"Armageddon" finally ushered in the grand finale in the polarized reputation of the audience. Contrary to what many people expect, although the main line of "Armageddon" begins in 1946 and ends with Pingjin, it does not repeat too much about the subsequent stories such as the Battle of crossing the river and the sweep of the Great Southwest, which is an expected flaw.
Of course, like the TV series and the movie "Armageddon", although our army won great victories in the three major battles, behind this great victory, there were more or less fly in the ointment, and these deficiencies also showed from the side that the victory of our army at that time was not easy to come by.
So what are the shortcomings of our army in the three major battles?
Leaders on both sides of Armageddon (stills)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > Liaoshen Campaign: Missing the 52nd Army </h1>
In the Liaoshen Campaign, almost all the elites of the Nationalist army outside Guanwai were completely annihilated, and the super aces of the Ninth Corps, the New 1st and 6th Armies, as well as the 71st Army, which sniped at our army at Siping that year, and Liao Yaoxiang, who also followed liao Yaoxiang's confused behavior in Dahu Mountain and Montenegro, were completely annihilated by our army, and the 60th Army in Changchun also surrendered to our army. However, among these trump cards, only the 52nd Army escaped by boat from Yingkou south, which has to be said to be a big flaw.
Liao Yaoxiang's regiment is besieged on The Great Tiger Mountain (stills)
The 52nd Army was known as the "sixth main force" within the Nationalist army after the five ace armies, and was established at the time of the Central Plains War with the instructors and cadets of the Nanjing Central Military Academy (Zhou Weiguo's alma mater in "Snow Leopard") as the backbone, and the first commander Zhang Zhizhong was a member of the Central Department of the Nationalist Army, whose status was not weaker than Chen Cheng and He Yingqin, and defeated the northwest army general Ji Hongchang in the Central Plains War. Subsequently, Xu Tingyao, Guan Linzheng and others successively served as military commanders (called the 17th Army at that time). During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it fought against the Japanese army in North China, Taierzhuang and other places, especially the 52nd Army in Taierzhuang's great victory, and fought all over the battlefield in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and had to fight from North China to the southwest.
Nationalist 52nd Army
When it came to the northeast battlefield, the 52nd Army, under the leadership of its commander Liu Yuzhang, gave our army a large number of casualties in the early stages of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and the 52nd Army under the Liao Yaoxiang Mobile Corps was more cunning in combat, and its commander Liu Yuzhang himself was also known for his cunning and slippery head. In the second half of the Liaoshen Campaign, knowing that Liao Yaoxiang had died from Shenyang to support Jinzhou, Liu Yuzhang decisively led his army to occupy Yingkou (offensive can be attacked, retreat can be slipped by sea), so when he learned that Liao Yaoxiang's corps was surrounded and our army had no time to take care of Yingkou, Liu Yuzhang led the reorganized 52nd Army to withdraw from the sea to Huludao and then returned to the rear.
Liu Yuzhang himself
In the Battle of Shanghai, the opponent of the 52nd Army changed from Dongye to Huaye, and the 52nd Army also played a difficult bone, causing great casualties to our army in the battle of Yuepu, and finally retreated to the Zhoushan Islands and went to Baodao, and because of this battle, the 52nd Army became the ace army of the National Army in the 50s.
It has to be said that the failure to annihilate the 52nd Army in the Liaoshen Campaign is a major regret.
Liu Yuzhang, who won the Battle of Yuepu (stills)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" >Huaihai Campaign: Hu Lian escapes </h1>
In the Huaihai Campaign, a large number of elite and strong generals of the Huangpu department of the Nationalist army were captured by our army during the battle; Du Yuming, deputy commander-in-chief of Xuzhou, Huang Wei, commander of the 12th Corps, Qiu Weida, commander of the 74th Army, and Yang Botao, commander of the 18th Army, all became prisoners of our army, but only one person was lucky enough to escape, and this person was Hu Lian.
