Why did the Nationalist army lose in the War of Liberation? In addition to the heroic battles of our troops, part of the reason comes from the performance of those nationalist generals, especially in the Huaihai War, which may be difficult for even the screenwriter to write so brilliantly. In the case of a disadvantage in troops, from the chiefs to the soldiers on the front line, they may not have expected such a huge result. Even the red agents lurking inside the Nationalist army could not have imagined that the Huaihai Campaign would develop in such a way, and this relied heavily on the near-perfect cooperation of the Nationalist generals. Next, let's go back in time and look at the strange operations of the Nationalist army.
In fact, before the war of liberation officially broke out, the leaders of our party had already formulated the basic policy of attacking the north and defending the south, and the ultimate purpose was to delay the pace of the main force of the nationalist army and buy more time for Dongye to liberate the northeast. Because whoever can win the northeast region will have an absolute advantage in industrial manufacturing. For this reason, our party specially dispatched more than 20,000 cadres to the northeast, which can be said to be the most elite force in our army, so even if the losses in the Siping Battle were huge, but after a year, Dongye actually developed to a million male divisions, and those cadres can be said to be indispensable.
On the main battlefield in the south, although the troops have always implemented the defensive policy, General Su Yu led a force of only 30,000 people to face an enemy four times his own. Then there were such great victories as Laiwu and Meng Lianggu, which made Chairman Mao extremely excited, saying that if all the troops could fight in this way, it would only take 5 years to drive all the Nationalist troops into the sea. The reason why Hua Ye was able to obtain such a proud battle record, in addition to the command of General Su Yu who was different from ordinary people, another reason was that he obtained a large amount of equipment and materials from the northeast, and it was precisely because of the continuous blood transfusion in the rear that this unit would become more courageous. But in fact, after Liu Deng advanced into Dabie Mountain, the war situation was still developing in a worse direction. Not only was the troops attrition quite severe, but they also lost a great deal of weaponry.
When he left Dabie Mountain a year later, it coincided with the loss of the Jiaodong area by Dongye, resulting in the complete cutting off of the supply line in the northeast direction, which was also the darkest moment for the PLA troops. And although Higashino regained the advantage on the battlefield, it seemed too far away from the comprehensive liberation of the northeast, and there was a feeling that the south could not be defended and the north could not move. Therefore, Chairman Mao judged at that time that this battle might take more than ten years to fight, and he was even ready to go up to the mountains again to fight guerrillas. However, in the Liaoshen Campaign, Dongye annihilated the Nationalist troops entrenched in the northeast in one fell swoop, and Huaye and Nakano killed a large number of elites in the Liaoshen Campaign, and Dongye did not come to help, and the troops that should have focused on defense directly lifted up the Laodi of the Nationalist Army. How did these unexpected results come about? If it weren't for the miraculous operations of those nationalist generals, we might not have been able to see the miracle of 600,000 to 800,000 wars.
In March 1948, Chairman Mao, in accordance with the basic principle of attacking the north and defending the south, originally wanted Su Yu to lead some troops south, which can be regarded as another advance into the Dabie Mountains. However, Su Yu objected to this decision because of Nakano's encounter at that time, and in the end Chairman Mao agreed to let the troops stay for the time being. But in fact, after that, the war situation in the Central Plains has undergone a great improvement, the overall units of the nationalist army have been turned upside down, and those high-level commanders have not been able to react in time, resulting in the balance of victory tilting little by little to our army. It was not until October that the generals of the Nationalist army gradually realized that it would not be possible to continue to divide their troops, so they gradually reached a unified, abandoned some cities with low strategic significance, and then concentrated their forces in several important major cities to seek the opportunity to fight our army to the death. At that time, the strength of the two sides was 600,000 to 800,000, so the commander of our army did not rush to seek a decisive battle opportunity, but wanted to fight a small Huaihai first to establish an advantage, and its core goal was to kill Huang Baitao's corps, for which those underground comrades lurking inside the enemy played a pivotal role.
