Jiang Jun’s God of War Bai Chongxi once promised to command Huaihai Battle . With him, will the Huaihai battlefield change?
For our army commanders and fighters, Bai Chongxi is probably an opponent that no one wants to meet.
The great losses and great influence brought to our army by the Guangxi clan are beyond the reach of any faction in the Chiang army.
Chen Cheng and Xue Yue once made our army very passive and suffered great losses, but that was limited to the early stages of the Central Soviet Area and Long March Road. Moreover, the supreme leader of the Red Army at that time was not Mao Zedong.
Fu Zuoyi also caused our army to suffer a great loss in North China, but that was only during the War of Liberation. As soon as Lin Biao's army entered the pass, Fu Zuoyi became honest.
As long as Bai Chongxi has been in dispersed for a long time, he has killed and injured our army from the Red Army era to the War of Liberation, and even suffered heavy casualties, which has made many senior generals hate him to the core.
During the Red Army, he wiped out almost half of the Central Red Army in the Battle of Xiangjiang in northern Guangxi, and Peng Dehuai remembered this for a lifetime; at the beginning of the War of Liberation, his Gui Army fought with less and more, causing Chen Yi to fail in the heavy rain in Sixian , causing it to fall into the trough of his military career; when Liu and Deng's army leaped into Dabie Mountains, the Guangxi faction again damaged the vitality of this powerful army in the heart of the Central Plains, and when they came out of the Dabie Mountains, the Guangxi faction was severely damaged. There were less than half of the people left; even when the People's Liberation Army swept across southern China, Bai Chongxi was still able to cause trouble for the powerful Fourth Field , and knocked Lin Biao heavily on Qingshuping...
Therefore, it makes sense that Bai Chongxi was called the God of War of Chiang's army. Moreover, he not only fought our army fiercely, but also did not ruthlessly fight the Japanese army. Back then, he commanded a group of direct descendants such as Du Yuming and Zheng Dongguo to fight the Japanese invaders at Kunlun Pass and won a great victory. This is also a reputation for leaving forever.
It can be said that within the Jiang army, there are also many generals who can fight. In addition to Fu Zuoyi and Xue Yue mentioned just now, there are also veteran Wei Lihuang . The Mesozoic generations are Du Yuming, Wang Yaowu, Sun Liren, Chen Mingren, Liao Yaoxiang , Hu Lian , Huang Wei , Qiu Qingquan , Li Mi , Sun Yuanliang , Zhang Lingfu , and even the non-miscellaneous army Huang Baitao , all of which have very strong combat power.
But these people, including Fu Zuoyi, Xue Yue and Wei Lihuang, three "second-level generals" with three stars on their shoulders, cannot compare with Bai Chongxi's combat effectiveness. It is not only because Bai Chongxi's superb military attainments, but also because they have their own basic foundation in the army. The Guangxi army has caused a headache for Chiang Kai-shek for a lifetime, and Bai Chongxi's eldest brother Li Zongren is also a powerful general who can fight, and later became the "Vice President".
In the three major battles , the commander of Liaoshen battle is General Wei Lihuang, the commander of Pingjin battle is General Fu Zuoyi, and the commander of the Huaihai battle is General Liu Zhi . These three people, whether in terms of combat effectiveness, level or military background, cannot compare with Bai Chongxi, especially Liu Zhi, who is known as the "Five Tiger General", basically exists as a "pig" teammate in the Huaihai battle.
Many people asked, what would happen if Bai Chongxi was replaced by commander and commanded the Huaihai Battle of Chiang Kai-shek?
Although this is a hypothesis, it is a very interesting hypothesis. Although there is no if in history, it is also meaningful to imagine it. Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek really wanted Bai Chongxi to come forward to unify the command of the two major "suppression chiefs" in Central China and Xuzhou . In this way, he would be the supreme commander of the Huaihai Battle.
