Late liberation of Chen Changjie.

Chen Changjie was captured as a war criminal announced by the People's Liberation Army of China, held in the detention center of the Military Law Department of the Political Department of the North China Military Region in Jingxing County, Hebei Province, and then transferred to Kutokuhayashi, Beijing, and returned to the Beijing War Criminals Management Office of the Ministry of Public Security.

With the desire of abandoning evil and doing good, Chen Changjie actively cooperated with managers and has always performed well. The manager said that he bought Marxist-Leninist books at his own expense, which was very serious. At first, I was curious to see what I wrote. After reading and watching, I became interested. As for that book, everyone called him a "theorist". And the work attitude is also very good. He is old and weak, ranking third and fourth. He can only do some easy work, but he always tries to do more.

But he always bears a grudge against Fu. On one occasion, Fu, who is already the people of China and Minister of Water Resources, went to Kutokuhayashi prison to see him, and he glared. Fu walked up to him, and he deliberately lowered his head and said nothing, as if he had a lot of resentment. He once said to a man, "He negotiated peacefully in Peiping and ordered me to stick to it and not surrender. He became an uprising general, but I became a war criminal. I was fooled! " It's a bit like "Xiao He succeeds, I lose".

After the liberation of Tianjin, Fu declared a peaceful uprising in Peiping. At that time, it was confidential and I didn't tell Chen Changjie. I just vaguely said, "There is a way to stick to it." Who knows that before the Beiping negotiations were over, Tianjin was "untenable" and liberated. After the uprising, Fu felt deeply guilty about his situation, and repeatedly reported to Chairman Mao and the CPC Central Committee in written or oral form, demanding pardon for those in custody. 1956 In March, at the second enlarged meeting of China People's Political Consultative Conference, Fu said twice: "I beg these people (referring to war criminals) to be lenient and get rid of them." He said that the transition from society to people is a truth. Since socialism can transition, why can't people transition?

Fu Zuo Yi explained to Chen Changjie through the prison manager. Chen Changjie's resentment vanished. He held Fu's hand tightly and said, "Thank you, thank you!" When many people mention Chen Changjie, they always think that he is just a warrior. In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he also won several small victories. For a long time, people think that he has a good way of leading troops to fight, mainly because he dares to fight hard and can really "take the lead" in an emergency.

But in the last battle of his life-defending Tianjin, when he was in his bunker command post and still fighting with the telephone command post, PLA officers and men were pointing pistols and submachine guns at his back. Moreover, when he issued the order to "stick it out", put down the microphone and turned around, and was about to tell the staff who followed him to look at the map, he realized that he was surrounded by the People's Liberation Army, and he didn't even have time to take out his pistol and commit suicide. He raised his hand in surprise and was escorted out of the bunker with an unconvinced expression.

If I hadn't reformed with him in the Beijing War Criminals Management Office, I always thought that this man was just a brave lout, so when I first met his group, Xu introduced me and said, "This is". I was shocked at that time and thought: How can he be a thin man like a scholar instead of a big man in my imagination? A few days later, I changed my mind about him. He is not a soldier, but the first batch of high flyers who graduated from the sixth Baoding Military Academy. He is not only gentle in appearance, but also has a profound understanding ability in reading literature. At that time, few people in the war criminals' prison bought Das Kapital at their own expense. Some people are putting on a show, but he really read it carefully and wrote down many comments and experiences after reading it, which surprised me.

Because my view of Chen Changjie has changed, besides chatting with him many times, I also got some information about him from Li Hanyuan, the police chief of Tianjin and an old colleague of Scouts who fought hard with him in Tianjin. Li Hanyuan once told me quietly that when Fu and many former Kuomintang military and political officials came to the War Criminals Management Office to meet their old friends and colleagues, many people were very polite when they met them. Only when he saw Fu, he was so angry that he didn't say a word, which made it an embarrassing situation.

"Why is this happening?" I finally got the answer from Chen Changjie himself and others.

It turns out that Chen Changjie was the commander of the eighth supply area of Gansu Kuomintang Joint Logistics Command. This is Dont Ask For Help's own job. Only others ask him to work fat, and there is no need to fight to master all the preparations for the troops in this area. Because he and Fu used to be old colleagues of the Jin army, Fu knew that he was a famous soldier. When Fu was ordered to set up the "North China Suppression General", because his elite troops, the 35th Army, were defeated by the People's Liberation Army in the new security, knowing the power of the People's Liberation Army field army, he decided to gather troops along the Pingsui and Beining railways, taking Zhangjiakou, Beiping and Tianjin as the three basic points, and the major cities along these two railways to promote fortifications and facilities, and implement the so-called "decisive battle according to the city" with flexible concentration of advantages. Fu suggested to Chiang Kai-shek that Chen should be appointed as Tianjin garrison commander to strengthen Tianjin's defense forces. Of course, this needs to be mentioned. 1948 Autumn, after Jinan and Northeast China were completely liberated, Jun Fu was more isolated and exposed in North China. At that time, there were about 500 thousand troops under Fu's command, which were originally arranged in a line. If it is not assembled, it may be eaten in pieces. In this way, Tianjin has become the focus of foothold. Fu thinks that Chen is an ever-victorious general, and hopes that he can firmly hold on to Haikou City, which has advanced and retreated. Because the Kuomintang Bohai Fleet is building a base in Changshan Islands, it can support Tanggu and maintain Haikou.