Guo Rujie
Although Bai Chongxi was the defense minister of the Nationalist army at that time, he was only a general of the Gui clan, so he did not have much real power in his hands, and it was actually Gu Zhutong, the general staff member, who could decide the decision, in fact, Vice Minister Liu Fei and his confidant Guo Rujie. Liu Fei and Guo Rugui were both comrades of our party, so at that time, the battle plan of the Nationalist army was first drawn up by Guo Rugui, and then approved by Liu Fei, and finally Gu Zhutong symbolically looked at it twice and then issued it for implementation. However, the biggest problem at that time was that Guo Rugui and Liu Fei did not know each other's true identities, so the relationship between the two had always been intolerable, and from time to time they had to report to their superiors. Therefore, when Guo Rugui was customizing the plan, he did not dare to make a very obvious flaw, and he was afraid that Liu Fei's side of the audit could not pass, so he could only think of another way in private.
Liu Fei
According to the battle plan at that time, Huang Baitao, who was stationed in Xin'an, was to be transferred to Xuzhou, and if he wanted to eat them, he had to let them suspend their operations, and at that time, the four corps of the Nationalist army had to move closer to Xuzhou, so that the 44th Army stationed in Lianyungang must also retreat. However, due to Liu Zhi's inaction and Du Yuming's busy withdrawing troops in the northeast, Gu Zhutong personally took the military division Guo Rugui into battle, and finally under the operation of Guo Rugui, let the 44th Army choose a land route that was not very safe, and also wanted to assign this unit to Huang Baitao. Huang Baitao was overjoyed to hear of this, so he immediately asked his troops to suspend their operations and wait to meet the 44th Army, which had traveled a long way. He believed that although there were risks in this way, there was still a third appeasement area in the north to bear for himself, and instead of panicking, he was a little happy. Unfortunately, the two deputy commanders of the Third Appeasement District all secretly joined our party in the early years, and then they suddenly announced an uprising, and as Hua Ye directly pounded Huang Long, Huang Baitao instantly turned into a piece of fat. But if Huang Baitao fled immediately after receiving the news, our troops were not completely sure that they would be able to catch them, but at this critical moment, the Nationalist army began their magical operation again.
In fact, when Huang Baitao learned the news of the uprising in the Third Appeasement District, he also wanted to escape immediately. It was only when he let the troops retreat backwards that he found himself staying in Xin'an for so long, but he did not build a pontoon bridge on the big river behind him, resulting in nearly 80,000 people under his command and a large amount of mechanized equipment, and he could only retreat from one bridge after another. The result, of course, was that the troops in the rear were pursued by Hua Ye and lost a large amount of living force. In addition, the commander-in-chief of the crackdown, Liu Zhi, was equally psychedelic, and when he learned that Huaye's army was pressing the border, his first reaction was to transfer all his troops to Xuzhou to save his life. At that time, Li Mi's corps was in Cao Baji, and if Liu Zhi sent Li Mi to meet Huang Baitao, Hua Ye would not be able to chew the next bone. However, it was not long before Li Mi received an urgent order to withdraw from Xuzhou, which was undoubtedly a thunderbolt on a sunny day for Huang Baitao, who had just escaped, and he had also been begging Li Mi to pull a hand, but Li Mi said that he must carry out the orders of the commander, so he ran to Xuzhou with a cigarette. Hua Ye then took cao ba set, which completely cut off Huang Baitao's retreat and surrounded him dead in the area of Nianzhuang.
