In the Battle of Huaihai, the inferior army defeated 800,000 nationalist troops, which can be described as the first stage of the Liberation War. This battle annihilated 550,000 enemies, not only in quantity, but also higher in quality than Pingjin, and comparable to the previous Liaoshen. This battle can be said to have wiped out the Nationalist forces of the Central Department of Guannei and the Huangpu Department. Three of the five main forces were destroyed here.
Among the national troops that were wiped out, the strongest corps was the "Huang Wei Corps" that was transferred from central China to the Huaihai battlefield.
The Yellow Wei Corps in Armageddon
There are many theories about the collapse of the Huang Wei Corps. After the war, many people blamed the nerd Huang Wei's careless command and the tenacious battle of nakano to eliminate the main force of the more than 100,000-strong National Army in the United States.
But in addition to the above two reasons, Yu TianJun believes that the collapse of this elite mobile corps is actually the result of factional struggle.
Stills of Huang Wei in "Armageddon"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > Huang Wei 12 Corps </h1>
Before talking about the internal contradictions of the Huang Wei Corps, let's talk about its composition.
After the War of Liberation, in order to prevent Nakano and Huaye from infiltrating and operating in the Kuomintang area, the Nationalist army began to readjust the army structure in Kannai, and in addition to the units of the Appeasement Zone, which served as regional combat units, there were also field units that conducted mobile operations and decisive battles with our army, with the highest establishment being corps, and these units were under the unified command of the Suppression General And Sui Bureau. By 1948, the Kannai Nationalist Army began to establish 6 mobile regiments for Nakano and Huaye (each corps was elite).
Therefore, Huang Wei's Twelfth Corps was organized in this context.
Huang Wei Corps in Combat (Stills)
In the reorganization plan in August 1948, the Ministry of National Defense planned to let the Civil Engineering Department form the 12 corps as the main body (after all, the Civil Engineering Department is the starting force of the small committee chairman Chen Cheng, and the 6 major corps must also have their own share). In the plan, 3 integrated divisions (equivalent to the army) were transferred. They were the 3rd, 10th and 11th Divisions. Among them, the reorganized 11th Division is the original 18th Army of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, known as the five main forces of the Nationalist Army, and is an old unit of the Civil Engineering Department. The reorganized 3rd Division was an elite unit composed of old units such as the "Hero Regiment" and the "Tiger Regiment" transferred from the reorganized 11th Division, and later the reorganized 3rd Division was changed to the 10th Army. Also of civil engineering ancestry was the reorganized 10th Division, later the Nationalist 14th Army, and in order to increase the strength of the troops, it was also transferred to the reorganized 85th Division, that is, the later 85th Army.
Thus these four corps— the 10th, 14th, 18th, and 85th Armies—formed the backbone of the 12th Corps.
The Nationalist forces in the Battle of Huaihai
How powerful these 4 armies are, in the sequence of the Nationalist army, these 4 armies are all fully armed with American equipment, the 18th Army is still one of the five main forces of the Nationalist Army, the ace of the ace, in the Battle of Nanma, the 6 columns of our army under the leadership of su Yu, the god of war, have not been able to eat it. The ace units of the 10th and 14th Armies, which were also separated from the 18th Army, were one of the backbones of the Civil Engineering Department. The 85th Army, like the 13th Army, was the starting force of Tang Enbo, and its equipment standards were mainly American weapons. In addition to the four main forces, the corps also directly administered a fourth rapid column (composed of special forces of the 18th Army). In addition to the artillery battalion, the Rapid Column had a tank battalion and a fleet of cars (more than 600 vehicles).
Since its establishment, the corps has always been the number one trump card of the Central China Suppression Army of the National Army, and like the 2nd Corps of the Xuzhou Suppression Army, it is the two mobile iron fist units of the National Army in Guannei.
However, it was such an ace army that was firmly besieged by me Nakano in the double pile, and the main reason for this was actually within itself.
The rapid column of the Huang Wei Corps of the Nationalist Army was a car array
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The contradictions of the 12 Corps were in fact in terms of personnel and factional struggle.
First of all, there is the contradiction between the civil engineering system and the Tombaugh department.
