Chapter 62 4. Planning to attack Shanghai

May 7, 1949. The former enemy headquarters of the Third Field Army in the ancient city of Suzhou.At this time, Zhang Zhen and Su Yu were formulating a battle plan to capture Shanghai.Zhang Zhen looked at Su Yu and said, "Recently, all ministries have called to inquire about the time of the general attack. It seems that the preparations have been completed." Su Yu smiled and said: "Don't worry! The Military Commission and the General Front Committee have considered that the work of taking over Shanghai has not been done yet, and the enemy should not be alarmed, otherwise they will be scared away."

The two of them repeatedly studied several combat plans for capturing Shanghai in front of the map.In the end, three methods were decided: One is to implement a long-term siege of the Shanghai defenders.However, Shanghai has a population of more than 5 million, and food and fuel are all brought in from other places. The long-term siege will inevitably make the life of the citizens desperate. The enemy may escape by sea, and it will delay the national liberation. The second is to attack the weak points of its defense and carry out surprise attacks from Suzhou and Henan.However, this plan is bound to attract the main force of the defenders to the urban area and make the urban area the main battlefield. In this way, urban facilities will be fatally destroyed. This method of warfare is naturally not advisable.

The third is to detour from the two wings of Shanghai, clamp Wusongkou, block its sea retreat, temporarily refrain from attacking the urban area, and lure its main force to the outskirts of the city.This plan can not only prevent it from transporting more materials from the sea, but also preserve the integrity of the urban area.However, considering that Tang Enbo must concentrate his forces on both sides of Wusongkou to fight desperately in order to ensure his retreat at sea, our army will have to pay a heavy price. Zhang Zhen pointed on the map with a pencil for a while, then turned around and asked Su Yu, "Which plan do you prefer?"

Su Yu lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said, "The third type." "Our army will have to pay for this plan!" "We are the people's army. In order to preserve a complete Shanghai, we can only do this." "I agree too." Su Yu smoked a cigarette and said: "This will be a tough and vicious battle, and the troops will have to pay a high price." Zhang Zhen said: "However, this is more in line with the spirit of the Central Military Commission's telegram on May 6 to cut off the enemy's sea retreat." Su Yu nodded: "Yes. Please report our third plan to the Military Commission and the General Front Committee immediately."

On May 8, the Central Military Commission replied and approved the plan, and the instructions were requested to be implemented accordingly.The Military Commission believes: "At the same time as capturing Wusong and Jiaxing, etc., it is necessary to send sufficient troops to occupy Chuansha, Nanhui, and Fengxian, and to close all the enemy's escape routes." On May 10, Su Yu and Zhang Zhen issued the "Operation Order for the Battle of Songhu".The specific deployment is: Ye Fei, the commander of the 10th Corps, and Wei Guoqing, the political commissar, commanded the 26th, 28th, 29th, and 33rd armies, and were attached to the 5th and 6th artillery regiments of the special forces column and an engineering battalion.First, use the main force to capture Wusong and Baoshan, blockade the mouth of the Huangpu River, and block the transportation of enemy ships.The rest of the troops divided and wiped out the enemies in Kunshan, Anting, Taicang, and Jiading areas, and the Northwest Area of ​​Shanghai cooperated with the 9th Corps to attack Shanghai.

The main force of the 29th Army and the 28th Army should support the main force of the 28th Army in operations on the evening of May 12 to cover their side and back safety.After that, it was on standby to attack Shanghai along Jinghu Road and the left bank of Suzhou Creek.The 33rd Army assembled in the Changshu area, preparing to take over the guarding tasks of Taicang, Jiading, Baoshan, and Wusong, so that the 29th Army and the 28th Army could concentrate their forces to attack Shanghai. Song Shilun, commander of the 9th Corps, and Guo Huaruo, political commissar, commanded the 20th Army, 27th Army, 30th Army, and 31st Army, and cooperated with the 4th Artillery Regiment of the Special Forces Column. , Cut off the enemy's retreat from Shanghai to the southeast.The main force will control Qingpu and the area west of Songjiang, and then stand by and cooperate with the 10th Corps from the east, south, and west to attack Shanghai.

