Who is the most crazy among the famous generals of the national army? The author first recommends these three. The first is Dai Zhiqi, who said before the war with Su Yu: I can reorganize the 69th Division to fight the three columns of the Communist Army. As a result, Su Yuzhen sent three columns to fight. Dai Zhiqi paid the price for his arrogance and was killed.
The second is Zhang Lingfu, the integrated 74th Division, which holds the head of the five main forces, and thinks that the world is invincible, so that he didn't even have a pre-war reconnaissance, so he pounced headlong. As a result, Su Yu "cut off the head of the general from ten thousand horses", and Zhang Lingfu and the whole army of the reorganized 74th Division were annihilated in Menglianggu.
This third place, the author thinks that it is even more crazy than Zhang Lingfu and Dai Zhiqi, they are all besieged by Siye (Northeast Democratic Alliance Army), but he said to his boss Du Yuming: Everything is trivial, just airdrop ammunition is OK, no need to send troops to rescue, I will break through by myself......
So who is this division commander of the National Army? It is none other than Li Zhengyi, the division commander known as the "Qianliju Division (25th Division)."
The first question: Why is the 25th Division of the Nationalist Army called the "Division of a Thousand Miles"? It is very simple, just one word: Fast! The combat style pays attention to the hurricane assault, boldly interspersed with detours, and the unique skill is to rush. has always been regarded as the "wonder soldier" of the national army, and its combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the five main forces.
The second question: Why is the "Thousand Miles of Horse Division" so crazy? Just as Dai Zhiqi, the commander of the reorganized 69th Division, is a descendant of the crown prince Chiang Ching-kuo, and the reorganized 74th Division is like Chiang Kai-shek's eyeballs (brought out by Wang Yaowu), this "Thousand Miles Horse Division" also has a great background.
Guan Linzheng and Du Yuming, the two eldest brothers of the first phase of Huangpu from Shaanxi, both served as the commanders of the division. Guan Linzheng and Du Yuming know their status in the national army, so naturally this "Thousand Miles Horse Master" is also "in good health, and it is fragrant to eat".
At the same time, Li Zhengyi, the commander of the division, like Zhang Lingfu and Hu Lian, graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu. Now can you understand why after the "Thousand Miles of Horse Division" was besieged by Siye, Li Zhengyi dared to say to Du Yuming: As long as you have ammunition, refuse to rescue, right?
In fact, Li Zhengyi's subtext is: I can fight ten of them, and I can break through the encirclement of the communist army by relying on my own strength. You can even have a counter-kill. Therefore, Sir Du, you only give ammunition, so don't send someone to take the credit of my thousand-mile horse division under the banner of rescuing me.
The third question is, what was the final outcome of Li Zhengyi and the "Thousand Miles of Horse Division"? Naturally, the whole army was wiped out, and Li Zhengyi was also captured, so why was he so "slapped in the face"? In order to thoroughly understand all this, we must start with a telegram sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Du Yuming on 15 January 1946......
In the early days of the War of Liberation, which national army was the first to enter Shenyang? Yes, it was this "thousand-mile horse division." At that time, the Soviet troops had not yet withdrawn, and the Democratic Union forces on the outskirts of the city were also very active. Originally, this "Thousand Miles of Horse Division" represented the face of the national army, but as soon as he entered Shenyang, he began to let himself go.
Not only did it have a very bad relationship with the Soviet army, but it was also widely despised by the people of Northeast China. It even led to an epidemic of internal visceral diseases in the "Thousand Miles of Horse Division". Soon the relevant news was learned by Chiang Kai-shek, who was so angry that he suddenly jumped to his feet and sent a telegram to Du Yuming to scold him, as follows.
Ordinary officers and soldiers went in and out of brothels, spent money like dirt, and were infected with syphilis. This kind of truth has been confirmed by Chinese and foreign reporters, and why did the Commander's Department not take strict precautions in advance against such malpractices that corrupt morality, damage the reputation of the military, and lose physical strength, and did not completely ban them afterwards...... So far, it has been a great shame for our soldiers.
