This is the lice on the bald man's head — the obvious thing. It is no exaggeration to say that even if you tie ten Chen Cheng together in a war, he is better than the last Wei Lihuang.
Of course, if this is to engage in personnel affairs and relations, you just tie a hundred Wei Lihuang together and compare it to one Chen Cheng, otherwise why would there be a civil engineering department represented by Chen Cheng?
Speaking of this, it is estimated that some friends will say: "Is this too exaggerated?" ”
exaggeration? What we said is not exaggerated at all, Xiaobian gives you an example, you will know.
The three major battles of the Liberators, the first Liaoshen Campaign, what happened before the whole battle, he was very representative.
In the beginning, Chen Cheng squatted in the northeast as the director of the Kuomintang Northeast Expedition to command the operation. As a result, in October 1947, our People's Liberation Army launched an autumn offensive in the northeast, and you can't imagine that one by one, 70,000 Kuomintang people were wrapped in tangyuan, boiled in pots, boiled, boiled
In December, the People's Liberation Army came to another winter offensive, and without giving the Kuomintang a chance to breathe, it came up, smashing the face of the Kuomintang, and hey, the newly organized Fifth Army was completely destroyed by the People's Liberation Army.
The newly organized Fifth Army, which is one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang Central Army, said that it was gone, and Chiang Kai-shek's heart trembled when he heard this.
After such a pass, the Kuomintang did not win a few games, and Chen Cheng's position in the northeast could not sit still; of course, Chiang Kai-shek did not distrust him anymore, but Chen Cheng had to face overwhelming public opinion every day.
And Chen Cheng himself? Looking at the fierce offensive of the People's Liberation Army, he knew that he could not resist it by relying on his own body and bones, and then he began to pretend to be sick, and he was going to resign by taking advantage of the illness.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek? Knowing that this member of his love will, so he flew to Shenyang to see at that time, this guy Chen Cheng could not fit, it was an embarrassment.
But if Chiang Kai-shek were to follow Chen Cheng's fate and then go down, it would not be a matter, no, no, you still have a camel who does not drink water and presses his head? If you drink it, you have to lose everything.
But in this Gada, such an important place in the northeast, Chiang Kai-shek could not let go, so he could only find someone else to put out the fire.
This person certainly couldn't find someone worse than Chen Cheng, and finally Wei Lihuang went up and took chen cheng in the northeast.
Speaking of this, it is estimated that some small partners have to say: "The last Wei Lihuang you said went up, or was he defeated?" ”
What does this say? As the old saying goes, the times are also fateful, the defeat of the Kuomintang is a failure of the whole, and the general environment is like that, the people are not willing to believe the Kuomintang, and it is not good for you to change anyone.
Our question is about the comparison between Wei Lihuang and Chen Cheng, let's not talk about other topics.
Wei Lihuang replaced Chen Cheng, so it is clear that Chen Cheng is inferior militarily to Wei Lihuang and Chiang Kai-shek.
Then let's take a look at Wei Lihuang's qualifications.
You want to talk about Wei Lihuang's seniority and prestige, if under normal circumstances, he can do a position as a feudal official.
Let's not say anything else, for example, Du Yuming, Zheng Dongguo, Fan Hanjie, Liao Yaoxiang, etc., many Kuomintang generals have worked under Wei Lihuang.
This was also the victory of the expeditionary force in counterattacking Burma, which he achieved under the command of Wei Lihuang, and the Allied gang said that Wei Lihuang was good.
Therefore, in terms of battle merits, Chen Cheng and Wei Lihuang could not compare.
Let's take another example to explain from the side that Wei Lihuang's military ability is higher than Chen Cheng's.
You must remember that in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wei Lihuang and the Eighth Route Army were very close. The Kuomintang was reluctant to resupply the Eighth Route Army, especially the bullets, guns, and weapons used in the war were particularly tightly stuck.
But under Wei Lihuang's hands, it was different, in Wei Lihuang's view, they were all anti-Japanese armed forces, and the Eighth Route Army was still very good and fought quite well.
In March 1938, the Eighth Route Army was allocated 150,000 rounds of ammunition and 5,000 grenades. Later, in the battle at Hanxinling, Wei Lihuang was defeated and retreated, but fortunately he was rescued by the Eighth Route Army on the way, and Wei Lihuang sent another 100,000 rounds of ammunition.
In April 1938, after Wei Lihuang went to Yan'an, he returned and, in the name of his deputy commander of the Second Theater, allocated one million rounds of ammunition and two hundred thousand grenades to the Eighth Route Army.
Fortunately, this order was given early, and the Eighth Route Army used to pull things early, and if you take a step at night, the Kuomintang can stop this batch of ammunition for you.
