In 1949, the moment Chiang Kai-shek left the mainland, the past was vividly remembered in his mind, and he never understood: Why did he, sitting on an army of four million, lose so much in the three-year Liberation War that he finally retreated to Taiwan? It was not until 1950 that Lao Jiang found the answer in his diary, and he wrote the answer in his diary with great pain, so what did Lao Jiang write in his diary?
Chiang Kai-shek walked out of the meeting
In 1944, Chiang Kai-shek represented China in the "Cairo Conference" and discussed with Roosevelt and Churchill the new international pattern after the victory of World War II and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. After old Jiang returned from Cairo, he looked proud of the spring breeze. Old Jiang also expressed joy between the lines in his diary.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek presented himself as a national leader and a hero of the War of Resistance against Japan, looking like a king in the world, believing that he would soon be able to wipe out the Communist forces and fulfill the dream of unifying the world. In order to give him time to launch an all-out civil war, old Chiang specially invited Chairman Mao to Chongqing to negotiate with the country, and just began to calculate that Chairman Mao would not dare to come to Chongqing, so as to push the conspiracy to launch a civil war to Chairman Mao and the Communist Party.
After the Chongqing negotiations, Chiang Kai-shek unilaterally tore up the Double Tenth Armistice Agreement, launched a full-scale civil war, and arrogantly claimed to defeat the People's Liberation Army in three months.
More help to get the way and more help the wrong way
Cairo Conference
Although the important cities of the People's Liberation Army such as Yan'an and Zhangjiakou were occupied for a time, the Losses of the Kuomintang Army would be heavy, and Old Chiang kai-shek could not understand why the Nationalist Army with AMERICAN armaments could not defeat the Platon Army with millet plus rifles, and even why the New First Army and the New Sixth Army, which were the most important troops in the Indian army that Old Chiang Chiang relied on, became unable to fight in the northeast battlefield. Why is the PLA fighting more and more? When Lao Jiang heard that the Northeast Field Army had transformed from a million troops three years after entering the customs, Lao Jiang reflected in his diary: Why are the bandits more and more suppressed?
Taking the northeast battlefield as an example, the Kuomintang army has just begun to occupy an absolute superiority, both in terms of the performance of weapons and equipment and in terms of the comparison of troop strength; in the early days of the northeast battlefield, the nationalist army once drove the People's Liberation Army to the north of the Songhua River and firmly controlled the initiative of the battlefield. However, at the same time that the Nationalist army occupied the initiative on the battlefield, the Nationalist army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but a very strange phenomenon appeared that the officers and men of the Nationalist army were busy getting married and busy with their fifth son Dengke.
Zhang Lingfu took advantage of the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to marry a beautiful woman
The so-called Five Sons Dengke are robbing houses, tickets, cars, gold, and women, which has led to corruption within the Kuomintang and the Nationalist army, corruption, and flocks of wives and concubines. How could such a force have combat effectiveness? How can you win a battle? Moreover, the Kuomintang soldiers all came from zhuangding, and they resisted being soldiers from the bottom of their hearts, and they didn't know who to fight for? There is no faith at all.
The Kuomintang army entered the northeast
The PLA carried out land reform in the northeast and went deep into the countryside to enable the cultivators to have their own land, and the peasants who turned over scrambled to send their relatives to join the PLA; the scenes of those who joined the army made many veterans unforgettable, and many veterans said that they were full of faith in summing up why they could win the victory over the Kuomintang army, while the soldiers of the Nationalist army had no faith; the veterans went on to say: Their faith in the earth is to defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries to liberate all of China, and in a small way, to protect their families for the land and protect the hard-won land. The Northeast Field Army has the support and faith of the people, and then correct strategy and tactics, so in just three years, the Northeast People's Liberation Army has become a million people with a mere 100,000 people!
