Guo Rugui, Guo Rugui, all the failures back then were because of your presence!
In 1981, Du Yuming, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Xuzhou Suppression, was lying on the hospital bed, holding the hand of Guo Rugui, the former director of the War Department of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, and asked him: "Guo Xiaogui, you have always been a mystery in my heart, are you the Communist Party?"”
This problem has always bothered Du Yuming, making him unpleasant to eat and unable to sit at the table. Although Du Yuming's performance in the battle that decided the fate of China was remarkable, he could not accept the fact that he was defeated by Su Yu, the "god of war".
For more than 30 years, this question has haunted his mind and remains an unsolvable mystery in his mind.
He firmly believes that his failure is not because of poor technology, but because the military ** has found a mole, and the biggest suspect is Guo Rugui in front of him.
For 30 years, he has been suspicious of Guo Rugui's identity, but has never found conclusive evidence.
So, on his deathbed, he decided to solve this mystery. When he asked the question "Are you a Communist Party?", Guo Rugui thought for a while, and then told Du Yuming the answer.
Hearing the answer, Du Yuming sighed deeply, and his doubts for many years immediately disappeared. So, what did Guo Rugui do to make him a confidant of Chiang Kai-shek, but also made Du Yuming suspect that he was an undercover agent of the Communist Party, and this doubt lasted for 33 years?
In February 1947, when the Kuomintang army suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Laiwu, someone from Shandong fled back and told Du Yuming that there were traitors in the Ministry of National Defense and that Guo Ruhuai might be an undercover agent of the Communist Party. In fact, Guo Rugui is indeed a member of the Communist Party.
In 1929, Guo Ruhuai had secretly joined the Communist Party and served in Janssen's army. A year later, he lost contact with the organization due to a change in circumstances.
During the Anti-Japanese War, he went to Chongqing and found that the Kuomintang's political, economic, and military aspects had become extremely corrupt, and he decided to actively seek to restore ties with the party organization.
In March 1945, he made contact with the underground party through Ren Lianru and provided military intelligence to the Kuomintang. Under Ren Rulian's introduction, he secretly met with Dong Biwu.
When Guo Rugui saw Dong Biwu, who had admired him for a long time, she excitedly held his hand for a long time and was unwilling to let go, and Dong Biwu said with a smile: "Although we are meeting for the first time, we are indeed familiar with each other. ”
The two then talked all night, and Guo Rugui talked about his knowledge of the KMT and his years of work experience, and mentioned his strong desire to return to the organization.
When Dong Biwu heard Guo Rugui's request, he gave him an important task, that is, to continue to stay in the Kuomintang army and provide valuable information for our party.
In the face of Dong Biwu's arrangement, Guo Rugui was ordered to be in danger, and he realized that the organization needed him to go to **. After that conversation, Guo Rugui became a red undercover agent who broke into the KMT.
In February 1947, Chen Cheng planned to appoint Guo Rugui as the director of the Third Department of the Ministry of National Defense, but Guo Rugui was a little hesitant about this. Ren Lianru suggested that he become the head of the War Office in order to provide intelligence to the organization.
At that time, the main force of the Kuomintang army was launching an offensive against the liberated areas of Shandong. Under Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, Guo Rugui formulated a battle plan and handed over the information to Ren Lianru.
He particularly emphasized that in the battle sequence, there is the 74th Division reorganized by Zhang Lingfu, all American-style equipment, and the PLA needs to be especially careful. Sure enough, in the Battle of Menglianggu, the People's Liberation Army came prepared and successfully annihilated the 74th Division.
After the war, in order to understand the reasons for the failure, the Ministry of National Defense sent Deng Wenyi, director of the Information Bureau, to investigate. Deng Wenyi was a student of the first phase of Whampoa, and served as the intelligence director of Chiang Kai-shek's camp when he established a camp in Jiangxi to suppress the Communists, and was a leading expert.
By chance, he heard a high-ranking military officer say that Guo Rugui was an "undercover agent", but because there was no evidence, he could only tell the news to Du Yuming, who had a conflict with Guo Rugui.
Since then, Guo Rugui has become a doubt in Du Yuming's heart.
Faced with Guo Rugui's possible Communist Party "undercover" status, Du Yuming decided to take independent action to prevent the news from leaking. He was reluctant to report to Chiang Kai-shek due to lack of evidence.
The plane lost so that he arrived in Xuzhou late at night, but after learning about the battle situation, he concluded that the goal of the main force of the East China Liberation Army was to destroy the Kuomintang side corps, not to attack Xuzhou directly, which would be conducive to their reinforcement operation.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) west of Xuzhou and north of Jiulishan to the north bank of the Bulao River are weak and can boldly deploy troops.
Du Yuming's judgment was correct, and he put forward two countermeasures: one was to order the Yellow Corps to stay in Nian Zhuang and the 13th Corps to guard Xuzhou, and then let the 2nd and 16th Corps join Huang Wei's 12th Corps to break the Central Plains Field Army first.
The key is whether the Yellow Corps can hold out for a while. The second is to let the 16th Corps stay in Xuzhou, and the 2nd and 13th Corps will make every effort to rescue Huang Baitao's Corps.
