Huang Wei was one of the last batch of Kuomintang war criminals to be pardoned, and there are simply countless words and deeds about his stubborn words and deeds of resisting reform, but the reason why he has a tough attitude and has always been passive in resisting reform is mainly because he is unconvinced in his heart.
Huang Wei
Huang Wei was a first-term student of the Whampoa Military Academy and a graduate of the first special class of the Army University; among the Kuomintang officers, he was regarded as an authentic "science class origin." He was keen to study Chinese and foreign martial arts at a young age, and he counted as reading tens of thousands of volumes, and his military theory was very solid; before participating in the Huaihai Campaign, Huang Wei was preparing to establish a new-style officer school in Wuhan, with him as the principal, this school was one of Chiang Kai-shek's key deployments at that time, and he invested a lot of money and manpower, intending to imitate the system of the United States Military Academy at West Point and train officers of the navy, army, and air force for the Kuomintang army.
Less than two years after the preparation of the military academy, the Huaihai Campaign began, and Huang Wei was urgently transferred to Xuzhou by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander-in-chief of the 12th Corps.
Huang Wei was more honest in temperament and had a bad popularity; when he was the commander of the 54th Army in Yunnan, he was at odds with his superior Guan Linzheng and was almost imprisoned; second, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he had war-weariness, and in 1946 he took his wife and children back to his hometown in the countryside of Jiangxi, wanting to "unload his armor and return to the field", and was later invited by Chiang Kai-shek to serve as the principal of the new military academy, and only then did he re-emerge from the mountains, and later because of the controversy over the selection of the commander of the 12th Group Army, Huang Wei was temporarily appointed by Chiang Kai-shek and parachuted into Xuzhou.
The scene of Huang Wei and his men being captured
Huang Wei had not been on the battlefield for many years, and temporarily parachuted into the Huaihai battlefield as a corps commander, and as a result, less than three months after he was hastily put into battle, the entire army was destroyed and he himself was captured.
For his failure, his classmates Chen Geng and deputy Hu Lian both thought that Huang Wei had solid theoretical knowledge and was an excellent instructor, but he had insufficient combat experience in commanding large corps, and was dogmatic and rigid in command, in short, a "nerd."
Huang Wei himself was very unconvinced, and when interviewed by reporters, he patiently answered other questions, but as long as the Huaihai Campaign was mentioned, Huang Wei would blush and have a thick neck, and even threatened that if both sides retreated 20 miles and fought again, he would never lose.
In his later years, Huang Wei
It is a pity that history is history, not exercises, and the results of the war that have become facts cannot be rewritten under any circumstances.
In the end, Huang Wei still put aside his stubbornness of not admitting mistakes and accepting defeat, carried out serious ideological reform, and spoke at the conference as the representative of the last batch of amnesty war criminals.
1. Will Huang Wei fight in the end? LuoDian became famous in world war I and was called "nerd" by his colleagues.
As a first-term student of Huangpu, Huang Wei participated in the Northern Expedition after graduation and was promoted rapidly.
In 1932, after graduating from the first special class of the Army University in Beijing, 28-year-old Huang Wei was appreciated by Chen Cheng, commander of the 18th Army, and became the brigade commander of the 11th Division, became the deputy division commander in March 1933, and became the commander of the 11th Division in July.
Huang Wei was in the Northern Expeditionary Army
In September 1937, Huang Wei led his troops to participate in the Songhu War of Resistance, famous for the "Battle of Luodian", he wrote in his memoirs: "I was the commander of the Sixty-seventh Division of the Eighteenth Army, and I held out in Luodian for a week, and at the end, three regimental commanders under me, one was killed in battle, and two were seriously injured. In addition to a telegrapher, even the clerks and cooks in the division headquarters took guns to the battlefield. After the post-war reorganization, the living could not even get together a regiment, which was very tragic..."
The Battle of Luodian was the most tragic battle in the first phase of the Songhu War of Resistance, and later generations compared it with the Battle of Verdun in World War I, and compared with the Battle of the "Verdun Meat Grinder", the Battle of Luodian was no less tragic, known as the "Flesh and Blood Mill".
