/kloc-in the winter of 0/946, the Eighth Army entered Shahe. Li Mi once said in a speech in the Prime Minister's Commemorative Week: Now the Eighth Army has two paths. First, after winning the battle, I not only made up for the loss, but also got promoted and made a fortune. Second, it has no ambition to be defeated and captured. If you can't win this battle and don't surrender as prisoners, the troops will retreat at dawn, and I, Li Mi, will shoot you. Have you ever seen Belarus buy Russian blankets in the street? Without clothes and food, if one day we lose to Belarus and flee abroad, and they have Russian blankets to sell, who will we sell our broken cotton-padded jacket to? If you take Li See rice as a prisoner, you take a dog's tail and land it on my ass, and I'll show it to you.
Mystery of absconding in Huaihai battlefield
10 +00 10 65438+65438, which shocked China and foreign countries, came to a successful conclusion. The People's Liberation Army took 65 days to annihilate more than 555,000 people in 56 divisions of 22 armies of the elite Kuomintang troops. Huang, a senior Kuomintang general, committed suicide in Nianzhuangwei battlefield; Liu Ruming and Sun led the remnants to flee south; Du He was captured; Qiu Qingquan committed suicide on the battlefield of Chen Guanzhuang; Only the commander of the 13th Corps, Li Mi, whose whereabouts were unknown after the war, died without a corpse, and no one lived. He searched for no results many times and became a great mystery after the war. It was not until Chiang Kai-shek re-appointed Li Mi as the commander of the 13th Training Department that people realized that Li Mi on the Huaihai battlefield had fled. How did Li Mi escape from the battlefield? Where did you abscond? This series of mysteries has been little known. There is no detailed introduction in the historical materials. This article will solve the mystery that has been dusty for decades in order to provide dinner for readers.
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In the first stage of the Huaihai Campaign, the Kuomintang army got off to a bad start. With the cooperation of the Central Plains Field Army, the East China Field Army of the China People's Liberation Army surrounded more than 654.38+million people in Xin 'an Town (now xinyi city) and Nianzhuang area east of Xuzhou, and killed the commander of the Corps, Huang. The third appeasement area of the Kuomintang belongs to three and a half divisions, with more than 23 thousand people. Under the leadership of Zhang Kexia and He Jifeng, deputy commanders of the appeasement area, they revolted in Taierzhuang and Zaozhuang areas. At the same time, the main force of the Central Plains Field Army conquered Suxian County, stopped the northern aid of two regiments of Kuomintang Army and Liu Ruming, and stopped the southern escape of three regiments of Kuomintang Army Duji Regiment. At the same time, the enemy's 12th Corps, which arrived from Queshan, Henan Province, was blocked in the Nanpingji area in the southwest of Suxian County. Dangshan County, known as the west gate of Xuzhou, was also liberated by the main force of Hua Ye and local armed forces on June 8th. The three regiments of Du Group were completely isolated. At this time, Li Mi had a bad feeling, and she was scared all day. She ran from this shelter to that shelter, ready to flee mentally.
65438 10/7, Hua Ye's main force captured Qinglongji, the headquarters of Li Mi Corps, and the main force was wiped out. That night, Li Mi led the remnants to escape into the defense zone of Qiu Qingquan Corps-the area around Chenguanzhuang, Yongcheng County. 654381On the evening of October 9, Du, Qiu Qingquan and Zhang split up and fled for their lives.
In the early morning of June+10/October 10, 65438, Li Mi and others fled to Zhoulou, the headquarters of the ninth regiment, under the escort of Zhou Fan, the commander of the third division of the ninth army. Who knows this is not a safe place. At dawn, the People's Liberation Army launched an attack on Zhoulou, and the Kuomintang troops suffered heavy casualties. In the evening, hundreds of Kuomintang officers and men who came to Zhoulou to hide were all killed and wounded, but they were all beaten away. At this time, Li Mi said anxiously: "You are all chief of staff, and you still can't figure out a way?" Zhou Fan asked, "If we fight any longer, everyone will be finished. I'm going to send a note asking for surrender. Do you think so? " Li Mi immediately promised: "You can write a note and write down the conditions: First, ensure the safety of officers and men after surrender, and don't kill us; Second, after surrender, no matter what officers and men are unwilling to do, they can't be forced to stay and let them go home; Article 3: After surrender, all the wounded must be escorted to the hospital for treatment, and the seriously injured must be sent to the rear for treatment first. If you promise us these three things, you will surrender. If you don't promise, we'll wait until evening. If we can't see it in the dark, we will slip away. "
The surrender was sent out. At noon, the Political Department of the 27th Division of the Ninth Vertical of the People's Liberation Army sent a letter urging surrender, to the effect that you should surrender immediately, the chief officer should report for duty, and the troops should lay down their weapons and assemble to listen to the orders, otherwise they will attack immediately without delay. Li Mi said, "They want the first mate to go out and report to see which one of you wants to go?" Then he burst into tears and said, "I can't die!" " I can't die! If I can go out, I will take good care of your families, don't worry. "Zhou Fan understand Li Mi, promised to go. Li Mi was relieved to see this, so he made Zhou Fan promise to surrender first, and then dragged him with him. At the same time, he asked his cronies to find soldiers' clothes, put on their clothes, pretend to be wounded soldiers, and want to go out as soon as it gets dark After dark, before Zhou Fan and others came back to surrender, Li Mi left the state building in a hurry and went straight to the Longhai Railway in the north, eagerly with bodyguards.