However, if Huang Wei's 12th Corps was pinned down by the Central Plains Field Army and could not reach Xuzhou, then it would feel that the troops were insufficient to break through Huaye.
This conservative plan was quickly endorsed by Liu Zhi and others. On November 11, Qiu Qingquan, the headquarters of the 2nd Corps, arrived in Xuzhou from Shangqiu.
On the 13th, it began to advance eastward, and it was expected to reach Nianzhuang in a week, but with the stubborn resistance of the PLA reinforcements, the fighting continued from the 14th to the 17th, and the PLA finally retreated to the southeast through Shuanggou, Du Yuming ordered the pursuit, but encountered stubborn resistance in the second-line position, which was the "great victory of Xudong" in the mouth of the Kuomintang, and finally on the 22nd, Huang Baitao was annihilated in Nianzhuang.
On November 23, Du Yuming and Liu Zhi went to Chiang Kai-shek's mansion to report. At the meeting, Guo Ruhuai reported the next operational plan, that is, for the purpose of opening up the Xubang section of the Jinpu Road, the main force of the Xuzhou side would attack in the direction of Fuliji, and the Huang Wei Corps would attack Suxian, and the north and south would be flanked, in order to break the PLA in one fell swoop.
However, after Du Yuming carried out Guo Ruhuai's plan, the battlefield was full of artillery fire and the sound of killing was deafening, however, the reinforcements promised by Chiang Kai-shek never appeared. Huang Wei's corps wanted to rush to save Huang Baitao's corps, but he didn't expect to be trapped instead.
On the morning of November 28, Du Yuming was ordered to Nanjing for a meeting, and the first task was to rescue Huang Wei. Before the meeting, Du Yuming privately approached Gu Zhutong and advocated concentrating all his forces to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, otherwise, once Huang Wei was rescued, Xuzhou might be lost, and Nanjing would also be in danger.
Gu Zhutong looked frustrated, and he came up with a bold plan: "We must give up Xuzhou before we can fight again."
This means that we will lose three corps at once, but only in this way will we be able to keep Huang Wei in Shuangdui and contain the enemy.
We also need to withdraw the troops in Xuzhou and then launch an attack on the enemy to relieve the crisis of Huang Wei's corps. At the end of the meeting, Gu Zhutong also specially instructed Du Yuming: "Only a few people know about this plan, and Guo Rugui can't be told." ”
However, unexpectedly, the battle plan proposed by Guo Rugui at the meeting was also to abandon Xuzhou, withdraw the main force, and march west after joining forces with Li Yannian's corps through Shuanggou and Wuhe, so as to relieve the crisis of Huang Wei's corps.
Du Yuming opposed Guo Rugui's plan, because the east was a water network zone, and heavy equipment and ** could not be transported. Guo's true intentions were revealed by Du Yuming, which caused Chiang Kai-shek's displeasure and led to chaos in the meeting.
Finally, Du Yuming proposed a new strategy, suggesting that the troops start from Xuzhou, pass through Yongcheng from the right flank to the Mengcheng, Wuyang, and Fuyang areas, rely on the Huai River, and then attack the enemy to relieve Huang Wei.
Chiang Kai-shek nodded frequently, and after walking out of the small conference room, he asked the people present: "Is there anything else that needs to be added?"The issue of the route was dealt with flexibly by Commander-in-Chief Du according to the actual situation, and the meeting was adjourned. ”
However, Du Yuming did not listen to Guo Rugui's plan, but chose the opposite route, and at this time he did not realize that he had fallen into a trap. Guo Rugui, who mistakenly thought that he had obtained the correct information, passed it on to Su Yu at the front.
Fortunately, Su Yu relied on his military strategist's intuition to judge that Du Yuming would never go southeast, and deployed his troops in the southwest and other places.
In the end, Du Yuming's plan failed, and on the evening of January 9, 1949, he led more than a dozen people, including adjutants and guards, to break away from the large army and act alone, and was later captured.
During the Huaihai Campaign, Guo Rugui deliberately induced Chiang Kai-shek's blind command, which made Chiang change his plan many times and successfully made outstanding contributions to the victory of the Huaihai Campaign.
After the end of the three major battles, Guo Rugui took the risk to infiltrate Chiang's side, and was once again reused, and was appointed commander of the 72nd Army.
Later, Guo Rugui rebelled in Yibin, and compared with Chen Mingren's uprising, although he also retained his military rank and was awarded the rank of general, his secret front exploits could not be announced.
Guo Rugui, a loyal Communist Party member, has transmitted information for our party for many years. Even when Du Yuming was dying, he remained steadfast in his beliefs, responding to Du Yuming's question: "We just have different beliefs. ”
His deeds not only demonstrate the firm conviction and noble sentiments of Communist Party members, but also let us see the power of faith.
After Du Yuming heard this, the previous troubles immediately disappeared. What Guo Rugui left behind was not only his deep love for the motherland and his unswerving belief in communism, but also his fearless courage and brilliant exploits on the battlefield.