After understanding these four people, I realized that the Kuomintang actually threw away the Northeast like this!
1945, when Lin Biao first went to the Northeast, he was simply poor, without a base, without a liberated area, and he didn't know who he could command. On the contrary, the Kuomintang army was strong and had American equipment, American helping to transport troops, strong combat power, and a complete logistics supply line.
So Lin Biao had a very sad time for a while. The failure to attack Siping is not a big problem. What is really embarrassing is that he was chased by the Kuomintang all the way to retreat to Songhua River North.
But Lin Biao's Northeastern troops were turning the situation around very quickly. There were many factors in this, including Mao Zedong and the Military Commission's great talents, the command of the leaders of Lin, Luo and Liu, the full cooperation of the Northeastern Bureau, and the support of the vast number of people in the Northeastern people, but there was another factor. Without this factor, it would be very difficult for Lin Biao's Northeast Field Army to liberate the entire Northeastern.
This factor comes from within the Kuomintang. It has to be said that Lin Biao's glory in the Northeast was achieved by the Kuomintang to some extent. Among the important members of the Kuomintang who achieved Lin Biao, the most important one was the four of them. These four people are all super big names with great ability!
The first one is Chiang Kai-shek . That's right, it is him, the ruler of the old China, who was called the principal by the Kuomintang Huangpu generals!
Chiang Kai-shek's greatest contribution to the liberation of the Northeast was that he himself did not know how to deal with the Northeast issue.
Originally, according to the Americans' idea, it was necessary to curb the Soviet Union's southward momentum in the Northeast, so the United States spent a lot of money to help the Kuomintang occupy nine northeastern provinces. But the Kuomintang troops in the Northeast were too unsatisfactory. When the Americans saw that this was a bottomless pit, they decided not to play! It is recommended that Chiang Kai-shek withdraw his troops from the Northeast and withdraw these hundreds of thousands of troops to the battlefield in North China in a complete and safe manner.
It should be said that the Americans are still relatively pragmatic, but Chiang Kai-shek did not agree to withdraw his troops. First, he could not afford to lose this person, and second, he felt that his students could defend the Northeast. After talking with the Americans for several months, Chiang Kai-shek finally determined the strategic direction of defending the Northeast. Is this decision-making speed a little slow?
In addition to slow decision-making and swaying attitude, Chiang Kai-shek also likes to interfere in the command of the frontline generals. He flew around all day long on his beloved "Meiling" plane. Today, Peking , tomorrow Shenyang, the day after tomorrow Huludao , either interfere with the command of Wei Lihuang , or let Du Yuming "blend sand", or teach Liao Yaoxiang face-to-face...
With such a supreme commander, how can the Northeast not lose it?
The second "meanor" who helped the Kuomintang lose the Northeast was Chen Cheng, the Kuomintang cadre Chiang Kai-shek was most optimistic about, and the future "vice president".
Chen Cheng's status is higher than Du Yuming before and Wei Lihuang and later. Du Yuming is a general of Huangpu and is not too old. He is a lieutenant general of the army. As the commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression Chief", Wei Lihuang has a higher status than Du Yuming. Moreover, he is a "second-level general" who carries three stars on his shoulders. Chen Cheng is different. He is carrying four stars on his shoulders, and he is a "first-level general". Friends who are familiar with Chinese history know that "first-level generals" are more precious than giant pandas in the Kuomintang's military system.
Chen Cheng’s two most important positions in the War of Liberation, one is the Chief of Staff and the other is the Supreme Commander of the Northeast War Zone.
It should be said that Chen Cheng is a rare talent within the Kuomintang. He is decisive and honest. He is also a powerful character. He is not the role of "soft-legged crab" in TV series at all. It is said that once he visited a place and saw someone eating and drinking, he couldn't help but get furious, and actually scared the man to his eyes blind. Chen Cheng's power can be seen.
As soon as Chen Cheng arrived in the Northeast, he listed Xiong Shihui and Du Yuming as negative teachers, and he should start with integrity. There is nothing wrong with Chen Cheng in grasping integrity, but we have to distinguish between the times and the methods. In the war, we use such a ruthless method, it would be strange if the Northeast is not in chaos.Moreover, more importantly, Chen Cheng's political talent is top-notch, but he can only be considered second-rate in military affairs. Du Yuming was able to deal with Lin Biao when he was there. Once Chen Cheng arrived, the collapse of the Northeast would accelerate.
Chen Cheng claimed to have wiped out the Northeast Communist Army for six months, but after only a few months, he could not hold on. He retreated in military affairs and betrayed his relatives and divorced in politics. Finally, he had to flee from the Northeast in shame. It can be said that if we want to say that the first person responsible for losing the Northeast is neither Chiang Kai-shek nor Wei Lihuang, nor Du Yuming, but Chen Cheng.
Northeast Army Elder Ma Zhanshan was extremely angry at Chen Cheng's mess of Northeast China. He angrily scolded Chen Cheng in the Peking Opera Great face tone: "You can't come and go!"
The third one is Wei Lihuang, this famous anti-Japanese general known as the "Five Tiger Generals", actually wants to join the Communist Party .
The highest commander of the Northeast Wei Lihuang also disagreed with withdrawing troops, but Chiang Kai-shek's way of defending the Northeast was to concentrate heavy troops on Jinzhou , stole the gateway to the Northeast, and attacking and retreating. We should have a correct evaluation of Chiang Kai-shek. Although he is a very bad tactician, he is not strategically useless.