The 27th Army should gather in Jiashan on the evening of May 14, control the Dadongbang Iron Bridge, and monitor the enemies in Songjiang and Qingpu.If the enemy withdraws, it should immediately advance to the area east of Qingpu and west of Sijing Town, and stand by to capture Shanghai along the south of Suzhou Creek. The 20th Army should attack and annihilate the enemies of Pinghu and Jinshanwei on May 14, and control the area with a part to be handed over to the 31st Army to take over, and then gather in the south of Songjiang, on the right bank of the Huangpu River.If the enemy of Songjiang escapes, control Songjiang and stand by to attack the old French Concession and Nanshi District along the way.

The 31st Army should take over the defense of the Pinghu and Jinshanwei areas of the 20th Army on May 15, and close the escape route of Shanghai defending the enemy to the south.Its main force should join the Pudong operation after ending the 30th Army in due course. The 30th Army should attack Fengxian, Nanhui, and Chuansha along the north of Jiaxing and Jinshanwei, and the right bank of the Huangpu River, annihilate the enemies in the area, and cut off the sea escape route to the southeast of the Shanghai defenders.Its vanguard strives to occupy Chuansha on the evening of May 16. This arrangement is powerful. The 10th Corps came from the west road, and the 9th Corps from the east road, like a pincer, tightly pinched Wu Song and blocked Tang Enbo's retreat.Then open a few holes and penetrate through the gap.It should be said that the preparations for the liberation of Shanghai in all aspects, especially the preparations for how to take over the city, have been well done.

On May 10, the Field Army Command ordered Ye Fei to lead the 28th and 29th armies of the 10th Corps to form the West Route Army. They would start from Changshu and advance to Wusongkou before dawn on the 14th to enter a fighting state. Commander Ye Fei of the 10th Corps was an impatient person. After reading the combat order issued by the field army headquarters, he had a lot of opinions. Then he picked up the phone and connected to the field division. The call was answered by an operational staff officer from the headquarters.Ye Fei said bluntly: "Only the 28th and 29th armies of the 10th Corps went west, but they asked to arrive in two days. Do you know how far it is from Changshu to Wusongkou?"

The staff officer replied: "More than 120 kilometers." Ye Fei said: "More than 120 kilometers, among them, you need to pass through Taicang, cross the Ji River, and pass through Jiading, Yuepu, Yanghang, Liuhang and other permanent fortifications to reach Wusongkou. Just don't fight, just march forcibly. You can only walk sixty or seventy kilometers in one day. If you only give me two days, isn’t there a war going on?” The staff officer said: "There won't be much resistance. My underground party in Shanghai is doing the work of instigating the rebellion of Tang Enbo's troops."

Ye Fei said: "Well, since there is no battle to be fought, then I don't need to command it myself, just designate Commander Zhu Shaoqing of the 28th Army as a unified command." Ye Fei was about to put on the phone, when he suddenly heard Su Yu's voice on the other end of the phone: "What, Commander Ye, is there anything you can't figure out? How about this, you come here in the afternoon, let's have a good talk." Changshu is not far from Suzhou. Ye Fei got on the jeep and soon arrived at the Sanye headquarters. Su Yu always has that shallow and kind smile on his face, which makes his subordinates always have a kind of intimacy with him. Su Yu smiled and asked, "Just say what you have to say." Ye Fei sat down and said: "Our two armies will complete the task of deploying defenses within two days, which is not counted as walking. I am a little worried." Su Yu said: "The situation has changed, which is beneficial to you." Ye Fei looked at him and said, "What's wrong?" Su Yu said: "Shanghai's underground party's instigation work has achieved results. Some senior Kuomintang generals said that as long as the People's Liberation Army comes, they will instigate an uprising in the city, so you won't have any battles to fight along the way." At this time, Su Yu didn't know that General Zhang Quan's identity had been exposed and had been arrested. He was still very optimistic about the peaceful liberation of Shanghai. Ye Fei didn't think so, he said: "It won't be so easy!" Su Yu said, "Are you worried about the 29th Army?" Ye Fei shook his head lightly.Su Yu said: "Precisely because the 29th Army didn't have many opportunities to fight big battles before, this opportunity should not be missed. Exercise hard." Ye Fei did not express any disagreement. Su Yu also said: "Although there are no major problems in this battle, it is more certain. But Shanghai is an international city, and its success or failure has a great impact. You should command it yourself." Ye Fei couldn't say anything more, so he gave a military salute and left. On May 12, the battle to attack Greater