But in the end, Bai Chongxi released Chiang Kai-shek's dove, first agreed, and then suddenly changed his mind, making Chiang Kai-shek happy.
Chiang Kai-shek felt that Bai Chongxi was like a joke on military and national affairs. Is this the truth?
Of course, this is not the case. Such a major thing, for Bai Chongxi, a veteran military strategist and known as " Little Zhuge ", he naturally knew the importance of this incident to the national war situation. The Chiang army in the two places combined has nearly one million. For him, it is both an honor and an opportunity. If you make a good move, you can leave your name in history and add chips to the Guangxi clique. Isn't this a good thing!
The reason why Bai Chongxi changed his mind was after he took a trip to Nanjing.
The relationship between Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek has been guarding against each other and using each other for many years, but has to rely on each other. Chiang Kai-shek knew that Bai Chongxi's military capabilities were far beyond his direct lineage, and it was a last resort to let him control nearly one million troops to command the battle of Xubeng (i.e. the Battle of Huaihai).
Bai Chongxi was also full of confidence at first, but after he went to Nanjing from Wuhan, he immediately said: I can't do it, whoever loves to do it.
Bai Chongxi's change of mind made Chiang Kai-shek extremely angry, thinking that Bai Chongxi was playing a big shot, going back on his word, wanting to look good by himself.
So, why did Bai Chongxi change his mind?
The reason is very simple. After arriving in Nanjing, Bai Chongxi seriously considered the situation of the Xu-Beng Battle. He sadly discovered that even if he, the god of war in Chiang army, could not win!
Bai Chongxi's judgment on the situation comes from four aspects: his understanding of Mr. Jiang, his insight into the Xu-Beng battlefield, his grasp of the national situation, and his longing for the prospects of the Guangxi clique.
Bai Chongxi knew Chiang Kai-shek very well and knew that his greatest ability was super command, which was what Bai Chongxi couldn't stand the most.
Chiang Kai-shek thought he was self-righteous and thought that he was the best in the world, so he thought he could do anything and often crossed the highest commander on the battlefield to super command the front line to fight.
This is a huge difference from Mao Zedong. For Mao Zedong, the most important thing is to reach consistency with the generals ahead and never impose their own will on others. Even with the Liaoshen Battle against Jinzhou , he had been discussing and discussing with Lin Biao for a full half of a year until Lin Biao psychologically accepted the strategy of "closing the door and beating the dog".
Chiang Kai-shek is different. He likes to get into the end. This is not because he doesn't trust the highest commander on the front line, it is his personality. Therefore, the front-line commander is often made by him and doesn’t know what to do. Should he listen to the president or the commander-in-chief?
During the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek flew around and commanded vertically on a special plane of the "Meiling". He seemed very busy, but he was actually helping him. Today, he would drop a secret order tomorrow. Whether it was Wei Lihuang or Du Yuming, he would be annoyed by him, as long as Liu Zhi was not annoyed, because Liu Zhi himself had no idea.
Du Yuming even tried to destroy radio communication to cut off contact with Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Kai-shek was even more awesome and simply used air pitching hand to direct vertically, which made Du Yuming want to die.
The arrogant and conceited Bai Chongxi will never accept Chiang Kai-shek's command. If this happens, who will be considered? Of course, the responsibility will not be borne by the president, but will Bai Chongxi bear it? Bai Chongxi sneered: Grandma!
Bai Chongxi inspected the Xubeng battlefield and found that the battlefield was almost all of Chiang Kai-shek Huangpu generals, and he could not command these people.
Bai Chongxi knows the military strength of the five major war zones in the country, including Northwest Hu Zongnan , Northeast Wei Lihuang, North China Fu Zuoyi, Xuzhou Liu Zhi, and then Bai Chongxi's central China. He knew very well that in terms of the number of troops and combat effectiveness, Xuzhou was the first and Northeast was the second.
