In 1954, Sun Liren, who was originally popular on the island, was suddenly dismissed from the position of commander-in-chief of the army by Chiang Kai-shek, which made many people feel puzzled;

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Sun Liren made great achievements and once became the commander-in-chief of the National Army. Why was he suddenly under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek?

In 1954, Sun Liren, who was originally popular on the island, was suddenly dismissed from the position of commander-in-chief of the army by Chiang Kai-shek , which made many people feel puzzled; a year later, Sun Liren resigned and was directly under house arrest, becoming the second among the national army, Zhang Xueliang .

In the national army, Sun Liren was accustomed to fighting, and it seemed that he was trusted by Chiang Kai-shek before. Why did he suddenly get dismissed and put under house arrest?

1, dazzling new star, top students and famous anti-Japanese generals

Sun Liren is quite special among the national army. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek's principle of employing people was to particularly value several types of people, such as teachers and students, fellow villagers in Zhejiang, and their own relatives and friends. It is extremely difficult for people other than that to climb to the high position of the national army.

Sun Liren was not a student of Huangpu, and many of them were from Zhejiang, not even considered relatives and friends of Chiang Kai-shek; However, he was promoted by Chiang Kai-shek for a long time and even once became the commander-in-chief of the National Army. So, why is he so awesome? There are mainly two reasons.

The first is that his personal ability is indeed good. As an era of cultural backwardness at that time, Sun Liren was a famous academic master - he was a top student at Tsinghua University , and then went to to study at the Virginia Military Academy in the United States. So he stands out in terms of diploma alone. is indeed a very small number of top students like him in the national army.

At the same time, is not only a high diploma, but also has a good performance in actual combat.

After the outbreak of the full-scale war, he joined the battle. At that time, he belonged to the Song Ziwen system and served as the colonel commander of the Second Detachment and the commander of the Fourth Regiment. Logically speaking, he can't be considered a formal army, and his combat effectiveness is naturally not comparable to that of the regular army. However, Sun Liren's subordinates were well-trained and had abundant equipment, supplies and supplies.

, especially he has integrated his training methods into Western exercises, making his team look particularly unique.

In the battle in 1937, Sun Liren took the lead in repelling the Japanese smuggling, and he was seriously injured in the battle. Therefore, he became famous as a famous anti-Japanese general. After recovering from his injury, he defeated the Japanese army several times in Wuhan and became a rising star among the anti-Japanese generals of the National Army.

However, what really made Sun Liren famous all over the world was him leading the new 38th Division expedition. He defeated the Japanese army in Myanmar and India and rescued the British army from the fire. In the Battle of Ren'anqiang, , the 113th Regiment of Sun Liren's troops defeated more than 4,000 elite Japanese troops and rescued more than 7,000 British troops besieged by the Japanese army.

2. It suddenly stopped. After the Anti-Japanese War, Sun Liren was marginalized by Chiang Kai-shek and

, he won consecutive battles against the Japanese army in India, so that the Japanese army himself was surprised to write: "Unexpectedly, the Chinese army in Hukang Valley , whether in organization, equipment, tactics and technology, completely changed its appearance, causing heavy losses to the army. The entire army couldn't help but be shocked."

However, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the peak of Sun Liren's military career was basically over.

In the War of Liberation, he was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Security Command by Chiang Kai-shek. However, at that time, Chiang Kai-shek asked Chen Cheng to take charge of the Northeast, and he and Chen Cheng were not very harmonious, so the two had a conflict in the Northeast. In order to stabilize the overall situation in the Northeast, Chiang Kai-shek transferred Sun Liren to the deputy commander-in-chief of the army and commander of the army training.

However, this position is equivalent to an increase in openness and decline in secret for him - His own carefully trained team was taken back by Chiang Kai-shek.

At the same time, the National Army was fighting everywhere at that time, and he, the deputy commander-in-chief or training commander, basically had no real power. After working here, everyone believes that Sun Liren's career has come to an end. .However, the turning point of things made everyone unable to understand.

3. The turn of the way, Sun Liren on the island was particularly favored by Chiang Kai-shek

When Chiang Kai-shek retreated to the island and began to take the opportunity to remove the power of the National Army, Sun Liren's status suddenly became extraordinary. Chiang Kai-shek began to continuously promote Sun Liren, making Sun Liren very popular all of a sudden. He was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Kojima's defense headquarters and the commander-in-chief of the army at that time on the national army.

The commander-in-chief at this time is no better than before. Because the national army was already very little left, the only troops were merged by Chiang Kai-shek, so the commander-in-chief of the army was really in power at this time and could mobilize most of the troops at that time.

And what about Sun Liren himself? I also felt very at ease and confident about Chiang Kai-shek's heavy responsibilities. He began to be determined to reform the national army at that time, but the main content of his reform was very single, that is, to rely entirely on the Western model.

Because he studied in the West, he also tends to be Western in his thoughts. Therefore, he believed that to make the national army stronger, he had to train the national army as much as possible using the Western model. However, his reforms aroused many people's disgust, including the commander-in-chief of the Air Force and the commander-in-chief of the Navy at that time, who were very dissatisfied with Sun Liren's reforms.

