Wang Yaowu was recognized as a famous anti-Japanese general, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was almost no military service, and under his leadership, the 74th Army also became a famous anti-Japanese iron army. With his proud anti-Japanese achievements, Wang Yaowu was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front, an achievement that was second to none in the Whampoa III.
After the victory of the War of Resistance, Lao Jiang prepared to send Wang Yaowu to Shandong to sit in shandong, but Wang Yaowu was unwilling to fight a civil war, so he was admitted to a hospital in Wuchang on the grounds of illness. However, Lao Jiang believed that Wang Yaowu was the best candidate to govern Shandong, so Enwei forced him to take office and sent a special plane to take him to Nanjing to teach him face-to-face.
At this point, Wang Yaowu could no longer refuse, and could only take office hard. Before leaving, he proposed to take the 74th Army and the 100th Army to Shandong. Needless to say, the 74th Army is Wang Yaowu's concubine and the capital of his foothold in the national army.
The history of the 100th Army is more complicated, but Shi Zhongzhong and Li Tianxia have both served as the commanders of the army, and these two people have long followed Wang Yaowu, so from this point of view, the 100th Army can also be regarded as most of Wang Yaowu's concubines.
The national army has always paid attention to faction and origin, and the central army and the local army cannot be brought together, nor can the concubines and miscellaneous cards be together. Wang Yaowu had been in the battlefield for a long time and knew this. The reason why he wanted to take the 74th Army and the 100th Army to Shandong was because the two armies were strong in combat and would not drop the chain at critical moments; the second was because these two armies were his old subordinates, and they were easy to use, and there would be no situation of Yang Fengyin violating the law.
However, Wang Yaowu's proposal was rejected by Lao Jiang, who angrily said: "The 74th Army must defend Nanjing, and the 100th Army must guard Shanghai, and it cannot go to Shandong." Why do you have to bring your own troops? Do you also want to engage in factions? ”
At that time, Chen Cheng and He Yingqin and others in the nationalist army had their own small factions, plus local forces such as the Gui clan, and these factions often had internal friction in order to compete for power and profits, which caused old Chiang a headache. Now he saw that Wang Yaowu was also going to Shandong to take his own 74th Army and 100th Army, thinking that he also wanted to emulate Chen Cheng and He Yingqin and others in factional fighting, so he became angry.
Wang Yaowu saw that old Jiang was angry, no longer dared to argue, and immediately rushed to Shandong to take up his post. Soon after the outbreak of the Liberation War, the 74th Army was reorganized into the reorganized 74th Division, and the 100th Army was reorganized into the reorganized 83rd Division, all of which were sent to the front line to fight in Huaye, neither under the command of Wang Yaowu. As a result, Wang Yaowu did not even have a concubine army under his command.
In mid-January 1947, the Battle of Lunan broke out, and Chen Cheng decided to advance north-south and fight a decisive battle at Linyi and Huaye. In order to achieve this strategic goal, he personally sent a telegram to Wang Yaowu to send troops to cooperate. Wang Yaowu was not optimistic about Chen Cheng's Battle of Lunan, but the order could not be violated, so he had to let his deputy commander Li Xianzhou lead the 12th, 46th, and 73rd armies south.
Unexpectedly, Li Xianzhou was surrounded by Huaye as soon as he reached Laiwu, and soon the entire army was destroyed. These three armies were an important force on which Wang Yaowu relied to guard Jinan, and Wang Yaowu lamented this. Three months later, when the 74th Division of his concubines was completely annihilated by HuaYe at Menglianggu, Wang Yaowu lamented that "it is like the pain of losing his father."
Soon Wang Yaowu proposed to Lao Jiang to rebuild the 74th Division, and recommended Qiu Weida, the deputy commander of the former 74th Division, his old subordinate, to be the commander of the division. After the reconstruction of the 74th Division, Wang Yaowu repeatedly asked Lao Jiang to put this force under his command, but lao Jiang refused. Soon after, the rebuilt 74th Division was assigned to Qiu Qingquan's Second Corps and ordered to garrison Xuzhou.
Before the Battle of Jinan, although Wang Yaowu still had more than 100,000 troops in his hands, the regular army had only 9 brigades, and the rest were all local security forces with very poor combat effectiveness. Wang Yaowu believed that he could not defend Jinan at all with his own strength, so he personally flew to Nanjing to meet Old Jiang and requested that Jinan be abandoned and that his troops be withdrawn to Xuzhou to preserve their living forces.
However, Lao Jiang rejected Wang Yaowu's suggestion and reprimanded him for not taking the big picture, believing that abandoning Jinan without a fight would have a very bad impact on morale. When Wang Yaowu saw that old Jiang had to hold jinan, he said that he was short of troops and proposed that the 74th Division be airlifted from Xuzhou to Jinan to help him defend the city.
After consideration, Lao Jiang agreed to Wang Yaowu's request, but Liu Zhi held the 74th Division in place in order not to weaken the forces guarding Xuzhou. It was not until the third day after the Battle of Jinan, under the repeated urging of Lao Jiang and Wang Yaowu, that 7 companies of troops were airlifted to Jinan.
Although these 7 companies were small in number, they were extremely stubborn, and they stubbornly resisted in the post and telecommunications building, and Wang Jiwen, commander of the Eighth Division of the Third Column of Huaye, was killed. If Liu Zhi had not stumbled and all the 74th Division had been airlifted to Jinan, the battle would have been much more difficult.
In the end, after Wang Yaowu held out for eight days and nights, Jinan was attacked by Huaye, and Wang Yaowu was captured on the way to escape. If Lao Jiang had agreed to let Wang Yaowu lead the 74th Army and the 100th Army to Shandong, with Wang Yaowu's military ability and his understanding of the Nationalist army, He would never have let Zhang Lingfu lead his troops to Meng Lianggu, and Hua Ye's situation would have been much more difficult. However, due to old Chiang Kai-shek' reasons, all this became a bubble, and Wang Yaowu was eventually defeated and captured. To put it bluntly, in the entire liberation war, the old Chiang Kai-shek was the biggest shortcoming of the Nationalist army.