Author: Mo Guyan
In terms of battle merits, Hu Lian can basically be regarded as the number one fierce general in Chiang Kai-shek's army, but his official fortunes are not very good.
In the summer of 1948, the Central Plains War was about to break out, and Bai Chongxi was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Central China Suppression Campaign. Bai's subordinates had three corps, one of which was his own Gui army, and the other two were all of the Yan clan army, of which the 12 corps was the strongest force. The 12th Corps has 4 corps under its jurisdiction, with Hu Lian's 18th Army as the core, and it is reasonable to say that the commander of this corps is none other than Hu Lian, but the final result is that Huang Wei, who has faded out of the military circles for many years, took office, and Hu Lian was only the deputy commander, so that the 18th Army was in an uproar.
Bai Chongxi, He Yingqin, Xu Yongchang, and Sun Liren talked and laughed
Hu Lian had never ascended to the throne, which even Huang Wei was surprised. He later recalled that this may have stemmed from a deep contradiction between Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng. Bai Chongxi always appreciated Hu Lian and promised him to be the commander of the 12th Corps in person, but Hu Lian, who was a cadre of the "civil engineering department", was after all a person on Chen Cheng's line, and Bai Chongxi, who was extremely suspicious, did not dare to use him, so he openly and secretly opposed Hu Lian.
At this time, Jiang Shi had to rely heavily on Bai Chongxi, and he had to listen to Bai's opinions, but after all, the 12th Corps had the 18th Army as the core, and the commander of the Corps had to be a person from the "civil engineering department", otherwise no one could control this arrogant general. In this way, Huang Wei, who is also Chen Cheng's confidant, was pushed to the forefront, because compared with Hu Lian, who was "not easy to manage", "nerd" Huang Wei was an acceptable candidate for Bai Chongxi.
Huang Wei
During the Battle of Huaihai, Hu Lian was in Shanghai, and some people said that this was because he did not become the commander of the corps and "picked a pick", which may not be the case in fact. Looking at the photos of Hu Lian in his later years, he has two large dimples on his face, which are scars left by a bullet piercing his cheek during the War of Resistance. The bullet broke a bite of his tooth and often had to be cured, so there is no such thing as a "small illness and a big doctor". Besides, when Jiang Shi asked him to go to the double pile of fire to get chestnuts, he still rushed to the battlefield alone, and finally got dozens of pieces of shrapnel in his body and escaped death. Although the building had fallen and no one had the strength to return to heaven, he had tried his best after all.
The car defense line of the Huang Wei Corps
After the defeat of Taiwan Island, Hu Lian, who made great contributions to the Chiang family dynasty, did not soar as people imagined. He never served as commander-in-chief of the army in his lifetime, and he was made deputy commander at the highest level. And those who became the commander-in-chief of the army were all his subordinates. When he was the commander of the Kinmen Defense, a large pile of small reports against him was handed over to Xiao Jiang. Later, chiang's father and son simply sent him to South Vietnam as an ambassador, and from then on he was far away from the core of power.
Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind. Hu Lian's battle achievements are obvious to all, and jealousy is naturally indispensable. In July 1947, the Battle of Nanma broke out, and the East China Field Army concentrated 4 columns to besiege the reorganized 11th Division. Seeing that Hu Lian was about to become the second Zhang Lingfu, who expected heavy rain to fall in the sky, the attack of Huaye's troops was seriously blocked, and Hu Lian was desperate. After the war, Jiang gave Hu Lian a prize of 500 million French dollars, calling him "General Changsheng". Huang Baitao, who had always contributed a lot, but had never been rewarded, was furious and threw his big hat on the ground and scolded: "If he Hu Boyu hadn't been good at eight characters, he would have gone with Zhang Lingfu a long time ago!" "
Hu Lian
But Hu Boyu's eight characters were indeed born well, and his life was harder than Zhang Lingfu and Huang Baitao. Not only did he not only survive in a desperate situation twice, but also relied on the sixth sense cultivated by the battlefield during the Golden Gate Artillery Battle to avoid the overwhelming shells, and the three commanders Who ate and played cards with him, Zhao Jiajun, Ji Xingwen, and Zhang Jie, were all killed. What's more, he was assassinated by guerrillas while he was an envoy to South Vietnam, and a time bomb was placed under his desk. Who knew that just 5 seconds before the bomb exploded, he actually got up and walked to the next house, so as to escape again.
Hu Lian's mentality in his later years was very complicated, and in his study hung a couplet of "one smile, one less, one anger and one old", and his residence on Taiwan Island was far from Yangmingshan, where the two Chiang official residences were located. He wanted to study ancient Chinese history to seek the reason for Chiang's rout, so he entered the history department of National Taiwan University to study the history of the Song Dynasty and the history of the Ming Dynasty, and usually spoke with chewing words and quoting scriptures, and spoke Very well in English.
This professional soldier who has been killing for half his life is becoming more and more like a hermit as he grows older. It is not so much about fame and fortune as it is about discouragement.
Hu Lian inspected the officers and men of Chiang Kai-shek's army
The reason why Hu Lian was suppressed in the official arena is that there are many opinions. Some people say that Jiang Shi was too influenced by Zeng Guofan, and he looked at people's appearance first, and the characters he used, such as Chen Cheng, Gu Zhutong, hu Zongnan, etc., were all good-looking. And Hu Liansheng has a pair of triangular eyes, the image is not good, coupled with a shaanxi native dialect, Jiang Shi's first impression of this Huangpu fourth-term student is not good, so Hu Lian has never been favored in his life.
Even if there are these factors, they are by no means the main cause. The fundamental reason why Hu Lian was not favored was that he was not a long-sleeved dancer, and he was not the same kind of person as Liu Zhi, Jiang Dingwen, Gu Zhutong, and Gui Yongqing. Hu Minyue, The grandson of Hu Lian, said that Hu Lian is a typical northerner, "a gut to the end, for people have no heart", such a person may be a good hand in business, but every scene, speculation and drilling is certainly not his strength.
Hu Lian in his later years
Of course, Hu Lian could not have no intentions, otherwise he would not be able to afford the evaluation of "cunning as a fox", but compared with the above-mentioned old oils in the officialdom, it is also true that he is worse than the fire.
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