Lin Biao was a famous military genius and fought many tough battles, but when fighting with one person, Lin Biao's 100,000 elite soldiers were defeated. What is even more amazing is that the opponent only has 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers.

Lin Biao is a famous military genius and has fought many tough battles. However, when fighting with one person, Lin Biao's 100,000 elite soldiers were defeated. What is even more amazing is . The opponent only has 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers.

Who is the other party? He actually made Lin Biao, who has been through the battlefield, become a defeated player?

01 fights Lin Biao

1946. Although the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was still in a strategic transition period, it had formed a situation of " to fight within the barrier and fight outside the barrier" .

In this case, the Kuomintang Chen Mingren was sent to lead the 71st Army to the front line of Siping . At the same time, our army guarded here the Northeast Democratic Alliance led by Lin Biao.

As a result, the two armies could not avoid fighting. In addition, Siping had important strategic value as the capital of of Liaobei Province at that time, and Chen Mingren and Lin Biao naturally wanted to take it down.

So, the battle between lasted for a whole month, and the battle was very stalemate. was hard to part with. Chen Mingren said: will never stop if it won Siping.

Lin Biao is also a stubborn temper and ordered that must defend Siping to the end and not allow inch of land. Although no specific outcome was decided, as the war continued, the number of casualties on both sides was gradually increasing. The Kuomintang army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the Northeast Democratic Alliance also suffered more than 8,000 casualties.

Seeing this, Chairman Mao sent Lin Biao:

Siping, our army has been holding on for a month, fighting against ten enemy divisions, fully demonstrating the tenacious and heroic spirit of the People's Army. This struggle is of historical significance.

If you feel that there is no point in continuing to stick to it, you can actively withdraw from Siping, withdraw the main force to rest on both wings, and prepare to switch from positional warfare to mobile warfare.

Chairman Mao’s instructions were undoubtedly wise. Continuing to defend the country would only cause great losses to the Northeast Democratic Alliance. So on May 18, Lin Biao decided to withdraw from Siping.

After Lin Biao withdrawing, Chen Mingren entered Siping as soon as possible. In order to replenish troops with severe losses, he first rectified his morale and then built a series of defensive fortifications in Siping.

This defeat made Lin Biao always remember it and secretly vowed to take back Siping again.

So in May 1947, Lin Biao led the Northeast Democratic Alliance to launch the summer offensive again, trying to seize the Siping.

Although it was only a year later, the situation of the Kuomintang in the Northeast region had already undergone earth-shaking changes. If Siping was lost at this time, then the Kuomintang army in Changchun and Shenyang could be said to be isolated and helpless.

In view of this, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly telegrammed Chen Mingren, instructed him to keep the four gambles. Chen Mingren lived up to expectations at first. Like Lin Biao, Chen Mingren was originally good at leading troops to fight strange and tough battles.

Therefore, after Chen Mingren led his army to fight desperately for more than 40 days, resisted the fierce attack of the Northeast Democratic Alliance. Compared with the last time, Chen Mingren and Lin Biao's battle was more intense.

and Lin Biao also lost to Chen Mingren's subordinate both times.

After seeing Chen Mingren's record, Chiang Kai-shek quickly sent four troops to reinforce Siping. As a result, the Northeast Democratic Alliance had to give up the siege and withdraw the siege.

Chen Mingren's persistence also made him famous for a while, and was admired by Chiang Kai-shek, and was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Corps of the Kuomintang.

Shortly afterwards, Chen Cheng served as the director of the Kuomintang Northeast Headquarters. Because the two had competition, Chen Mingren had long become a thorn in Chen Cheng's side.

So, after Chen Cheng took office, he quickly found several "mistakes" by Chen Mingren, and used this as an excuse to remove him from his post and transfer him back to Nanjing.

Chief Chen Mingren is naturally resentful of this, but he has no choice but to do anything. During his idle time in Nanjing, Chen Mingren had to drink often to relieve his sorrows in order to relieve his unhappiness.

The unsuccessful Chen Mingren hated not only Chen Cheng, but also Chiang Kai-shek who could not uphold justice. Chiang Kai-shek's observation completely made Chen Mingren feel cold.

So, on August 4, 1949, Chen Mingren chose to revolt without hesitation.

02 Boldly Uprising

At that time, Chen Mingren led the 29th Army and the 71st Army to station in Changsha, Hunan. After seeing that the national liberation had become a general trend, he directly led more than 120,000 people to launch the uprising directly.

Chen Mingren's concerted relationship, seriously shocked the remnants of the Kuomintang in South China, Southeast, Southwest and Northwest regions, and had a significant impact.

. Chairman Mao was also very welcomed by Chen Mingren, and then the People's Liberation Army Hunan Military Region was established, and Chen Mingren was appointed as deputy commander.

Afterwards, Chen Mingren, as a special representative, went to Beijing at the invitation of Chairman Mao to attend the first National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference meeting. Nie Rongzhen and others came to the station to greet him in person.

Chairman Mao not only met Chen Mingren many times, visited the Temple of Heaven with him, but also invited him to visit his home.

During the meal, Chen Mingren took the initiative to mention the battle of in the four-ping and expressed his regret and guilt. Chairman Mao smiled when he heard this. As the saying goes, everyone is their own. Chen Mingren's position and mood at that time are naturally understandable.