Shanghai began. The first day of the battle went smoothly as expected. The armies of the first echelon of the 10th and 9th Corps launched peripheral battles in a unified manner. The main force of the 29th Army of the 10th Corps occupied Liuhe that day and wiped out more than one battalion of the 52nd Army of the defending army. The 83rd and 84th divisions of the 28th Army went straight to Wusong.Taicang and Jiading were occupied on the 12th and 13th, and more than 2,000 people from the 123rd Army of the Defending Army were wiped out. The 26th Army occupied Kunshan on the 12th and Nanxiang on the 14th, chased and wiped out part of the 182nd Division of the 123rd Army of the defenders, and captured 1,000 people.Then enter the Anting area to stand by. From the 12th to the 14th, the 20th Army of the 9th Corps successively occupied Pinghu, Jinshanwei, and Fengxian, and wiped out part of the 8th Division of the defending army. Under the cover of the 20th Army, the 30th Army pursued Gaoqiao in Pudong, occupied Nanhui on the 14th, and approached Chuansha. The 27th Army occupied Jiaxing, Songjiang, Qingpu and other counties from the 12th to the 14th, and was on standby to attack the urban areas. However, after the two armies of the east and west that carried out the pincer offensive cleared the perimeter and entered the enemy's second perimeter defense line, they encountered strong resistance. In the early morning of the 13th, a regiment of the 87th Division and the 85th Division of the 29th Army surrounded Yuepu Town on three sides and launched an attack at dusk. The 5th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the enemy's 52nd Army, supported by naval guns and fortress artillery, blocked the way forward to attack the PLA troops.The defenders hide in the bunkers in the woods, haystacks, and graves, forming a dense and intersecting firepower network to resist tenaciously.After several attacks, the attacking troops occupied the frontier of Yuepu Town.After nearly 40 hours of fierce fighting, Fang captured Yuepu Street at dawn on the 15th. The enemy retreated to a small highland outside the town, charged repeatedly, and the navy and air force bombed together, leaving Yuepu Town in ruins. The 87th Division firmly held on to the acquired position with relatively large casualties. At the same time, the 28th Army suffered setbacks at the Liuxingzhen International Radio position. The garrison here is only a battalion of the 25th Division of the 52nd Army, but because the position is densely covered with steel and concrete bunkers, there are power grids, bamboo sticks, mines and ditches around each bunker, and there are gun holes on all sides of the bunker. The chest and back walls were more than 1 meter thick. In addition, the attacking troops were insufficiently prepared for battlefield reconnaissance. After a night of fierce fighting, they took down 4 bunker groups. Ye Fei also came to the front of the position, very anxious.At this time, he remembered that when the Japanese attacked Shanghai twice, they were also blocked in the Yuepu and Liuxing areas. So two battalions were deployed to outflank Liu Xing, but it still failed. The 29th Army and the 28th Army suffered heavy casualties during the fierce battle in the first three days. On the evening of the 16th, Ye Fei called Su Yu, and the first sentence was: "Deputy Commander Su, I failed to complete the mission and failed to arrive at Wusongkou by the appointed time." Su Yu said: "It's not your fault, it's our fault. The information is inaccurate. They fought well, and the soldiers fought well and were very brave." After a pause, Su Yu asked again: "Are there many casualties in the troops?" Ye Fei said: "The sacrifice is too great. The attacking force of the 29th Army has already sacrificed a regimental commander and a director of the political department. The company commander is dead and the battalion commander is dead. What if the regimental commander can't go? 28 The attacking troops of the Chinese Army occupied 4 bunker groups, and more than 80 people were killed or injured. Last night, the 248th Regiment, which penetrated through the side door of the international radio station, occupied a bunker group. After dawn, it was covered by enemy artillery fire, causing more than 300 casualties." Ye Fei added: "Deputy Commander Su, you can't be so reckless again. The price is too high." Su Yu said: "Yes, we can't be so reckless, we have to find a way. We have reported this situation to the General Front Committee, and Commander Chen Yi, on behalf of the General Front Committee, telegraphed us to attack Shanghai and fight. Don't be impatient. Explosives must be used in large quantities. , cooperate with artillery and tunnel operations to overcome the enemy's reinforced concrete bunkers..." Ye Fei suddenly said: "Yes, we can use explosives to carry out tunnel operations. We can use close-in operations to attack fortified areas, attacking section by section and point by point!" Su Yu was very happy and said: "Commander Ye, your idea is very good. I will