At this time, the strategic objectives of Xiaohuaihai were basically achieved, but our army still did not have the idea of launching an all-out battle. It was not until Nakano took the strategically important su county that Chairman Mao and other leaders decided to establish the Huaihai General Front Committee that they formally decided to carry out the Huaihai Campaign. The reason why Hua Ye was able to successfully take Su County, the assist of the general of the National Army was equally wonderful. At that time, in order to save himself, Liu Zhi also recalled Sun Yuanliang of Su County to Xuzhou, which was the throat of the connection with Bengbu, and this withdrawal caused Su County to have no defensive forces. Guo Ruzhi had planned to leave about two armies to defend before this, for fear that others would find out that they had laid out a gap, but Liu Zhi was equivalent to sending Suxian directly out at this time, which made many commanders and fighters feel very incredible. Therefore, after capturing Su County, the chiefs of Huaye found that Liu Zhi's suppression had become a turtle in an urn, and it was a bit unspeakable that this battle would not be fought again.
Things have developed here, and the most preferred choice of the nationalist army is to seize this opportunity and concentrate its forces on a decisive battle with our army in Suxian County, and at the worst, to retake the city and restore the transportation line. Although Du Yuming decided to do this after the wind and fire arrived, Liu Zhi was worried that this would cost him his life, so he ordered Li Mi and Qiu Qingquan to go to the rescue, and also asked Huang Wei to immediately rush to the battlefield to take SuXian, so that the troops that should have been hugged together were once again dismantled everywhere. And it is also incomprehensible that at that time, there were three corps in the south plus Huang Wei, and somehow Liu Zhi decided to leave two. In this case, Hua Ye gathered more than 400,000 heavy troops to prepare to completely eat Huang Baitao this time, of which nearly 300,000 troops were responsible for blocking the enemy's reinforcements. Li Mi and Qiu Qingquan, on the other hand, had a total of about 160,000 people, and it was impossible to fight Huaye's blockade line, and the Huang Wei Corps, which had more than 100,000 people, was surrounded by 170,000 people of our army in a double pile. What should have been an advantage of 800,000 versus 600,000 in several battlefields became an embarrassing situation of backward troops, resulting in the total annihilation of Huang Baitao's army and the encirclement of Huang Wei, who came from afar. Even though Chiang Kai-shek immediately sent two corps on the southern front to support him, and also asked his son to personally "supervise the battle," by this time the morale of the troops had sunk to the bottom and huaye's blockade line could not be pushed at all, so the general could only flee backwards now.
But just as Du Yuming was about to flee, Chiang Kai-shek parachuted in and ordered him to rescue Huang Wei immediately. Then Du Yuming's three corps were so slightly manipulated that they naturally could not avoid the end of being surrounded by our army. The final result was that our army originally wanted to kill one Huang Baitao, but the top brass of the nationalist army sent the others up one by one, and finally the four main forces in Xuzhou were completely destroyed, and a Huang Wei was also brought along. In addition to the heroic battles of our generals, Liu Zhi can be said to have played an irreplaceable role in it.
The problem came again when things developed here, did no one inside the Nationalist army find out that Liu Zhi would only add to the chaos? In fact, at the beginning, Guo Rugui clearly pointed out this problem to Chiang Kai-shek, and the reason why he did this was because of Du Yuming's suspicions, he always felt that Guo Rugui was not his own person, and often made small reports to Chiang Kai-shek. The reason for Du Yuming's suspicion was also very simple, that is, he thought that he was already very honest and honest, and he did not expect that Guo Rugui's family was even more "poor" than himself, and patches could be seen on the sofa, and no one inside the national army could do this. After hearing this, Chiang Kai-shek also broke through the defense on the spot, can't the Nationalist army produce a person who does not love money? In order to "prove his innocence", Guo Ruzhi and Gu Zhu came to Xuzhou together to plan the battle, and did not shy away from sending a pig to guard Xuzhou, which won the unanimous praise of the people around him. However, Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to loyalty, so he would rather use Liu Zhi than others, so that our army could only accept this generous gift with tears, and no one could resist such a temptation.
In general, the performance of the top brass of the Nationalist army in the Battle of Huaihai can only be vigorously praised by what they can't do.