1936101on October 22nd, Zheng Dongguo was promoted to young general.
/kloc-0 was promoted to lieutenant general on February 20, 945.
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Eight years old, sent to a private school.
10 years old, he was sent to a new primary school in the countryside by his father. In less than a year, he was sent back to a private school because of the quality of teaching.
/kloc-entered the primary school attached to shimen middle school at the age of 0/6.
/kloc-entered shimen middle school to study at the age of 0/6.
17 years old, graduated from high school and admitted to business school.
At the age of 23, he passed the exam in the name of others, became the first student of Huangpu Military Academy, and joined the Kuomintang.
1903 was born in Yuexi Village, Shangxi, Moshi City, Shimen County, Hunan Province, and is a wealthy peasant family. I grew up in a private school and entered shimen middle school at the age of 17. During my school days, I was admitted to Wujiang School of Xiang Army, which was closed for some reason, and returned to Shimen to complete my middle school studies. After graduation, I worked as a primary school teacher in my hometown for half a year and was admitted to Hunan University of Commerce. 1924 passed the exam in the name of others, became the first student of Huangpu Military Academy, and joined the Kuomintang. In June 5438+10 of the same year, he participated in the rebellion in Guangzhou to suppress reactionary commercial groups and served as a guard of the military government of Guangdong Province. 1 1 In June, Huangpu Phase I students graduated ahead of schedule and were appointed as representatives of Company 4, Battalion 2 of the Teaching Corps.
1February, 925, marching eastward with the school army. The following year, he became the first battalion commander of the eighth regiment of the third division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army. 1July, 926, joined the East Route Army and participated in the Northern Expedition. In the battle with Yongding, he led a battalion of officers and men to attack. He is flexible in command and brave in combat. After only half a day of fierce fighting, it broke through the city with the support of the follow-up troops. He beat Zhou Yinren, the governor of Fujian, and ran away. Lian Zhou's coat was also taken away. Since then, the main force of the East Route Army has turned around and invaded. In Meixian, another main force of Zhou Yinren was surrounded. Zheng Dongguo No.1 Battalion captured more than 0/000 enemy guns/KLOC-and made outstanding achievements. In June of the same year 165438+ 10, he was promoted to the head of the eighth regiment of the third division of the first army of the National Revolutionary Army. He just turned 24. At this time, the East Route Army 1 entered Zhejiang and was guarded by the enemy along the way. After a short break in Hangzhou, the East Route Army joined forces with Nanjing via Ji 'an, Guangde, Liyang and Jurong. In late March, the Eighth Route Army and the Sixth Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army successfully joined forces in Nanjing. The victory of the Northern Expeditionary Army aroused the panic of imperialism. On March 24th, British warships bombed Xiaguan and Qixia Mountain in Nanjing on the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese, which caused a tragedy that shocked China and foreign countries. When Zheng Dongguo led the troops to Qixia Mountain, he ordered the artillery to resolutely fight back against the British navy. 1927 in may, Zheng Dongguo led his troops to continue the northern expedition and was transferred to the general headquarters for deliberation due to illness. After taking part in the battle of Longtan, I had to live in Suzhou Rehabilitation Hospital because my illness turned into a drama. In the winter of the same year, he was discharged from hospital. He heard that the Northern Expeditionary Army was at odds with the enemy in the north of Xuzhou, so he went to the front of Xu Hai via Bengbu. He was appointed as the chief of staff of Xuzhou garrison headquarters by the General Command, and later transferred to the head of the 9th Military Training Regiment. 1928 After the Second Northern Expedition, the National Government convened a national military dispatch meeting and the Ninth Army Training Corps was dissolved. Zheng Dongguo is the head of the 2nd Division and 5th Brigade 10 Regiment. Since then, Zheng Dongguo has participated in Gui Jiang War, Jiangtang War, Shi Yousan Crusade War and 1930 Central Plains War successively due to the constant melee among the military groups within the Kuomintang. 193 1 In the summer of, Shi Yousan, a warlord in Xinxiang, Henan Province, rebelled again. The Second Division of Zheng Dongguo was ordered to go north along Pinghan Road, cooperate with Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and annihilate in Dingxian County, Hebei Province. Soon, Guangdong warlord Chen Youtong telephoned Chiang Kai-shek to fight, and the Second Division was ordered to go south to Liling, Hunan, in the starry night, ready to attack Guangdong. After the peaceful settlement of the Guangdong Incident, Zheng Dongguo was transferred to the head of the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Nanjing Police Division. In less than two months, he was transferred back to the Second Division to fight the Red Fourth Army in the Soviet area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and served as the brigade commander of the independent brigade. The following autumn, gongsijun moved to Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the second division was ordered to rest in Tongguan and Luoyang. At that time, Zheng Dongguo became the brigade commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division and came to Luo Yang.