What Mao Zedong was most worried about was that Chiang Kai-shek's plan to withdraw from Jinzhou came true. In that case, not only did the Northeast National Army take the strategic initiative and separate the troops of Lin Biao in Northeast China and Nie Rongzhen in North China, but more importantly, only hundreds of thousands of troops restrained Lin Biao's million-strong army, which Mao Zedong did not want to see anyway.
Fortunately, Chiang Kai-shek had Wei Lihuang. Wei Lihuang, known as the "Five Tiger General", has brilliant achievements, especially when he was the commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, he won the reputation of a famous anti-Japanese general. Wei Lihuang has a very strong personality. He is not Chiang Kai-shek's direct descendant and has never worked smoothly with Chiang Kai-shek, and has always been a knot.
Wei Lihuang disagreed with Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal from Shenyang to Jinzhou, because there were three big rivers blocking the road from Shenyang to Jinzhou. Lin Biao's army that could conquer and fight was definitely waiting for him in the vast wilderness in the northeast. Wei Lihuang had a good understanding of Lin Biao: This good friend who made in Yan'an was the first-class in the field, but the battle was not good, so as long as I hurried in Shenyang City, you can't do anything to me!
Wei Lihuang's "head-reducing turtle" tactic has some truth. Lin Biao suffered a lot in Siping, and later siege the city in Changchun for half a year. It seems that Lin Biao's battle against the toughest is indeed not as good as Xu Xiangqian - this view is also correct. Lin Biao's phobia in the battle against the toughestest was completely cured in Jinzhou.
has been holding on to the ground and waiting for the overall environment to change, and then strive to win back the strategic initiative with one blow. There are many such examples in history. But Wei Lihuang is different. Most of the entire Northeast region has been controlled by Lin Biao. The Kuomintang military system is about to collapse completely. What is the point of your persistence? If I listened to Chiang Kai-shek's words and retreated the troops to Jinzhou and took the initiative, I might still lose in the end, but I would definitely not lose so ugly!
The last person responsible for the loss of the Northeast was Liao Yaoxiang. Of course, he was responsible for the specific responsibility: Liao Yaoxiang was fully responsible for the destruction of more than 100,000 troops in the battle of the Liaoxi Battle.
Liao Yaoxiang was once the only clear-minded general among the Northeast generals. After Jinzhou was lost, Chiang Kai-shek asked him to retake Jinzhou, and Wei Lihuang asked him to stay in Shenyang. In the end, Du Yuming's plan was more reasonable: to fight Jinzhou first, it would be better to fight. If you can't fight, you will run away from Yingkou , at least in this way, the elite army of these five armies can be safely removed from the sea.
Liao Yaoxiang’s five armies are extraordinary and are the essence of the entire Northeast Army.Among the five major ace forces of the Kuomintang, three were placed in the East China battlefield, among which Zhang Lingfu 's reorganized 74th Division was early eliminated by Chen Yi and Su Yu's East China Field Army ; the other two were placed in the Northeast battlefield, and these two ace main forces, New 1st Army and New 6th Army, were under Liao Yaoxiang's hands - one person was in charge of two ace troops, which was the only one of the Kuomintang troops. 18th Army is under the control of Huang Wei, commander of the 12th Corps, and commander of the 5th Army Qiu Qingquan . Other generals do not even have the qualifications to manage the ace troops!
Such a powerful team was taken out of Shenyang City by Liao Yaoxiang to save Jinzhou. However, Liao Yaoxiang was foolish. Instead of heading straight to Jinzhou in the southwest of Shenyang, he occupied Zhangwu . Zhangwu was in the northwest of Shenyang. Obviously, Liao Yaoxiang knew that there was a lot of luck and he didn't want to die.
If Liao Yaoxiang was going to Yingkou at this time, Lin Biao's army would not have time to stop him. But he wandered around the Zhangwu area for five days, thinking that he had cut off the logistics artery of the Northeast Field Army and was proud. When he remembered that he went south to Yingkou, he was entangled by Liang Xingchu's tenth column on the line between Heishan and Dahu Mountain, unable to move at a single step. When Lin Biao's army arrived, the only thing that welcomed the fate of Liao Yaoxiang's 9th Corps was the end of destruction.
Liao Yaoxiang made too many mistakes in the details of military command, and each mistake made him sink deeper into the mud pit. First, he wandered around the Zhangwu area, wasting five days in vain. Then when he went south to Yingkou, he was unable to break through the defense line of Liang Xingchu's 10th Column. When he had hoped to retreat to Yingkou, he was frightened by a small independent division that had just seized howitzers and dared not move forward. What's even more bizarre is that his corps headquarters was almost penetrated by a arrow in the Hu family shack. When Liao Yaoxiang issued the retreat order, he actually used Ming language - at the other end of the radio, Lin Biao heard it clearly!
Liao Yaoxiang, this famous anti-Japanese general who has experienced the baptism of the War of Resistance Against Japan, performed too inaccurately on the battlefield in the Northeast!
OK, the above is all about today. We can imagine that if Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng, Wei Lihuang and Liao Yaoxiang did not make these low-level mistakes, would the situation in the Northeast become more complicated? Will the entire liberation of the Northeast continue for a long time?
Of course, these are all assumptions, history has no assumptions. After all, it was not Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng, Wei Lihuang, Liao Yaoxiang and others who created history, but the people!
