Chapter 9 Chapter Nine Braveheart (1)

On June 15, Konoe convened an imperial meeting to conduct special research. What they are studying is still the old question that has caused them headaches and entanglement countless times: How far has China fallen, or which places have been captured before they can wave the white flag to surrender? Shanghai was denied, and Nanjing was also denied, and finally thought it was Xuzhou. From the Battle of Xuzhou to the Battle of Lanfeng, and then to the bursting of Huayuankou, the Japanese invaders killed and injured 32,000 people, about two divisions. Xuzhou was finally captured, but Chiang Kai-shek's army still showed no sign of being willing to give up. .

Obviously, neither is Xuzhou, so there is only Wuhan. The cabinet ministers believed that China was only such a big place, and if Wuhan and Guangzhou, especially Wuhan, could be occupied, Chiang Kai-shek would have to accept it. Konoe made a final decision, this time to concentrate all of Japan's national power, and strive to once and for all, completely resolve the "China Incident" within a year. So far, no one has forgotten the policy of localization and non-expansion. This hole is getting bigger and bigger, and it is difficult to fill it up. The Sino-Japanese war has officially evolved into an all-out war.

On June 28, the "Central China Dispatch Army" went up the river and broke through the Madang Fortress. Madang is known as the "Water Maginot". Since the fall of Nanjing, the Chinese Command has invested nearly 800 people in the construction. It took more than a year to build it. They thought it would be enough to resist for a while. Unexpectedly, it was announced that it was over in a few days. . Ma Dang is the barrier of Jiujiang. Once Ma Dang is lost, Jiujiang is in danger. "Defend the Great Wuhan" and "Defend the Great Wuhan", the slogans were shouted so loudly that no one would have thought that in just one month, people have already invaded under your nose.

Madang defenders blocked with heavy machine guns, but still failed to hold the fortress Chiang Kai-shek handed over the token of stationing Jiujiang to Zhang Fakui.The latter was the commander of the "Iron Army" back then, Xue Yue's old superior, and also participated in commanding the Battle of Songhu, so he should be the best candidate. Jiujiang can be regarded as a place where heroes gather. This place was called Jiangzhou in ancient times. It has both beautiful mountains and rivers and prosperous humanities. That's why Shi Naian arranged the important scene of "Liangshan Heroes Robbery Field" here.

That was the beginning of the prosperity of Liangshanbo. In my memory, the most impressive thing is that "Black Whirlwind" Li Kui was carrying two axes, "one axe, one at a time, and the leader will chop it off". Zhang Fakui also hacked people with an ax in Jiujiang, but he didn't chop "Jiangzhou soldiers and civilians", but Sun Chuanfang, who was beaten into a mess by him and retreated steadily.Two months later, Zhang Fakui was promoted from division commander to army commander due to his meritorious service in Wuhan, and achieved a glorious page in the "Iron Army" of the Northern Expedition.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Jiujiang is Zhang Fakui's blessed land. Fortune and misfortune come together, if it is your blessing, it must be someone else's disaster, such as the opponent who is about to play. rearrange the game Although Madang was successfully breached, the Japanese invading army suffered considerable losses. The navy was sunk and damaged nine warships, and was forced to send additional fleets. The Taiwan brigade responsible for the ground occupation had five hundred Many people were killed before the Madang Fortress, the lake was red, and the soldiers had to be replenished on the spot.

The first battle of Jiujiang was of great importance, and the Chinese army must go all out. Whether it can be successfully won or not, a group of heads and brains in the Japanese high command were beating their hearts. The Japanese attach great importance to summing up experience and lessons.In their view, the previous intelligence work on China was too much focused on people, that is, everyone was keen to grasp and analyze the movements of "Chinese warlords" and their mutual relations, such as "China hands" such as Doihara and Itagaki. Day and day, this is what I do tirelessly.

The work of drawing maps is also done, but it is mainly concentrated in the north. The "geographical survey work" in the south is relatively poor. Because of the failure to effectively grasp the geographical advantages when using troops, the two battles of Songhu were fought too hard, and they were not able to use lightning. The speed will knock the Chinese side to the ground. Is there such a person who is not only a well-known "China hand", but also familiar with southern geography, and has experience and qualifications in fighting?If such a person commands the Jiujiang and even Central China battlefields, future wars will not fall into the predicament of the past.Neiji Okamura is the most important member of "Glory's Sixteenth Issue"

According to this standard, the Japanese military department dialed and dialed, and finally found one. Neiji Okamura, graduated from the twenty-fifth batch of the mainland university, is the most important member of the "sixteenth batch of glory" after Itagaki, Doihara, and Isoya. Many Japanese generals participated in the Russo-Japanese War in the early days, and Okamura was no exception.In his first battle, as a squad leader, he commanded the team to exchange fire with the Russians in the forest. Because his vision was limited, he climbed up a tree to observe. At this time, one of his subordinates gave him advice.