Dong Guo was one of the first Kuomintang generals to join War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. 1933 At the beginning of the year, after the September 18th Incident invaded the three northeastern provinces of China, Japanese imperialism seized the Jehol and then attacked the mouth of the Great Wall on a large scale. With the deepening of the national crisis and the strong voice of the people all over the country demanding to stop the civil war and resist Japan, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Second, 25th and 83rd Divisions of the Central Army to form the 17th Army to go to Gubeikou to resist Japan. Before that, the army was tired of killing each other because they were busy fighting civil war every day. Everyone is excited about the opportunity to serve the country and do his duty as a soldier. In mid-March, the Eighth Division of the First Division of Yi moved to Gubeikou and concentrated its forces to break through the customs in one fell swoop. From April 20th to 28th, Chinese and Japanese troops fought bloody battles at the South Gate for eight days and eight nights. Zheng Dongguo led the 17 th Army, the 2 nd Division and the 4 th Brigade to stick to the worse line, and the soldiers could only starve and freeze. On the ancient Great Wall, they fought a flesh-and-blood battle with the Japanese army, whose strength and firepower were absolutely powerful. During the battle, Zheng Dongguo was ordered to lead the troops to retreat to the rear to rest. On the way, the position of the 83rd Division was breached by the Japanese, with heavy casualties. Liu Kan's teacher was very angry and tried to commit suicide. The situation is in jeopardy. Zheng Dongguo nasty, immediately returned to the front, starry night to the Japanese counterattack. At this time, we lost most of our positions and a large number of Japanese troops swarmed in. Zheng Dongguo was repeatedly attacked because of its weak strength. At this critical moment, in order to show his determination to die, he took off his military uniform, wore only a white shirt and carried a pistol, and personally led the troops to the front. Seeing that morale was too high, the officers and men scrambled to fight the enemy. In an instant, the killing was deafening and the enemy was repelled. By mid-May, due to heavy casualties and lack of backup, China's frontline troops finally withdrew one after another. On May 3 1 day, Tanggu Agreement was signed, and the Great Wall War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression failed. The news broke everyone's heart. After that, the Second Division retreated to Beiping. In the autumn of the same year, Zheng Dongguo entered the higher education class of Nanjing Central Military Academy for training. The following spring, he was ordered to graduate early and return to the army. Go to Jiangxi with the 75th Brigade of the 25th Division to participate in the fifth "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area, and take on the task of defending the second-line bunkers. In June 5438+10, after the defeat of the Red Army, the main strategy shifted to Hunan and Guizhou, and the Long March began. The fourth and seventy-fifth brigades then arrived in Zhijiang and were ordered to return to Beiping for garrison. 1in June, 935, the national government signed a peace agreement with Japan, humiliating the country. Zheng Dongguo's troops reluctantly withdrew from Peiping. The second division was ordered to be stationed in Xuzhou and Bengbu. The following autumn, Huang Jie, the former commander of the Second Division, was transferred to the Tax Police Corps, and Zheng Dongguo took over as the commander. 65438+February 65438+February, two generals, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, launched a military remonstrance in Xi and detained Chiang Kai-shek on the grounds of "stopping the civil war and uniting against Japan". Qin Ying ordered the Central Army to "crusade", and Zheng Dongguo led the Second Division to Tongguan. Soon, the Xi Incident was settled peacefully, and the Second Division was evacuated to Xuzhou.
