The name Yu Chengwan is known to everyone in Changde, he is not a local, but he once saved the entire people of Changde, and his heroic deeds are still circulated in the local area.
After the two armies reached an agreement on the issue of anti-Japanese resistance, they jointly confronted the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield.
At that time, Changde was a very important strategic place, and Lao Jiang sent Yu Chengwan to lead an army to garrison this place.
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The reputation of the Nationalist army in the civilian population has not been very good, after all, there are too many officers in the nationalist army, the discipline of the troops is loose, the soldiers are lawless, and they do not care about the lives of the people at all.
And Yu Chengwan's troops are simply a clear stream, the troops he manages are strictly disciplined, and all his subordinates strictly abide by military law.
We will never do anything that hurts the interests of the people.
When the Japanese attacked Changde, they sent two divisions, 68 and 116, respectively, while the army stationed around Changde was only Cheng wan's 57th Division.
Originally, the establishment of the Japanese army was not the same as that of our army, the strength of a division of the Japanese army was close to 20,000, and even if our army was fully formed, there were only about 10,000 people, so in the defense of Changde, the strength of Yu Chengwan's troops and the enemy troops was too large
Common sense, being able to stick to it for a few days is already the best ending.
After Yu Chengwan arrived in Changde, the first thing he did was not to deploy defenses, but to evacuate the people in the city. Before the battle of defense began, he knew that the city would be destroyed, but he still came without hesitation, and the first thing he did was to evacuate the people.
As soon as they heard the news that the Japanese army was coming, the people in the city panicked and immediately packed their bags to escape.
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But there are nearly hundreds of thousands of people in the city, and there is a river on the only way to escape, and there are not enough boats in the area to allow all the people to cross the river.
In order to smoothly transfer all the people, Yu Chengwan ordered all his subordinates to build ships first, and explicitly forbade any soldier to collect the people's belongings.
Once he found a soldier who had collected two dollars from the people and shot the soldier on the spot.
Although this method of law enforcement is somewhat cruel, it greatly guarantees the safety and interests of the people, and the river crossing plan is carried out very smoothly.
After all the people had evacuated, he led his men to hold out in Changde City for twelve days until the last bullet was fired. When Old Chiang sent Yu Chengwan over, he was given the task of holding Changde, so Yu Chengwan thought that Old Chiang would send support troops as soon as possible, after all, his troops alone would definitely not be able to defend Changde.
However, after twelve days of bloody fighting, he did not even see the shadow of the reinforcements.
The troops were almost completely annihilated, and there was no point in defending any longer, and Yu Chengwan finally broke out with a few remnants.
But he also did not give Up Changde to the enemy, and after the breakthrough was successful, he quickly returned with reinforcements and recaptured Changde in a very short time.
After Changde was successfully recaptured, the county magistrate personally led the people of the county to toast Yu Chengwan and thank him for protecting the people of the city. The atmosphere at the banquet was very harmonious, and everyone hoped that Yu Chengwan could feel their gratitude.
Soon, however, a group of uninvited guests appeared, and they broke up and took Yu Chengwan away and shot him.
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This group of people was sent by Lao Jiang, and he charged Yu Chengwan with escaping from the battlefield. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were not a few Kuomintang generals who escaped from the battlefield, and many of them abandoned the city and fled before the battle even began to fight in order to preserve their troops.
However, Yu Chengwan's situation was obviously different, and he held out until the last moment when the disparity in strength between the enemy and our armies was extremely large, until he ran out of ammunition and food, and he also quickly recovered Changde City.
His behavior is definitely not an escape from the battlefield.
If the general of our army had defended the city for twelve days and fought fiercely with the enemy to the last moment, he would certainly have been rewarded as a hero, but Chiang Kai-shek was so cold to the meritorious ministers that he was even prepared to put Yu Chengwan to death, which was really chilling.
In order to save Yu Chengwan's life, the people of Changde jointly signed a letter together.
Chiang Kai-shek was asked to release General Yu Chengwan, and in the end, the old Chiang Kai-shek was forced by the pressure of public opinion to release Yu Chengwan.
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek himself knew that Yu Chengwan had tried his best, but he had boasted about Haikou in front of Churchill before, saying that Changde would not lose his defense, but in the end the Nationalist army did not hold, and he felt that he had lost face, so he must kill Yu Chengwan.
It can be seen from this incident that Chiang Kai-shek was a narrow-minded man who did not know the slightest sympathy for his subordinates, and it is no wonder that he lost everyone's hearts and minds in his later period.
The end of General Yu Chengwan is also quite tragic, after the defeat of the Nationalist army, Yu Chengwan and his family live in seclusion in Hong Kong, because of the early years of proper management, Although Yu Chengwan is no longer in the army, but very rich, but was targeted by robbers, the police in the fierce battle with the robbers, Yu Chengwan was used as a shield, and finally swept to death by machine guns.
Poor generation of fierce generals, once fought with the Japanese in the trenches, failed to die on the battlefield, but eventually died at the hands of kidnappers, after Yu Chengwan's death, the family's money was divided by various forces, Yu Chengwan's daughter Yu Sally had to play the Wind Moon Film in order to live, although slightly famous, but never able to get rid of the role of the Wind Moon Film.
It is really regrettable that this well-bred miss Qianjin, because of a change, ended up in such a situation.