Among the three major battles in the Liberation War, the Pingjin Battle seems to be the least popular, but behind this seemingly calm is a more treacherous fighting method. In order to ensure the absolute confidentiality of the information before the uprising, Fu Zuoyi even kept his old brother Chen Changjie in the dark, so that Chen Changjie was captured after the liberation of Tianjin and hated Fu Zuoyi for a long time. Chen Changjie believed that it was because of Fu Zuoyi's betrayal that he was defeated and captured. It wasn't until Fu Zuoyi expressed his bitterness after liberation that the two released their suspicions.
Fierce generals of the Anti-Japanese War
In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the period of the All-People War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and after the 77 Incident in Beiping, the situation in the entire North China region was quite dangerous. At this time, Chen Changjie was under the leadership of the Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan, leading the 72nd Division to garrison Shanxi.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937 was at the beginning, when the local warlords in China were in internal melee for a long time, and their understanding of the combat effectiveness of the troops was only limited to the domestic level, so they were caught off guard when they encountered the Japanese army, which was strong and well-armed. Facts have proven that the green forest-style combat methods of the past have seriously departed from the modern battlefield. This is also why later Northern Expedition generals such as Zhang Fakui had no ability to fight back when facing the Japanese, and times have changed.
At that time, many generals with troops in Shanxi were already sitting in the well and watching the sky, and their thoughts were still stuck in the previous era of cold weapons, which is why the old warlords Northeast Army and Northwest Army were so unbearable in the face of the Japanese army at the beginning.
At the same time, the vicissitudes of the sea showed the true character of heroes, and Chen Changjie became the main pillar in a group of defeated generals. In the Battle of Pingxingguan, Chen Changjie led the 61st Army, which was reorganized from the 72nd Division under his command, to face the Japanese ace force Itagaki Division.
Chen Changjie led the troops to start a brutal tug-of-war with the Japanese, and the Japanese army did not expect that the army in front of them could be so tenacious. Chen Changjie led his troops to confront the Itagaki Division for 23 days, forcing the Itagaki Division to use frequent methods, and all advanced weapons such as flamethrowers and gasoline bombs were poured on Chen Changjie's position. However, Chen Changjie on the opposite side used the tunnel to defend himself, and he was as immobile as a mountain.
In the end, under Chen Changjie's defense, the Japanese army not only did not break through the defense line but was counter-surrounded, and the Chinese army won a complete victory. This battle also made Chen Changjie completely famous in the land of the Three Jin Dynasty.
Unstoppable Tianjin
Chen Changjie and Fu Zuoyi were classmates, and Chen Changjie was able to show his ability under Yan Xishan back then, which can be traced back to Fu Zuoyi's strong recommendation back then, so the relationship between the two is irreversible.
It is precisely because of this that Fu Zuoyi will hand over the important task of guarding Tianjin to Chen Changjie. Fu Zuoyi knew Chen Changjie's ability, even if the general trend of Tianjin City could not be defended, as long as Chen Changjie was there, he could strive for more negotiation advantages for him. And Chen Changjie also said with confidence that he was in Tianjin City, and Fu Zuoyi could rest assured.
Chen Changjie is not an incompetent person, nor is he a person who is arrogant, he has confidence in his troops and Tianjin City. However, what Chen Changjie didn't expect was that he was facing the Northeast Field Army, which wiped out a group of Kuomintang elites in the northeast. In the face of Chen Changjie's self-proclaimed impregnable city of Tianjin, the Northeast Field Army concentrated 5 corps with a total of 22 divisions, including a total of 340,000 special forces, 538 heavy artillery pieces and 30 tanks.
In the face of such a powerful Northeast Field Army, Chen Changjie, who once said that he could hold out for three months, only lasted 29 hours. is still the same sentence, the times have changed, and Chen Changjie is no longer facing the Eighth Route Army with millet and rifles, but the Northeast Field Army, which is about to liberate the whole country.
Love and hate
For a soldier, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and he is convinced that he was finally captured by the People's Liberation Army, but what makes him feel unbearable is his old friend Fu Zuoyi, the old commander.
When Tianjin was besieged, Chen Changjie once asked Fu Zuoyi for help, but Fu Zuoyi told him that if he persisted for two days, there would be a turnaround. However, to everyone's surprise, Chen Changjie did not hold out for two days, Fu Zuoyi saw death and did not save him, which made Chen Changjie unhappy, and when he knew that he was captured and he Fu Zuoyi turned out to be the general of the uprising, he completely broke the defense. The role of co-authoring himself is to be made by him Fu Zuoyi as the cost of negotiation.
Faced with what happened to his old brother, Fu Zuoyi couldn't help it. In March 1956, at the enlarged Standing Committee of the Second National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Fu Zuoyi made two speeches and said: "I beg for these people, ask for leniency, and let them out. ”
And Fu Zuoyi explained and apologized to Chen Changjie through the staff of Gongdelin. Chen Changjie finally understood Fu Zuoyi's situation back then, and forgave his old friend for his final choice.