounded Guide Station. At this time, the "train camp" where Lao Jiang was riding stopped at Guide Station, unable to move, and his life was also controlled by Feng Yuxiang. Ma Hongkui received the information and ordered the troops closest to Guide Station to rush to the rescue.
Han Liancheng, the regimental commander at the time, was given this task. Han Liancheng led his troops to attack the east and the west, and in the melee, he guarded the "train camp". After the danger was eliminated, Han Liancheng led his troops to rescue Old Jiang from the siege. Since the Northern Expedition, this was the second time that Old Chiang was in distress. Old Chiang Kai-shek would never have imagined that the person who rescued him this time was a person who believed in communism and a founding general of the later People's Republic.
Old Chiang during the Great War of the Central Plains
Old Jiang clenched Han Liancheng's hand and carefully looked at this imposing man, thinking that he was a standard soldier. Out of habit, Old Jiang asked, as usual, "How many graduates are you from Huangpu?" In old Chiang Kai-shek's view, the brave and good soldiers must be students of the Whampoa Military Academy. Han Liancheng replied that he was not a Huangpu student and briefly introduced his origin and experience. Old Jiang smiled and nodded. Afterwards, an edict was issued: "Han Guizhang, commander of the 64th Division, saw the danger and gave the order, sincerity and courage are commendable, and the graduates of the third phase of the chartered military academy are included in the student register, and the internal order is known." ”
In this way, Han Liancheng became a concubine. It seems to many that the door of his career has been opened to him. At this time, Han Lian was only 20 years old, and it was only 4 years since he joined Ma Hongkui as a soldier.
In the Battle of Laiwu, he established outstanding military achievements
In February 1943, Han Liancheng, who was serving in the Gui army at the time, was transferred to the attendant room of the chairman of the Kuomintang Military Commission. In his previous dealings with Chiang Kai-shek and the Gui clan, Han Liancheng deeply felt that there was no difference in the essence of the two in their anti-communist and anti-people nature. He felt very sorry for this and had the idea of going to the Communist Party.
In the summer of 1943, in a small, dilapidated building in Chongqing, Han Liancheng saw the long-awaited Zhou Enlai, listened to the revolutionary principles of the real revolutionaries, and indeed had a feeling of empowerment and enlightenment. Han Liancheng made it clear that he wanted to join the revolution, and Zhou Enlai suggested that the most urgent thing at the moment was to use his identity and position to contribute to the anti-Japanese struggle to save the country. This is not only consistent with Han Liancheng's desire to become enlightened, but also practical.
Zhou Enlai said to him: "The most important thing at present is to resist Japan. It is very important to unite more Kuomintang people to join us in resisting Japan. He shook Han Liancheng's hand and said deeply, "I hope you work for the Communist Party over there." Of course, you will suffer some grievances because of this. Han Liancheng, who has a straightforward personality, immediately said: "I am not afraid of grievances, but the Kuomintang is so corrupt, I want to carry the black pot for them!" ”
Zhou Enlai was silent for a while, then said, "Yes, someone will misunderstand you, maybe it will be a long time." However, I think that for the benefit of Chinese people, you can understand and endure. Han Liancheng said movingly: "With Mr. Zhou's deep understanding, I Han Liancheng is willing to carry the black cauldron for a lifetime!" ”
In 1947, the Kuomintang army launched a full-scale offensive against the Liberated Areas of Shandong, and Han Liancheng served as the commander of the 46th Army of the Nationalist Army. He provided many negative suggestions to Li Xianzhou, the commander of the Jiang Army Group attacking on the northern front, and lured Li Xianzhou Group into the encirclement of the East China Field Army. After the Li Xianzhou group was besieged by the People's Liberation Army, Han Liancheng took a platoon of guards and, led by liaison personnel, came to a division headquarters of the front-line troops of the East China Field Army. The commander-in-chief fled, delaying the breakthrough time of the Nationalist army, and the People's Liberation Army annihilated more than 56,000 enemy troops in the Battle of Laiwu, recaptured 13 counties such as Boshan and Zichuan, and reunited the Liberated Areas of Bohai, Luzhong and Jiaodong.
