Chapter 24 Section 11 Sun Liren was relieved of the military power of the New 1st Army

Du Yuming's old hatred and new grievances welled up in his heart After capturing Siping, Du Yuming wanted to go north to Changchun and Yongji (now Jilin City) in one go to achieve greater results.According to the deployment of troops for the attack on Siping, with Liao Yaoxiang and Chen Mingren as the left and right wings, and Sun Liren as the central pursuit force, he marched northward in a fan shape along the Zhongchang Railway, trying to seize the area south of the Songhua River.Du said to Sun and Liao: "Whoever invades Changchun first will be rewarded with 1 million (Northeast circulation coupons)!"

After Du Yuming issued the telegram, he rushed to the Quantou command post by special train, and supervised and led all the ministries to speed up the march.At that time, the deputy commander Zheng Dongguo arrived before him, and Du Gang took his seat. Zheng said to him: "The Chen and Liao departments have followed the order and marched forward, but the Sun department has not yet set off. We only ordered the 50th Division to pursue Gongzhuling and Changchun. I don't know. Why, did you talk to him?" Zheng is well aware of the entanglement between Du and Sun, so when it comes to matters between the two of them, he speaks as tactfully as possible.

As early as the first Burmese campaign, Du Yuming was quite convincing as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Commander-in-Chief of the First Route of the Expeditionary Force, but Sun Liren, who was born in the US Military Academy, was very impressed with this commander who was born in the first phase of Whampoa. look down.When the expeditionary force failed, Du Yuming asked him to withdraw to the country with the 5th Army, but Sun Liren, who had a distinctive personality, followed the British army to the west and retreated to India. People's pursuit! This made Du Yuming lose face a lot, and his teeth itch with hatred!

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Sun Liren was first invited by Eisenhower, and then favored by the British royal family. He was so beautiful and defiant. What did the generals of the Whampoa think? Now, the military order has been promulgated, and only Sun Liren stands still, Du Yuming can't help but have old hatred and new resentment in his heart. Soon, he and Zheng Dongguo turned back to Siping Street, parked at Shuangmiaozi Station, and asked Sun to meet them. After Sun Liren came, Du Yuming asked, "The order has been issued, why haven't you acted yet?" Sun Liren said as if he was prepared: "The troops have been fighting for too long and are exhausted. They need to be repaired before they can move forward."

Du Yuming's anger went straight to the top of his head: The new 1st army is tired, but the other troops are not tired?But he held back.He only said: "You only let the 50th Division attack. If the Changchun Communist bandits counterattack, the 50th Division will suffer a loss, not only the loss of the New 1st Army, but also the reputation of the party-state!" Sun Liren still had the tough temper, and refused to give an inch: "I still can't lead the team north! Now there are a large number of enemies in Lishu. If we go north, the enemy will cut off the back road, which is too dangerous!"

Du Yuming raised his voice and said: "Information from all sources indicates that there are not many enemies near Lishu!" Sun Liren insisted: "How can you say that there is no enemy in Lishu? If the enemy of Lishu is not eliminated, if the rear is intercepted, who will be responsible?" Du Yuming changed his elegant demeanor, pointed at Sun Liren and said, "Did you see the order? Originally, the New 1st Army was ordered to wipe out the enemies in the Lishu area, but it has not been dispatched yet. If something goes wrong, who should be responsible?" ?!" Sun Liren did not show any weakness either, with his hands on his hips, looking awe-inspiring and inviolable.

Zheng Dongguo, who was standing aside, quickly persuaded them, but they still couldn't stop their anger. In the end, Du Gan simply ordered: "The New 1st Army will advance according to the order, otherwise Changchun will not be able to attack, and you will be responsible; you will send a regiment to Lishu, and I will be responsible for any problems." Although Sun returned to the army in dismay, he just refused to carry out Du's order! Afterwards, Zheng Dongguo learned that the reason why Sun Liren resisted Du Yuming's order so much was because Du put Changchun under the name of the New Army when he divided the combat area for capturing Changchun. Sun believed that this was Du Yuming secretly favoring the Huangpu faction! (Liao Yaoxiang belongs to the Whampoa Department) "The attack on Siping was a tough battle, and the New 1st Army went up, but the recapture of Changchun was handed over to the New Army. What kind of reason is this!" Sun Liren was indignant.

