In the fourteen-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, not only were the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by the Communist Party, but also the bloody battles of patriotic generals of the National Army. In times of national crisis, as a patriotic general, it was their responsibility to defend the country.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, just as the people of the whole country were looking forward to peace, Chiang Kai-shek violated public opinion and brazenly launched the civil war . For many patriotic senior generals of the National Army, civil war is something they do not want to see, which greatly damages national strength and does not have to fight to the death like the War of Resistance Against Japan.
With the end of the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai , and Pingjin, the defeat of the National Army has been decided, and the day of failure is not far away. In that context, four senior generals of the National Army who held heavy troops chose to revolt and made great contributions to reducing casualties in the war. Who are they?
Dian Army Famous anti-Japanese general Lu Han
Lu Han is from Zhaotong, Yunnan and is a relative of Long Yun. The two have studied and lived together since childhood and have a close relationship. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Lu Han was already the main senior general of the Yunnan Dian Army. For the great cause of anti-Japanese war, he led his army out of Yunnan to fight against Japan.
In the full-scale war of resistance, the Yunnan army commanded by Lu Han appeared on major battlefields across the country and made a famous reputation. After Japan surrendered to , Lu Han was ordered to go to Vietnam on behalf of the Yunnan army to accept Tobashi Yongyi's surrender.
0 Long Yun, who presided over the military and political affairs of Yunnan, had always had conflicts with Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of Lu Han's army to Vietnam to receive surrender. He seized this opportunity and put Long Yun under house arrest in Kunming and supported Lu Han as the chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government.
In mid-1949, the Kuomintang army was defeated. Although Lu Han in Yunnan held tens of thousands of troops, he decided to rebel and was unwilling to follow Chiang Kai-shek to the point of blackness. In December 1949, Lu Han announced the Yunnan Uprising in the Office of the Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government of Wuhua Mountain to welcome our army into the city.
The famous general of the Sui Army Fu Zuoyi
Fu Zuoyi was from Yuncheng, Shanxi Province. He was born in June 1895. In his early years, he was influenced by the revolutionary ideas led by Sun Yat-sen and embarked on the road of revolution. After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Fu Zuoyi responded in Taiyuan and served as the platoon leader of the rebel army to resist the attack of the Qing army.
On military command, Fu Zuoyi is his strength. He graduated from the fifth phase of the infantry department of Baoding Military Academy. After graduation, he participated in the Jin army of Yan Xishan. After his strength grew, he was appointed as the chairman of the Suiyuan Provincial Government and began to seek development in the Suiyuan area. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sui Army led by Fu Zuoyi performed well, attacked the Japanese invaders, and won a great victory like the Wuyuan Victory , which was worthy of the famous anti-Japanese generals.
In the War of Liberation, Fu Zuoyi was once a very difficult opponent of our army, causing a lot of trouble for our army. To be honest, he was one of the most capable people among the senior generals of the National Army. With the end of Liaoshen Battle, and after the Million-million-strong army in Dongye entered the pass, Fu Zuoyi had no hope of turning the tables. Finally, after Pingjin Battle, he led more than 200,000 troops to revolt in Peiping, retaining this thousand-year-old ancient city and making great contributions to the people.
Sichuan Army famous general Deng Xihou
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Sichuan Army made great sacrifices for the great cause of anti-Japanese war. Deng Xihou was one of the main leaders of the Sichuan Army and a famous general of the anti-Japanese war.
Deng Xihou had fought with Red Army and was repeatedly defeated by the Red Army. At the critical moment, he chose to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. After the Red Army captured Luding Bridge , Deng Xihou led his army to pursue it. On the way, he received a letter written by Zhu De and Liu Bocheng, which said that the national crisis was in the face of the country, the civil war was stopped, and the unanimous resistance to Japan was fought against each other.
After receiving the letter, Deng Xihou was influenced and chose to make way for the Red Army. In order to submit a mission to Chiang Kai-shek, he had to order the troops to chase and not fight, keep a distance from the Red Army for a day, and fire a few guns, fire a few cannons, and fool Chiang Kai-shek.
After the outbreak of the national war of resistance, Deng Xihou volunteered to resist the war. He enthusiastically mobilized the Sichuan people and organized the army to go out to Sichuan to fight. He appeared on the major anti-Japanese battlefields across the country. Under the leadership of Deng Xihou, the Sichuan Army was brave and fearless, sprinkled all the last drop of blood to defend the country and fight against the Japanese invaders.
At the end of the Liberation War, Deng Xihou, who was not Chiang Kai-shek's direct line, was excluded. At that moment, he felt that the Jiang family dynasty was about to fail soon, and was unwilling to be buried with him. He remembered his former friends Zhu De and others. In the end, under the guidance of the underground party and the Democratic League, he chose to revolt and no longer served Chiang Kai-shek.
One of the leaders of the Ma family army, Ma Hongbin,
Ma Hongbin is one of the "3 Ma " in the northwest of the Republic of China. The Ma family army owed too much debt to the Red Army. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, it repeatedly opposed the Red Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ma Hongbin served as commander of the 81st Army of and commander-in-chief of the 17th Army, leading his army to fight against the Japanese army in western Suiyuan and in Inner Mongolia. The Ma family army's cavalry has strong mobility and individual combat capabilities, which has caused considerable trouble to the Japanese invaders.
In the early days of the Liberation War, Qinghai Ma Bufang , Ningxia Ma Hongkui , and Gansu Ma Hongbin all obeyed Chiang Kai-shek and repeatedly attacked our army's liberated areas, suffered heavy losses. With the successive victory of our army on the front battlefield, the first field army led by Peng Dehuai advanced northwest. Under the huge gap in strength, Ma Hongbin chose to revolt and contributed to the liberation of Ningxia.
Conclusion
As our army's strength turned from weak to strong, among the senior generals who had heavy troops in the former National Army, Fu Zuoyi, Lu Han, Ma Hongbin and Deng Xihou chose to revolt. They made the right choice at a critical moment and threw themselves into the arms of the people.
It is worth mentioning that among the four rebel generals, they all have one thing in common. They are not Chiang Kai-shek's direct descendants and have heavy troops in their hands. They are either suspicious or desperate, which shows that Chiang Kai-shek does not know how to unite in employing people, and his failure is inevitable, which is a matter of time.
