Speaking of Que Hanqian, he can also be regarded as a fierce general in the national army. This kind of fierce general is due to the fact that he was born in Huangpu and belonged to the "root zheng miao hong"; belonged to Chen Cheng's "civil engineering system", with his back to the big tree to cool off; and there was no ambiguity in the fight, especially in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was once known as a famous anti-Japanese general for his bravery. It is also worth mentioning that Que Hanqian was one of the very few senior generals of the Nationalist army who participated in the two major battles of the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign (known to the Kuomintang as the Battle of Xu beng).
However, it was such a general who participated in the two great armies that not only did not get Chiang Kai-shek's approval, but was greatly reprimanded. The point is that not only did the old Chiang Kai-shek rebuke him, but the younger Chiang Kai-shek (Chiang Kai-shek's second son, Chiang Wei-kuo), was also unceremonious and gave him a big temper tantrum. This makes Que Hanqian infinitely sad, without merit, hard work can not be said, and even ended up alone.
As for the matter of Old Jiang reprimanding Que Hanqian, I believe many people have some understanding. The TV series "Armageddon" gives a colorful description of this bridge.
In fact, in the Battle of Tashan, Que Hanqian was not a failure to do his best, and there was no major problem in command. In particular, in the first two days, before hou Jingru, the commander of the 17th Corps, the commander-in-chief, arrived, Que Hanqian's organizational command was also decent. If there is a deficiency, the main reason is that he has a little light enemy, thinking that by virtue of the comprehensive superiority of the national army in land, sea and air, and with the terrain of Tashan without mountains and not conducive to defense, he is full of confidence in victory.
However, what he did not expect was that the Platon Army had long ago shown the revolutionary heroism of coexisting and dying with the positions, and was not only superior to the nationalist army in terms of combat morale, strategic and tactical superiority over the nationalist army, and even comparable to the nationalist army in terms of the number of troops and weapons. Including almost equal artillery fire, including the general reserve at Takahashi, it has never been used, which fully shows that even if the initial two days were not under the command of Que Hanqian and replaced by Hou Jingru, they would not cross the Tashan defense line. In other words, from the perspective of the post-war review, the Tashan Blockade Battle seems extremely thrilling, but in comprehensive comparison, the probability of the Kuomintang army winning is extremely small.
The importance of the Tower Hill Blockade Battle is needless to say. Even Chiang Kai-shek was very clear about this. Therefore, at the post-war meeting, Chiang Kai-shek was furious with Que Hanqian. The "Armageddon" TV series also made an artistic rendering of this paragraph: when Chiang Kai-shek rebuked Que Hanqian, Que made a bold and blunt statement to his face, which made Chiang Kai-shek add fuel to the fire, claiming that Que Hanqian was a traitor and saying that he wanted to shoot him.
In fact, the Kuomintang is very particular about the dignity and inferiority of the upper and lower levels. As a huangpu fourth-term student and a military commander, Que Hanqian could not have confronted Chiang Kai-shek in person no matter what. And Chiang Kai-shek could not have denounced Que as a traitor and threatened to shoot him. In any case, Que was a huangpu disciple, and the 54th Army led by him was also a unit that was more capable of fighting in the Yan clan, and it also belonged to Chen Cheng's "civil engineering department". Chiang Kai-shek's anger was only anger, and in the end it was certainly not over.
At the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, Du Yuming withdrew Que Hanqian's 54th Army by sea to the East China Battlefield. At this time, the 54th Army, which had not been rested much, had to be assigned to Li Yannian's 6th Corps according to the severe military situation at the Battle of Xu Beng, and was thrown into the offensive operation of the Southern Front to rescue Huang Wei's Corps.
At that time, Li Yannian and Liu Ruming had a total of 6 corps, and although Que Hanqian's 54th Army was seriously injured in the Battle of Tashan, it was still used as the number one main force. Based on this, when Jiang Weiguo led the chariot regiment to help, he mainly joined the offensive operations of the 54th Army, mainly cooperating with the 198th Division of the 54th Army to carry out a frontal attack.
It should be said that at the beginning of the offensive operation of the 198th Division, due to the chariot as a precursor, the fight was quite good. However, when the chariot "entered the front of the water-filled outer trench at the edge of the village, and the PLA garrison attacked heroically in its entirety, the infantry units of the 198th Division attacking with the chariots immediately wavered and retreated, causing the chariot troops to fall under the encirclement of the PLA attacking forces."
This act of the 198th Division's disregard for the chariot and fleeing for his life obviously made Jiang Weiguo very angry. What made him even more dissatisfied was that a platoon leader was riding in a command vehicle that was damaged by the People's Liberation Army with a cluster grenade and could not move. The platoon leader and soldiers sitting in the car were shot and killed by the PLA who climbed into the chariot from inside the lookout hole. To this end, Jiang Weiguo specially ran to the headquarters of Que Hanqian's 54th Army and questioned Que Hanqian. The first was to demand that Que immediately organize an attack to recover the destroyed vehicles and the bodies of the killed platoon commanders; the second was to demand that the main commander of the 198th Division be punished for dereliction of duty in this attack.
Although Que Hanqian was the commander of the main army of the Nationalist army, the officer was much larger than Xiao Jiang. But he knew that he could not afford to offend Xiao Jiang, so he had to explain to Xiao Jiang repeatedly, and at the same time promised to organize troops to counterattack immediately.
In the end, after fierce fighting, the 198th Division counterattacked at the cost of killing a deputy regimental commander and suffering nearly 500 casualties. At the same time, the destroyed chariots were towed away, which was considered to satisfy the face of The Little Jiang Chariot that was not taken away by the Plaster.
However, after being harshly reprimanded by Xiao Jiang, the sad Que Hanqian also thought of a way. He reported to the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing that the combat area of the 54th Army was mostly rivers, lakes and swamps, and that the chariot troops were difficult to move and could not exert their power, and suggested that they be transferred. In the end, Xiao Jiang's chariot regiment was really transferred.
At this point, Que Hanqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Main references: "The Battle of Huaihai: Battlefield Memories of Former Senior Kuomintang Generals", "The Battle of Huaihai"