In 1948, the War of Liberation entered a turning point - although on the surface, our side and lao Chiang were still in a state of equal strength, but the clear-eyed people could see from the overall situation that the fall of the old Chiang was already a matter of time - in fact, objectively speaking, before the Huaihai Campaign, the old Chiang kai-shek still had a certain military advantage. However, before the Battle of Huaihai, the economic collapse of the old Chiang court and the corruption of the administrative system had already doomed the fate of the Chiang dynasty.
However, it was in this crucial year of 1948 that the great man executed one of Nie Shuai's capable officers.
1. Introduction of Huang Shoufa
The executed man was Huang Shoufa, chief of staff of the Jizhong Military Region. Huang Shoufa was a member of the Red Army during the Western Fujian Soviet Era. It's an old Red Army. During the agrarian revolution, Huang Shoufa basically participated in the Red Army's five anti-encirclement and suppression struggles against Lao Chiang. The so-called "general died in a hundred battles, and the hero returned in ten years", the war is cruel. Therefore, the old Red Army that can persist from the era of the Red Army in western Fujian to the victory of the Long March is actually very low in proportion. And Huang Shoufa is just one of them.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Shoufa was assigned to engage in anti-Japanese activities in Northern China. These eight years of war against Japan have also allowed Huang Shoufa to get a great degree of exercise. Therefore, in 1946, Huang Shoufa had already been appointed chief of staff of the Jizhong Military Region. Although the chief of staff of the Jizhong Military Region sounds like a medium position, it should be known that such a position, when the rank system was introduced in 1955, could in principle be awarded the rank of lieutenant general or major general.
It can be said that huang shoufa at this time has a bright future and a promising future.
2. Huang Shoufa's crisis
In 1948, as the situation of the Liberation War became clear, Huang Shoufa also felt that his military years might come to an end. In fact, for this situation, the great man has also paid attention to it. For example, on the eve of the founding of New China, the great man stressed more than once: We cannot become the second Li Zicheng.
The so-called "can not become the second Li Zicheng" refers to the last year of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng led the peasant army into Beijing, the Ming Chongzhen Emperor deeply felt that the Ming Dynasty rule forced too many innocent people to die, but also very worried about being liquidated by the peasant army, so he chose to commit suicide. However, after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, his generals felt that they should now enjoy the splendid mountains and rivers, so they quickly decayed. The book "History of the Southern Ming" records that the squires in the area under Li Zicheng's rule at that time generally believed that Li Zicheng's regime would not last long. Because although Li Zicheng overthrew the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng did not formulate rules for his subordinates, and sooner or later there would be great chaos.
In fact, according to modern concepts, Li Zicheng's behavior belongs to forgetting the original intention. In fact, Li Zicheng and even Li Zicheng's rebel army had class limitations.
The great man was obviously aware of this, so he stressed that the people's army and regime could not be the second Li Zicheng under any circumstances. And Huang Shoufa's dangerous thinking has made Huang Shoufa have a crisis of "the second Li Zicheng".
No way back
During his work in North China, Huang Shoufa made indecent moves behind his wife's back and the nanny at home. Huang Shoufa's wife learned of this situation and quarreled with Huang Shoufa. In order to prevent his wife from reporting the matter to his superiors, Huang Shoufa came to destroy the flowers with a hot hand and killed his wife He Yinlian with the unborn child in his belly with a gun.
Huang Shoufa's affairs were soon known to his superiors. However, the two leaders, Nie Shuai and Luo Shuai, expressed their entanglement in this regard: because it is undeniable that Huang Shoufa is a talent, and he is currently in a critical state of war, if Huang Shoufa is strictly handled, it will undoubtedly lead to a more serious shortage of human resources. However, if we cannot strike a strong blow at this matter, we are afraid that other people whose thinking is in danger will not be able to introspect themselves in time.
So the two marshals decided to report the matter to the great man. After the great man knew what had happened, he believed that if Huang Shoufa's behavior was not punished, the atmosphere of the people's army might be damaged, so the great man personally gave instructions: Huang Shoufa must be executed and the military atmosphere must be corrected.