In the second half of 1947, the War of Liberation entered the stage of a major strategic counteroffensive
。 Later, through the Liaoshen Campaign, the Huaihai Campaign, and the Battle of Crossing the River, the People's Liberation Army successfully forced Chiang Kai-shek's retreat to Taiwan and won victory in the War of Liberation.
Among the three major battles, the one with the largest number of sacrifices and the most arduous process was the Huaihai Campaign. The Battle of Huaihai was so difficult not only because Chiang Kai-shek sent his ace troops, but also because of the Kuomintang generals who participated in the battle
Du Yuming, Hu Lian, Qiu Qingquan, Huang Baitao
The others were the best commanders in the Kuomintang, and they had very rich combat experience.
1. Du Yuming
Du Yuming was a very capable and prestigious general in the Kuomintang army.
In 1924, Du Yuming was successfully admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy and became the first Whampoa student.
During his time in school, Du Yuming studied hard and achieved excellent results. Before he officially graduated, many warlord forces tried to hire him to serve in the army with heavy money, but he eventually chose to stay in the Kuomintang army.
After the Whampoa Military Academy moved to Wuhan, Du Yuming served in the military academy.
In 1932, Du Yuming was sent to northern Anhui to participate in the Kuomintang's "encirclement and suppression" operation against the Red Army
。 When the Red Army was about to break through the breakthrough, Du Yuming was ordered to lead his troops to launch a counter-offensive against our army, which eventually led to our army paying a heavy price. Du Yuming was also rewarded for this and promoted to commander of the Seventeenth Army.
In 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army launched the "918" Incident, and after occupying the northeast, it repeatedly launched invasions of the Central Plains.
In 1933, the Japanese attempted to attack the Rehe area
。 At this time, Du Yuming, who had become the deputy commander of the Twenty-fifth Division, was ordered to lead his troops to Rehe, snipe at the japanese invasion, and fight with the invaders in blood.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Du Yuming led his army to snipe the Japanese in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.
In 1942, he led an expeditionary force to Burma to guard the rear of China
。 During this period, Chiang Kai-shek trusted Du Yuming very much and often entrusted him with some very important orders to carry out.
During the Liberation War, Du Yuming was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Northeast Security And stationed in the northeast.
In the two years in the northeast, he has repeatedly caused a huge impact on the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army.
In June 1948, Du Yuming, who was recuperating in Shanghai, was recalled by Chiang Kai-shek to the army and served as the deputy commander of the Xuzhou "Suppression General" Headquarters, sitting in Jinan.
After the Liaoshen Campaign broke out, seeing the situation in which the Kuomintang army was gradually defeated and retreated, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Du Yuming to go to Jinzhou to direct the battle. However, the day after he arrived in Jinzhou, before he could officially begin command, the People's Liberation Army invaded Jinzhou.
Chiang Kai-shek could only hurriedly let the special plane take Du Yuming back to Beiping.
When the Battle of Huaihai broke out, Du Yuming was ordered to lead a corps to fight in Xuzhou. In the course of the battle, in view of the battlefield situation at that time, he repeatedly wrote to Chiang Kai-shek to make suggestions. After the Battle of Huaihai began, Du Yuming insisted on stubborn resistance on the battlefield. ultimately
In the early morning of January 10, 1949, Du Yuming, who was trying to make a final breakthrough, was captured by the People's Liberation Army.
2. Huang Baitao
In addition to Du Yuming, the nationalist generals who participated in the Huaihai Campaign also included Huang Baitao.
Huang Baitao was also a very legendary general.
Unlike Du Yuming, who was born in Chiang Kai-shek's troops, Huang Baitao was born in the "miscellaneous troops" of the Kuomintang.
Huang Baitao was originally a division commander under the Warlord Zhang Zongchang. After the outbreak of the Northern Expedition, Zhang Zongchang led his subordinates to defect to Chiang Kai-shek. In the Kuomintang army, it was often the generals who were born in chiang's clan.
And a general like Huang Baitao, who comes from a "miscellaneous army", is difficult to get attention to.
In order to be able to stand out in the Kuomintang army, Huang Baitao had to work harder than other generals. In every battle, Huang Baitao rushed to the front, made many achievements in the neutrality of the Kuomintang army, and slowly gained the trust of the superior leaders.
In 1944, he was appointed commander of the Twenty-fifth Army of the National Army.
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In the army within the Kuomintang, the generals were corrupt and the soldiers were poorly disciplined.
However, after taking over the Twenty-fifth Army, Huang Baitao trained soldiers and soldiers with very strict standards, and revitalized the military appearance and morale of the Twenty-fifth Army.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Huang Baitao to lead the Twenty-fifth Army to defend the Jiaodong area. His series of offensive battles in northern Jiangsu, the reinforcement battle of Menglianggu, and the battle of Dabie Mountain all caused great obstacles to the PLA. Because there is a very good record,
Huang Baitao was awarded the Order of Qingtian White Sun and the Order of Guanghua Baoding by Chiang Kai-shek.
After the Battle of Huaihai broke out, Huang Baitao was sent by Chiang Kai-shek to the Xuzhou battlefield. Although Huang Baitao had very high military command ability, this could not stop the fact that the Kuomintang army was losing. In the end, the Twenty-fifth Army was besieged by the People's Liberation Army at Nianzhuang.
Huang Baitao was shot and killed while organizing a breakout.
3. Hu Lian and Qiu Qingquan
In addition to Du Yuming and Huang Baitao, the generals who participated in the Huaihai Campaign included Hu Lian and Qiu Qingquan. Like Du Yuming,
Hu Lian was also born in the Whampoa Military Academy and was a Whampoa student in the second period
。 In the military academy, he began to follow Chiang Kai-shek.
During the agrarian revolution, Hu Lian successively participated in the third, fourth, and fifth "great encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Region by the Kuomintang army. Enormous damage was inflicted on the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
Also because of his continuous meritorious service in the battlefield, Hu Lian's military position has also been continuously promoted.
After the Outbreak of the Battle of Songhu in 1937, Hu Lian was ordered to lead an army to Shanghai and participate in the defense of Shanghai. In order to block the Japanese attack, he organized death squads, ordered grenades to bombard enemy tanks, and remained on the front line of the battlefield. afterwards
Hu Lianyou led his army to fight the Japanese army in Jiuhua Mountain, Hunan, Hubei and other places, and repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the enemy army
。
After the outbreak of the Huaihai War,
Hu Lian was appointed deputy commander of the Kuomintang Twelfth Corps and went to fight in the Xuhaihuai area.
During this period, because the morale of the Kuomintang army was low, Hu Lian personally went to the front line position to boost morale.
Another general, Qiu Qingquan, like Hu Lian, was a student of the second phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. Unlike other soldiers, Qiu Qingquan has a deep cultural foundation and is very accomplished in poetry and song.
He was also a very famous anti-Japanese general in the Kuomintang army.
After the Battle of Huaihai broke out, Qiu Qingquan was also sent to the battlefield. After the defeat of the Kuomintang army, he followed Du Yuming out of Xuzhou. However, in the end, they were surrounded by the People's Liberation Army regiment in Xiao County, Xuzhou.
On January 10, 1949, the encircled Kuomintang troops tried to make a final breakthrough
。 Du Yuming, who was captured, was still relatively lucky, and Qiu Qingquan was directly killed.
4. Summary
In addition to Du Yuming, Huang Baitao, Hu Lian, Qiu Qingquan and others, many other Nationalist generals also participated in the Battle of Huaihai. However, no matter how good these generals are, they cannot stop the fact that the Kuomintang army is corrupt and incompetent.
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