A great decisive battle in Huaihai cost Chiang Kai-shek 800,000 troops, and his elite troops were all annihilated by the heroic people's army in this battle. Even Du Yuming, the fire brigade commander known as Chiang Kai-shek, was defeated and captured in this battle. Including the well-equipped Second Corps (Qiu Qingquan was killed in battle), the 12th Corps (Huang Wei was captured), and the Seventh Corps (Huang Baitao was killed in battle), all of which were also lost in this great battle. The commanders of these three elite corps were either killed or captured, and none of them successfully broke through.
Chiang Kai-shek's three main corps in the Huaihai Campaign were all reimbursed, but the commanders of the auxiliary corps in this campaign all succeeded in breaking through. What is the Auxiliary Corps? This means that the size of the establishment is not very large, the combat effectiveness is average, and in this decisive battle, the combat task is reinforcement or blockade. For example, Li Yannian, Sun Yuanliang, Li Mi, Liu Ruming and other four generals, the corps led in the Battle of Huaihai can be called auxiliary corps. The last few, under the cover of the generals, successfully broke through, or dressed up in disguise.
So the question is, what happened to the four generals Sun Yuanliang, Li Mi, Liu Ruming, and Li Yannian who successfully broke through from the Battle of Huaihai?
After these four generals successfully fled to Nanjing after leaving their troops behind, Chiang Kai-shek did not blame them too much, and the four generals all followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan later.
Sun Yuanliang graduated from the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and was a general of Chiang Kai-shek's concubine. In the Battle of Huaihai, he served as commander of the 16th Corps. This time Sun Yuanliang left the 16th Corps and fled back to Nanjing alone, where he was not criticized by Chiang Kai-shek and asked him to reorganize the 16th Corps. However, in the southwest campaign, Sun Yuanliang's 16th Corps under the jurisdiction of two armies electrified the uprising, overnight, the fleeing general became the commander of the light pole, helpless Sun Yuanliang could only take a special plane to Hong Kong, and then invited by Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan.
However, at this time, Sun Yuanliang also had self-knowledge. Knowing that in the army, there was no way out if he stayed any longer, so he chose to go down to the field to engage in business. In the 1970s, a noodle restaurant called "Tenfukuen" was opened in Japan. It's not a lot of money, but it's no problem maintaining a family's livelihood. In 1975, Sun Yuanliang returned to Taiwan from Japan and settled in Kaohsiung. On May 25, 2007, Sun Yuanliang died at the age of 103, the longest-lived of the Whampoa generals.
Li Mi graduated from the fourth term of the Whampoa Military Academy and was also a general of the Whampoa clan. In the Battle of Huaihai, Li Mi served as commander of the 13th Corps. Fortunately for him, the 13th Corps was completely destroyed in the Battle of Huaihai, but Li Mi, as the commander of the corps, managed to escape. Later, he was also reused by Chiang Kai-shek, who re-formed the 13th Corps and served as the commander of the Eighth Army.
In the later Southwest Campaign, Li Mi's Eighth Army was still a relatively strong unit, fighting several victorious battles for Chiang Kai-shek in Yunnan. However, the impact was not large, and after Liu Deng's army eliminated Song Xilian's army, Lu Han in Yunnan chose to revolt, and Li Mi was detained by Lu Han at this time. In the end, he pretended to say that he would also revolt, and he was released. Turning around, Li Mi continued to make enemies of the people and chose to be loyal to the Chiang dynasty. Later, part of the Eighth Army under his leadership withdrew to Burma. Therefore, Li Mi, who went to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, was sent to Burma by chiang the elder Chiang Kai-shek to command this unit and prepare for a counterattack at any time.
In 1953, this lone force dominated the Golden Triangle, and Burma, in desperation, filed a lawsuit against the United Nations. Under pressure from the United Nations, Chiang Kai-shek withdrew this force from the Golden Triangle in 1954, leaving only a few people to voluntarily remain and become the lone army in northern Thailand. Li Mi, who returned to Taiwan from the Golden Triangle, continued to serve in the army for ten years, but his position and rank were not promoted. It was not until 1973, when Li Mi died of illness, that he was posthumously awarded the title of second-class general of the Army.
Liu Ruming belonged to the generals of the Northwest Army, not the Generals of the Huangpu Clan, and because of his bravery and good fighting, he was appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek and reused. It may be that Liu Ruming was a famous general on the anti-Japanese battlefield, but during the civil war, his performance varied greatly. Therefore, Liu Ruming did not achieve decent results in the Battle of Huaihai, as long as there was a little wind and grass, he chose to retreat and preserve his strength. Because he knew that he was not a concubine of Chiang Kai-shek, once he had no soldiers in his hands, he would have no capital.
Liu Ruming, who blindly chose to retreat on the battlefield, was unable to save in the end, and the troops he brought out with his own hands became the commander of the light pole and followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan. During his time in Taiwan, Liu Ruming's life was very difficult, and he was not used by Chiang Kai-shek and lived on relief. He died of illness in 1975 and was posthumously promoted to general of the second rank of the Army.
Li Yannian graduated from the Huangpu Phase I, and was also a famous general who experienced hundreds of battles, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he repelled the Japanese army many times on the battlefield and made meritorious contributions to the cause of the War of Resistance. However, during the Liberation War, Li Yannian's performance was not very good. In the Battle of Huaihai, he served as the commander of the Sixth Corps, responsible for reinforcing the Huang Wei Corps, but failed to achieve decent results, and finally could only lead the remnants to flee to Nanjing.
During the Battle of the Crossing River, Li Yannian was again entrusted with a heavy responsibility, serving as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Yangtze River Defense Line, and commanding the Seventh, Eighth, and Seventeenth Corps to defend against the People's Army in Jinhua. Unexpectedly, a million troops crossed the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River defense line collapsed in an instant. Helpless, Li Yannian could only continue to lead his troops to retreat, fleeing to Fuzhou, and finally absconding to Taiwan. After Li went to Taiwan, he was reprimanded and sent to court-martial by Chiang Kai-shek. Fortunately, Li Yannian's popularity is good, and under the intercession of Jiang Dingwen, Liu Anqi and others, Li was released from prison after serving a year in prison. But his later life was very difficult, it can be said that he was poor, and he died of illness in 1974.