Li mi

Li mi

Li mi (1902-march 10, 1973), male, Han nationality, with the name of Bingren and the name of Wenqing, graduated from Huangpu phase IV in 1926. General of the Kuomintang army.

He was born in Taiping Street, Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province in 1902. In 1939, he took part in the Kunlun Pass campaign. In 1948, he served as commander of the 13th Corps. During the Huaihai Campaign, he was ordered to support Huang Baitao's troops but failed. The 13th Corps was destroyed. Li mi fled to Weixian County, Shandong Province, Qingdao in disguise, and went to Nanjing and Shanghai by sea liner. In 1950, Li mi led the Ministry to withdraw to the border areas of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, and served as the chairman of Yunnan provincial government and director of Yunnan appeasement office. In 1954, he withdrew to Taiwan. He died in Taipei on March 10, 1973.

Life of the characters

In 1902, he was born in Taiping Street, Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province (Taiping Street, Tengchong County at that time). His father was a jeweler and eight brothers. Li mi ranked sixth. After graduating from primary school, he transferred to Tengchong to study in Wang Chengmo's private school in the late Qing Dynasty.

In 1924, he was introduced as an orderly in the division headquarters of the 7th Division of Yunnan army in Guangdong. Li Gen, the teacher, promoted him to be an adjutant. Yuan Enxi, a consultant of Shaoguan supervision office, knew that Li mi was a fellow countryman in Yunnan and appreciated him, so he accepted him as his adopted son. Soon after, Li mi was recommended to the fourth phase health team of Huangpu Military Academy.

In 1926, after graduating from Huangpu Military Academy, he was assigned back to the third army training regiment (at that time, the head of the regiment was Zhu De) and served as Lieutenant platoon leader.

In 1930, Li mi went to Western Hubei and Jiangxi with Zhang bu. He listened to Chen Cheng and participated in the "suppression of the Communist Party". The troops led by he long were injured in the face.

In 1936, Chiang Kai Shek opened a training class for county officials in Jiangxi Province in Nanchang to train cadres for the implementation of anti Communist policies. Li mi was sent to Jiangxi Province for training for one month, and was transferred to Jiangxi Ruichang county magistrate at the end of the training period. Later, Ningdu was appointed deputy commander of security and head of security sixteen Regiment (later changed to security ten regiment).

In 1938, Li mi successively served as deputy brigade commander and brigade commander of 268 brigade of 96th division of 36th army. In 1939, he was promoted to deputy commander of the fifth division of the army.

In 1940, Li mi was the honorary first division commander of the Eighth Army of the Kuomintang.

On April 1, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Hubei, Li mi was ordered to reinforce Yichang. He bombarded Yichang airport with artillery and burned 21 Japanese planes, which was widely praised by the public.

At the beginning of 1942, with the recommendation of Zheng Dongguo, the commander of the army, Li misheng became the deputy commander of the 8th Army and the commander of the Hunan Zhijiang Suining division. Later, the 8th Army went to Hekou and Maguan areas of Yunnan Province to prevent the Japanese from invading Yunnan via Vietnam. Li miliu was in zhisui division. In June, the expeditionary army's counterattack against western Yunnan was blocked in Songshan. At that time, he was the deputy commander of the Eighth Army of the Kuomintang army and the division commander of Rongyi division. He was ordered to take over Songshan from the 70th army of the Kuomintang as the commander in chief.

At the end of 1943, he returned to the Eighth Army and presided over the cadre training class of the Eighth Army in Gumu, Maguan.

On June 28, 1945, he was promoted to major general. In November, Chiang Kai Shek transferred the Eighth Army to the civil war front line of "suppressing the Communist Party.". Li mi led his troops from Kowloon, Hong Kong to Qingdao by the seventh fleet of the US Army.

From July to October 1946, Li mi commanded the Eighth Army and successively invaded Zibo, Yidu, Pingdu and Yexian. The 309 regiment of the 103 division of the PLA was surrounded by the PLA in Pingdu and Yexian, and two battalions were annihilated. In December, the Eighth Army was ordered to return to Shouwei county. Li mi did not want to give up the territory he had seized, and allocated his three divisions in Shahe, Changyi and Weixian. As a result, the di166 division was besieged in Shahe, a regiment was annihilated, and the commander was captured.

In May 1947, the Eighth Army was reorganized into the eighth division, with Li Mi as its commander. In July, the Kuomintang army launched the "Nanma campaign", and Li mi led six regiments of the Ministry to be surrounded when they blocked the PLA in Linqu. In September, the eighth division coordinated with the 25th division and the 54th division, followed Yantai and Weixian to commit another crime in Jiaodong. Li mi was fortified along the line and his forces were scattered. In Changyi and Yexian, two regiments were annihilated by the PLA. In November, the eighth division was expanded to the Eighth Army (corps level), with Li Mi as commander. In November, he served as lieutenant general and commander of the Eighth Army reorganized by the Kuomintang army.

In July 1948, Li mi was promoted to commander of the 13th corps of the Kuomintang army. On September 22, he was officially promoted to lieutenant general of the Kuomintang army. On November 6, the Huaihai Campaign began. On that day, the PLA surrounded Huang Baitao's seventh regiment in Xin'an town and nianzhuang area to the east of Xuzhou. Qiu Qingquan regiment and Li mi regiment were ordered to advance eastward from Xuzhou along the north and south sides of Longhai Railway respectively to get out of the encirclement. Under the command of Li Mi, the eighth and ninth armies launched fierce battles with the PLA's resistance forces in Taipingzhuang, maguzi, damiaoshan and shihuiyao. Huang Baitao's regiment was destroyed, the Longhai railway was cut off, and the PLA approached Xuzhou. In late November, Li mi Corps stayed in Xuzhou. In early December, Qiu and Li regiments were surrounded in the northeast of Yongcheng.

