Chen Jincheng wei county, captured as a freshman.

1in March, 947, the 96th Army was ordered to be reorganized into the 45th Division. Although he was demoted to the 45 th division commander, the three temporary divisions he commanded were "regularized" with Wang's efforts. His three divisions were reorganized into 2 1 1, 2 12 and 2 13 brigades respectively (of which the reorganized 2 1 1 brigade has been built), and they are all equipped with some American equipment, and their troops are only stronger than the original 96th Army.

1in August, 947, the national army began a key attack on the Shandong People's Liberation Army. Chen Jincheng was ordered to lead 2 1 1 and 2 12 brigades to Zhangdian, Zhoucun and Boshan to cover the railway and rush to transport coal. A month later, the 2 12 brigade was transferred to Jiaoxian. Another month passed, and the 2 1 1 brigade strengthened the entire 64th division commanded by Wang himself. Now Chen Jincheng nasty, don't let the battlefield after the start of the key attack also calculate, but how can be overhead? Does the king not trust himself? Various ideas gradually appeared in Chen Jincheng's mind. Soon came the news that the whole 2 1 1 brigade was wiped out in the reinforcements, which made Chen Jincheng cry. Of the three brigades of the entire 45th Division, only this 2 1 1 brigade was formed at his inquiry. He devoted a lot of effort to this unit and gave it to Zhang Zhongzhong, an old subordinate who followed him for a long time. As a result, the brigade disappeared, and even Zhong Zhang was captured by the People's Liberation Army. How can he not cry? 1948 65438+ 10. In October, Chen Jincheng left for wei county with the division headquarters and the 2 12 brigade, and began to rebuild the 2 1 1 brigade. At the same time, in order to appease, Wang not only agreed to equip the newly formed 2 1 1 brigade with American-made mechanical brigade, but also declared to the Ministry of National Defense that he wanted to be the commander of the reorganized 96th Army. This more or less gave Chen Jincheng some comfort. But Chen Jincheng didn't expect that it was this wei county that became the place where he ended his military career and changed his future life.

The reorganization of the 96th Army governs the reorganization of the 2nd Division and the 45th Division. As the east-west section of the road was cut off by the Shandong People's Liberation Army, the reorganized 2nd Division could not go to wei county for reconstruction, so Wang forcibly transferred the newly formed 2 1 1 brigade back to Jinan, leaving only one 2 12 brigade under the command. When the People's Liberation Army captured Zhoucun, Wei County, Anqiu and Changle, which were defended by Chen Jincheng, became the next target of the People's Liberation Army.

In order to defend the Changwei area, Wang flew to Weixian on April 1 to discuss the strategy of guarding the city, and decided to give up the unimportant stronghold and concentrate on defending Weixian. Geographically, wei county is an important hub connecting Jiaodong, Bohai and southern Shandong. It is known as the "fortress in central Shandong" and is a key fortified city of the national army in Shandong. The city is divided into two cities, East and West, commonly known as "Twin Cities". The Bailang River runs through it. The moat outside the city is eight meters wide and five meters deep, and the wall is high and firm (the west side is five meters higher than the east side). There are two strongholds outside the city, Nandaying and Gong Bei, which are barriers. In addition, Yugoslavia's fortifications are comparable to Jinan's, so it boasts that it is "impregnable" and has made an oath that "the city is in Chen, and the city is broken and dead". In terms of troop deployment, Chen Jincheng defends Dongcheng with 2 12 brigade as the main force, and defends Xicheng with the whole 45th division artillery battalion, engineering battalion, spy battalion and 2 12 brigade. The eighth main force of peace preservation corps belongs to the division cavalry guard workshop and the airport, and the other four peace preservation corps troops are stationed in Tianma, Changle and its nearby areas, with a total strength of more than 40,000 people. In addition, in order to strengthen the confidence of Wang Anlan, the commander in charge of guarding the city, Chen Jincheng made a promise that "when the battle is over, I will promote you to the 45th division commander".

Although Chen Jincheng has a large number of troops, most of them are local armed forces. These troops have low combat effectiveness, almost no heavy equipment, and the regular army and local armed forces distrust each other. When the People's Liberation Army launched an attack with four columns on April 2, only half a month later, the outlying stronghold of wei county fell. On April 23, Xicheng fell again, and Chen Jincheng was forced to shrink his main force to Dongcheng to continue his resistance.