After the July 7th Incident, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, and he first led the Second Division to participate in the Baoding Battle of Pinghan Road. Stick to the line from Baoding to Caohe, and deal heavy losses to the enemy many times. After the great defeat of Guan Guan, the rear of Zheng was surrounded by enemy cavalry and fought bloody battles with the Japanese all day and one night. After the fall of Baoding city, street fighting was launched with the enemy. Fortunately, at this time, General Pei Changhui led the 47th Division to meet them and died, so that he was able to lead the army to deus ex. After the fall of Baoding, the Japanese army captured Zhengding, Shijiazhuang and other important towns and went deep into eastern Henan. When the supply of Anyang in northern Henan was in short supply,
1in March, 938, Zheng Dongguo led the 2nd Division to participate in the battle of Xuzhou. When Zheng Dongguo led his troops from Henan to Xuzhou day and night, the situation changed suddenly: the 10th elite division of the Japanese army occupied tengxian, and more than 2,000 people were killed in the 12th division of the Sichuan Army. The enemy vanguard troops quickly moved from tengxian to Zaozhuang. Zheng Dongguo thought it was too late for our army to carry out the battle plan near the city. Even if the enemy reaches the north bank of the canal one step ahead of schedule, it will be breached because of its unstable foothold, and Xuzhou is in danger. So, Zheng Dongguo, according to the advice of the chief of staff, submitted it to the superior for approval, and decisively ordered the troops to rush to the south bank of the canal to occupy the position, cover the friendly forces and ensure Xuzhou. At this time, a large number of Japanese troops have arrived at the north bank of the canal and are actively preparing to cross the river in Henan. At this critical moment, Zheng Dongguo led the main force of the division to Li Guoyi on the south bank of the canal, and immediately launched a cross-river battle with the enemy. However, with the strong artillery fire, the Japanese army launched a flood of attacks. During the critical period, the heavy howitzer battalion of the division arrived in time, and Zheng Dongguo immediately ordered the shooting. Twelve cannons fired, and rows of shells landed on the enemy's head accurately, causing the Japanese army to be wiped out. They had to abandon the plan of crossing the river and turn into Taierzhuang along the Zaotai branch line. This war has greatly eased the critical situation and won valuable time for our army to change its deployment and mobilize its troops. Afterwards, Zheng Dongguo recalled that if there was no flexible handling at that time, the Japanese army would have crossed the canal, not only Xuzhou was in danger, but also the China army between Zaozhuang and Yixian in the north of the canal would be in trouble, and the whole situation would be unrecognizable, and Taierzhuang would not succeed in the future.
That night, the head of the Fifth Theater ordered the Second Army and the 110th Division of the Twentieth Army to take over the defense of the newly aided 52nd Army in Zhengzhou and Luoyang, and deploy along the south bank of the canal to guard the front position of Taierzhuang. The 52nd Army and the 85th Army of the 20th Legion got out of the way from the front of Jinpu Road and gathered in Lanling and Xiangcheng areas in the northeast of Shexian County. When the enemy went deep alone, he recaptured the enemy from the south and was destroyed together with the second army. On this basis, the 52nd Army secretly assembled in Xiangcheng overnight along the south bank of the canal passing through Taierzhuang and Lanling Town. Later, Zheng Dongguo commanded the Second Division to participate in fierce battles with Zaozhuang, Beidayao and Shexian. Just as the 20th Army approached the Zhao Kuangyin branch office and prepared to surround the Seto Valley detachment of the Japanese 10 division attacking Taierzhuang, the 5th division of the Japanese army fighting the China Army in Linyi was reinforced by more than 4,000 people from Sakamoto detachment. The second division was ordered to join forces with the main force of the legion. On April 6, defeated the enemy in Yang Lou and Digg, and then joined forces with the Second Army to defeat the enemy Seto Valley detachment. It was a great success in Taierzhuang and shocked China and foreign countries.
