What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The Battle of Huaihai began on November 6, 1948, and Chiang Kai-shek called it the Battle of Xu Beng, and our army called it the Battle of Huaihai. The scale of this campaign was very large, the Nationalist army invested 800,000 troops, and our army also invested 600,000 soldiers (the number of people added up from the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army combined) The commander-in-chief was the chief of the two major field armies, namely Deng, Liu, Chen, Su, and Tan. On the side of the Nationalist army, It was Liu Zhi, with Du Yuming as the commander-in-chief, commanding seven corps of the Nationalist army plus the Third Appeasement Zone, but this Third Appeasement Zone led an uprising as soon as the battle broke out.
In this way, the Nationalist army also put seven corps into this battle, including the most elite second corps, the seventh corps, and the 12th corps, which were huge, each of which numbered more than 100,000 and was equipped with heavy weapons. Although the Huaihai Campaign eventually ended with the defeat of the Nationalist army, the three elite corps that Chiang Kai-shek put into the Huaihai Campaign all achieved certain results, and also caused great losses to the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army. So, today Xiaobian will introduce to you; which of the three elite corps of the Chinese army in the Huaihai Campaign performed the best in this battle.
Huang Baitao Corps
Looking at the entire Huaihai Campaign, it can be divided into three stages, and at each stage, our army annihilated an elite corps of the Nationalist army, and after the three elite corps were annihilated, the Huaihai Campaign was over, while the other four corps belonged to the soy sauce and fought with these three corps.
In the first phase of the Huaihai Campaign, the East China Field Army targeted Huang Baitao, a miscellaneous general. Although Huang Baitao was not a general of Chiang Kai-shek's concubine, his performance in the War of Liberation was obvious to all in the Nationalist army, so he received Chiang Kai-shek's weight and served as the commander of the Seventh Corps. The corps was also composed of miscellaneous troops, but under the leadership of the famous general Huang Baitao, it became a dark horse in the Huaihai Campaign, with strong combat effectiveness, and became the strongest opponent of the East China Field Army.
At that time, Huang Baitao's corps had 100,000 troops, and Huaye also invested 150,000 troops, and also invested 150,000 troops, and also invested the fourth column of Tao Yong, the sixth column of Wang Bicheng, the eighth column of Zhang Renchu, the ninth column of Nie Fengzhi, the thirteenth column of Zhou Zhijian, and the special column of Chen Ruiting (mainly artillery units, responsible for coordinating the operation), and friends who may know history know that these are all generals of Huaye' hundred battles. Nevertheless, the battle was fought very fiercely, with casualties on both sides reaching 100,000, while the East China Field Army lost 60,000, which shows the tragic degree. However, in the end, he annihilated this ace corps, and Huang Baitao committed suicide.
The second stage of the Huaihai Campaign was the operation of the Central Plains Field Army to annihilate the 12th Corps of the Nationalist Army, after the Huang Baitao Corps was surrounded, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized the 12 Corps to reinforce, but in the process of marching, he was surrounded by the Central Plains Field Army, liu Shuai used his troops like gods, and under his planning, locked this powerful corps in the southwest of Suxian County. Huang Wei's 12th Corps was known as the most powerful regiment of the Central Plains Nationalist Army, with a number of 120,000 and equipped with artillery, tanks, and all-American equipment.
12 Corps
Therefore, the battle of double pile set also became a large-scale village offensive during the Liberation War. Fortunately, in this battle, the Nationalist 110th Division revolted on the battlefield. For the Central Plains Field Army, this righteousness is like sending charcoal in the snow, and for Huang Wei, it is like a disaster. Under the condition that all the soldiers of the Central Plains Field Army bravely killed the enemy, the battle lasted for 23 days and finally won the victory, but it also paid the price of more than 30,000 casualties to defeat the Huang Wei Corps.
The third phase of the Battle of Huaihai was a battle of pursuit and annihilation, when Du Yuming proposed to Chiang Kai-shek to abandon Xuzhou and withdraw the Nationalist troops to the south of the Yangtze River, and Chiang Kai-shek agreed to this plan on the spot. So Du Yuming led Qiu Qingquan's corps, Sun Yuanliang's corps, and Li Mi's corps to withdraw from Xuzhou, but on the way to the march, Chiang Kai-shek gave a military order to destroy 300,000 troops, and old Jiang wanted Du Yuming to rescue Huang Wei's corps and then retreat south together.
Chiang Kai-shek and Du Yuming
When Du Yuming's group returned, it exchanged fire with the pursuing and annihilating troops of the East China Field Army. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek lost his wife and folded his troops, greedy enough snakes and elephants, could have saved the result of 300,000 troops, all buried in the Battle of Chen Guanzhuang, 3 corps headquarters; 10 corps; 25 divisions, 1 cavalry brigade, a total of more than 300,000 people, including more than 60,000 casualties, 177,000 prisoners, du Yuming, and Qiu Qingquan.
In each of the three stages of the Huaihai Campaign, an elite corps of the Nationalist army was annihilated, and in these three battles, the most casualty of our army was Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps, and Hua Ye paid a price of 60,000 people to win this battle, so Xiaobian personally felt that the Seventh Corps was the elite corps that performed the best in this battle.