At this point in the fighting, the situation is extremely critical, and wei county is in danger of falling at any time. Even called Wang for help, but his hope was blocked by the People's Liberation Army. On April 26th, the 9th column of Shandong Field Army of the People's Liberation Army launched another fierce attack with the strength of two divisions. After a day of resistance, the defenders in Dongcheng lost another third of their positions. So Chen Jincheng called his men, and after discussion, he finally gave the order to break through. At dawn on the 27th, Brigadier General Wang Anlan Chen Jincheng led more than 300 people to break through the East Gate, but soon after leaving the city, they were discovered by the People's Liberation Army, and the troops immediately broke up. Then Chen Jincheng went into hiding under the protection of the guards. After a long day, he really jumped out. In principle, since the breakthrough, it will be fine, but fate played a joke on Chen Jincheng. Because Chen Jincheng was afraid and tired when he broke through, he was very tired. After learning that he had successfully broken through, his tense nerves suddenly relaxed and he soon fell asleep in a daze. When he woke up at noon, he found himself among the prisoners, so he ended his military career inexplicably. Along with him, Li, chief of staff, Emperor Wen of Sui, deputy brigade commander of BGF 2 12 brigade, and others were captured. Wang Anlan, who claimed to be "defending the commander to the death" when she broke through, escaped.

After being captured, Chen Jincheng was ideologically loyal to his headmaster and decided to devote himself to the party and the country. He used the preferential treatment policy of the People's Liberation Army for captured senior officers to openly say to the captured former generals of the Northwest Army: "You support Feng Yuxiang, I support the principal!" On another occasion, I shouted "Long live the headmaster" through drunkenness. This was also unique among the captured generals at that time. His behavior was severely criticized by Ji Fang, head of the East China People's Liberation Army officer corps, and was also opposed by other captured generals. When Chen Jincheng saw that he was alone, he kept restraint on the surface, but his basic political stance remained unchanged. In order to survive, Chen Jincheng was taciturn and often alone. This situation remained until Wang was captured in Jinan.

After the king was captured, he asked to see him. To this end, the East China Military Region specially sent officers from the People's Liberation Army to the military region to let him meet Wang. Chen Jincheng's mood at this time is pleasantly surprised. Two good friends and comrades-in-arms in those days, after a life-and-death disaster and ups and downs in life, turned out to be prisoners, and their ups and downs were probably only understood by themselves. I talked with Wang all night (12 army commander Huo Shouyi was also present), and the next day I was received by Shu Tong, director of the Political Department of the East China Military Region of the People's Liberation Army. In this day's profound conversation, Chen Jincheng's mind finally changed. During the Huaihai Campaign, he and Huo Shouyi jointly wrote a radio message to mobilize the officers and men of the national army to belong to the People's Liberation Army. He also expressed his willingness to hand over a large amount of his property, real estate and farm. Since then, he has seriously studied Marxism-Leninism in the PLA Officers Corps, and his thoughts have gradually progressed.

1956, together with several captured Shandong officials, such as Wang, Pang Jingtang, etc., was transferred to the Beijing Shogunate War Crimes Management Office. In view of his performance, he was appointed as the head of study after entering Kutokuhayashi. For this group leader, Chen Jincheng hesitated at first, for fear of causing misunderstanding among his old colleagues. However, he was relieved when he saw that Qiu Hangxiang, Song Ruike and others under the same roof also became the leaders of the study group. How to be a good team leader? Chen Jincheng hugged one, saying, "Don't offend the' prison' above, and don't offend the' classmates' below. If something goes wrong, go around the contradiction. " Especially in the meeting, Chen Jincheng personally took notes. When it was someone else's turn to do it, he always read the records to the people at that time once or twice before making a decision, and adopted the rules of first reading, second reading and third reading like western courts, so as to be careful not to get into trouble. It can be said that he is a competent team leader. The prison management said that he was "seeking truth from facts", and the colleague who was arrested said that he "truthfully reflected the situation". For this reason, he was awarded the title of "good leader".

Perhaps it is his personality that makes him have a good relationship wherever he is, so that it is very beneficial to Chen Jincheng's Amnesty in all aspects. At the enlarged meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 1956, the first batch of pardoned Wang, Wei, Zheng Dongguo and others had little contact with each other, and all proposed to pardon him, but the reason turned out to be "good relations with Hu Zongnan". Finally, in the list of the second batch of pardoned war criminals from 1960 to165438+1October 28th, Chen Jincheng's name suddenly came to the fore.

After being pardoned, Chen Jincheng was assigned to Nanjing State-owned Woodware Factory as a worker because his family was in Nanjing. One year later, he was appointed as a librarian of Jiangsu Literature and History Research Institute. During the "Cultural Revolution", Chen Jincheng was inevitably attacked by the rebels, but he was miraculously "unscathed", which was a miracle at that time. After the Cultural Revolution, Chen Jincheng regained his reputation and remained a librarian of literature and history. 1983 65438+1died of illness on October 6th. It can be said that Chen Jincheng can reunite with his children and enjoy his old age. Although life is rough, he is still relatively happy.