Chapter 20 Chapter 19 Hu Zongnan went to Dachen Island to fight guerrillas under the pseudonym Qin Dongchang, under the guise of "Chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Government"

Hu Zongnan used the pseudonym Qin Dongchang, went to Dachen Island to fight guerrillas, and pretended to be the chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Government in name only. (Taipei Dacheng Island, after September 1952) Around the Spring Festival in 1950, Chiang Kai-shek shouted "Political Taipei, Military Xichang" for a while, wanting to use Xichang as the last base on the mainland, so that it would be convenient for a comeback in the future and a military counter-offensive.In addition to sending planes to Hu Zongnan to airlift supplementary weapons and equipment to Xichang, Jiang Jingguo was also specially appointed to fly from Taiwan to Xichang to cheer up his subordinates.

Xichang still fell in late March. Hu Zongnan, acting as the acting chief of the Xichang Military Commissioner's Office, flew back to Taipei via Hainan Island on April 4.The constant loss of cities and land made this first-level general with the title of "Northwest King" uneasy. After finishing his business in Taipei, Hu Zongnan also bid farewell to his family and went to Hualien seaside to rent a house to live and recuperate. Open up political troubles. However, Li Mengbiao and others from the Supervisory Yuan pulled together a group of supervisory committee members, saying that Hu Zongnan was ineffective in fighting, and proposed impeachment.After the impeachment case was learned by major newspapers, the full text will be published.The Executive Yuan sent the case to the Ministry of Defense for review.Of course, Hu Zongnan couldn't rest at the Hualien seaside, so he had to rush back to Taipei, live at home, and thank you for visiting behind closed doors.Fortunately, there were still quite a few people who spoke for him, which made the case a "non-prosecution sanction" result and let it go.

Hu Zongnan is free at home, but his heart is not free. When the Korean War broke out in late June 1950, the United States sent troops to the Taiwan Strait under the pretext of bringing Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Taiwan back to life.Since the U.S. Seventh Fleet and Thirteenth Air Force defend the Taiwan Strait, which is more than 100 kilometers wide, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army cannot cross the sea to attack Taiwan like it did to capture Hainan Island. , The main corps originally deployed in Zhejiang to cross the sea to attack Taiwan has also been transferred to the northeast due to war needs.The People's Liberation Army on the southeast coast went on the defensive.

At the same time, the Kuomintang regime in Taiwan was assisted by the US military for defense, and received a large amount of military and economic assistance from the United States again. The precarious situation when it first escaped from the mainland was changed.While taking a series of political and economic measures to stabilize the situation in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek carried out a long-term harassment campaign against the mainland.Chiang Kai-shek mobilized on the island of Taiwan with the slogan "one year of preparation, another year of counterattack, three years of mopping up, and five years of success".The Taiwan authorities are also continuously training and sending personnel to airdrop or sneak across to the mainland, and airdrop weapons and supplies to the bandits who are active in the mainland, in an attempt to form an internal and external attack on the coastal People's Liberation Army troops.Chiang Kai-shek also set up a "work committee behind enemy lines" and a "mainland guerrilla headquarters" to be specifically responsible for harassment and infiltration activities to the mainland.In the south of the strait, relying mainly on Kinmen and Matsu as bases, they will land and infiltrate into Fujian and Guangdong;

Hu Zongnan couldn't stay at home in Taipei, and he had no soldiers to lead. When he was on the mainland, he relied heavily on the Northwest to support 500,000 troops. , Dai Tao and others were in Hong Kong, searching for Hu personnel who escaped from the mainland, arranging transportation, and delaying them to Taiwan.When Chiang Kai-shek needed someone to come out and command "fighting guerrillas" to the mainland, he offered to take on the task of "establishing an advancing force and strengthening guerrilla operations on the mainland." On May 30, 1951, Hu Zongnan wrote to the Premier of the Executive Yuan Chen Cheng: "Please use the 30,000 volunteers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong and other provinces as the basis to set up three field campaigns. Columns, the necessary military combat technology, and the skills required for the implementation of guerrillas ... go deep into the borders of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu provinces to establish bases."

Chen Cheng received Hu Zongnan's letter and knew that he couldn't stay idle.As early as in the mainland, Chen Cheng and Hu Zongnan were both Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand men, but they had conflicts with each other.Hu Zongnan is the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and is the No. 1 "Student of the Son of Heaven" in Tianyu of the Whampoa Department, while Chen Cheng is the chief general of the non-Whampoa Department.Now that Chen Cheng is in power, while Hu Zongnan is at home and has gone through a storm of impeachment, he is no longer the same as Chen Cheng.When Hu Zongnan was still in Xichang, Chen Cheng and his wife visited Hu Zongnan's family members.Hu Zongnan spent half his life in the military until he was fifty-two years old before getting married. His wife was Ye Xiadi, a female doctor who had returned from studying in the United States.Chen Cheng saw with his own eyes that Ye Xiadi lived with three young children in two simple wooden houses, not like a general's mansion, but like a commoner's house; The one-story house was lent to Hu's family.

