In August 1948, Chiang held a military conference in Nanjing to discuss how to resist the increasingly aggressive offensive of the People's Liberation Army. In the end, it was decided to draw the main force from the remaining more than 3 million national troops to form 22 corps to resist the attack of the People's Liberation Army in a group manner. Among the 22 corps, the size is large and small, the small corps has 2 corps, 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the large corps has 5 corps and more than 100,000 people. For example, the Huang Baitao Corps, the Huang Wei Corps and the Liao Yaoxiang Corps that we are familiar with are all large corps with more than 100,000 troops.
So, who was the most arrogant of the 22 corps commanders? He was Qiu Qingquan, who was then the commander of the Second Corps. Qiu Qingquan is a native of Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province, and graduated from Huangpu Phase II. Before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Qiu Qingquan's reputation was not obvious, and there was no outstanding performance. After the anti-Japanese war broke out in full swing, Qiu Qingquan found a stage to show his military talents. In the Battle of Guinan, he led the newly organized 22nd Division to participate in the Bloody Battle of Kunlun Pass, and under the command of Du Yuming, fought fiercely with the Japanese Kou for 13 days and nights, successfully recaptured Kunlun Pass, annihilated more than 5,000 enemy troops, and killed the commander of the enemy major general brigade, Masao Nakamura, and became famous in the first battle.
After that, Qiu Qingquan went abroad to fight with the expeditionary army, and made great contributions in the battle to retake Longling, becoming a famous anti-Japanese general. After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Qiu Qingquan served as the commander of the reorganized 5th Army, leading his troops to fight against Huaye. After the outbreak of the Battle of Eastern Henan, Huang Baitao was surrounded by Huaye in Order to rescue Ou Shou nian, and the situation was very critical. At this time, Qiu Qingquan arrived in the night of the stars, led the 5th Army to launch an attack from behind our army, continuously broke through many lines of defense of our army, and successfully forced Huaye to withdraw.
However, after the war, Lao Jiang awarded the Qingtian White Sun Medal to Huang Baitao, and Qiu Qingquan returned to his hometown in the name of shou filial piety. Later, Huang Baitao was besieged in Nianzhuang, and Qiu Qingquan was reluctant to fight to the death for reinforcements, an important reason was that he believed that Huang Baitao had snatched the Qingtian White Sun Medal that should have belonged to him in the Battle of Eastern Henan. Later, in order to win over Qiu Qingquan, Lao Jiang appointed him as the commander of the Second Corps, under the jurisdiction of the 5th, 70th, 72nd, 74th (Reconstruction) and 125th Armies, with a total strength of more than 120,000 troops.
After the Battle of Huaihai broke out, Qiu Qingquan was first ordered to relieve Huang Baitao, and after Huang Baitao was destroyed, he was ordered to relieve Huang Wei, but he was stubbornly blocked by our army and could not advance. Seeing that the defeat had been decided, Du Yu decided to lead Qiu Qingquan, Li Mi, and Sun Yuanliang, three corps of nearly 300,000 men and horses to evacuate Xuzhou to preserve their strength for future operations. At that time, Qiu Qingquan's Second Corps had not yet suffered heavy damage and its strength was still there, so Du Yuming gave the task of rear guard to Qiu Qingquan's starting force, the 45th Division. On December 2, 1948, Du Yuming's group fled to the Mengji area, and it seemed that they were about to escape from the encirclement of our army, at which point Qiu Qingquan suddenly demanded to stop advancing, on the grounds that his 45th Division was surrounded by our pursuing troops.
In order to rescue a division and stop the entire group of nearly 300,000 people, Du Yuming was very annoyed and advised Qiu Qingquan not to lose a lot because of small. But Qiu Qingquan was very arrogant and insisted on rescuing the 45th Division before leaving. Although Du Yuming was Qiu Qingquan's old superior, at this time he could only look at his face and act, and how arrogant Qiu Qingquan was, which could be seen. In the end, although the 45th Division was rescued, it was delayed for two days, and HuaYe's army took the opportunity to catch up and surround Du Yuming's group in the Chen Guanzhuang area.
At this time, the nationalist soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the food and ammunition supply could only rely on airdrops, and they had fallen into a desperate situation. Our army sent someone to send a letter of persuasion to Du Yuming, who planned to surrender his guns to our army in order to find a way to live for the nearly 300,000 officers and men under his command. Unexpectedly, when asking Qiu Qingquan's opinion, he directly burned the letter, and Du Yuming saw that Qiu Qingquan had such an attitude, so he had to dispel the idea of handing over the gun. In the end, Du Yuming's group was completely annihilated by our army in the Chenguanzhuang area, Du Yuming was captured, and Qiu Qingquan was shot and killed at the age of 47.