After Taizhuang's victory, China's army retreated to Yixian, and Zheng Dongguo led the troops to conquer No.93 commanding heights outside Yixian. Commander Guan was very happy and personally led the people to inspect position 93. Later, after the Japanese army sent reinforcements to Xuzhou battlefield, China troops at the front line retreated to the north of Pixian County to keep out the enemy from the canal. The Second Division served as the first line of defense between Yanzi River and Liu Zhuang, and repeatedly fought with the enemy for more than 20 days without losing the battle. It was not until early May that they were ordered to stop fighting and drive to Germany for rectification. In the defensive action to the north of Pixian County, in order to facilitate the rear traffic, Zheng Dongguo ordered the engineering company to set up a pontoon bridge on the canal east of Nianzhuangwei. Unexpectedly, before the fall of Xuzhou, the main force of more than a dozen divisions of China Army fighting in the northeast of the Canal was withdrawn from the battlefield by this bridge. After Zheng Dongguo retreated from the battlefield, in order to avoid the bombing by enemy planes, he led the Second Division to sleep at night and walked to Germany for guidance. At that time, Xue Yue came to the east of Guide to resist the enemy, and temporarily transferred Zheng Department as the reserve team. Shortly after the defeat, the Second Division retreated to Luohe, Henan. A few days later, he was ordered to March into Wuhan via Nanyang, Anlu, Hubei and Suixian. The former 52nd Army Commander Guan was promoted to the 32nd Army Commander. He reported to the military region to appoint the 25th division commander, General Zhang Yaoming, as the commander and Zheng Dongguo as the deputy commander. In a rage, he refused to accept his resignation and asked the military commander to leave the army and return to Changsha. He left the Second Division, which had served for ten years since the Northern Expedition. 1938 After the first South Vietnamese military conference, Tang was appointed as the commander of the 98th Army of 3 1 Army. Less than a month after taking office, at the invitation of his good friend DUZH, he was demoted to the honorary first division commander of the new 1 1 Army. Soon, Xu was promoted to commander-in-chief, Du was promoted to commander-in-chief, nicknamed the Fifth Army, and Zheng was promoted to deputy commander and honorary teacher of the first division. The troops were stationed in Quanzhou, Guangxi, and then moved to Lingling, Hunan. The First Division of Honor is a unit composed of wounded officers and soldiers in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Have rich combat experience and good military quality. However, at that time, the internal personnel relationship was complicated and the discipline was slack, which was difficult to control. After Zheng Dongguo took office, he knew the world well, distinguished rewards and punishments, kept his education unchanged and strengthened his training. For example, a colonel is addicted to gambling and his bad habits are hard to change. After repeated persuasion, Zheng Yiran reported to his superior that he would be fired, so the whole division was in awe. After nearly a year's efforts, the glorious First Division has taken on a new look, greatly enhanced its combat effectiveness, and has become a new force in the war of resistance.
