1. Liu Yuzhang, nicknamed the "Bald General", was a prominent Chinese general.
10 Facts About Liu Yuzhang
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Liu Yuzhang was one of the very few KMT commanders who could defeat both the Imperial Japanese Army and Communist PLA in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War, respectively.
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Liu Yuzhang was commander of KMT troops, and CPC's commander was Lin Biao, Liu Yuzhang's former classmate who had now become his enemy.
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Liu Yuzhang defeated Lin Biao's troops and won the battle, recovering Shenyang successfully at last, and after this victory Liu Yuzhang was promoted to lieutenant general.
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The 9th Army Group was tasked personally by Chiang Kai-shek to relieve the city of Jinzhou, and both 9th Army Group commander General Liao Yaoxiang and Liu Yuzhang knew that the city was a lost cause, so they suggested to President Chiang Kai-shek if the relief effort was not successful that the 9th Army Group should withdraw to Yinkou via sea.
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On 31 October 1948 Liu Yuzhang boarded the last KMT naval ship to leave port when communist rocket and mortar fires fell on the beach.
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Liu Yuzhang succeed his classmate Hu Lien as commander of Kinmen defense area and was sent to United States to study by Chiang Kai-shek.
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Liu Yuzhang was one of the few Chinese generals who graduated from an American military academy besides General Sun Li-jen.
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Liu Yuzhang was appointed as garrison commander of Taiwan and head of nationalist security police.
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Liu Yuzhang retired from the army in 1970 and died in 1981.