In 1949, the Chinese Revolution won its final victory and opened a new chapter in history. However, in this civil war, which lasted for several years, the Kuomintang regime suffered a complete collapse. Chiang Kai-shek, who was once proud and arrogant, after his defeat and retreat to Taiwan, even the last trace of the illusion of "making a comeback" came to naught. For those generals back then, the process of evacuation was obviously much more than a "escape". How should those once glorious warlords face the fate of homelessness?
Crackling, gunfire was endless. The smoke of 1949 enveloped the entire land of China. The Kuomintang warlords who once galloped across the battlefield also had to swim under the majesty of the People's Liberation Army at this moment.
During these long years of civil war, many Kuomintang generals who were once complacent defected and became lonely ghosts of history. Even Chiang Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief, had to hesitate with tears in his eyes, piecing together the last bit of strength in a desperate situation on the verge of annihilation.
Counting it up, at the last moment of this war, how many ironclad soldiers did Chiang Kai-shek still have to command and command? Let's go back to that spring of 1949 and find out.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek could be said to be in a desperate situation and embattled. His army was crushed by the People's Liberation Army one after another, and rebel generals sprung up everywhere. Even Sun Liren, who was originally dedicated to following, betrayed the warlord of the Jiang family at this time.
Chiang Kai-shek was originally full of longing, and he once arrogantly threatened: "As long as Taiwan Province is kept, I can use it to restore the mainland." However, all dreams came to naught in this catastrophe.
In 1949, the wheel of fate had turned, and even Chiang Kai-shek, the ruler, had to bow to reality. Seeing that the mainland was no longer able to return to heaven, he had no choice but to pursue the desperate strategy of "shrinking into Taiwan." But Chiang Kai-shek was still the old stubborn man who was complacent, and before he left, he was still deploying a doomed "counterattack on the mainland".
The province of Taiwan, on which Chiang Kai-shek relied on was then controlled by his henchman Chen Cheng, and became a base for doomsday. He even ordered the quiet transfer of hundreds of millions of gold and foreign exchange from the central bank at that time to this small island. It seems that Chiang Kai-shek did not think that this was a road of no return.
In this way, in May 1949, Chiang Kai-shek led 600,000 remnants of the Kuomintang and fled to Taiwan in embarrassment. It's a farce, and the crew is mixed with a large number of innocent civilians, who are homeless and can only go with the flow.
According to historical records, the wharf was in a mess at that time, with crowds of people and gunshots everywhere. Some of the soldiers were so squeezed that they were so out of breath that they even fired indiscriminately, and some fell into the sea and went unheeded. There were silver dollars scattered everywhere, but no one bothered to pick them up.
The vivid portrayals show the predicament and helplessness of the Kuomintang at that time. 600,000 people drifted to a strange land under the leadership of the warlords of the Chiang family, and although they were temporarily rescued, they were also doomed to be in dire straits in Taiwan.
The past is unbearable, and the Kuomintang rulers are forced to face the tragic fate of homelessness. From extravagance to pennilessness, from being aloof to being orphans, they lost everything overnight.
As for the ordinary soldiers under his command, it is even more miserable. They have a low level of education and lack the skills to make a living, so they can only do nothing and eat and die in a foreign land. When the dream of the "counteroffensive" of the Jiang dynasty was completely shattered, these poor creatures even lost their last value and could only be abandoned by this world.
Wang Chuying, a veteran, is one of them. Leaving his hometown from Shanghai, he drifted to Taiwan with his wife and daughter, penniless, but he has long missed the hot land of the motherland. A few years later, in 1954, he finally took the opportunity to go to Hong Kong, threw himself into the arms of the people, and later served in Nanjing, doing his part.
The nightmare years came to an end in 1949. The former "mainland dynasty" went from being a powerful man all his life to an outlaw who left his homeland overnight. Those idle clouds and wild cranes who once directed the country also had to grovel to survive at this moment. Even the coach Chiang Kai-shek has become a dilemma of covering the sky with one hand. And the most suffocating thing is the ordinary soldiers who are implicated and have nowhere to go. They had a rough life, and in the end they even lost hope of being able to eat and wear.
Time flies like a white horse, and many of those who are still alive have also grown old. But the scars of this history will never heal. Those embarrassing escapes and homeless encounters will forever be engraved in the memory of the nation. Only by never forgetting these tragic years can we better cherish the hard-won achievements of the era of peace.