At midnight on November 22, 1948, there was a mountain forest near Nianzhuangwei. Huang Baitao was shot in the leg and was sitting on a large rock gasping for breath, leaving only his deputy Yang Tingyan alone.
"If you win, you will raise a glass to celebrate, and if you lose, you will fight to the death to save each other", Huang Baitao said this sentence, yang tian sighed, raised his pistol at his temple and pulled the trigger.
Huang Baitao committed suicide in despair Yang Tingyan paid tribute for thousands of miles
Who knows how many points the bullet was deflected, this shot did not kill Huang Baitao on the spot, but the severe pain had already made him collapse to the ground, and his body convulsed. Yang Tingyan, who was on the sidelines, couldn't bear to see him in such pain, and pulled out his pistol and fired a shot at Huang's chest. Huang Baitao snorted and was finally completely relieved.
Huang Baitao in the TV series "Armageddon" is a very decent military figure, he has the ability, prestige, courage, and can fight, and at the last moment of his life, he still decided to repay the country with his death and never surrender. For us, Huang died for Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary government worthlessly, lightly than Hong Mao, but we cannot deny that Huang Baitao was a competent general and a real soldier.
Huang Baitao, whose character huanran, was not an officer of Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu department, but served as the commander of the elite Seventh Corps of the Kuomintang Army, which shows Chiang Kai-shek's recognition of his military ability. He was awarded the Order of Guanghua Baoding and the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun, which is the highest praise of the Nationalist government for officers who have made meritorious contributions to defending the country and resisting foreign humiliation.
On the battlefield of the Liberation War, Huang Baitao led the reorganized 25th Division to fight Su Yu many times, each with victory and defeat, and was a very headache opponent of the People's Liberation Army. If it were not for the chaos within the Kuomintang and the discord among the generals, Huang Baitao might not have been killed and ruined, and ended up with such a miserable end. Although Huang was posthumously awarded the second rank of the army general, if he knew what Chiang Kai-shek had done, he would certainly not be worth it for himself.
After Huang Baitao's death, Yang Tingyan began to think about what to do with his body. Just at this time, a Huaye warrior searched over, saw such a scene, immediately raised his gun at Yang Tingyan, and said loudly: "What for, who died?" ”
Yang Tingyan was in a hurry and said to the PLA soldiers with tears: "I... I am a man in the army, this man is my brother, we escaped from the army, ran here my brother was killed by stray bullets, I do not want to live. "Say goodbye and beat your chest and cry bitterly." The warrior saw yang Tingyan crying sincerely, not like pretending, and turned away with pity.
Yang Tingyan waited for no one to be around, so he wrapped Huang Baitao's body with a coat he had picked up nearby, and then used a bayonet to dig a pit under a large tree and buried the body hastily. After that, he carefully remembered the terrain, mountains and surrounding characteristics of the burial site and hurried away.
At dawn, there was a fierce battle in the mill, and at this time there was still a lot of killing. Frightened, Yang Tingyan accidentally twisted his ankles, couldn't run, and was captured by the People's Liberation Army in the north of Jingpan Village. Due to the tense fighting, the PLA left only one squad to guard more than 200 prisoners, including Yang Tingyan.
Yang saw that he had an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he limped to the squad leader and said pitifully: "Sir, I was forced by the Kuomintang army to be a soldier, and I have only been a soldier for a total of 8 months." I have an 80-year-old mother and a 2-year-old child, and I have a leg disability and can't walk. You pity me, let me go home. ”
The squad leader of the People's Liberation Army was also a recruit who had just been promoted, and he had no experience, so he asked Yang Tingyan: "What are you doing in the army?" Yang hurriedly said, "I'm just a cook, and if you look at my legs, I can't fight." The squad leader checked and found that Yang's leg was indeed injured, and he thought that he was just a guy, and his heart was soft, and he reprimanded him a few words and let him leave on his own.
Yang Tingyan returned to Nanjing, reported Huang Baitao's death to Chiang Kai-shek, and then went straight to Xujiahui in Shanghai to report the funeral to Huang Baitao's family. It just so happened that Li Wen, deputy commander-in-chief of the North China Suppression Campaign, was also at Huang Baitao's house, and after learning of Huang Baitao's death, a group of people cried together. Huang Baitao's wife, Liu Biyun, said to Yang Tingyan: "Old Huang died on the battlefield, and he was loyal to the party, so he had to bring his body back for burial." ”
Yang Tingyan took out a piece of cigarette box paper and said to Liu Biyun, "I have drawn a map of the place where Commander Huang was buried, and on this piece of paper, I can find it according to the map." Sister-in-law, if it weren't for the president asking me to go to Wenzhou on a mission, I would have taken you with me. ”
Huang's wife and friend had feelings and righteousness to go to the Liberated Areas to "steal corpses" successfully
Not long after Yang Tingyan left, Huang Baitao's old classmate Zhang Jinye came. After he learned the news of Huang Baitao's death in Nianzhuang, he rushed to the Huang family in Shanghai to mourn. As soon as Zhang entered the door, Liu Biyun fell to the ground and said with tears in his eyes: "Big brother, you have come just in time, you are from Xuzhou, BaiTao's body is still milling Zhuangzhuang, you have to find a way to get him back." ”
Huang Baitao's second son also knelt on the ground and said emotionally: "Uncle, you show me the way, I have to bring back my father's body." Zhang Jinye hurriedly lifted the mother and son up, meditated for a moment, and then said, "I understand your feelings, but this time to smuggle Baitao's body, you have to think of a perfect strategy." The area around Nianzhuang is now occupied by the communists, and if we want to go, we cannot bring documents, weapons, or too many people. ”
Zhang Jinye, Li Wen, and Liu Biyun looked at each other, although they still had concerns, they all saw a firmness in each other's faces, so several people began to formulate a specific "stealing corpse" plan.