immediately transfer a division from the 26th Army and the 33rd Army to you, and work together to attack the fortification." Su Yu understood Ye Fei's mood very well, and he asked again: "Should I add more troops to you?" Ye Fei said: "No need, we are not fighting a sea of ​​people! Please rest assured." After Su Yu put down the phone, he also felt very heavy, and sat there smoking a cigarette. Zhang Zhen said to him: "This battle is different from the past. It seems that we have to change our tactics." Su Yu raised his head and said: "Yes, attacking Shanghai is different from attacking Taiyuan and Jinan. It is unlikely to pin your hopes on the uprising of the Kuomintang troops." Zhang Zhen said: "Wu Huawen came out of Jinan, and Tang Enbo from Shanghai is very stubborn. It is impossible to become Wu Huawen's second." "We immediately changed our combat policy, and there can be no more mistakes." "The deployment of troops also needs to be adjusted." "Yes, but you can't do big moves, you can do small moves." The two of them stayed together and studied repeatedly for a long time, and finally issued five new combat policies to the troops: 1. After clearing the enemy's periphery, the attack on the main position should be closely reconnaissance, select the protruding part or junction of the enemy and the weaker enemy to attack, wedge into the depth of the enemy, and then attack from the enemy's back or from the inside to the outside to tear the enemy defense system.This method was very effective in the Taiyuan campaign. 2. Concentrate troops (it should be a small group action, group attack), especially concentrate firepower (implement suppressive shooting and destructive shooting) combined with launching tubes to bombard a point, use explosives to soften the enemy's steel and concrete fortifications, take turns non-stop In this way, it is difficult for the enemy to reorganize the defense, and it is also possible to avoid the blockade of the enemy's measured firepower. 3. Traffic trench operations, approaching the enemy.When Du Yuming was annihilated in the Huaihai Campaign, the pincer operation can be used to attack alternately, and strive to annihilate the enemy in the position. 4. Give full play to the spirit of solitary attack and defense, exert the power of blasting, use explosives to open up the charge road and annihilate the enemy's counterattack troops, conduct education on fighting tanks and armored vehicles, correct group attack and group defense methods, and reduce unnecessary casualties. 5. Designate anti-aircraft units. After this instruction was issued, all troops immediately changed their tactics in light of the actual situation, and achieved obvious results. The battlefields advanced steadily, and the enemy already felt that it was difficult to resist. On the 22nd, the 29th Army wiped out all the enemies outside Yuepu. The initial battle of the Eastern Army was smoother than that of the Western Army.The 30th Army of the 9th Corps, which was in charge of the east attack, approached Pudong, and the offensive was so fast that Tang Enbo's original plan to blow up the seawall in Fengxian County and flood the army failed to come true. On the evening of the 16th, the 30th Army encircled and wiped out the 51st Army of the Tang Department, all of the 8th Temporary Division, and a part of the 37th Army in Bailonggang, and captured more than 8,000 people under the commander of the 51st Army Wang Bingzhang. The 31st Army fought side by side with the 30th Army.Besieged Zhoupu Town on the 16th, fought fiercely for 10 hours, wiped out the defenders, and captured more than 2,500 people under the commander of the coastal defense detachment, Geng Ziren. On the 19th, the 31st Army and the 30th Army will attack Takahashi.On the 23rd, Gaoqiao and the surrounding positions were captured. After 10 days of fighting, the Eastern and Western Route Armies completely broke through Tang Enbo's defense system around Songhu, partially broke through his main position, and captured more than 20,000 people.Tang Enbo was forced to concentrate his main force on both sides of Wusongkou, leaving the urban area empty of troops and creating conditions for the siege troops to launch a comprehensive general attack. This concludes the first phase of the attack on Shanghai. The second phase of the Shanghai campaign, the general attack on the urban area of ​​Shanghai, is planned to start on May 24. On the 22nd, it was detected that the defenders planned to withdraw from the sea.Its 54th Army has withdrawn from the Zhenru area.In the urban area south of Suzhou Creek, only the traffic police force is on guard. Su Yu immediately ordered all ministries to attack at the same time, and quickly wiped out the defenders in Shanghai.And decided to launch a general offensive on the night of the 23rd ahead of schedule. There are 4 armies participating in the general attack on the urban area: The 27th Army occupied Hongqiao Town on the 24th and advanced to the edge of the urban area south of Suzhou Creek. At dawn on the 24th, the 20th Army