On the morning of 65438+1October 1 1, the Huaibei plain, which had been baptized by war, was devastated and desolate. Li Mi and his party were so frightened that they came to the south of Gaozhuang Village in Xiaoxian County with trepidation. On the roadside, they saw a young man in the uniform of Kuomintang soldiers, who was sallow and emaciated and had difficulty walking. Deliberately stepped forward to strike up a conversation, only to know that the young soldier's name is An, and he lives in Wangcun, northeast of Lizhuang Station 18 in Dangshan County, Anhui Province. Just released after being captured by the People's Liberation Army. When Li Mi saw this scene, she lied that her name was Liu Mingshun, who lived in Shanghai and had just been released back to China. She is going to take the train at Lizhuang Station and invite Wang Xin 'an to go on the road together. Along the way, Li Mi took care of Wang Xin 'an, giving her only biscuits and beef jerky. Wang Xin is very grateful. During the conversation, Li Mi learned that Wang Xin 'an's cousin, Wang Tao, had been a battalion officer of the Kuomintang. He secretly planned to ask the Wangs for a day off. Wang Xin 'an nodded in agreement, and Li Mi's entourage went to Lizhuang Station alone. Li Mi, Xinhe Wang did not arrive at Wang Kan Village until midnight on June 5438+02. After observation and probing, Li Mi decided that Wang Xin 'an was an honest man, so she gave her true identity to Wang Xin 'an. When Wang Xin 'an learned that Li Mi, the famous commander of the Kuomintang army, had been brought home, he was nervous and scared, and tossed and turned all night without a good sleep.
The next afternoon, Ann's cousin, Wang Tao, came to settle down for Mi, looked it up and down, and said, "You are wearing a cotton robe outside and a yellow camel wool sweater inside, which is not warm, and the inside and outside are out of proportion, which is too eye-catching. Let's change clothes! " After that, Wang Tao took off his cotton-padded jacket and put it on Li Mi. Li Mi also took off his yellow camel hair sweater and put it on Wang Tao. Li Mi can't wait to know how Wang Tao will send himself out. Wang Tao introduced his class, Gao. This tall Rong is a graduate of the Central Military Academy. He works in the county government. When he learned about the situation in Li Mi, he thought it was a good opportunity to ask for remuneration, so he accepted it. Through some planning, on 15, Wang Tao raised a sum of money and wrote a road to Xuzhou to deliver noodles to the PLA company stationed in the village at that time, and gave the money and road to Gao.
16 At about 4 pm, Uncle An Wang and others pushed the flour cart in front, followed by Gao He, who was covered with pot ashes, and came to Lizhuang Station together. He Gao took the train to the east and arrived in Xuzhou that evening.
The next morning, Gao came to No.38, Shandong Lane, and found Zhai, a colleague who had worked in Dangshan Military Division. He boldly told Zhai about the escort to Xuzhou and the fact that there was no road permit and no toll. Zhai immediately said: "I can be responsible for the shortage of tolls. Many people go to the south now. Most of them go to Wuhe, Huaiyin or Yangzhou by rubber-tyred car first, and then cross the river by water. The toll is generally about per person 10 yuan. Now everyone who goes south can't prove it, and the PLA doesn't ask. Just improvise. "
After nightfall, Gao, Gao, Gao and others went to the garage to buy two tickets to Wuhe, and found an expired road pass from Shandong to Nanjing in the hand of a fellow passenger. They were ecstatic.
/kloc-on the evening of 0/8, when Gao, Li and others arrived in Shuanggou Town by carriage, they realized that the People's Liberation Army stationed in Wuhe had issued a general order prohibiting them from going to Nantong. They had to retrace their steps.
After dark, the carriage stopped at a humble country inn on the road to have a rest. So he suggested going north to Gao because one of his regiments was stationed in Qingdao.
On the morning of 19th, Gao and Li returned to Xuzhou by carriage. They tried their best to get a road permit for Xuzhou.
