The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended in victory, and the devastated land of China entered a rare period of recuperation. After experiencing the arduous War of Resistance Against Japan, the strength of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party declined, so the Kuomintang pretended to be peaceful and signed the "Double Tenth Agreement" with the Communist Party in Chongqing, and both sides temporarily put aside their grievances and began to quietly restore their strength.
On the surface, the Kuomintang government coexisted peacefully with our Party, but behind the scenes, it was preparing for the start of a civil war, and in order to win the assistance of Western countries, it even did not hesitate to sell out the country's economic sovereignty. In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek's government, believing itself to be fully prepared, brazenly tore up the Double Tenth Agreement, setting off a civil war again.
Although the Kuomintang army at the time of the civil war was largely staffed and well-equipped, after the arduous War of Resistance Against Japan, peace was the common aspiration of the people of the whole country, and Chiang Kai-shek disregarded the will of the people and started a dispute again, and the end was bound to end in failure.
Soon after the start of the civil war, the situation of the Kuomintang took a sharp turn for the worse, and in the first major battle, the Liaoshen Campaign, it suffered heavy losses, and only one army escaped.
This fleeing force was the Kuomintang Fifty-second Army, which not only successfully retreated to the southern region controlled by Chiang Kai-shek, but also successfully fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek's government in the subsequent war.
Blow the horn of counterattack
In the early days of the civil war, the Kuomintang army, with its huge personnel base and sophisticated weapons and equipment, achieved considerable results in the battle against our Party, but with the support of many famous generals and the broad masses of the people, although the initial war was lost, there were not too many losses, and the situation was quickly recovered.
With the further development of the war, many patriotic Kuomintang generals either held uprisings or directly surrendered, so that the Kuomintang achieved tremendous results in a short period of time, and the number of equipment and personnel in the army began to increase, becoming stronger, and slowly narrowing the gap with the Kuomintang army.
With the joint efforts of the masses of the people and the People's Liberation Army, when Liu Deng's army successfully advanced into the Dabie Mountains, the CPC Central Committee decided to carry out a strategic decisive battle after study, and placed its first stop in the northeast region. To this end, the CPC Central Committee formulated the policy of "closing the door and fighting dogs," with the intention of annihilating the Kuomintang troops here at once.
For the importance of this battle, both the Kuomintang and the Communists were very clear, and the main generals of both sides invariably focused their attention on Jinzhou, and the two sides launched a general battle around Jinzhou, and at the same time, some of the surrounding large cities were affected, such as Shenyang and Changchun.
Precisely because both sides focused their attention on the big cities, some of the troops stationed in smaller towns were inadvertently ignored.
It was precisely because the main targets of the People's Liberation Army were all large cities that the Kuomintang Fifty-second Army was given the opportunity to escape.
Great location to escape
When the Nationalist army was inferior and besieged in the Battle of Jinzhou, Chiang Kai-shek launched two offensives, "eastward" and "westward", to help Jinzhou break the siege, and Liu Yuzhang, who was the commander of the Fifty-second Army at the time, was not selected to participate in these two offensives, which also allowed him to escape a fatal situation.
Liu Yuzhang applied for the Whampoa Military Academy in his early years, and after graduation, he participated in the Northern Expedition, and was a staunch supporter of Chiang Kai-shek, and almost unconditionally obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders.
Although Liu Yuzhang was very obedient to Chiang Kai-shek's orders, he had a long-term strategic vision, and it was thanks to this that he was able to escape in the Liaoshen Campaign.
When the Kuomintang troops were besieged in Jinzhou, Liu Yuzhang, who was ordered to garrison Yingkou at the time, understood that there was only one way to die in Jinzhou, and only by trying to find a way to break through would there be a chance to survive. The location of yingkou where he was stationed offered the possibility of his plan because of its excellent location.
During the Battle of Jinzhou, both the Kuomintang and the Communists focused on the big cities, so the defenses against relatively small towns were relatively weak, and the possibility of a breakthrough was greater from then on; at the same time, Yingkou was close to the sea, and after the breakthrough, relying on the Kuomintang naval forces, they could quickly leave the northeast instead of risking a big risk to break through the frontal battlefield.
It was precisely because of such an excellent geographical location that the Kuomintang Fifty-second Army was able to escape from the northeast.
He successfully fled and withdrew from Taiwan
After planning the escape route, Liu Yuzhang decided to start the breakthrough. However, by this time the Battle of Jinzhou had come to an end, and the unusual movements of the Fifty-second Army attracted the attention of Lin Shuai, who had sent troops to sweep away the remnants of the Kuomintang forces.
In order to break the encirclement and suppression of the Northeast Field Army, Liu Yuzhang adopted the strategy of fighting a battle against the water, using this strategy to greatly stimulate the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and temporarily break away from the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army.
Liu Yuzhang, who was well aware of the difference in strength between the two sides, did not dare to drag on, but fought and retreated, and finally insisted on the arrival of the Kuomintang naval forces, successfully left the northeast by sea, and withdrew to the southern region controlled by the Nationalist government. Liu Yuzhang and his Fifty-second Army, who successfully fled, were highly praised by Chiang Kai-shek and added more troops and equipment to this army.
In the subsequent wars, the Fifty-second Army was stationed in Shanghai, and in many battles with our army, both sides won and lost, and this army at that time was one of the few strong armies left by Chiang Kai-shek. However, it was finally difficult to recover the building, and after the Battle of the Crossing River, this unit had to follow Chiang Kai-shek to taiwan.
Chiang Kai-shek's troops, who had been defeated to Taiwan, had very few troops left, and the Fifty-second Army, which had experienced hundreds of battles, had many encounters with the People's Liberation Army, and had won many victories, had undoubtedly become one of the units he relied on the most.
In the later years, the size of this army was repeatedly expanded, Liu Yuzhang's official position was repeatedly promoted, and the Fifty-second Army became one of the strongest kuomintang troops in Taiwan.
brief summary:
Although Liu Yuzhang was subordinate to the Nationalist government, it is undeniable that he had a very good strategic vision and military ability, and his grasp of the timing was also very clever, and it was precisely because of this that he was able to lead his troops to seek a glimmer of life under the PLA, which was several times his own strength, and thus successfully retreated back to the main Kuomintang troops.
Although Chiang Kai-shek was suspicious and most of the generals under his opponents were mainly suspicious, after the defeat of Taiwan, his strength was greatly reduced, and the number of available people was suddenly reduced. It is precisely because of his own strength that Liu Yuzhang, after the defeat of Taiwan, did not end up with a rabbit dead dog cooking, but rose all the way and became rich all the way.