In the summer of 1948, Hu Lian and Qiu Qingquan were both relatively moldy, and the commander of the fifth army, "Qiu Crazy Maniac", because he was reprimanded by old Chiang, hung up his crown and went back to his hometown in one breath, and the commander of the whole Eighteenth Army, Hu Lian, who thought he could become the commander of the mobile corps of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, was also disturbed by Bai Chongxi, and General Su Yu's bravery in the battlefield of the Central Plains really beat the enemy camp into chaos.
(Hu Lian)
The Hu Lian incident stemmed from the so-called "military review meeting" held in Nanjing in August, when a group of senior generals got together to study how to reverse the military situation under the dangerous situation of tightness everywhere.
After some tongue-in-cheek discussion, the meeting passed the decision to restore the "integrated division" organization that seriously affects the sequence and command to the "army" in a unified way, and at the same time to form a large mobile corps of about 100,000 troops to deal with the plausible movement warfare of the PLA.
After the meeting, the various "suppression generals" began to form large mobile corps on the basis of the original small corps in accordance with the established policy, of which the reorganized Eighteenth Army (with two integrated divisions) subordinate to the "Central China Suppression General" was ordered to be upgraded to the Twelfth Corps under the jurisdiction of four armies.
(Qiu Qingquan)
As for the selection of the commander of the corps, it should be appropriate to promote Hu Lian, the commander of the reorganized Eighteenth Army, but due to the factional tilting within the Chiang Kai-shek Army, Hu Lian of the Huangpu Ivy Period was finally defeated, after all, Bai Chongxi controlled the central China Suppression Bureau, that is, "the county officials are not as good as the current management."
In desperation, after Lin Wei's mediation and Chen Cheng's nomination and the approval of the old Jiang, Lieutenant General Huang Wei, the principal of the Wuhan New Officers Military Academy in the first phase of Huangpu, became the commander of the corps in a vacuum. Regarding this history, the author has a special article to introduce, most of the readers are aware, and will not repeat it here.
After Huang Wei took office, the biggest problem was, of course, the organization of the troops and the arrangement of personnel, and the 11th Division and the 3rd Division under the original jurisdiction of the Reorganized Eighteenth Army have been restored to the numbers of the 18th Army and the 10th Army, respectively.
So, according to the principle that the corps should have four corps under its command, why should the other two corps be confused? Don't dare to fight without gathering 100,000 soldiers and horses.
(Huang Wei)
First, Bai Chongxi first detained the 28th Army
Subsequently included in the operational sequence of the Twelfth Corps was the 14th Army (reorganized 10th Division) of the Central Army, which evolved from the miscellaneous cards. When the army was completely annexed and reorganized in 1933, the commander was the famous Wei Lihuang, and the two division commanders were also Whampoa I students: Li Mo'an, commander of the 10th Division, and Liu Jie, commander of the 83rd Division.
In 1946, the 14th Army participated in the reorganization, and the commander of the reorganized 10th Division after the reorganization was Luo Guangwen, the backbone general of the "Civil Engineering Department", so this unit was related to the Chen Cheng system. After Luo Guangwen was transferred to the commander of the Tenth Formation Training Office, Xiong Shouchun, the deputy commander of the division, turned positive, and Xiong Shouchun of the third phase of Huangpu was a fellow villager in Jiangxi, and his relationship has always been good.
Moreover, during the Central Plains Operation, the entire 10th Division acted with the Eighteenth Army many times, and the relationship was relatively harmonious, so after being restored to the number of the 14th Army, it was natural and smooth to be incorporated into the Twelfth Corps, but there was trouble with the selection and deployment of the Fourth Army.
(Luo Guangwen)
When Huang Wei became the commander of the corps, there was only one deputy commander identified, Hu Lian, and the other deputy commander was chosen, and suddenly someone volunteered, and he was Huang Wei's good friend Li Liangrong, a first-term student of Huangpu, who was then the commander of the Ninth Appeasement District.