"Armageddon" Hu Lian (stills)
Speaking of Hu Lian, just as our army gave him the nickname "Fox", this person fought fiercely and fiercely, and could be called one of the few wise and courageous figures among the middle-level generals of the Nationalist Army. Like Liu Yuzhang, Huang Wei, who graduated from the Huangpu Ivy, was a prominent figure in school, deeply appreciated by Chen Cheng and joined the department of civil engineering, and in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hu Lian heroically resisted the Japanese army in the Songhu and Shipai War of Resistance, especially the Shipai Resistance, and played the prestige of Chinese soldiers. The commander of the 18th Army, who became one of the five main forces in the late stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was a beloved general whom Chen Cheng relied on in the civil engineering department, and before the Battle of Huaihai, our army suffered a lot of losses under Hu Lian in the battles of Nanma and Caoxian.
Hu Lian and the Siege of Shipai Fortress (Stills)
After the Battle of Huaihai, Hu Lian served as the deputy commander of the 12th Corps to assist Huang Wei in fighting with our army, but because of Huang Wei's stagnation and our army's sniping, The Huang Wei Corps was surrounded in a double pile. Under the general offensive of our army, the Nationalist army could only disperse and break through, and Hu Lian and Huang Wei escaped in 2 tanks, but the unfortunate Huang Wei was caught by our army, and Hu Lian took the opportunity to escape.
The hapless Huang Wei in the Battle of Huaihai (stills)
After the breakthrough, Hu Lian continued to oppose our army, serving as the commander of the reorganized 12 corps at the time of the Battle of crossing the River, was defeated by our army in Jiangxi, and could only go south to the Shantou area of Fujian Province, while our army pursued them all the way, and all the way became a bird of fright, they could only run to J Gate, and in the Battle of J Gate, relying on Huang Wei's command and our army's lack of experience in crossing the sea, which led to operational failure, and this was also the most painful battle failure of our army since the three major battles. At the same time, it also achieved the peak of Hu Lian's command,
It can be said that the chain reaction caused by Hu Lian, who escaped from Huaihai, was not small to our army.
Our army crossed the sea to attack Gate J
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > Pingjin: Nationalist high-level fleeing south </h1>
Although there were still 250,000 defenders, the two sides were no longer willing to fight, and peace talks had become the best way to preserve the ancient city of Peiping, but at the time of peace talks between Fu Zuoyi and our army, Li Wen (commander of the 4th Corps) and Shi Jue (commander of the 9th Corps) of the Central Department were sent to Nanjing by plane, and it can be said that many high-level people of the diehard faction of the Nationalist army were released.
Li Wen, who guards Peiping and wants to return to Nanjing (stills)
The reason why Fu Zuoyi did this, Yu Tian Jun's opinion is nothing more than these points:
First, Fu Zuoyi was passive in peace talks, although Peiping was besieged and there was no hope of a breakthrough, but his psychology did not necessarily identify with our army and our party, just as he let Chen Changjie die in Tianjin, he wanted to make a gesture, that is, he really could not defeat our army before he surrendered? In this way, on the one hand, he can grab more bargaining chips through these, on the other hand, he uses this to show his benevolence to the "national army", to put it bluntly, it is to please both sides, and no matter who wins, the latter two parties will not blame themselves.
Generals in the Peiping Nationalist Army who were released back to Nanjing (stills)
Second, it is to stabilize the 250,000 national troops in Beiping City, although Fu Zuoyi is the commander-in-chief, there are still many central generals in Beiping City, these people do not necessarily really obey his command, and even when he is in peace talks, it is possible to launch a mutiny, so in the case of the Beiping regiment being surrounded, these high-level people can be released, but they can get them out of the army at the same time, to avoid mutiny.
Fu Zuoyi who promised to let them go (stills)
Of course, Fu Zuoyi's move was correct at the time, but many of the officers he let go caused great trouble to our army after crossing the river in the later period, such as Li Wen. In the southwest, we inflicted a lot of casualties on our army.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" > Yutianjun said </h1>
In the three major battles, every battle of our army is not perfect, and these missed generals of the national army will also pose a lot of threats to our army in the future. However, these regrets also show from the side that our army did not occupy an absolute superiority at that time, and the victories in the three major battles were also hard-won, and they were all bought by the flesh and blood and selfless dedication of the martyrs.
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