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On August 15, 1945, after 14 consecutive years of bloody fighting, the arduous War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression finally ushered in the final victory. However, due to the outbreak of a full-scale civil war a few months later, the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist armies that had been subdued for many years was rekindled, and Chiang Kai-shek actively dispatched troops to attack the liberated areas and seize territory, not only commanding the Central Army of his descendants, but also pushing the Dian Army, the Gui Army, the Sichuan Army and other local miscellaneous forces to the Yellow River valley and even further northeast China.
Tens of thousands of Sichuan troops fought in Taierzhuang
It was against this background that the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army was pushed from Shaanxi to the area of Zhengzhou, a railway hub in Henan. The 22nd Group Army was originally reorganized from the Sichuan warlord Deng Xihou's department, although Deng handled things tactfully and was known as the "crystal monkey", but after the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in July 1937, he did not hesitate at all, shouting: "Only by fighting for a long time can we achieve the final victory!" After the Sichuan army left Sichuan, it won the battle and of course, of course it returned with honor, and if the battle was invincible, it was determined to return the corpse!"
The performance of the 22nd Army was also very impressive. In the famous bloody battle of Taierzhuang, Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the 41st Army under the 22nd Group Army, led 3,000 remnants of his troops to defend Teng County, delaying the 10th Division of the Japanese Kouisogu Lianjie for four days at the cost of the annihilation of the entire army, thus gaining time for the main force in the theater to deploy defense in Taierzhuang.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was reorganized into a unit in the appeasement zone
In January 1938, Liu Xiang, the leader of the Sichuan Army and chairman of Sichuan Province, died of illness, Deng Xihou was urgently transferred back to Sichuan to preside over the military affairs of the province, and the post of commander of the 22nd Group Army was changed to the command of Deputy Commander Sun Zhen, who successively participated in the Battle of Suizao and the Battle of Zaoyang. On September 10, 1945, Sun Zhen led his troops to accept the surrender of Takashi Takashi, commander of the 12th Army of the Japanese Army, and Hideyoshi Sugiura, commander of the 115th Division, at Weihe, ushering in his highlight moment. The Sichuan army athletes were full of thoughts that they could go back to their hometown in Sichuan, but Sichuan Province had already been occupied by the Central Army, and not only could they not return, but they were also sent to Zhengzhou farther away to fight the civil war, so the whole army was full of complaints.
On the one hand, he promoted Sun to the post of director of the Zhengzhou Pacification Office, and on the other hand, on the grounds that the director of the office could not concurrently serve as the head of the army, he proposed to send another person to take charge of the 41st Army and the 47th Army under his command. At this time, the 22nd Group Army had been reorganized into the 5th Appeasement Zone, and Sun Zhen concurrently served as the commander of the Appeasement Zone, but except for these two armies, the rest were ineffective local garrisons.
Sun Yuanliang was recommended to take over the Sichuan Army
Therefore, Sun Zhen was determined to maintain his leadership of the 41st Army and the 47th Army, but he did not have suitable senior generals under his command, not to mention that Chiang Kai-shek would not agree that the military power of these two armies would continue to be in the hands of miscellaneous generals, so he chose to recommend his nephew Sun Yuanliang to take over the military power. Although Sun Yuanliang is a native of Sichuan, he is not affiliated with the Sichuan military system, he was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy as early as 1924, and later went east to Japan to study in the artillery section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, so he is not only a protégé of Lao Chiang, but also an alumnus of his Army Non-commissioned Officer School.
After returning from studying abroad, Sun Yuanliang joined the 1st Division of the Central Army, serving as the commander of the artillery battalion and the commander of the 7th Regiment of the 2nd Division. However, during the subsequent Battle of Songhu, Sun Yuanliang's military discipline was not good, and he was accused by Finance Minister Song Ziwen and others of "arson looting", so he stayed at home for a long time until July 10, 1944, when he took charge of the army again, and led the army to the southeast of Guizhou to participate in the war and recover Dushan, Nandan and other places. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was transferred to the commander of the Chongqing garrison, but he never had his own basic troops in his hands.
Sun Yuanliang's corps was destroyed on the Huaihai battlefield
Such a character seems to be specially prepared for the inheritance of Sun Zhen's military power. His qualifications in the first phase of Whampoa had nothing to do with the Sichuan army, so Lao Jiang was very satisfied and quickly sent him from Chongqing to Zhengzhou to take up his post. Although the officers of the 41st Army and the 47th Army had never met the new commander of the airborne, they were Sun Zhen's nephews after all, and the Sichuan Army had always emphasized the regional concept and the old subordinate relationship, so everyone was still passable on face and was willing to obey Sun Yuanliang's command. In August 1948, the 41st Army, the 47th Army and other units were combined into the 16th Corps, and Sun Yuanliang was also appointed as the commander of the Corps, and went to the Huaihai Battlefield, which was finally destroyed in Chenguanzhuang. But Sun Yuanliang himself escaped from the battlefield by luck and fled to Wuhan.
Sun Yuanliang escaped to Wuhan by luck