During the Liberation War, the Kuomintang was not without generals who could fight, chen Mingren was one.
The combat strength of Chen Mingren's department is so strong that it can be called the god of war of the national army.
This god of war is not sealed by me, but is reflected in the solid battle record.
None of the nationalist troops reached the height of Chen Mingren's department.
What is the difference in combat effectiveness between the Nationalist Army and the People's Liberation Army?
During the Battle of Huaihai, Chiang Kai-shek cheered his men up and said, "Eight hundred thousand versus six hundred thousand, the advantage is in me," but there were very few people in the entire command who echoed it.
When the number of Nationalist and Communist armies approached, the battle situation would be one-sided slaughter.
So, if a Kuomintang unit faced a PLA encirclement five times larger than its own, how would the war situation develop?
In May 1947, Chiang Kai-shek's strongest ace unit, the reorganized 74th Division, held Menglianggu with 24,000 troops, confronted the onslaught of the 100,000 People's Liberation Army, and only lasted for 3 days before the entire army was destroyed, which was only 4 times the difference in strength.
In June 1947, Chen Mingren held Siping with 17,000 troops, faced with the siege of Lin Biao's more than 90,000 troops, and defended for 19 days under the disadvantage of five times the strength, and caused the People's Liberation Army to produce more than 10,000 casualties, which became a military miracle of the Nationalist army.
The brilliant record of this level has never been fought by the Nationalist army since Chen Mingren.
Not to mention the plaster that is 5 times larger than its own, even if it confronts the PLA, which is equal to its own strength, the national army will collapse at a touch.
Lin Biao was cautious all his life, not fighting uncertain battles, and mobilizing superior forces to fight Siping, that was the hand that only moved when he had the certainty of victory.
In the Siping Offensive, Lin Biao was originally expected to end in 3 to 5 days, focusing on the subsequent Siping Defensive Battle, but he did not expect to lose troops in the end, and he did not even fight down, and the gap between him and the battle goal was far away.
Why is Chen Mingren so fierce? How could it make Lin Biao suffer?
Chen Mingren vs. Lin Biao
Siping is the key hub of the entire northeast, and controlling Siping is equivalent to completely splitting the three railways in the northeast, making it difficult for the three major cities of Shenyang, Changchun, and Jilin to support each other.
In February 1946, the Soviet Union withdrew from the northeast, and the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army immediately went to capture Siping.
On March 17, 1946, three brigades of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army raided Sipingcheng, took this important town in only half a night, captured Liu Handong, chairman of the Kuomintang Liaobei Provincial Government, and took over the entire Kuomintang Liaobei Provincial Government.
After hearing the news of the capture of Siping, Chiang Kai-shek was furious and mobilized all the elite Kuomintang troops in the northeast to besiege him.
In early April 1946, the Siping Guard Battle began, and Lin Biao personally commanded it.
In more than a month of defensive operations, Lin Biao annihilated more than 10,000 Kuomintang troops and suffered more than 8,000 casualties.
On May 18, 1946, due to the huge disparity in troop strength and the huge firepower gap, Lin Biao was forced to withdraw from Siping.
After a year of adjustment, Lin Biao stabilized the situation in the northeast and repeatedly defeated the Kuomintang troops in field battles.
On May 13, 1947, Lin Biao, who felt that he had the advantage, launched a summer offensive, annihilated six divisions of the Kuomintang regular army in a short period of time, occupied 23 county seats, successfully took Kaiyuan and Changtu, cut off the middle and long railway, and forced the Kuomintang to abandon a large number of peripheral areas and concentrate their forces in Shenyang, Changchun, Siping, Jilin and other central cities.
The connection between Siping and Shenyang has also been severed by Lin Biao.
Under this great strategic advantage, with the consent of the central authorities, Lin Biao concentrated his superior forces and attacked Siping in early June 1947.
