Author: Mingyue
Among the many generals of Chiang Kai-shek's army, Han Deloitte was jokingly called "General Rice Bucket" by later generations, because whether it was during the Red Army period, or during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression until the Liberation War, Han Deloitte almost never fought a victorious battle, it can be said that he was repeatedly defeated, and later he was even defeated and captured in a friction provoked by our New Fourth Army.
Han Deloitte
What everyone did not expect was that after this "great general" under Chiang Kai-shek was captured, the great man agreed to quietly release him by telegram, and in the end, this "rice barrel general" was transformed, and was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of Xuzhou during the Battle of Huaihai, and paired with Liu Zhi, the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou, nicknamed "Pig General", to become a "golden partner". From this point of view, the act of releasing Han Deloitte during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression really made a great contribution to our army's final victory in the Battle of Huaihai, and people had to sigh at the foresight and cleverness of this decision of the great man.
Speaking of this Han Deloitte, we have to start from 1943, when in the northern Jiangsu region, Japan drew nearly 20,000 Japanese puppet troops
A brutal "sweep" was launched, and the Chinese army had two troops stationed in the northern Jiangsu region at that time, one for the New Fourth Army and the other for Chiang Kai-shek's Han Deloitte Department.
In the face of the brutal sweep of the Japanese army, the New Fourth Army and the Japanese army launched a brutal battle, dealing a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese Kou, but Han Deloitte's department was on the verge of collapse and suffered heavy losses.
Han Deloitte, who had lost the battle, did not want to regroup to fight against the Japanese Kou, and was ashamed of the snow, but instead engaged in friction, wanting to regain Chiang Kai-shek's favor by attacking the New Fourth Army.
When Han Deqin fought the Japanese army, he seemed to be "very good", but he was full of tricks to deal with his compatriots. At that time, for the sake of the overall situation of the unity and resistance of northern Jiangsu, although our army understood that Han Deloitte was a capricious villain, it still agreed to his request, and also took the initiative to receive a large amount of grain, grass, ammunition, and funds during his rest period.
However, the goodwill of our army did not exchange the slightest gratitude from Han Deloitte, and Han Deloitte instead took revenge.
Just as our army was going all out to conduct "anti-sweeping" operations with the Japanese army, Han Deloitte," which was hiding in our army's defense zone, suddenly "stabbed a knife" behind our army's back, and suddenly seized Lirenji, ChengDaokou, and other places in our Huaihai base area, and then smuggled across the canal to occupy key places such as Shanzitou and Jietouji, in a vain attempt to take advantage of the Japanese army's attack and the enemy's belly to seize Huaibei and then plot the entire northern Jiangsu region.
Our army was indignant about the betrayal of Han Deloitte's department, and even Chen Yi, who was always optimistic and open-minded, was also angry; although the whole army had been fighting with the Japanese army for more than a month and was very tired, it all wanted to immediately dispatch to clean up this capricious traitor.
Our army will naturally not be soft on traitors who sabotage the united front of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Soon, the New Fourth Army began to deploy in combat, and under the cover of heavy rain, it made a long-distance attack to several villages on the ShantouziGang where Han Deloitte's headquarters was stationed.
General Wei Guoqing
Han Deqin, who had managed to sneak in and fight a "victorious battle", was now overwhelmed and unprepared, and until the New Fourth Army touched the bottom of its nose, it did not find danger.
In the middle of the night, the Ninth Brigade of the New Fourth Army Wei Guoqing, which was the main attacker, launched a fierce attack, destroying all the outlying strongholds in one fell swoop and surrounding the landlord manor where Han Deloitte's headquarters was stationed.
Han Deloitte, who was immersed in the dream of monopolizing The North American Soviet Union, was awakened by the sound of gunfire and shouting outside, at this time, the angry soldiers of the New Fourth Army had already entered the manor, and the courtyard where Han Deloitte lived was surrounded by water, and Han Deloitte could not fly out of the wing now, so he had to obediently raise his hands and walk out of the courtyard door to surrender.
As a result, our army won a complete victory in the battle, but how to deal with Han Deloitte next became a thorny issue. If he were to be executed directly, it would certainly become an excuse for Chiang Kai-shek to launch another civil war, and after Han Deqin's death, Chiang Kai-shek would naturally be able to send Tang Enbo and other henchmen to take over his post in charge of Jiangsu, which is undoubtedly very unfavorable to our army.
Finally, after careful consideration, the New Fourth Army sent a telegram to Yan'an, saying that it wanted to release Han Deloitte, and the great man agreed with this, and quickly called back to agree to quietly release Han Deloitte.
Han Deloitte, who was quietly released by the New Fourth Army and retained his face and position, was afraid and grateful to our army from then on, and since then he has basically not engaged in any friction with our army, and even later secretly told the New Fourth Army about Chiang Kai-shek's combat deployment, which helped the development and growth of the New Fourth Army.
However, han Deloitte's greater help to our army was during the Liberation War, and with his "ability" to obey and be good at pleasing Chiang Kai-shek, Han Deloitte became the deputy commander-in-chief of Xuzhou's "suppression general" during the Battle of Huaihai, while Du Yuming, Hu Lian, Xue Yue, Li Mi, and other generals of the powerful faction of Chiang Kai-shek's army could only give Han Deloitte and Liu Zhi a hand, so how could they be willing? How can victory be achieved if there is discord between the top and the bottom and the command is chaotic? Therefore, the final destruction of Jiang Jun in xuzhou area really has a lot of credit from Han Deloitte.
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