occupied Pudong City. The 23rd Army entered the Caohejing and Longhua areas on the 24th. After occupying Shenjiaqiao and other places on the 24th, the 26th Army attacked Luyangqiao and Tangqiao. On May 24, the Third Field Army Headquarters further found out that Tang Enbo and other enemy leaders had sailed out to sea and commanded the retreat outside Wusongkou. Su Yu immediately ordered all the ministries to launch a pursuit immediately, wedge into the depth of the defenders, and intercept and annihilate the defeated army. Tang Enbo's only remedial measure was to call back his 75th Army from Gaoqiao to strengthen Wusong's defense and cover the escape of large troops boarding the ship. At this time, Tang Enbo already felt that the prospects were not good. Even he himself did not believe that his steel fortification in Shanghai, which was "33.3% stronger than Stalingrad", was so vulnerable. When Chiang Kai-shek ordered Tang Enbo to evacuate Shanghai on May 24, he ran faster than anyone else.Finally, hide in the warship at sea and command the troops to fight. On the 25th, the 99th Division of the 29th Army and the 33rd Army attacked Wusong and Baoshan fiercely. On the 26th, they occupied Baoshan City and arrived at Wusong at the same time to join the brother troops. At dawn on the 26th, the 25th Army occupied the Wusong Fortress. At 11 o'clock on the 28th, the 28th Army also attacked Wusong. After defeating Yang Xing on the 26th, it continued to pursue eastward, went straight to Wusong, and joined forces with brother troops at 11:00 am. At the same time, the 30th Army and the 31st Army of the East Road jointly attacked Gaoqiao.On the night of the 15th, the bridgehead in the center of the town was occupied.Then continue to attack north and east. On the morning of the 26th, the 30th Army occupied Sancha Port, and the east bank of Wusongkou blocked the river; at 12 noon, the 31st Army wiped out the enemies in Jiangxinzhou.The Pudong area was completely occupied. So far, the People's Liberation Army's attack on Wusong has been completed, and the brothers and sisters of Tang Enbo's department who have not had time to escape, stay in Shanghai, and there are only two ways out: be beaten or surrender. The various armies that encircled and wiped out the defenders in the urban area progressed relatively smoothly, and did not encounter greater resistance, because at this time the defenders had no leader and were in extreme chaos. If it is said that there is luck in fighting, then among many generals with the same qualifications, Nie Fengzhi is the luckiest one. In the fight against Meng Lianggu, it was he who led the 9th Zong to fight from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and was the first to plant the red flag to the top of the mountain; when he fought against Jinan, it was his 9th Zong who was the first to break into the city and turn the assist into the main attack; In the battle of crossing the river, he led the 27th army to break through the natural danger of the Yangtze River first, and enjoyed the reputation of "the first ship crossing the river". Now that Greater Shanghai is being liberated, it is this Nie Fengzhi's army that is the first to attack the urban area. On the evening of May 24th, Nie Fengzhi was in the headquarters and heard fierce gun battles in the urban area, so he picked up the phone, connected to the command post of the 79th Division, and found the division commander Xiao Jinghai. "You go in!" Master Xiao Jinghai's voice changed with joy: "We are chasing towards the city center along Nanjing Road and Linsen Road. The lights on the road are still shining for us!" The divisions called one after another to report the situation of entering the urban area. On the combat map of the 27th Army Command Post, many thick red arrows quickly inserted into the center of the city. At 8 a.m. on the 25th, after just over ten hours, all the areas south of the Suzhou Creek were liberated.However, no one expected that a narrow Suzhou Creek blocked the troops' offensive. At this time, Nie Fengzhi took several military and political personnel from the military department to a regiment command post of the former enemy and observed it carefully for more than an hour. Suzhou Creek is about 30 meters wide and runs across the urban area of ​​Shanghai.Relying on the tall buildings, factories, warehouses and other buildings on the north bank, the defenders were condescending and interweaved into a dense firepower network, blocking the entire river and a wide road on the south bank. The attacking troops rushed up wave after wave, and fell down one after another.Among them are the cadres and soldiers who created the honor of the "Jinan First Regiment", and the combat backbone of the "First Ship on the Yangtze River" who first broke through the natural moat of the Yangtze River. The artillery unit was ready. At this time, Nie Fengzhi ran to the forward command post, but ordered to stop the shelling. At this time, there was a blasting team leader who was injured in his left arm, and the bright red