Americans like Sun Liren and praise Sun Liren, not only because there are many people who buy it, but also because they echo the spiritual beliefs of some Chinese people, and the moon in foreign countries is always rounder! So later, when I mentioned the expeditionary force or the army stationed in India, the first thing that came to mind was Sun Liren, as if General Sun was the boss of the expeditionary force or the army stationed in India, while the generals of the other expeditionary forces were ignored. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is not right, General Sun Liren has indeed made meritorious contributions to the nation, and his performance in Burma has also shown national prestige, but he is not the only famous general in the expeditionary force. He was not even the highest-ranking officer of the expeditionary force. And this paradox is like Zhang Lingfu and the 74th Army, which were widely debated in later generations.

There is always a strange argument in later generations, as if Zhang Lingfu is the founder of the 74th Army, as if Zhang Lingfu led the 74th Army to fight a series of tough battles in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and even in the search for poisons in later generations, there will be such a ridiculous question: Zhang Lingfu, Xue Yue, Du Yuming, Sun Liren, who is more powerful? And what is even more ridiculous is that there are still people who chose General Zhang, and also rated him as a famous general of the Anti-Japanese War.

Anyway, General Zhang's resume is not difficult to verify, right? This person didn't have the opportunity to be alone at all during the Anti-Japanese War. Speaking of anti-Japanese famous generals, especially the anti-Japanese famous generals of the 74th Army, only Zhang Lingfu's old superior, Wang Yaowu, is good. It was Wang Yaowu who really turned the 74th Army into the five main forces of ****, not Zhang Lingfu.

Let's go back to business. In addition to Sun Liren, the expeditionary force also has a number of famous generals of the Anti-Japanese War, such as Wei Lihuang, who is the real commander of the expeditionary force, although he can't command the new army stationed in India, but this name is real. There are also Song Xilian and Du Yuming who are higher in rank than Sun Liren, and even the expeditionary force and General Dai Anlan, who died heroically. It's not enough to just remember one Sun Liren.

According to Chiang's idea, he was ready to hand over the command of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army to Zheng Dongguo instead of Sun Liren. Because Zheng Dongguo's qualifications are older and more trustworthy. This General Zheng Dongguo is a native of Changde (Shimen County) in Hunan, his family background is not particularly good, an ordinary peasant family, he studied in a private school in the countryside in his early years, and later went to primary and secondary school, and during the May Fourth Movement, he took to the streets to carry out patriotic propaganda and participate in the boycott of Japanese goods. Since then, he has set up his ambition to join the army and hopes to revitalize the country by force.

In 1921, Zheng Dongguo was admitted to the Hunan Lecture Martial Arts Hall, but what made him depressed was that the Hunan Lecture Martial Arts Hall was suspended and he could only return to Shimen to continue his studies in middle school. In the spring of 1924, despite the dissuasion of his teachers and family, Zheng Dongguo went to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, but his luck was still very bad. By the time he arrived in Guangzhou, the deadline for registration had passed.

Seeing that the dream of joining the army was about to come to naught, Zheng Dongguo came and went, when his fellow countryman Huang Ao deliberately reported twice in order to prevent a failed attempt, so Zheng Dongguo took the exam with the name of Huang Ao, and was successfully admitted to the first phase of Huangpu.

But what's funnier is that after entering the school, he happened to be in the second team with Huang Ao, but two Huang Ao appeared during the roll call, which made it very embarrassing. Later, Zheng Dongguo confessed to the school that he had changed his name after obtaining understanding at this time.

At that time, Zheng Dongguo and Huang Ao, Wang Erzhuo, He Shengyang and so on. The relationship between the party members was very close, and Zheng Dongguo was promoted to the party representative of the third battalion of the second regiment because of his remarkable achievements in the Eastern Expedition. After the Second Eastern Crusade, he was appointed as the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the First Army on the recommendation of Zhou Gong, and was promoted to the commander of the 8th Regiment in 1928. During his garrison in Nanjing, Zheng Dongguo also resolutely returned fire at the British warships that bombarded Xiaguan and Qixia Mountain.

