introduction
After Japan's surrender in 1945, Chiang Kai-shek unilaterally tore up the armistice agreement between the Kuomintang and the Communists, China had just experienced the pain of the Japanese invaders wreaking havoc on the land of China, and in an instant it fell into the civil war of national division, and many of the Kuomintang generals who cooperated sincerely during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were opposed in the blink of an eye because of their different lineups, although the final result was that the people's army led by the Communist Party won victory and established a new China, but many generals who fought heroically during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were because of Chiang Kai-shek's selfish desires. He did not die in the national war against aggression, but in the civil war of national division, which made people feel emotional!
Huang Baitao was such a general, he was in the Battle of Huaihai, because he hesitated and stayed in Nianzhuang for a day, resulting in Huang Baitao's army being surrounded by Huaye in Nianzhuang, and eventually the soldiers were defeated and killed, but looking at Huang Baitao's life, it is undoubtedly a model of a professional soldier.
Huang Baitao was from a non-Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu clan, so he was not appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek in the early days, but He Yingqin and Gu Zhu were counted as his nobles, and thus he was able to rank as the commander of the Large Corps with a non-Whampoa origin;
When Huang Baitao was a teenager, he served as a messenger of the Beiyang warlord Li Chun, and even married Li Chun's maid as his wife, so that he could be transferred by Li Chun to the Jinling Officers' Teaching Corps to study, and later turned to Zhang Zongchang, and was promoted to the post of brigade commander, and later joined Xu Yuanquan in Chiang Kai-shek, but after turning to Chiang Kai-shek, Huang Baitao was not reused, but was sent to the Army University for study, until the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was appreciated by He Yingqin for a military paper, and recommended to Gu Zhutong, which allowed Huang Baitao to go straight up.
Talent has begun to appear, and military training has been outstanding
After He Yingqin recommended Huang Baitao to Gu Zhutong, Huang Baitao seized this opportunity, actively advised Gu Zhutong, and acted as a vanguard in the 41-year Anhui Incident, won Gu Zhutong's trust, and sent him to take over the post of commander of the 25th Army, but the 25th Army at that time could be described as a miscellaneous card, because the composition of the 25th Army was both the Northeast Army and the Sichuan Army, and in the Nanjing government, it belonged to the non-concubine troops, and the weapons and supplies of the troops could not be distributed on time, and the corruption in the army was serious, and the armaments were in ruins. There are many veterans in the army who have experienced several major wars, and the orders of the superiors are also violated, the entire unit has no discipline to speak of, and sending Huang Baitao to integrate such a unit is also a test for Gu Zhutong.
After Huang Baitao took up this task, he made a survey of the situation of the entire unit and also came up with a rigorous training plan; at the beginning of his term of office, Huang Baitao carried out drastic reforms, dealing with those who disobeyed discipline in the troops according to military law, and those who repeatedly did not change their teachings were eliminated from the troops, and the discipline of the entire unit was new. The soldiers of the 25th Army admired this new commander and were willing to obey his orders, so Huang Baitao also got a high sense of identity among the grass-roots soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of the 25th Army was greatly improved in a short period of time, at the same time, Huang Baitao formulated a very rigorous targeted training for the weaknesses of the Kuomintang army in not being good at night combat and close combat, although the firepower configuration of the entire unit could not be compared with the central army, but the unit's night combat melee ability was far ahead of other miscellaneous units. Directly approaching the elite troops of the Central Army, Huang Baitao's actions were also seen by his superior Gu Zhutong, and this test of him Huang Baitao could be said to have exceeded the quota.
The Battle of Eastern Henan shined
After the surrender of Japan in 45 years, the 25th Army was reorganized into the 25th Division, with Huang Baitao as the division commander; at the Battle of Eastern Henan, when the Kuomintang army was defeated, the 25th Division led by Huang Baitao made a surprise attack on Eastern Henan and rescued the besieged Kuomintang troops, but at that time, Huang Baitao's division fought for days, and the entire army had no follow-up strength, and was attacked by Su Yu's concentrated superior forces. Eventually holding his position and waiting for Qiu Qingquan's reinforcements, Su Yu was forced to order a retreat.
Because of Huang Baitao's heroic performance in this battle, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the Seventh Corps with the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun, and it can be said that Huang Baitao relied on his military ability and his pioneering soldiers in battle to gain Chiang Kai-shek's trust step by step, and also became a rare corps commander of the Kuomintang army who was not from Huangpu.
The mill was besieged and the soldiers were defeated and killed
After Huang Baitao became the commander of the Seventh Corps, he led his troops to participate in the Battle of Huaihai, but this was also his last battle; the Seventh Corps arrived at Nianzhuang after crossing the Grand Canal, where Huang Baitao hesitated for a day because of the suggestion of Liu Zhenxiang, commander of the 64th Army, and the orders of the Ministry of National Defense, resulting in huaye's encirclement already formed, and Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps was surrounded in the area of Nianzhuang.
Several columns of the East China Field Army repeatedly surrounded and annihilated the Seventh Corps, and from the day they were besieged on November 11, until the 22nd, they finally surrounded and annihilated the Seventh Corps, and Huang Baitao, as the commander of the corps, also committed suicide because of the hopelessness of the breakthrough.
epilogue
Looking at Huang Baitao's life, compared with other Kuomintang generals, he is neither corrupt nor lustful, and he has strict requirements for himself; in addition, his military talent is outstanding, his military training ability is top-notch, he can share happiness and hardship with his subordinates, he is also a pioneer in battle, and he is not afraid of death.
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