The matter is not over yet. On May 22, Chiang Kai-shek saw that the Kuomintang army had successfully attacked Changchun, so he came to Shenyang to congratulate Du Yuming and others. At this time, Pan Shuodan's 184th Division, which guarded Anshan, Haicheng, Dashiqiao, Yingkou and other places, was attacked by the democratic coalition forces, and frequently called Du Yuming for emergency. So Du Yuming concentrated dozens of trains in Siping and ordered the New 1st Army (owed to the 50th) Division) concentrated in Liaoyang before May 26 to quickly break the siege of Anshan and Haicheng.

After the order was issued, Du Yuming was afraid that Sun Liren would not obey his order, so he asked Chiang to ask Sun Liren to obey the order when he met Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek replied: "Okay, the New 1st Army must hurry to relieve the siege of the 184th Division." The next day, when Chiang Kai-shek summoned Du Yuming, he suddenly said: "I have allowed Sun Liren to rest for 3 days, and ordered the 184th Division to stand by for help." Du stuck out his tongue and was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time: The situation is so urgent, you want Sun to rest for 3 days?Is the old man confused?

Du then reminded Jiang: "In this way, there will be troubles in Anshan and Haicheng, and Shenyang will also be in danger." But Chiang Kai-shek said with confidence: "It doesn't matter, I think the 184th Division can hold it." Du silently retreated. In a few days, Pan Shuodan, who was sticking to the isolated city, announced an uprising in Haicheng. On the Northeast battlefield, Jiang Jun had since opened up a precedent for an organized division-level unit to defect, and there was an uproar in the Kuomintang.Du Yuming put this account on Sun Liren's head again.