Let's just say, according to this amount of ammunition to replenish the Eighth Route Army, according to Chiang Kai-shek's temper, Wei Lihuang is a little less capable, can he still hang around in front of Chiang Kai-shek's eyes?
I didn't know what excuse to use for a long time, so I put it on the shelf and collected it.
Therefore, Wei Lihuang was a man with absolute ability in the military, which made Chiang Kai-shek think twice before putting it away.
And you have to remember that generally capable people, more or less when he loses his temper, as a leader he still has to carry.
Therefore, at the time of the Liaoshen Campaign, you saw such a scene in history, Chen Cheng was frightened, and he wanted to leave the northeast by taking advantage of his illness, and Chiang Kai-shek deliberately lifted Wei Lihuang out to the wind.
As a result, Wei Lihuang was unceremoniously resigned, and he just didn't go if he loved who went.
This temper, Chiang Kai-shek can not be difficult, sent Zhang Qun and Gu Zhu to the same piece to the door as a lobbyist can not succeed, and later Chen Cheng's wife came to the door again.
You don't have to say that during that time, Wei Lihuang's doorstep was almost flattened.
You see another person who is pretentious, Chiang Kai-shek is not angry and bold, looking for you is not, that is a quasi.
As a result, Chiang Kai-shek had to eat it.
In the end, Wei Lihuang was still unable to do so, and eventually went to the northeast to take up his post, but this had to make Chiang Kai-shek agree to several conditions.
For example, you said that wei Lihuang, the military and political power in the northeast, wanted to restore the four armies that had been destroyed by Chen Cheng, and agreed to replenish the troops, equipment, and so on to the northeast.
So on January 17, 1948, the Kuomintang settled Wei Lihuang and became the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Suppression Campaign, and also the director of the Northeast Campaign.
Seriously, Wei Lihuang went to the northeast, and what Chen Cheng left for him was a mess, except for a few isolated cities, all the other places were liberated by our People's Liberation Army, and even Siping was gone.
Shenyang and Changchun all relied on Chiang Kai-shek's aircraft to airdrop materials, which was the continuation of life? Without those few small planes, the whole northeast would have been liberated long ago.
After all, this is an external reason, the general environment is like this, look back at the internal reasons that Chen Cheng left for Wei Lihuang.
You must know that Chen Cheng himself has a set of squads, so when he was the director of the Northeast Expedition, the entire Northeast Troop did not need to ask, and used Chen Cheng's own people.
What is Wei Lihuang? He is equivalent to an airborne official, commanding the battle if the next side is disobedient, what else to command?
After Wei Lihuang went, he straightened out the hearts and minds of the netizens, replenished the soldiers, and also carried out rectification training with his feet, recruiting his old departments to his subordinates, such as Chen Tie and Peng Jie, one arranged to be the deputy commander-in-chief of the general crackdown, the other arranged to be the deputy chief of staff of the general staff, and the deputy commander of the First Corps.
He also looked at the original set of teams left by Chen Cheng and Du Yuming, and gave various conveniences, not to mention, and no longer excluded dissidents like Chen Cheng, and there was no one in sight.
For example, Wei Lihuang often invited some people who still had a certain prestige in the northeast to hold banquets, and listened to their suggestions by the way.
That's not all, he still has to enlist the support of the U.S. advisory board.
You see for yourself, Chen Cheng left such a mess, Wei Lihuang tried to find a way to fill the hole, and his posture is a strategy of planning to stick to several key points in the northeast and ignore other places.
It is to fight logistics, fight for internal affairs and the People's Liberation Army to put it here.
In this situation, we simply put it on the military side, and you cannot say that Wei Lihuang is wrong, after all, Chen Cheng's lessons have proved that it is impossible for the Kuomintang to compete with the Platon Army in the movement.
Since you can't move, you can only stick to it.
Of course, things can never be carried out according to people's wishes, Chiang Kai-shek looked at Wei Lihuang's operation, he was anxious, the whole northeast lost a large half, and then lost a piece of land, it will be heartache for half a day.
Then there is Chiang Kai-shek fighting, he is also to fight for the Americans to see, if you do not make some achievements, just lose the territory, he is not good-looking, ah, turn back to the Americans to ask for assistance, this will not be able to open, even if you open your mouth, you will be rejected.
If this had not been aided by the Americans, Chiang Kai-shek would not have been able to sustain himself, would he?
Therefore, in the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek considered the war from a political point of view, while Wei Lihuang considered the war from a military point of view, and the two were not on the same line.
So in history, we have seen such a phenomenon, Wei Lihuang stubbornly guarded Shenyang, even if the outskirts of Shenyang, and even the various communication lines into Shenyang were strangled by the People's Liberation Army, Wei Lihuang was still indifferent.