Of course, Huang Wei expressed a warm welcome, it seems that the "nerd" also has a lot of friends, and the reason why Li Liangrong introduced himself is because his basic unit, the 28th Army (Li Liangrong was the commander of the 28th Division in 1946), was temporarily transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Central China Suppression Campaign, and has not yet been rebuilt.
Therefore, Li Liangrong's meaning is to join the Twelfth Corps with the basic team "Company People with Guns", on the one hand, he has a good personal relationship with Huang Wei and is willing to work together; On the other hand, they can also take the opportunity to retake their own troops.
This is Chiang Kai-shek's stubborn disease: the basic troops should try not to give up, otherwise you will not be anything, because you cannot command the troops of other factions.
(Young Huang Wei)
After the two Huangpu students of the first phase of Huangpu privately discussed it, they reported the organization and personnel plan to Nanjing, and Old Jiang also agreed, and was about to notify the "Nanjing Ministry of National Defense" to issue an order, but Bai Chongxi came out for the second time to make trouble: he resolutely disagreed with the 28th Army's division into the Twelfth Corps.
Commander-in-Chief Bai's reasoning is grandiose: "Central China Suppression General" also wants to form Song Xilian's Fourteenth Corps, which plans to use the 20th Army and the 28th Army as the backbone, because both armies are the foundation of the Sichuan Army, and it is very appropriate to organize them together.
Bai Chongxi's reasons were sufficient, and his attitude was very resolute, and he simply ordered the 28th Army to be held back, so that Huang Wei, Li Liangrong, and even old Jiang could not do anything, and the chaos of Jiang Jun at that time was evident.
Second, He Yingqin returned with ill intentions
Li Liangrong could not get back his basic troops, and the deputy commander of this corps did nothing interesting, so he decided to withdraw his unit, and after a meal of operation, he was promoted to the chairman of Fujian Province as the commander of the light pole.
The matter of the 28th Army was thus ruined, and Huang Wei was very annoyed, and by late September 1948, the headquarters of the Twelfth Corps had been largely formed in Hankou, and Bai Chongxi immediately issued an order that the corps headquarters must be moved to Qishan, Henan on September 26.
Obviously, Bai Chongxi did not want the "civil engineering department" troops stationed in the Wuhan area, and they were not bothered, and the contradiction between the Gui clan and the Jiang clan was very close to tearing the face at this point in time.
Two months later, during the Battle of Huaihai, Bai Chongxi forcibly detained the 28th Army, which had been ordered to move, and was not allowed to come to the east.
(Bai Chongxi after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression)
After Huang Wei led the corps headquarters to move to southern Henan, the 18th Army was stationed at Qishan, the 10th Army was stationed in Madian, and the 14th Army were placed in Suiping, and the units were rested before the war. But what if there is still an army left? So Commander Huang's telegram and telephone were sent to Nanjing, asking He Yingqin to solve the problem as soon as possible.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Military Commission was reorganized into the "Ministry of National Defense," with Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng serving as ministers and general secretaries respectively, but He Yingqin was kicked out of the game and went to the United States to serve as the head of the military delegation.
He Yingqin's rapid rise to power and military power were so bad that chen cheng was so badly defeated in the northeast that he was forced to resign from his post, and He Yingqin, who had just returned to China, was particularly happy and relieved.
(He Yingqin)
Soon Gu Zhutong took over Chen Cheng's chief of staff, and Bai Chongxi was kicked to central China, so the post of "minister of national defense" fell to He Yingqin, although the minister did not care about the combat command, but there was still power over the establishment and personnel of the troops, and the military and government military orders were separated.
The relationship between He Yingqin and the Gui clan has always been good, and in addition to the same water and fire as Chen Chengshi, although he is the head of the Huangpu department, his attitude is relatively ambiguous in the deployment and organization of the "civil engineering department" troops.
In the face of Huang Wei's constant urging, the vacancies of the last army had to be filled, so He Yingqin proposed: The 85th Army of the Tang Enbo system was included in the combat sequence of the Twelfth Corps, with the commander Wu Shaozhou and the deputy commander of the corps.