Gao went back to Dangshan to find his wife and nephew, Song Kaiyuan. He told the story and said, "Please let us get a travel permit and send him back. He promised me that once he returned, he would let me be the head of the team; If he wanted to do business, he gave me a boat as capital. If I become a colonel, I will make you an adjutant; If I do business, I will let you be the manager, and my father and I will be rich. "
Song Kaiyuan moved his heart. He made up a lie and asked his old classmates who worked in Huashan County to issue a copy of "Liu Xiangnian" to Wei County.
There was a near accident along the way. Li Mi and his party arrived at Weixian Railway Station on the morning of 28th and went straight to their friend Li Huizhi's house in a panic. Li Huizhi is a famous manager of "Fujuxiang" in Wei County.
As for how to get a road permit to Qingdao, I thought that Wang, a distant nephew of his third aunt, had a road permit to visit relatives in Gaomi during the Spring Festival, and the names of two people were written on it. He called Wang and said, "Today, my family has a friend from Shaanxi. He was sent by your cousin's father-in-law to Qingdao to meet your cousin. The train to Qingdao is impassable now, and he is not familiar with the way to Qingdao. You must find a way to send him personally and do everything possible to ensure the safety on the road. " Because the road permits, you can only go first, so Gao can't go with you. When leaving, he said to Gao: "The virtue of regeneration will never be forgotten. After going to Nanjing, Lao Manjiang won't kill me, and he will repay me one day. "
On the 29th (the first day of the first lunar month), it was twilight, so Wang took him out of wei county, got on the tram, arrived at his home in Gaomi County the next evening, and then went to see his cousin Wang Keqiu, who was the head of the township. He edited and said, "There is a singer who went to Qingdao with me, and now she can't walk. Please rent two cars and take us to Qingdao. When he gets there, pay five small ingots and you will get one. " As soon as Wang Keqiu heard that there was such a high reward, he knew that there was fraud, but he was so greedy that he believed Wang's lies without asking about the visitors or reporting to his superiors.
3 1 (the third day of the first lunar month) At night, a rubber-tyred car stopped in front of Wang Keqiu's house. At this point, quietly sitting on the right side of the car, Wang sitting on the left, the driver pushed the car and left, followed by another companion's car, heading for the northeast highway. Pretending to be a patient all the way, everything is guided by Wang. The next day, they successfully crossed the ancient river, entered the Kuomintang-ruled area, and arrived at Jihongtan via China Port, which is the peripheral stronghold and garrison headquarters set up by the Kuomintang in Qingdao. Li Mi and his party were stopped by the sentry for questioning. Li Mi got off the bus and took off his hat to show his identity. When the soldier heard that Li Mi had "arrived", he was pleasantly surprised, and immediately respectfully took Li Mi to the fortress bunker to see his chief executive. In less than half an hour, a group of people came out of the bunker in Jihongtan. An officer came to the sentry door with an avant-garde team and a rear guard, and said to Wang and others, "You send the commander and general of the Huaihai Theater Corps. Now you come with us. " The three men looked at each other and couldn't believe the facts, so they had to push an empty car behind the team. In a short time, a truck took them and a cart to stay at Jiangsu Road 1 Qingdao.
In order to thank Wang and others for saving their lives, I gave Wang four small ingots. Give each of the other two people a small gold ingot as a reward. At this point, after more than 20 days of running, Li Mi finally managed to escape. Soon, Li Mi flew to Wuhan and was appointed by the Kuomintang Central Committee as the commander of the thirteenth training department in Changting, Fujian.
After living in wei county for a few days, Gao felt that he couldn't go to Qingdao for a while, so he bid farewell to others and returned to Dangshan.
1949 After Tomb-Sweeping Day, Gao He and Wang Tao found someone to engrave the seal of "Dangshan County People's Government", forged the certificate of going to Qingdao for business, and went to Qingdao to meet him with the dream of being promoted and rich. When the three men came to Li Huizhi, wei county, they knew that Li Mi had gone to Changting, Fujian, and was appointed as the 13th Minister of Training Department of the Kuomintang Army. Gao He and the three men still refused to give up, said goodbye, and continued to run east to Hongyan Cliff near Qingdao. They were stopped by Kuomintang defenders and fired warning shots. They had no choice but to return to Dangshan by the same route.
In 195 1 to suppress the counter-revolutionary movement, the case of letting Li Mi go was exposed. Li Huizhi was sentenced to death by the people's government.
Over 1952 was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment by the people's government 15 years. Wang Tao and Wang Xin 'an fled for fear of sin. In April 1970, during the "one strike against three evils" movement, Wang Tao was arrested as a counter-revolutionary, and later committed suicide. 1957 Wang Xin' an was designated as a bad element and reformed through labor. 1970 was sentenced to three years' control by the people's government in August. 1982 in may, Dangshan county people's court revoked the judgment and declared him innocent. Government officials involved in the release of Li Mi were also dealt with separately.