In this battle, the intelligence department of our army reconnoitred and determined that the Siping defenders were Chen Mingren's 71st Army, with a number of about 15,000 to 18,000 troops, and the 88th Division under its command was a new recruit force reorganized after being defeated, and its combat effectiveness was relatively weak.
Afterwards, it was found that Chen Mingren's real strength was 17,000 people, and the intelligence work could be described as very accurate.
In order to win this battle, Lin Biao concentrated more than 90,000 people in the 1st Column, the Liaoji Column, and the 17th Division of the 6th Column, and transferred 5 artillery battalions to strive to capture Siping in the shortest possible time before the reinforcements of the Kuomintang army arrived with absolute superiority in troop strength and absolute superiority in artillery fire.
According to the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang army, Lin Biao estimated that the battle would end in about 3 to 5 days, and in such a short period of time, it would be difficult for the main forces of the Kuomintang army to be mobilized from the remaining major cities to form a siege against our army.
On June 11, 1947, the Battle of Siping began, and the Third Battle of Siping broke out.
After 19 days of fierce street fighting, Lin Biao's main forces captured half of Siping City, and the casualties had reached 13,000, but Chen Mingren's troops were still stubbornly resisting.
At this time, a large number of troops of the Kuomintang army had reached the outskirts of Siping, and there was a risk that Lin Biao would be wrapped in dumplings.
In desperation, the Siping Offensive ended in failure.
At dawn on June 30, 1947, Lin Biao ordered his troops to withdraw from the Siping Battlefield.
In other words, Chen Mingren relied on a mere 17,000 Kuomintang non-elite troops, including a full division composed of recruits, facing a five-fold siege of the People's Liberation Army, or under the command of a famous marshal like Lin Biao, he actually held out for more than half a month in the street battle, and also caused 13,000 casualties to Lin Biao's main force.
This kind of battle result is simply a miracle of the Kuomintang army.
If you look at how powerful Lin Biao is, you will know how powerful Chen Mingren is.
Just a month ago, the 30,000 men of the 74th Division of the elite ace army were attacked by 100,000 people of the East China Field Army, and the entire army was destroyed without even holding out for three days, and Zhang Lingfu was killed.
Wen Wu was the first, Wu Wu was the second, the battlefield only conceded defeat and won, did not believe in tears, Zhang Lingfu's military ability was really much worse than Chen Mingren.
How exactly did Chen Mingren achieve this military miracle?
Treat death as if it were chen mingren
In the bloody battle of Siping, our army suffered 13,000 casualties.
Afterwards, it was found that Chen Mingren's troops suffered 17,000 casualties.
Isn't it true that Chen Mingren's troops are only 17,000 people in total, how can they suffer 17,000 casualties, and can the Kuomintang troops led by Chen Mingren achieve a casualty rate of 100% and not retreat?
When Chen Mingren found himself surrounded by the People's Liberation Army, he immediately requisitioned all the government workers in Siping City.
Police, local security guards, government clerks, and even doctors and nurses at hospitals were forced to take up guns and go to war.
In this way, Chen Mingren's troops surged from 17,000 to more than 30,000 overnight, greatly exceeding our army's expectations.
Therefore, in the end, when Chen Mingren's troops suffered 17,000 casualties, they still had combat effectiveness and had not yet completely collapsed.
This trick looks amazing, why don't other Nationalist generals use it when defending the city?
Because it's hard to use.
As we all know, local police, security guards, and even civilian government personnel, these people can give guns to duel with the regular plaster of the People's Liberation Army?
No kidding, even the regular troops that the Kuomintang had painstakingly trained could not withstand a bloody battle, and the battle collapsed after a little cruelty, let alone maintain the desire to fight under the siege of the regular troops of the People's Liberation Army that was several times larger than its own.
If you can catch a group of ordinary people and shoot them, then the defense battle is too simple.
How did Chen Mingren turn decay into magic, transforming such a group of miscellaneous soldiers into strong soldiers who could face the PLA head-on, and even the casualty rate reached 50%.