After that, Zheng Dongguo participated in the Central Plains War, and in the spring of 1933, Zheng Dongguo led his troops to participate in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War. After the 77 Incident, Zheng Dongguo led his troops to break through with the Japanese army after the fierce battle in Baoding, and then Zheng Dongguo participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang. After Zheng Dongguo served as the commander of the 98th Army, he participated in the Wuhan Campaign, and then the first mechanized army of the scraping army - the Fifth Army (that is, the one of the five main forces later) was established, Zheng Dongguo was transferred to the commander of the honorary first division of the army and concurrently served as the deputy commander (army commander Du Yuming), and in the future Kunlun Pass Campaign, Zheng Dongguo led the honorary first division as the main attack, and performed extremely well. Later, Zheng Dongguo was transferred to the Eighth Army (the unit that later participated in the Battle of Longling) under the Expeditionary Force as commander and commander of the New First Army in India, and was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the Army in India in August 1944.

It should be said that Zheng Dongguo, whether in terms of qualifications, military exploits, or relationships, commanded the New First Army and the New Sixth Army is the best choice.

But there were several small problems during this period, the first was that the Americans were not very happy, because they preferred Sun Liren to be the commander. After all, Sun Liren is one of the best choices to replace Jiang in line with American tastes. If Sun Liren can brush up more achievements in the civil war and gain greater prestige, it will be more "natural" to replace Jiang someone, isn't it?

Although Zheng Dongguo is not from Zhejiang, he is a descendant of Whampoa after all, and he is Jiang's favorite general, so it is not in the interests of the United States to let Zheng Dongguo continue to be the commander of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army! Therefore, the Americans prefer Sun Liren to be the commander-in-chief.

It is not only the Americans who are looking for trouble, but there are also discordant voices within the army, and one opinion is that the army stationed in India is too awesome and too powerful, and is it too powerful to hand over such two powerful troops to one person to command? Especially considering that Liao Yaoxiang and Zheng Dongguo are still fellow villagers, it's hard to say what is under this melon field!

If you want to say that Jiang has no other problems, it is that this suspicion is too serious, and if you look at his core circle, almost all of them are Zhejiang. His way of employing people is first of all to use fellow villagers, such as Chen Cheng and Hu Zongnan, the military capabilities of these two are a mess, why can they stand tall and rise step by step? It's just that they are Jiang's fellow countrymen, and they listen to Jiang's words very much.

In addition to the Zhejiang department, even if you are born in Huangpu, you have to be lowered, and as for those who are not born in Huangpu, it is even more of the first grade, such as Huang Baitao. His 25th Division performed quite well in the Liberation War, but who made him a ragtag.

Although Zheng Dongguo is from the Huangpu department, he is not from the Zhejiang department, so he cannot win the full trust of Jiang someone. Now that he is saying this, Jiang also feels that there is a certain amount of truth, and it is indeed not very reliable to hand over the two trump cards to one person to command. After weighing it repeatedly, Lao Jiang divided the golden pair of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army into two, and assigned them to two corps, of which the New First Army was handed over to Sun Liren, and the New Sixth Army was handed over to Zheng Dongguo. What is particularly interesting is that the composition of the two corps of the newly formed army to cooperate with the new First Army and the New Sixth Army is still very complicated, the New First Army and the 60th Army of the Dian Army Zeng Shengze are divided together, and the New Sixth Army is divided into the 93rd Army of the Dian Army Lu Junquan.

According to Jiang's idea, the role of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army is to take care of the Dian Army and annex the Dian Army, of course, according to the general rhythm of scraping the army's descendants, the two armies of the Dian Army in the future in the battle to suppress the Communists will definitely be the existence of the front and the back, and they will be eaten when they are almost consumed.

Of course, Jiang was very satisfied with his arrangement, in his opinion, this not only took care of the face of the Americans, but also avoided the dominance of Zheng Dongguo's family, and also weakened the Dian army in disguise, which can be regarded as killing three birds with one stone. However, Jiang will regret this brainless arrangement later.

This only solved the problem of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army, and the problem of the Fifth Army was not easy to solve, because the traces of Du Yuming of the Fifth Army were too obvious, and the starting unit of the Fifth Army was the 200th Division, and this 200th Division was pulled out by Du Yuming. Although Du Yuming is no longer the commander of the Fifth Army at this time (Qiu Qingquan took over), who can suppress the proud generals of the Fifth Army?

At the beginning, Jiang's opinion was that the Fifth Army and the 74th Army should be integrated into a corps, with Wang Yaowu as the commander and Du Yuming as the deputy commander, and one Huangpu Phase I and one Huangpu Phase III should be able to cooperate, right? Especially considering that Wang Yaowu is a "local" fighter (from Shandong), this piece should be nine out of ten.

