The Kuomintang lieutenant general Huang Baitao had a rough life and changed his master several times, Huang Baitao was a descendant of the general of the Huai Army, who followed Zhang Zongchang in his early years and then surrendered to Chiang Kai-shek with Xu Yuanquan. When Chiang Kai-shek heard that an enemy battalion commander had beaten his Northern Expeditionary Army very badly, he received him and asked some military questions, and Huang Baitao answered them like a stream, and from then on he joined Chiang Kai-shek's clique. In the early years, Huang Baitao attached great importance to the position of power and always wanted to lead a lot of soldiers, so his battles were very brave. After being absorbed by Chiang Kai-shek, under the famous general Zhang Zhenhan, he was stationed in the western Hubei region of Hubei Province, specializing in dealing with the Red Third Army in the Xiang'ebian and Honghu Su districts, and his name was Huang Xin at that time.
He fought bravely in several engagements with the Red Army, saving the main brigade of the 41st Division in the Battle of Wamiaoji, and Huang Xin was also wounded, and after recovering from his wounds, he served as the brigade commander of the 144th Brigade of the 48th Division. This weak brigade was annihilated by He Long at the Battle of Wenjiadun in 1932. Huang Xin thought that the credit had been taken by Zhang Zhenhan, and Zhang Zhenhan's wish to become the head of the division did not help. In the Battle of Zhongbao, the secret code of the Nationalist army was deciphered by the Red Army. Zhang Zhenhan fell under siege, and although Huang Xin completed his efforts to hold zhongbao and was promoted to commander of the 41st Division, he was complained by Zhang Zhenhan's men, and Huang Xin, who had five regiments in his hands, only sent two regiments to rescue Zhang Zhenhan. Zhang Zhenhan was captured, and he also blamed Huang Xin for not doing his best, but for his intention to take revenge.
In order to balance all aspects, Chiang Kai-shek sent Huang Xin to Lu University to study. Huang Xin changed his name to Huang Baitao, temporarily bid farewell to the control of military power, and entered the staff system. Huang Baitao was first assigned to the Sixth Theater, but the Sixth Theater existed in name only and had no territory, and was abolished shortly after. Huang Baitao went to the three theaters and served as the chief of staff of the theater, assisting Gu Zhutong in commanding the operation. Because the three war zones are well managed, the relationship with Gu Zhutong is also very good. However, Huang Baitao punished corruption and offended many people, and Gu Zhutong arranged for Huang Baitao to serve as a commander in the 25th Army in order to save his mind. Unexpectedly, Huang Baitao turned a rotten army that anyone could step on and built it into an ace in the three war zones. Not long after Japan surrendered, the 25th Army's real combat effectiveness was in the Liberation War.
At that time, the Kuomintang troops were repeatedly defeated and rarely won battles, but this 25th Army was destined to be a dark horse and rarely lost battles. Gu Zhutong responded to the needs of this ace army and took the lead in equipping a full set of Japanese equipment. Although the fame of the 25th Army does not have the five main forces, the battle it fought is really not worse than theirs, and the five main forces are Chiang Kai-shek's main forces and are equipped with a full set of AMERICAN weapons, and Huang Baitao naturally cannot compare. Among them, the Fifth Army is the first mechanized unit, the 18th Army is a unit with a large number of generals, the 74th Army is the most offensive unit, and the New First Army and the New Sixth Army are expeditionary force units, directly receiving equipment from the US army. The mainstream operational thinking of the five main forces is to combine infantry and artillery, open the way with armor, forcibly intersperse, and crush the opponent.
In terms of equipment, the 25th Army did not have this condition, but the technology and tactics of the 25th Army were still very clever, especially good at close combat and night combat, which were higher than other Kuomintang troops. Gu Zhutong was the chief of staff of the Kuomintang and had a good relationship with the commander of the Air Force, and could often send aircraft to the 25th Army to cooperate with the operation, including advanced paratrooper units. The paratroopers have to start from 1942, when the 5th Army was attacked by Japanese airborne troops during the Burmese operation against Japan. Commander Du Yuming was deeply impressed by the role of airborne troops in the war, and only after that the first airborne unit of the Chinese army was born.