blood soaked the white bandage.As soon as he saw Nie Fengzhi, he said: "Commander, give the order! Three packs of explosives will blow up the building opposite!" "No!" Commander Nie said decisively. "why?" "You all know that in order to return a prosperous big Shanghai to the people of Shanghai, the General Front Committee and the head of the field army have long issued a ban: only light weapons are allowed to be used in battles in the urban area, and the use of artillery and explosives is strictly prohibited." A company commander raised his gun and said, "We are at war, so why not use artillery fire?" Nie Fengzhi couldn't answer. He looked at the angry eyes and didn't know what to say. At this time, someone was still asking him: "The troops have paid such a high price, and we can't make unnecessary sacrifices." "Commander, just approve two rounds." Still silent, he sat in the command post and smoked. A company commander held the bleeding body of a little soldier with a baby face, and angrily asked the army commander: "Is the building of the bourgeois officials and lords more important, or the lives of proletarian revolutionary fighters?" This question is too acute. At this time, as long as one shot is allowed to be fired, there will inevitably be thousands and thousands of shots. There are millions of people on the north bank of the Suzhou River. He looked at the soldiers and said, "I understand your feelings. I love both soldiers and bungalows. Once the artillery fires, the other side will be in ruins. What's the use of us taking over it? Let's hold on for a few more hours!" General Nie Fengzhi decided to change his tactics: feign an attack on the Suzhou River, and send part of the main force to cross the river from the side after dark, copying the enemy's rear. According to relevant records, General Chi Haotian, the current vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, made great contributions to the capture of Suzhou Creek by the 27th Army.At that time, he and another soldier jumped into the water, got into the sewer by the river, and climbed into the enemy headquarters in the building.He held a gun in both hands. When he walked in, the enemy looked at the PLA who had become a clay figurine, trembling with fright, and was dealt with before he could resist. At that time, the Shanghai underground party organization also played a big role in launching a political offensive to divide and disintegrate the enemy. The timely uprising of Liu Changyi, commander of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou garrison, was a major event in the liberation of Shanghai. Liu Changyi's military career has experienced ups and downs, and his life path is very tortuous. Liu Changyi joined the army at the age of 17. He was trained at the Luoyang Military Academy of the Northwest Army. Later, he followed Feng Yuxiang and participated in the anti-Chiang war. After the Anti-Japanese War began, Liu Changyi organized the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, which was later reorganized into the Northern Henan Guerrilla in the First Theater.After Wang Jingwei publicly voted for Japan, he appointed Wang Yizhi, the director of the second department of his office, and Okamura, the leader of the Japanese invaders, to send people to check. By the attention of the Kuomintang authorities.The troops were reorganized into the provisional 15th Army, and Liu Changyi was promoted to lieutenant general commander. In the spring of 1944, on the Central Plains battlefield, Tang Enbo's 500,000 troops collapsed without a fight, while Liu Changyi's provisional 15th Army resisted desperately on the Zhongmu-Xuchang line of defense.After fighting fiercely for half a month, it cost two divisions. Because of his meritorious service in the war against Japan, Liu Changyi was received by Lao Jiang and awarded a "Three-level Yunhui Medal". However, Liu Changyi, as an anti-Japanese hero, with Lao Jiang, with the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, his mission ended, because he was not born in Huangpu, not a direct descendant. In January 1945, Chiang Kai-shek gave Liu Changyi a secret promotion, dismissed his post as army commander, and suspended two vacant titles of deputy commanders.The old subordinates were subsequently reorganized and dismissed. Liu Changyi was disheartened for a moment.At this time, the Chinese Democratic Revolution was established in Hong Kong, led by Li Jishen and Cai Tingkai, with the support of the Communist Party behind them.According to someone's introduction, Liu Changyi joined the Kuomintang at the end of 1948. After the army crossed the river in April 1949, Liu Changyi moved with the army from Changzhou to Shanghai Chongming Island.Because Liu Changyi did not have actual military power, he refused to stay on Chongming Island on the grounds of recuperating from his illness, but stayed at the New Asia Hotel in Shanghai. While Tang Enbo and other senior generals were busy defending Greater Shanghai, the lieutenant general and deputy commander was relatively