On December 24, 1948, Bai Chongxi, commander-in-chief of the "Suppression General" in central China, took advantage of the situation that was extremely unfavorable to Chiang Kai-shek at that time and sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, proposing to "resume peace negotiations" to resolve the current situation and force Chiang Kai-shek to step down.
Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to announce his resignation. Li Zongren, who was also a warlord of the Gui clan with Bai Chongxi, became the "acting president" of the Kuomintang government.
This was the second time that Bai Chongxi had successfully forced Chiang Kai-shek to go into the wilderness.
In the summer of 1927, Chiang Kai-shek led the Northern Expeditionary Army to fight against the old warlord Sun Chuanfang.
The defeat of the battle on the Jinpu Line, personally commanded by Chiang Kai-shek, put it in a difficult situation.
The army of the old warlord Sun Chuanfang was directly approaching Nanjing, and the former LeftIst Forces of the Kuomintang in the Wuhan government agreed to cooperate with the Nanjing government, but there was only one premise: Chiang Kai-shek stepped down!
This is when support is most needed! However, when discussing whether Chiang Kai-shek should go to the field or not, Bai Chongxi said: "It is better for the commander-in-chief to leave for a while."
Bai Chongxi's attitude, who has great strength, is naturally very important.
Chiang Kai-shek went to the wilderness, and when he was writing a diary in xikou's hometown, Chiang Kai-shek scolded Bai Chongxi fiercely.
When the Kuomintang and Communist armies fought a decisive battle in Huaihai, Bai Chongxi had promised Chiang Kai-shek that he was willing to unify his command of the Kuomintang army, but later he changed his mind. Huang Wei's corps was surrounded at Shuangduiji, and Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly asked Bai Chongxi's Zhang Gan's corps to join the battlefield, and Zhang Chongxi's regiment had all been loaded on ships, but Bai Chongxi strictly ordered them to be transferred back to Chiang Kai-shek, so they had no choice but to transfer the farther-away Song Xilian Corps (also belonging to The Bai Chongxi Clique), and Bai Chongxi obstructed them, repeatedly and secretly constraining them, so that the plan was frustrated.
The Battle of Huaihai was a deadly decisive battle that had a bearing on the survival of the Kuomintang; at that time, our army's strength had been exhausted, chiang kai-shek had no troops to adjust, and if the strength of bai chongxi's clique could be joined in time, it might be able to turn the tide of the war around, and even if it could not win, the elite of the Kuomintang would not be completely annihilated.
On April 1, 1949, Zhang Zhizhong, Shao Lizi, Zhang Shizhao and others went to Beiping to negotiate with the Communist Party as representatives of the peace talks. When Bai Chongxi's delegation to the peace talks went north, he agreed on a plan for "dividing the river and dividing the country," proposing that the whole country would be under the leadership of a coalition government led by the Communist Party of China, but the People's Liberation Army would not have to cross the Yangtze River and would be garrisoned by Kuomintang troops south of the Yangtze River.
This plan was rightfully rejected by our Party.
Lin Biao participated in the CPC peace talks delegation at that time, and was the third person after Zhou Enlai and Lin Boqu, who was specifically responsible for negotiations on military issues. In his capacity as "commander of the Pingjin front," he warned the Kuomintang: "We have no choice but to use the Tianjin method to solve any reactionary forces that refuse to accept the Peiping method to achieve peace!"
After half a month of verbal warfare, the Two Sides drafted the Internal Peace Agreement (Final Amendment) and agreed to sign it on April 20. The Nanjing authorities issued a radio broadcast on the 19th, saying that they could not fully agree to the peace agreement, and it was difficult for the People's Liberation Army to cross the river to accept it, so the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Republic of China broke down completely.
Chairman Mao and Zhu De issued the "Order to March to the Whole Country," and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) crossed the Yangtze River with its division, launched a campaign to cross the river, occupied Nanjing, Shanghai, and other major cities, and then marched to the provinces of southern, southwestern, and northwestern China.
The Central Military Commission and Chairman Mao instructed Lin Biao to lead the Fourth Field Army to march to the provinces of Hunan Province, Hubei, and Gansu province, and annihilate Lin Biao's old rival, the Kuomintang Bai Chongxi clique.
In May 1949, a total of six armies of Bai Chongxi's group actively deployed on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in an attempt to take advantage of the natural dangers of the Yangtze River to prevent the four wilds from crossing the river to the south.
In the Battle of Hanxun Crossing the River and the Battle of Yisha, Bai Chongxi's main force slipped again and again, and Lin Biao was angry.
In July, Lin Biao personally commanded the Battle of Xianggan. As a result, Bai Chongxi took advantage of the favorable terrain to avoid its sharp edges, and did not fight with The Four Wilds head-on, and the Four Wilds flew into the air again.
He was never able to catch Bai Chongxi's main force and fight a decisive battle with it. For this reason, Lin Biao was overwhelmed.
Chairman Mao, who was far away in Beijing, was worried that Lin Biao, who was proficient in tactics, would deviate strategically from the strategic principles he had formulated, so he sent out a long telegram and once again put forward his own views: We should not adopt a shallow encirclement and detour, but should adopt a long-distance encirclement and detour method, so that we can grasp the initiative.
Chairman Mao's long electric point hit Lin Biao's key point -- he was too eager to avenge Siping's one-arrow revenge, so he closely watched the every move of "Little Zhuge Ge" and pursued the soldier's realm of "braking first and expecting the enemy to come first." The more he tried to beat the drum, the more he could not do so, because the opponent he encountered was also Bai Chongxi, who was known for his chances.
Bai Chongxi's mentality was also the same as Lin Biao's, he watched his opponent day and night, pondering the other side's platoon deployment, and as soon as the wind blew, he immediately pulled up the camp.
Chairman Mao discovered their common problem, that is, they were ignorant of the small and ignorant of the huge, and they concentrated on tactical competition and neglected strategic victory.
Lin Biao immediately redeployed his combat forces in accordance with the spirit of Mao Zedong's telegram.
The famous Battle of Hengbao then broke out, which severely damaged bai chongxi's clique, causing it to be seriously injured, and only a small part fled to Guangxi.
Chairman Mao ordered Chen Gengye Jianying's troops on the East Road to launch the Battle of Guangzhou, take Guangdong in order to encircle Guangxi, and block Bai Chongxi's eastern retreat. He also ordered the main force of Erye to cut off the retreat route of Bai Chongxi's troops into Yunnan.
Chen Geng's troops marched 300 kilometers in 4 days, and completely annihilated the remnants of Bai Chongxi in Qinzhou, Guangxi, without letting go of a single soldier.
Bai Chongxi fled to Taiwan alone and died in Taipei on December 1, 1966, after which his body turned green, his mouth foamed, and his bed sheets were torn in many places, most likely he died of assassination by secret agents, and the cause of death was a mystery. (Liu Jixing)