1939165438+1At the beginning of October, in order to cut off the international traffic lines between Guangxi and Vietnam and threaten the rear area of China, the Japanese army sent one and a half divisions to land in Beibu Gulf, and were trapped in Qinzhou, Fangcheng, Nanning and other important towns in a short time. The 5th Division 12 Brigade, known as the "Iron Corps", occupied Kunlun Pass, an important barrier in the northwest of Nanning, and the battle situation in southern Guangxi was extremely dangerous. 65438+In mid-February, the Fifth Army was ordered to go south to Guangxi, quickly surrounded the enemy of Kunlun Pass, and launched a storm on the morning of 18. At the beginning of the campaign, the honorable first division, as the main attack point and overlapping focus, performed very well. After several failures, the Japanese army became angry from embarrassment and sent reinforcements frequently, with 40 military vehicles, forcibly breaking through the blockade of the 22 nd Division of the New Fourth Army in Wutang and heading for Kunlun Mountain Pass. The arrival of reinforcements aggravated the fighting difficulties of the five armies, and the two sides competed for the highland near Kunlun Mountain Pass. The battle was fierce and the situation was deadlocked. If this situation is not changed in time, the previous victories of the Fifth Army will be lost. At the critical moment of the battle, Zheng Dongguo was calm and personally inspected the line of fire. With the strong support of friendly forces, he commanded troops to conquer Luotang, 44 1 highland, Jieshou highland and other important commanding heights, and finally conquered Kunlun Pass. Strangely, since the Crusades, Zheng Dongguo has experienced many battles. He once took the lead and even served as a battalion commander, inspecting the fire line headquarters with the strength of division and brigade generals. Apart from the risk of "silver dollar" in Taierzhuang, he has never hung a lottery ticket, so he deserves the name of "Fu Jiang". After the Battle of Kunlun Pass, Zheng Dongguo led the Honorary First Division to be expanded into the new army commander 1 1 Army, renamed the Eighth Army, and led his troops to participate in the first morning battle. He served in the Yangtze River line west of Yichang and north of Yidu for nearly two years and repelled Japanese attacks many times.
The second battle of Changsha. In order to cooperate with the ninth theater to defend Changsha, the sixth theater counterattacked Yichang, an important town in western Hubei, and Zheng Dongguo was ordered to copy the traffic behind the enemy and stop the enemy reinforcements. At night, he quietly crossed the river in the southeast of Jingzhou and raided Shashi. The Japanese were caught off guard and forced to withdraw to the city. Taking this as an opportunity, Zheng Dongguo led the main force to cross the river, conquered Hougang in one fell swoop, completely destroyed the Hanyi Highway, blocked the enemy's water traffic on the Xianghe River, not only wiped out a large number of Japanese troops, but also completely cut off the long-standing rear traffic lines of the Japanese army, effectively supporting the siege of Yichang by the main theater. His superb command art and bold combat actions greatly appreciated the commander of the theater at that time, General Chen Cheng.
India-Myanmar occupation
1in the spring of 943, the expeditionary force retreated to India and formed an army. Stilwell drove Luo away to seize control of the army, because Zheng was gentle and sociable. Chiang Kai-shek appointed him commander of the new army. According to the instruction of Chongqing Military Commission, Zheng Dongguo's main task in India is to coordinate the relationship between allied personnel and China officers and soldiers, unite his subordinates, maintain the morale of the troops and ensure the victory of the northern counter-offensive campaign. At that time, the relationship between China's army and its allies was very tense, and the arrogance and rudeness of the Americans made China's army very dissatisfied. After Zheng Dongguo took office, starting from the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War, on the one hand, he appeased the army and actively promoted mutual understanding and friendship between Chinese and American officers and men; On the other hand, China attaches great importance to safeguarding national dignity and resolutely resists some excessive demands and practices of the European Union that harm China's national interests. Thanks to the joint efforts of people of insight in the European Union, Zheng Dongguo and other Indian generals, the once tense relationship between officers and men of China and the United States has eased, and the atmosphere of cooperation between the two sides has become increasingly harmonious. The Chongqing Military Commission was deeply satisfied with Zheng Dongguo's good role during his stay in India and praised him many times. General Stilwell also praised Zheng Dongguo and other China generals for their patriotism and gentle moral cultivation. At first, Zheng Dongguo was in a difficult situation. He can only command the military guard company and be responsible for maintaining military discipline. Later, because of his talent and frankness, he gradually gained Stilwell's trust and joined the military aircraft. 