Chapter 193 8. The captured generals competed with Commander Nie to set up fellow villagers

As soon as the gunfire at Qingfengdian stopped, the two armies on the entire battlefield seemed to understand something.Everything was irreversible, and the enemy on the northern front withdrew hastily. A large number of captives were detained in several villages, crowding large and small courtyards, but there was no sign of Luo Lirong, the commander of the 3rd Army. It turned out that when Luo Lirong saw that the defeat was decided, he changed into a set of worn-out military uniforms and took more than 300 remnants with him in an attempt to break out of the encirclement to the south, but was wiped out by our 8th Brigade; The brigade wiped out part of it, and the rest were captured.

Luo Lirong was among the long line of captives, but he had already dressed up as a fireman with bandages on his head, blood on his face, and he didn't lift his head.At this time, Xu Decao, the commander of the 8th Independent Brigade, happened to come. When Xu Decao was negotiating the truce between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the first half of 1946, he served as our representative in the Shijiazhuang Executive Team of the Military Mediation Executive Department, and dealt with Luo Lirong.Xu Decao recognized the "fire man" at a glance. "Isn't this Commander Luo?"

"Ah, Representative Xu! An old acquaintance." Luo Lirong nodded embarrassingly. Together with the lieutenant general, Yang Guangyu, the deputy commander, and Li Yongzhang, the commander of the 7th Division, were also captured. The smoke cleared.Luo Ruiqing and Xiao Ke, the first political commissars of the Field Army, accompanied Commander Nie Rongzhen to the frontline headquarters of the Qingfengdian campaign in Beizhu Village.This is a beautiful turnaround battle fought by our army in Jinchaji in North China.After expressing his cordial condolences to the soldiers of the Field Army, Commander Nie also met successively with Luo Lirong, Commander of the 3rd Army, Yang Guangyu, Deputy Commander, Wu Tiezheng, Deputy Chief of Staff, Li Yongzhang, Commander of the 7th Division, and Ke Minsheng, Commander of the 19th Regiment.It is very interesting that Luo Lirong and his subordinates are all vying to establish a relationship with Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Jinchaji Military Region, as teachers, students, and fellow villagers.

Luo Lirong and Yang Guangyu are both students of Whampoa Phase II. When they saw Nie Rongzhen, they said "Teacher Nie".Yang Guangyu was even more explicit, and said: "Mr. Nie, I am from Qu County, Sichuan. Teacher Nie is from Jiangjin, right?!" Wu Tiezheng is a graduate of the third batch of Whampoa, and he has also listened to the class taught by Nie Rongzhen. When he saw Nie Rongzhen, he was extremely ashamed and looked ashamed.It turned out that Wu Tiezheng was a member of the Communist Party when he was in Huangpu. After the "Zhongshan Ship Incident", he defected to the enemy and rebelled.

When Ke Minsheng saw Nie Rongzhen, he said repeatedly: "Commander Nie, I am also from Jiangjin, and I am your real fellow! Commander Nie..." Nie Rongzhen gave a "hmm" and said to them: "Chiang Kai-shek forced us to fight this war. It is meaningless for you to sacrifice your life for Chiang Kai-shek. The battle of Qingfengdian is over, and the war of liberation is not over yet. Are you willing to fight?" If you stay, we will provide opportunities to learn; if you want to go home, we can let you go back. However, whether you stay or go home, you should recognize the sins of the past and start a new life.”

When Ke Minsheng heard this, he quickly said, "Commander Nie, I want to go back to Shijiazhuang, my family is still in Shijiazhuang!" Nie Rongzhen glanced at him, nodded, and agreed to his request.After Ke Minsheng returned to Shijiazhuang, he did a lot of work to disintegrate the enemy army.Luo Lirong told Nie Rongzhen, Yang Chengwu and others about the deployment of the Kuomintang army in Shijiazhuang. The information he provided was of great value to our army in liberating Shijiazhuang.A few years later, Luo Lirong was pardoned and served as a member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.Yang Chengwu once visited him specially.