The 12th Corps was actually composed of the 18th Army as the main body, which was supposed to be an all-civil corps, a sharp knife of Chen Cheng, but in the process of reorganization, Bai Chongxi added the 85th Army, which originally belonged to Tang Enbo. At that time, Wu Shaozhou, the commander of the 85th Army, was also the deputy commander of the 12th Corps, which made Hu Lian very unhappy, and the commander of a foreign household could also be the deputy commander of the corps. In a fit of anger, he directly excused himself that his father was seriously ill and ran to Wuhan to recuperate, and directly picked up the son and did not do it, and finally it was Jiang Who ordered him to return to the 12th Corps, so within the 12th Corps, the 85th Army was always unpopular. In addition to being unpopular, the 85th Army also often dug pits, and in the march, the 85th Army also stopped and went, and finally missed the military plane and let the 12th Corps be surrounded by our army.
Nationalist troops captured in battle
The 85th Army and other nationalist armies are not the same heart, and this is also the breakthrough point of our army, although this army was Tombaugh's system. But Liao Yunzhou, the commander of the 110th Division under his command, happened to be a member of my underground party for twenty years. It was precisely by relying on him to open the defensive zone that our army found a breakthrough and thus completely annihilated the Huang Wei Corps. Interestingly, in the breakthrough of the Nationalist army, Liao Yunzhou also took the initiative to take the lead.
Directly came a combination of inside and outside, acting as the vanguard of our army.
Liao Yunzhou, an underground party member who has been undercover for 20 years
Secondly, it is the internal contradiction of the civil engineering department itself.
Although the 12th Corps is dominated by the Civil Engineering Department, there is still a deviation within the Civil Engineering Department for the position of commander of the 12th Corps. At that time, the loudest voice was Hu Lian, who himself was strong in ability, and he also made many achievements in the War of Resistance, and even fought in Nanma, a rare center of the Nationalist army. Coupled with the fact that he had been serving as the commander of the 18th Army before, the natural voice was very high, and even Chen Cheng was calling for him. However, Hu Lian was too arrogant and had a very poor relationship with Bai Chongxi, the general of the Central China Crackdown, so Bai Chongxi was afraid that Hu Lian would run away with the 12th Corps and never agreed to his takeover of the 12th Corps.
Huang Wei, deputy commander of the 12th Corps (stills)
On the contrary, Luo Guangwen, who was also from the civil engineering department, was more in line with Bai's candidate, although the factions were different, but Luo Guangwen was easier to coordinate, so he strongly recommended Luo. Seeing that Bai Chongxi "appreciated" him so much, he directly jumped out and said, "Hu Lian is the commander of the corps, and I will not do it." In this way, the colleagues who had fought side by side with each other quarreled over the commander of the corps. After all, these two men had served as "veteran commanders" of the sixth and seventh generations of the Eighteenth Army. Therefore, the quarrel between the two actually stirred up the position of the low-level generals, and the gangs on both sides were also doomed to the division of the 12th Corps.
With the third generation of the 18th Army, Huang Wei, was promoted to the position of commander of the 12th Corps, the battle between Luo Guangwen and Hu Lian ended, but it also laid the groundwork for the subsequent collapse of the 12th Corps.
Luo Wenguang's family
Finally, there is the problem of Huang Wei's personal ability.
Huang Wei actually didn't want to be the commander of this corps, but Jiang threw this hot potato to him, so that he had to take up his post. At this time, Luo Wenguang had already run away in a negative mood, and Huang Wei could only rely on Hu Lian. He also coaxed and deceived that he was only a temporary replacement, and that the commander of the corps would be none other than you in the future, so that the grumpy Hu Lian was willing to be his deputy.
To be honest, Huang Wei, known as a teacher, still does a good job of twisting ropes. After he became commander, he quickly restored and united the 12th Corps. However, Huang Wei, who has been far away from the command of front-line troops, is the head of logistics of the Nationalist army and is keen on running schools (military schools), is still inferior to Hu Lian and other veterans who have fought with our army for a long time in terms of on-the-spot command. Defeated in the fighting style with his old classmate Chen Geng. Especially after his main force advanced to Mengcheng, he also superstitiously believed that he was not afraid of Nakano, believing that Nakano did not have the strength to eat himself, and had to wait until Wu Shaozhou's 85th Army, resulting in the main force of his corps being surrounded until it was annihilated.
Huang Wei in the eyes of colleagues (Huang Botao).
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="73" > Yutianjun said </h1>
In fact, from the defeat of the 12th Corps, it can be seen that the decay within the national army has reached the root, even the concubine army of Tianzi's protégés is still like this, let alone its troops. Many times, the national army was not inferior in the battle with our army and was directly destroyed, but it was seriously involved before the war began. Eventually, it embarked on the road to destruction
In the final analysis, the defeat of the Nationalist army in the Battle of Huaihai or the Great Armageddon was rooted in its own...
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