Chen Cheng, who was good at handling things, showed Hu Zongnan's report to Chiang Kai-shek.Originally, Chiang Kai-shek thought that a large number of senior generals who had retreated from the mainland were squeezed into a small island of Taiwan at once. How could there be so many officials to be appointed?How can there be so many soldiers to bring?This is a very difficult question; but Chiang Kai-shek still has a preference for Hu Zongnan, his former favorite.Chiang Kai-shek said to Chen Cheng: "Zongnan and I have been loyal for so many years. We can't just blame him for losing Xichang. He himself proposed to fight guerrillas, regardless of his status. I think he can be sent to Dachen. Go to the island and take care of the front line in Zhejiang. It would be good if he led the old department to organize a few more advance troops there."

Therefore, on a certain night in August of that year, Chen Cheng personally visited Hu Zongnan's residence in Pucheng Street, and was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to solicit his opinion on taking command of the coastal guerrillas.In addition to talking to Chen Cheng about the plans and assumptions of guerrilla warfare, Hu Zongnan only mentioned that he used a pseudonym to work and kept it secret.Chen Cheng readily agreed. On September 9, under the alias of "Qin Dongchang", Hu Zongnan, as the commander-in-chief of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Anti-Communist National Salvation Army and the chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Government, led several subordinates selected by him to take up his post on Dachen Island by boat.

After the news was revealed, people in the news circle felt that the positions of the chairman of Zhejiang Province and the commander-in-chief of the guerrilla were not low. Sensitive reporters searched the "Military History of the National Army" and could not find the qualifications and background of this "General Qin Dongchang".The more you can't find it, the more attractive you are, and the more you need to get to the bottom of it.The reporter wanted to visit the island, but was declined by the general.A certain reporter simply wrote an article "Mysterious General Qin Dongchang" in an attempt to catch wind and shadows.

In fact, Hu Zongnan is indeed a bit mysterious among the Kuomintang generals, and he is regarded as a "eccentricity".It is said that he never wanted to meet reporters and disliked interviews and taking pictures.Once a reporter from a certain newspaper secretly took photos in a public place, and he immediately sent an adjutant to the reporter to discuss spending money to buy the film.He also said that he never had a birthday, and his staff who had followed him for twenty or thirty years did not know when his birthday was. Even when he got married at the age of fifty-two in 1947, he notified a few acquaintances to have dinner, and they mistakenly thought it was his birthday.At the age of fifty, he was still a single general and caused many anecdotes. It was said that he had hidden diseases and was a hermaphrodite.During the Anti-Japanese War, there was a wild history of marriage that was widely spread throughout the country, but it has not been confirmed whether it is true or not.He said that during the Anti-Japanese War, he was forty years old, in his prime, and a proud general. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to betroth the second Miss Kong to him, so he asked Soong Meiling to act as a matchmaker.At that time, Ms. Kong Er was a famous figure in Chongqing, she was unusual, and she drove around Shancheng Street with revealing clothes in the west, which was very eye-catching.Hu Zongnan had heard about her virtues for a long time, so when Mrs. Jiang mentioned this matter, he didn't say he agreed, but it was hard to say no.Soong Meiling simply forced the introduction and forced her to travel with her.Unexpectedly, General Hu drove an open-top jeep, and it drove so fast that the lady in the car was shaken backwards and forwards, her back was sore and her bones ached.The car ran out of gasoline before reaching Nanquan Hot Spring.Abandoning the car and walking, the general trudged against the scorching sun, holding the lady on his arm.The young lady wore high heels and was limping. She couldn't walk anymore, so she stopped at a roadside restaurant.When Hu Zongnan ordered and served the table, the young lady felt disgusted when she saw the flies.Hu Zongnan praised the delicacy: "We were lucky to have this delicacy when we were marching. Miss, don't miss it." Afterwards, Miss Kong Er cried in front of Soong Meiling, and the marriage fell through.

