After Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945, military and political leaders within the Kuomintang began to make a fortune in the country, and under the banner of acceptance, they opened different receiving agencies in major cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Pinghan, and Pinghan, causing another heavy blow to the industry and commerce in the receiving areas that had not yet recovered their vitality.
At that time, the common people ridiculed these receiving officers "Five Sons Dengke", what does it mean? All the gold, houses, tickets, cars, and women were the objects of their swindling and plundering, and all kinds of chaos made the Kuomintang government completely lose the hearts of the people, and at its peak, the Kuomintang set up more than 2,300 reception committees throughout the country.
In fact, many senior Kuomintang generals have several positions, and while they command battles, they are still doing business, and for many people, leading soldiers to fight is just a major side job for them.
Old Chiang Kai-shek also has an unshirkable responsibility for this; when he himself meets with some generals, he always likes to ask about the situation at the other side's home, and then in order to win over the hearts and minds of the people, he will always give a large amount of money, saying that he will let the family do a business or something, relying on this means to win over his cronies is completely unimaginable on the side of our party.
And when they fight wars and do business, can such a general win the war? The answer is obvious.
Since the beginning of the War of Liberation, corruption has long been rife within the Kuomintang, and it is common for officers and men to be paid salaries, and wherever this money goes, it has not been hyped up by those commanders in the shanghai gold exchange, so after only three years of fighting the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to this corner of Taiwan.
Before the outbreak of the Battle of Huaihai in 1948, the Kuomintang's general battle sequence in Xuzhou also had 4 main corps and 4 appeasement zone troops, such as the 13th Corps (Li Mibu) stationed in Nianzhuang, the 7th Corps stationed in Xin'an Town (Huang BaitaoBu), and the 9th Suijing District (Li YannianBu) stationed in Haizhou.
When the Huaihai Campaign was in the first stage, Li Yannian's troops were ordered to move closer to Xuzhou along the Longhai Railway, but in fact, this operation took great risks, because my Huaye department was just north of the Longhai Railway, and once the wind leaked, Li Yannian's troops would be at risk of being annihilated.
In this regard, for this operation, the Ministry of National Defense has carried out the highest level of secrecy measures, to what extent? When it was time to leave the next day, the commander-in-chief was still kept in the dark the first day.
However, a very strange thing happened, the night before the departure, someone found Li Yannian and said that the troops were going to retreat, could they take him with them, Li Yannian felt inexplicable, thinking that the principal let me stay in Haizhou, where can I go? Afterwards, he felt that something was wrong, so he called the Nanjing side, and after some inquiries, he understood what was going on, but how did a common person know about this kind of secret.
It turned out that the person who was looking for him turned out to be the spokesman of Liu Zhi, the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou' suppression, in Haizhou, who had been doing the Haiyan business, and Liu Zhi was known as a pig-headed general, who was a man of great ambition and talent, and for his own interests, he actually chose to give priority to the spokesman of his business.
In his memoirs in his later years, Li Yannian also had to sigh about this matter: It is strange that the Kuomintang is undefeated!
In November 1948, with the total annihilation of Huang Baitao's corps at Nianzhuang, the first phase of the Huaihai Campaign was also announced, and after that, hundreds of thousands of Nationalist troops stationed in the Xuzhou area began to panic, because Xuzhou had become an isolated city, and if it continued to hold out, sooner or later it would end up with the same fate as Huang Baitao.
Old Jiang was also panicked at this moment, and hastily ordered the Ministry of National Defense to formulate a plan for the retreat of xuzhou troops, and also asked Du Yuming to take a special plane to Nanjing to interview him.
As soon as he returned to Xuzhou, Du Yuming deployed the matter of the great retreat, but he thought that the stakes were too high and hua ye must not be allowed to know the situation, so he deliberately made a scene to give his mother a birthday to confuse our army.
That night, Du Yuming ordered the seizure of all the banks and money houses in Xuzhou, thinking of transporting the gold away, but tan Fulie, the commander of the guards under him, returned to report that the heads of all the banks and money houses had run away from Xuzhou three days ago.
Also, so many people in the Ministry of National Defense have business in Xuzhou, and sooner or later they will leak secrets, but Du Yuming did not expect that their hands and feet would be so fast, so he wrote in his memoirs: It seems that the Kuomintang is completely hopeless!
In January 1949, the Battle of Huaihai ended, our army annihilated a total of 550,000 Nationalist troops, and the joint operation of Huaye and Nakano achieved a comprehensive victory.
At that time, our army fought against the main force of 800,000 nationalist troops with a strength of 600,000 troops, annihilating 550,000 people, so where did the remaining 250,000 people go? Among these 250,000 people were the two major corps of Li Yannian and Liu Ruming.
Most of the nationalist troops have the tradition of "friendly troops have difficulties, and they will not be saved when they see death", so watching the brother troops being surrounded and annihilated, Li Yannian and Liu Ruming did not dare to directly put their troops into it, for fear that they would also be wrapped in dumplings.
In April 1949, the People's Liberation Army forcibly crossed the Yangtze River, the momentum was broken, and the Kuomintang began to collapse completely, and Nanjing was liberated, after which Li Yannian withdrew to Hangzhou and continued to command more than 100,000 horses, but in June, he dragged a group of defeated soldiers and fled to Fujian.
In August of the same year, the People's Liberation Army launched a general offensive against Fuzhou, and Li Yannian's 70,000 troops were completely destroyed, and in the panic, he only had time to take a dozen people from the corps headquarters to a plane and flee to Pingtan Island.
In the face of Li Yannian, who had been defeated again and again, Old Jiang entrusted him with the task of defending Pingtan Island, and at the same time, he was not at ease, and also sent Chen Cheng to sit in town.
At that time, it was Li Tianxia's 73rd Army stationed on Pingtan Island, and it should be said that Li Tianxia had pit Zhang Lingfu badly enough, and now he had pit Li Yannian, so Pingtan Island was liberated.
After Li Yannian and Li Tianxia fled to Taiwan, the elder Jiang was furious and detained them on charges of leaving their posts without permission, and they were later sentenced to 12 years in prison each.
However, they were detained for a short time, Li Tianxia was then entrusted with heavy responsibilities by old Chiang Kai-shek, and once he lived a life of drunken gold fans, and Li Yannian was a bit miserable, he lost his military post, after no job, his life was very poor, once relying on pepper salt water to dip steamed bread to survive, even smoking money to borrow from former subordinates, in 1974, Li Yannian died in extreme poverty, it is really sad and lamentable.