Trust your 6th-sense.
Gen. Du Yuming (left), the ROC Army field commander who Lt. Gen. Guo Rugui (right) had betrayed in Huaihai Campaign in Chinese Civil War in 1948, long had a nagging gut feeling that Lt. Gen Guo Rugui was a communist mole, but had no proof.
He went up to /1
his boss, commander-in-chief Chiang Kai-shek, anyways.
Chiang Kai-shek, who greatly admited and trusted Lt. Gen. Guo Rugui (with good reason, as he was an exceptionally brilliant staff officer who masterminded Chinese operational strategy against Imperial Japanese Army in /2
Battle of Wuhan in 1938, for instance), demanded evidence and proof for Gen. Du Yuming's suspicions.
Of course, Gen. Du Yuming had none, despite his incredibly nagging 6th-sense.
The best approximation to evidence of Lt. Gen. Guo Rugui's treachery was—unlike many of his /3
fellow senior generals in ROC Army, he led an extremely austere personal lifestyle, incredibly spendthrift (for example, the tattered couch in his house), didn't fool around with women.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was also a similar exception in terms of leading an austere lifestyle /4
(which in his case, was attributable to his personality and devout Methodist Christian faith), burst into mad laughter. "So you're telling me, our generals have to be chasing after women [like Casanovas], to prove that they aren't communists?"
Gen. Du Yuming was thus /5
rebuffed.
And the rest is history, as Lt. Gen. Guo Rugui went on during the course of the Huaihai Campaign, leaking and trolling as Operations Head at ROC Ministry of Defense, luring Gen. Du Yuming into encirclement by communists and eventual annihilation of his army group. /e
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