1949 was the year when the Kuomintang ran out of oil and dried up, the three major battles had been fought this year, the main force of the Kuomintang was also wiped out, and Chiang Kai-shek had to temporarily give way to Li Zongren.
Li Zongren was still whimsical at the beginning, planning to divide the river and rule, relying on the main force of the Gui army to compete with the People's Liberation Army. As a result, Bai Chongxi was slapped over by Siye, and with the end of the Battle of Hengbao, the main force of the Gui army was also wiped out.
In fact, at this point, all the Kuomintang officers knew that the Kuomintang was coming to an end, so there was a large-scale uprising, most of the officers with heads and faces either surrendered or went to Taiwan, and few people actually died on the battlefield......
However, at the end of the Liberation War, the Kuomintang actually produced the only corps commander with the rank of general who died in battle.
This is strange, looking back at the tragic war of liberation, there were many senior commanders killed on the Kuomintang side.
For example, the famous Huang Baitao and Qiu Qingquan, both of whom were lieutenant commanders of the corps, one committed suicide and the other was killed while escaping, both of which were already at the level of breaking the sky, and they died in the most fierce Huaihai battlefield in the Liberation War.
But these two people are not as high as Hu Ruoyu at the end of the Liberation War, who was the commander of the general corps, and was killed in the battlefield, and was finally "martyred" for the Kuomintang government.
So the question is, who is Hu Ruoyu, the commander of the corps who sounds "not very famous"? The history of this person has to be traced back to 1911.
He graduated from the Yunnan Army Primary School in his early years and was exposed to progressive publications. In 1911, Kunming launched the Chongjiu Uprising, and this person participated in it early, which can be described as young and enthusiastic, and once served as the commander of the guard company of the Supervision Office.
Later, he returned to Yunnan after his father's funeral, and after the expiration of his filial piety, he entered the Hubei Army Middle School and the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall, and after graduation, he caught up with Yunnan to recruit soldiers, and was promoted to the commander of the first battalion of the Second Guard Regiment because of his outstanding talent, and was appreciated by the Yunnan warlord Tang Jiyao.
Because he followed Tang Jiyao, Hu Ruoyu experienced the vigorous anti-Yuan Protectorate War that year.
Once upon a time, Cai Ye broke through many obstacles to Tang Jiyao's territory, and Tang Jiyao was forced to wage a national defense war with Cai Yi - under the command of Cai Yi, the Yunnan Protector Army of more than 9,000 people was invincible.
Although Hu Ruoyu failed to fight the Beiyang warlords with Cai Yi, he stayed in Yunnan and thwarted Yuan Shikai's conspiracy to disrupt Yunnan and defeated Yuan Shikai's invading forces, so he was taken as a confidant by Tang Jiyao, and was later promoted to the head of the Second Guard Regiment.
After the end of the Protectorate War, Cai Yi died, and with the prestige of the Protector Army, Tang Jiyao frantically expanded his territory and began to settle in Sichuan.
Hu Ruoyu led the Yunnan troops to implement the plan, and performed very well, defeating Liu Cunhou and successfully taking Chengdu. Because of his military merits, Hu Ruoyu was promoted to commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Yasukuni Army.
However, at that time, the "Sichuan people ruled Sichuan Movement" broke out in Sichuan, Tang Jiyao's troops were driven out of Sichuan, and the troops in Yunnan into Sichuan suffered heavy losses. Under this incident, Gu Pinzhen launched a rebellion, drove Tang Jiyao away, and occupied Kunming.
At this time, Tang Jiyao was already "embattled", and all the troops under his command asked him to get out, but Hu Ruoyu was loyal to Tang Jiyao, not only did not surrender, but continued to attract troops to attack Kunming very loyally.
Hu Ruoyu still has some ability, and he can really quickly integrate a force to save Tang Jiyao from fire and water. At that time, Tang Jiyao appointed him as the commander of the advance army, and under the slogan of supporting Mr. Sun Yat-sen, he broke the Gui army and occupied Guilin.