(Gu Zhutong)
3. Bai Chongxi attempted to detain the 85th Army again
The 85th Army was a proper unit of the Central Army, which was expanded by Tang Enbo with his own basic unit, the 89th Division, in the early stage of the War of Resistance, and the first commander was Wang Zhonglian, a general of the Tang dynasty.
In the early period of the Liberation War, the 85th Army (the entire 85th Division) had been active in the Central Plains Battlefield, and had participated in the pursuit and blockade of Liu Deng's army and leapt into the Dabie Mountains.
Lieutenant General Wu Shaozhou, the commander of the army at the time, was a Miao, or a Guizhou native, so he didn't have to think about it, and he must have a lot to do with He Yingqin. Wu Shaozhou served as deputy commander of Wang Jingjiu's Second Corps and commander of the 85th Division, but the 2nd Corps was later dismissed due to ineffective combat, and the entire 85th Division was transferred to the command of the Fifth Appeasement District of the "Central China Suppression General".
The 85th Army was separated from the battlefield and rested for a long time, so the personnel of the unit was very full, and there were three divisions under the jurisdiction of the 23rd Division, the 110th Division (Division Commander Liao Yunzhou) and the 216th Division, plus more than 35,000 troops in the whole army directly under the direct command, which was a very high full strength rate at that time.
(Wu Shaozhou)
At the time of He Yingqin's proposal, the 85th Army, which had been restored, was stationed on the Macheng, Yingcheng, and Guangshui lines in Hubei, undertaking the task of maintaining the communication line and rear guarding.
Minister He took it for granted that the proposal to "mix sand" with the Twelfth Corps would surely be eagerly responded to by Bai Chongxi and Wu Shaozhou.
He thought wrongly, not only did Bai Chongxi shake his head and disagree, but even Wu Shaozhou himself refused to go to the regiment of the "Civil Engineering Department" to be angry, and they all raised fierce objections. Bai Chongxi also told He Yingqin that he had long been preparing to integrate the 85th Army into the Third Corps of the Gui Clan.
Because Zhang Gan's corps only had two corps, the 7th and 48th corps, which did not meet the standards for the establishment of large mobile corps, while the 85th Army was well equipped and qualified, and the garrison was similar to that of the Third Corps, it was particularly suitable for Zhang Gan to command.
(Chen Cheng)
Wu Shao Zhouyuan also knew Bai Chongxi's careful thinking, and it was also acceptable to mix with Zhang Yi (deputy commander-in-chief of central China and commander of Wusui District) and Zhang Gan, and now he was suddenly transferred to the Twelfth Corps, which he thought was not good for the future of the 85th Army:
Chen Cheng is the best at annexing the troops of other factions, which is famous, and having the 85th Army and the other three "civil engineering" armies together is basically equivalent to putting a fish under the eyes of three cats, just kidding!
He Yingqin was very embarrassed to receive feedback from the situation, the other three corps of the Twelfth Corps were already in place, if the last army could not be implemented for a long time, affecting the next step of the operation of this elite corps of the Yan clan, Old Jiang must have lifted the table and scolded the mother, but what if Bai Chongxi held the 85th Army and did not give it?
This side is ripping off, over there Huang Wei is really anxious, this Bai Jiansheng is doing things again and again, there is no one in his eyes, right? Immediately after the "imperial complaint", Old Jiang broke out and scolded Minister He and Commander-in-Chief Bai.
Huang Wei wrote in his memoirs for this reason: "Because of my efforts and Minister He's persistence, it took several twists and turns for Bai Chongxi to spit out this army."
Fourth, the 85th Army is late
In early October 1948, Wu Shaozhou finally received a telephone notice from Bai Chongxi: the 85th Army was officially included in the huang wei corps sequence, Wu Shaozhou was still the deputy commander of the 12th Corps and still the commander, and the original defense area and the Third Corps completed the handover and prepared to open east.
