Chapter 84 3. Du Yuming readjusted the deployment

In mid-October 1946, Chiang Kai-shek went to Shenyang in person and decided to implement the strategic policy of "attacking from the south and defending from the north, first from the south to the north" in the northeast. The troops attacked Beiman and occupied the whole northeast. Since then, the Northeast Democratic Alliance has entered the most difficult years, and the South Manchurian battlefield has once become the focus of the Northeast battlefield. The Kuomintang army launched another large-scale attack on the Northeast Liberated Area in October 1946. By early November, it successively occupied Kulun, Qingyuan, Liuhe, Xinbin, Huinan, Gaiping (now Gai County), Tongliao, Xiuyan, Fengcheng, The 17 cities of Andong (now Dandong City), Kailu, Kuandian, Zhuanghe, Huanren, Tonghua, Changling, and Fuxian County reached the peak of their offensive.With the expansion of the occupied area, its offensive forces are gradually dispersed.

After further adjustments and supplements, in the winter of 1946, the Northeast Kuomintang Army had 7 regular armies fully equipped with American equipment, 20 divisions with about 250,000 people, together with 20 newly-built security regiments, 2 traffic police corps, and 4 cavalry detachments (equivalent to a division), 7 cavalry regiments, artillery, armor, engineering, etc., with a total strength of about 400,000. The distribution of enemy forces and the basic situation are: the main force of the new 1st Army is deployed in Jilin, Changchun, Jiutai, Dehui, and Nong'an areas. Its main task is to monitor the main force of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army north of the Songhua River; the 71st Army is stationed in Siping , Bamiancheng, Lishu, Liaoyuan, and Tongliao areas, serving as flank cover missions; except for the New 1st Army and the 71st Army, the remaining 5 armies (the newly organized 6th Army, 52nd, 93rd, 60th, and 13th Army) ) are all assembled in Nanman, and one is located in the north of Rehe.At this time, because most of these troops have been relatively smooth since they left the customs and have not suffered setbacks, they will be arrogant.Therefore, tactically, the tactics of multi-way, multi-strand outflanking, splitting and joint attack are often adopted, and the formation of regiment or battalion is used to operate alone.

Although the Kuomintang army attacking South Manchuria was severely injured by our Northeast Democratic Alliance Army in the Battle of Xinkailing, Du Yuming's spirit has not faded, and he has not changed his established strategic policy of "attacking from the south and defending from the north, first from the south to the north". plan.And ambitiously boasted to Chiang Kai-shek that he would completely wipe out the "Lin Biao bandits" within half a year and pacify the Northeast. The enemy's strategic intention is still to take advantage of the fact that the 3rd and 4th columns of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army have not established a firm foothold in the Linjiang area and the masses have not yet been fully mobilized, and the Kuomintang troops in the southern Manchuria area are concentrated in a large-scale attack on the Changbai Mountain liberated area centered on Linjiang. In one fell swoop, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army Nanman Group was annihilated or trapped in the Changbai Mountain area, and then transferred to the north to commit crimes, seize the North Manchuria Liberated Area, and occupy the entire Northeast.

Du Yuming readjusted his deployment and set up a joint line in an attempt to gradually press closer to the hinterland of the liberated areas of South Manchuria with more cautious tactics.Its military deployment is as follows: Sun Liren's newly organized 1st Army, Liao Yaoxiang's newly organized 6th Army, Zeng Zesheng's 60th Army, Chen Mingren's 71st Army each have 1 division, and Zhao Gongwu's 52nd Army has 2 divisions, a total of 6 The division launched an attack on the Linjiang area; two divisions each of the newly organized 1st Army and the 71st Army guarded the key points north of Changchun, Yongji, and south of the Songhua River. Among them, the new 38th Division of the newly organized 1st Army stationed in Jilin, Wuladian, Jiutai, and Qitamu line; the 50th Division is stationed in Dehui and the area south of Tao Laizhao, and controls the Jiangfang, Nong'an, and Kaoshantun lines; the 87th and 88th Divisions of the 71st Army are stationed in Siping and Bamiancheng respectively. , Tongliao and Zhengjiatun lines.In addition, some divisions and local security teams were used to strengthen the defense of its rear, and to wipe out the people's armed forces who persisted in their struggle.The attack on South Manchuria was commanded by Zheng Dongguo, deputy commander of the Northeast Security Command.The time was mid to late December 1946.