On June 7, 1946, Jiang Jun proposed a half-month truce. The Democratic Alliance Army urgently needed to be supplemented and rectified due to long-term combat, and to gain time to establish a base, so the two sides ceased fighting.Due to many battles in the pass, the Jiang army in the Northeast failed to receive follow-up reinforcements, and the truce period was repeatedly extended until mid-October, when the Northeast battlefield experienced a rare truce for more than four months. In October 1946, after several months of rest, Jiang Jun concentrated 8 divisions with about 100,000 troops to attack the liberated areas of South Manchuria. Du Yuming threatened: "Solve the democratic coalition forces in three months, and solve the Northeast issue within half a year." Chiang Kai-shek's strategy is "first south, then north, south attack and north defense", while the democratic coalition forces are tit-for-tat, giving him a "north attack south protection", "south attack north pull" or "north attack south pull" so that he can't fight from the beginning to the end. Looking after each other, he went to the south of the Yangtze River three times and the Linjiang River four times, wiped out more than 40,000 enemies, and recovered 11 towns, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to switch from offense to defense in the northeast, thus reversing the entire war situation in the northeast.The common people in the Northeast vividly called the tactics of the Democratic Alliance Army "sifting beans", and compiled a doggerel "Sieving Beans": The Kuomintang, with few troops, The north and the south are full, running back and forth. Beiman hit him on the head, Nanman hit him on the waist. Let him run back and forth a few times, A basket of beans has been sieved. Sieve the beans, everyone, Let's sift the reactionaries several times. Nanman wiped out several of his divisions, North Manchuria wiped out several of his regiments, Mobile forces are screened out, Use the basket to fight the annihilation battle again! Du Yuming wanted to punish Tang Shouzhi, but Sun Liren immediately replied provocatively: "The 88th Regiment is my headquarters, and I should be responsible for the ineffectiveness of the battle. I am willing to accept the commander's punishment!" The time sequence turns to January 1947. On the 5th of that month, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army's North Manchurian Army concentrated 12 divisions, braved the severe cold of minus 40 degrees, crossed the Songhua River, and started at Jiutai in the east and Fulongquan in the west. On the front of more than 100 kilometers, they actively attacked Sun Liren's troops. At that time, the 50th Division of the New 1st Army was stationed in Nong'an, Dehui, and Kaoshantun areas. In view of the characteristics of the New 1st Army's strong combat effectiveness and fast reinforcements, the North Manchurian army adopted the tactics of long-distance raids and besieged cities to fight for reinforcements, and wiped out the New 1st Army. There are nearly 2 regiments and 2 security regiments, with a total of about 5,000 people. Soldiers from the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army also compiled a song called "We must fight the New 1st Army" and sang: To cut down a tree is to cut down its roots, In the war, we must fight the new 1st army. soldier against soldier will be against will, Turned hero, How can there be soldiers who can't beat them? I love to eat cabbage heart, To fight a new army ... Sun Li stared blankly with anger. On February 21, the North Manchurian troops went to the south of the Yangtze River again, and once regained Jiutai and Nong'an. On March 7th, the North Manchurian troops went to the south of the Yangtze River three times. In the first battle of Dehui, the 88th Division of the 71st Army was wiped out. The division commander Han Zengdong was killed in battle, and Du Yuming was almost captured.During the battle, the 71st Army was besieged on all sides, and the New 1st Army was under pressure. In order to call out Zeng Zesheng's 60th Army stationed at the Yongji and Xiaofengman Hydropower Stations, Du Yuming ordered that the 120,000-kilowatt power of the power stations be artificially short-circuited to melt the ice from Fengman to Wula Street. , resulting in the defense of the power station and Yongji's natural danger to the north, the 60th Army was drawn out, and it went north to rescue the New 1st Army and 71st Army that were besieged in Jiutai and Nong'an. After the North Manchurian troops retreated to the north bank of the Songhua River, Chen Mingren, the commander of the 71st Army, finally became fully dissatisfied with Sun Liren. In the battle of "three trips to the south of the Yangtze River", Chen Mingren abandoned Nong'an and lost an 88th division. Chen Mingren ignored his own faults, and instead shifted the responsibility to Sun Liren at the review meeting of the Changchun Campaign, and sued Sun Liren to his schoolmate Du Yuming People are "willing to die rather than save". Du Yuming never took his eyes off Sun Liren. Seeing that there was another braid to be caught this time, he immediately said that he would severely punish Tang Shouzhi, the commander of the new 30th Division, who was "incompetent in command and ineffective in combat", and wanted to make him an example to others.In fact, when Chen Mingren was trapped in Nong'an, Sun Liren had only Tang Shouzhi's New 30th Division stationed in Changchun at his disposal, and when the 88th Regiment