Chapter 294 12. Chiang Kai-shek wants to save Huang Wei but has no soldiers to adjust

On November 22, Huang Botao's corps was wiped out. On November 23, Chiang Kai-shek asked Liu Zhi and Du Yuming to attend a meeting in Nanjing. Around 10 o'clock, Liu Zhi and Du Yuming arrived at the meeting room of Chiang Kai-shek's official residence. At the beginning of the meeting, Guo Rugui reported the battle plan first. He said: "Our army aims to open up the Xubeng section of Jinpu Road. Xuzhou will attack Fuliji with the main force. The 6th Corps and the 12th Corps will attack Su County. The north-south attack defeated the communist army in one fell swoop, in order to open up the traffic between Xu and Bang."

Chiang Kai-shek adopted this plan and said to Du Yuming: "You go back and deploy the attack immediately." Du Yuming said: "I agree with this decision, but the number of troops is insufficient, and we must add 5 more armies, otherwise if they fail to get through, the Huang Corps will go back to attack." There is a possibility of falling into a heavy siege (in fact, the Huangwei Corps was besieged on November 25, and the Jiang army has not yet known about it)." Du Yuming also suggested that the 4th Army near Qingjiangpu, the 88th Army and the 52nd Army near Nanjing should be transferred. The troops quickly concentrated in Bengbu to participate in the battle, and then tried to transfer two armies.Chiang Kai-shek said: "Five armies will not work. I will try to adjust two or three armies. You go back and deploy the attack first."

In this regard, Du Yuming recalled: I thought that there was still a glimmer of "hope" for Chiang Kai-shek's decision.In the afternoon of the same day, he returned to Xuzhou with Liu Zhifei, preparing for a dying struggle.When the plane passed over the 12th Corps, I spoke to Huang Wei. Huang said: "The enemy is very tenacious in front of you. You should find a way. This is not the way to fight." I said: "Today, the old man has decided on a big plan and will give you an order immediately. , please follow the order and implement it." However, until the evening of the 28th, Chiang Kai-shek did not deploy troops for reinforcements according to his original decision.The Huangwei Corps was besieged, and the encirclement became tighter and tighter.

On the morning of the 28th, Du Yuming went to Nanjing for another meeting.At Chiang Kai-shek's official residence on Huangpu Road, Gu Zhutong, who arrived first, called Du Yuming into a small living room to discuss how to save the crisis of the Kuomintang army. Du Yuming first asked Gu Zhutong: "It was originally decided to increase a few more armies, why didn't even one increase? Now, it has become a situation where riding a tiger is difficult." Gu Zhutong said: "You don't understand, you are restrained everywhere, and you can't adjust it!" Du Yuming said: "Since we knew we couldn't mobilize our troops for a decisive battle, we shouldn't have decided to fight. As a result, Huang Wei's corps was surrounded and could not be rescued. The only way to save Huang Wei is to concentrate all available troops to fight the enemy. Otherwise, Huang Wei will be finished, Xuzhou will not be safe, and Nanjing will be in danger!"

Gu Zhutong said dejectedly: "The old man is also in trouble. He has tried everything, and he can't even mobilize an army. Now he has decided to abandon Xuzhou and fight again when he comes out. Do you think he can withdraw safely?" Du Yuming felt that Chiang Kai-shek was playing the same old tricks again, and if his determination changed again, Huang Wei's death would be over, and all the corps in Xuzhou would also be wiped out.However, it was impossible to increase the strength of the troops, and it was impossible to continue the fight, and they lost confidence in defending Xuzhou.After pondering for a long time, Du Yuming said to Gu Zhutong: "Since there are such difficulties, it is not a big problem to withdraw from Xuzhou. But if you want to give up Xuzhou, you can't love war; if you want to fight, you can't give up Xuzhou; if you want to 'give up Xuzhou, come out. Fighting again is tantamount to sending off the three corps of Xuzhou immediately. We can only let Huang Wei guard and contain the enemy, withdraw the troops from Xuzhou, pass Yongcheng to the area between Mengcheng, Guoyang, and Fuyang, relying on the Huaihe River, Then attack the enemy to break the siege of the Huang Corps (actually, in case of being unable to move near the Huaihe River, we have to sacrifice the Huang Corps and rescue the troops in Xuzhou)."

Gu Zhutong agreed to this plan.After Chiang Kai-shek learned of this plan, he immediately agreed, and hastily withdrew the order to Huang Wei to break through.