Chapter 92 3. Annihilate 110,000 Jiang's army in 100 days of fighting

The giant goldfish battle is about to begin, how will the battle situation be? Prior to this, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army had experienced 100 days on the Hebei-Shandong-Henan battlefield, from the Battle of Longhai, the Battle of Dingtao, the Battle of Juye, the Battle of Juannan to the Battle of Huaxian.During the 100-day battle, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army achieved the destruction of 110,000 Jiang troops.According to this, we can foresee that the victory will belong to Liu Deng's army. The Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan liberated areas include southern Shanxi, southern Hebei, northeastern Henan, and southwestern Shandong.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, after the Battle of Shangdang and the Battle of Handan, the Kuomintang army did not dare to attack the liberated areas of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Yu easily.After Chiang Kai-shek launched a full-scale civil war, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army was divided into two battlefields according to the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It nimbly annihilated the Kuomintang army, restrained a large number of regular Kuomintang troops, and effectively supported other battlefields. The Western Battlefield is in the southwest of Shanxi.Shanxi was originally Yan Xishan's sphere of influence. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek continued to implement the policy of annexing dissidents, and sent his direct descendant Hu Zongnan to enter southwestern Shanxi in the name of attacking the Communist Party. He not only attacked the Taiyue liberated area, but also invaded Yan Xishan's territory. In November 1946, Chiang Kai-shek prepared to attack the CCP by convening the National Assembly and attacking Yan'an, and transferred two reorganized divisions of the Dong Zhao Division of the Reorganized First Army stationed in southwestern Shanxi to Shaanxi.

In order to strengthen the defense forces in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China dispatched the fourth column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Field Army and the first column of the Jinsui Field Army to Yan'an.On the way to Yan'an, the fourth column broke through the Tongpu Road at the junction of Jiang and Yan and entered the southwest of Shanxi. battlefield. The Eastern Battlefield is in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan area.In order to support the self-defense war in the Central Plains and northern Jiangsu Liberated Areas, Liu Bocheng, commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, and Deng Xiaoping, political commissar, led the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 7th columns of the main field army of the military region to attack the Xuzheng section of the Longhai Railway. , Forced Chiang Kai-shek to deploy 14 reorganized divisions and 32 brigades from the Central Plains and northern Jiangsu front lines to deal with the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Liberation Army.The People's Liberation Army carried out three consecutive battles of Dingtao, Juye, and Juancheng, annihilating more than 60,000 people from 8 brigades of the regular Kuomintang army, and pinning more than 300,000 people from the Kuomintang army to the bank of the Yellow River. The PLA moved to the north of the Yellow River to rest and prepare Fight again.

After the end of the Juannan Campaign at the end of October 1946, around the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Liberated Area, the enemy once again assembled 28 brigades of the regular army, together with the local team, a total of more than 300,000 troops, attempting to carry out a major assault on the central part of our liberated area. Eliminate the main force of our troops, so as to open up the middle section of the Ping-Han line, in order to cooperate with the convening of the pseudo-"National Congress".The enemy's deployment is: Liu Ruming's group is in Dongming, Heze and other places, Sun Zhen's group is in Huaxian, Junxian and other places, trying to consolidate their occupied areas; Wang Jingjiu and Wang Zhonglian's two groups invaded Handan via Puyang and Anyang respectively.

On November 2, 1946, Chairman Mao Zedong ordered the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army: "Use various methods of destruction to wipe out most of Liu Ruming and Sun Zhen's 2 groups, leaving Wang Jingjiu's group in isolation, and then annihilate this enemy to change the situation of the battle." At that time, the strength of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Field Army led by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping had reached 310,000. The strength of the enemy and us was roughly equal, but the weapons of the Kuomintang army were mostly American equipment, including aircraft, artillery, and tanks. It has been greatly improved, but it still focuses on light weapons, and its firepower and lethality are far inferior to the enemy.Liu Ruming and Sun Zhen relied on their equipment superiority, arrogant and barbaric, and proud of themselves.However, it was nothing in front of Liu Deng's army, seemingly invincible, but in fact they were defeated in the end.

