"Five hearts are uncertain, and the loss is clean", Liu Bocheng's words can be said to be a true portrayal of Wang Yaowu before the Jinan Campaign and the results of the subsequent battles.
When a general also begins to prepare for the transfer of his family and family property, how can his subordinates live and die with him with peace of mind?
But in fact, Wang Yaowu had no other way. Long before he arranged for his family members to go, he went to meet Chiang Kai-shek, and in order to encourage morale, Chiang Kai-shek also specially asked Soong Mei-ling to cook a meal for him to eat, and this meal was eaten, and Wang Yaowu knew that he could no longer refuse to stick to Jinan no matter what, but he insisted on Jinan. How to keep?
Although after the meal Wang Yaowu borrowed wine
He told Chiang Kai-shek that he was dead set on Jinan, but as soon as he returned to Jinan, he went straight to his home and transferred his wife and property.
Wang Yaowu's deeds
Wang Yaowu was one of the few capable people in the Kuomintang. In 1904, Wang Yaowu was born in Tai'an, Shandong Province, and his family was quite decent, so he once went to a private school, but then his father died, and he grew up under the tugging of his mother.
Because of the early teachings of Confucian traditional culture, Wang Yaowu was extremely filial to his mother, so that whenever he went out later, he would ask his mother for peace, and he would find his mother to ask for peace at the first time he returned.
In 1924, Wang Yaowu was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy with outstanding results and became a student of the third batch, after which he successfully graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and participated in the Northern Expedition.
As early as the Whampoa Military Academy, he was appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, and in fact Chiang Kai-shek's team was basically obtained when he was the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Wang Yaowu was very good at fighting wars, but it was the feudal ideas he accepted when he was young that gave him the so-called idea of "loyalty to the king and patriotism", and as long as it was a task assigned by the party and the state, he chose to complete it.
In 1930, he participated in the Battle of the Central Plains, in which he made a military achievement, and was later promoted to colonel. Later, he participated in the fourth encirclement and suppression and made great contributions in it, and he was summoned by Chiang Kai-shek, awarded the rank of major general, and later promoted to the commander of the Fifty-first Division, which is the reorganized 74th Division, which is often mentioned in the future.
Later, the reorganized 74th Division led by Zhang Lingfu, which claimed to be able to defeat 100,000 elite troops, was actually established to a large extent under the leadership of Wang Yaowu.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the army led by Wang Yaowu defeated the Japanese army in the Battle of Songhu and the Defense of Nanjing in the "August 13" Battle of Songhu and the Defense of Nanjing, and he also made great contributions to the Neutrality of the War of Resistance Against Japan and won the respect of the people. But just as the so-called bad head led to a bad road, under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, he also participated in the civil war.
In 1945, he was appointed commander of the Second Appeasement District and commander-in-chief of the Party, Government, and Army of Shandong Province, in charge of the affairs of the Kuomintang army in Shandong, and this area will have many famous battles and famous generals in the future.
On the eve of the Battle of Jinan
With the advancement of the War of Liberation, the East China Field Army, under the leadership of Chen Yi, Su Yu and others, laid a great name in Shandong, and what made Wang Yaowu most difficult to accept was that the reorganized 74th Division of the Kuomintang Army was swallowed up by the East China Field Army.
This battle was the famous Battle of Menglianggu, and the reorganized 74th Division led by Zhang Lingfu, under the orders of Chiang Kai-shek, drove straight into the hinterland of the East China Field Army, and by the time it reacted, it was already surrounded by Su Yu's East China Field Army.
Zhang Lingfu ordered meng lianggu to be held firm and waited for rescue, but at this time the Nationalist army was blocked out, and the 74th Division was completely destroyed.
In Wang Yaowu's view, this battle was a burial of the Kuomintang's superiority in the East China Theater, and since then, the strategy of the East China Field Army has been turned into an offensive, especially before the Battle of Jinan, the East China Field Army swept 700 miles of Jiaoji Road and 700 miles of Jinpu Road, and Jinan has become an isolated city.
At this time, the army left in Jinan was only about 100,000, which was still formed by some Kuomintang troops who had been defeated from other regions, and it was impossible to block the road of the People's Liberation Army.
Jinan is the capital of Shandong, the intersection of the Jinpu Railway and the Jiaoji Railway, and a strategic place connecting East and North China, so the People's Liberation Army will definitely attack.
But Wang Yaowu knew that the "old man" would most likely not be able to give up, which made Wang Yaowu very distressed, and it was at this time that he received a call from Nanjing, indicating that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to invite him to dinner.
Therefore, Wang Yaowu worriedly got on a plane to Nanjing.
Chiang Kai-shek invited you to dinner
As soon as he got off the plane, Wang Yaowu saw Chen Brei, the secretary general of Chiang Kai-shek, who had come to pick him up, and he had excellent personal relations with Chen Brei, so as soon as he got off the plane, he said to Chen Brei: "Brother Bray, Jinan is now an isolated city, and it is impossible to defend it, and my 100,000 troops will be destroyed if we keep it." ”
Of course, Chen Bray also understood Wang Yaowu's bitterness, but Chiang Kai-shek's decision was not something that anyone could change, he said: "I understand what you mean, but the old man also has his bitterness, and recently his anger has been very great, so you had better not mention giving up Jinan." ”
As he was speaking, they had already arrived at Chiang Kai-shek's official residence, and Chiang Kai-shek was extremely enthusiastic about him, and when he saw Song Meiling sweating on his forehead and carrying vegetables out, he couldn't help but feel flattered, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel flattered, and at the same time, he couldn't say anything.
Chiang Kai-shek happily drank a few glasses of wine with him, and when they were almost finished eating, the two came to the living room to discuss, Chiang Kai-shek asked Wang Yaowu to sit down, and then said slowly: "Yaowu, do you know what I am talking to you about?" ”
Of course, Wang Yaowu knew what was going on, and at this moment, after a few glasses of wine, he had the courage to say:
Principal, Jinan can not be defended, if you stick to it, the future of 100,000 soldiers of the National Army is worrying! ”
When Chiang Kai-shek heard that he was not happy on the spot, he stood up and walked to the side, Wang Yaowu knew that the principal was angry, but what should he do now? Wang Yaowu was also unclear.
Chiang Kai-shek calmed down for a moment and bitterly talked about the reason for holding Jinan: It is not only of strategic significance, but also of political significance, and only by defending Jinan can we get support from the US army. In addition, reinforcements can be flown in by air, so it is possible to defend.
But Chiang Kai-shek forgot that this was a war, and reinforcements were a joke. Helplessly, Chiang Kai-shek had already said this, and Wang Yaowu was afraid that he would not be able to return to Jinan without expressing his determination. He had to straighten his waist and say
"The principal's words made me open up, and I will return to Jinan, and I will strictly guard Jinan!" ”
After that, Wang Yaowu left Nanjing and returned to Jinan in a satisfied expression of Chiang Kai-shek.
Then came the transfer of the wife's property.
brief summary:
Later, as soon as the war broke out, the Kuomintang defenders in Jinan were indeed unable to collapse, and Chiang Kai-shek's rescue was not in place, and eventually Wang Yaowu was captured by our army.
In his later years, Wang Yaowu participated in the construction of new China under the transformation of our party, and even served as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, but when he was 64 years old, he suddenly had a heart attack and eventually died.