In June 1946, the Kuomintang, which believed that "the advantage lies in me", provoked a full-scale civil war. Especially after the Kuomintang army in North China captured Zhangjiakou , it was generally believed that "the problem can be solved in six months."
We all know the results. The Kuomintang army, which had experienced comprehensive offenses, key offenses to comprehensive defenses, key defenses, and local defenses, retreated step by step. Not only did it fail to "solve the problem", but it was solved as a problem three years later.
There are many reasons for the failure of the Kuomintang army, and it is inevitable, so I won’t go into details too much.
only discusses one thing here: after the civil war broke out, several senior generals who were more capable of fighting within the Kuomintang stayed away from the core battlefield for a long time, which may have accelerated their failure, otherwise they would be very likely to survive for more time.
Who are the so-called senior Kuomintang generals who are more capable of fighting? What are the reasons why they have stayed away from the core battlefield for a long time? Let’s discuss it briefly. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Song Xilian, who had just finished his studies in the official class of the Army University, was sent to Dihua (Urumqi) to serve as the director of the Ninth Branch of the Central Military Academy, and then took office as the Chief of Staff of the Northwest Headquarters, and in fact he was far away from the military front.
Song Xilian and others were in Kunming
Until August 1948, the Kuomintang army was already in a serious downturn overall, and Song Xilian was only activated as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Central China "Suppression Headquarters". One of the important considerations was that Jiang's family wanted to use him to restrain the military power of Central China, which was not a pure military consideration in the true sense.
At this time, it was less than three months since the three decisive battles between the two sides, especially the Huaihai Battle . Song Xilian, who had shown considerable command ability in the War of Resistance Against Japan, had no effect.
Song Xilian's distance from the battlefield may be related to these two points: First, Chen Cheng's faction overwhelms He Yingqin's faction has the upper hand, and Song Xilian, a core member of the He clan, was suppressed; Second, Director Zhang of the Northwest Headquarters is Song Xilian's mentor and old commander, and needs Song Xilian, a high-level player, to come and help.
In addition to Song Xilian, who has been away from the core battlefield for a long time, his experience of Huangpu classmate Guan Linzheng is hard to describe: he failed to master the military talisman during the entire War of Liberation, and sat on the bench for four years.
Guan Linzheng served as the education director and principal of the Central Military Academy headquarters (Chengdu) for a long time during the War of Liberation. At the end of the war, he served as the commander-in-chief of the Army with no power, but failed to try his skills on the battlefield.
As the second senior general in Huangpu Group to be promoted to commander-in-chief of the group army, Guan Linzheng has performed outstandingly in the division commander, army commander, corps commander, and commander-in-chief of the group army. His command level may rank in the upper reaches of the entire Huangpu Group, so there should be no doubt about this.
Guan Linzheng
However, because he was standing opposite to Chen Cheng's faction and had many direct and head-on conflicts with him, it is conceivable that he was deprived of military power.
, coupled with a hot temper and not very familiar with dealing with complex interpersonal relationships, it is difficult for Guan Linzheng to be at ease in the Kuomintang army that pays more attention to human nature, which has led to his repeated hiding.
If Song Xilian and Guan Linzheng are both far away from the military front line for a long time, the situation of Wang Yaowu is slightly different from theirs: although he is also on the military front line, he is obviously not placed in a more suitable position.
Practice in the Anti-Japanese War has proved that although the mind and figure are extremely "flexible" and are good at dancing with long sleeves, the position that is truly more suitable for Wang Yaowu is the commander of the field force.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Yaowu was assigned to serve as commander of the Second Appeasement Zone and chairman of Shandong Province, and was more responsible for the "appeasement" tasks and administrative responsibilities in Shandong.
Many Kuomintang generals recalled afterwards that Wang Yaowu had to deal with too many things in Shandong and gradually became a "politician". His military energy was too limited and his military performance was mediocre.
Just imagine, if Wang Yaowu, as the commander of the field corps, still commanded his used old troops such as the 74th Army, 73rd Army, and 100th Army, it might really cause us a lot of trouble.
In his later years, Wang Yaowu
It is said that Wang Yaowu's transfer was two major reasons: one was that someone suggested to Jiang that he should be careful that Wang Yaowu "has big a tail", and the other was that Wang Yaowu's personal talents prompted Jiang to give him more tasks beyond military command.
In addition to Song Xilian, Guan Linzheng and Wang Yaowu, I personally believe that senior Kuomintang generals such as Xue Yue , Tang Enbo , Luo Zhuoying , Huang Wei and other not properly used by Jiang.
Jiang's patience with Xue and Tang was not enough, so that their tenures were too short for the director of the Xuzhou " Sui Shu " and the commander of the First Corps respectively, and the others who replaced them may be far inferior to them.
Luo Zhuoying was renamed as chairman of Guangdong Province, and Huang Wei turned to military education, and later hurriedly returned as commander of the Corps. In fact, they should be more suitable to stay on the front line of the military for a long time.
Of course, even if the senior Kuomintang generals mentioned above are placed on the core battlefield, they are doomed to be unable to change the end of the Kuomintang's defeat, but they can bring us more trouble or a high probability event.
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