In the TV series "Armageddon", the generals of the Nationalist army more or less exposed their own problems, such as Liu Zhi is Zhida talent, Huang Botao is blind, Gu Zhutong is more than coordinated, and the command is insufficient. It seems difficult to find a perfect warrior, but there is one person who is an exception, that is, the chairman of the committee, the fire captain - Du Yuming.
In the three major battles, the busiest person is Du Yuming, who is the deputy commander of the Northeast and Xuzhou, don't look at him as a lieutenant general, but his power is equivalent to that of a general in the national army.
However, it was Du Yuming, who had made great achievements in the anti-Japanese battlefield and caused trouble to our army in the early days of the War of Liberation, but was captured by our army in the Battle of Huaihai. Many people may wonder why Du Yuming did not choose to flee the battlefield by plane when Chen Guanzhuang was besieged by our army.
In fact, the Ministry of National Defense really sent a plane to pick up Du Yuming, and it was 2 times, but why did Du Yuming still refuse?
Fire Captain Du Yuming
Before understanding why Du Yuming did not choose to leave the Huaihai front by plane, we can first understand Du Yuming and his people.
Like many famous generals in the Whampoa army, Du Yuming, born in 1904, came from a well-off family in his early years, joined the League as a teenager, and then chose to go south to join the Whampoa Military Academy under the call of the Guangzhou government to save the country, and as a first-term student in the Huangpu grass-roots period. After graduation, Du Yuming received the weight of the top brass of the Nationalist Army, and Du Yuming was the earliest anti-Japanese general in the Huangpu department, and he had been fighting against the Japanese in the Rehe War of Resistance in 1932.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he first served as the head of the armored corps of the Nationalist Army, participated in the Battle of Songhu, and then became the commander of the mechanized 200th Division, and then expanded into the Fifth Army. Many fierce generals such as Qiu Qingquan, Dai Anlan, Zheng Dongguo, Liao Yaoxiang and others served in the Fifth Army, and after the establishment of the Fifth Army, it became the first mechanized army in the Nationalist Army in Guannei, and won a great victory in the Battle of Kunlun Pass.
After 1941, Du Yuming was ordered to lead the Fifth Army into Burma to fight, of which the 200th Division under his command broke the Japanese army in Tonggu, and the 22nd Division successfully blocked 2 divisions of the Japanese army in Swa, successfully completing the task of covering the British army, but because it was outnumbered, in addition to the breakthrough of the 22nd Division, most of the remaining troops of the Fifth Army were defeated at Savage Mountain, and Du Yuming also carried the breakout on a stretcher because of his serious illness, in fact, the stubborn disease of Savage Mountain's injury has been affecting him in the days that followed.
After returning to China, Du Yuming has been recuperating in the rear.
After the liberation war began, Du Yuming began his career as a fire brigade leader.
In 1945, he first occupied Kunming without bloodshed, directly forcing Long Yun to abandon his rule in Yunnan, and in October he took up the post of commander of the Northeast Security And fought with my troops out of customs, successively recapturing Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou from our army, and repelling our Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in the subsequent battles of Liaoyang and Shenyang, and the Battle of Siping blocked our army's tide offensive. However, due to days of hard work, the recurrence of the old disease forced Du Yuming to leave the northeast in July 1947 for treatment in Shanghai.
Just did not rest for long, in June 1948, was appointed as the deputy general of Xuzhou and the commander of the Second Corps, the north to relieve the Southern Wang Yaowu Group, just took office, and because of the outbreak of the Liaoshen Campaign, in September had to go to Huludao to command the Jinzhou and Liao Yaoxiang Corps to break through, after the collapse of the Liao Yaoxiang Corps, there was a stay in Huludao to command the withdrawal of troops in Battle with Wei Lihuang and others. But before he could sit still, he was going to fly to Xuzhou again, busy directing the mess left by Liu Zhi and commanding 300,000 nationalist troops to flee south, but at this time, Du Yuming, who was plagued by old diseases, was often commanding on a stretcher. By January 1949, the nationalist army besieged by Tuantuan in ChenGuanzhuang for nearly 300,000 people had finally collapsed under the powerful offensive of our army, and Du Yuming himself was captured in wounds and illness.
It can be said that Du Yuming was a famous general who fought Chinese blood in the War of Resistance, and at the last moment of the three major battles, the top level sent planes to take him back many times, but he refused.
Why would Du Yuming prefer to be a prisoner of our army rather than fly back to Nanjing?
The soldiers were defeated and did not dare to return to Nanjing
In fact, Du Yuming's failure to go back is also very easy to understand, which can be roughly summarized - want to go back, but dare not return.
