Chapter 383 9. Yu Hanmou led the remnants to flee to Hainan

The news that the People's Liberation Army was approaching Guangzhou spread like wind throughout Yangcheng, the KMT's dignitaries fled, and Chennault's airline business was booming. On October 11, Li Zongren convened an emergency meeting to discuss "moving the capital". This was the second time that the National Standing Committee moved the capital within half a year.Attending the meeting were Premier Yan Xishan, Chief of Staff Gu Zhutong, Yu Hanmou and Xue Yue from Guangdong and Guangxi. "The current situation is serious, and the fall of Guangzhou is imminent. We need to speed up the implementation of the divisional office plan. The presidential palace and the Executive Yuan will temporarily move to Chongqing, and the corps of the central government agencies will cover the evacuation of government agencies. The evacuation of government agencies will be completed within two days. He and Dean Yan insisted on leaving Guangzhou on the 20th." Moved to Hainan Island.Li Zongren said to Yu Hanmou: Please command Liu Anqi. Chiang Kai-shek was surprised to move the capital again, and flew to Guangzhou on the 12th to dismantle Li Zongren's station.He asked Yan Xishan not to go to Chongqing, but to fly to Taiwan.Yan Xishan obeyed and went to Taiwan as expected.Li Zongren became a polished commander again. The next day, he ignored his promise to "pacify people's hearts" and left Guangzhou a week early.At Guilin Airport, Bai Chongxi advised him not to be the "acting president" anymore, but to go abroad to treat stomach problems.

People from the Presidential Palace and the Executive Yuan all ran away and asked Yu Hanmou to lead his troops to cover him. On the evening of the 12th, Yu Hanmou held an emergency military meeting in his mansion, and was discussing pulling troops to Hainan Island, when Gu Zhutong, chief of staff, happened to come. Yu Hanmou said with a bitter face: "The commander-in-chief came just in time. We are so worried that we have no choice. How can we use the broken and incomplete troops to resist the tiger and wolf army? I don't think Guangzhou can keep it." Gu Zhutong grinned and said, "There's no need to guard it! Before boarding the plane, the president ordered all the Guangzhou troops to withdraw to Hainan Island. You should act quickly!"

Hearing this, Yu Hanmou felt as if he had received an amnesty, so he immediately spread out the map and planned to flee. "Take away as much military supplies as you can, destroy everything you can't take away, and don't leave a single bullet to the communist army!" Gu Zhutong took out a document from his briefcase, threw it on the map, and said: "The president ordered that Baiyun and Tianhe airports, military warehouses in Shijing, Shipai, Huangpu and other places must be blown up, as well as major roads and railway bridges in the city. Important factories and institutions of higher learning must be destroyed if they cannot be transported away. !"

Beginning in the early hours of the 13th, according to Zhu Tong's instructions, Yu Hanmou directed the Guangzhou defenders to retreat to the Xijiang area, leaving only a small number of troops in the city as cover, and carried out explosions, set fires, and destroyed bridges, warehouses, airports and other equipment. On the 14th, the Kuomintang military engineers blew up the Haizhu Bridge on the Pearl River with more than 400 boxes of yellow explosives, resulting in the appalling "Haizhu Bridge Murder". According to eyewitnesses afterwards, "When the bandit army blew up the bridge, there were countless pedestrians and vehicles on the bridge. But after a loud noise, everything on the bridge disappeared immediately, and the countless boats and boats under the bridge also disappeared. Turned into fragmented boards, spinning in the air or going down the water, the pedestrians around were blown to pieces, some were blown off half of their heads and thrown into the middle of the street, some had their stomachs overflowing and bumped and floated on the water surface. The river became a mess in the smoke. The sea of ​​blood, the electric wires and poles are also covered with shredded meat and women's long hair, some were injured and thrown into the middle of the river, and some were hung on the broken bridge... moaning and crying, it was horrific." (Mu Xin: " Southern Line Tour", Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Publishing, November 1953 edition, pages 119-120, 126, 133-134) This is a blood debt owed by the Kuomintang reactionaries to the people of Guangzhou!