History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
The Battle of Huaihai was a military operation by Chiang Kai-shek to gamble on the fortunes of the country; when all the battlefields in the country were in full swing, he dispatched troops everywhere to create a military superiority in the Xu Beng area, trying to rely on the strong military fortifications around Xu Beng to inflict heavy damage on Su Yu's East China Field Army in the defense with a clustered heavy army group, and to reverse the situation in the Central Plains in one fell swoop.
At the beginning, it was intended to have Bai Chongxi, who was recognized as the most military talented in the Kuomintang, to unify the command. Previously, Bai Chongxi had just helped Li Zongren of the Gui clan to elect vice president, which offended Chiang Kai-shek, and also made Chiang Kai-shek feel that Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren, two Gui clan bigwigs, could not be put together, and the threat was too great, so he took Bai's defense minister and sent him to be the commander-in-chief of the Central China Suppression Campaign. In fact, this is a position with great real power, and in that era, this position of controlling actual military power is the real beauty difference. Why did Jiang dare to let Bai take up such a position of real power, because at that time there were many troops of the Gui clan in central China, and he was not afraid of the Gui clan making trouble, but he did not see that it was necessary to mobilize the troops there immediately, this was like taking a step to see when playing chess, if the vision was far-sighted, this huge trick was easy to see.
However, Bai Chongxi did not see it, he still liked the glory aura of being the minister of defense, the kind of excitement that could be unveiled on various major occasions. So Bai did not do it, and also gambled and ran to Shanghai to do Yugong. Later, it was Huang Shaohu, a big man of the Gui clan, who specially ran to Shanghai to enlighten him and persuade him to go to Wuhan to grasp central China, where there were several elite main forces of the Gui clan, and once the time was ripe, they could force the palace on Chiang Kai-shek and let Chiang Kai-shek go to the wilderness. Bai Chongxi listened, and only then did he take office in Wuhan. After he took office, as the war situation in the Central Plains battlefield changed, Jinan was captured by Huaye, and intelligence showed that Su Yu's next target was Xuzhou. At the same time that Chiang Kai-shek mobilized various armies to gather Xu Beng, he considered that he still had to use really capable people in critical moments, so he planned to let Bai Chongxi come out to unify his command, but he still divided the Xuzhou suppression general and the central China suppression general into two parts, and the Xuzhou part was commanded by Liu Zhi.
Why? Obviously, Li Zongren's wings are almost hardened, the Americans are very disappointed by Chiang Kai-shek's continuous defeat in the civil war, and have been looking for someone to replace him, intelligence shows that they are looking for Li Zongren, if bai Chongxi is allowed to control all the remaining elites, Xu Beng will win the battle of Xu Beng, I am afraid that the speed of going to the field will be faster, so let Liu Zhi manage Xuzhou and control all the elites of Chiang Kai-shek's lineage, then if the battle is won, you can divide Bai Chongxi's aura, and if you lose, you can shirk responsibility. Because the battle was commanded by Bai Chongxi. This calculation is home.
Bai Chongxi did not see it at first and gladly went to work. At the military conference of the Battle of Xu Beng, it was also ambitiously proposed that Huang Wei of Central China and Zhang Gan's corps of the Gui clan all be transferred to Xu Beng's side to break the main force of Huaye Nakano in one fell swoop. Then, less than a day later, unable to find any reason in the public information that could be found, Bai suddenly stopped doing it, saying that it was difficult for him to go to Xuzhou to command and obey. It was obvious that he had been instructed by Li Zongren.
After Bai returned to Wuhan to suppress the general in central China, he immediately organized Huang Wei and Zhang Gan's corps to begin to attack the troops in Liu Bocheng's Dabie Mountain base area, with the intention of leaving Huang Wei and other elite Chiang Kai-shek clan stranded in Dabie Mountain, and after Chiang Kai-shek's defeat at the Battle of Xu Beng, the Gui clan could rely on these troops to control the Kuomintang regime. It just so happened that in order to drag the Kuomintang huazhong troops to the battlefield of the Central Plains, Liu Bocheng ordered the remaining troops in the base area to launch a wide range of raids and disturbances, and the intentions of the two sides were just in agreement, so the 12th Corps of Huang Weibu went around in the mountains, which seriously depleted the physical morale of the soldiers, and a large number of heavy military equipment were also consumed to the maintenance period. You must know that people are not machines, you run in the mountains for dozens of days continuously, and then you have to rush to the Xuzhou battlefield without stopping, and this combat strength is estimated to be reduced by half.
