Chapter 26 9. Inventory

In this battle, the Kuomintang army, with 45,000 people in three armies, invaded the liberated area from Ci County to Handan. The local soldiers and civilians fought back from the standpoint of self-defense when they couldn't bear it. From October 24 to November 2, 1945 After 10 days of fierce fighting, the two armies of Sun Lianzhong, the main force of the Kuomintang army's attack on North China, were wiped out, and more than 17,000 enemies were captured. attack. The victory of the Battle of Handan, just as Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping pointed out in their "initial experience" summarizing the battle on November 9: it is necessary to attack both politically and militarily. Pulled the new 8th Army, then wiped out the 30th Army and 40th Army, repelled the 32nd Army and the 16th Army, and dealt a double blow to the Kuomintang reactionaries politically and militarily.

From a military point of view, this is another glorious example of a large-scale annihilation war after the Shangdang Great Victory.The soldiers and civilians in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area successfully guarded the southern gate of the North China Liberated Area, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to change his plan of land marching into Pingjin and Northeast China to air or sea transportation.This disrupted Chiang Kai-shek's pace of launching a national civil war, bought time and created favorable conditions for the CCP to adjust its national strategic deployment and march into the Northeast.This victory is of great significance to the overall situation.

From a political point of view, this victory has enhanced the CCP's position in the struggle for peace and democracy.General Gao Shuxun of the Northwest Army led his troops to revolt. He used practical actions to show the whole country that the people of the war supported him, and pointed out the way out for the soldiers in the Kuomintang army who were unwilling to endure being excluded.