Liu and Deng studied the deployment characteristics of the Sun Zhen Group, especially the deployment of the 104th and 125th Brigades, which were preparing to attack Puyang, and the 12th Hebei Security Corps. The small stronghold protruding in the direction of Puyang suddenly penetrated into the depth of its defense, attacked Shangguan Village, Shaoerzhai, and Zhulou, attacked its command organization, attracted its troops to come to help, or forced it to leave, and wiped it out during the campaign. On November 12, 1946, Liu Deng issued an order to attack the Sun Zhen Group and launched the Battle of Huaxian.

In the Battle of Huaxian, "Tigers dig out their hearts" fully embodies Liu Bocheng's bold and careful command style. It took only 4 days and 5 nights to wipe out all the 104th Brigade of the Kuomintang Army, most of the 125th Brigade and all the 12th Hebei Security Corps. More than 12,000 Kuomintang troops were captured, and a large number of weapons and equipment were seized. After 5 battles in the past 100 days, the battle of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Liberation Army seems to have reached the time of overcoming mountains and valleys.That is to say, we have thwarted the enemy's aggressive attack and achieved greater initiative and mobility in interior defense operations. The era when Jiang Jun could do whatever he wanted in these areas is gone forever.

On December 21, the "People's Daily" of Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu and Henan published a commentary on the battle situation entitled "The Destruction of the 110,000 Jiang Army".The comment states: "In July, with the aid of U.S. imperialism, Chiang Kai-shek dispatched 22 armies (including the 5th U.S. Armed Corps), a total of 50 brigades, to attack the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Liberated Areas in an all-round way, dreaming of realizing the arrogance of 'eliminating Liu Bocheng's main force' plan. But the facts of the past four months have proved that it was not Liu Bocheng's main force that was wiped out, but Chiang Kai-shek's 110,000 troops."

The comment states: "On the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Great Plains, the People's Ever-Victorious Army under the command of the genius strategist General Liu Bocheng fought five successive battles of annihilation, annihilating the ten and a half brigades of the invading Jiang army with a total of 70,000 people." "On the front line of Tongpu The People's Liberation Army under the command of General Chen Geng wiped out more than one brigade of Hu Zongnan's army in Wenxi, two brigades of Yan's army when they liberated five counties including Hongtong and Zhaocheng in the middle section of Tongpu, and wiped out two brigades of Yan's army in Fushan. The First Army's 1st Brigade of Chiang Kai-shek's Meiji (formerly the 1st Division). Under the strategy of accumulating small victories into big victories, our army also annihilated more than one and a half brigades of Chiang's army successively on the Henan, Pinghan, and Zhengtai lines. Up to now, 16 brigades (including 4 brigades with American equipment) have been wiped out of Jiang's army, a total of 110,000 people."

"At the cost of 110,000 people, Jiang's army only got more than 20 isolated empty cities. Now Liu Bocheng's People's Ever Victorious Army is getting stronger and stronger with the full support of 30 million people. The peasants who have turned themselves have already joined the army. The people of the district were involved in the upsurge of supporting the frontline, and the munitions factories increased their production by 250% to 300%, to wipe out the second 110,000, and the third 110,000, and to regain all the lost ground and march forward bravely.” The people of the whole region were inspired by this great victory.Celebrations were held across the region.Folk artists also compiled various programs to sing.For example, Lao Heizi, who talks about Dagushu in Wu’an County, compiled the Dagushu "Liu Bocheng, the General of Changsheng", and sang in the circle of people: "Five great battles were fought well, and the reputation is famous all over the world... Master, fighting a war is like eating sesame candy (fried dough sticks) , eat cold and eat hot, there is an idea..."