Well, after all this was done, Huang Wei's corps began to rest, replenish supplies, and maintain equipment, but at this time Xuzhou was already very passive, Huang Baitao was surrounded, Qiu Li's corps could not attack Su Yu's defensive blocking position, and Su Yu also placed a large number of troops on both sides of The Qiu And Li Corps, with the intention of being secretive, so Chiang Kai-shek did not care to let Huang Wei rest, and directly issued a death order to let Huang Chi come to his aid.
Huang Wei is Chiang Kai-shek's die-hard loyal concubine, and there is no way for him to rush to Bai Chongxi's aid, but he can argue with Chiang Kai-shek to delay time, and the front let Huang Jin suppress is that now he is looking for excuses to delay him in various things such as the concentration of the Troops of the Yellow Corps, the mobilization, and the need to replenish ammunition.
Therefore, the yellow corps' rush to help was seriously delayed, and after waiting for the road, it encountered continuous rainstorm weather, causing the road to be muddy and Huang Wei's mechanized army finally did not run through Nakano's two feet. When Huang Wei finally arrived, just as Huang Baitao was destroyed, Huaye Nakano could free his hands to kill him. Whether this time is mastered by heaven, or is It Su Yu holding it, or it is still a white calculation, and the three are one, and only God knows this.
Later, when the 400,000 elite main forces of Huang Wei Du Yuming's clique were encircled, Chiang Kai-shek was faced with immediate ruin. At this time, the use of Huaye Zhongye's troops had also reached its limit, and it was also relatively dangerous, at this time Chiang Kai-shek called and ordered Bai Chongxi to transfer another of Chiang's concubines, Song Xilian Corps, to load ships and sail down the xuzhou battlefield, if it could be carried out quickly, Song 100,000 people came, then Liu Ruming, Li Yannian and Song Xilian would and their confidence and strength soared, and the possibility of breaking through the encirclement circle of Huaye Zhongye respectively was relatively large.
However, Bai Chongxi just resisted, Chiang Kai-shek's orders were useless, it was useless to cry and beg for good words, anyway, what method was exhausted was not enough, Song Xilian's corps forcibly loaded the ship, and Bai Chongxi detained the ship. In the next step, it is time to move, and the most powerful units of the Guizhou clan in Central China, including the Seventh Army of Steel, are completely inferior to chiang kai-shek's five main forces. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had no way to break his face, and had to watch his 420,000 main forces slowly be eliminated.
Then, sure enough, the Gui clan launched the palace drama as scheduled, and Jiang was forced to step down to Li Zongren and began to take the stage, saying that at this time Jiang retreated to the control behind the scenes, but at this time Huazhong was really under the control of the Gui clan. At this time, the United States sent a message to Bai Chongxi that there were American weapons that could arm hundreds of thousands of troops, and as long as he drove the troops to a certain coastal port, he would give them all to Bai, but then it was Chiang Kai-shek's turn. No matter how hard Bai tried, Chiang Kai-shek just wouldn't let the Gui army enter the coastline, and at that time he wanted to enter the coast of Guangdong. Under the pressure of Lin Biao's heavy troops, most of Bai Chongxi's thoughts had always been here, but they had not been achieved until the end. If bai really replenished hundreds of thousands of US weapons, it would be difficult to say, at least when the Gui clan retreated to Hainan Island, it would not be able to fight.
Therefore, the talents of the Kuomintang are not unwise but too clever, and the ghosts are more powerful than one, and they all hold the idea of demolishing others as their own, and finally find that there is nothing after dismantling.