Chen Changjie thought that his failure in the defending battle of Tianjin was because his troops were too few, but his fortifications were very strong. Later, many strong fortifications were left unguarded. Fu took away many elite troops from Tianjin, leaving only 62 Guangdong armies commanded by Lin Weichou, 85 Guangdong armies commanded by Liu and an incomplete division of 92 Guangdong armies.

It is not easy for tens of thousands of people to defend such a big city as Tianjin and resist the doubled PLA. The most troublesome thing is that they can't get the support of ordinary people. In order to build fortifications and clear the shooting boundary, a large number of houses were demolished and tens of thousands of people were homeless. In particular, when a colonel of Lin Weichou's army was defending Yixing Port near Tianjin, Chen Changjie asked the regiment to give up its stronghold because the other two outlying strongholds were destroyed by the People's Liberation Army, so as to avoid being "eaten" by isolation. Chen told him to destroy the fortifications when he retreated, but the colonel mistakenly thought that destroying the fortifications would also destroy the village, so he ordered the village to be set on fire. At that time, the fire went up into the sky and thousands of houses were burned down. It was too late to save them when they found out. Therefore, the people of Tianjin hate the Kuomintang's national defense forces and hope that the PLA will come in as soon as possible.

Chen Changjie is a standard soldier. He claims that "obeying orders is his first duty". Because Fu repeatedly ordered him to "stick to it and find a way", he never considered the issue of surrender. Although he, the mayor of Tianjin and the officers and teachers of several units had received the notice of "laying down their arms peacefully" the day before the People's Liberation Army narrowed its encirclement and prepared to capture Tianjin. When he called these people to a meeting, no one wanted to speak first. He took out this notice first, but he didn't dare to say anything, because he was afraid that spies were watching and his life was in danger at any time. Therefore, no one dares to say that they want to lay down their weapons. Finally, they made a vague decision and replied to the PLA: "In order to prevent Tianjin from being eroded, the PLA should send a responsible person to negotiate, but it is difficult to lay down their weapons." This is tantamount to refusing to lay down arms and negotiate. Chen Changjie still said, "There is a way to stick to it". Finally, I embarked on the road of being captured alive. Chen Changjie, who works on the farm, is a second-rate and third-rate laborer. He was assigned to the third team, while Du was assigned to the fourth team a little more. The first and second teams are stronger. Generally, the heavier work is undertaken by these two teams, while the third and fourth teams undertake the lighter work. Often work together. Once, when he and Du were carrying a basket of dung to work in the field, some students who were watching were secretly laughing. Because Du is not only deeply myopic, but also his left leg is shorter than his right leg 1cm. He always walks with a limp. Both of them are so thin and gentle. So many people laugh because these two men are famous soldiers who can fight. Today, they are carrying dung baskets together and don't know each other. Who would believe that these two scholars were the generals who commanded so many elite troops in those days?

They saw everyone talking about them with a smile, so they put down the dung basket and sat with everyone. I said, "You two cooperate, you can call it a treasure pair!" "

Unconvinced, Du's background was exposed, saying that he was better than Du Qiang and Du Qiang, and he wouldn't even know about stepping on a mouse. This caused everyone to burst into laughter! Because Du did make such jokes. During a study, when Du walked into the study room, everyone felt a little strange. Why does this classmate limp today, but he walks as seriously as others, because he is one of the famous "two lame people in Northeast China"? When he was the commander of Northeast Security, he and Xiong Shihui, director of Northeast Camp, both had a short leg 1 cm. When Xiong was promoted to be the chairman of Jiangxi Province as the Shanghai garrison commander, his plane just flew together and crashed into the mast of a large sailboat on the river near Longhua Airport. Although he didn't fall to death, his leg was broken. After the cure, 1 cm was shortened. But contrary to Du Yu Ming, the right leg is shorter than the left leg. Two of them are in the northeast, one is in charge of military affairs and the other is in charge of administration. When these two big heads in Northeast China held a meeting together, one turned left and the other right, which made many people who saw this rare scene laugh behind their backs many times.

No one dared to say it to his face at that time. After Du became a war criminal, no one made fun of him, but he was a little surprised to see that he suddenly straightened up when he walked. Du noticed that others were paying attention to him, and seemed to feel that he was walking differently today. He sat down and lifted the cotton shoes on his left hand to touch them, as if something was slipping down his toes. He quickly took off his nearsighted glasses, looked at his cotton shoes and said to himself, "A rope!" " "But when he pulled this rope out, it turned out that a trampled mouse was pulled out of his shoe by his tail. This made the whole group unable to read the document, but they laughed happily. Since then, this joke has spread in the war criminals management office.

Compared with Du Qiang, what I admire most is that when he is resting, he neither plays bridge nor chess, but concentrates on reading.