This subordinate told him: You can't just be a hero in war, you have to use your brain. It is very dangerous for you to command from a high place. At that time, Okamura had no actual combat experience, and he was able to be his superior simply because he had just graduated from the military academy, and that subordinate was a war-torn veteran. Since then, Okamura has kept the words of his subordinates' warnings firmly in his heart, and used his brains and strategies as much as possible in every battle. This is why he was later called a Japanese military genius, and his military achievements far surpassed other Japanese soldiers. An important reason for generals.

However, the Japanese military did not expect Okamura to have such a hand at the beginning. They only knew that Okamura had been in the Jiujiang area more than ten years ago and had served as Sun Chuanfang's military adviser. Among the current Japanese generals, there is no second person with such skills curriculum vitae. In fact, Okamura and Zhang Fakui are old acquaintances.When Zhang Fakui swung his ax and slashed at Sun Chuanfang, the military adviser also ran away, not knowing where to hide. Suddenly seeing a warship of the Japanese Navy on the river, he hurried forward to call for help, but they refused to let him board. The reason is that Okamura was wearing a Beiyang military uniform. At that time, many people in Sun Chuanfang's army were students studying in Japan, and there were not a few who could speak a few words of Japanese. Boat. Okamura was so anxious that he didn't know what to do when he couldn't explain to Xiaobing. Fortunately, a naval officer stepped forward and asked him what happened before he put down the ladder to take him in. More than ten years have passed, and now the naval officer has become the fleet commander, and the "military adviser" he inadvertently rescued at the time is also terrible. Okamura was already the head of the Second Sendai Division of the Kwantung Army before. You could say that Okamura was Zhang Fakui's underdog, but that is neither complete nor accurate.During the civil war, the Beiyang Army could not defeat the Northern Expeditionary Army. Even if there were Japanese consultants nearby who could help draw blueprints and make plans, what good was it? The Japanese High Command believes that Okamura is very familiar with the human geography of Jiujiang and Central China. If the "Central China Dispatched Army" wants to successfully capture Wuhan, such generals are indispensable. Okamura was then transferred to the commander of the 11th Army, responsible for commanding the Central China battlefield. On July 19, he traveled back to Jiangxi from Nanjing on the flagship of the navy.Four days later, we arrived at the Hukou front line. Just this gesture is impressive.Because the mouth of the lake is at the forefront, the Chinese defenders are on the other side.Generally speaking, the supreme commander is rarely so close to the front line. Okamura's move shows a kind of self-confidence. History re-arranged a chess game for the former opponents, Zhang Fakui on the Jiujiang side, and Okamura Ningji on the Hukou side. Fighting in central China is no different than in the north. To a certain extent, it depends on the familiarity and understanding of the generals on both sides with the shape of mountains and rivers and geographical structure.In this regard, not to mention ordinary Japanese generals, even Zhang Fakui himself may not be able to compete with Okamura. Okamura's suffering was not for nothing. Not only did he memorize the scenery along the way, but he also stole a priceless treasure from Sun Chuanfang. This is a one-fifty-thousandth scale map of Central China, which was surveyed and drawn by Chinese Lu Shi students studying abroad who served Sun Chuanfang after returning to China.These students have studied land surveying in Japan, and their surveying and drawing methods are exactly the same as those in Japan, so the maps they draw are also different from the "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River Map" that has no military value. Throughout the Battle of Wuhan, most of the military maps used by the Japanese army were replicas of this map.As far as the situation at that time is concerned, no more detailed map can be found. Okamura was full of confidence in winning this game of chess, and this "Southern China Hand" even began to enjoy the scenery of Hukou leisurely. Carelessly lose Jiangzhou In fact, judging from the comparison of the number of troops between the two sides, the Japanese army does not have an advantage. After more than half a month of rest and replenishment, the Taiwan tour group has basically recovered.In addition to this, Okamura allocated an additional 106th Division from the 11th Army to participate in the battle. Since the start of the Battle of Songhu, Japan has established seven divisions, including the 13th Division and the 101st Division, in addition to the 17 standing divisions.However, with the expansion of the occupied area, garrison troops are needed everywhere. If Wuhan is to be occupied again, just adding these seven divisions will not be enough anyway. So it was expanded and reorganized, and ten