Because Chen Mingren is not afraid of death, and has a strategy.
Chen Mingren carried the coffin into the headquarters and made a will, indicating his determination to fight to the death. In order to prevent the miscellaneous troops from collapsing, Chen Mingren set up a supervision team on each defensive line, and shot them when they retreated.
At the same time, in each fortification and defensive line, veterans and miscellaneous soldiers were arranged to garrison together, and the veterans supervised the miscellaneous soldiers.
The instructions given to all the troops are one, do not ask for help, do not wait for help, stand alone, until the light is exhausted; the order to move the position can only be issued by Chen Mingren himself, and the others are not qualified, and those who retreat will die.
In addition, Chen Mingren also collected all the residents' materials in Siping City to build fortifications, and at any cost, even the rice bags and noodle bags aided by the United States in the warehouse were pulled out as sandbags.
Chen Mingren also implemented a scorched-earth policy.
Once a position was taken by our army, before the position finally fell, the defenders would set fire to all the houses in the block and not give our army the opportunity to use it as a position.
It can be said that Chen Mingren made use of all the available forces in Siping City and brought the strength of the nationalist army to the extreme.
Nineteen days and nights of street fighting, Chen Mingren successfully completed the task entrusted to him by the Kuomintang command, defended Siping City, let Lin Biao capture Siping, and divided the central cities of Shenyang, Changchun, and Jilin in one fell swoop, and finally the strategic intention of annexing the entire northeast went bankrupt, and had to find another opportunity.
It can be said that Chen Mingren made great contributions to the Kuomintang.
Moreover, after Chen Mingren, no Nationalist general has ever achieved this record.
Not to mention the bloody battle with the Platon Army, which is five times larger than its own, even if the Platon Army generals who dare to fight with the PLA with similar strength are few and far between.
Chen Mingren not only dared to fight, but also succeeded, stopping Lin Biao's summer offensive in 1947, so that the liberation of the northeast had to be delayed until the summer of the following year.
Lin Biao fought all his life, did not suffer several losses, and Chen Mingren suffered a big loss in the Siping Bloody Battle for a lifetime, this failure even made Lin Biao in the short term to have a shadow of the battle against the battle, in 1948 he was reluctant to fight Jinzhou.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Chen Mingren is the god of war of the National Army.
Does Chen Mingren, who is so powerful, have the ability to lead the Kuomintang troops to turn defeat into victory nationwide?
The answer is no.
Lose the official and give idle Chen Mingren
After the victory at siping, Chen Mingren's deeds inspired the Nationalist army across the country.
With such a great battle achievement, what reward should Chen Mingren receive? What reward should the 71st Army, which suffered heavy casualties, be rewarded?
Rewards and punishments are not divided, that is the way to destroy the country, and the harm is no less than nepotism.
On June 30, 1947, Lin Biao retired from Siping.
In order to celebrate this victory, Shenyang, where the northeast is located, also held a "Zhujie Conference", and hundreds of thousands of people welcomed Chen Mingren to enter by float.
More than a month later, the reward notice given to Chen Mingren also came down, and he was awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun and promoted to commander of the Seventh Corps.
It seems that the party-state is not thin on the loyalties of its subjects.
But when Chen Mingren left for Nanjing to receive the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun, something went wrong.
On September 15, 1947, the Nationalist government officially awarded Chen Mingren the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun.
Just five days later, Chiang Kai-shek called Chen Cheng on September 20 and asked for a thorough investigation of Chen Mingren:
According to Chen Junchang's report that Akihito came to Beijing to report that he had accumulated as many as 90 million coupons and coins during his term of office, what was the actual situation?
The depositary accounts of banks in Shenyang and Siping are secretly checked by the Xi personnel, and if there is a false name, the bank should be ordered to be responsible for indicating the real name.
And the salary of the military has not been cleared for two months, and whether it is true at this time is expected to be restored in detail.