But immediately there was another problem, not that Wang Yaowu and Du Yuming didn't deal with each other, but that they were a little embarrassed, why? Because Du Yuming was in the first phase of Huangpu, and Wang Yaowu was in the third phase of Huangpu, and now Lao Jiang let Wang Yaowu be the leader, which is equivalent to the junior brother standing on the head of the senior brother, and considering that the Fifth Army and the 74th Army are both the five main forces, this is somewhat of a bit of a praising the 74th Army and belittling the Fifth Army, and it is easy to cause contradictions between the two armies.

So after thinking about it, Jiang could only dispel the idea of using the two main forces together, and still follow the routine of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army, dismantling and then using some second-class descendants and miscellaneous cards. In this way, Chen Cheng's 18th Army of the Civil Engineering Department is naturally no exception. The final result was that each of the five main forces entered the battlefield with a booth and stormed the liberated areas from five directions.

However, there is still a problem with this, after all, the five main forces are only at the army level, and the scale of the next civil war is quite grand, from the perspective of the campaign, there must be a group army or group army group level, according to the command sequence of the People's Party at that time: headquarters - camp (Xingyuan) - appeasement office (theater) - appeasement area (Sui District) - corps / integrated army - army (integrated division) - division (integrated brigade) - regiment a total of 8 levels.

The appointment of the commander of the appeasement office, to which the five main forces belong, has become a big problem, first of all, he has to be able to hold down the five tigers, which requires old qualifications, and secondly, he has to be completely with the central government. And there are really not too many high-ranking generals who meet these two conditions, and the most critical problem is that high-ranking generals who meet these two conditions are not necessarily particularly good at fighting!

For example, in history, the director of the Zhengzhou Pacification Office chosen by Jiang was an out-and-out fool, and his public name was Liu Zhi, and he was a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi. From the resume, this is an out-and-out Baoding department, and has a very good relationship with Gu Zhutong and He Yingqin in the scraping army, and is called He Yingqin's "second general" together with Gu Zhutong.

After the Zhongshan ship incident that year, this cargo faithfully carried out Chiang's orders and seized all the party representatives and communists in the 2nd Division and the navy. When questioned, the party replied as follows: "I don't fully understand, I mean what the principal means, and I will do whatever the principal orders me to do." ”

In the Xi'an Incident, this goods was He Yingqin's hardcore follower, advocating the solution by force, when Song Meiling and Song Ziwen asked Liu Zhi not to send planes to bomb Xi'an on the way to Xi'an, but this person ignored it coaxingly, saying: "I listen to the people's government, you can't control it." And when the Xi'an Incident was resolved peacefully, Jiang and others flew back to Nanjing, he immediately changed his face, personally went to the airport to greet him, waved a small flag and shouted: "Long live Chairman Jiang, down with Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng" and other slogans.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Zhi's performance was really bad, at that time he was the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, but he was repeatedly defeated in the engagement, Baoding, Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Handan, and Anyang were all lost in the hands of this man, because of his ability to escape, he was given the nickname of "long-legged general".

If it is said that not being able to fight a war is a matter of ability, but Liu Zhi's discipline is also quite problematic. Although this guy has never smoked, drunk, or gambled all his life, he is very fond of making money. Since 1928, he has successively purchased a large number of real estate, land and salt fields in various places, and registered with the real name or pseudonym of his wife Yang Zhuangli. In 1939, after he was appointed commander of the Chongqing garrison and commander of the air defense, he tried every means to make money, and he used the troops of the garrison headquarters to replace the newly established troops and defraud them of double salaries. During the bombing of Chongqing in 1941, there was a stampede in the air-raid shelter, and thousands of people suffocated inside, and Liu Zhi's air defense headquarters was not only busy rescuing people, but was busy collecting money and property of the dead, and even strangled and searched those who did not die. After that, a considerable part of these ill-gotten gains were sent to Liu Zhi's home, and even caused a wealth dispute between Liu Zhi's wives.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Zhi did a very bad job as the director of the Zhengzhou Appeasement Office, and after the reorganization of the Third Division was completely annihilated, he was removed from his post and took his aunt and wife back to Shanghai to live idlely. In 1948, after He Yingqin became the Minister of National Defense, he immediately thought of this confidant and loved the general, reactivated Liu Zhi, and appointed him as the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou. At that time, even the Kuomintang was full of slander about this appointment, saying: "Xuzhou is the gateway to Nanjing, and a tiger general should be sent to guard it." If you don't send a tiger, you should also send a dog to guard the door, but now you send a pig, it seems that the gate will not be able to be guarded. ”

