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From the first phase of Huangpu, most people have become famous generals, and Huang Wei is also one of them.
On the battlefield of resistance against Japan, Huang Wei was a heroic anti-Japanese hero who courageously marched forward, and on the battlefield, Huang Wei was a loyal subordinate of Chiang Kai-shek. His loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek was also well known within the Kuomintang.
Therefore, in the Huaihai Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek asked Huang Wei, who had not led his troops to fight for several years, to bring 100,000 troops with him as soon as he entered the battlefield.
However, what people never expected was that in just three months, the 12th Corps led by Huang Wei was completely wiped out.
1. Enter Whampoa
Huang Wei was notoriously loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, but unlike the eagle dog general Song Xilian and Chiang Kai-shek's saber Dai Li, Huang Wei was not very good, so he only won the title of "nerd".
The reason why there is such a title is because Huang Wei once graduated from the normal school and became a teacher, and second, because Huang Wei adheres to his principles and will not "open the net" for anyone except Chiang Kai-shek.
(Huang Wei)
In fact, before becoming a loyal subordinate of the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek, if it were not for an accident, Huang Wei might have chosen another path.
Huang Wei said that the good thing is loyalty, and he doesn't like to form a party for personal gain, and if he says it's ugly, he is stunned and rushes forward, and he has the sour and rotten spirit of a scholar.
He graduated from Goose Lake Normal with excellent academic performance and returned to his hometown to work as a primary school teacher. In the end, because of his disagreement with the local squire, he could not continue to teach, so he could only leave his hometown and follow his friends to take the first phase of the Whampoa exam.
And this friend is Comrade Fang Zhimin of our party.
(Fang Zhimin)
The two were already familiar with each other when they were teachers, because Fang Zhimin was older than Huang Wei, and Huang Wei also called Fang Zhimin his brother.
When he couldn't teach, he also went to Shanghai to take the Whampoa Military Academy at Fang Zhimin's suggestion.
Due to the early arrival of the two, the Whampoa Military Academy has not officially started registration. This also caused Huang Wei's entanglement to run out quickly, and in this embarrassing situation, it was Fang Zhimin who introduced him to a job so that he could persevere.
Later, the two also passed the initial test together as promised, and they only needed to go to Guangzhou for the retest.
(Fang Zhimin)
But the day after receiving the notice of the duplex, Fang Zhimin left Shanghai in a hurry because the organization arranged other tasks.
The two have not seen each other since. And Huang Wei also entered the Whampoa Military Academy as he wished, and joined the Kuomintang like most of his classmates.
Many people who knew the relationship between Fang Zhimin and Huang Wei couldn't help but sigh when Huang Wei did not hesitate to carry out the task against the Chinese Communist Party.
If Fang Zhimin is here, Huang Wei may take another road, a road to stand with the people.
(Huang Wei)
It's a pity that life has no ifs.
Second, the total annihilation of double stacking
If you want to say that Huang Wei's loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek stems from his admiration, ideological resonance, and reuse in his career, it can be regarded as understandable.
However, in fact, Huang Wei's loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek was only because Chiang Kai-shek was his principal and boss. So many people think that he is very axial, and he doesn't know how to be flexible at all, even if it is inconsequential, he is not willing to be accommodating.
At the beginning, Du Yuming's troops became an expeditionary force to Burma, but they were defeated and retreated, and finally returned to China.
(Du Lianming)
Due to the heavy losses, Du Yuming felt that he had no face to see people. I hope that when Huang Wei inspects his troops, he will underreport some losses and save him a little face.
For this
But Huang Wei didn't give a good face from beginning to end, and he blocked whatever Du Yuming's subordinates said, and he didn't give face at all.
There are countless things like this. Huang Wei offended a lot of people because of this, and when he was fine, there would be no problem at all, and no one would protect him if something happened.
(Huang Wei)
In 1940, after being transferred to the commander of the 54th Army, Huang Wei was diligent and diligent after entering Yunnan, and first spent two months visiting various garrisons of the whole army.
Later, in the following year, the officers and men were encouraged to cultivate land for vegetable cultivation and raise livestock, and they were asked to help the local people build water conservancy and other actions for the benefit of the people. In the long run, the standard of living of the 54th Army will not only be higher, but its reputation will also be better.
But there are always people who can't get used to it, and Guan Linzheng, commander of the Ninth Army of the 54th Army, can't get used to it, so he accused Huang Wei of eating empty salaries. The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and for various reasons, Huang Wei was transferred away and returned to his hometown Jiangxi with his family.
Since then, Huang Wei has not been on the front line for several years, and has been transferred, doing this and that for a while, but there is no actual combat.
(Huang Wei was interviewed by reporters)
However, this does not mean that Huang Wei has no strength. Therefore, after the Huaihai Battle in 1948, Huang Wei still led 100,000 soldiers of the 12th Army Corps to participate in the campaign.
Although it was only three months before it was wiped out, the process was not easy. Our army is not as good as Huang Wei's troops in terms of strength and weaponry, and the 18th Army is one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang Army.
In this battle, Nakano suffered a quarter of the casualties, and General Su Yu did not sleep much for seven days.
(General Su Yu)
It is conceivable that Huang Wei is still very powerful.
3. Later life
After the defeat, Huang Wei was unsurprisingly captured and imprisoned in Gongdelin.
Huang Wei was very axial, among the captives, those who had held higher positions than him in the past, or lower than him, slowly learned about the policies of the Communist Party, and after the founding of New China, the people's lives became better and better, most of them began to accept and were willing to become a part of the new China.
Therefore, according to the progress of the reform, the daily performance, and the severity of the crime, batches of people were pardoned and left the Gongdelin, and since then, the sky has been high and the sea has been wide and the birds have been flying.
But there are always those who insist on their ideas and become the last to be released. Among them is Huang Wei, when he left Gongdelin, it was already 1975, and he was 71 years old that year.
Although it may seem incredible, Huang Wei is like this. After he was released from prison, the Kuomintang also offered to pay him back his salary for so many years, but Huang Wei did not accept it.
In his opinion, he is already a member of New China at this time, so what's the matter with asking for this salary again?
In the same way, he also very much hopes for national reunification, and in his later years, Huang Wei has been making his own efforts for cross-strait relations.
Resources:
Liu Zhiqing.The Fall of the Kuomintang Army's Ace Huang Wei Corps[J].Party History Bocai (I),2023,(12):49-53+66.
Huang Wei:Joys and sorrows and rebirth[J].Together in the Boat,2015,(11):66-71.