Chen Cheng, as Chiang Kai-shek's confidant for many years, knew what the old Chiang Kai-shek meant as soon as he heard it, and his heart understood it.
On September 24, Chen Cheng called back to Chiang Kai-shek:
According to reports from all sides, the general military style and discipline of the troops are extremely weak, especially the Seventy-first Army. ...... Recently, according to the report of the "Joint General Headquarters," after the siege of Siping was lifted, the army actually looted 800 tons of relief materials, which has a bearing on international credibility and asked for reimbursement. ...... Chen Mingren, commander of the Seventy-first Army, who painstakingly defended Siping, was a meritorious officer, but he did not restrain all his troops, harassed the people, lost the will of the people, and after the war, he did not care about the government's foreign agreements, looted relief materials, and damaged international credibility.
In the bloody war, Chen Mingren demolished many houses as materials to build fortifications, so Chen Cheng's crime of "indulging in disturbing the people" is truly based on evidence.
Time was urgent, and after demolishing many houses as materials, there was still no way to build enough fortifications, so Chen Mingren opened the warehouse and moved many bags of flour and rice aided by the United States out to build bunkers to block bullets.
He also took out a lot of soybeans and sprinkled a lot of soybeans on the street when Lin Biao attacked, causing the charging Democratic Coalition soldiers to slip and eventually die.
In the end, most of this food was destroyed by the war, and there was no way to restock it.
Therefore, Chen Cheng said that Chen Mingren's troops "actually looted eight hundred tons of relief materials," and there is also real evidence for this.
Chen Cheng's compatriot Liu Handong, who was in charge of northern Liaoning affairs, also took the opportunity to make trouble, exposing Chen Cheng's connivance with officers and men of the 71st Army to grab grain at the railway station, and also submitted some people's joint letters to react.
Many officers who were afraid of death in the Battle of Siping and escaped from the battle reported Chen Mingren's various crimes to Chen Cheng.
The evidence is conclusive, and Chen Mingren is simply a heinous person.
On October 24, Chen Mingren, who was visiting relatives and friends in his hometown and returning home in his hometown, wrote a letter defending Chen Cheng's charges against him on September 24.
On November 10, Chiang Kai-shek gave instructions to dismiss Chen Mingren from all his posts, remove him from his post but not investigate it, and transfer him to the Nanjing Presidential Palace to serve as a lieutenant general in an idle post in the army, accused of embezzling military grain.
At this time, Chen Mingren was still in Nanjing and had not yet returned to the northeast.
Why did Chiang Kai-shek treat the fierce general Chen Mingren like this?
The biggest possibility is that Chen Mingren is not very obedient.
Chen Mingren is a man with extremely strong military ability, but his speech has always been difficult to listen to, and his relationship with the leadership has always been poor.
For the reason why Chen Mingren was really assigned, it is unreliable to guess, we can see the original words in Chen Mingren's autobiography:
At that time, the artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army was very fierce, and I had never encountered such a situation in the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. But the artillery fire was scattered, not concentrated at the breakthrough point, and it was not harmful to us, and my position was not seriously affected. During this period, I defended with a small number of troops for more than forty days, and the street battles were nineteen days and nights. In order to make fortifications, the people's houses are demolished at will, the people's furniture is moved, and even a large amount of grain is used as a fortification material, as long as the purpose of adhering to it can be achieved, no means will be used. As a result, the purpose of perseverance was achieved, but many crimes were committed against the people. At that time, although on the one hand, although it won the admiration of the entire ruling class and considered it a "miracle," the Kuomintang government ordered me to be promoted to commander of the corps, awarded me a medal of blue sky and white sun, and sent Chen Cheng to the northeast to comfort me, but not long after, when I returned to Nanjing, Chen Cheng asked Chiang Kai-shek to remove me from my post and investigate and deal with me. This is his revenge on me, and it is also jealous of my so-called credit. At that time, although Chiang Kai-shek did not agree to his request, he secretly obeyed Chen Cheng and transferred me to an idle post for the Nationalist government to join the army. In this way, all the troops belonging to the reactionary government are shocked by this, thinking that I have made such a great contribution to the government, and I have ended up like this, who will be willing to contribute to the war in the future? In particular, the senior generals of the troops under my command wrote to me, saying that in the future, no matter what, they would no longer shed a drop of blood in the northeast, and that They would die for Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng, and a few others.
