Huang Wei

Huang Wei

Huang Wei (February 28, 1904 to March 20, 1989) was born in Guixi, Jiangxi Province. A graduate of the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy, he participated in the battle of Songhu, the defense war of Wuhan, the counter offensive of Myanmar, etc., and showed great courage in the battle of Luodian, known as the "flesh and blood mill" in the battle of Songhu. He was the commander of the 12th corps of the National Revolutionary Army, commonly known as the "Huangwei corps". He was defeated and captured in the Huaihai Campaign. In 1975, as the last group of war criminals, he was pardoned and later served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. He devoted himself to the study of the history of the national revolutionary army. On March 20, 1989, he died of a heart attack in Beijing at the age of 85.

Life of the characters

Huangpu period

Huang Wei was born on February 28, 1904 in Shengyuan township of Guixi, Jiangxi Province. His father died early. Huang Wei graduated from the county's first primary school in his early years. Later, due to financial difficulties, he was admitted to Ehu Normal University. He graduated with excellent results and returned to his hometown to be a primary school teacher.

In 1924, he was forced to leave his hometown because he publicized communism in school and had a bad relationship with the local gentry. According to Fang Zhimin's arrangement, Zhao Xingnong, the person in charge of the Jiangxi underground provincial Party committee of the Communist Party of China, was found. As an introducer, he joined the second team of phase I of Huangpu Military Academy and became classmates with Zhou Shidi, Zheng Dongguo, Yu Jishi and GUI Yongqing. After graduation, Huang Wei was promoted quickly because of his outstanding performance in the two eastern expeditions against Chen Jiongming and the battle with the direct warlord sun Chuanfang.

In 1927, he served as head of the 9th army of the national revolutionary army.

In 1928, he served as head of the 11th division of the national revolutionary army.

In 1929, he studied in the first special class of Army University sponsored by the General Staff Headquarters of the Kuomintang military commission.

In 1932, after graduating from the first special class of the Army University, Huang Wei returned to the 11th division. Chen Cheng, then commander of the 18th army, highly appreciated him and promoted him to the commander of the 31st brigade. Therefore, he was regarded as an important general of Chen Cheng's civil engineering department.

In March 1933, he took part in the fourth "encirclement and suppression" of the central red army launched by Chiang Kai Shek. After the defeat, he was ordered to go to Chongren to take up the defensive task, and was promoted to the deputy division commander of the 11th division. In May, Chiang Kai Shek directly organized and directed the fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Red Army. In July, with the reform of the 18th army's establishment and equipment, Huang Wei took the post of division commander of the 11th division and went to Lushan officer training regiment for training. At the end of the training period, he led his troops to fight against the Red Army in Zhangshu and hengcun areas near Lichuan.

In October 1934, after the Red Army broke through the Long March, he led the 11th division to stay in Shaoguan and dagengling to take up the task of "suppression".

In July 1935, each division of the 18th army entered Zhejiang Province to undertake the task of "cleaning up" the Red Army in Southwest Zhejiang.

the period of the war of Resistance Against Japan

In 1937, he was ordered to go to Germany for further study. Originally scheduled for one year, he was recalled to China in advance because of the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war.

In late September 1937, Huang Wei took over the post of commander of the 67th division of the 18th army and led the army to resist. The battle of Luodian during the Songhu meeting was Huang Wei's battle of becoming famous. In the face of the fierce Japanese attack, he stayed for a week. At the end of the battle, one of Huang's three commanders died and two were seriously injured. Except for one telegraph operator, even the clerks and cooks in the division took their guns. After the post-war reorganization, the living could not even get together with a regiment. At that time, the propaganda organizations of the national government publicized Mr. Huang's loyalty and bravery. However, after the event, many people said that Huang's command was rigid at that time, and the reputation of "nerd Huang Wei" fell. After the Songhu meeting, he was ordered to lead his troops to the mountainous areas of Southern Anhui.

In 1938, he was promoted to commander of the 18th army and was summoned by Chiang Kai Shek on his way to Jiangxi. When summoned, Chiang sent him a photo as a memento, and changed Huang Wei's name from "Wu I" to "Pei I". During the Wuhan games, he deployed the 11th division and the 67th division in the De'an area of Nanxun road from Jiujiang to Nanchang. On September 1, the first division of the 9th division of the Japanese army, taking the 30th group army, broke through the position and harassed mahuiling along Ruide road. Huang Wei led the 18th army to cooperate with other forces to intercept and block it one by one, and launched a fierce battle with the Japanese army in mahuiling, which made the attempt of the Japanese army to detour around De'an completely bankrupt.

In 1939, after the Japanese army occupied Vietnam, they gathered forces on the border between Yunnan and Vietnam in an attempt to attack Yunnan, seriously threatening the southwest provinces of China. Huang Wei succeeded as the commander of the 54th Army (the 54th army belongs to the elite and powerful army of the central army, with excellent equipment and three divisions under its jurisdiction, including que hanqian division of the 14th division, Yang Wenxuan division of the 50th division, and Wang Yuying division of the 198th Division). He rushed from Kunming to Yunnan Vietnam border for garrison, leading the 54th army to fight against the Japanese invasion. The 54th army is subordinate to the 9th group army. Guan Linzheng, commander in chief of the group army, has a conflict with Huang Wei. Soon after, Chiang Kai Shek appointed Huang Wei as a high-ranking member of the Military Commission. Huang Weisui returned from Kunming with his wife and children to Guixi, Jiangxi Province.

