It can be seen that Du Yuming's command ability is good, it is stronger than Chen Cheng, but it is not much stronger. The Kuomintang's first-class military generals could not turn Du Yuming at all, and in the northeast battlefield and the later Xu Beng battlefield, and Chiang Kai-shek's appointment of Du Yuming was actually no general to be sent, and Guan Linzheng, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang army, did not think much of this. Always think that the old man is not using people properly. As for Chen Cheng, all the generals at all levels of the Kuomintang did not think that Chen Cheng would fight, bai Chongxi said, and Cixiu was the old man's son. Looking back at the Liberation War, the gains and losses in the northeast are the most critical. This can be seen from the leaders of both the Kuomintang and the Communists for the operation and layout of the northeast and the military command of the front-line generals.
Du Yuming, Huangpu I, Chiang Kai-shek's Tianzi protégé, a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang Army, started as the deputy platoon leader of the teaching regiment, and by 1939 he was already the commander of the Kuomintang 5th Army, and Du Yuming was only 33 years old at this time. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he participated in the Battle of Guinan, commanded the Kunlun Pass in Guinan to fight against Japan, and severely damaged the Japanese Fifth Division, known as the "Steel Army". After the outbreak of the War of Liberation, Du Yuming served as the first commander of the Northeast Security. Du Yuming has been in the northeast for more than two years, which can be described as high and low, just started well, and has repeatedly won. But then it didn't work. After repeated defeats at the hands of Lin Biao, who was three years younger than him in the fourth period, Du Yuming was helpless. Due to kidney disease, he had to leave the front line of the war and left the northeast on July 8, 1947. In June 1948, Du Yuming was inaugurated as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou "Suppression General" with full authority to command the Kuomintang side's so-called Xu Beng Battlefield, which eventually ended in the total annihilation of the army, and he himself was also captured.
Chen Cheng was a Kuomintang general of the first class. Apply for the Baoding Army Officer School. However, he was not admitted due to poor test scores. Later, after dredging, he entered the Eighth Artillery Section of the Baoding Military Academy in the name of preparing students. Beginning as a second lieutenant platoon leader, he was formally established at the Whampoa Military Academy through company commander and battalion commander, serving as an education adjutant and district captain of the artillery team. Because of his favor with Chiang Kai-shek, he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Eleventh Division in 1929 and later as the commander of the Eighteenth Army. As a result, Chen Cheng's position in Chiang Kai-shek's army was formally established. The civil engineering system was thus born. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Cheng's military merits were not obvious, and after the outbreak of the War of Liberation, Chen Cheng basically served in the central organs, serving as the chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense, and in 1947 succeeded Du Yuming as the director of the Northeast Expedition. For more than a year, he had no merit in size, and it caused complaints from all walks of life in the northeast to cause complaints from all walks of life in the northeast, and they all wrote to kill Chen Cheng to apologize. In 1948, Chen Cheng left Taiwan to arrange a back road for Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek's employment is three standards, Huangpu system, Zhejiang people, Baoding department. The various generals of the Kuomintang are also full of factions, and even the Central Army is also talking about factions and people's feelings. And here Chen Cheng undoubtedly accounted for all three. Chiang Kai-shek's optimism about Chen Cheng lies not in his ability but in his loyalty; in the words of Li Zongren, Chiang Kai-shek says every day that he reuses talent, but in the end he still feels that slave talent is easy to use. In fact, Chen Cheng's ability lies in politics rather than military, and military ability is really not good, and without commanding any decent campaign, strategy and tactics are not good. Bai Chongxi told the staff officer that after Chen Cixiu called and said that I was not there, in terms of actual combat, I was beaten by Lin Biao in the northeast, and the key was that the senior generals under his command did not listen to him, which made Chen Cheng lose his face. It can be said that this is Chiang Kai-shek's improper use of personnel, and Chen Cheng has been placed in a place where he should not be put.
In contrast, Du Yuming was a little stronger than Chen Cheng, but he was not much stronger, and he was not ranked among the senior Kuomintang generals favored by the Communist Party, and he had three military commanders in the Northeast Kuomintang, from Du Yuming, General Chen Cheng, and finally Wei Lihuang. One is not as good as the other. Militarily, Du Yuming's ability is very poor, only promises, mechanical dogma to carry out leadership orders, in case of prevarication. However, some people say that whether Du Yuming is in the northeast or in Huaihai, his command still has rules, but he was pit by Chiang Kai-shek. Strategically lacking, but tactically OK, it is considered a mid-level talent in the Kuomintang, similar to Paulus. Du Yuming himself was quite okay with his theory of commanding the battle and his ability to cope with changes, but his strategic vision was not good, his autonomy was very poor, he was too blind to follow Chiang Kai-shek, and failure was inevitable.
Neither Chen Cheng nor Du Yuming was able to support the kuomintang's military situation, and the defeat of the kuomintang was a historical necessity, and it would not be possible to change the situation because of individual generals.
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