In 1948, a strange thing happened during the Battle of Xiangfan.
After the battle, Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi gave instructions to the front-line general Wang Jinshan.
Wang Jinshan is required to treat a national army general with the highest standard of treatment, and this general cannot be neglected.
Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng are very familiar to us, both of them were ranked in the rank of marshal in 1955, what kind of generals of the national army would let Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng ask for preferential treatment for him?
Guo Xunqi
Guo Xunqi is a native of Huayang, Sichuan, and was born in the Sichuan army of Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan.
If we want to talk about Guo Xunqi's military ability, we have to mention the Battle of Tucheng.
The battle broke out in 1935, when the Red Army moved to Guizhou, and in order to encircle and suppress the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek contacted warlords along the country and asked them to work together with the Central Army to attack the Red Army.
Because Zunyi, where the Red Army was located at that time, was the closest to Sichuan, Guo Xunqi, who was the division commander at the time, was arranged by Liu Xiang to lead 6 regiments to pursue the Red Army.
Fighting broke out between the two sides near Tucheng.
Before the battle began, the Red Army had intercepted a telegram from the Sichuan army.
After translation, the "brigade" mentioned in the telegram was translated into "regiment", believing that Guo Xunqi led a small number of troops, and with the strength of the Red Army, he was fully capable of annihilating all his troops.
As a result, the Red Army decided to go all out, intending to annihilate Guo Xunqi's troops in one fell swoop.
But after the outbreak of the battle, as casualties gradually mounted, the Red Army realized that the translation had gone wrong.
The strength of the troops led by Guo Xunqi was not the 6,000 men previously estimated by the Red Army, but a huge 10,000 people.
After realizing that something was wrong, Mao Zedong immediately made a change.
While Mao Zedong ordered the Red Second Division to return to help, he also ordered two generals, Chen Geng and Song Renqiang, to lead cadres to launch a counter-charge against Guo Xunqi's department, which was about to kill the Red Army headquarters.
After repelling Guo Xunqi's attack, the Red Army tried to charge Guo Xunqi many times, although it also achieved certain victories, but because Guo Xunqi's troops stubbornly resisted and did not retreat, there was a steady stream of Kuomintang reinforcements chasing around.
Mao Zedong made another change, gave up the original plan to cross the Yangtze River to the north, led the troops to cross the Chishui River to the west, and launched the first crossing of the Chishui River in history, thus getting rid of the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang troops and winning back a respite for the Red Army.
This battle was the most fierce battle ever fought between Guo Xunqi and the Red Army.
Aside from this campaign, Guo Xunqi's attitude towards the Communist Party was friendly and goodwill most of the time.
During the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Guo Xunqi formed a deep friendship with many communists operating in Sichuan.
Chen Yi, Liu Bocheng, Yang Yangong, who presided over the work of the Chongqing Communist Party, and many other Communists were all his friends.
He also attended many mass meetings held by the Communist Party in Sichuan and Chongqing.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolution and prepared to attack the Communists.
On the eve of Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolution, Guo Xunqi, who was attending a mass meeting of the Communist Party, received a notice from his superiors asking him to return to the army.
At that time, the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was tense, and when he suddenly received this notice, Guo Xunqi was keenly aware that things would change, so he handed over the news of the notice to Yang Yangong and others, who were presiding over the meeting, and told them to be careful in the future.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Kuomintang to plot the March 1 tragedy in Chongqing.
In this tragedy, a large number of Communists were killed.
Guo Xunqi couldn't bear to let his former friend be killed, and helped many communists get out of danger.
Marshal Chen Yi was one of the people he helped back then.
In order to help Chen Yi escape from the pursuit of the Kuomintang, Guo Xunqi asked Chen Yi Qiaozhuang to pretend to be a businessman, and sent his subordinates to personally send Chen Yi on the ship leaving Chongqing.
After many students were hospitalized, he even paid out of his own pocket to help the students with treatment.
A series of actions are enough to show his kindness to the Communist Party.
And because of this kindness, he was removed from the post of brigade commander that year.
The friendship between Guo Xunqi and the New Fourth Army
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Guo Xunqi served as the commander of the 50th Army and was sent to fight in the Jiangnan area.
The Jiangnan area was the garrison of the New Fourth Army, and after becoming a neighbor with the New Fourth Army, Guo Xunqi deepened his friendship with the New Fourth Army.
At that time, Chen Yi was invited by Guo Xunqi to live in the military headquarters of the 50th Army for three days.
