Lao Chiang was the captain of the transport brigade, and this is already a fact that has been proven by history: he not only sent a large amount of weapons and ammunition to our army, but also sent a large number of talents to our side through various means.
Some time ago, there was a joke circulating on the Internet, which was very funny but also very appropriate: he used to think that Hu Zongnan and Liu Zhi were incompetent, and then he doubted his own ability, and after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and Sino-Indian War, he felt that he was very good again.
What that paragraph said, the author doesn't seem to be able to quote it completely, because some words in it are not very easy to review, so let's talk about a little-known incident of Lao Jiang today: he actually sent Marshal Chen Yi's lieutenant general brother to persuade him to surrender, but the persuasion failed, and he sent a large arsenal and a large number of military experts to our side.
When it comes to Marshal Chen Yi, everyone is familiar with his poetry and chivalry, and "Meiling Three Chapters" is even more magnificent, but few people know that Marshal Chen Yi's cousin Chen Xiuhe and brother Chen Mengxi were also dragons and phoenixes among the people at that time, and when Marshal Chen Yi was acting as the commander of the New Fourth Army, he also gave the first chapter of "Meiling Three Chapters" to his eldest brother Chen Mengxi.
Marshal Chen Yi's "Three Chapters of Meiling" is well known, but few people know the story of the "Three Brothers of the Chen Family".
Marshal Chen Yi was a student who went to France in 1919 and did not attend the Whampoa Military Academy, but his eldest brother Chen Mengxi and cousin Chen Xiuhe were both admitted to the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Many people say that there are no famous generals in the fifth phase of Huangpu, that is obviously only counted on Lao Jiang's side, not our generals, we take a closer look at the list of the fifth phase of Huangpu, and we will find that there are many famous generals there: Tao Zhu, Zhang Zongxun (general), Song Shilun (general), Xu Guangda (general), Liao Yunzhou, Zhao Shangzhi, they are all classmates of Huangpu in the fifth phase with "Brother Chen" and "Second Brother Chen".
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he led his troops out of Sichuan to fight in the winter of 1937 as a colonel, but because he was Chen Yi's eldest brother, he was deprived of military rights by Lao Jiang and retained his military rank to "settle" in She County, Anhui.
Chen Mengxi served as the director of the Political Department of the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army, the chief of staff of the 164th Division, and the deputy commander of the Major General of the Western Sichuan Division.
Marshal Chen Yi's eldest brother Chen Mengxi has been worshiping Lao Jiang to suppress, and his cousin Chen Xiuhe's situation is much better, when he rebelled, he was already the lieutenant general director of the 90th Arsenal of the Ordnance Industry Administration of the Joint Service General Headquarters - the 90th Arsenal was the largest arsenal in China at that time, and it was also the predecessor of the Shenyang Ordnance Factory of the People's Liberation Army.
In March 1946, before he became the director of the 90th Arsenal Lieutenant General, when Chen Xiuhe was serving as the director of the Kunming Office of the Ordnance Industry Administration of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, Lu Han received an urgent telegram from Lao Jiang: Chen Xiuhe was asked to go to Nanjing as soon as possible to discuss important matters.
Lao Jiang has always been anxious and wants to use Chen Xiuhe, but he doesn't know where Chen Xiuhe is - Chen Xiuhe was supervising military production in Shanghai at the time, and he was not in Kunming at all.
Lao Jiang didn't know who he was, he didn't even know where the technical generals under his command were, how could he not be defeated in every battle when he commanded?
After receiving an urgent call from Lu Han, Chen Xiuhe drove from Shanghai to Nanjing overnight, and saw the smiling old Jiang, who went straight to the point in his first sentence: "I heard that Chen Yi, who made a fuss, is your younger brother?"
Chen Xiuhe told the truth: "Yes, my cousin, his original name is Chen Zhonghong. ”
Lao Jiang continued to smile: "I also heard that your relationship is very good?"
Chen Xiuhe still told the truth: "Report to the principal, the students corresponded with him in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. He advocated cooperation between the KMT and the CPC and the joint resistance against Japan. However, there was no contact after that. ”
Lao Jiang saw that Chen Xiuhe was a little nervous, so he smiled more gently: "Respect for brothers, filial piety, this is very good." You can also communicate with him more, and you can tell him that I, Jiang, also love our country, and I have always been eager for talents who are useful to the country. I admire him and admire his talent. You can also write to him and tell him that I had planned to make him chairman of Shandong Province and organize a new corps for him, with him concurrently serving as commander of the corps and deputy commander of the theater of operations. ”
Although Chiang Kai-shek's tone was gentle, Chen Xiuhe broke out in a cold sweat when he heard it: "I will never forget the principal's cherishing of talents." However, with Chen Yi's character, I'm afraid that writing a letter will not work for him. I am willing to go to Linyi to find him in person, and convey the principal's arrangement to him in person, which may work. ”
Lao Jiang also kept an eye: If you take the opportunity to persuade you to surrender and run away, won't I steal chickens and rice?
So Lao Jiang came up with a plan: let Chen Xiuhe fly directly to Beiping to meet Zheng Jiemin, and then Zheng Jiemin sent a spy to "accompany" him to Shandong to find Wang Yaowu, the commander of the second appeasement zone, who was talking in Qingdao at that time.
Chen Xiuhe went around and around, delayed for a long time and did not make the trip, and Lao Jiang had no choice but to take this top military talent at that time to Shenyang with the rank of lieutenant general to preside over the 90th Arsenal.
Lao Jiang sent Chen Xiuhe to persuade his second brother Chen Yi to surrender, Chen Xiuhe was vain, and after becoming the director of the arsenal, he immediately resumed contact with the second brother and was ready to protect the arsenal uprising.
Wei Lihuang and Du Yuming suffered defeats in the Northeast Lianlian, and Lao Jiang wanted to transfer the arsenal to Taiwan, but Chen Xiuhe could not carry it, so he presented Lao Jiang with a difficult problem: It would take at least a year and a half to relocate the equipment, at least a number of special trains, a number of large cargo ships, and a number of large transport planes, and the cost of resettlement of more than 30,000 people.
After receiving Chen Xiuhe's reply, Lao Jiang's nose was crooked: It took a year and a half to relocate, and when you start to relocate, the daylilies will be cold!
Lao Jiang angrily sent Gu Zhutong, the "chief of staff," to personally go to the northeast to supervise the relocation, but Chen Xiuhe was not very polite to him: "The drawings have all been stolen by the underground party; there are neither trains nor planes for transportation; tens of thousands of workers have rebelled after destruction, and there are tens of thousands of guns and tens of thousands of grenades made by them in the warehouse, forcing them to pick up guns for self-defense, which is just a matter of a blink of an eye." ”
Readers who are familiar with that period of history and the production process of modern arsenals certainly know that those who make guns and cannons use more guns than the special forces who have experienced a hundred battles, and the gun inspectors can pull out one at will, and they can defeat one against ten, and if tens of thousands of gun experts want to hold the arsenal, the 100,000 army may not be able to take it - the ammunition of the arsenal can be said to be unlimited.
dragged on and on like this, until Chen Mengxi rebelled and Chen Xiuhe handed over the entire arsenal to the People's Liberation Army, Lao Jiang realized how naïve his original idea was: Fighting as a brother, going into battle as a father and son soldier, I actually asked Chen Yi's brother to persuade him to surrender, wouldn't this be a loss for his wife and a soldier?