Battle of Luodian
The Songhu War of Resistance began on August 20, Chen Cheng was ordered to reinforce on August 24, his 67th Division of the 18th Army fought fiercely at Luodian, the division commander Li Shusen was seriously wounded, Huang Wei, who had just returned from studying in Germany, was ordered to take over as division commander and rush to battle.
Since air and sea supremacy were not in the hands of the Chinese army, the Battle of Luodian was almost a flesh and blood battle against the enemy's aircraft, artillery, and tanks with the flesh and blood of Chinese soldiers, and in the end, the town of Luodian was completely empty of rubble and corpses.
After the war, Luodian
Although this battle was solemnly commended by the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang, Huang Wei, who had received military training from Germany, let his subordinates attack hard in order to realize Chiang Kai-shek's command that "there is no retreat, there is no enemy without us, and if there is no success, it will become a benevolent person."
2. After the defeat, he fled separately with the deputy commander Hu Lian, but was captured because he was trapped in a new American tank
However, Chiang Kai-shek was very satisfied with Huang Wei's attitude of fulfilling his military orders to the letter, so at the critical time of the Huaihai War, he abandoned the command of Hu Lian, the commander of the experienced reorganized 18th Army, and transferred Huang Weilai as the commander of the 12th Corps, with Hu Lian as deputy commander.
Although Huang Wei modestly claimed that he had only come to put on a name and that the military command was decided by Hu Lian, Hu Lian was still angry and asked for leave, and at the end of October 1948, he left the army for Wuhan on the grounds that his father was seriously ill and he wanted to cure dental disease.
Hu Lian
Beginning in November, in the first phase of the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu surrounded Huang Baitao's corps at Nianzhuang, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered Huang Wei's 12th Corps to march from Zhumadian, Henan to Xuzhou as quickly as possible, ordering the 16th Corps to go south along the Jinpu Railway, and the 6th and 8th Corps to go north along the railway, planning that the three-way army would meet at Suxian County, Anhui Province, open up the Jinpu Road xu beng, and turn the unfavorable tide of the war.
As a result, on November 8, the Huang Wei Corps set out, on the 18th, it was attacked by the Central Plains Field Army in the Mengcheng area, and on the 23rd, the Huang Wei Corps, which was eager to make contributions, took the lead in attacking and ventured alone.
In fact, at this time, General Chen Geng was stationed in Nanpingji, he was a classmate of Huang Wei, he knew Huang Wei's temperament, knew that Huang Wei was from a teaching background, superstitious books, obstinacy, and "the law of war" at every turn, so Chen Geng adopted the method of abandoning the position he had occupied and luring the enemy to go deeper, in order to introduce the Huang Wei Corps into the pocket array that the Central Plains Field Army had already laid out, and Huang Wei was indeed calculated.
General Chen Geng
On November 25, the 120,000 men and horses of Huang Wei's corps were trapped in Shuangduiji near Suxian County, and Chiang Kai-shek discovered that Hu Lian was not at the front line, immediately summoned Hu Lian to Nanjing for an interview, and ordered the Air Force to send Hu Lian to the Shuangduiji front line by small plane.
On December 1, after Hu Lian arrived, he went to inspect the positions of various armies, and for a time, the morale of Huang Wei's corps was greatly boosted, and Huang Wei saw that Nakano had dug many trench fortifications near the encirclement circle, and when he could not break through for a while, he used his equipment advantage to organize a circular defensive circle of the so-called "hard walnut" tactic, and threatened to make the Nakano army lose its teeth, swell its belly, and lose to the front.
Although Huang Wei's "hard walnut" was not easy to nibble, the seven columns of Nakano were equal in number to the Huang Wei Corps, but the equipment was far behind, but with the timely support of the three columns of HuaYe, a fierce battle finally caused the Huang Wei Corps to run out of food, and it was a cold winter, and many of Huang Wei's subordinates had no house to live in, lacked food and heating materials, and their combat effectiveness dropped sharply.
On December 7, Huang Wei sent Hu Lian to Nanjing to report the situation to Chiang Kai-shek, first to urge Hu to live in Nanjing, so as not to die with the corps, but on the evening of December 8, Chiang Kai-shek invited Song Xilian, Hu Lian, Chiang Ching-kuo and others to have dinner, and after the meal, he screened the movie "Wen Tianxiang" and said to Song and Hu: "This film is very good." Implying that the two should be loyal to the party-state, on December 9, Hu Lian flew back to Shuangduiji to convey to Huang Wei chiang kai-shek's instructions that they could break through in a critical moment.