Wu Shaozhou also wanted to struggle one last time, and asked Bai Chongxi to forward to Shangfeng on the phone, and the 85th Army was still willing to take on the task of guarding the road, under the command of Zhang Yi or assigned to Zhang Gan's Third Corps, in short, did not want to go to Huang Wei's army as an errand boy. Bai Chongxi, who had lost the lawsuit before, was silent for a while and said:
"This is the president's military order, it is not easy to take back, I can't be in charge, I can't help"! In fact, Bai Chongxi was persecuted by Lao Jiang and Huang Wei, and he had to spit out the 85th Army, and his heart was on fire, but he didn't want Wu Shaozhou to know.
Since the wood had become a boat, Wu Shaozhou had no choice but to obey the order and gather his troops to march eastward, and because the commander was uncomfortable, the 85th Army's movements were grinding and rubbing until November 15, when it reached the front line of Fuyang, Anhui.
At this time, the Battle of Huaihai had already begun, and Huang Wei's vanguard troops were on fire with the People's Liberation Army in Mengcheng! However, by handing over such an elite force to Huang Wei to throw himself into the uncertain "Battle of Xu Beng", Wu Shao was reluctant to do so, so on the way to the march, Wu Shaozhou kept using his connections to dredge up in an attempt to change the original order.
Not to mention, the activity really had a certain effect, on the night of arriving in Fuyang, the military department received a call from Zhang Yi, saying that there was news that the 85th Army had returned to Guangshui Yuanfang, and Commander Wu hurriedly called back to ask for details.
As a result, Zhang Yi's call back made Wu Shaozhou cry and laugh, saying that there was only "internal information" and no formal order, at the same time, Huang Wei's urging telegram also arrived, and the commander of the corps asked the 85th Army to accelerate its advance and quickly return to Mengcheng.
The military order could not be violated, and the "nerd" had to dispose of his own military law, so Wu Shaozhou had no choice but to lead his troops to continue to march eastward and climb into the Huaihai battlefield step by step.
(Zhang Yi)
The day after the 85th Army arrived in Mengcheng, Wu Shaozhou unexpectedly received a telegram issued by He Yingqin: "Wu Shaozhou was promoted to commander of the Fourth Corps, the commander of the 85th Army was Liao Yunzhou, the commander of the 110th Division, Liao Yunzhou, and the remaining division commander was promoted by the deputy division commander Yang Liuying."
It turned out that He Yingqin was very particular about this telegram, the 85th Army had previously been included in the combat sequence of the Huang Wei Corps, the troops were approaching the battlefield, and the battle was about to break out, but there was no clear order in the telegram that could be separated from the establishment, just a check that could only be cashed after the war.
In other words, no matter how big an official Wu Shaozhou was, he had to finish this battle, and He Yingqin played the word game to the extreme: I did the matter of entrusting people, and indeed fished out the 85th Army, but the army had already actually participated in the war, and it was necessary to finish the battle, so old Chiang would not pursue it.
Wu Shaozhou was also well versed in battle, and he knew that if the news was announced at this time, it would definitely cause instability in the military, so he ordered that the telegram be handed over to the personnel section of the headquarters for sealing, and instructed that it must be kept confidential.
Then, with a hard head, he led his troops closer to the main force of the Huang Wei Corps, and on November 23, 1948, the main force of the 85th Army arrived at Nanpingji.
Fifth, it almost affected Liao Yunzhou's uprising plan
This tossing process of the 85th Army and the change of Wu Shaozhou's mind, as the commander of the main division of the army, Liao Yunzhou of the Huangpu Fifth Phase was basically understood, and every change made him frightened. In hindsight, the experience of the 85th Army and the fate of the 110th Division were as exciting as a roller coaster.
As early as May 1948, Liao Yunzhou, an underground party member, received a secret instruction from the Central Plains Bureau of our party: the Platon Army should fight a major battle in the near future, and asked the underground party committee of the 110th Division to make all preparations and complete the task of uprising at the necessary time with the help of the PLA.
If it could not be assigned to the Huang Wei Corps to participate in the battle, whether it was under the command of Zhang Yi or incorporated into the formation of the Gui Third Corps, it would be very difficult for the 110th Division to hold an uprising. Even if Liao Yunzhou was promoted to military commander, it was not very significant, because the other two divisions were difficult to master.