There is a detail worth pondering; at the most crucial moment in the Battle of Huaihai, some officers of the Nationalist army actually ran to Shanghai to speculate in gold and engage in the smuggling of illegal trade; some officers even sold military materials, used military vehicles to run trade for themselves, exploited and robbed the common people in a frenzied manner, and appropriated the people's things for themselves to make a big fortune for the country. And the People's Liberation Army fought for the toiling masses and conformed to the will of the people, while the peasants who turned over actively threw themselves into the pre-war work, wherever the troops fought, the people pushed the wheelbarrows to send the grain, clothes and military shoes, Chen Yi once said: The victory in the Huaihai Campaign is a victory that the people pushed out with a wheelbarrow.
land reform
Old Chiang was very puzzled as to how the people could support the People's Liberation Army and not the Kuomintang Army. Old Jiang probably forgot the phrase "more help for the lost way" and "little help"!
There is no unity within the national army
What puzzled him even more was why the Kuomintang army was besieged, and why did the brother troops not save them when they saw death? It lies in the many factions within the national army.
Some scholars once described the national army as follows: infighting is insider, and foreign war is an outsider. There is a very spectacular phenomenon in the Nationalist army: When the most crucial moment of the war is carried out, it is not the close cooperation of the various units, but the mutual jokes, and the total destruction of the zhang lingfu department of the reorganized 74th division is due to the disunity within the nationalist army, to put it bluntly, li Tianxia and Zhang Lingfu have contradictions, And Li Tianxia's department sits and watches the 74th division being completely annihilated, indifferent and completely disregarding the interests of the entire Kuomintang, and each of them has a ghost-fetal bed and a different dream. This phenomenon was almost universal in the Kuomintang army.
Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng reviewed the three armies
This phenomenon is common in the national army between the central army series and the local army series, and it is nepotism. At the most critical moment when the war is going on, the central army often pushes the local army up as cannon fodder, and the local army is not stupid, your central army did not regard me as its own person, but there is a different distinction between relatives and alienations, so why should I give you my life? However, the Kuomintang Central Army was not united within itself, and Chen Cheng's civil engineering department, the He Yingqin department, and the Hu Zongnan department were each divided into factions, and they saw honor on the top, but at the most critical moment when the war was carried out, they dismantled each other, to put it bluntly, it was a partisan struggle.
Old Chiang has never properly handled the partisan disputes within the Kuomintang, and old Chiang kai-shek is the initiator of the partisan disputes in the Kuomintang. This is like a virus, which multiplied wildly within the Kuomintang, seriously affecting the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist army, and eventually developed into an uncontrollable point, and this contradiction always broke out during the Battle of Huaihai in 1948.
At that time, in the Huaihai Campaign, Lao Jiang wanted Bai Chongxi to take command, because Bai Jiansheng was known as "Little Zhuge Ge" and had a hand in fighting, but at that time, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi wanted lao Jiang's last elite corps to be completely destroyed in the Huaihai Campaign, so they forced Jiang to step down. For the sake of the Gui clan, Bai Chongxi could not have come out to command the Battle of Huaihai! This is the root of the KmT's disunity, and at the crucial moment, they think more about not the overall interests of the KMT, but their respective little nineties and nines. They may forget that there is no finished egg under the nest, and when the overall interests of the Kuomintang collapse like an earthquake, their respective little nines and nines will become meaningless, and the skin will not be hairy!
Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi
The reason for the defeat
In 1950, when the old Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, he sighed helplessly at the sky, wondering why he could not defeat the People's Liberation Army with 4 million troops and why he was defeated in just three years. Old Chiang Pondered bitterly in his diary and wrote down the following answer with great sorrow: The Kuomintang is corrupt in its bones, and the Kuomintang is extremely disunified, resulting in serious internal attrition, losing the people's hearts and the party's heart, and losing the soul and original intention of the Three People's Principles; if it is not rectified in time, the reorganization of the KmT will lead to the death of the party and the loss of the last land of Taiwan.