During the Liberation War, in addition to having an army of 8 million, Lao Chiang also had many senior generals under his command. So who among these senior generals of the Nationalist Army was the most loyal to Old Chiang Kai-shek? There are only these four people, they are Zhang Lingfu, Huang Baitao, Qiu Qingquan and Huang Wei.
Let's start with Zhang Lingfu. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Lingfu and Li Tianxia competed for the post of commander of the 74th Army, and Li Tianxia's seniority was older than Zhang Lingfu's, and he had also served as Zhang Lingfu's superior. However, due to the favoritism of the old Chiang, Zhang Lingfu eventually won and became the commander of the 74th Army.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Zhang Lingfu led the reorganized 74th Division to fight against Huaye in Jiangsu and Shandong. Successively captured Huai'an, Huaiyin, and Lianshui, Huayehu defeated Wang Bicheng under his command, and the commander of the Tenth Column, Xie Xiangjun, was killed in battle, and Zhang Lingfu became one of Huaye's most difficult opponents.
In order to eliminate Zhang Lingfu, Su Yu went all out to encircle the reorganized 74th Division at Menglianggu. At this time, if Zhang Lingfu broke through with all his might, it was still possible to escape. However, in order to repay Lao Jiang's kindness to him, he chose to stick to Meng Lianggu, and finally was defeated and killed. After Zhang Lingfu died in battle, the old Jiang wept bitterly, calling it an "unprecedented loss."
Look at Huang Baitao again. After the Battle of Eastern Henan, Huang Baitao was forced to serve as the commander of the 7th Corps because of his meritorious efforts in rescuing Ou Shounian's corps and his excellent performance in Diqiudian. The Nationalist army has always paid attention to faction and origin, and Huang Baitao, a standard miscellaneous general, can serve as the commander of the heavy army group, which is very rare in the nationalist army.
Old Jiang's move made Huang Baitao grateful, saying, "The country is thick to me, the leader is thick to me, only to die!" After the Battle of Huaihai broke out, due to Liu Zhi's wrong command, the Seventh Corps was surrounded by Huaye in the area of Nianzhuang. Huang Baitao, who was well aware of the bad habit of the Nationalist army not saving the dead, immediately issued an order to "prepare for independent combat and fulfill the duty of a soldier."
At the last moment of the Battle of Nianzhuang, Gu Zhutong ordered Huang Baitao to break through, but he refused on the spot and declared that he would "fight with the communist army one by one." Due to Huang Baitao's stubborn resistance, Hua Ye paid the price of more than 60,000 casualties in the Battle of Nianzhuang. This has never been done in previous battles. After Huang Baitao committed suicide, the elder Jiang posthumously awarded him the title of second-class general and gave special preferential treatment to his widow and children.
The third person who was loyal to Old Jiang was Qiu Qingquan. Qiu Qingquan was known for his bravery in battle, and was known as "Qiu Crazy". The 5th Army he led was also one of the five main forces of the Nationalist Army, and had caused a lot of trouble for HuaYe. After the Battle of Huaihai broke out, Qiu Qingquan was ordered to relieve Huang Baitao of the siege, which put a lot of pressure on the Song Shilun who was assisting.
Later, due to the wrong command of Lao Jiang, Du Yuming's clique was surrounded in the area of Chen Guanzhuang. In order to find a way to live for the more than 200,000 soldiers under his command, Du Yuming planned to surrender to our army, but the other generals had no opinion, but Qiu Qingquan desperately opposed it and shouted that he wanted to fight to the end. Du Yuming had no choice but to lead his troops to continue to resist stubbornly, and eventually the entire army was destroyed, and Qiu Qingquan was also killed by our army.
The fourth person who was loyal to Old Jiang was Huang Wei. After the formation of the 12th Corps of the Nationalist Army, Huang Wei became the commander, and as soon as he led his troops into the Huaihai Battlefield, he was surrounded by Nakano in a double pile, and eventually defeated and captured. Huang Wei's command ability is not very clever, but he is extremely loyal to old Jiang.
Soon after Huang Wei was captured, he was sent to Gongdelin. There are many senior generals of the Nationalist army who studied here, such as Du Yuming and Wang Yaowu, who can actively reform, so the first batch was pardoned. However, Huang Wei was very stubborn, and had always resisted the transformation in the name of studying perpetual motion machines, and also encouraged himself with Yu Qian's lime chant. Because of his stubbornness, he spent 27 years in prison before being pardoned.