Nakano and Huaye attacked the Huang Wei Corps in general, and the so-called "car defense line" was broken
On December 12, after Nakano and Huaye launched a general offensive, on the evening of the 15th, Huang Wei ordered a breakthrough, and Huang Wei and two deputy commanders Hu Lian and Wu Shaozhou left separately.
Wu Shaozhou gave up riding on the tank and was quickly captured, Hu Lian gave one of the latest models of tanks in the corps to his superior Huang Wei, and left in the old tank himself, as a result, Huang Wei took this new type of tank that had never been started, broke anchor on the road and was captured, and Hu Lian, who was called "cunning as a fox and fierce as a tiger" by Chairman Mao, rode on the old tank but was fine, rushed out of the siege, encountered the cavalry regiment of the Eighteenth Army that was not surrounded, ran all the way to Nanjing, and later went to Taiwan, was appointed general, and became the "Commander of Kinmen Defense" for many years.
Hu Lian, nicknamed "Fox"
In the reminiscences, Hu Lian said: "Commander Huang Wei was a clean, diligent, simple, studious, and good soldier, but his command of the large corps was not honed. He served as a military commander and has not since commanded the army in a higher position. Now that he has suddenly received the heavy responsibility of 100,000 elite soldiers standing alone, he feels uncomfortable everywhere in the marching operation..." Euphemistically pointed out that Huang Wei's command ability was limited.
3, Huang Wei was not convinced until he died, and he wanted to "fight again"
For the defeat in the Battle of Huaihai, Huang Wei believed that it was Du Yuming's command mistake until his death, whether in the war criminals management center, or in interviews and memoirs, he pointed the finger at Du Yuming.
After his release from prison, Huang Wei and his wife Cai Ruoshu
In fact, Du Yuming's military command ability is above Huang Wei, kunlun pass against Japan is a clear proof, but in the Huaihai Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek often bypassed Du Yuming to directly order and deploy strategies, to say that command responsibility should be borne by Chiang Kai-shek himself, Chiang Kai-shek's military ability, Bai Chongxi has always believed that "at most can be a platoon leader", but the foolish and loyal Huang Wei only knows to act according to orders, and there is no overall view at all.
Afterwards, Huang Wei believed that on November 22, Huang Baitao's corps had been completely annihilated, but he did not know it, a strong lone army went deep, and Du Yuming was ordered to reinforce on December 3, but the reinforcements were delayed, these two reasons caused the 12th Corps to be completely annihilated, so once someone mentioned the Battle of Huaihai, he said indignantly that the two sides pushed back 20 miles, and if they fought again, he would never lose.
Scene of Huang Wei (first from right) being captured
In fact, before Hu Lian returned to the army, Huang Wei's corps had not yet been completely surrounded, and Yang Botao, commander of his 18th Army, suggested that he go to Guzhen and join forces with Li Yannian, and no one could surround more than 200,000 well-equipped troops.
However, Huang Wei only thought of Chiang Kai-shek's order to ask him to reinforce Huang Baitao's corps as soon as possible, bent on "being loyal" and striving for performance in front of Chiang Kai-shek, so he delayed in Nanpingji for 16 hours, almost a whole day, before deciding to "disobey" without Chiang Kai-shek's consent, and at this time the road had long been cut off by Nakano.
Huang Wei's defeat, defeated by foolishness, defeated by dogmatism, lack of flexibility, rigid command, only the upper intention is followed, only the book is from, fight again, he does not know how to guide by snobbery, of course, he will also fail.
After his wife committed suicide, Huang Wei was still busy doing "perpetual motion machine" experiments
After that, he studied the perpetual motion machine that had long been "sentenced to death" by science at the War Criminals Management Institute, and spent decades of effort refusing to give up and admit defeat, and even his daughter, who was studying in the physics department of Tsinghua University, could not convince him theoretically, and even the suicide of his wife Cai Ruoshu could not stop him in action, which showed that the total destruction of Huang Wei's corps was by no means accidental.