In early 1950, the People's Liberation Army made rapid progress in the great southwest, and the remnants of the Kuomintang troops, some chose to revolt, some fled to Taiwan, but at that time, the Kuomintang still had a complete corps, still stubbornly resisting, which was also the last Kuomintang corps on the mainland. However, just a month later, this corps was annihilated by the Erye army, and even the commander of the corps was captured, so which regiment was this Kuomintang regiment? Who are the commanders of the corps and the commanders of their subordinates? How did they all end up after that?
In fact, this unit is the Kuomintang 8th Corps, the commander of the corps is Tang Yao, the 8th Corps is under the jurisdiction of the 8th Army and the 26th Army, the commanders are Li Mi and Yu Chengwan, respectively, I will introduce the corps commander and the two commanders to you one by one.
Let's first talk about the commander of the corps, Tang Yao, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, who served as an instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy in the early years, participated in the Northern Expedition, was transferred to the Deputy Director of the Training Department of the Central Military Academy in 1932, and soon became the Chief of Staff of the Directorate Department of the 4th Army Station. It should be said that from the perspective of seniority, Tang Yao is indeed one of the best among the many generals in the Nationalist army, but from the perspective of his resume, Tang Yao is somewhat insufficient, he basically held the position of chief of staff during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, first as chief of staff of the group army, and later as chief of logistics staff of the Central Military Commission, and almost never really went to the battlefield to independently command battles.
In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek transferred Tang Yao to the chief of staff of the commander-in-chief of the army, in a sense, Chiang Kai-shek was also "a dead horse as a living horse doctor", at the end of the same year, Tang Yao fled to the southwest with the remnants, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the formation of the 8th Corps, and he became the last corps commander of the Kuomintang to stay on the mainland. However, in the end, Tang Yao was still captured, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was imprisoned in the Gongdelin forest, and then died of illness in 1962.
Then there was Li Mi, commander of the 8th Army, who was a huangpu ivy student, and after graduation, he entered the Third Teaching Regiment as a probationary platoon leader, and it was Zhu Laozong who served as the leader of the regiment at that time, and later after the kuomintang broke up, Li Mi has always been an "anti-communist vanguard", and once led his troops to besiege He Long, and fled in defeat. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Mi served as the brigade commander of the 268th Brigade, and later promoted to deputy division commander of the 5th Division, and in 1942 participated in the Counter-Offensive In Western Yunnan and served as the deputy commander of the 8th Army.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Mi served as the commander of the reorganized 8th Division, and was defeated in the Battle of Nanma, with huge losses, and in 1947, the reorganized 8th Division was expanded into the reorganized 8th Army, and Li Mi was promoted to commander. This was also The period when Li Mi was at its best, and the reorganized 8th Army was a corps-level formation, and its combat effectiveness could be described as quite strong. In the Battle of Huaihai, Li Mi's army trapped Yongcheng, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape from the battlefield, and was successively sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Kunming and Chongqing, and after most of them were annihilated by the People's Liberation Army in 1950, he led the remnants to flee to Burma, where he has been fighting guerrilla warfare. In 1954, Li Mi fled to Taiwan and died of illness in 1973.
Finally, let's talk about the commander of the 26th Army, Yu Chengwan, he is a native of Taishan, Guangdong, he studied in the first phase of Huangpu, he is a big brother, but in the early days he has been engaged in military and political work, it is really not a good mix, in 1940 he barely became the commander of the 57th Division of the 74th Army, and it was Wang Yaowu who served as the commander at that time. In 1943, Yu Chengwan led his troops to block the Japanese army in Changde, because the enemy was outnumbered and the troops suffered huge losses, he was forced to lead 50 people to break out, and Changde fell.
However, the next day, Yu Chengwan led his troops back to Changde and recaptured Changde, but Chiang Kai-shek still handed Yu Chengwan over to the Military Justice Department for disposal, and was later sentenced to two years in prison, and later under the mediation of Wang Yaowu, Yu Chengwan was released from prison early. In 1948, Yu Chengwan served as the commander of the 26th Army, and was completely annihilated by the People's Liberation Army in 1950, he left his troops and fled to Hong Kong alone, where he was shot by robbers in 1955.