During the War of Liberation, the PLA captured many high-ranking Kuomintang generals.
For example, Wang Yaowu, Du Yuming, Huang Wei, Chen Changjie, Song Xilian, Li Xianzhou, Kang Ze, Shen Zui, Qiu Xingxiang and many other generals of the national army became prisoners in the War of Liberation.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) treated these captured generals who had participated in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression with special leniency.
After sending them to Gongdelin for a period of labor reform, they were released and each of them was assigned a job.
If we look at the fate of these captured generals, we will find that they have indeed received preferential treatment.
But among the captured generals of the national army, there were also three who were severely punished because of their heavy crimes.
Zhao Hongwenguo
Zhao Hongwenguo is the prototype of the old woman with two guns in the film and television drama, Zhao is her husband's surname, and Hong Wenguo is her own name.
Zhao Hongwenguo was born into a farming family in Anshan, Liaoning Province, and grew up to marry a local villager surnamed Zhao.
Zhao Hongwenguo and her husband are happily married, and the two have worked hard for many years and saved a lot of foundations.
But all that changed after the 918 incident.
In 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army launched the 918 Incident and plundered the three eastern provinces without firing a single shot.
Subsequently, countless farmers living in Tohoku were bullied and brutalized by the Japanese one after another.
Zhao Hongwenguo was unwilling to be bullied by the Japanese, so he held a family meeting to persuade his family to resist the Japanese.
After convincing her family, she sold her property, organized a local anti-Japanese team, and began to resist the Japanese invasion.
Because Zhao Hongwenguo often fights with a shell gun in both hands, and her gunnery is a hundred shots, she is nicknamed "the old woman with two guns".
The good times did not last long, and Zhao Hongwenguo's family was finally caught by the Japanese and imprisoned.
Fortunately, there were many non-governmental anti-Japanese troops in the Northeast, and when they learned that their family had been arrested, the anti-Japanese righteous soldiers broke into the prison and rescued their family.
After leaving prison, Zhao Hongwenguo led his family to flee the northeast and take refuge in northern China.
In this land that had just fallen under the iron heel of the Japanese, she and her family re-raised a civilian anti-Japanese team and continued to resist the Japanese invasion.
Because of Zhao Hongwenguo's anti-Japanese deeds, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek met her in Chongqing and granted her a series of official positions.
Song Meiling even praised her in the newspaper as "a model for women in the country".
Her anti-Japanese deeds also appeared in a large number of newspapers across the country.
After years of resistance, Japan surrendered in 1945.
In the year of Japan's surrender, Zhao Hongwenguo, who felt no regrets, resigned from all his posts in the Kuomintang, laid down the weapons in his hands, and returned to the northeast and north China to do business and open factories.
If the matter only ends here, then future generations will only praise Zhao Hongwenguo.
But in 1949, Zhao Hongwenguo made an unwise decision.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's deception, she regained her arms and assumed the post of "Commander of the Second Route Guerrilla Appeasement Column in the Jireliao Border Area" granted by Chiang Kai-shek, helping Chiang Kai-shek to target the People's Liberation Army.
After Zhao Hongwenguo fled to Sichuan, she looted local banks and killed more than 200 local people and grain collectors.
In 1950, the People's Liberation Army recited her anti-Japanese merits and persuaded her to surrender, but she refused to communicate and insisted on stubbornly resisting.
The communication was fruitless, and the People's Liberation Army went all out to suppress her and captured her in one fell swoop.
Zhao Hongwenguo's attitude continued to be bad after her capture, and in July of that year, she was executed after a petition from the families of more than 200 people she killed.
Dai Shannan
Dai Shannan is a native of Shandong, born in the 30th Army, and is the confidant and favorite general of Huang Qiaosong, the commander of the 30th Army.
In 1948, under the persuasion of his old boss Gao Shuxun, Huang Qiaosong had the idea of revolting and defecting to the People's Liberation Army.
Huang Qiaosong did not hide Dai Shannan's confidant and told him his thoughts.
But who would have thought that the first thing Dai Shannan thought of was to tell the truth.
Taking advantage of Huang Qiaosong's unpreparedness, Dai Shannan came to Yan Xishan's office, informed Yan Xishan of the incident, and eagerly expressed his loyalty to the Kuomintang.
After Yan Xishan heard about this, he praised Dai Shannan, and then quietly summoned Huang Qiaosong to the office, and immediately let Huang Qiaosong be controlled.