, especially when Sun Liren boldly proposed that strict requirements should be made to the top leaders and that the Air Force and the Army should also follow up, he almost became a troublemaker in the national army at that time. Many generals of the National Army called him a report, hoping to drive Sun Liren off the stage. However, it is strange that Chiang Kai-shek has always been suspicious, but this time he is particularly tolerant of Sun Liren.

No matter what small report the person below makes, Old Jiang is always there, and he doesn't seem to mind.

, but Sun Liren became more and more contented, so he chose to be late every time at the meeting. Because he was late, he just had to salute Chiang Kai-shek and didn't have to salute other national military officers. seems to be insulting to such top students like him in his eyes.

Therefore, during this period, although Sun Li has a high position and a high position in , he has a bad popularity.

4. A bizarre mutiny, Sun Liren was not involved but was placed under house arrest for half his life

However, in 1954, he was suddenly resigned from an important position by Chiang Kai-shek, and then he was beaten to the end by Chiang Kai-shek and he voluntarily announced that he would "resign". So, what exactly happened?

According to the statement at that time, Sun Liren was involved in the Guo Tingliang mutiny case. Guo Tingliang and his accomplices are all subordinates of Sun Liren. They pointed out that Sun Liren was instructing them and asked them to launch a mutiny. The mutiny was extinguished by Chiang Kai-shek and ended before it even began. But Chiang Kai-shek took this excuse and directly detained Sun Liren.

and Chiang intends to punish him severely. However, the United States put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly, and Chiang Kai-shek eventually seized Sun Liren indefinitely, turning Sun Liren into Zhang Xueliang's second. It was not until , after the death of Chiang Ching-kuo, that the Chiang family dynasty was over, that he was released.

However, after he was released, he was rehabilitated by the Kuomintang army, saying that Guo Tingliang's case was a trash and framed, which was instructed by Mao Renfeng at that time, but in fact he did not participate. Since this is the case, Sun Liren was wronged. Why did Chiang Kai-shek take this opportunity to put him under house arrest and not want to release him?

In a file declassified by the United States in 1992, people finally found the key to Sun Liren's fate.

5. The real inside story: Chiang Kai-shek's open and secret struggle with the United States

It turns out that Sun Liren really had a mutiny. However, it was not Guo Tingliang's time, and Guo Tingliang's time was framed. After Chiang Kai-shek lost consecutive battles in mainland China, the Americans felt that Chiang Kai-shek's agent was too unreliable, or they thought Chiang Kai-shek was too incompetent, which led to the loss in the war. So they make a decision to re-support an agent.

At that time, the National Army was already full of holes. The Guangxi warlords Li Zongren and they drove Chiang Kai-shek out of power, and Chiang Kai-shek himself had to retreat.

Americans think that among the national army, Sun Liren has experience studying in the United States and has fought side by side with Westerners on the battlefield. His record is quite amazing, so he is a person he can rely on. So they put pressure on Li Zongren and asked Li Zongren to arrange a good position for Sun Liren so that Sun Liren could fully control the military strength of the national army.

However, Li Zongren can't help with this.

Although Chiang Kai-shek stepped down at that time, he still had great power. Li Zongren just became an honorary president, and soon Chiang Kai-shek became the president of the national army again. However, at this time, Chiang Kai-shek knew in his heart that he was too weak now and had to rely on the Americans. So after he regained power, he was simply obedient to the Americans' words.

Americans told him to reuse Sun Liren, so he really reuses Sun Liren, and even let Sun Liren be the commander-in-chief of the army and withdrew his confidant Chen Cheng. The Americans asked him to approach the West as close as possible, and Chiang Kai-shek also obeyed his advice.

Even at that time, Chiang Ching-kuo represented Chiang Kai-shek and made some reforms in the army; but because it did not conform to Western rules, it was firmly opposed and criticized by Sun Liren, and the Americans also stood up to threaten Chiang Kai-shek; Chiang Kai-shek still endured humiliation and chose to obey the Americans. Seeing Chiang Kai-shek so obedient, Americans further contacted Sun Liren openly.

They even prepared without any concealment to arrange for Sun Liren to seize power and force Chiang Kai-shek away.

So, Americans are interested, does Sun Liren mean?

Sun Liren certainly did not dare to say that he had any ideas directly, but he has been in contact and actively contacting Americans. In April 1950, the US military officer Barret sent a very confidential telegram to the US State Department , citing Sun Liren's statement, indicating that Chiang Kai-shek and his followers had reached a state of "confusion and despair". In the letter, the Sun suggested taking "violent actions to restore the tide."

can be said to be quite explicit. And how could Chiang Kai-shek, as a political veteran, not know about these things? But at that time, he urgently needed the support of the United States, so he could only choose to endure humiliation and wait for the opportunity.

The time is finally here. The Korean War broke out in 1950. After the war broke out, the strategic value of Chiang Kai-shek increased again. On the one hand, it can serve as a means for the United States to check and balance the mainland; on the other hand, the failure of the US military on the battlefield made them understand that Chiang Kai-shek is not too bad, but because Chiang Kai-shek's opponent is too strong.

So at this time, Lao Jiang became tough. Not long after, he created a case and took Sun Liren's power to the end.