Because there were a lot of gossips, so much so that Song Meiling persuaded Jiang someone: "There is a lot of gossip outside, Liu Zhi may not be able to command the battle anymore, right?" But Jiang replied, he said: "Liu Zhi can't fight, but who among the generals do you say is more obedient than Liu Zhi?" ”

It can be seen that Jiang someone's way of employing people must first look at whether he is obedient or not, as for ability, it is not so important to him, even if he is a pig, as long as he can follow his baton, he can also be in a high position!

Later, for the defeat of the so-called Battle of Xu Beng, a considerable part of the responsibility had to be recorded on Liu Zhi's head. Because before the outbreak of the battle, according to Du Yuming's deployment, he was not ready to defend but was ready to attack in the direction of Jinan, so the main force of the scraping army was all arranged on the front line of the railway, but during the period, the situation in the northeast deteriorated sharply, and Du Yuming was caught by Jiang and went to the northeast to fight the fire (Du Yuming was the deputy commander-in-chief of Xuzhou at the time), so this stall had to be borne by Liu Zhi, but Liu Zhi knew that with his ability to command this kind of large corps to fight, it was to deliver food, so he was so anxious that he yelled: "Guangting is gone, how to be good." , who can call the shots in the north, it's really unexpected. ”

And Liu Zhi's solution is also very simple, that is, to stay put, so for 21 days in a row, the scraping army near Xuzhou squatted in place and waited, which directly gave General Su the opportunity to take the fire.

Not only was Jiang an inappropriate person at the level of commander-in-chief of the campaign, but also at the level of the commander of the corps who commanded the battle, Jiang also used a bunch of incompetent people. For example, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 16th Corps in the Battle of Xu Beng, is also a great wonder (his son is Qin Han).

This is a typical Huangpu Phase I and Zhejiang Department (born in Shaoxing, Sichuan), and belongs to Jiang's favorite type of student. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, this was the commander of the 88th Division of the Scraping Army, and his performance was not bad at the beginning, and Xie Jinyuan's department, which adhered to the Sixing Warehouse, belonged to the 88th Division. And Xie Jinyuan's glorious feat has also become Sun Yuanliang's capital, because of his meritorious service in sticking to the Sixing warehouse, he was promoted to the commander of the 72nd Army.

It stands to reason that at this time, General Sun should be inspired to serve the country more and more, but in the defense of Nanjing, he privately ordered a retreat, and was intercepted by Song Xilian's troops before returning to the battlefield. The Japanese army officially took advantage of the gap left by Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division to break through the Yuhuatai defense line and was able to directly attack Zhonghua Gate.

What was even worse after this was that General Sun abandoned his command before the fall of Nanjing, causing the collapse of his troops, but he himself fled into a brothel (also said to be a foreign embassy) to save his life. After fleeing to Taiwan, in 1985, General Sun issued a letter of protest to Japan, refuting the lies of the Japanese right-wing forces denying the Nanjing Massacre. And General Sun was also the last Whampoa student to pass away, although he had a big mouth in his later years and his memoirs were written in a mess, but he was also a witness to that period of history.

As for General Sun's performance in the "War of Rebellion," he really deserves his name -- General Fei. Please note that this flying general is not a good name, which means that when General Sun escaped, he was like flying, although he was not sure of success, he was determined to escape. When Song Xilian was ordered to be transferred to Xuzhou to take over Du Yuming's squad (Du Yuming went to the northeast to put out the fire), he heard that General Sun was also serving as the commander of the corps in Xuzhou, so he immediately made it clear that he would not go to Xuzhou, and said: "I know Sun Yuanliang very well, he is a person who regards himself as higher than anything else, and I can't work with him." ”

Song Xilian's evaluation is not wrong at all, and sure enough, at the most critical moment of the Battle of Xu Beng, this decisive Du Yuming broke through alone, but he was completely annihilated, but he personally escaped with makeup like a flying general and saved his life...... (To be continued.) )