At the beginning of December 1948, the Huaihai Campaign was in full swing, and hundreds of thousands of Jiang troops were surrounded by the People's Liberation Army in Chenguanzhuang, at the junction of Xiao County and Yongcheng, and it was difficult to move an inch.
At this time, Du Yuming, the highest commander of the Jiang army, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. Hundreds of thousands of people are starved of food and clothing, hungry and cold, and it is difficult to maintain themselves by relying only on airdrops by national army planes.
As a last resort, Du Yuming convened a supreme military meeting and announced an astonishing decision: The troops broke through the encirclement lightly, and the organs and logistics personnel took care of themselves and found their own way out.
Hearing the news, Guo Yiyu, director of the General Office of Xuzhou "Suppression General," sat paralyzed in his chair.
At this time, his intestines were all repentant. If there is a regret medicine in the world, spend all your savings to buy it.
Guo Yiyu was born in 1904, a native of Liuyang, Hunan, and Wang Zhen, Yang Yong, Song Renqiang and other founding generals of New China. The reason why Guo Yiyu regretted it was because he joined the party earlier than these founding generals, and he can be regarded as a heavyweight of the CCP.
He came from a good family, received a good education, and once studied at the Hunan Provincial First Normal School in Changsha. As early as 1923, he joined the Communist Party of China and served as the director of teaching at the Changsha Civilian School and the Workers' Night School founded by Mao Zedong and He Shuheng.
Among the founding marshals, only Zhu De, Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng joined the party earlier than him, Nie Rongzhen joined the party in the same year as him, and the other seven marshals joined the party later than him, which shows how old Guo Yiyu's qualifications are.
At that time, he also had firm beliefs and was determined to fight for communism all his life. In the spring of 1924, under the sponsorship of He Shuheng and Xia Xi, he went to study at the Whampoa Military Academy and became the first cadet of the Whampoa Military Academy.
He Shuheng was a representative of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China and a veteran-level figure, and Xia Xi joined the party in 1921 and was Mao Zedong's right-hand man. This also means that Guo Yiyu's loyalty to the party has been recognized.
Among the founding generals, there are very few who can get the opportunity to study in the first phase of Huangpu. If he cherishes such a rare opportunity, Guo Yiyu will certainly have a bright future, and his position in our party and army is irreplaceable.
However, after the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, he was frightened by the White Terror and made the wrong choice to take refuge in the Kuomintang.
However, because of his red experience, he was not reused by Chiang Kai-shek, and he did not have the opportunity to take charge and lead the army. Therefore, in the first phase of Huangpu's life, Guo Yiyu is the most ordinary.
In 1945, Hu Zongnan, Huang Wei, Du Yuming and other former classmates of the first phase of Huangpu had become the commander of the Corps, and Guo Yiyu's military rank was only a major general, serving as the director of the Political Department of the Chongqing Garrison General Headquarters.
During the Huaihai Campaign, his position was the director of the Lieutenant General Office of the Xuzhou "Suppression General", and his military rank was not low. Even so, it was a fictitious position with little power.
In the Battle of Huaihai, Du Yuming saw that he was unable to turn the tables, so he led his hundreds of thousands of troops, enveloping more than 100,000 civilians in Xuzhou City, ready to abandon the city and flee.
But what he never expected was that he made a decision too late, and he didn't go far before he was once again surrounded by the People's Liberation Army from all sides.
These troops are the last trump card in Chiang Kai-shek's hands, and in order to save them, Lao Chiang also fought hard. The Kuomintang sent a lot of planes and airborne support supplies.
But for hundreds of thousands of people, this is a drop in the bucket. Moreover, as the encirclement is shrinking day by day, many of the airdropped materials have fallen in the PLA defense area. This is the scene at the beginning of the article, Du Yuming ordered a breakthrough and left the civilian staff.
At this time, Guo Yiyu already had the idea of "uprising", but he had no soldiers in his hands, and the chance of breaking through was equal to zero.
He didn't want to be a prisoner, it was too uncomfortable. Although he was a high-ranking Kuomintang official and Chiang Kai-shek treated him well, he had no sense of loyalty to the monarch in his mind, and the philosophy of life he pursued was to save his life first. Otherwise, in 1927 he would not have rebelled.
After having such an idea, Guo Yiyu said he would do it, and asked Zuo Kaikang, the director of administrative affairs, and the heads of various organs and organizations in Xuzhou to discuss the "uprising".
These people were already angry because Du Yuming wanted to give up on them, and now they resonated after listening to Guo Yiyu's thoughts. If you are unkind to me and unjust, you will revolt immediately, not to mention that you can get a bright future, at least you can not die in vain, and it can be regarded as a revenge for Lao Du.
Thinking about it, everyone feels that they don't have a single soldier in their hands, and it is not realistic to count it as an "uprising", and it is still reliable to surrender to sincerity. So, they decided to form a "non-combatant return group" and then go to the PLA to surrender.
In order to show their sincerity and to avoid misunderstandings, they made a bold decision not to even bring weapons at all.
