To "slaves" rather than talents, this is Chiang Kai-shek's way of employing people.
His officialdom was only bribery, and the appointment of regiment commanders and above did not have any personnel system at all, and it was all based on Chiang Kai-shek's joy and anger.
Li Yutang followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, but just because he praised the representative of the Chinese Communist Party, he was charged with "shaking the morale of the army" and was shot by Chiang Kai-shek.
The matter is also a family affair of the Kuomintang, so why does the mainland want to pursue Li Yutang as a martyr? What is the origin of this person?
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Shandong "Sanli"
Among the senior generals of the Kuomintang, Li Xianzhou, Li Yannian and Li Yutang are all from Shandong, and their military ranks are all lieutenant generals, so they are also known as Shandong's "Three Lis".
However, the ending of the three is very different.
The eldest brother Li Xianzhou was Wang Yaowu's deputy, and he also said that he would be "anti-communist", and Chiang Kai-shek handed over the Northern Group to him to be responsible, but when Li Xianzhou was still in the headquarters in February 1947, the army commander Han Liancheng suddenly disappeared.
The battle was about to disappear, and the original deployment was directly postponed for two hours, and after all the hard work to get out of the city, it suddenly became a turtle in an urn and entered the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army.
Li Xianzhou, who knew that it was difficult to fly, was sent to the Beijing Gongdelin War Criminals Management Office, and his mentality also changed, because after the first battle in Laiwu, Chen Yi saw him once.
Li Xianzhou thought that he would definitely have to suffer a little, and the Kuomintang would crack down on the captured Communists, but he never thought that Chen Yi just said something to him.
"General Li, if you lay down your arms, you are friends, and your army will be treated preferentially."
In November 1960, the second batch of amnesty lists was released, and Li Xianzhou was pleasantly surprised to find that he was on the list, in fact, his name was added by Premier Zhou himself.
Premier Zhou, who served as the director of the Political Department of the Huangpu Military Academy, knew Li Xianzhou's bravery in traveling thousands of miles from Guangdong to Huangpu, and also witnessed him taking the lead in the Eastern Crusade, so he specially made him a member of the second batch of amnesty lists, and returned to his hometown during the Spring Festival in 1961.
But Li Yutang, who is also a member of the Three Lis, has no such blessing.
He was 5 years younger than Li Xianzhou, and went to Guangzhou in the spring of 1924 to apply for the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
What makes them aware of it is the disorder of society, the scuffle of warlords, the unbearable taxes and miscellaneous taxes that ordinary people can't pay, and the sighs of their fathers and villagers.
Li Yutang wanted to do something for this society that was trapped in the people's misery, and after graduating from the military academy, he was assigned to the Army of the National Revolutionary Army and participated in the Northern Expedition, facing the Guangdong warlord Chen Jiongming.
Chen Jiongming is not the only warlord, after Zhang Zongchang's defeat, the remaining forces turned into rogue soldiers, and they still don't do good things, except for robbery, that is, burning.
Li Yutang, who was not used to seeing it, directly led the troops to encircle and suppress, and in less than a year, he returned the stability of the people, and he was promoted to brigade commander in 1928, and was promoted again in 1932 and became the commander of the third division.
In 1937, when the invaders trampled on the iron cavalry, the Anti-Japanese War broke out across the country, and the Songhu Anti-Japanese War and the brave Taierzhuang Battle all had Li Yutang's figure, because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted again, and became a military commander in 1938, stationed in Jiangxi.
The enemy's aggression came in 1939, Li Yutang was merciless, ordered the whole army to defend the position, can pinch soft persimmons but dare not touch the hard bones, the Japanese army was defeated, Li Yutang also took advantage of the situation to win the title of "Taishan Army", the destination was transferred to Changsha.
The anti-Japanese forces are shifting, and the focus of the Japanese invading army is also moving.
Defend Changsha
Changsha.
In November 1937, the invaders came in planes and began to bomb Changsha indiscriminately on the 24th, and Changsha became the earliest and longest area in Hunan.
By the end of the Anti-Japanese War in August 1945, the Japanese had dropped 10,000 shells in Changsha, taking countless lives.
Confronting the old enemy in a new field, Li Yutang took advantage of the favorable terrain of Ma'anshan to frantically bombard the Japanese army against the Yangtze River.
How could the fat sheep easily let go? In 1942, the unwilling Japanese invaders struck again, and what made people disgusting was that this time they were also equipped with chemical troops.
The escalated enemy made Li Yutang more rigorous, but it was impossible to be afraid, he personally went to the battlefield, stubbornly defended the second line of defense, and after seizing the opportunity, he directly tightened the ring fire network, and the second battle of Changsha was still victorious.
won twice, so that Li Yutang had already sat in the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the 27th Group Army in 1943, and it was Zhong Song who took over his position as commander.
Japan felt that this was an opportunity and quickly assembled a large number of troops and was ready to move, but after so many battles, how could Li Yutang not know what the Japanese were trying to write, and help the troops make pre-war preparations on the premise of postponing their appointments.
When asked about the reason, Li Yutang also only had one sentence: "Officials can be improper, but Japanese criminals can't stop fighting", such an idea has a sobriety beyond interests, after all, if the country can't be saved, what is the point of sitting in a higher position?