It's a pity that Tang Jiyao is an out-and-out careerist, he ignored Mr. Sun Yat-sen's opposition, and took the Yunnan troops to directly announce their separation and return to the division to crusade against Gu Pinzhen. Because of Hu Ruoyu's "loyalty", he was appointed commander of the Second Route Army and commander-in-chief of the front, leading Zhang Ruji and Long Yun to cooperate in the attack on Gu Pinzhen.
With the cooperation of all forces, Tang Jiyao once again took control of Yunnan, and Gu Pinzhen was shot and killed.
After returning to Yunnan, Tang Jiyao re-launched the "Sichuan Operation", this time he learned a lesson, supported the Sichuan warlord Xiong Kewu, and once again sent Hu Ruoyu to lead the troops into Sichuan. Hu Ruoyu performed well and successfully won Chongqing, but unfortunately he did not gain a firm foothold after all, and still failed to win, and finally lost Guizhou.
In 1924, Tang Jiyao, together with Chen Jiongming and others, attacked the Guangzhou government and sent Long Yun to occupy Nanning.
Fortunately, the Guangzhou government put down the rebellion of Chen Jiongming and others, and Long Yun and Hu Ruoyu had to withdraw to Yunnan.
At this stage, Hu Ruoyu gradually changed from a hot-blooded progressive youth to a warlord thug with "traditional loyalty and filial piety", who had made great contributions in the Protectorate War, but became a reactionary executioner who sabotaged the revolution.
However, soon after, his so-called loyalty was severely challenged—he was abandoned by his master.
As mentioned above, Hu Ruoyu has been working hard for Tang Jiyao, and has made great contributions to Tang Jiyao's return and gaining a firm foothold. However, Tang Jiyao later began to be suspicious of Hu Ruoyu, Long Yun and others, so he began to cultivate his own people step by step to weaken them.
As a result, Tang Jiyao's Yunnan became full of contradictions, and the major forces under his command were detached, and Hu Ruoyu was also full of grief and indignation, so he began to jointly launch the 26th coup d'état with Long Yun and others, and personally ousted his master from power.
Since then, Hu Ruoyu has become a complete warlord and has plunged headlong into the struggle for power in Yunnan.
It should be said that Hu Ruoyu's performance on the battlefield was okay, but he was a "rookie" in politics, and his struggle with Long Yun was quite fierce, and he finally lost to Long Yun.
However, this person's luck was not bad, and he later found the "new big brother" Li Zongren - he had participated in the anti-Chiang movement initiated by Li Zongren and others, and resolutely participated in the anti-Chiang struggle. After the defeat, he still followed Li Zongren and shouted for him.
Li Zongren admired this former great warlord of Yunnan, gave him the title of the 39th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and later specially sent him to Germany to study military affairs. I have to say that Hu Ruoyu really has some practical talents, and even wrote several military books after returning to China.
And seeing that Li Zongren appreciated himself so much, Hu Ruoyu also gave everything for Li Zongren in the future.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he followed Bai Chongxi as a lieutenant general staff officer in the General Staff Department of the Military Commission, and later served as the acting chief of staff of the Fifth Theater with Li Zongren. In that year, he also participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang and the Battle of Lunan and made significant contributions to the War of Resistance against Japan.
In 1948, Chiang Kai-shek's position began to waver, and Hu Ruoyu continued to support Li Zongren's candidacy for vice president. There is no doubt that when Li Zongren came to power, Hu Ruoyu could be reused.
In 1949, Hu Ruoyu served as the deputy commander of the 11th Corps, and after Bai Chongxi's main force was eliminated, Hu Ruoyu was appointed commander-in-chief of the 11th Corps.
With the liberation of Guangzhou, the People's Liberation Army rushed into the encirclement and suppression of the remnants of the Kuomintang, and the Gui troops fled when they heard the news.
In the process, Hu Ruoyu led his troops to encounter the People's Liberation Army, and finally was shot and killed in the melee, also because the situation was complicated at the time, it was too sudden, and it is still impossible to find which soldier killed the Kuomintang bigwig.
The above is Hu Ruoyu's life, which is generally embarrassing.
Reference: "The Biography of Hu Ruoyu"