On the day of the final, the armored soldiers surrounded the playing field with chariots, hoping to give the Air Force people a dismount. Not to be outdone, the Air Force sent two fighter jets to hover low over the arena. For a time, the motor roared, the wind blew, and the audience held their heads and rats, making birds and beasts scattered. After the game began, Zhao Zhihua led his team members to the scene, each wearing a wide belt around his waist and wearing large leather shoes on his feet, like a group of murderous thugs. The air army also intervened in the waist and put on the gun. The two sides are staring at each other, and the martial arts fight is about to erupt. The stadium referee was too frightened to show his head. In the end, Jiang Weiguo personally rushed to the scene to act as a referee, and only he could suppress the evil spirits of all walks of life, so that the game could be carried out normally. The result of the competition was that the Air Force won, but the organizers did not dare to offend these masters, and the crown and runner-up pennants issued were generally the same, all of which were written with the words "Brave Champion and Three Armies", and even the prizes given to them were no different.
Jiang Weiguo's men were so arrogant, he himself was certainly more pretentious. He looked down on Shi Zuhuang, the commander of the armored troops, and thought that this man was a layman of the armored corps and should be commanded by an expert like him. In early 1948, the Kuomintang Army established the Army Armored Corps Command. At this time, Jiang Weiguo's seniority was still shallow, and Chiang Kai-shek was not good enough to openly make him the commander of the armored forces, so he made Xu Tingyao, recommended by Bai Chongxi, as the commander, and Jiang Weiguo as the chief of staff. After Jiang Weiguo arrived in Nanjing, Zhao Zhihua was promoted to the commander of the 1st Regiment of Chariots.
Xu Tingyao, commander of the armored corps, was a native of Anhui and belonged to the Gui clique of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi. At that time, the Gui clan's influence in Anhui was very large, and there was a saying: "Li Zongren was elected vice president, and Anhui was three feet high." Xu Tingyao appointed Wu Wenzhi as deputy chief of staff in order to elevate Jiang Weiguo. Later, he even raised and secretly demoted Jiang Weiguo to deputy commander and Wu Wenzhi to chief of staff. Jiang Weiguo became a commander at the top and a chief of staff at the bottom, and in fact did not have much real power.
Served as Taiwan's "Commander of Armored Forces"
After the outbreak of the Battle of Huaihai in November 1948, the East China Field Army surrounded Huang Botao's corps at Nianzhuang. The 1st Regiment of Chariots painstakingly cultivated by Jiang Weiguo was ordered to go out and cooperate with Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi's army to advance east to break the siege. Zhao Zhihua patted his chest in front of Liu Zhi and boasted, "I am determined to personally lead the chariot regiment and swear to relieve the siege of Huang Botao." If the infantry can't keep up, my chariot can also hit the mill alone! However, under the strong resistance of Huaye's reinforcements, the 1st Regiment was never able to break through the defense line of the People's Liberation Army, and instead lost more than 30 tanks.
At the same time, the Kuomintang Huang Wei Corps came from Henan to reinforce, and was surrounded by Liu Deng's army at shuangduiji near the Mihe River. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Li Yannian and Liu Ruming to march north from Bengbu to rescue them. However, under the stubborn resistance of the PLA reinforcements, the progress of Li Yannian and Liu Ruming's corps was slow. Chiang Kai-shek was furious in Nanjing, and sent Jiang Weiguo to lead the armored troops to assist in the battle. When Jiang Weiguo bid farewell to his father, Chiang Kai-shek told him the story of the "Battle of Shuishui", hoping that Jiang Weiguo would be able to win this decisive battle on the ancient battlefield of Shuishui.
Jiang Weiguo led the 2nd Tank Regiment to Bengbu, that is, the Li Yannian Corps launched an attack on the People's Liberation Army. The enemy's commanders at all levels, with Jiang Weiguo's tanks and boldness, went to the front one after another to urge the troops to step up their offensive, and successively captured Xinqiao, Cao Laoji, Renheji, and Zhoujiakou. On December 9, Li and Liu Corps advanced to the Mars Temple area, only about 35 kilometers away from the double stack, and it was obvious that they could meet with the Huang Wei Corps. For a time, various newspapers in Nanjing reported on the war in Bengbu one after another, touting the bravery and good fighting of the second prince of Jiang on the front line.
But the Plaster soon found a way to deal with tanks, and Jiang Weiguo's tank attacks were repeatedly thwarted. Li and Liu reinforcements could only advance at snail speed, and did not advance to the Baoji front line until December 14. The next day, Huang Wei's corps was completely annihilated at Shuangduiji. When Li Yannian and Liu Ruming heard the news, they immediately turned around and fled south. Jiang Weiguo also retreated across the Huai River with his tanks in a daze. His ambition to win the "Battle of Xinshuishui" was completely shattered. The 1st Chariot Regiment, which was a unit of Jiang Weiguo's family, was also destroyed at Chen Guanzhuang with Du Yuming's clique. The regimental commander, Zhao Zhihua, became a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army. After his release, he returned to the Kuomintang army, still gained the trust and value of Jiang Weiguo, and later became the "deputy commander of the armored troops" in Taiwan.
In the three major battles, the Nationalist armored troops were almost completely destroyed, leaving only the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Tank Regiment and 2 amphibious tank battalions. Seeing that the Kuomintang regime was in jeopardy, some people proposed to transfer armored troops to Guangxi and Fujian. Jiang Weiguo went to ask Chiang Kai-shek: "Do you want the armored troops to withdraw to Hainan Island first, or do you want to withdraw directly to Taiwan?" Or go in two parts, one from Hainan Island and one directly to Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek said: "It is better to go directly to Taiwan, and the armored troops do not have to go around in such a big circle, because there is no need to fight there now, the focus is still on Shanghai, and when they come out of Shanghai, of course, they will go to Taiwan." After Jiang Weiguo led the remnants of the armored troops to Taiwan, he became the commander of the armored troops of the Kuomintang Army in 1950. Since 1955, he has served successively as deputy director and director of the General Staff Headquarters. In 1958, Chiang Wei-kuo was again transferred to Taiwan as the "Commander of the Armored Corps." In 1963, he was re-chaired at the Army Command and Staff University.
Although Jiang Weiguo ostensibly left the armored unit, the armored unit was still presided over by his close associate Zhao Zhihua. In January 1964, Zhao Zhihua launched the "Hukou Mutiny" in Taiwan, scolding the corrupt life of the Kuomintang high-level and calling on the generals to follow him "on the side of the Qing Dynasty". After the mutiny failed, Zhao Zhihua was arrested. Afterwards, Jiang Weiguo tried his best to defend Zhao Zhihua, in fact, to protect himself. In the end, Zhao Zhihua was commuted from the death penalty to life imprisonment, and later died after being reportedly assassinated by the authorities. Affected by the "Hukou Mutiny," Jiang Weiguo's career in the army was also in a slump. In 1968, he became vice-chancellor of the Tri-Service United University, and since then he has completely lost his influence on the armored corps.