From the original words in this autobiography, it can be seen that Chen Mingren blamed Chen Cheng for his dismissal, indicating that his relationship with Chen Cheng must have been bad.
But in fact, the telegram calling for a thorough investigation of Chen Mingren was sent by Chiang Kai-shek, so chen Mingren must have said something unpleasant when he went to Nanjing to face Chiang Kai-shek, which angered Chiang Kai-shek, and it was probably because Chen Mingren's request to write off the materials damaged in the battle of Shou Siping became controversial, and Chen Mingren offended Chiang Kai-shek's authority.
According to Chiang Kai-shek's character, such a person, no matter how talented, cannot be used, and needs to be beaten and sharpened.
Whatever the reason, Chen Mingren eventually became a sinner, and the 71st Army, which fought bloodily and fought four times, was not only ineffective, but also defined as a rogue unit.
The official reason given was even that when Chen Mingren was fighting with Lin Biao in a bloody battle, in order to resist the bullets of the communist army, he demolished the people's houses and used them as sandbags, and took the American rice and flour in the warehouse as sandbags.
Note that this is the official reason for the conviction, the kind that is informed to the outside world.
Chen Mingren left the northeast to nanjing to receive the award, but he did not expect to go back.
Not only did he not win any rewards for his subordinates, but even he was dismissed from his post and laid idle in Nanjing.
For this kind of thing, Lin Biao was still very happy.
Chen Mingren revolted
On March 12, 1948, Lin Biao attacked Siping again.
At this time, the 71st Army was still stationed in Siping, and the last loss of troops was fully replenished, and the size of the troops was even expanded, with a total strength of more than 19,000 people.
The troops lin biao sent to attack Siping were 3 columns, which were similar to the last time.
Everything was similar to three battles and four draws, but the commander of the 71st Army was changed, no longer Chen Mingren.
This time attacking Siping, Lin Biao only took 23 hours to completely annihilate all the defenders of more than 19,000 people.
Among them, more than 15,600 people were captured, 3,780 were killed or wounded, and the PLA itself suffered 4,931 casualties.
What is the use of the bloody battle with the People's Liberation Army, just a few months ago, so many people died, so many people were made, so much merit was made, as a result, even the leading commander was dismissed, and he almost surrendered after a fight.
This is probably why the 15,600 captives did not choose to fight to the end.
Chen Mingren had just been dismissed from his post for 4 months, and Siping was gone.
After Siping was captured by our army, the three major cities in the northeast were completely divided, and Lin Biao could concentrate his superior forces to besiege a place at any time, while the Kuomintang troops could only be passively beaten.
The time is ripe for the liberation of the whole northeast.
After receiving instructions from the central authorities, on September 12, 1948, Lin Biao launched the Liaoshen Campaign.
On October 15, 1948, the People's Liberation Army captured Jinzhou, annihilating more than 100,000 defenders.
On October 19, 1948, Zeng Zesheng, commander of the Kuomintang 60th Army, announced the uprising and the liberation of Changchun.
On November 2, 1948, the People's Liberation Army captured Shenyang, completely liberating the entire northeast and ending the Liaoshen Campaign.
The entire Liaoshen Campaign lasted a total of 20 days, and Lin Biao conquered the three core cities in the northeast in one fell swoop, and annihilated hundreds of thousands of the main Kuomintang army in the field battle.
A year ago, in the summer, Chen Mingren, with 17,000 ordinary troops, dragged Lin Biao for 19 days in street battles alone, and finally survived to the reinforcements.