Xuzhou is close to Nanjing, and after passing Yangtze River , it hits the heart of Chiang Kai-shek's army, so it is understandable to configure heavy troops in Xuzhou.
But Bai Chongxi discovered that almost all the elites in Xuzhou were Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu clan, such as Qiu Qingquan, Li Mi, Sun Yuanliang, and Huang Baitao, who was not a direct line, were all loyal to Chiang Kai-shek and would not obey Bai Chongxi's orders.For a battlefield commander, if you don’t obey orders, how can you win a battle? And this is exactly the characteristic of Chiang army!
Some people say that Bai Chongxi's ability to command the Jiang army's direct lineage is unique? In Guangxi, he commanded Chiang Kai-shek's direct descendants Du Yuming and Zheng Dongguo and others to fight for the Japanese invaders during the victory in Kunlun Pass. Didn't those people obey him 100%? Otherwise, how could the Japanese invaders run away with their heads? The great losses of the direct descendants at that time made Jiang cry with pain!
Times have passed, and the times have changed. In the Kunlun Pass, there was a great victory in the fight against Japan. After all, Du Yuming and others were patriotic soldiers. In order to fight against the Japanese invaders, they could temporarily put aside the sect's dispute. Besides, Bai Chongxi was their superior, and obeying orders was his duty. But after many years, Bai Chongxi has become increasingly distant from Chiang Kai-shek. Without the righteousness of fighting against Japan, who would still listen to you, Bai Chongxi? After hearing what you said, your strength is damaged, how can you explain to the president?
Bai Chongxi thought about it before and after that, he couldn't play in Xu Beng's battlefield, so he should not show off.
Bai Chongxi was clear about the national war situation. He understood that the situation in the Chiang army was hopeless and no one could come.
Although Bai Chongxi is generally recognized as being incompetent in politics, he is a good player in military affairs. He has his own judgment on the national war situation: the situation in Chiang Kai-shek is hopeless and he can't change anything.
delaying destruction is also destruction. What is the significance?
At the beginning of the Liberation War, Chiang's army won one after another. Bai Chongxi also believed that the People's Liberation Army would not last for a few days, but later he found something was wrong. Although the liberated area was occupied by Chiang's army on a large scale, Mao Zedong did not care much about the gains and losses of a city and a place. He valued more about the vitality.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan , he admired Mao Zedong's spirit of " on protracted war ", and believed that the most essential idea of "accumulating small victories into big victories, and exchanges time for space " can be said to be exquisite. Therefore, when he judged that there was a huge trap behind the layer-by-layer advancement of Chiang’s army, Bai Chongxi privately told Li Zongren that Mr. Jiang is finished.
Liu Deng's army leaped into the Dabie Mountains thousands of miles away. On the surface, it seemed that the losses were huge. Li Bai's general Li Pinxian 's victory in the Central Plains seemed very inspiring, but Bai Chongxi knew in his heart that the People's Liberation Army had begun to counterattack. The arrival of the "revolutionary climax" Mao Zedong said was not understood by ordinary people, including Chiang Kai-shek, but Bai Chongxi understood that this was true.
Hundreds of thousands of elite troops in the northeast cannot be concealed under the leadership of Wei Lihuang. Northeast Field Army has completely controlled the situation in the northeast. Whether Jinzhou is lost or not is lost is a matter of time. Whether the Northeast is lost is also a destined situation. Bai Chongxi could fully see that if the Northeast is lost, it will be Fu Zuoyi, the next one, will be lost in North China. Northeast and North China are lost. Can Xu Beng defend it?
Since this is the case, what can I do even if I come out? The best result is to block the People's Liberation Army. Is it meaningful?
Finally, it is not necessarily a bad thing to make Mr. Jiang lose faster. Americans support Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren. The era of belonging to the Guangxi clan has come!
The open and secret struggle between Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek almost began when they first met. During this period, they also stumbling over Chiang Kai-shek several times. Chiang Kai-shek also used to send electricity to the wild, but none of them really beat Chiang to death. However, such a good opportunity as today has never come.