more divisions emerged, and the total number of Japanese army reached thirty-four divisions at once. The 106th Division is a new division that was expanded to occupy Wuhan this time. You can tell from the designation. Its soldiers also come from the hometown of the 6th Division of Kumamoto.In Japan back then, all the people in southern Kyushu had almost the same virtue, and they were all capable of being brave and ruthless.Okamura may have taken a fancy to that evil spirit, so he listed this new division as a forward. Even so, throughout the Battle of Jiujiang, Okamura invested only one division and one brigade. On the other hand, the Chinese army assembled in Jiujiang had 100,000 people, and there were several troops in the military system. Okamura was able to watch the scenery so calmly, not only because he knew the terrain of Jiujiang well and planned every step beforehand, but also because he was calmer and more thoughtful than other Japanese generals. Some little things. Since he was appointed as the commander of the 11th Army, what worried Okamura the most was not his own combat effectiveness, but the morale of the opponent. He has never been able to understand why the Chinese army became more tenacious as they fought and failed repeatedly. When it came to the Battle of Taierzhuang, they refused to surrender even when they were surrounded. Chinese army fights to the end Interrogating the prisoners, a Chinese officer told him that on the battlefield, if you are captured alive, you will kill the prisoners, and if you retreat, the supervisory team will finish us, so you can only fight to the end. Of course, what the captured officer said was not entirely true, but Okamura seemed to have found the mystery. I see. Reminiscent of the fact that the main force of the Eleventh Army was all troops that had participated in the Nanjing Massacre, and that their image of "strict discipline" and "magic soldiers" had been turned upside down, Okamura realized that it was necessary to change his strategy of invading China. He played a new banner in the Eleventh Army, called "Discuss Jiang Aimin", and tried his best to dress himself up as a "benevolent teacher". According to the memories of his staff, once Okamura was sitting in a car and suddenly found and caught a Chinese soldier who had fallen behind.This is a young soldier who is only sixteen or seventeen years old. He fell out of the team after he injured his foot. Okamura immediately put on an amiable appearance, and after a brief questioning of the young soldier, he arranged for him to be a handyman at the headquarters of the 11th Army. This kind of occasional show is only once in a thousand years, and the "military discipline issue" in Okamura's eyes has never been fundamentally restrained in the grassroots troops.However, this incident at least reflects that this "China hand" commander has used psychological tactics, which is what distinguishes him from other Japanese generals. In contrast, Zhang Fakui was obviously insufficient in preparation.His feeling seems to be still in the period of the Northern Expedition, and he doesn't even know how many troops his opponent will put in. As for which places around Jiujiang are easy to attack and which places are difficult to defend, he is even more confused. 100,000 horses were distributed equally to him, and scattered along the banks of rivers and lakes.This seems to be foolproof on the surface, but in fact it is full of loopholes.The reason is very simple, to defend everywhere means to be unable to defend everywhere, without in-depth equipment, it will only be easily broken by others. The commander of the "Iron Army" is really too careless. Maybe more than ten years ago you could underestimate the "military adviser" in front of you, but if you look at people with this kind of eyes after more than ten years, you will suffer a lot, bro. On July 23, the Taiwan Brigade and the 106th Division landed in Jiujiang successively. After the hole was forcibly torn open, Zhang Fakui immediately panicked, because he did not deploy the second line of defense. As soon as the Japanese army landed, they could go straight to Jiujiang City. In the following time, Zhang Fakui mobilized four divisions in a row to fight back, but the two axes in his hand could not hit the vital point. Not only could he not immediately drive the Japanese army into the river, but he also blunted the blades himself. This is not the period of the Northern Expedition, and it is not enough to have the courage of a man. On July 25, two Japanese field troops formed a pincer-shaped encirclement of Jiujiang. Okamura's appearance is very scary, but it is somewhat bluffing. The commander of the "Iron Army" still has chess pieces that can be used, including military units that have not yet been activated. If it’s not possible, there is still Xue Yue’s First Corps in the south of Jiujiang. If you surround me, maybe I can surround you in reverse. In fact, Okamura was not completely worried about this battle. If Zhang Fakui was stronger, he would have to consider using more troops from the Eleventh Army. But Okamura's worries are unnecessary.Zhang Fakui, who was in an excessive panic, announced the withdrawal of