Zhang Jinye and Li Wen naturally did not let Liu Biyun take any risks, and they only took two soldiers from Shanghai to Bengbu by train. Then the two changed into top hats and coats, and wrapped two large packs of cigarettes with a sheet of quilts for inspection. The two soldiers sent them to Wuhe County and left, because further on they were the Liberated Areas.
Zhang and Li set up coffins nearby, followed Yang Tingyan's map to the burial site, and soon dug up the body wrapped in coats. In their coat pockets, they turned over a bronze plaque with the words "Guest Card No. 17," which was a pass issued by Chiang Kai-shek to Huang Baitao, which was absolutely correct. They put Huang's body into a coffin, loaded it on an earthen cart and pushed it away.
Zhang and Li endured hardships and evaded numerous interrogations, and finally transported Huang Baitao's body onto the train and sent it to the Chinese Funeral Home in Nanjing.
On December 8, 1948, Chiang Kai-shek led everyone to a moment of silence at The Memorial Service for Huang Baitao, after which he delivered a speech: highly affirming Huang Baitao's past achievements, praising his heroic spirit of sacrificing for the party-state, and calling on all senior generals to learn from Huang Baitao's spirit.
On December 16, Chiang Kai-shek decided to hold a "state funeral" for Huang Baitao and wrote an inscription for Huang Baitao with the inscription "Great Benevolence and Great Righteousness". Defense Minister He Yingqin inscription "Memorial to the Martyrdom of General Huanran: The Great Spirit Endures Forever".
Beginning on January 18, 1949, the Central Daily published on the front page for many consecutive days the announcement of the memorial meeting of Huang Baitao from all walks of life in the capital: a public festival for Huang Baitao will be held on January 19, 20 and 21.
On January 25, 1949, the JoongAng Daily published that Huang Baitao's remains were scheduled to be buried tomorrow.
The next day, Huang Baitao's coffin was buried in the Caogushan State Burial Area near the nanjing fork. Chiang Kai-shek was supposed to preside over the state funeral ceremony, but at that time, Chiang Kai-shek had already gone to Fenghua and should not have attended Huang Baitao's funeral.
The "Three Graves of Doubt" after Huang Baitao's death
Later, because of the construction of the 312 National Highway, Caogushan was bulldozed, and Huang Baitao's tomb is now no longer found. Although Chiang Kai-shek later built a tomb for Huang Baitao in Taiwan, considering that the Kuomintang was in a hurry at that time, did he really have time to dig up Huang's body and take it away?
In addition, there is another theory that after Huang Baitao's wife Liu Biyun saw Chiang Kai-shek go into the wilderness and had no intention of giving Huang a state funeral, she was completely chilled and decided to find another burial place for Huang Baitao. She, Yang Tingyan, Li Wen and others decided to investigate outside the city and choose another feng shui treasure to bury Huang's body.
On the first day, they came to the outside of the Zhonghua Gate and did not pick it.
The next day they came to the Zhongshan Gate again, but they still couldn't find a suitable place.
On the third day, they drove in the direction of Qixia Mountain and came to the vicinity of TaipingMen. When driving to the Jiang Wang Temple, Liu Biyun saw the grave of Li Wenzhong, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, and asked the driver to stop. After the three people got out of the car, they climbed a section of steps, stood on the hill on the side of Li Wenzhong's tomb, and looked out and saw a lush grove of trees.
Here is quiet and peaceful, pine cypress evergreen, Liu Biyun feels that this place is the most suitable for her husband to "sleep for a long time". Li Wen looked at the majestic Purple Mountain in the east and the clear Xuanwu Lake in the south, and couldn't help but blurt out: "It's so beautiful!" Yang Tingyan said: "The scenery is unique here, and choosing the tomb of Huan Ran next to Li Wenzhong's tomb can not only confuse the public opinion, but also make it safer, and it is also convenient for the descendants of the Huang family to come and sacrifice." ”
The three of them had no objection and immediately decided to choose Huang Baitao's tomb here and engrave "Huang Huanran's Tomb" on the tombstone. In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, Liu Biyun deliberately chose a night of black wind for a month to be buried. It was originally remote, sparsely populated, and inconvenient transportation, and the tomb of Huang Baitao quietly appeared, and almost no one knew about it except for a very small number of insiders.