After capturing Siping, Lin Biao destroyed the entire northeast and reversed the strategic situation of the whole country in one fell swoop, resulting in the rapid collapse of the Kuomintang government.
The country is in trouble.
When the situation in the northeast deteriorated rapidly, many bigwigs in the Nationalist government began to think of Chen Mingren.
After all, after changing the commander, the 71st Army was completely annihilated in only 23 hours, and the gap in capabilities was too obvious.
Liu Zhi, Du Yuming, Hu Zongnan, Bai Chongxi, and other Kuomintang leaders who supported the army all threw olive branches to Chen Mingren.
Chiang Kai-shek is idle with you, it doesn't matter, follow me, I will make you the commander of the corps.
In the end, Chen Mingren chose Bai Chongxi.
Bai Chongxi, who greatly admired Chen Mingren, was also unambiguous, and directly gave Chen Mingren three positions: deputy commander of the "Suppression General" of Huazhong, commander of the Twenty-ninth Army, and commander of the Wuhan Garrison.
In addition, Bai Chongxi also promised to help Chen Mingren restore the formation of the 71st Army, both of which were under the command of Chen Mingren.
But Chen Mingren was not satisfied, and wanted 5 corps to be the real corps commander.
After bargaining, Bai Chongxi assigned Huang Jie's three armies to Chen Mingren and stationed Chen Mingren in Hunan to command the Hubei region of Hunan.
At this time, Chen Mingren, with 110,000 troops, became the first person in the two lakes.
On January 10, 1949, the Battle of Huaihai ended, the Kuomintang army was annihilated by 550,000, and the Central Plains were liberated.
On January 31, 1949, the Battle of Pingjin ended, the Kuomintang army was annihilated by 520,000 people, and Peiping was liberated.
At this point, the elite troops of the Kuomintang army were completely lost.
Chen Mingren, who has been in the military all his life, of course knows what this represents.
In February 1949, Chen Mingren and Cheng Qian, the former chairman of Hunan Province, secretly planned a peaceful uprising.
On April 21, 1949, the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River.
In July 1949, Chen Mingren established contact with the People's Liberation Army moving south.
On August 4, 1949, Chen Mingren and Cheng Qian led a telegram to revolt, which shook the whole country.
Originally, he and Lin Biao's Siye fought in the northeast, and it was only more than a year later, so they were going to continue their bloody battle with Lin Biao in Hunan?
Chen Mingren had done the thing of repaying the country with death, and he felt very bad and had no interest in doing it again.
The entire 110,000-strong army, without firing a single shot, revolted and became a Platon Army unit, and the entire Hunan Province was not damaged by the war.
On September 7, 1949, Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren arrived in Beiping to attend the First National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Mao Zedong personally picked up the station at the railway station.
After Mao Zedong and Cheng Qian exchanged greetings, they shook Chen Mingren's hand and said that he was brave in fighting and brave in peace.
On September 19, 1949, when Mao Zedong was visiting the Temple of Heaven Park, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and Su Yu followed Mao Zedong around, cheng Qian and Chen Mingren were also present, Mao Zedong suddenly wanted to take a photo with Chen Mingren, Chen Mingren was at a loss for a moment, Chen Yi hurriedly pulled Chen Mingren over, chen Mingren respectfully took a picture with Mao Zedong.
Later, Chen Mingren, who had been a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang system for a lifetime, was awarded the status of founding general.
Both his contribution to the uprising and his own military prowess are worthy of this status.
In this way, the God of War of the Nationalist Army became a general of the People's Liberation Army.
Why did Chiang Kai-shek's men not have fierce generals who were willing to fight?
The answer is very simple: fight for Chiang Kai-shek, lose your life, and win the battle and lose your official position.
Old Jiang did this, and the God of War didn't want to fight a war.
Author: Far Away Aoki (YFqingmu)
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