On January 10, 1949, after the positions of Qiu and Li regiments were completely broken through by the PLA, Li mi escaped from the Huaihai battlefield and went south from Xuzhou and Jinan via Qingdao. Chiang Kai Shek summoned him in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, and decided to rebuild the 13th corps, still serving as Li Mi's commander and commander of the 8th Army. In June, Li mi arrived in Kunming via Guangzhou, which was not welcomed by Yunnan local government, so he had to move to Chongqing instead. In September, Li mi led his troops to Zhanyi, Qujing and other places in Yunnan through Luzhou. The 26th army, which was originally stationed in Yucheng Wan in Southeast Yunnan, was transferred to the command of the sixth training headquarters. On December 9, Lu Han and his military and political personnel led the uprising, and Li Mi and other Kuomintang generals were detained in Kunming. In order to relieve the siege of Kunming by the Kuomintang army, Lu Han plans to release Li Mi and Yu Cheng Wan. Li and Yu also said that after leaving the city, they were willing to persuade the Kuomintang troops who attacked Kunming to surrender to the PLA. However, after Li mi left Kunming, he discussed with Tang Yao, deputy commander in chief of the army and chief of staff, and sent his troops to Kaiyuan and Mengzi in southern Yunnan, preparing to reorganize the army and make a comeback.

In January 1950, Li mi was called to Taiwan. Soon after, the Eighth Army and the 26th army under Li Mi's command were annihilated in Myanmar, except for a small part of them. In September, Chiang Kai Shek sent Li Mi and others to the northern part of Myanmar to gather the remnants of the Exodus and part of the local stubborn armed forces to form the "first column of the anti Communist, anti Russian and National Salvation Army in southern Yunnan." In December, Li mi was appointed as "the commander in chief of Yunnan People's anti Communist army" and "chairman of Yunnan provincial government and director of Yunnan appeasement office".

In January 1953, the remnant of the KMT army in Myanmar was renamed "Yunnan anti Communist guerrilla headquarters of the KMT". The Burmese government carried out military encirclement and suppression of the remnant of Li Mi and filed a complaint to the United Nations. The Chiang Kai Shek authorities changed Li's remnant into "Southeast Asian Free People's anti Communist coalition".

In 1954, he led most of his troops to withdraw from Taiwan. The remaining troops, such as Duan Xiwen, received a secret order from Chiang Kai Shek and voluntarily stayed, becoming the so-called "isolated army in northern Thailand.".

In 1964, he retired as a general of the Kuomintang army.

On December 7, 1973, Li mi died of a sudden recurrence of heart disease. On the 21st, he was awarded the second rank General of the army.

Anecdotes of characters

Battlefield escape

In November 1948, during the Huaihai Campaign, the main task of the 13th Corps led by Li mi was to cover the withdrawal of the main forces. In order to preserve the strength of the 13th corps, Li Mi, who was not willing to lose his strength, decided to lead the 13th corps to get rid of the main forces and break away from the encirclement after receiving the "unfair" withdrawal order. On the evening of November 28, Du Yuming ordered Li Mi's 13 regiments to cover the retreat. According to Du Yuming's troop withdrawal plan, several regiments of Xuzhou "suppression general" should cross the liberated area from Yongcheng, Henan Province through Xiaoxian, Anhui Province. However, Li mi did not pass Xiaoxian, and planned to take his troops to xuejiahu, Shandong Province.

Having determined the escape plan and route, Li mi convened a meeting of cadres above the division level of the 13th Corps in Xuzhou. At the meeting, Li mi gave an order: "this operation is extraordinary. The East China and central China field forces of the people's Liberation Army are going to swallow us up. Therefore, we should quickly break away from contact with the people's Liberation Army and should not be subject to the control and influence of the main forces of Xuzhou. I ask all departments to cross the vanguard units of the people's Liberation Army and arrive at xuejiahu within three days. In order to move quickly, they should go to battle light On the one hand, Li mi urged the troops to speed up the process, on the other hand, he repeatedly told his commanders to avoid other regiments to avoid being dragged down. Later, the communication battalion commander reported the location of Li Mi to Du Yuming by telephone. Du Yuming was furious and asked Li Mi to stop and rush to the headquarters to accept the new task.

Li Mi, who received Du Yuming's notice, sent Zhou Kaicheng, commander of the 8th Army, to the headquarters to accept the task. Nanjing issued a new order from Chiang Kai Shek, asking Du Yuming to stop withdrawing, rescue the Huangwei regiment trapped in suixikou, Anhui Province, and stop the PLA. Later, an urgent telegram came from its subordinate 42nd division, saying that it was surrounded by the people's Liberation Army in Xiaoxian County, hoping that the army could send planes to help break through. On the afternoon of December 4, Li mi sent air force, artillery and armored forces to take over the 24th division. But it was soon wiped out on the spot by the PLA.

Li Mi's Ninth Army of the 13th corps, together with the 2nd corps of Xuzhou "general suppression corps" and its directly subordinate troops of about 300000 people, was trapped by the PLA in the area of Chenguanzhuang less than 10 kilometers around. On January 7, 1949, the PLA captured the headquarters of Li BINGTUAN. After Li mi told his subordinates that he was going to discuss the response plan with Du Yuming, he hurriedly took a few close friends with him and wanted to escape from the encirclement of the people's Liberation Army. Li Mi, who lost his way, ran to the camp of Zhou Zhen, commander of the third division of the Ninth Army. When Zhou Zhen and others went to negotiate with the PLA in the evening, Li mi called a close guard and put on the clothes of the wounded soldiers,

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