1In mid-May, 944, Stilwell sent "robber" commandos, and the battle of Myitkyina began with attacking and seizing Myitkyina airport. However, when the Japanese attacked the downtown area of Myitkyina, they resisted desperately, which made Myitkyina unable to attack for a long time and suffered repeated setbacks. Stilwell's constant replacement of four American generals did not help. At the beginning of July, Zheng Dongguo went to Myitkyina to command and inspect, and then took on the task of operational command. He visited the front line and carefully observed and analyzed the defensive characteristics of the Japanese troops guarding the city. Seeing the Japanese relying on fortifications, sooner or later they will hide in the ground and attack me. So I decided to take a tit-for-tat approach, dig trenches, divide and rule, and destroy them one by one. On July 7, three infantry divisions of the National Army launched an all-out attack under air cover, bombing the enemy with intensive artillery fire. The Japanese communication facilities were all cut off and the command failed. On August 3rd, China's army launched a general attack again, which led to a total rout of the Japanese army, with 3,000 people killed and more than 800 people fleeing. The commander of Myitkyina, the capital of Yugoslavia, committed suicide by caesarean section on water. This tough battle destroyed the last strategic town of the Japanese army in northern Myanmar, and since then, Japan's defense system in northern Myanmar has collapsed. After leaving office, Stilwell was promoted to Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Expeditionary Force in China in September, 1944, and finally completely regained control of the army from the United States. At the end of the same year, he led an army to conquer Ba Maw, an important town in northern Myanmar invaded by the Japanese, and Ba Maw was a strategic place in western Yunnan. At the beginning of the following year, he successfully joined forces with China troops stationed in western Yunnan.
When the world anti-fascist war entered the final stage, the Kuomintang decided to hold the sixth national congress. Zheng Dongguo was ordered to return to China to attend the meeting. During their transit in Kunming, Zheng Dongguo and his party were warmly received by all walks of life in Kunming. When he arrived in Chongqing, General Feng Yuxiang personally presided over a grand ceremony attended by people from all walks of life in Chongqing to celebrate the great victory of North Myanmar's counterattack and welcome Zheng Dongguo back to Chongqing. Chiang Kai-shek and He Xiuxiu also summoned Zheng to hold a banquet for him, highly praised his work and the heroic fighting of the soldiers stationed in India, and awarded Zheng Dong the National Justice Medal. At the 6th National Congress of the Kuomintang held from May 5th to 2nd1day, Zheng Dongguo was also elected as.
/kloc-in August of 0/5, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. After eight years of hard fighting, the people of China finally won a brilliant victory. Zheng Dongguo has participated in many large-scale celebrations organized by people from all walks of life in Kunming. He was so happy that he could not sleep for several nights. During this period, Chiang Kai-shek called him to Chongqing and appointed him as a guard in the attendants' room. He resigned as a fool and was not good at internal security affairs. He thanked him politely and was appointed as the deputy commander of the Third Army.
Three years in Northeast China
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in view of the contradictions and frictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party after the war, Zheng Dongguo thought that there would be a big conflict or even a civil war between them sooner or later. However, he doesn't want these things to happen. Post-war China urgently needs to recuperate and start a new life with the people. While actively paying attention to the development of domestic situation, Zheng Dongguo is also thinking about its own future. But he didn't expect that he was soon involved in the civil war. 1February, 946, Du Du, the northeast security commander of the Kuomintang who commanded the army to seize the northeast, went to Beiping for medical treatment due to illness, and appointed Zheng Dongguo to take charge of the northeast military affairs on his behalf.
