In a brutal war, casualties are inevitable. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek disregarded the will of the people and took the initiative to provoke a civil war. In order to achieve peace, the party organization led the People's Liberation Army and the people to fight a civil war for another three years. Countless soldiers and civilians died in the war of liberation.
Many people in the Kuomintang army also gave their lives for this purpose. Among them, the nationalist general Huang Baitao was killed in the Battle of Huaihai. His wife mourned when she heard the news of her husband's death in battle. For many years, she supported the whole family alone, raising the two children left by Huang Baitao.
1. Huang Baitao joined the army
Huang Baitao was a legendary general in the Kuomintang army. Although he was not from Chiang Kai-shek's concubine troops, he was able to achieve feats comparable to those of chiang kai-shek's ace troops, and was reused by Chiang Kai-shek, which was very rare in the Kuomintang army. Perhaps, this is inseparable from Huang Baitao's innate military ability.
In 1900, Huang Baitao was born into a military family in Tianjin. Both his grandfather and father served in the qing army. After growing up, Huang Baitao also entered the army of the Beiyang warlords and served as a messenger soldier. The clever and clever Huang Baitao was soon appreciated by Li Chun, the ruler of the Beiyang warlords.
In order to show his love for this young man, Li Chun also made a matchmaker for Huang Baitao, and let the maid around him marry Huang Baitao. With the help of Xian Neisuke, Huang Baitao's development among the Beiyang warlords was more smooth, and his official positions were constantly promoted.
After Li Chun's downfall, Huang Baitao again defected to the Feng warlord Zhang Zongchang and became a major general in the Feng army. During the Great Revolution, the revolutionary army was on the Northern Expedition, and Huang Baitao followed Zhang Zongchang to join Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang troops.
At that time, many warlords led the army to Chiang Kai-shek's hands. Because these warlords come from different backgrounds, the methods of training soldiers are backward, and the fighting ability of their armies is uneven. Therefore, within the Kuomintang army, these warlord ranks who had defected were also called "miscellaneous armies"; while the army formed by Chiang Kai-shek himself was called "concubine troops".
Chiang Kai-shek treated the miscellaneous troops very differently and the concubine troops, and what he reused was also his own concubine troops. Huang Baitao knew that if he wanted to display his talents and stand out in the Kuomintang army, he must be valued by Chiang Kai-shek. The most effective way for soldiers to gain the attention of their superiors is: military merit.
Therefore, after arriving in the Kuomintang army, Huang Baitao became a fierce general who charged into the battlefield. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was appointed chief of staff of Gu Zhutong, commander-in-chief of the Third Theater, to provide combat strategy for the army. In 1941, the "Anhui Southern Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries broke out. And Huang Baitao is one of the main culprits of this incident.
Although, during the agrarian revolution, Huang Baitao assisted in the abuse and repeatedly helped Chiang Kai-shek attack the Red Army. However, it is undeniable that in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Huang Baitao led the team to charge into the battlefield many times and fight against the Japanese army, and was a heroic anti-Japanese fighter.
Second, Huang Baitao died on the battlefield
In 1944, Huang Baitao was appointed commander of the Kuomintang 25th Army. At that time, within the Kuomintang army, problems such as corruption and loose military discipline were already very serious. However, under the organization and command of Huang Baitao, the appearance and combat effectiveness of the Twenty-fifth Army were far superior to those of other Kuomintang troops.
Therefore, after the outbreak of the civil war, Huang Baitao and his Twenty-fifth Army were sent to the battlefield by Chiang Kai-shek many times. However, no matter how good Huang Baitao's military ability was, it could not save the Kuomintang army from serious internal problems and the fate of Chiang Kai-shek's inevitable defeat.
In 1948, the Battle of Huaihai broke out, and Huang Baitao was once again sent by Chiang Kai-shek to fight on the front line. On the battlefield, the Twenty-fifth Army was annihilated by the People's Liberation Army, and Huang Baitao was also shot and killed. Yang Tingyan, the deputy commander who followed him, secretly buried Huang Baitao's body in a small village and fled back to Nanjing to report the news.
Before going to the battlefield, Huang Baitao once expressed loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek: "Huang Baitao was loyal to the country." After knowing the battle situation on the front line of the battlefield, chiang kai-shek, although he knew that the general trend was gone, still wanted to appease the army. He had Huang Baitao's body taken back, and after a three-day memorial service at the funeral home, he was buried in Nanjing, and he was posthumously awarded a Blue Sky and White Sun Medal.
After learning the news of her husband's death in battle, his wife Liu Biyun was mourned. However, at that time, the defeat of the Kuomintang had already emerged, and she did not have time to remember her lost husband, so she had to pack her bags, take her son and daughter, and flee with Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan.
The life of a wife and children
Huang Baitao left only one son and one daughter. After arriving in Taiwan, his son Huang Xiaoxian and daughter Huang Lizhen both entered the local school to study. As an adult, Huang became a journalist. Huang Xiaoxian entered the Taiwan army.
Everyone will think: tiger father has no dog. The father is a man of great ability, and the son will be of great ability. However, there are exceptions. Huang Baitao's son, Huang Xiaoxian, is an exception. Huang Xiaoxian did not inherit his father's military talent, nor did he inherit the beautiful quality of his father's hard work.
After entering the army, Huang Xiaoxian often disobeyed orders and evaded training. Even fights with their companions. During an argument, Huang Xiaoxian drew his pistol in one breath and killed the soldier who was arguing with him. Because Huang Xiaoxian was Huang Baitao's son, the leaders of the army did not dare to deal with him directly, so they reported the matter to Chiang Kai-shek.
When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he was furious and loudly insulted Huang Xiaoxian: "Tiger father and dog son, your father's wisdom, was destroyed by you." After that, Chiang Kai-shek ordered that Huang Xiao be shot first. Because Huang Xiaoxian was the only son of her husband, Liu Biyun had been very doting on him for many years. After hearing the news that "her son caused a big disaster and was about to be shot", Liu Biyun was very scared.
In order to save her son's life, she took Huang Baitao's Blue Sky and White Sun Medal and came to see Chiang Kai-shek. I hope that Chiang Kai-shek can look at Huang Baitao's face and spare Huang Xiaoxian's life. Eventually, Chiang Kai-shek revoked the order to be shot. After the death penalty was exonerated, Huang Xiaoxian was imprisoned.
After experiencing the disaster of imprisonment, Huang Xiaoxian grew up rapidly. After his release from prison, he reformed and started a business as a businessman. After the relaxation of cross-strait relations, Huang Xiaoxian also returned to Nanjing in 2006 to visit the grave of his father, Huang Baitao. Looking at his father's grave, he was filled with emotion.
summary
Huang Baitao was killed on the battlefield because Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war. Because of the incorrect policies of the Taiwan government, Huang Xiaoxian could not return to the mainland for many years to visit his father's grave. No one wants to experience a brutal war again, and everyone cherishes the hard-won peaceful life.