However, to be fair, in addition to the several unexpected victories of the paratrooper units in the war against Japan, in the liberation war, their light weapons characteristics, no heavy fire cover, the role is often not as strong as the field troops. In the Battle of Eastern Henan, Huang Baitao arranged the third rapid column to the west, and as a result, he lost more than half of it in less than a day, and the paratroopers could only do some sneak attacks, and the defensive positions were really inferior to the field army. Seeing that the third rapid column had lost troops, Huang Baitao sent reinforcements and finally held his position. Huang Baitao was anxious at that time, claiming that even if he dismissed the official, he would also put the paratrooper commander Zhang Xuzi to justice. In fact, the paratroopers had tried their best, and due to the large losses in the war, the paratroopers were withdrawn after the war.
When the battle was tense, our army stormed the Rapid Second General Brigade in Chen Gang, almost breaking the enemy's defense line. Seeing that Chen Gang was in danger, Huang Baitao personally came to Chen Gang's command and repelled eight consecutive chargebacks of our army. Under Gu Shitong's arrangement, Chiang Kai-shek's air force dispatched, in groups of 3 or 5, constantly strafing our army at low altitude and dropping bombs. Huang Baitao's troops and air force have initially realized the integrated operation of air and ground. In the Battle of Eastern Henan, our army gathered three main columns to besiege Huang Baitao, but under the interference of enemy aircraft, it failed. Huang Baitao, who was in a hurry, even jumped on the tank to carry out a counter-charge despite the advice, and finally stabilized his position and saved his life. The breakthrough defense of the 25th Army changed the situation of the war and also caused Su Yu to be a tiger in the Battle of Eastern Henan. The battle was fought well, and Huang Baitao obtained the Qingtian White Sun Medal and was promoted to lieutenant general of the Seventh Corps.
In addition to the spring breeze, he also wanted to rise one liter and do something to suppress the general, which was not impossible. It is said that the 25th Army is the four benchmark troops in the central China battlefield, and Huang Baitao understands in his heart that a good man and three gangs are difficult to defeat with two fists and four palms, and if the 25th Army wants to continue to be brilliant, it is inseparable from the cooperation of the Air Force. The mechanization of the United States is a long process, not to mention a process of adaptation. At present, it is still the right way to strengthen cooperation with the Air Force. Therefore, the purchase of communication equipment and the realization of a break in the open space became a top priority, and we saw that in the Battle of Huaihai, the Seventh Corps was deeply encircled and isolated in the wilderness, and they were not in a hurry, and they did not rush to escape. Huang Baitao understood that if he wanted to eat his 100,000 horses in the wild, he must have more people and horses. With so many people together, with the bombing capability of the Kuomintang Air Force, it is difficult to say whether the victory or defeat will be made.
At the crucial time, it was Gu Zhutong who sent him hope. A Kuomintang air force major, holding a contact radio station against the air, carried a parachute, jumped off the plane over the mill. This is equivalent to putting an eye on the air-dropped bomb and effectively locating the bombing point. In the next ten days or so, when our army gathered a large number of troops to prepare for a strong attack, it would be bombarded by enemy aircraft. Then the Nationalist Seventh Corps would counterattack after the aircraft bombardment. Otherwise, if a plain area can hold out for ten days, you must know that the Kuomintang general Wang Yaowu has only defended Jinan for seven days. After huang Baitao insisted on staying in the mill for more than ten days, finally on the 21st, the sky was foggy and the plane could not take off. This was the day to destroy Chiang Kai-shek, and the People's Liberation Army seized the rare opportunity to finally take the mill and eliminate the Seventh Corps.
Huang Baitao's air-ground integration also caused the greatest casualties in the three major battles for our army. With the successive victories of the People's Liberation Army, the kuomintang's air-ground integration was basically invisible; above Chen Guanzhuang, there were not even a few aircraft airdropping grain; at the end of the Huaihai Campaign, the Kuomintang's basic strength had been exhausted, and it was powerless to return to heaven.
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