After the war preparations were over, the heart was still not relaxed, Li Yutang called all the soldiers together, and everyone swore that they would live and die together with Changsha.
Unbeknownst to the Japanese, with the strength of a division and other arms of the troops, the morale of Changsha City was condensed, a week of bloody fighting, the number of Japanese soldiers has been more than 6,000 deaths, the third victory again in Changsha.
Li Yutang, who repeatedly defended and defended, was highly praised, and by January 1945, he had become the commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang garrison in Guangxi.
After the end of the external worries, the eyes of the Kuomintang were soon locked on the civil war, Chiang Kai-shek began to dispatch troops to attack the liberated areas, and Li Yutang, who was fighting for the country, also became fighting for the Kuomintang and resolutely launched an attack on the liberated areas of Shandong.
But the battle of liberation was Chiang Kai-shek's defeat was decided, and in July 1948, the People's Liberation Army was all outside Yanzhou, and Li Yutang did not accept it after many persuasions, and more than 40 days later, the People's Liberation Army directly liberated Yanzhou City.
This time, Li Yutang realized the power of the People's Liberation Army, and gradually became the heart of the uprising in the persuasion, everything was going on in an orderly manner, Ye Jianying had already made a promise that as long as Li Yutang rebelled, he could become the deputy director of the Hainan Island Military and Political Commission after that.
Regretting that the plan could not catch up with the changes, Li Yuntao, who received the order to give it to Li Yutang in March 1950, was one step too slow, and heard the news of the sudden change in the situation on the road, and the communication between Hong Kong and Hainan Island was cut off.
At that time, Li Yutang's location was Hainan Island, the news was blocked, and the direction was uncontrollable, and Li Yutang finally followed the Kuomintang to Taiwan.
But in the face of his subordinates, why did Chiang Kai-shek suddenly raise a butcher's knife?
Betrayed
Because Chiang Kai-shek's mind has always been uncertain, he likes to reuse, and he has always tried his best to vote for the people he likes.
The reason why Wang Yaowu, Hu Zongnan, and Du Yuming were able to rise all the way up, in addition to their military skills, was that they were willing to set up an intelligence network near Chiang Kai-shek, and once Chiang Kai-shek had any plans, he would immediately have corresponding countermeasures.
Li Yutang doesn't say flattering words, he doesn't put on a show when dealing with people, and he rarely has unforeseen threats, but he is very dissatisfied with the Kuomintang's political training office.
This "institution" is similar to a secret service, which is a kind of malaise that is divorced from the soldiers and the masses, and when it is divorced from the hearts of the people, when what it does has been taken out of service to the people, all that can be satisfied is selfish desires.
The dissatisfaction in this area was enough for Li Yutang to make enemies in the Kuomintang, and the praise of the representatives of the Chinese Communist Party made some people unbearable, and fabricated the crime of "turning their hearts to the mainland and shaking the morale of the army", but it really made Chiang Kai-shek ruthless, and he was "thankless" to one person.
Li Gang.
After Li Yutang garrisoned Hainan Island, the party sent Li Gang to Hainan Island with the army to plot against Li Yutang through Li Yuntao.
Li Gang knew a lot about this matter, but in December 1950, he was arrested for reporting, and he could not hold back under torture and confessed to Li Yutang and his wife.
This time, Li Yutang is more than lucky, and everyone knows how ruthless Chiang Kai-shek is.
Wang Jingwei died of illness in Japan in 1944, and the "puppet government" was the façade to transport Wang Jingwei's body back to China for a grand burial.
Chiang Kai-shek fought with Wang Jingwei for many years, and when foreign wars were scorching, he had no time to deal with him, and as soon as Japan surrendered, he decided to dispose of Wang Jingwei's grave.
The blasting work officially began in January 1946, in order to cover people's eyes, when the blasting was carried out, the group also worked hard to cover with audio, and after success, they were directly cremated.
For Wang Jingwei, the punishment of Li Yutang was even more effortless for Chiang Kai-shek, and Li Yutang and his wife died in Bitan, Taipei on February 5, 1951.
Only one step away, Li Yutang may not have to follow the Kuomintang to Taiwan, but the news of the delay is after all blocking the uprising, and the heart has surrendered but there is no retribution, and at this point, the greatness of the Communist Party of China will be even more demonstrated.
Chairman Mao once said: We should not forget all those who have done good things in history.
Although the uprising was unsuccessful, he had joined the front of the people's revolution in his heart, so in 1983, the Shandong Provincial People's Government posthumously recognized Li Yutang as a revolutionary martyr.
The bleak situation is embarrassing, hearing the news of Li Yutang, Li Xianzhou always has to sigh, fortunately he became a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army, if he really went to Taiwan with the Kuomintang, the end would definitely be similar to Li Yutang and Li Yannian.
Li Yannian, one of the "Three Lis", did not escape, and in 1950, Chiang Kai-shek was charged with "leaving his post without authorization and failing to perform his duties", and was directly sentenced to 11 years in prison.
once stood in the same position, but in the end he got a different ending, a martyr's identity, which can be regarded as a relatively complete end to Li Yutang's life, and also a relatively complete end to his life of fighting.
Reference link: Li Yutang China Military Network
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