of the New 30th Division set off, Chen Mingren had already lost Nong'an, so when he heard Du Yuming wanted to punish Tang Shouzhi, but Sun Liren immediately replied provocatively: "The 88th Regiment is my headquarters, and I should be responsible for the ineffectiveness of the battle. I am willing to accept the commander's punishment!" Du Yuming and Chen Mingren were choked for a long time and had nothing to say. Sun Liren is a celebrity in the eyes of Americans. Chiang Kai-shek is in need of American aid to fight the civil war at this time. Although he, Du Yuming, is full of resentment towards Sun, he can only hold back temporarily and wait for the opportunity. Two months later, the 90th regiment of the New 1st Army was wiped out in Huaide, and its commander Xiang Dianyuan was killed; in mid-to-late June, the Northeast Democratic Alliance launched another Siping battle, and more than 30,000 people from the 71st Army and the local security team were wiped out .Faced with a series of defeats, Du Yuming, in the name of reviewing the campaign and strengthening command, promoted Sun Liren to be the deputy commander of the Northeast Security. Sun Liren's real power was taken away. Chen Cheng poured his full of grievances on Sun Liren: "Deputy Commander Sun, how did you fight? You see your brother troops in danger, how can you do nothing?" Sun Liren was finally "invited" out of the Northeast In the face of the summer offensive of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, Du Yuming lost troops and land, and had to leave the Northeast in July 1947 due to discord with the main generals. At the beginning of August, Chen Cheng, the chief of staff who had suffered a defeat in North China, replaced Xiong Shihui as the director of the Northeast Xingyuan, and began to monopolize the power of the Northeast party, government and army. When Chen Chengfu arrived, he started the so-called "iron fist" military campaign. First of all, he abolished the Northeast Security Commander's Department, put the power of combat command under the direct control of Xingyuan, and replaced a group of military and political leaders with his own cronies: the position of Shenyang Defense Commander-in-Chief fell to him during his studies at Baoding Military Academy. In the hands of his classmate Chu Xichun, he also gave the throne of governor of Liaoning Province to his old subordinate Liu Xiang. Chen Mingren, commander of the 71st Army, Liang Kai, commander of the 52nd Army, and Liu Yuzhang, deputy commander, were all withdrawn.In addition, he ordered all the armies to use the autumn and winter seasons to expand and train their troops, and transferred Zhou Fucheng's 53rd Army and Wang Tiehan's 49th Army from the pass to enrich the Northeast military forces.In order to prepare for a long-term battle, he also purchased 230 billion French currency of grain from several major cities in the pass and shipped it to the Northeast. After getting a little idea, Chen Cheng was full of ambition, and with the "four spirits" of hard work, hard work, hard work, and quick work, he demanded his subordinates with the "three nos" of not being ashamed, not perfunctory, and not being greedy for petty gain. Sleeve fight. On New Year's Day in 1948, he announced in the "Report to the Northeast Army and People": "The danger of the national army has passed, and the preparations for the decisive battle have been completed." Just after the new year in 1948, the Northeast was still a vast expanse of snow. Chen Cheng, in a hurry, mobilized 200,000 people from the 49th Army, the 71st Army, the New 1st Army, the New 6th Army, the New 3rd Army, and the New 5th Army. The Shenyang, Xinmin, and Tieling lines fanned forward along the confluence of the Liaohe River and the Liuhe River in order to seek a decisive battle with the main force of the People's Liberation Army (the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was renamed the Northeast People's Liberation Army on New Year's Day in 1948). The New 5th Army was recently expanded from a division drawn from the 53rd Army. It had the weakest combat effectiveness and was organized by Chen Cheng on the left wing. The New 1st Army had the strongest attack power and was placed in the middle by Chen Cheng, while the other armies were placed by him. on the right wing.Chen Cheng asked Sun Liren to coordinate the actions of the various armies as the deputy commander and directly command the New 1st Army (Pan Yukun stayed in Shenyang due to illness). Chen Cheng's intention is obvious. The new 1st Army is arranged in the middle, which is to give full play to its advantages of mechanized transshipment and support from left to right.But the weather is not good. The winter of this year has been raining and snowing, and it is very cold. Most of the officers and soldiers of the New Army from the south were frozen. Numb feet and stiff feet, many people can't even hold their guns steady, let alone charge and fight, while the soldiers of the Northeast People's Liberation Army who are accustomed to running on sleds in the ice and snow can walk like flying and are flexible in offense and defense. This is what Chen Cheng and Sun Liren predicted unexpected. On January 2, the New 5th Army arrived at Gongzhutun.The Northeast People's Liberation Army took aim at the enemy's weakness along the way, and on January 5th mobilized the forces of the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 7th columns to surround and attack its various strongholds. The lightning, galloping