There was a person with a very strong level of military guidance in the Kuomintang army, and this person was Fu Zuoyi, who led the army, which was one of the few troops in the Kuomintang army that had the ability to fight at night, and he was deeply valued by Chiang Kai-shek, but it was such a prominent figure in the Nationalist army who declared an uprising in 1949 and betrayed Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, when Fu Zuoyi announced the uprising, there were four military commanders in the team who were very supportive, but two of them resolutely disagreed with Fu Zuoyi's liberation of Peiping, and these two people were Liu Wen and Shi Jue. In fact, the opposition of the two to Fu Zuoyi was already expected from the beginning, because on the one hand, the two were very loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, and on the other hand, they opposed the ideas of the Communist Party.
I. The Reasons for Fu Zuoyi's Uprising
The reason for Fu Zuoyi's determination to revolt should also be mentioned in the Pingjin Campaign, which should be known to be known that at that time, in order to complete the great task of liberation as soon as possible, our party launched three major campaigns of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin in succession, and later after the victory of the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign, the forces of the Nationalist army had gradually withdrawn from the original northeast region to the area south of the Yangtze River.
At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist army was Fu Zuoyi, and although he was the commander-in-chief, the actual military power was not in his hands, because although the army he was carrying was powerful, it was not Chiang Kai-shek's concubine army after all, so he did not hand over this real power to him.
In addition, the situation in North China at this time was very unfavorable to him, and the road in front of Fu Zuoyi at that time was actually only an uprising, because he knew that once he retreated, then the Communist forces that had successively moved south would inevitably succeed in capturing the Pingjin area.
And if you stick to it, you will inevitably become a victim in this battle, and in the face of such internal and external troubles, Fu Zuoyi cannot but make plans for himself, and it just so happens that at this time two people from our party came to talk peace with Fu Zuoyi.
These two people were no one else, one was Fu Zuoyi's eldest daughter Fu Dongju, and the other was Li Tengjiu. In fact, since the beginning of the war, Fu Zuoyi had not seen his daughter for a long time, and he would never have thought that her daughter was negotiating with him as a Communist Party member this time, but the negotiation process had not been smooth.
During the negotiations, Fu Zuoyi always reminded his daughter not to be deceived by others, and in such an atmosphere, the negotiations were difficult to continue. But after his daughter left, Fu Zuoyi seriously thought about this problem.
After Fu Dongju failed, I began to look for the next person to talk about peace, at which time Li Bingquan said that he could go to his cousin Li Tengjiu, who had been working with Fu Zuoyi for a long time and had a deep friendship, so our party entrusted this task to Li Bingquan.
So Li Bingquan went to Li Tengjiu to talk about this matter, and Li Tengjiu, who heard about this matter, immediately agreed, and then rushed to fu Zuoyi to talk about peace, but on the question of whether to revolt, every time he talked to Fu Zuoyi, he could not get a positive response.
In fact, Fu Zuoyi also knew in his heart that there was actually only one road in front of him. But he realized that it was useless and that he had to be supported by someone in the army, so he gathered the soldiers to discuss the matter before he officially declared the uprising.
Second, personally send away Liu Shi and the two people
Fu Zuoyi personally analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the uprising in this discussion, and after the soldiers listened, many of them realized that the situation they were currently facing seemed to be the only way to go, but among these soldiers, there were also opponents, these two people were Liu Wen and Shi Jue, both of whom swore loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek.
Fu Zuoyi's opposition to these two people had actually been anticipated, so he said to all the soldiers present, if you agree with my uprising, you will continue to sit here, and those who do not agree can get up and leave, and I will personally send you away.
So Fu Zuoyi personally sent Liu Wen and Shi Jue to the plane to leave. Before leaving, Liu Wen also wrote an article about breaking with Fu Zuoyi, and after returning to Chiang Kai-shek, he found an opportunity to send it out.
When sending the two away, Fu Zuoyi also agreed to let them bring some weapons and equipment back. After sending them away, Fu Zuoyi breathed a sigh of relief and thought that he had finally sent the two people away, so he issued a statement of uprising shortly after sending the two away.
Third, the endings of the two are very different
Although Liu Wen and Shi Jue were sent to The Palace of Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing together, their fates were very different. When Chiang Kai-shek saw Liu Wen returning with a weapon, he was very emotional, because he did not expect that Liu Wen would be loyal to himself to this point, so he appointed him as the commander of the Fifth Corps of the Kuomintang army and continued to fight against our army.
However, we must know that the situation between the two armies at that time had undergone earth-shaking changes, and the military strength of our army had absolutely surpassed that of the national army. Later, Liu Wen's several battles with our army ended in failure, and Liu Wen had no choice but to flee to the southwest, begging for help from his former superior, Hu Zongnan.
However, when Liu Wen arrived in the southwest, his old boss Hu Zongnan had already left the southwest by plane, and Liu Wen did not expect this to be the case, so Liu Wen had no choice but to continue to garrison the southwest region by himself.
Shi Jue, on the other hand, was not only a general in Chiang Kai-shek's concubine army, but also achieved impressive results in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on the mainland, so Shi Jue was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Songhu Defense Command.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fu Zuoyi participated in the founding ceremony as an important leader of the mainland, and was later appointed as the minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, and several non-commissioned officers who resolutely followed Fu Zuoyi at the time of Fu Zuoyi's uprising also received preferential treatment from our party, and were all awarded military ranks at the award ceremony in 1955.
summary
As a soldier, only courage is not enough, but also the ability to keep pace with the times and judge the situation. The wheel of history is moving forward, and if anyone wants to reverse the wheel of history, there is only one result, that is, failure, so is Chiang Kai-shek, so is the army he leads, and his defeat is actually a historical inevitability.
Fu Zuoyi, who was in the midst of internal and external troubles, judged the situation and objectively analyzed the situation at that time, understood that only by taking the communist road could he succeed, and realized that the socialist road proposed by the communist party was the road that was truly suitable for the mainland, so after the uprising, together with our party, he smoothly liberated Peiping and completed the last mile of the liberation of the mainland.