At the beginning of March of the same year, Zheng Dongguo flew to Jinzhou as the deputy commander and acting commander of Northeast Security. According to the established deployment, he ordered hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops to advance along Beining Road. On March 13, after the Soviet troops withdrew from Shenyang, the Kuomintang troops immediately occupied this famous northeastern city, and quickly occupied Anshan, Yingkou, Liaoyang, Haicheng, Dashiqiao, Fushun and other important peripheral cities once controlled by the People's Liberation Army. Since then, the Kuomintang troops have been divided into two ways: the new army and the 71 ST army attacked north along Zhongchang Road; The Fourth Army and the Fifty-second Army respectively attacked Benxi, the southeast barrier of Shenyang. However, these two armies were violently countered by the Northeast Democratic Coalition Forces and suffered heavy losses. Zheng Dongguo had to go to Kaiyuan to set up a front command post to direct the North Road Army to fight against the People's Liberation Army. Du was seriously ill and rushed back to Shenyang from Beiping to command the army. However, due to the tenacious defense of Siping Street by the People's Liberation Army, the Kuomintang troops failed in many battles. Du decided to postpone attacking Siping Street and concentrate on attacking Benxi. At the beginning of May, the Kuomintang army finally occupied Benxi. At this time, some of the main forces of the People's Liberation Army went south from Xifeng in an attempt to cut off the long-distance rear contact of the Kuomintang army, and the defenders of Kaiyuan and Tieling were on the move. Du Jiwei was the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, leading the New Sixth Army, the Seventy-first Army and the Fifty-second Army northward at night. After the fierce fighting between the two sides, the PLA abandoned Siping Street and implemented a strategic retreat. Kuomintang troops took the opportunity to occupy Changchun, Yongji and other towns and confronted the People's Liberation Army along the Songhua River. Zheng also moved his command post to Changchun. In August of the same year, in order to remove the threat of the People's Liberation Army from Jehol to Beining Road, Zheng Dongguo was ordered to set up a command post in Jinzhou to direct 13 Army, 93 Army and 7/KLOC-0 Army to attack the People's Liberation Army in Jehol. After two months of fierce fighting, the main force of the People's Liberation Army shifted one after another, and the Kuomintang army took control of the most important town in Jehol.
/kloc-at the beginning of 0/947, the People's Liberation Army of Beiman crossed the Songhua River in the south, threatening Changchun and Yongji. From March to April, the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces used the main force of the Kuomintang army to reinforce the north, attacked major strongholds such as Meihekou, Hailong, Xinbin and Liuhe, and surrounded Tonghua. Zheng Dongguo came to Fushun Yingpan command post and sent the New Fourth Army and the Thirteenth Army to rescue him overnight. It took a heavy price to understand the siege of Tonghua. Just over a month later, the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces crossed the river south again, launched a summer offensive, hit the Kuomintang army hard, occupied Faku and Changtu, and besieged Siping Street with hundreds of thousands of troops. At the same time, the democratic allied forces in Manchuria and Northeast China launched an attack. After destroying a division of the Kuomintang army at Meihekou, it occupied the important town of Benxi. Chiang Kai-shek was shocked by the rapid deterioration of the northeast war situation. He personally flew to Shenyang to inspect and instructed the Kuomintang troops to abandon some towns and reduce their troops. In mid-June, Zheng Dongguo, commander-in-chief of the former enemy, was ordered to command the 53rd Army to capture Benxi first, so as to relieve the threat of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces to Shenyang, and then moved to Tieling, leading the new 6th Army, 93rd Army, 53rd Army and 52nd Army to the north to aid Siping Street. After half a month of fierce fighting, the main force of the Northeast Democratic Coalition was defeated, the siege of Siping Street was broken, and the Kuomintang's war situation in Northeast China was temporarily eased.
1In July, 947, Du's old illness recurred and he was forced to leave his job and go to Shanghai for medical treatment. Zheng Dongguo served as commander. In August, Chen Cheng came to Northeast China to replace Xiong Shihui as the dean of Northeast Aviation College. Shortly after he took office, he abolished the Northeast garrison headquarters, which was an institution that integrated the party, government and army in Northeast China. Zheng was actually appointed as the vice president of Northeast Aviation College before him. 1947 and 10 months later, the northeast people's liberation army launched an autumn offensive and a winter offensive. Due to Chen Cheng's indecision and frequent changes, a large number of effective forces of the Kuomintang army were annihilated, traffic on Beining Road was cut off, and the Kuomintang's war situation in Northeast China turned for the better. Chiang Kai-shek was shocked to hear the news. 1948 65438+ 10/0 flew to Shenyang, held a military meeting, decided to set up the Northeast Anti-Bandits Command, appointed Wei as Deputy Commander and Commander-in-Chief, and appointed Zheng Dongguo and Fan as Deputy Commanders. Soon, Chen Cheng quietly left the northeast, and the hangyuan in the northeast was removed.