Immediately afterwards, Chairman Mao asked, "Do you want to go into politics or lead troops to fight in the future?"

Chen Mingren said, "If possible, I still want to do some military strength for the country."

Chairman Mao nodded in agreement: "I think Lin Biao is not as good as you in wars. I think you are the commander of the 21st Corps of the People's Liberation Army. You can ask whatever you have in the future."
Chairman Mao's trust and encouragement moved Chen Mingren deeply. He did not have any requests, saying that he would unconditionally obey the party's arrangements. Since then, Chen Mingren has become the commander of the 55th Army of our army.

03 serves the people

But at the same time, Chiang Kai-shek never expected Chen Mingren's uprising, after all, Chen Mingren was cultivated by him.

Chen Mingren was admitted to the Army Martial Arts School in 1924. The school was founded by Cheng Xiao by Sun Yat-sen, but just when Chen Mingren arrived in Guangzhou from afar, the Martial Arts School had stopped enrolling students.

Chen Mingren, who didn't want to give up, took his middle school transcript and found Cheng Xiao, a fellow villager. Seeing that Chen Mingren was smart and intelligent, Cheng Xiao accepted him.

In September 1924, the martial arts school and the Whampoa Military Academy were merged, and Chen Mingren was transferred to the first sixth team of the Whampoa Military Academy.

In the year, Chen Mingren graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and served as the intern platoon leader of the Whampoa Military Academy Teaching Corps.

Shortly afterwards, Sun Yat-sen carried out his first Eastern Expedition to consolidate the Guangdong Revolutionary Base. During this period, Chen Mingren dared to fight and rush, and made a series of contributions, which were recognized by his superiors. He was promoted to the company commander of the Third Company of the First Battalion of the Teaching Regiment.

After the first Eastern Expedition to ended, Chen Jiongming caused trouble in the Dongjiang area again after obtaining foreign aid. So Sun Yat-sen conducted the second Eastern Expedition to .

When attacking Huizhou , the commander of the charge group where Chen Mingren was located was unfortunately met. Chen Mingren was very sad and took the initiative to stand up and said to the deputy leader, "Captain, I want to avenge you!"

Then, after Chen Mingren entrusted his wife and children to his comrades, he continued to lead the team to the city with the deputy leader.

With the sound of several rumbling shells, a hole was made in the city wall. So Chen Mingren took up the flag himself, rushed up along the blasted gap, and inserted the team flag on the wall.

Chen Mingren's move greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers. In an instant, the rest of the troops rushed forward and drove the defenders and soldiers down, conquering Huizhou.

, and Chen Mingren's move was directly seen by Chiang Kai-shek, who was watching the battle from a distance. Seeing this, Chiang Kai-shek asked, "Who is the first person to climb the city wall?"

, the person next to

replied, "It's your student Chen Mingren." So, at the celebration meeting three days later, Chiang Kai-shek took the initiative to pay tribute to Chen Mingren and called on the entire team of officers and soldiers to learn from Chen Mingren.

Since then, Chen Mingren has become a popular "star" in the Kuomintang army.

In 1938, Chen Mingren was appointed as the commander of the lieutenant general of the Second Reserve Division of the Kuomintang Army. He led the team to fight the Japanese invaders in Jiujiang , and finally defended his position and received commendation from Chiang Kai-shek.

But then because of Chen Cheng's secret interference, Chen Mingren's second division of preparatory division was revoked. It was not until He Yingqin's came forward that the number of preparatory division was restored.

Since then, under the leadership of Chen Mingren, the scale of the second division of the preparatory division has developed rapidly and has won consecutive victories in the fight against the Japanese invaders.

At that time, any place that no troops could conquer was solved by Chen Mingren's 71st Army, such as the Battle of Huilongshan, which greatly increased Chen Mingren's international reputation.

However, is such a powerful general with super combat effectiveness, but Chiang Kai-shek did not know how to cherish it, and his various actions made Chen Mingren even more disgusted.

Chen Mingren once said that he and other soldiers had put in a lot of effort to fight against Japan, but he never thought that Chiang Kai-shek brazenly tore up the Double Ten Agreement after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, launched the civil war, and deceived the group, including Chen Mingren.

Gradually, the soldiers who had worked hard for Chiang Kai-shek began to realize that the civil war was just a battle initiated by Chiang Kai-shek to realize his ambitions, and this move was completely against the interests of the people.

So, over time, Chen Mingren and others became extremely disgusted with Chiang Kai-shek and the civil war, and finally woke up and joined the Communist camp.

After this, Chen Mingren, as he said, was wholeheartedly serving the people, obeying the Party's command, and contributing to the construction of the New China.

and was awarded the rank of general at the 1955 rank of Liberation Medal .

However, the good times did not last long. In 1968, Chen Mingren had to leave his job and return home to recuperate due to physical reasons. A few years later, he died of illness in Beijing at the age of 71.

Conclusion:

Chen Mingren is an outstanding military talent. In the history of our country, there are very few people who can defeat Lin Biao in leading troops to fight, and Chen Mingren is one of them.

And Chen Mingren's identity transformation from the Kuomintang to the Communist Party is also a legend. At the same time, it also makes us feel that Chiang Kai-shek's way of employing people is really sad.