In 1944, the Japanese army invaded Guizhou, which directly threatened Chongqing, the then capital. In order to expand the military resources, the national government called on the young intellectuals to join the army. Chiang Kai Shek reorganized the "Military Commission's supervision and training office" into the "Department of the chief commander of the young army's editorial and training department for young intellectuals joining the army", headquartered in Chongqing, with Huang Wei as the deputy chief commander. Huang Wei has been in charge of the work for more than one year and has trained 5000 or 6000 students. After the surrender of Japan, the youth army was divided into three armies.

War of Liberation

In June 1946, Huang Wei was appointed commander of the 31st army and was ordered to lead the army to Taiwan. After the troops were concentrated in Fujian, they were transferred to Yuhang and Shaoxing areas of Zhejiang Province to carry out reserve officer training. However, because the vast number of young people are unwilling to fight civil war, the work of recruiting the youth army this time is far from as smooth as the first time.

In the spring of 1947, Huang Wei was transferred to the joint service headquarters of the Ministry of defense as deputy commander in chief. In the autumn, he went to Wuhan to prepare for the establishment of a new military academy as its principal. The school was set up on the recommendation of the US advisory group, and is intended to follow the system of the US West Point Military Academy to train officers of the Kuomintang army, navy and air force.

On November 6, 1948, the PLA launched the Huaihai Campaign. Liu Shi, commander in chief of Xuzhou's "suppression" campaign, strictly ordered the Huang Wei corps to quickly concentrate in Xuzhou. Huang Weisui led the 12th corps to move closer to Xuzhou from Zhumadian on the 8th through Mengcheng and Suxian (existing from 1912 to 1992, now Suzhou City, Anhui Province). A week later, we arrived in Fuyang. On the morning of the 20th, when he arrived in the area south of the Huihe River, he found that the PLA had occupied the position along the Huihe River, and it was not easy for the HuangBing regiment to advance further. Then he stationed the corps headquarters in nanpingji. At this time, the PLA seized Mengcheng and cut off the retreat of the 12th Corps. On the 25th, the PLA surrounded the moving Huang Wei Corps in shuangduiji, Yuansu county.

On December 15, 1948, except for Hu Lian, deputy commander of the 12th corps, who escaped, the entire Corps was completely destroyed.

Transform your career

After Huang Wei was captured, he was transformed in Beijing Gongdelin war criminals management office. When he first arrived in gongdeling, he suffered from five kinds of tuberculosis. After four years of careful treatment and nursing, the disease has been cured.

During the renovation, Huang Wei had milk, eggs and meat on his dining table every day. Even during three years of natural disasters, there was no interruption of meat supply. In those three years, it started with pork, then beef, and finally yellow mutton. After Huang Wei's amnesty, he realized that the country was so difficult at that time, and sent PLA soldiers to Inner Mongolia to fight for them. He also understood why the managers were getting fatter and fatter at that time. It turned out that the lack of nutrition caused the swelling. Huang Wei was particularly moved when he mentioned these things later.

Post amnesty situation

In December 1975, Huang Wei was granted amnesty. He was then assigned to work in the cultural and historical materials research committee of the CPPCC National Committee as a cultural and historical Commissioner, and was cordially received by Party and state leaders for many times. He was very concerned about the construction of his hometown and visited his relatives several times.

In the 27 years of reform, Huang Wei has formed deep feelings with the leadership of the war criminals Management Institute. Huang Wei mentioned Jin Yuan, director of Fushun war criminals Management Institute, and said: "director Jin was born as a red kid, but he wasted his youth on us meaningless people." In 1986, he returned to Fushun war criminals management center and proposed that instead of staying in a hotel, he should stay in the cell No. 2 where he was held.

In 1983, he attended the sixth session of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and was elected as a standing member. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he wrote a special article to express his nostalgia for the old classmates who shared joys and sorrows and are still in Taiwan. In a letter to his old colleagues, he wrote: "I pray for the reunification of the motherland. People will share the same heart and reason. If reunification is realized as soon as possible, I will personally go to Taiwan to have a drink with you."

In the autumn of 1985, Huang Wei returned to his hometown Guixi.

In early 1989, Taiwan invited Huang Wei to visit Taiwan. Huang Wei made a list of his classmates and friends in Huangpu to visit and prepared to visit the tombs of Chiang Kai Shek, he Yingqin, Chen Cheng, Gu Zhutong, Zhou zhirou and Jiang Jingguo. Huang Wei has been preparing for a long time to go to Taiwan. Just before his visit to Taiwan, Huang Wei felt unwell after attending the two sessions. In the early morning of March 20, 1989, her daughter Huang Huinan suddenly received a call from the CPPCC National Committee, and her father Huang Wei died. That year, Huang Wei was 85 years old. (Huang Huinan) some friends have always said that his father died of a sudden heart attack on the eve of departure because he was too excited. After Huang Wei's death, both sides of the Taiwan Strait held a grand farewell ceremony for him.

Main achievements

On August 13, 1937, the Japanese invading army launched an attack on Shanghai. In late September, Huang Wei took over the post of commander of the 67th division of the 18th army and led the army to resist. After the Anti Japanese war in Shanghai, he was ordered to lead his troops to the mountainous areas of Southern Anhui. In 1938, he was promoted to commander of the 18th army. In mid July, the five divisions and the Botian detachment of the 51st Japanese army divided forces to attack Wuhan along the Yangtze River and both sides of the Strait. Huang Weishou

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