leisurely. Therefore, he always looked for opportunities to visit Tang Enbo, played cards at the home of Songhu Defense Commander Shi Jue and others, and kept close contact with them. At this time, no one took him seriously.Chiang Kai-shek held three consecutive meetings of cadres above the regiment on Fuxing Island, but he was not called. Once, at Shi Jue's home, Liu Changyi met Jiang Weiguo. The second son of Jiang said: "Senior, I have known you since I was the company commander. You are a famous general of the Northwest Army and a hero in the Anti-Japanese War. Now, I Father is in trouble, you have to contribute more to the battle." This moved Liu Changyi very much, showing that the party-state still needs him.But I have no military power. On May 16, the 51st Army of the Kuomintang was annihilated by the People's Liberation Army in Bailonggang, Pudong, and its commander Wang Bingzhang was captured.When the news came, Liu Changyi was moved in his heart.He rushed to Tang Enbo's house on Pushi Road in Shanghai, and said to Tang: "The 51st Army has no commander, and the troops are in disarray. Someone should go to greet him." Tang Enbo immediately agreed with him to concurrently serve as the commander of the 51st Army. On May 22, Liu Changyi took office and incorporated the remnants of the 51st Army, which had a total of less than two regiments, and deployed them on the line west of the Mint Bridge on the north bank of the Suzhou River. That night, Tang Enbo withdrew all the 75th Army, 54th Army in Suzhou Henan, and the 37th Army in Pudong to Suzhou Hebei.At the same time, the Northern Corps was composed of the 51st Army, the 21st Army, and the 123rd Army. Liu Changyi concurrently served as the commander of the Northern Corps and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou garrison. It was precisely in this way that Liu Changyi was sobered up by adding more officials and conferring titles. It seemed that General Tang was about to run away.He was just promoted to the "commander for death" who escaped from Tang Enbo. Just when Nie Fengzhi's army was blocked on the south bank of the river and was extremely anxious, Liu Changyi had made up his mind and decided not to be Tang Enbo's scapegoat, and revolted against him. With the help of the underground party, Liu Changyi got in touch with the 81st Division of the 27th Army. During Liu Changyi's negotiations with Luo Weidao, political commissar of the 81st Division, the most ardent request was to retain the unit's organizational structure and designation.It is not easy for him to find such an official and have so many soldiers, so he asked to keep it.He said: "Although I don't have many soldiers, I still have a few regiments." Luo Weidao smiled and said, "General Liu, with all due respect, if you continue to resist, our army can wipe you out within an hour." A defeated general cannot speak of courage, so Liu Changyi could only nod his head and say, "That's it! That's it!" On the signing of the uprising agreement, Liu Changyi himself wrote the sentence "keep the formation and designation of the army after the uprising", but Luo Weidao unceremoniously crossed it out.Afterwards, the two parties signed the agreement. Liu Changyi was taken to the command post of the 27th Army and was warmly received by Nie Fengzhi.Commander Nie reported the matter to Su Yu, and Su Yu immediately dictated the order, restricting the Liu Department to stand by near Jiangwan at noon on the 26th; the evacuated area will be taken over by the People's Liberation Army; anyone who refuses to accept the order will be dealt with by the People's Liberation Army Of. On May 26, the 27th Army fought across the Suzhou Creek, shouting on the radio while fighting, and most of the 21st Army and 123rd Army of the Liu Department put down their weapons in front of their positions. However, the 37th Army of the Kuomintang and the Traffic Police Corps continued to block the area from the east of the Mint Bridge to the Outward Bridge and resisted stubbornly. The 27th Army of the People's Liberation Army, together with the 23rd Army and a part of the 20th Army, attacked from the front and flanks, and resolved the battle at noon on the 26th.At the same time, the 26th Army of the People's Liberation Army captured Dachang and Jiangwan; the 25th Army and 29th Army captured Wusong and Baoshan; the 28th Army and 33rd Army captured Yangxing and other places. After the early morning of May 27, the gunfire in the direction of Shanghai and Wusongkou gradually stopped.At this time, the British and American warships, which had been moored at Wusongkou and watched the excitement with great interest, also disappeared into the vast sea trailing long black smoke. Chiang Kai-shek strictly ordered to stick to the "six months", and the prophecy and hope that Britain and the United States would provide assistance, like a balloon, was shattered when the People's Liberation Army poked it with its hand. Shanghai is liberated. At dawn on May 27, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to celebrate liberation.