Chiang's army was defeated on the battlefield. The Americans who actively supported Chiang Kai-shek since 1945 were finally impatient. The dollar for many years was poured in, but they either were given to the People's Liberation Army by the transport brigade leader Chiang Kai-shek or were taken into their pockets by corrupt officials. The United States intends to replace people, but they have a fancy to the new power Li Zongren and the "Vice President" Li Zongren.
Whether it is Li Zongren or Bai Chongxi, they all began to secretly send misfortunes with the United States. Bai Chongxi believed that it was in line with the interests of the Guangxi clan to make the storm come more violently, and he even began to blatantly win over Chiang Kai-shek's direct descendants 1 Song Xilian and others.
In this situation, he refused to use a gun for Chiang Kai-shek and wanted the Chiang army to lose the battle between Xu and Beng, which was also in line with Bai Chongxi's psychology at that time.For many years, Chiang Kai-shek has been unwilling to give the Guangxi clique greater power. Li Zongren's "vice president" was a decoration and had no real power. Bai Chongxi himself once served as the Minister of National Defense, but he also had no power. The current "Suppression Headquarters" in the Central China has only more than 200,000 troops, only one-third of the "Suppression Headquarters" of Xuzhou! Bai Chongxi couldn't swallow this. He wanted Chiang Kai-shek to look good.
This is one of the internal reasons for his change of mind. Of course, he knew very well that no matter how he made a fuss, he and Chiang Kai-shek were grasshoppers on the same rope, ruining hundreds of thousands of people on the Xu-beng battlefield. This violated Bai Chongxi's inner moral standards and was not entirely what Li Zongren hoped. After all, the more miserable Chiang Kai-shek defeated, the worse the stall left for the Guizhou clique would be.
This is the contradiction between Bai Chongxi.
If Bai Chongxi came to Xuzhou to command, will the Huaihai Battle change?
Assume that if Bai Chongxi really came to Xuzhou and unified command of the millions of troops in central China and Xuzhou, could he stop the pace of the People's Liberation Army?
The answer is no!
If possible, Bai Chongxi would not have to change his mind. It was precisely because of various unfavorable factors that Bai Chongxi thought about it and finally decided not to stand up for Chiang Kai-shek, because he knew very well that even if Sun Wu and Zhuge Liang rebirth, he probably could not stop Liu Deng and Chen Suyu's army.
But if Bai Chongxi came to Xuzhou, there would still be some changes in the local details.
First of all, Bai Chongxi's military level is much higher than Liu Zhi.
Liu Zhi is almost a joke in Xuzhou. In the two-month battle, he only stayed in Xuzhou for more than 10 days and fled early; and Liu Zhi's greed for money was actually greedy on the battlefield. When he retreated from Xuzhou, he revealed the news to merchants who had interests. As a result, when the merchants fled in Xuzhou, he was in chaos, many generals of the corps did not know about this. At the critical moment, Liu Zhi watched his troops one by one by one by the People's Liberation Army, and he did nothing and could do nothing...
Bai Chongxi if he was the supreme commander of Xuzhou, his wisdom, his decisiveness, his on-the-spot command and his cunning would be far better than Liu Zhi, which would definitely bring great trouble to our army.
In addition, if he comes to East China, then the elite troops in central China will definitely be invested in the Huaihai battlefield, especially if the 7th Steel Army joins the battle group, it will definitely bring great trouble to our army.
There is also, more importantly, if Bai Chongxi came to Xuzhou, he might give the United States a shot of heart-warming agent, and perhaps he could get more US aid to massacre the people...
But these are all hypotheses, and history has no assumptions... The historical fact is that Bai Chongxi did not come to Xuzhou, and the Huaihai Battle completely crippled the Chiang army. After the Huaihai Battle, Chiang Kai-shek had almost no power to fight back!
