At the end of October 1948, Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the Kuomintang Liaoxi Corps, who was ordered to command the New 1st Army, the New 6th Army, the New 3rd Army, the 71st Army, and the 49th Army, a total of 5 armies and 12 divisions, was completely annihilated by the Northeast Field Army, and had written quite valuable tactical books such as "Small Unit Tactics", "Forest Warfare Tactics", and "Town and Village Battles".
When he was captured, Liao Yaoxiang himself could not believe that the 100,000 troops under his command were the elite of the elite of the national army. In particular, the New First Army and the New Sixth Army were both trained by US officers when they were in India, and their weapons and equipment were all the same kind of American weapons, which had beaten the Japanese army to the point of urine, so how did they lose to the hands of the People's Liberation Army? Thinking about it carefully, Liao Yaoxiang suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but look up at the sky and sigh: I regret not listening to him!
Who is this "he"? This "he" is Luo Zemin, who graduated from the sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. Luo Zemin was once Hu Zongnan's "Thirteenth Taibao", who served as the commander of the 191st Division and the commander of the 202nd Division during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hu Zongnan also intended to cultivate him, but he was reluctant to let him leave from his side, so he always stayed by his side as a high counselor, so far, during the War of Resistance, although Luo Zemin was the commander of two divisions, the time was very short, a bit like hanging up for exercise. After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Luo Zemin was asked by Lao Jiang to leave Hu Zongnan's side and serve as the director of the Third Department of the Ministry of National Defense, but he was quickly ostracized by Chen Cheng and lost the post of director of the department, but Lao Jiang still let him stay by his side and serve as a senior counselor in the military department.
Moreover, Old Jiang really cherished this Luo Zemin, and wherever he went, he would take him with him and let him come up with ideas. In May 1948, he accompanied Lao Jiang to Shenyang to attend the Northeast Suppression General High-Level Military Conference, at which he put forward different opinions on Liao Yaoxiang's plan to delay the withdrawal proposed to Lao Jiang, not only did he disagree with Liao Yaoxiang's plan to delay the withdrawal, but also pointed out to the point that the Plaster Would implement the tactic of encircling points and providing reinforcements, and eventually the Nationalist army might fall into a dangerous situation of being fully encircled.
However, Luo Zemin had never really fought a battle, and in the face of Liao Yaoxiang, who had achieved brilliant results in the war against Japan, old Jiang certainly could not accept Luo Zemin's opinion, and after the real defeat of the army, I am afraid that not only Liao Yaoxiang, but even old Jiang would think that he should not regret not listening to Luo Zemin's words!