troops across the board without timely requesting a report, and Jiujiang fell. On the way to retreat, all the troops were completely in disarray. The sequential retreat time and route designated by Zhang Fakui were in vain. Everyone pushed each other, and the degree of chaos was the same as before.If it weren't for the mountains and dense forests in northern Jiangxi, which is convenient for concealment, the Japanese planes that were almost chased would have made snacks. In just three days, Jiujiang, which is regarded as an important city on the river, has followed in the footsteps of Madang, which is really inconceivable. The rear of Wuhan was greatly shaken, and Zhang Fakui, the defeated general, was also terrified. He even wanted to go to Wuhan in person to "surrender himself" and accept court-martial. Zhang Fakui is not a student of Huangpu, he is the commander of the "Iron Army", the flagpole of the Cantonese Army, how can you punish him if you want?The so-called "surrender" was nothing more than an act of hypocrisy to give public opinion an explanation, so Chen Cheng immediately stepped forward to intercede for him, and Chiang Kai-shek followed suit and only dismissed a few division commanders who performed poorly. To be honest, Chiang Kai-shek could not have imagined that the Battle of Wuhan had such a bad start.But in this world, there are countless unexpected things, not just this one. For example, Okamura also had something unexpected. What he didn't expect was that the Sixth Division of Kumamoto, which was fighting north of the Yangtze River, was in a bad situation. Fight against the mountain Since participating in the Battle of Songhu and occupying Nanjing, the Kumamoto Division has been very arrogant, and it looks like it is seeing people and killing people, and seeing Buddhas and destroying Buddhas all day long. Among the 17 standing divisions in Japan, the Itagaki Division used to be the most popular. However, the Battle of Taierzhuang destroyed the Itagaki Division, and the Kumamoto Division rose to the top. At this time, the former head of the division, Gu Hisao, who was known as the "Killer Demon King", had been recalled to the country, and his replacement was Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro, who graduated from the same period of the mainland. According to Inaba's personal impression, almost all the officers and soldiers of this division are demons. They usually do a lot of evil and "illegal acts" emerge in endlessly, but they are also "incomparably heroic" in battle. Few other divisions can match it. There is no doubt that in the Eleventh Army, the Kumamoto Division is also the absolute boss.Okamura put it alone in Jiangbei, because he believed that the division could do the work of several people, and single-handedly invade Wuhan. However, this beast master group that killed people like hemp in Nanjing City is now struggling, and life is very sad.Because this group of beasts also encountered natural predators, it may be funny to say that it is just a small mosquito. The air in the south is humid, especially after entering the boundary of western Anhui and eastern Hubei, besides mountains and water, there are also rice fields. This environment and this season have become a paradise for mosquitoes. It's nothing more than being sucked by mosquitoes to get some blood. The terrible thing is that it can infect diseases, which is malaria, commonly known as "beating the pendulum".After a person has this kind of disease, it will be hot and cold for a while. When it is cold, it is useless to cover it with a few quilts. When it is hot, it can be so hot that you keep talking nonsense. The Kumamoto Division did not encounter any strong enemies in the early stage, but many were overwhelmed by off-site factors. More than 2,000 people have suffered from malaria successively, and all of them have reached the size of the regiment. That would be too fake. The Kumamoto Division is the first main force of the Eleventh Army, and Jiangbei's march is all aimed at it, so Okamura was very anxious when he heard about it. Knowing that this division was extremely arrogant, he prescribed the right medicine and sent a special instruction to the division commander Inaba, saying that in the future, the Kumamoto division would be responsible for attacking Hankou alone. Inaba was also worried, and after receiving the instruction, he showed the whole army. Overnight, the Kumamoto division seemed to be in Nanjing, and it felt like it could kill and set fire at will again, which was greatly encouraged and its morale was revived. In addition to "holding", Okamura also tailored the "Inchworm Warfare" specifically for the Kumamoto Division. Inchworms are disgusting bugs that look like bark and crawl on trees.Okamura allowed the Kumamoto Division to implement interval rest like this kind of bug, that is, to rest for ten days every week of battle, so that they will not be overly tired. There is no second division in the Eleventh Army to enjoy this kind of treatment, which belongs to special care. Jiangbei belongs to the defensive area of ​​the Fifth War Zone. Li Zongren was temporarily blinded in one eye due to a gunshot wound on his face. Lao Mengzi