The Seventy-fourth Army is to the Kuomintang army, just like our Thirty-eighth Army and thirty-ninth Army, which are undisputed aces. The commanders of the Seventy-fourth Army, such as Wang Yaowu, and the commander of the reorganized division, such as Zhang Lingfu, were all well-known generals of the Nationalist Army.
However, this time also, the other time also. When Zhang Lingfu was buried in Meng Lianggu, the glory of the Seventy-fourth Army would become the yellow flower of tomorrow, and it would no longer be a trump card. Of the aces of the Kuomintang, the Seventy-fourth Army should have been the first to fade.
True to the old saying, the louder you cry, the faster you die. However, the number of the Seventy-fourth Army did not disappear with the death of Zhang Lingfu, in fact, it was not until after the Battle of the Crossing River that the Kuomintang fled to Fujian, and the Seventy-fourth Army made another appearance.
(Lau Guan Ying)
The military commander at that time was named Lao Guanying.
The last military commander, like the last emperor, wrote the word sad from head to toe. Lao Guanying is a native of Hepu, Guangxi, and graduated from Huangpu Phase V. If you talk about battle merits, Lao Guanying also has some, he is an old man of the Seventy-fourth Army, and he has participated in vicious battles such as the Great Victory of Wanjialing.
However, the reason why Lao Guanying made his fortune was still based on the support of a nobleman. Speaking of this person, it is really unusual, he is Chiang Kai-shek's great internal manager, a guard with a knife, Yu Jishi.
Yu Jishi was also the first commander of the Seventy-fourth Army, and was definitely a big red man in front of Chiang Kai-shek. In fact, without Yu Jishi, it is unknown whether the Seventy-fourth Army would have become an ace. So, how did Lao Guanying climb up to the big nobleman of Yu Jishi?
(Yu Jishi)
It turned out that after graduating from Whampoa, Lao Guanying entered the Kuomintang guard army. The guard army was the forbidden body of Yu Jishi, And Lao Guanying had academic qualifications and a little ability, and gradually promoted, naturally entering the eyes of Yu Jishi's law, so he also became Yu Jishi's concubine.
When Wang Yaowu succeeded Yu Ji as the commander of the Seventy-fourth Army, Lao Guanying, who had lost his patron, could not serve in the Seventy-fourth Army. This is called one glory and one loss. During the Liberation War, Lao Guanying became the chief of the Changchun Railway Police bureau on the recommendation of Yu Jishi.
Everyone knows that this is a good job. The Kuomintang is known to the whole world for its corruption, and the most corrupt is probably a unit like the police station, which is simply a place to hide dirt and grime. After more than two years of nourishment and lubrication in this post, the northeast was liberated, and Lao Guanying was faced with the problem of choosing a career.
Not afraid, and Yu Jishi. At the recommendation of Yu Jishi, Lao Guanying became the last commander of the Seventy-fourth Army, subordinate to Li Yannian's Sixth Corps, and was ordered to die in Fuzhou. Can Lau Guanying hold on? Of course I can't hold on.
(Li Yannian)
After the liberation of Fuzhou, the British commander of Lao Guan and his corps commander Li Yannian both ran to Taiwan, and the defeated generals all faced trial. Li Yannian was sentenced to ten years in prison — only one year in prison before he came out, and Lao Guanying may still have the help of nobles and was acquitted.
Although he is free, but there is no job, lao Guanying, who has no income, faces the most primitive survival problems. People always have to eat. What to do? Lao Guanying also couldn't care about the dignity of the military commander at that time, and actually went to the sea to open a grocery store.
Is it a shame for the commander of the army to open a grocery store? There is nothing to be ashamed of, the military commander opened a shop, and he was not the only one. Sun Lianzhong, a famous anti-Japanese general, also opened a small restaurant in Taiwan with Pang Bingxun.