Chapter 60 7. Liu Bocheng's department hastily "evacuated"

The deployment has been made, and it is necessary to lure the whole 3rd Division, a big fish, to take the bait.In order to lure the enemy to go deep, make the enemy stretch the front line during the movement, trap the enemy in a state of exhaustion, and form isolated and weak parts, so that the field army can concentrate superior forces to annihilate them one by one.After the entire 3rd Division occupied several towns along Longhai, seeing that the People's Liberation Army had no resistance, they thought it was powerless to stop them, so they drove into the liberated areas even more frantically.Zhao Xitian shouted triumphantly:

"Liu Bocheng is already defeated. I can occupy the whole of Hebei, Shandong and Henan in two weeks, and drive him to the Taihang Mountains!" Liu Zhi asked Zhao Xitian in secret language on the intercom if he wanted an aircraft to cooperate with the attack, and Zhao Xitian simply replied in plain language: "There is no need for planes. With this little equipment, the communist army is vulnerable." Liu Zhi asked in surprise, "Why don't you speak the secret language?" Zhao Xitian said: "It doesn't matter, the Communist Army doesn't have this thing!"

It can be seen that Zhao Xitian has become extremely arrogant.As everyone knows, he is walking towards destruction step by step according to the route and time designed by Liu Bocheng.In fact, not only Zhao Xitian, but the entire KMT headquarters were kept in the dark, not knowing that the main force of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army retreating without a fight was a clever trick by Liu Bocheng.When Zhao Xitian entered Baimaoji with three regiments according to Liu Zhi's tactics, Chiang Kai-shek specially sent a commendation order from Nanjing, and Liu Zhi and Fan Hanjie, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Ministry of Defense and Army, rushed to the front line to inspect and supervise the battle.

The overjoyed Liu Zhi was eager to fight, and he actually changed his deployment temporarily, changing the original plan that the 3rd Division and the 41st Division would attack Dingtao together, to change the 3rd Division to attack Heze alone, and the 41st Division to attack Dingtao alone. Liu Zhi wanted to eat two pieces of meat in one bite, but his front teeth were pulled out instead! He never dreamed that in this way, the gap between the two divisions would further widen, and the so-called "going forward in parallel and taking care of both sides" obviously became empty talk.

Liu Bocheng was overjoyed when he received the information at the command post, and couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing: "Liu Zhi, Liu Zhi, you haven't changed your habit of greedy for profit!" The whole 3rd division not only delayed the enemy, but also "fed the mouse before eating it"; it also won 4 days of precious rest time, so that the troops could recharge their spirits.Now the 3rd Division and the 47th Division cannot look at each other, and the enemy's 41st Division is blocked 80 miles away by our 2nd Division, and the 55th Division and 68th Division are blocked by our 3rd Division and 7th Division in the Caonan area , It is at least 60 miles away from the entire 3rd Division, and the enemy of Xuzhou is still 200 miles away.The time has come to wipe out the entire 3rd Division.

Liu Deng immediately decided: If the enemy changes, I will also change.One day in advance, on September 3, the entire 3rd Division was first annihilated in the Dayang Lake area west of the area originally scheduled to annihilate the enemy, in order to seize the fleeting opportunity. Therefore, the Battle of Dingtao is also called the Battle of Dayang Lake.Someone later commented: "This keen vision, courage to make decisions at the moment, and the superb art of being good at catching fighters have become the recognized characteristics of Liu Deng's command in the military circle."

Liu Bocheng decided to use 10 brigades, four times the strength of the enemy, to deal with Zhao Xitian's two brigades. The specific deployment is: the 2nd and 6th columns and 5 brigades are the right group, under the command of Chen Zaidao; the 3rd and 7th columns are the left group, under the joint command of Yang Yong, Zhang Linzhi, Chen Xilian and Peng Tao.First let go and lure the enemy's 3rd Division to rush into the predetermined battlefields of Yanghu and Xiaoyang; then the two groups join forces to gather and wipe them out. On the morning of the 3rd, the two regiments of Wang Jinshan's 6th Column received fire with the entire 3rd Division. Following the commander's instructions, they pretended to retreat at the touch of a touch.

Zhao Xitian received a report that the communist army in the Dahuangji area had retreated towards Heze first, so the entire 3rd Division drove to Dahuangji without hindrance.At that time, the local residents were still doing business in the market, and Zhao Xitian had no idea that there would be any enemy situation here.As everyone knows, this place is the old liberated area of ​​the Communist Party. The PLA knows the actions of the "National Army" well, but the "National Army" knows nothing about the actions of the PLA. In the early morning of the same day, in order to lure the entire 3rd Division into the pocket he set up as soon as possible, Liu Bocheng ordered his troops to evacuate the Dahuangji and Da and Xiaoyang Lakes before the arrival of the enemy.

Zhao Xitian received reports one after another: when the columns under Liu Bocheng retreated hastily, they discarded backpacks, carts, horses, grain, etc. along the way. "It's not surprising that the fleeing division has thrown away its helmet and armor." Zhao Xitian thought so, and he reported the situation to Liu Zhi, who also fully agreed with Liu Bocheng's hasty retreat. It is true that Liu Zhi had suffered a lot from Liu Deng in the Shangdang and Ping-Han battles, so he generally did not dare to be careless, but he also knew his opponents, a poor team that valued the discipline of the masses. Abandoning the luggage, it must be defeated and fled hastily.So, he ordered Zhao Xitian to take advantage of the momentum to pursue and wipe out Liu Bocheng.

Zhao Xitianzhi was the first to take the lead, so he led the army to rush to attack, which happened to be led by Liu Bocheng into his preset pocket formation.