During the Liberation War, the masses were divided, and many big figures left their names behind. But among this group of rulers, there is an outlier, that is, the fourth and last generation of "Yunnan King" Lu Han.
In his early years, Lu Han was the left arm and right arm of long yun, the third "king of Yunnan", and has been silently helping Long Yunnan to fight in the northern war. After succeeding to the throne, Lu Han did not tell the world, but continued to maintain a low-key and cautious style, wandering between various forces, and finally successfully led the Yunnan uprising and defected to the new regime.
But it was such a fierce general who had made great achievements in battle, but in 1955 he did not receive any title, which made people wonder.
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Lu Han was born in 1895 in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province, to a family of slave owners. When Lu Han went out with his brothers Long Yun and Zou Ruoheng to buy timber, he had to find another way out because of the loss of goods.
At Long Yun's suggestion, the three of them came to Sichuan and defected to Wei Huanzhang's department. Soon after, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, and Cai Yi, the governor of Yunnan at the time, decided to support Sichuan, which had not yet revolted, and sent Xie Ruyi to lead the Dian army to Sichuan.
When Lu Han and the others received the news, they switched to the Xie Ruyi Echelon Regiment and returned to their hometown of Yunnan. After returning to Yunnan, Lu Han and others were given the opportunity to study at the Yunnan Wu tang.
Due to his outstanding performance in the Tangwu Hall, after graduation, Lu Han became a platoon commander in the Dian Army, and then gradually rose to the rank of division commander. After the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, the Japanese invaded China, and Lu Han became a member of the front line to resist the enemy.
With excellent military strategy, Lu Han was appointed commander of the Sixtieth Army, and performed well in many battles such as the Battle of Taierzhuang and the Battle of Wuhan.
In 1940, the Japanese landed in Vietnam to attack the curve. In order to defend his hometown, Lu Han led the Sixtieth Army back to Yunnan to resist the enemy. At that time, no one at the top of the Yunnan Military Headquarters expected that the Japanese would attack through Vietnam, so the troops were relatively empty.
In order to better build the defensive line, Lu Han was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Yunnan Border Region, commanding the Chinese First Front Army, which was composed of the expansion of the First Army, the Ninth Army and the Sixtieth Army, and made outstanding contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Under Luján's death, the Japanese plan to attack through the Vietnamese curve was completely bankrupt. After Japan's surrender in 1945, Luhan, who had made great achievements on the battlefield, became a representative of China and went to Vietnam to accept the surrender.
Although the War of Resistance Against Japan was over at that time, for the domestic outlaws, the foreign enemy had to seek more post-war benefits. In October 1945, Chiang Kai-shek launched the Qingquan Mutiny and placed Long Yun, the commander of the Dian Army, under house arrest.
At this moment, the Kunming Dian army was leaderless, and in order to stabilize the military's morale and better incorporate Yunnan into his pocket, Chiang Kai-shek took a fancy to Lu Han, who was quite prestigious in the Dian army, and pushed him to the position of chairman of Yunnan Province.
Caught between the two major forces of the Kuomintang and the Communists, Luhan could only survive with difficulty, but eventually defected to the new regime. In December 1949, Lu Han secretly launched the Yunnan Uprising, leading his troops to detain all the senior generals of the Kuomintang diehards, and successfully completed the peaceful liberation of Yunnan.
The Party Central Committee, grateful for Lu Han's courage to stand on the side of the people at a crucial moment, did not suppress Lu Han after the incident was born in the national army.
Instead, Lu Han was appointed director of the Yunnan Military and Political Committee in 1950 and later transferred to the Beijing National Sports Commission. At the 1955 ceremony, Although Luhan was not awarded a military rank, he was also awarded the Liberation Medal of the First Class.
After this, Luhan visited Moscow as a member of the NPC delegation. He eventually died of lung cancer in 1974.
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Lu Han's life was full of ups and downs, and as a senior general of the former Kuomintang, he made great contributions to the cause of the peaceful liberation of Yunnan. It is puzzling that Lu Han's military merits were so great that he found nothing at the 1955 award ceremony.
In contrast, Chen Mingren, who was lower than Lu Han within the Kuomintang, received the rank of general in 1955, which makes people wonder why.
The most important reason was that Lu Han had left the military when he led the Yunnan uprising. At that time, although Lu Han took over Long Yun's position as the chairman of Yunnan Province and had command of the Yunnan national army, he did not become the commander of the Yunnan army.
As the chairman of Yunnan Province, Lu Han's actual scope of work was mainly outside the military field, bidding farewell to his military career and transforming from a military cadre to an administrative cadre.
By the time the Party Central Committee had introduced the rank system in 1955, Luhan had completely completed the insurrection and was less responsible for the affairs of the army. According to the regulations at that time, the military rank system was made into an army-related system and could not be extended to other non-military fields.
Under such a call, it is also reasonable that Lu Han, as a cadre who has left the army, will not be awarded a title. The second reason why Lu Han did not have the title was that Lu Han was too senior in the nationalist army and too influential in Yunnan Province.
Before the Yunnan Uprising, Lu Han was already a second-class general in the Nationalist Army. Later, he was personally promoted by Chiang Kai-shek and became the chairman of Yunnan Province, and his status was further advanced.
In 1955, if Luhan was to be awarded the title, it would inevitably be above the general, I am afraid that he would have to take the position of marshal, which would have an impact on the overall general's title.
Moreover, under such circumstances, if Lu Han, who has become the chairman of Yunnan Province, still wants to get the position of marshal, I am afraid that the entire Yunnan Province will become Lu Han's "back garden".
Considering the special geographical location of Yunnan on the border with Vietnam, it is not appropriate for Lu Han to cover the sky with such a hand in Yunnan.
The final reason is related to Luján's attitude before the uprising. After Chiang Kai-shek appointed Lu Han as chairman of the new Yunnan provincial government, Lu Han's political position was unclear.
LuHan was not optimistic about the Kuomintang central government, but he also did not make up his mind to defect to the Communist Party. At that time, LuHan's attitude was similar to that of the local forces in the past, not making obvious sides, but maintaining an ambiguous attitude, left and right, in order to strengthen his own power.
It was not until early 1949, when the Kuomintang collapsed on both the military and political fronts, that Luhan formally changed his attitude and decided to defect to the Central Committee.
He established contact with the South China Bureau of the Communist Party of China in February 1949, but did not launch an uprising until December. Luhan's wavering attitude was also a related reason why he did not receive the title in the end.
Unlike his brother Long Yun, Lu Han is low-key and cautious, and even in front of his family, he does not like to comment on current politics and discuss others.
Although he could not get the title for various reasons, Lu Han did not get the "Y faction" like his brother Long Yun with this caution, and he was not much affected in the "special period" that followed.
In the chaotic world, those who can survive to the end are not necessarily well-known big people, but people like Lu Han who act in a low-key manner and are cautious in words and deeds can often go to the end.
Text/Lin Bonan