So what can Du Yuming do? What else can he do? Now that the boat is already in the boat, he can only treat the officers and men who are sick with dirty diseases while scolding Li Zhengyi at the same time.
In fact, it can be seen from this declassified historical material that this is why after the siege of the "Thousand Miles of Horse Division", it still dares to be so crazy - vainly trying to make up for the merits, and finally the whole army is wiped out - the combat effectiveness is seriously insufficient.
Half a year later, the Battle of Xinkailing broke out, and the Qianliju Division, like the later reorganized 74th Division, maintained its own martial arts and strength, and did not take our Northeast Democratic Alliance Army in its eyes, leaving other teams far behind, and rushed all the way to attack.
How could Hu Qiwei of the Fourth Column let go of this piece of fat that had been delivered to his mouth? He set up a pocket array in Xinkailing to besiege the arrogant thousand-mile colt division. After a day of fierce fighting, it stands to reason that Li Zhengyi should come to his senses, but when Du Yuming's phone call came, he confidently said: As long as ammunition, no reinforcements!
Li Zhengyi was crazy, but Du Yuming was terrifyingly sober, he knew that Li Zhengyi was talking nonsense, so after putting down the phone, he began to order the troops to rescue with all their might, but it was too late. The "Qianli Ju Division" advanced too hard, and in this way, Li Zhengyi and the Qianli Ju Division finally annihilated the whole army in Xinkailing.
But at this moment, a funny scene appeared. According to the report of "The Appearance of "Qianliju": The officers above the regimental level of the 25th Division (Qianliju is) are basically all there, but there is no enemy division commander Li Zhengyi. The commander of the column instructed: Judging from the characteristics of this operation, Li Zhengyi will not be able to escape. You must find a way to find out about him......
So the task of finding Li Zhengyi was handed over to Wang Ruitang of the Enemy Engineering Department of the Political Department of the Fourth Column. Soon Wang Ruitang found the guard next to Li Zhengyi and opened a breakthrough from this guard......
When the whistle sounded, several buckets of sorghum rice and stewed Chinese cabbage were lowered into the courtyard, and the captives rushed towards the food like hungry tigers, and in less than twenty minutes the food was gone. While the captives were grabbing food, a man of about forty years old walked around outside the crowd of food grabbers, and when the food was gone, he crouched beside the bucket and picked up the leftovers. At this time, the Li guard pointed out from the window of the office: "He is Li Zhengyi!"
He (Li Zhengyi) scraped in the bucket for a long time and didn't catch any oil and water, constantly shaking his head and sighing, never expecting that the major general and division commander known as the "Thousand Miles of Horses" would fall into this field......
Now let's ask, whether it's fun or not. Perhaps seeing this, some people will wonder: those prisoners who robbed food, don't they know their division commanders?
I know, but I'm hungry enough, not to mention the division commander, even the commander won't care. The second is that Li Zhengyi at this moment is "wearing greasy clothes...... smeared with a thick layer of black ash on his face", which is completely different from the card of the division commander of the national army in peacetime, so naturally no one treats him as a "dish".
In this way, Li Zhengyi was found out. After the transformation, on December 27, 1946, he was also interviewed by Shi Ming, a reporter from the Northeast Daily, and told the following interesting story.
Adjutant Wang, who was captured this time, his son and nephew were both members of the Eighth Route Army, and this time the family was reunited. Regiment Commander Liu of the Artillery Regiment is an old classmate of Deputy Division Commander Duan, and when he met on the battlefield this time, he told Deputy Division Commander Duan that he had sent several letters asking you to come to the Eighth Route Army, but he didn't get them.
In the end, I repeatedly emphasized: no longer be a tool for civil war.
That is to say, after studying, Li Zhengyi was basically transformed, so not only was he sent to the Gongdelin, but he was accompanied by Du Yuming, Liao Yaoxiang and others, and he also received various preferential treatment from our side until his death in 1990......