Because going back is destined to die for a lifetime, this reason is very clear in the movie "Armageddon", Du Yuming once said to the people around him: "If you think about it, can I still return to Nanjing alive... The president once said to me personally that the battle of Xu Beng was a matter of life and death, and the day you Du Yuming left the command position, that is, when I had to take off this military uniform, did you allow me to consider the way back?" From this point, it can be seen that Du Yuming knows someone very well, just like Chongzhen, it is my credit to fight well in the defense of Beijing, and if I can't fight well, the people below must carry the pot, and so does someone, which determines the life and death of the nationalist army, so completely, it must be someone to take responsibility, this pot cannot be someone (my deployment is correct, my micro-manipulation is in place, it is the people in front of you who do not listen to orders and command haphazardly).
Moreover, Du Yuming and the people below clearly said that "the plane sent but there was no presidential oracle, and did not bring a formal stamped official document of the Ministry of National Defense", which made someone see very thoroughly, and when he went back, he could not avoid being charged with escaping from the battlefield, and then all the faults were pushed to him, and when the time came, he could not wash away the real jump into the Yellow River. Du Yuming himself was a person who cherished his reputation, so he would rather die in Battle in Huaihai than let people splash dirty water. On the contrary, if the troops under their command can break through, bring back some remnants of the defeated generals, and still say that they have "tried their best", whether it is public opinion or the internal affairs of the national army, they can still say it, at least "there is no merit and hard work" at most suspended and investigated, and there will be no excessive investigation.
Some people will say that Du Yuming is only a deputy commander of Xuzhou, a lieutenant general, and his wheel cannot be turned.
But he above Xuzhou suppressed liu zhi, don't look at the war is not good, engaging in relations and throwing pots is a good hand, plus he will come, and the relationship with the top brass of the national army is very iron, there will definitely be someone to protect him, in fact, after the war Liu Zhi slipped away to Hong Kong, want to accountability can not find anyone. Gu Zhutong did not mention that the "loyal generals" among the five tiger generals had already explained everything. Therefore, Du Yuming, who actually commanded the 300,000 nationalist troops in Xuzhou in order, "did not let go" to take over the pot... What's more, in the two major defeats in the three major battles, Du Yuming was served as the deputy general, and coupled with the responsibility of Liao Yaoxiang's army failing to withdraw south before, Du Yuming's real return to Nanjing may be nine deaths.
In fact, Du Yuming is unwilling to go back, and there is another deep-seated reason, that is, even if he goes back, no one will protect him.
In fact, it is also funny, a large part of du Yuming's rise to power is that he has no backstage and will not pose a threat to someone. Not to mention, in the central department, there are also many factions, Chen Cheng's civil engineering department, He Yingqin's old Huangpu department, Gu Zhutong's three-theater system, and Tang Enbo's factions are deeply rooted, and Du Yuming did not have a clear banner in the early days to fall to which faction, if it is hard to calculate, it is the side of Xu Tingyao, the old commander of the Fifth Army, but Xu's own power is not large, and after the War of Resistance, it was also hollowed out by no force.
Not attaching himself to the old faction does not mean that Du Yuming has no power, relying on the team of the Fifth Army of the War of Resistance, Du Yuming also gradually developed his own "Fifth Army System" after 1946, and the ace corps commanders and commanders of the Nationalist Army were his former subordinates. The nationalist army's top combat effectiveness, such as Liao Yaoxiang of the 9th Corps, Qiu Qingquan of the 2nd Corps, Zheng Dongguo of Changchun, and the Shaozhuang faction of the Xiong Xiao Three Kingdoms Army are all the backbone of the Fifth Army, and it is conceivable that in another 5-10 years these people will threaten Gu Zhutong, Chen Cheng, and other factions.
Du Yuming himself is in competition with these old factions, and when you go to the rear of Nanjing, do you still expect these people to protect you? It was good not to fall into the well, and with the annihilation of Du Yuming's system troops such as the 9th Corps and the 2nd Corps, no one within the Nationalist Army would have to help him speak.
Therefore, when he returns to Nanjing alone, he will most likely be punished...
Yu Tian Jun said
From Du Yuming's several refusals to return to Nanjing by the top echelons of the Nationalist Ministry of National Defense, it can be spied that the interior of the Nationalist Army is already full of holes, the upper echelons are self-conscious, and the generals who are loyal to the Nationalist Army must be found out as scapegoats, and the corruption of officials can no longer be cured. And the colleagues of the Nationalist army are not only on the battlefield, but also dig pits for each other in daily life, and the party is fighting with each other.
Therefore, from the time Du Yuming refused to take the plane and returned to Nanjing, he was already doomed to the doomed defeat of the Nationalist army.
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