had to ask for leave to go to Wuhan for medical treatment, and his position was temporarily replaced by Bai Chongxi. Having experienced the painful lessons of the Battle of Songhu, "Little Zhuge" is now more and more conscientious. He knows that foreign wars are different from civil wars, and he can't blindly charge. Now they are even more fierce and fierce than you, and it won't work if you play this trick again. In the battle of Taierzhuang, if you didn't dispatch all the special forces from across the country, with only big knives and blood, would you be able to defeat the devil's cannons and tanks? So you have to use your brain and use your energy. In Taierzhuang, Bai Chongxi found heavy artillery and anti-war artillery. In Jiangbei, he took a fancy to another secret weapon. Unlike the anti-war artillery, this weapon does not require investment or cost, but it is absolutely environmentally friendly and absolutely worth the money. Its name is Dabie Mountain. Relying on the Dabie Mountains, Bai Chongxi deployed all of Li Pinxian's corps to the mountain to flank the passing Kumamoto division. Too "sneaky", but really smart. Inaba didn't know this situation yet, and was overjoyed when he first started on the road, because the road was empty, with neither people nor fortifications, giving the impression that the defenders had already fled. But then the trouble came, the gunshots continued on the side of the road, and you were not allowed to leave Ansheng at all.When he raised his head to find out where he was, the shooter disappeared into the mountain without a trace. After finally reaching the destination, the vanguard had just set up camp, and a nightmare began. Guangxi Guijun dares to fight with "Japan's First Division" contest On the evening of July 26, Li Pinxian's corps suddenly swooped down from the Dabie Mountains and launched a fierce counterattack.This is the Battle of Taihu Lake.It should be pointed out that the Taihu Lake here is not the well-known lake in Jiangsu, but a county in Anhui. The Li Pinxian Corps is dominated by the Gui Army.The latter are known as Guangxi monkeys. Fighting in the Dabie Mountains is as familiar as the Hundred Thousand Mountains in Guangxi. They jumped around and competed with the Japanese army for every mountain and every village. The originally emerald green mountain forests became scorched yellow after burning, and the villages where the two sides saw each other repeatedly had collapsed houses and bullet holes. The Gui army not only fought fiercely, but also fought at a high frequency. They fought for three days and three nights, and launched nearly 300 large and small counterattacks, an average of 100 times a day. No time. The Kumamoto Division was beaten up and screamed, and when the follow-up troops caught up, the Li Pinxian Corps had already withdrawn from the battlefield and went into the deep mountains again. The person is gone, but he is still staring at you not far away, ready to scratch you back at any time. Make up for it Although Yishan fought beautifully, they could only attack from the side after all. To stop the Kumamoto Division from advancing to Wuhan, they had to rely on frontal blocking. In late July, the Kumamoto Division crossed the province, entered Hubei from Anhui, and arrived in Huangmei County in eastern Hubei. The Kumamoto Division set off from Hefei, and they only traveled a thousand miles on foot within two months, which is extremely slow in normal times.But you have to see what kind of road they are walking. The sky is either scorching sun or heavy rain, and the ground is either muddy or jungle. There is nothing more exhausting than this kind of outdoor training. Walking alone is not enough, you have to fight, the opponents in front are still not strong, and it is easy to settle, and then the difficulty continues to increase. Just after getting rid of Li Pinxian's strong attack in Taihu Lake, he ran into Liu Ruming again in Huangmei. After the "July 7th Incident", there were two "sinners" in the 29th Army, except Zhang Zizhong and Liu Ruming. Liu Ruming joined the Huaibei Corps in the latter part of the Xuzhou Battle.He also fought very hard, but he was unlucky. When he came on the field, it was just when the fifth theater was at a low ebb as a whole. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stop the group charge of Japanese tanks alone. During the Xuzhou retreat, people only knew Zhang Zizhong. In fact, Liu Ruming also sacrificed his life as a cover. At that time, Xiao County was attacked by Jinze Ninth Division. It was a pillar in the corridor for the army to retreat. If it fell down, the consequences would be serious. Bai Chongxi hurriedly asked Zhang Zizhong and Liu Ruming to go to the rescue. Relying on the hard work of two former "sinners", the Chief of the Fifth War Zone and the follow-up troops were able to safely pass through Xiao County. But what made Liu Ruming angry was that after Zhang Zizhong was basically cleared of the crime of traitor, he himself failed to get rid of the crime. Until the beginning of the battle in Wuhan, the shadow of "traitor" was still around. Originally, the nature of Liu Ruming's mistakes and the punishment he received were much