Du Yuming was Chiang Kai-shek's "firefighting captain", and during the Battle of Huaihai, he was transferred from the northeast by Chiang Kai-shek to Xuzhou to "fight fires" and served as Liu Zhi's deputy, actually commanding the troops in combat.
When he arrived at the Huaihai front, Du Yuming felt that the final outcome of the battle was "more fierce and less auspicious" and did not hold an optimistic attitude.
In the subsequent battles, the Kuomintang army was completely defeated, and Du Yuming himself became a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army.
In the final analysis, Du Yuming was a Kuomintang soldier who was "loyal to the leader and obeyed the orders", and for his own defeat, Du Yuming believed that he had lost clearly in the military and did not complain too much.
However, there was one thing that had always haunted him, and he couldn't find the reason, and he couldn't understand why.
Stills from the TV series Amnesty 1959
It happened shortly before Du Yuming was captured, and something strange happened to his troops.
Just when the People's Liberation Army was under siege, the Kuomintang officers and men were hungry, hungry and cold, and the people were panicked, several units under Du Yuming inexplicably had a "fire merger."
They each pulled away and played lively all night.
Afterwards, both sides said that they were fighting the "communist army" and that the "communist army" had opened fire first.
Du Yuming asked people to examine it carefully and determined that there was no PLA involved in the war that night.
"Is this a ghost?" Du Yuming could only fight fifty boards each, and scolded the commanders of several units that had exchanged fire, but they could not be stopped.
Despite this, Du Yuming never forgot this matter in his heart, he was full of doubts, but he could not find out the truth.
In fact, at this time, Du Yuming had become a "trapped beast", and after the Battle of Huaihai reached the third stage, Du Yuming failed to save Huang Wei, but was besieged by the People's Liberation Army in Chen Guanzhuang.
Just when Du Yuming was discouraged and was preparing to make final plans, the People's Liberation Army suddenly stopped attacking, and it was twenty days.
Old photos of the Battle of Huaihai
For the besieged Kuomintang officers and men, these twenty days were really not easy to endure, cold, hungry, coupled with the confusion of the future, the officers and men can be said to be living like a year.
At this time, however, the People's Liberation Army launched a "psychological warfare," shouting at loudspeakers and persuading them to surrender, which made the Kuomintang officers and men feel confused.
In addition, the PLA's "rice, steamed buns, pork stew noodles" are more "lethal".
Many officers and men drooled at the smell of incense and could not hold on, so some officers and men dragged their rifles to the PLA positions.
Du Yuming himself also knew that the top priority of the moment was absolutely not to be chaotic, and it was only right to stabilize the troops.
However, at this time, there was a cannibalism, which was like "making things worse" and causing panic.
Du Yu was angry and didn't fight, but there was nothing he could do.
Later, as the encirclement circle of the People's Liberation Army shrank smaller and smaller, the corps was completely annihilated, and no one cared about this matter in the end.
After Du Yuming was imprisoned in the Beijing Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center, he still had this matter in mind, and he had always been grumpy, and he vowed to find out the reason.
On December 4, 1959, Du Yuming was pardoned and released from prison, and the state arranged a job for him - the cultural and historical commissioner of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, because of his work, Du Yuming had the opportunity to consult our army's war history materials on the Huaihai Campaign.
From a memoir written by a PLA officer, Du Yuming was pleasantly surprised to find the answer.
It turned out that the fratricidal melee between the Nationalist troops had a great cause, and it was the CCP underground personnel lurking in the Kuomintang army who single-handedly directed this "big drama."
At that time, Du Yuming's Kuomintang troops were surrounded at Chen Guanzhuang, a narrow strip with only a few civilian houses, and all of them were occupied by the corps headquarters, and the others had to camp in the wilderness.
Since each unit occupies a small place, so many people are crowded together, and the camp is chaotic.
Just then, my lurkers began to move.
Gu Boheng, the commander of the guard company, and Liu Jin, both underground party members, felt that the Kuomintang army was already in a mess, but the chaos was not enough.
If it was more chaotic, the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang army would be worse, so the two men discussed a solution: let them "dog bite dog"!
Du Yuming
Taking advantage of the darkness, Gu Boheng and Liu Jin carried guns and two grenades to begin the action.
They aimed at two targets in different directions, Gu Boheng shot out one of the horse lamps of the heavy machine gun company, and Liu Jin killed the sentry of the special agent company with one shot.
The camp was suddenly in chaos, and Gu Boheng and Liu Jin "delivered" two grenades to the heavy machine gun company and the special agent company respectively.
Gu Boheng and Liu Jin took the opportunity to shout loudly: "The communist army has come!" The communists are coming! Then he immediately hid in safety and waited to see the "good play.".
Sure enough, the Kuomintang army made a successful plan, and the heavy machine gun company first opened fire on the special agent company, and the special agent company in the opposite camp immediately gave a "resolute" return fire.
The Nationalist troops in other camps also joined the "battle", shooting indiscriminately at the place where the smoke and sparks were shining, and finally, even the armored corps and artillery regiments joined the "battle".
This "dog-bite-dog" battle became more and more intense, and more and more national army units participated in the war, and all the weapons that could be used were used, and "it was impossible to stop at all."
It was not until dawn that the Kuomintang troops learned that "the great water had washed away the Dragon King Temple", that their own people had beaten their own people, that the various nationalist troops engaged in the battle had suffered considerable casualties, and that the guns and ammunition consumed were even more numerous.
However, the "directors" of this big drama, Gu Boheng and Liu Jin, were unscathed and leisurely "stole music" from the side.
Du Yuming finally figured out the ins and outs of that "internal friction," he smiled bitterly and said to Wang Yaowu, who was also a commissioner of literature and history: "Two people, two sons, and two grenades, do you know what kind of tossing me into?" ”
"A lot of people died, right?" Wang Yaowu said.
Du Yuming sighed and said, "Those are all small things, the most terrible thing is that people's hearts are scattered, one by one they have become birds of fright, they can't withstand a little wind and grass, and at that time, I will never have the strength to return to heaven..."
Wang Yaowu replied: "The building will fall, and it will be difficult to support it alone." Even if you and I are killed, what can we do? ”
Wang Yaowu's remarks were indeed good; the Kuomintang government at that time was already extremely corrupt and was bound to go to ruin, and no one could save it!