Who knew that everyone had walked less than two kilometers, and an accident happened. A general named Sun Yuanliang was greedy for life and afraid of death, and did not wait for other troops to break through, and commanded his subordinates to act without authorization.
The People's Liberation Army was on standby, how could it let him run away, and there was a fierce battle between the two sides.
The "Returning to the Hometown Regiment" led by Guo Yiyu was in a dilemma, and they were caught between the ranks of the Kuomintang and the People's Liberation Army. Guo Yiyu saw that he couldn't move forward, so he said to everyone, let's go back and think about it in the long run.
After the failure of the first surrender, Guo Yiyu was not reconciled, he was worried and waiting for an opportunity.
At dawn on December 8, Guo Yiyu once again gathered the civilian personnel of the General Headquarters to organize and suppress them, said a bunch of high-sounding reasons, and then set off with nearly 1,000 civilian personnel to surrender to Cheng.
Who knew that Guo Yiyu had been doing civilian work for too long, he had not been to the battlefield in person, and he had taken the wrong map, so he actually went in the wrong direction.
Walking and walking to the position of the 74th Army, the 74th Army saw that they were actually going to surrender, so naturally they would not agree. As the highest-ranking person, Guo Yiyu was identified as the organizer and detained. Guo Yi gave a three-inch tongue and repeatedly defended, saying that he was fooled, and then he was released.
The two failed to surrender to Cheng made Guo Yiyu disheartened, thinking that God was doing the trick. In that case, let's stay honest. In the end, Guo Yiyu was very reluctant to be a prisoner, and then he was put into Gongdelin, which can be regarded as the biggest unlucky egg among the generals of the Jiang army.
In fact, Guo Yiyu has many opportunities to escape in disguise, and the reason why he didn't have it was related to his bride.
Guo Yiyu was in his forties at that time, and he was a lieutenant general of the Kuomintang, didn't he have a wife?
It turned out that due to the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army, the materials airdropped by the Kuomintang were limited, and Du Yuming's hundreds of thousands of troops were hungry and cold.
The soldiers are like this, and the life of the hundreds of thousands of people in the city is even more difficult.
If you are a farmer, your family will store some grain, but the city is full of citizens, and they don't farm. After the outbreak of the war, food could not be transported to the city at all, and even if there was a little, it would be quickly robbed, and the price was so high that the common people could not afford it.
In order to survive, many women seek to save themselves. This means of self-help is to give the official a set of almost friendships, after all, people will not go hungry and have the power to distribute food.
There was an 18-year-old girl who met Guo Yiyu on the street. As soon as she saw that the other party was dignified, neat and tidy, and the head of the faction looked like a big official, in order to avoid the fate of starvation, she immediately thought of a way.
The girl twisted her waist and walked over, crying so much that she wanted to serve Guo Yiyu.
Guo Yiyu frowned, how could he say that he wanted to become a confidant when he met, he was purely hungry and engaged in speculation. However, he left his family in Nanjing at this time, and he had not been close to a woman for a long time, and he couldn't control himself when he saw the other party's graceful figure and beautiful face.
Simply, take advantage of the danger and decide to take advantage of this. In the midst of the artillery fire, Guo Yiyu held a "wedding" with the other party, embraced the beauty in his arms, and became the groom beautifully.
Some people rebuked and said: "General Guo, you are a man with a wife, why did you marry another term? This is a violation of military discipline." ”
Guo Yiyu disagreed, he retorted: "We don't know whether we will live or die tomorrow, let's get drunk today if we have wine." ”
The blessing and misfortune depend on it, and it is precisely because Guo Yiyu got a bride by his side that it was particularly inconvenient to break through. The girl is outstanding, too conspicuous, mixed in the ranks of rough people who are soldiers, and she can be seen at a glance.
Besides, the girl is delicate, not used to walking on the country road, and her feet are blistered after walking for a long time. As a "husband", Guo Yiyu was reluctant and couldn't bear to leave the beauty, so he could only share the hardships with the other party, and was finally captured by the People's Liberation Army.
When Guo Yiyu was captured, the girl was not nostalgic at all, and directly defended the People's Liberation Army, saying that she was robbed by force. When the People's Liberation Army saw it, it was really like that, an uncle in his 40s, with a seventeen or eighteen-year-old female student, could it be voluntary?
Soon, the girl regained her freedom as she wished, but Guo Yiyu entered the prisoner camp.
When he arrived at Gongdelin, Guo Yiyu still remembered the delicate girl and recalled the honeymoon. He also said to the captives around him, but unfortunately he didn't know more about the girl, how could he find it after he came out?
Speaking of which, this is really a good calculation, you take advantage of the danger of others, and occupy other people's bodies with a few full meals, but also want to have it for life, forever?
The protagonist Guo Yiyu was imprisoned for 26 years, and was only released in 1975 because his ideological transformation was not thorough enough, becoming the last batch of war criminals to be amnestied, and died in Hunan in 1982.
Reference: "Xuzhou "Suppression" Headquarters Materials" Guo Yiyu, "Hunan Literature and History Materials", 1982-12