After Hu Zongnan came to Dachen, he established the "Jiangsu-Zhejiang Anti-Communist Guerrilla Headquarters" in Shangdachen, and the "Zhejiang Provincial Government" in Xiadachen.The Zhejiang Provincial Government of the Taiwan authorities does not have any decent territory. It is just an organization with a false name to call for counterattack.Most of the committee members of the provincial government live scattered in Taipei and receive their names from afar.Hu Zongnan brought three Ministry of National Defense officer combat regiments from Taiwan as the basic force.The members of the combat regiment are the remaining officers of the Kuomintang Army after they retreated to Taiwan for reorganization. He selected some backbones from them and assigned them to train the guerrillas.In May of the same year, after the U.S. military advisory group arrived in Taiwan, it sent a representative of Felson to provide equipment and assist in training.Most of the members it trains are Taiwanese escapees and pirates who were attacked by the Communist Party during the mainland's land reform and anti-hegemony. Soon after Hu Zongnan took office, he continued to dispatch these trained advance teams, using equipment and equipment suitable for Rangers and spy activities provided by the United States, to enter the interior by means of small group landings, and to combine with local bandits to carry out guerrilla operations.Hu Zongnan trained an advance team with a total number of about 7,000 people in Dachen Island.Hu Zongnan took office in Dachen Island for two years, and sent guerrilla troops to attack the coast of the mainland hundreds of times. When large-scale attacks occurred, Hu Zongnan personally commanded the attack and retreat by boat. Hu Zongnan led his troops to launch continuous guerrilla attacks on the coast of the mainland, but the number of successes was not many.There have also been several successes, which have damaged the small number of local PLA garrisons and local government.The most serious one was the attack on Nanri Island after the "Double Ten Day" in 1952.Hu Zongnan's guerrillas cooperated with the KMT regular army dispatched from Kinmen Island, approaching tens of thousands of people, and stormed Nanri Island under the cover of planes and ships. The PLA garrison on the island consisted of only one company, and most of them died after the outnumbered fierce battle. A small number were captured and sent to Kaohsiung.The regime on the island was also destroyed.In the evening of the same day, without knowing the situation, the mainland hastily dispatched more than 1,000 reinforcements. When they arrived, they landed on the island and charged bravely, killing and injuring hundreds of Kuomintang troops.When the Fujian Military Region re-deployed troops to prepare for a counterattack, on the night of the 13th, all the Kuomintang troops who had landed on the island had withdrawn.In this attack on Nanri Island, the People's Liberation Army lost 1,300 troops.Of course Hu Zongnan couldn't help but be overjoyed. Under the harassment of the Kuomintang army, the People's Liberation Army strengthened its defenses along the coast and organized a military-civilian joint defense to return the color and punishment to the Kuomintang army.In 1953, the People's Liberation Army resumed shelling Kinmen and other islands at the beginning of the year, and in late May launched a battle to seize the islands outside the mouth of Wenzhou Bay.On May 29th, the 60th Division of the 20th Army, which had just returned from the Korean battlefield, launched an attack on the four islands of Yangyu, Jiguan Mountain, and Da and Xiaolu Mountains with the cooperation of the Wentai patrol boat brigade. Annihilated 230 Kuomintang troops guarding the island, and captured He Zhuoquan, commander of Hu Zongnan's column of generals.In Dalushan, a spy lair was also eradicated, eight radio stations were seized, and a group of secret agents who were about to sneak into the inland were captured.After He Zhuoquan hid in the cave and cut off the food, his guards took advantage of the night to steal cold food from the kitchen of the troops on the island and were caught, and they confessed to He Zhuoquan before he was captured. After the four islands of Yangyu, Jiguanshan and Dashan and Xiaolushan were captured by the People's Liberation Army, Hu Zongnan was severely reprimanded by Chiang Kai-shek.Hu Zongnan also felt that after the defeats in Chengdu and Xichang on the mainland, he even lost again and again in the guerrilla fight on Dachen Island, which was too embarrassing.He telegraphed Chiang Kai-shek's determination to take back the four islands including Yangyu and make atonement. On the evening of June 19, Hu Zongnan personally led the first, fourth, and fifth field brigades and officer battle groups on the destroyer "Yang", plus a total of more than 1,600 people in the maritime assault brigade. The ship counterattacked.Under the cover of nine naval vessels, more than 800 people from the 1st and 5th Field Battalions landed on Yangyu, and the remaining 800 people landed on Xiaolushan. The People's Liberation Army guarding Yangyu and Xiaolushan each had only one platoon of troops. Under the circumstances of the disparity between the enemy and ourselves, they killed and wounded a large number of enemies behind the beach, and were forced to retreat to the artillery position in the northeast corner of the island to wait for reinforcements.Xiaolushan's troops also withdrew to Dalushan, standing still and waiting for help, in a critical situation. On the night of the 20th, reinforcements from the mainland arrived.After fierce fighting, the ships of the Kuomintang army and the landing troops left a large number of corpses and fled away.Hu Zongnan's troops were wiped out by 700 people. Although he himself boarded the ship to supervise the battle, he still ended in failure. On the 24th, the People's Liberation Army made a surprise attack on Jigushan Island outside the west entrance of Dachen Port and occupied it, thus putting Dachen Sea within the range of the PLA's land cannons, and the situation on Dachen Island became even more tense.Hu Zongnan and the personnel stationed by the US military had disagreements over the defense deployment of Dachen Island.The Kuomintang authorities felt that Hu Zongnan's original guerrilla military and political system was no longer suitable for the situation in the Dachen area, so they decided to transfer Hu Zongnan back to Taiwan in order to gain the consent of the United States to send reorganized army units equipped with new American equipment to garrison Dachen.Lieutenant General Liu Lianyi, who had just returned from the U.S. Army Staff University, was appointed to replace Hu Zongnan as the commander of the newly established Dachen Defense Area.Hu Zongnan made an impromptu welcome speech at the buffet banquet for the handover and resignation: "Da Chen has gone through a period of hardships and hardships, and will soon enter a new stage and create a new situation, so there is a need for new people to take on the role." The "King of the Northwest", who once dominated the mainland, has now revealed his inner bitterness and emotion in his words. After Hu Zongnan returned to Taiwan, he was suspended for another two years before starting in September 1955, and served as the commander of the Penghu defense for four years.Has been serving Chiang Kai-shek's military counterattack to the mainland.On February 14, 1962, died of a heart attack in Taipei.