Subsequently, Yan Xishan sent Huang Qiaosong to Nanjing, causing Huang Qiaosong to lose his life.
As a reward for Dai Shannan, Chiang Kai-shek promoted him to the rank of commander of the 30th Army and promised him a reward of 30,000 silver dollars.
In 1949, the People's Liberation Army attacked Taiyuan, and before the army entered the city, Yan Xishan fled from Taiyuan by plane.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Dai Zhannan did not dare to continue to resist, so he chose to fake his death early and escaped and hid in a family's house.
But under the net of the People's Liberation Army, how long can he hide?
On April 26, 1949, Dai Shannan was arrested and became a prisoner of war of the People's Liberation Army.
Because of the gravity of his crimes, he was executed in July 1949.
Xie Wendong
Xie Wendong was born in Liaoning, and was a famous anti-Japanese righteous man in Northeast China during the Republic of China, as well as a famous traitor and bandit in Northeast China.
How did he bring together anti-Japanese righteous soldiers, traitors, and bandits alone?
This has to start with some experiences in his life.
Xie Wendong was born and raised in Liaoning, and when he was a young man, he fled to Heilongjiang with his family because he was pursued by the government.
Xie Wendong is a capable person, he led his family to develop in Heilongjiang, slowly saved a huge foundation, became a famous local landowner, and also became the local security chief because of the guns in his hands.
But the good times didn't last long, and after the outbreak of the 918 incident, everything also changed.
After the September 18 Incident, along with the Japanese Kwantung Army, there was a reclamation regiment composed of a large number of Japanese peasants.
Those Japanese peasants did not have land in Japan, so they came to the fertile Tohoku, and one by one, like hungry wolves, they fought for the land of the Tohoku peasants.
At this time, Xie Wendong's Tulong Mountain was also contested by the Japanese reclamation group.
The local peasants and landlords in Tulongshan were unwilling to be robbed of their land, and after discussion, they elected Xie Wendong as the leader and organized a team to resist.
In October 1934, Xie Wendong led the team to organize a peasant uprising in Tulongshan, killing the 63rd Wing Commander of the Japanese Army, Iizuka Osa.
Later, he rebelled against the Japanese and puppet army many times in the Sanjiang area of Heilongjiang.
However, due to insufficient weapons and untrained personnel, Xie Wendong's team soon collapsed under the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army.
Only Xie Wendong fled with more than a dozen of his subordinates and went to Zhao Shangzhi of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army instead.
With the help of Zhao Shangzhi, Xie Wendong reorganized his team and reorganized his unit into the Eighth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army.
Later, Xie Wendong led the Eighth Army to resist the Japanese invasion many times.
Xie Wendong's resistance angered the Japanese, so the Japanese launched a sweep in the Sanjiang area.
From 1937 to 1939, Xie Wendong's troops suffered serious injuries.
In 1939, Xie Wendong's army collapsed again, leaving only Xie Wendong to hide in the mountains with more than 20 people.
In the face of Xie Wendong, who had lost his strength, the Japanese tried their best to recruit him and sent people to persuade him to surrender many times, but he refused.
Later, the Japanese found his adjutant and asked his adjutant to persuade him.
After the adjutant's persuasion, Xie Wendong, who had been hiding in the mountains for many days, finally chose to surrender.
After the surrender, Xie Wendong cooperated with the Japanese to shoot a series of propaganda films, and also followed the Japanese to Japan to meet the emperor.
During the surrender, Xie Wendong was arranged by the Japanese to go to the coal mine in Boli County to supervise the work of the workers in the coal mine.
In this way, Xie Wendong stayed in the coal mine for 6 years.
In 1945, Japan was defeated, and Xie Wendong saw that the opportunity had come, so he contacted his former subordinates and rebuilt a team.
Without the Japanese, this time Xie Wendong pointed his sharp blade at his own people, and he led his team to occupy the mountains and plunder everywhere, causing a lot of losses to the local people.
At the end of 1945, Xie Wendong attracted the attention of the Kuomintang.
Under the recruitment of Du Yuming, he joined the Kuomintang camp and successively served as the commander of the 85th Division, the commander of the Third Army, and the commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army.
Then, under the instruction of Du Yuming, he took action against the People's Liberation Army many times.
In order to solve such a tumor, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) took action in 1946 and captured Xie Wendong in one fell swoop.
Because Xie Wendong did a lot of evil and killed many local people during his time as a bandit, he was executed in Boli County in December of that year.
The above are the three generals of the national army who were directly executed after being captured by the People's Liberation Army.