vertically and horizontally, smashed the 5th Army's defense line to pieces.On January 7, the People's Liberation Army launched a general offensive, and more than 13,000 members of the New Fifth Army were wiped out. Army commander Chen Linda, division commander Xie Daizheng, and Liu Tianguang were captured, and Chen Cheng's "decisive battle plan" was shattered. When the New 5th Army was besieged, the New 1st Army wanted to help, but it was freezing cold, and many officers and soldiers were frostbitten. In addition, most of the cars and tanks were stuck in the snow and could not move. 4. The 10th Column's blockade from all sides made the New 1st Army become a mud bodhisattva crossing the river-it was hard to protect itself, so until the New 5th Army was wiped out, the New 1st Army, which was only 10 miles away, could only watch helplessly Looking at the direction of Princess Tun, she was killed white and blood red, and disappeared in smoke! Chen Cheng was so angry that his lips trembled, and he poured his full of resentment on Sun Liren: "Deputy Commander Sun, how did you fight? You see your brother troops in danger, how can you do nothing to save them?" On the phone, Chen Cheng He reprimanded sharply. In the middle of winter, he was desperately working on the front line, but in the end he was scolded by Chen Cheng in this way. Sun Liren, who always said what he had to say and fart as much as he wanted, was of course not to be outdone: "Director Chen, you are sitting in Shenyang City and don't know what's going on. Go to the front line and take a look." , ask, and see how I fight!" Chen Cheng is a celebrity in front of Chiang Kai-shek, who doesn't lower his eyebrows when he sees him?How had he ever met a subordinate who dared to contradict him?He has heard of Sun Liren's temperament after eating foreign bread, but he has never seen it. He has learned it today, but how can he, Chen Cheng, let Sun Liren be so ignorant? ! "Deputy Commander Sun, you avoid the battle to protect yourself and sit idly by. I want military law to deal with you!" Chen Cheng yelled on the phone. "All right!" Sun Liren hung up the phone with a snap. Sitting in the command room with the brazier on, Sun Li's anger still persisted.He stared at the snowflakes outside the window obsessively, and his mood was disturbed. The past two years in the Northeast were like snowflakes floating in the air, turning over in his mind one by one: the defeat of Changtu, the difficulty of Siping, and the difficulty of Changchun. , To this day's shame, why is the New First Army invincible and invincible on the India-Myanmar battlefield, but defeated again and again on the Northeast battlefield?Is the new 1st army dead?Why do these Whampoa-type and quasi-Whampoa-type people always pull my Sun's braids and make things difficult for my Sun?Is it someone from my grandson? Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling a little regretful, regretting coming to the Northeast, to the battlefield of the civil war. "Alas—" Sun Liren stood up and said to himself, "Let God do what he wants!" He pulled off the military overcoat on his body, lifted the cotton curtain on the door, and stepped into the sloppy snowflakes. Three days later, Chiang Kai-shek came to Shenyang to review the military.It is said that Chiang Kai-shek originally planned to punish Sun Liren. Later, when discussing the punishment, Chen Cheng did not know the purpose, but took the initiative to say: "The main responsibility for the failure lies with me. Please appoint me to investigate." Of course Chiang Kai-shek would not investigate Chen Cheng, but he knew that Sun Liren had already been at odds with the generals in the Northeast, and if he was left to continue working in the Northeast, there might be something bigger going on.Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of the opportunity to bring Sun Liren back from the Northeast battlefield, and let him serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of the army and the commander of the army training department as a show of punishment.Who knows, this is actually a kind of relief for Sun Liren.At the end of the year, the Army Training Department moved to Taiwan. Sun Liren transferred hundreds of his cronies from the Tax Police Headquarters and the Burma war period from the New 1st Army to train recruits on that isolated island. The main force for defending Taiwan also became a capital for Sun Liren to later become the commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Army. It is worth mentioning that Sun Liren was implicated in the so-called "mutiny" launched by his subordinate Guo Tingliang in 1955, and was imprisoned at home. He was not free until 1988, and died of illness in Taichung two years later.The mourning hall is filled with thousands of elegiac couplets, the most notable of which are the couplets of the elder and younger wives Zhang Jingying and Zhang Meiying. The two call themselves Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, and Yu Sun Liren is Zhou Gongjin. Zhang Jingying's elegiac couplet is: Don't set a long career for private words and body, It should not be a long time to say goodbye to my old age. Today I will rank eighth. Zhang Meiying's elegiac couplet is: Thousands of words are written into love books. It is very difficult to compare Gongjin and Jin, so that the monarch and his ministers are of the same flesh and blood. Forty years of dependence on Penghai Tebi Xiaoqiao Youxing Lian husband and son-in-law is a hero.