Chapter 291 9. Huang Botao enjoys "glory" after his death

Yang Tingyan, who escaped back to Xuzhou by chance, reported Huang Botao's suicide to Du Yuming. He said: "At that time, Huang Botao, Chen Shizhang, Liu Zhenxiang and others were not investigated. After I buried Huang, I took advantage of the loophole and ran out." Seeing the critical situation, he decided to take some people with him Break out to the west.After breaking through the encirclement, Huang walked to a hut, only the two of us were left. Seeing that the communist army was surrounded on all sides, we couldn't go any further, so we committed suicide with a gun.I was crying after Huang's death. The Communist Army came to question me. I said, "I am the stoker, and the one who died was the head stoker, my elder brother." Chiang Kai-shek of the Communist Army was very sad about Huang Botao's death, and instructed Xuzhou's "General Suppression" to send his body back, and held a grand funeral for him in Nanjing, posthumously awarded Huang Botao as an army general, and comforted his wife and children 100,000 gold dollar coupons.It is said that at Huang Botao's funeral, Chiang Kai-shek once said with emotion: "The spirit of Huangpu is immortal." Many people were puzzled after hearing this, because Huang Botao was not a general from the Huangpu Military Academy.

Bai Chongxi explained privately in a mocking tone: "The Whampoa spirit is immortal, and the Whampoa spirit-immortality-also. In other words, Whampoa students are not willing to die for Lao Jiang, but those who die for Lao Jiang are not people from Huangpu." Bai Chongxi's This passage revealed the secret of why Chiang Kai-shek wanted Huang Botao to enjoy such "glory" after his death. Regarding Huang Botao's death and the annihilation of the 7th Corps, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 16th Corps, made this evaluation: "It was the Ministry of National Defense that wiped out Huang Botao's Corps, not Chen Yi, and the same is true of Huang Botao's death. The Ministry of National Defense can't figure out the enemy's situation and the enemy's intentions. It's a pity to ask the troops to die in vain. Chen Yi's main force of more than a dozen columns went south. When they were 100 miles away from Xin'an Town, they didn't let the corps go west to gather in Xuzhou, but Huang Botao Covering the 44th Army, wasted the opportunity, and killed 5 armies in order to save 1 army, command like this, safe and undefeated!"