In November 1948, the Kuomintang army was once again defeated in the Huaihai Battle of the Central Plains, and the Kuomintang regiments, which were once strong and well-equipped, were annihilated one after another. In order to maintain the only military strength, the Kuomintang authorities arranged for Li Mi's 13th Corps to cover the retreat of the large army.
At this moment, Li Mi also knew that when he talked about covering the retreat of the large army, to put it bluntly, he had become an abandoned son who was thrown behind. Li Mi, as a corps-level general, was naturally unwilling to sit still, so he decided to retreat on his own, which was the beginning of another more outrageous period of his life.
A phoenix man who made his fortune from the Yunnan army
Li Mi was born in the Yunnan Army, and because of his intelligence and cleverness, he was quickly liked by the division commander of his unit and became his adjutant. During this period, he met his first nobleman, Yuan Enxi, an advisor to the Shaoguan Governor's Office.
Yuan Enxi is an old friend of Master Li Mi, and he also likes this smart and clever young man very much. Yuan Enxi was the deputy minister of the Army Department of the Beiyang Military Government and played a pivotal role in the military circles of Guangdong. Yuan Enxi felt that Li Mi's golden scales were not a thing in the pool, so he used his connections to send Li Mi to the famous Whampoa Military Academy.
Li Mi, who entered the Whampoa Military Academy, completely changed his life, and he also became President Jiang's protégé. After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Li Mi also followed Lao Jiang's command with all his heart, always thinking that he could be recognized by everyone with his excellent performance and walk to a more glorious mountaintop. But compared to other Whampoa students who are also in the fourth phase of Whampoa, his light is really not shining enough. Although the surprise attack on Yichang Airport in 1941 won widespread praise, the old brothers of Huangpu Phase IV were too strong.
The torment of the Huaihai Campaign
Since the beginning of the Liberation War, Li Mi seems to have fallen into a vicious circle, how to fight and how to lose. It's really frustrating for a general to always lose battles, but when he looks at other so-called famous generals like Zhang Lingfu, isn't it also defeated and lost his life? It's better to die than to live, which has also become Li Mi's life-saving weapon in the end.
The Kuomintang army and the People's Liberation Army in the Huaihai Campaign both invested elite troops, and for a time Xuzhou was the center of the famous generals, Li Mi, the dignified commander of the 13th Corps, was indeed a little short of breath in front of Huang Wei, Huang Baitao, and Qiu Qingquan. Li Mi looked at the long guns and short cannons of the surrounding descendant corps, and he himself determined a tactic, that is, it was important to preserve strength and save his life.
In 1949, the Kuomintang troops on the battlefield of the Huaihai Battle were finally broken by each other, and even Huang Baitao and Qiu Qingquan could not escape the fate of death. Seeing that the general trend had gone, Li Mi retreated, and had already seen his old principal Chiang Kai-shek. Li Mi thought that he was going to be sent to a military court this time after all, but Lao Jiang's current elite generals were dead and surrendered, and there was no one to use, so this asked the commander of the Thirteenth Corps to pull up a new Thirteenth Corps again.
Another village
Li Mi, who was arranged to re-pull up the troops, lived a life of being chased and beaten by the People's Liberation Army again. In January 1950, Li Mi was finally about to end his escape-style battle, and President Chiang finally asked him to leave the mainland and go to Taiwan.
Li Mi, who went to Taiwan, was a little disappointed, after all, the general Lao Chiang, who had not won many battles during the War of Liberation, really didn't look down on him. However, Li Mi's good fortune finally came, and at this time, near Tachili on the Thai-Burmese border, a force was gradually gathering in the Mong Thong area.
The force grew in size to include not only previously arrived fighters, but also demobilized Kuomintang soldiers who had been on expeditions to Burma during World War II and remained in southern Yunnan. With a wealth of combat experience and firm conviction, these servicemen were integrated with the original troops. Eventually, these three forces came together to form a unified temporary command, which they proudly named the "Revival Force," symbolizing the hope of reconstruction and revitalization.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Taiwan, learned that the Nationalist army that had risen in Burma turned out to be Li Mi's troops. Chiang Kai-shek sent Li Mi and others to northern Burma, gathered the remnants of the fleeing troops and some local armed forces, and formed a team called the "First Column of the Southern Yunnan Border Area of the Anti-Communist Anti-Russian National Salvation Army". In December, Li Mi was appointed "Commander-in-Chief of the Yunnan Provincial People's Anti-Communist National Salvation Army" and concurrently served as "Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government" and "Director of the Yunnan Pacification Office."
After suffering for most of his life, Li Mi finally lived a good life of the emperor of the sky, and it was not until 1954 that Li Mi led part of the troops to withdraw from the Burma region under the pressure of the international situation. Compared with the old classmates of the fourth phase of Huangpu that year, Li Mi can be regarded as a blessing for Saiong, and he has lived such a chic life.