Among the Kuomintang generals, Huang Baitao was a relatively capable general, but the first to discover Huang Baitao's talent was He Yingqin, and a military thesis by Huang Baitao attracted the attention of He Yingqin, who recommended him to gu Zhutong as chief of staff.
Why didn't Old Jiang like Huang Baitao? This is related to the experience of Huang Baitao, a Hakka family member from Meixian County, Guangdong Province, who studied in the Ninth Mixed Brigade Study Barracks of the Jiangxi Army and the Jiangsu Officer Education Regiment, which doomed Huang Baitao not to become a concubine.
For a student who was neither a Huangpu student nor a student of the Baoding Military Academy, lao Jiang naturally had no good feelings, not to mention that Huang Baitao had also changed three masters, and Huang Baitao had served as a messenger under the Beiyang warlord Li Chun when he was a teenager, and was good at pandering to Li Chun's appreciation.
Li Chun also rewarded the maid in the family to Huang Baitao as his wife, and by virtue of his wife's relationship, Huang Baitao entered the fifth phase of the Jinling Officers' Teaching Regiment sponsored by Li Chun, and after graduation, Huang Baitao served as a platoon leader and a company commander, and it can be said that he made his career by women.
After Zhang Zongchang of the Fengjun army occupied Jiangsu, Huang Baitao defected to Zhang Zongchang, Who had served as the head of the Jinling Officers' Teaching Corps, and Huang Baitao had a teacher-student relationship, and under Zhang Zongchang's promotion, Huang Baitao became a battalion commander and brigade commander, and his career was not bad.
In 1928, Xu Yuanquan, commander of the 6th Army under Zhang Zongchang, defected to Lao Jiang, and Huang Baitao also joined him in defecting to Lao Jiang, but Lao Jiang had many eyes and sent all the generals to the officer school to study, and then reappointed after graduation.
This time the shuffle had a great impact on Huang Baitao, he did not enter the combat unit, but in the rear, it would be too difficult to make a meritorious promotion, fortunately, because of a military thesis, He Yingqin found him, so that he could enter the combat unit.
In 1944, he was appointed commander of the 25th Army, which was newly formed, and the soldiers had the Northeast Army, the Central Army, the Sichuan Army, etc., which can be said to be a bad hand, but the good villain gave Huang Baitao a chance to play, and to see how he played a bad hand, Huang Baitao made a drastic rectification as soon as he took office.
Huang Baitao strengthened the training of the troops, emphasizing the connection between soldiers and commanders, he set an example by putting down the commander's shelf, going deep into the company to train with the soldiers, and sharing weal and woe with the soldiers, which seemed to be learning from the Eighth Route Army, and sure enough, the combat effectiveness and cohesion of the troops were significantly improved.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the 25th Army was reorganized into the 25th Division, and Huang Baitao still served as the commander of the division, and in the later Shandong Battlefield, Huang Baitao led the 25th Division to the battlefield.
In the Battle of Eastern Henan, Huang Baitao, with the cooperation of Qiu Qingquan, rescued the remnants of the besieged 7th Corps, and after the war, he was promoted to commander of the 7th Corps.