Introduction: The Kuomintang regime has a great characteristic, and it is also the main culprit that led to its final defeat, that is, the factional struggle within the Kuomintang, during the Liberation War, the Kuomintang factions were mainly divided into the "Huangpu family" and the "side line", and the open and secret struggle between the two factions once reached almost intolerable.
Normally speaking, if a person wants to get ahead in the Kuomintang, the quickest and most effective way is to find a strong backer for himself and join the struggle of these factions.
But there was a man in the Kuomintang who did not belong to any faction, and he was called a "lone minister." Without a background and a backer, he relied on his own strength and became a corps commander in the smoky And miasma of the Kuomintang army.
This person is Huang Baitao, after several lives and deaths, he finally died in the wilderness, and even his body had to go through waves again when he was transported back, so what did he go through?
General Jiang Jun, "Miscellaneous General Star" Huang Baitao
Huang Baitao, a military family, his father was once a local general soldier in the Qing Dynasty, under the influence of this family environment, huang Baitao became the most desirable thing in his heart under the influence of his ears and eyes.
So he studied hard, and after graduation, he joined the Beiyang warlord Li Chun, and later married with his maid to get the opportunity to further his studies, and it was there that he met Zhang Zongchang.
After switching to Zhang Zongchang, Huang Baitao recognized that he was brave in fighting, did not steal and slip, and his official rank was quickly promoted to brigade commander, but because Zhang Zongchang was brutal in power and poisoned the people, Huang Baitao was extremely disappointed in Zhang Zongchang and resolutely turned to Chiang Kai-shek.
Huang Baitao, who was not from Huangpu and had no factional backing, stumbled in his career after defecting to the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek, but Huangtian did not live up to his bitter heart, and in 1936, he became the commander of the 41st Division.
In the Battle of Huaihai, he committed suicide by drinking bullets
During the National Liberation War, after the Battle of Huaihai was fought, Huang Baitao's army was almost completely annihilated after a few days of fierce fighting with the People's Liberation Army, and Huang Baitao and his subordinate Yang Tingyan fled to Nianzhuang in disguise, and also tried to break through to the northwest to join Li Mi's corps.
They waited until dark in the mill, but the PLA's artillery fire was still fierce, there was no ceasefire at all, watching their remnants of the defeated generals, facing the PLA's artillery encirclement and suppression, Huang Baitao was full of ashes and completely broke the defense.
He told Yang Tingyan, "After I sacrifice, let others know that there are still loyal party-state soldiers, or let those who are drunk and dreaming of death wake up." Then he fired a shot at his temple and killed himself in the reeds.
Watching his commander commit suicide in front of him, Yang Tingyan wept bitterly on the spot, but he also knew how bad the current situation was for him, so he put away his emotions, settled Huang Baitao's body, and lit him one last cigarette.
The cunning Yang Tingyan escaped from the encirclement and found Gu Zhutong to tell Huang Baitao the truth, including the location where Huang Baitao was buried.
Pick up the body and go home
When Chiang Kai-shek learned of Huang Baitao's death, he was very sorry for the general who had "martyred the country with his body" and ordered people to transport the body of the "hero" back, and Huang Baitao's wife almost passed out after hearing her husband's bad news.
Because the mill village had been liberated at that time, it was a great risk for them to transport back Huang Baitao's body at this time, so Huang Baitao's wife set up a heavy amount of money for the people who went there, which barely made up for 5 people. Three of Huang Baitao's former lieutenants and two peasants carrying corpses.
When they arrived at the burial place in Xuzhou, they faced new problems, so many people, still carrying a coffin, but the corpse inside had begun to stink, and the three lieutenants thought about absconding directly with the money, leaving only two peasants.
These two simple peasants went through all kinds of hardships and hardships, and finally arrived near the Kuomintang defense area in Nanjing, and they found a local regimental commander and told him the ins and outs of the matter, but they did not expect that the regiment leader actually had evil thoughts and wanted to kill the two peasants to receive the reward himself, but their plan was overheard by a cook, who kindly told the two peasants.
After hearing this, the two farmers ran away with Huang Baitao's body overnight, and when they left, they also got a fake one and put it in the coffin. The next day the two peasants could not be found, and the greedy leader only thought that they had escaped, so he took the fake body and went to collect the reward.
After arriving in Nanjing, Madame Huang knew at a glance that it was not Huang Baitao, and cried to find Chiang Kai-shek, who, after confirming it, scolded and directly shot the regimental commander. Later, the two peasants returned to Nanjing to give Huang Baitao's body to Lady Huang, who was grateful and wanted to give them 100 pieces of ocean for each of them, and as a result, the two people only took 2 pieces as the way home.
Conclusion: For the Kuomintang, he is definitely a "loyal subject", as a soldier, he can also "kill himself and become a benevolent", but if he can choose to stand with the people, there may be greater achievements.