History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
In August 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the fourteen-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended in the final victory of the Chinese nation, and the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression also became the first complete victory of China in modern times to resist foreign invasion!
The people who have been devastated by war hate war, long for peace, and hope to be able to build a country peacefully; the supreme leader of our party personally went to Chongqing with the greatest sincerity and launched "Chongqing negotiations" with the Chiang Kai-shek government for more than forty days on the peaceful construction of the country, and finally the two sides signed the "Double Tenth Agreement," but the Chiang Kai-shek government had no intention of peacefully building the country.
The Chiang Kai-shek government has a large number of generals and a wide range of weapons and equipment, so our army was in a strategic defensive posture at the beginning of the war, but it was never the number of people and the superiority of weapons that determined a war, but the "people's will." The Chiang Kai-shek government acted perversely and the people's will was lost, so although the momentum was fierce at the beginning, it was soon powerless to follow.
Our party represents the interests of the broadest masses of the people, is supported by the masses of the people, and with the support of the people, the soldiers of our army are becoming more and more courageous, so since July 1947, our army has shifted from strategic defense to strategic offensive, and after the end of the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin, the main force of the national army has almost completely been destroyed, and it is a matter of time before our party wins a nationwide victory.
Therefore, the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin are three battles with the nature of an important strategic decisive battle!
Among these three battles, the most difficult to fight is the Huaihai Campaign, according to the "Three Major Battles": The Huaihai Campaign was the battle in which the People's Liberation Army suffered the heaviest sacrifice, annihilated the largest number of enemies, had the greatest political influence, and had the most complicated war style. According to statistics, the number of casualties in the People's Liberation Army exceeded 130,000, which is much higher than the number of casualties in the Liaoshen and Pingjin battles!
So why was the Battle of Huaihai so difficult to fight? We may be able to see some clues from the generals of the Nationalist army who fought against our army!
According to the "Battle of Huaihai", in the Battle of Huaihai, the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist army was Liu Zhi, and other important commanders included Du Yuming, Huang Baitao, Qiu Qingquan and others.
In terms of the selection of commanders, Chiang Kai-shek first considered Bai Chongxi, but Bai Chongxi did not agree with the nationalist army's deployment plan and resolutely resigned, and Chiang Kai-shek thought of Du Yuming, but Du Yuming had been urgently transferred to the Northeast Bandit General Headquarters, and Chiang Kai-shek, who had no one to use, finally chose Liu Zhi, who was then the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou Bandits, to command the war, but this did not mean that Liu Zhi was incompetent.
On the contrary, Liu Zhi was a general who was highly appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, known as the "Fu General" in the Northern Expedition War and the "Changsheng General" in the Central Plains War, who defeated Sun Chuanfang's main force in one fell swoop in the Battle of Longtan, turned the tide of the war, defeated Hu Zongren's general Hu Zongduo in the Jiang-Gui War, defeated Tang Shengzhi in the Jiang-Tang War, defeated Fu Zuoyi in the Central Plains War, and in April 1935, Chiang Kai-shek was first awarded the title of general, and Liu Zhi was awarded the rank of second-class general, ranking seventh with Bai Chongxi, who was known as "Little Zhuge Ge". Among the Huangpu generals, he ranked first, second only to the first-class general He Yingqin.
Du Yuming's great name is known to everyone, and he can be called the "God of War of the East" by Montgomery, which is enough to show his ability to command troops to fight!
He was a cadet of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and after graduation, he made his debut in the Battle of the National Revolutionary Army's Crusade against Chen Jiongming, and was appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, and the most brilliant battle of his life was to crush Japan's most elite Fifth Division regiment in the Battle of Kunlun Mountain, and the Fifth Division regiment was known in Japan as the Flower of the Army, the First Division, the elite of the elite, and the "Steel Army" that could not be defeated!
Qiu Qingquan is a lieutenant general in the National Revolutionary Army (posthumously awarded the second rank of general), graduated from the second phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, this person has an extremely "contradictory" personality, both maverick, violent and arrogant, and fighting to kill, so he is known as "Qiu Crazy", there is also a dance ink, delve into poetry, has written a number of military works, but also proficient in many Chinese words, can be described as a talented "Confucian general"!
He became famous in the Battle of Kunlun Pass and made many achievements in the Battle of Longling, and was one of the best generals in the Huangpu Army, and the Second Corps, known as one of the "Five Ace Main Forces of the Kuomintang Army", was personally trained by him.
Huang Baitao was a lieutenant general of the Nationalist Army (posthumously awarded the second rank general), who was awarded the Order of Guanghua Baoding and the Order of qingtian bairi, this person is quite legendary, he is not Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu concubine, but the ace general who emerged from the miscellaneous army, the reorganized 25th Division led by him was the main force in the Central Plains battlefield, and won a series of battles such as the Battle of Menglianggu, which can be described as a remarkable battle achievement, and its role was second only to that of the elite Fifth Army of the Nationalist Army.
brief summary:
In addition to the above-mentioned few people, the other generals of the Nationalist army are also experienced in hundreds of battles, brave and good at war, none of them are mediocre, and unlike the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign, the number and weapons and equipment of the Chinese army in the Huaihai Campaign are all superior to our army, so this makes the Huaihai Campaign the most difficult battle of the three major battles, and the casualties of our army exceed 130,000!
Despite this, our army still won this war, and it was a comprehensive victory, and the key to this is that "the hearts of the people are turned back"; although the number of our army is inferior to that of the nationalist army, there are more than five million former migrant workers behind our army, so the victory in the Huaihai Campaign was "pushed out by a small cart"!