lighter than Zhang Zizhong's, but in a blink of an eye, he became the bottom one, and it would be uncomfortable for anyone else. Chen Cheng once specially sent someone to serve in Liu Ruming's 68th Army.It stands to reason that Liu Ruming belongs to the Fifth War Zone, and Chen Cheng is the commander-in-chief of the Ninth War Zone. The two sides have nothing to do with each other. Even if they send people, they don't need Chen Cheng's faction. It should be Li Zongren or Bai Chongxi's faction.Where is the mystery, you will know it when you see the following. Among the people sent by Chen Cheng, apart from a combat staff officer, there is also a military command radio team! When sending the staff officer off, Chen Cheng clearly told the other party: The main task of your trip is not only to help Liu Ruming fight, but also to "establish political connections." The staff immediately understood that this was to let him monitor Liu Ruming, and immediately report to the military radio station if there was any abnormal situation. After all, Chen Cheng was still afraid that Liu Ruming would be a traitor.Because in addition to serving as the commander-in-chief of the Ninth War Zone, Chen Cheng also serves as the commander of the Wuhan Garrison and has the responsibility of coordinating the overall situation. If Liu Ruming really follows the devils and fights back, it may affect the stability of the entire defense line. I can't eat and walk around. Liu Ruming didn't stay in a daze, he soon discovered the intention and couldn't help being greatly stimulated. Dare to love Zhangjiakou, the matter is not over yet! Because the new staff officer and Liu Ruming are actually old acquaintances, so after he took office, Liu Ruming complained in front of the other party, saying that it was right that I lost Zhangjiakou, but it cannot be said that I was a traitor without firing a single shot. Let me tell you, I lost a division commander, two brigade commanders, a regiment commander, and seven battalion commanders in Zhangjiakou. None of these people committed suicide. They couldn’t possibly injure themselves, right? However, Liu Ruming failed in the war of resistance and lost Zhangjiakou. This was justified at the time, and the punishment order was clearly written.He also knew that blindly emphasizing the number of casualties would not convince people, and few people paid attention to the joke in the later period of the Xuzhou battle, so he had to dig out the past credit book from the drawer. He walked with the combat staff officer, who laughed when he saw a division commander limping and looking funny. Liu Ruming immediately told the truth: You must not make fun of him, even though he is limping, but he was disabled in hand-to-hand combat with devils during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War. He pointed to another division commander, did you see that, he was also injured during the Great Wall War, but the injury was minor, you couldn't see it. Next, Liu Ruming almost didn’t point at himself—I was also a hero of the Great Wall’s War of Resistance. In the Battle of Luowenyu, I led these people to kill devils with big knives. Don’t you all remember? The battle of Luowenyu was the glory of Liu Ruming's life Liu Ruming might feel aggrieved. My mistakes were not as serious as those of Zhang Zizhong. I also worked hard in the Xuzhou battle, and I also made great achievements in the Great Wall War. Why do you still put the traitor hat on my head? Talking is useless, it depends on performance. The idiot calmed down and thought, yes, my situation is a little different from Zhang Zizhong's, and we have to solve it one by one. First of all, people around you are easy to be targeted. The father-in-law of Liu Ruming's second son used to be his adviser, but after the start of the all-out war of resistance, the old man voted for the Japanese and became a puppet army. This will inevitably make people suspect: such a close relationship, don’t let your in-laws be responsible for being a "bright traitor", and you stay to be a "dark traitor", and then cooperate with us internally and externally, right? Liu Ruming's response was terrific. He not only divorced his second son and broke up with the traitor in-law, but also sent both sons to the battlefield to shoot Japanese planes with anti-aircraft machine guns. Not to mention, he later sent his eldest son to the United States as an army commander, not for gold plating, but to learn flying skills. Among the three major services of the sea, land and air, the air force has always been recognized as the most dangerous service, especially the Chinese Air Force, which basically never returns.Therefore, among the senior Kuomintang generals at that time, there were many who were willing to send their children to join the army, but very few sent them to study in the Air Force.Liu Ruming is a special case. The eldest son served at Kunming Airport after returning from his studies, and finally died in the line of duty.This incident made He Yingqin, Minister of the Military and Political Department who had no personal relationship with Liu Ruming, very moved. But even if this step is achieved, there are still people pointing at the back.