During his stay at the military headquarters of the 50th Army, Chen Yi suggested that Mrs. Guo Xunqi could organize post-war women's work in peacetime and contribute to the anti-Japanese war after the war.
Subsequently, Mrs. Guo Xunqi established women's anti-enemy associations in Taiping County and Jing County, which were responsible for helping the 50th Army to take care of and comfort the wounded after the war, and to publicize the anti-Japanese work to the local masses.
Guo Xunqi learned that the New Fourth Army lacked weapons, and sent people to send 10,000 rounds of ammunition and more than 30 rifles to the New Fourth Army.
In order to strengthen the anti-Japanese ability of his subordinates, Guo Xunqi sent a non-commissioned officer team to learn guerrilla warfare from the New Fourth Army.
In order to strengthen his friendship with the New Fourth Army, Guo Xunqi organized his soldiers to play a basketball game with the New Fourth Army.
Because of his frequent and close contacts with the New Fourth Army, Guo Xunqi was quickly noticed by Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek, in a fit of rage, found an excuse to dismiss him from his post as army commander.
Guo Xunqi did not want to retreat from the anti-Japanese battlefield because of this, so he sent people to contact the New Fourth Army, planning to defect to the New Fourth Army and follow the footsteps of the New Fourth Army to resist Japan.
However, because he was in the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at that time, the New Fourth Army considered that this time would have a huge impact and politely rejected him.
After that, Guo Xunqi briefly withdrew from the anti-Japanese battlefield.
Guo Xunqi was captured
During the War of Liberation, although Chiang Kai-shek was still not worried about Guo Xunqi, he was reluctant to give up such an excellent military talent as he thought of his achievements in 1935 and his achievements in dragging a Japanese division and helping Taierzhuang complete a great victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang.
Kang Ze was born in propaganda and spy work, and his military ability was mediocre, and Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted Guo Xunqi to give advice to Kang Ze.
However, Kang Ze was obviously too confident in his military ability, and in the 1948 Xiangfan Campaign, Kang Ze did not follow Guo Xunqi's advice, and insisted on arranging troops according to his own ideas.
We all know the final result, Xiangyang, Fancheng and other important places were taken by the People's Liberation Army, more than 20,000 Kuomintang soldiers in the 15th Pacification Zone were completely annihilated, and Kang Ze and Guo Xunqi became prisoners of war of the Central Plains Field Army.
After the Battle of Xiangfan, Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi both made a special trip to give instructions to Wang Jinshan on the front line.
Liu Bocheng's instructions were for Wang Jinshan to send elite troops to escort Guo Xunqi to the Political Department of the Central Plains Military Region, so that there must be no mistakes and no harm to him.
Chen Yi's instructions were to let Wang Jinshan treat Guo Xunqi with the highest standard treatment, and he could not be neglected.
And Wang Jinshan also conscientiously implemented the instructions of Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi, treated Guo Xunqi with the highest standard of treatment, and politely sent him to the Political Department of the Central Plains Military Region.
Here, Guo Xunqi met Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi, two former friends.
When friends meet, they are particularly cordial, and there is no tension of enemies meeting each other.
Chen Yi asked Guo Xunqi what his plans were in the future, and Guo Xunqi directly said that he would return to Sichuan to do rebellion work for the PLA.
Hearing Guo Xunqi say this, Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng both persuaded him.
Liu Bocheng
After all, he had already been captured, and if he went to Sichuan again, he would probably be caught by Chiang Kai-shek's men and be in danger.
But Guo Xunqi had made up his mind, and the two still agreed to his plan.
At the end of that year, Guo Xunqi set off to return to Sichuan, but was soon captured by Chiang Kai-shek's men.
Seeing him appear in Sichuan, Chiang Kai-shek became suspicious and ordered his subordinates to put him under house arrest.
Later, it was Guo Xunqi who gritted his teeth and did not expose the secret, so Chiang Kai-shek released him.
After regaining his freedom, Guo Xunqi helped the People's Liberation Army (PLA) rebel against five divisions in Sichuan in the second half of 1949 and contributed to the uprising of five divisions.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Xunqi successively served as the director of the Department of Transportation, the director of the Department of Water Resources, and the deputy director of the Provincial Sports Commission in Sichuan.
Looking at Guo Xunqi's life experience, we will find that he has a high degree of goodwill towards our army and highly recognizes the concept of our army, if it were not for the fact that the times did not allow it, he may have become a general of our army long ago.