And Chiang Kai-shek? He thought of letting Wei Lihuang quickly move the main force in his hand out of Shenyang, and wanted to open up the Shen Jin line.
You don't know, but this is particularly interesting, Chiang Kai-shek sent Luo Zemin, Li Shuzheng, and Wei Lihuang, directors and deputy directors of the Third Department of the Kuomintang National Defense Department, to discuss. And Wei Lihuang? In turn, he sent Zheng Dongguo back to Nanjing and Chiang Kai-shek to state his views.
The whole thing is split.
Why? A good general, when faced with a problem, he will stick to his own plan, which is generally a manifestation of ability.
At the beginning of the Huaihai Campaign, the CPC Central Committee did not want to fight the Huaihai Campaign so big at the beginning, after all, 600,000 to 800,000, I didn't have much confidence in thinking.
That was the result of Su Yu insisting on his opinion again and again and stating his views to the Central Telegram.
Of course, while stating his views, Su Yu was still acting in accordance with the operational plan deployed by the Party Central Committee.
Eventually, the entire campaign was transformed from the Small Huaihai that Su Yu began to envision into the Great Huaihai Campaign.
As long as the CPC Central Committee is right and is still right after analysis, it will listen to you.
Chiang Kai-shek was different, he just wanted to act according to his own ideas, and finally flew to Shenyang himself, and it was three times in a row, basically putting Wei Lihuang in the air.
With such a command, the Liaoshen Campaign had nothing to do with the Kuomintang, and taking the finale of the victory of the People's Liberation Army as a sentence, the painting was quite satisfactory.
At that time, if Chen Cheng had been shelved, it was estimated that as soon as Chiang Kai-shek gave an order, even if Chen Cheng had a hundred ideas in his heart, he would not dare to shake out his own ideas, and he would have to follow Chiang Kai-shek's path.
Therefore, if you want to say that militarily, Chen Cheng is more powerful than Wei Lihuang, then the whole thing is not right.
Well, let's continue to talk about Wei Lihuang, after all, half of it, don't say an ending, Xiaobian also doesn't want to go.
Chiang Kai-shek went to Shenyang three times to give advice to the Kuomintang troops in the northeast, and the result was that after the Liaoshen Campaign, it was all over.
In the end, Chiang Kai-shek threw the big black cauldron to Wei Lihuang's back, and Wei Lihuang was angry enough, and after Wei Lihuang was removed, he went to Beiping.
Later, Wei Lihuang took advantage of the fact that Chiang Kai-shek was busy with the xuzhou war and had no other thoughts to ponder Wei Lihuang's affairs, wei Lihuang took the opportunity to charter a plane from Chennault's civil aviation and go to Hong Kong, and there was such a desire to avoid Chiang Kai-shek.
As a result, this matter was discovered by the people of the Secrecy Bureau, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately issued an order to take Wei Lihuang to Nanjing and put him under house arrest by the way.
Later, wasn't Chiang Kai-shek forced into the wilderness? Li Zongren, who became acting president, ordered Wei Lihuang's freedom to be restored, and after the Spring Festival in 1949, Wei Lihuang took his family to Hong Kong to work as a public servant.
Later, after the founding of New China, Wei Lihuang was happy in his heart, why say? In fact, Wei Lihuang did not agree with Chiang Kai-shek in this matter of civil war, and now that the whole country is unified, can Wei Lihuang not be happy? When he finally returned, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou personally received him.
Later, he also served as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, and deputy to the National People's Congress.
Speaking of this, it is estimated that some small partners will feel strange: "Why do you feel that it does not match the topic in this paragraph after you?" There is such a suspicion of water injection! ”
In fact, through the description behind this, Xiaobian just wants to tell the big guys that Wei Lihuang's overall view is much better than Chen Cheng's.
What is the purpose of military warfare? It is to have a unified country and nation, and this point, at least in later times, Wei Lihuang did not forget.
When the country is united and the nation is united, he is first and foremost happy.
You must know that General Wei Lihuang followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the Great Revolution, and when he fought the Civil War for ten years, he also played a so-called common general in the Red Army, becoming one of the five tiger generals of the Kuomintang (Chen Cheng was also one of them).
In the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was a man who advocated cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and in the period of the War of Liberation, he was also a man who opposed the civil war.
Is there a gulf between Wei Lihuang and the Communist Party? Why not? The Period of the Red Army is a typical example.
However, in the face of the chasm, Wei Lihuang is still willing to cross this chasm, which is Wei Lihuang's overall view.
Looking back at Chen Cheng, he basically held Chiang Kai-shek all his life, followed Chiang Kai-shek's path, and did not take a wrong step, which also made Chen Cheng a red man around Chiang Kai-shek.
Therefore, Chen Cheng's overall view is small, which also makes him unable to play a role in the military.