1948 In February, the Northeast People's Liberation Army successively captured Liaoyang, Anshan, Faku, Yingkou and other important cities, and captured Siping Street, a strategic town, in mid-March. In order to avoid being divided by the People's Liberation Army, when the war situation in Siping Street was tense, Wei sent Zheng Dongguo to Changchun and Yongji successively to deploy and command the sixty troops stationed in Yongji to retreat to Changchun. Since then, only three isolated strongholds and several central cities have remained around the Kuomintang army. In order to save hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops annihilated in the northeast, Zheng Dongguo suggested giving up Changchun voluntarily and concentrating his forces to fight, defend and retreat between Shenyang and Jinzhou. However, Chiang Kai-shek and Wei thought that giving up Changchun would cause adverse international influence, and insisted that Changchun could still contain the southern wing of the People's Liberation Army and reduce the military pressure on Shenyang and Jinzhou, so Zheng's opinion was not adopted. Jiang and Wei also suggested that Zheng should be the commander of the First Corps and the chairman of Jilin Province, and shoulder the task of sticking to Changchun. Changchun has been surrounded by the People's Liberation Army. Many of Zheng Dongguo's aides and friends advised him not to do so, and Zheng himself hesitated. In late March, under the repeated urging of Jiang and Wei, he had to fly to Changchun and began the most painful period of his life.
At that time, there were about 65,438+10,000 people in Changchun, including the New Seventh Army, the 60th Army, the troops directly under the First Corps, local security forces and nearly 200,000 citizens. The defenders are isolated from the outside world except that they still control the airport outside the city. The city is short of food and fuel, and people are upset, demoralized and in a difficult situation. After Zheng Dongguo took office, he was determined to rectify national defense and stabilize people's hearts. He hopes that the defense of Changchun Gucheng can persist for a long time. In late May, he sent some troops to attack the city and prepared to look for some food in the suburbs. The PLA seized the opportunity to fight back. As a result, the defenders not only lost a lot of troops, but also lost the airport. After that, 654.38+ 10,000 people's liberation army attacked the city under the command of Xiao, and then changed to Changwei. Thousands of people starved to death in the city, and the number of officers and men in the army who were swollen by hunger and suffered from night blindness also increased.
1In mid-September, 948, the Northeast People's Liberation Army launched a large-scale Liaoshen campaign. Zheng Dongguo took advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the People's Liberation Army went south to surround Jinzhou. He once concentrated two divisions to make a tentative breakthrough, but was stubbornly blocked by the besieged troops of the People's Liberation Army and forced to retreat into the urban area. In mid-June, 5438+10, the China People's Liberation Army conquered Jinzhou, cutting off the throat of the northeast Kuomintang army leading to Shanhaiguan, and hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops in Changchun and Shenyang became turtles in a jar. Before and after Jinzhou was occupied by PLA, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Zheng Dongguo to break through Shenyang several times. However, due to the long-term hunger, physical weakness and extremely low morale of the defenders, Zheng's generals had no confidence in breaking through, and the discussion of breaking through ran aground several times. 10 June 16, Zheng Dongguo made up his mind to carry out Chiang Kai-shek's breakthrough order, called his men to make a breakthrough plan, and decided to take action at dawn the next day. But that night, the 60th Army announced an uprising, which disrupted Zheng's deployment and forced the breakout to be suspended. At this time, although Zheng Dongguo was eager to break through, he was still determined to be loyal to "the party and the country" and refused the PLA's request to stop resisting. He still led the secret service to defend the central bank building and personally wrote a farewell letter to Chiang Kai-shek. However, his officers and men are no longer willing to make sacrifices for the corrupt Kuomintang regime. 19 in the morning, all the officers and men of the new seventh army announced that they would lay down their weapons. In the early morning of 2 1, in the name of breakout, the troops directly under the Corps hiding in the building of Changchun Central Bank also laid down their weapons and defected, and Changchun was liberated.