The reason is obvious, the ZhangYi group and the Gui clique are not the targets of our two major field armies for the time being, and the 110th Division cannot be effectively responded to, and the risk of a hasty uprising is extremely great.
Only by following the Twelfth Corps into the Huaihai battlefield could the battlefield uprising be launched with the cooperation and response of the People's Liberation Army when the two armies were in contact. The factional tilting within the enemy, Bai Chongxi's dismantling of the platform and wu Shaozhou's operations almost destroyed the 110th Division's uprising plan.
In a sense, it was Huang Wei's persistence and persistence that allowed the 110th Division to smoothly integrate into the Twelfth Corps with the 85th Army, and then step into the Huaihai Battlefield in a justifiable way, and also created an opportunity for a battlefield uprising.
When the troops approached Mengcheng, Liao Yunzhou and the comrades of the underground party committee of the 110th Division immediately realized that the time for "fighting a big battle" mentioned in the instructions of the superiors was coming, and they were determined to hold an uprising on the front line and contribute to the victory of the Huaihai Campaign.
On November 24, 1948, the 85th Army drove from Mengcheng to Zhao Zhuang near Shuangduiji, and Huang Wei had ordered the armies to attack Suxian County. Unexpectedly, the Central Plains Field Army sent troops to secretly march south, quickly occupied Mengcheng, and suddenly cut off Huang Wei's rear road, encircling the Twelfth Corps in a large designed pocket.
(General Liao Yunzhou)
Huang Wei found that the situation was not good, and was anxious to jump out of the encirclement of Nakano's main force, and decided to select an elite division from each of the four armies, and with the tactics of four main divisions advancing in parallel, smash a gap and quickly break through to the west.
As the 110th Division had the strongest combat effectiveness of the 85th Army, coupled with Liao Yunzhou's "volunteering", it was "fortunate" to be selected, and Huang Wei could not dream that he had carefully selected a gravedigger for the Twelfth Corps.
At 6:00 a.m. on November 27, 1948, Liao Yunzhou led the division headquarters and two regiments with a total of more than 5,500 people, and on the way to the forced breakthrough, the battlefield uprising was held, and the troops successfully withdrew into the liberated area through the Nakano Line, while the breakthrough troops of the other three divisions were beaten back.
Objectively speaking, the losses caused by the 110th Division's battlefield uprising to the total strength of Huang Wei's corps were actually not large, but the psychological blow was extremely huge, especially Huang Wei no longer trusted the 85th Army, and he also had to send troops to monitor, and the corps first fell apart.
End:
For the battlefield uprising of General Liao Yunzhou, the enemy commander Liu Zhi attributed it to the first reason for the collapse of the Huang Wei Corps in the Huaihai Campaign, and he later recalled: "The incident of the 110th Division caused a huge blow to the psychology of the officers and men of the Twelfth Corps."
Psychological blows were mainly reflected in the chaos within the corps, in the fact that Huang Wei lost the courage to break through for the second time in a short period of time, and when the "micro-exercise master" ordered Huang Wei to stick to wait for help, the collapse of this elite "civil engineering" corps was a foregone conclusion.
However, few people mentioned that Huang Wei had previously stubbornly come to the 85th Army's inside story, which was quite ironic, if it was replaced by the 28th Army, or replaced by another army, the change of the situation was still unknown, at least our army would have to pay a greater price to eliminate Huang Wei.
In contrast, Huang Wei went through all kinds of hardships to win back a "time bomb" for himself, and then carried it into the Huaihai battlefield, and finally blew the Twelfth Corps to pieces.
Liu Zhi's statement is also unreliable, and the infighting between Huang Wei and Bai Chongxi, as well as the tortuous road of the 85th Army, is enough to prove the chaos and decay within the Jiang Army, and it is a ghost not to lose the battle.
When the troops were about to collapse, Huang Wei, commander of the Twelfth Corps, hu Lian, and Wu Shaozhou, commanders of the Twelfth Corps, climbed into three tanks each in an attempt to break through the siege, and as a result, Huang Wei and Wu Shaozhou both dropped anchor on their tank roads, and both became prisoners of the People's Liberation Army, and only Hu Lian escaped by chance.