On the eve of the full-scale outbreak of the Huaihai Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, the great war was imminent, he could not even choose a commander, let Bai Chongxi go to be the supreme commander, he was not happy, let Du Yuming go to be the supreme commander, he could not come out, there was really no rut, only Liu Zhi could still use it now, so Chiang Kai-shek transferred Liu Zhi to be the supreme commander.
Xue Yue, who was serving as the commander of the army at the time, heard that Liu Zhi had become the commander-in-chief of the nationalist army in the Huaihai Campaign, and he was so angry that he couldn't even eat his food, originally the Huaihai Campaign was difficult to fight, and he also found a pig general to take full command, which was not clear that he was going to eat a big defeat, but in view of the fact that he himself had also suffered several big defeats in succession at that time, he had no right to speak, and could only look at the defeat of the Huaihai Campaign dryly.
Why was Liu Zhi so unpopular with Xue Yue? Because he has two titles, one is General Pig and the other is General of Flying Legs, and he runs fast without a brain, the reason why Liu Zhi is reused by Chiang Kai-shek is not because of Liu Zhi's strong ability, but because of his loyalty. During the period of the Great Revolution, many battles were fought, but during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, there were basically no achievements.
Once serving as the commander-in-chief of the Second Army, a group army was defeated by the Japanese army, pulled up its legs and ran, leading the remnants to retreat to Kaifeng, because it was too humiliating, Chiang Kai-shek removed him from his post and transferred him to Chongqing as the commander-in-chief of the garrison, until the Liberation War to reactivate him.
However, in the first battle between him and the People's Liberation Army, he was defeated, more than half of the 400,000 troops were killed and wounded, an integrated division was completely annihilated, Chiang Kai-shek was angry again, and liu zhi was removed from his post again, making him an advisory member.
However, this was not the case, at the end of the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek had no one to use, so he once again used Liu Zhi, making him the commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou Suppression Of the Communists and the commander-in-chief of the Huaihai Campaign. As a result, under his undisciplined command, all 550,000 troops participating in the Battle of Huaihai were annihilated, and many of Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu generals were either killed or captured.
Since then, Liu Zhi has never held a heavy post, and when the Nationalist army was defeated in Taiwan, he did not face to go with him, but went to Indonesia alone, but in 1954 he went to Taiwan to take up an idle post, and lived a dull life in his later years until his peaceful death.