From ancient times to the present, after death, there are many "doubtful tombs" that are basically emperors who kill too much before they die, and they are afraid of digging graves to retaliate after death, such as Cao Cao 72 doubtful tombs, Genghis Khan also has 5 doubtful tombs. It is estimated that Huang Baitao could not have imagined that he, an ordinary Kuomintang general, could enjoy the treatment of 3 "doubtful tombs" after his death, so that many people did not know where he was buried after his death.
Is Huang Baitao's bones buried in Cao Gushan and then missing; or did he follow Chiang Kai-shek to Wuzhishan in Taiwan; or was he buried next to The Tomb of Li Wenzhong outside the Taiping Gate? Due to the age, no one in the know is there, I am afraid it is difficult to say clearly.
In 2004, Huang Baitao's son returned to Nanjing from the United States with a large family, and went to Li Wenzhong's tomb to worship his father, and also held a grand memorial ceremony. Perhaps we can infer from this that Huang Baitao's "real body" still stayed on the mainland, after all, when his son came to worship, he always had to do some homework in advance. In this way, the tomb of Huang Baitao in Taiwan's Five Finger Mountain is most likely just a crown tomb.
Huang Baitao: A respectable "rival" to a real soldier
Huang Baitao, a famous general of a generation, was in charge of the largest corps in the kuomintang army's Xuzhou general sequence, but because of Chiang Kai-shek's arbitrary command, he was besieged in the small Mill Zhuang Wei. Although Chiang Kai-shek sent many large armies to the rescue after learning the news, he was ultimately defeated because of the greed of the Kuomintang generals and the fear of death, coupled with the heroic battles of our People's Liberation Army.
It is admirable that Huang Baitao still stubbornly held out for 12 days in the case of sitting in an isolated city and without reinforcements. But Huang Baitao's end is actually already doomed, in the face of the general trend, he can only be regarded as stubborn resistance, dying and struggling, and has no chance of winning. However, Huang Baitao can adhere to the military standard of "command first, honor first" to the death, although the camp is different, we still have to pay high respect to this respectable opponent.
The tragedy of Huang Baitao is that he misread the situation and followed the wrong "master". Chiang Kai-shek's nepotism, narrow temperament, change from day to day, and lack of faith in his words were doomed to the decline of the Kuomintang army, and Huang Baitao and others were just "martyrs" for him and the reactionary government.
At Huang Baitao's memorial service, Chiang Kai-shek wept bitterly and shouted that "the spirit of Huangpu is not dead," so that he later became a laughingstock of Chiang Kai-shek. Because Huang Baitao is not a Huangpu student, and chiang Kai-shek's reuse of the Huangpu system will only fight for power and profit, corruption will run rampant, and the end will either be captured or become a deserter, and there is even a little shadow of the Huangpu spirit.
One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies. If it were not for Chiang Kai-shek's arbitrary command, Huang Baitao might have safely withdrawn to Xuzhou long ago, so as not to die worthless; after his death, Chiang Kai-shek did not offer to take the initiative to retrieve the bones of this general who possessed the "Huangpu Spirit"; later, it was he who was weak and widowed, and he was cold to the heart, and Liu Biyun was indignant and had to find another place for her husband to bury.
During the Liberation War, many Kuomintang generals made outstanding contributions to the liberation of all of China. For example, Fu Zuoyi, Liao Yunzhou, He Jifeng, Zhang Kexia, Lu Han and others were able to put the overall situation first and the interests of the people first, lead an army to revolt, overthrow the reactionary regime, and join the people's camp. Their righteous deeds have broken the will of the stubborn forces of the Kuomintang army and accelerated the process of liberating all of China, and we want to praise them.
However, "diehards" like Huang Baitao, do we have to completely deny them and despise them? We must look at them dialectically and objectively: they are only soldiers, and soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, and there is no right or wrong in itself, but they are only their masters.
Moreover, Huang Baitao was meritorious during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and in the Zhejiang-Gansu War, Huang Baitao served as the chief of staff of the three major theaters, and he fought bravely, fearlessly, and personally commanded the frontline. At the same time, Huang Baitao did not forget to rectify military discipline, ordered the prohibition, and let the loose Nationalist army erupt into amazing combat effectiveness when facing the Japanese Kou, and repeatedly smashed the Japanese army's offensive plan.
Huang Baitao is a truly respectable opponent and a true soldier! We sympathize with his plight and remember his exploits during the War of Resistance Against Japan. At the same time, we must also bear in mind his lesson, that is, never stand against the people!
Huang Baitao's three tombs of doubt, Cao Gushan's is no longer there, and we in Taiwan Province are difficult to worship, only Li Wenzhong's tomb still tells the story of the general's past. Now, a sign is inserted behind Li Wenzhong's tomb, which briefly introduces the identity of Huang Baitao and the date of birth and death, if you have the opportunity to travel to Nanjing, you may wish to go to see the general's style.