Li Kenong praised: "You are an invisible general"
Old Jiang was furious and gave a secret order to pursue and kill
When Han Liancheng and his entourage left the PLA garrison, the flames of war had not yet been completely extinguished. The Kuomintang Forty-sixth Army's garrison in Qingdao received the commander who had returned from the front and reported to his superiors. Wang Yaowu, commander of the Kuomintang's Second Appeasement District in Jinan, was bent on escorting Han Liancheng to Nanjing as a scapegoat for defeat. Han Liancheng alertly avoided Jinan and traveled through Shanghai to Nanjing to meet his old boss Bai Chongxi. White will be more tolerant of this love and protected.
In 1948, Bai Chongxi transferred Han away from Nanjing and recommended him to Zhang Zhizhong, the director of the Northwest Travels. Bai said to Han: "The war in the northwest is urgent, you rush to it immediately, and you must not delay it." Han Shen took his intentions, went to Lanzhou to meet Zhang Zhizhong, and was appointed deputy chief of staff and commander of the garrison brigade in the northwest. Zhang Zhizhong set up a banquet to wash the dust for Han, and when the two of them shook goodbye, Han felt that something was stuffed into his hand, and after taking it, he opened it to see that it was a plane ticket to Hong Kong that night. Han Liancheng understood that the situation was very critical and immediately rushed to the airport to fly to Hong Kong. Regarding this matter, Zhang Zhizhong saw Han Liancheng in Beijing many years later and told the truth: "It's so dangerous! Before you arrived in Lanzhou, I received a telegram from old Jiang to detain you and send you to Nanjing for disposal. ”
After Han Liancheng left Hong Kong, he stayed at the Hong Kong branch of the Communist Party of China to prepare to arrange for democrats to secretly go north in batches. Xia Yan placed Han in a hidden place and waited for instructions from the central authorities. Han Liancheng suddenly arrived, and was not originally included in the list. After Xia Yan asked Zhou Enlai, he agreed that Han Liancheng would go north with the third group of democrats, but his identity would not be made public.
In his later years, Han Liancheng
Donate gold to pay the party fee to stay in "Shi'er"
Upon learning of Han Liancheng's urgent request to join the party, Zhou Enlai happily agreed. Zhou En: "If you want me to be your introducer, please give me the materials." Zhou Enlai said a word, and Han Lian became tearful. Looking back on the road of decades, recalling the dangers and hardships he had experienced in his life, he was now very excited to return to the embrace of the party.
In 1950, through the introduction of Zhou Enlai, Zhang Zongxun and Gan Siqi, Han Liancheng fulfilled his wish for many years and joined the Communist Party of China. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Party and the state had a policy that all the former Kuomintang generals who revolted were rewarded with considerable gold. Han Liancheng was listed as a general in the Kuomintang uprising and was notified of the relevant information. In the face of this notice, Han Liancheng had mixed feelings, and he said: "I am not an uprising general, I am a party member who has not gone through the formalities!" ”
The superiors said that this was a state reward, a policy of the party towards the Kuomintang rebel generals, not a proof of his personal identity, and that the gold must be accepted. Han Liancheng didn't think about it, and handed over all the gold as a party fee. When he was awarded the title in 1955, Han Was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. He successively served as a member of the National Defense Commission, deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, and vice governor of Gansu Province.
In 1983, Han Liancheng wrote the poem "Nine Days Essay" for his son Han Jing at the Beijing 301 Hospital, and in 1995, the Guangdong Education People's Publishing House published "Selected Poems of Han Liancheng" inscribed by General Zhang Aiping. The following spring, he died in Beijing 301 Hospital, and at the age of 75, Han Liancheng completed his singable and weeping life.