Chapter 96 7. Inventory

The Battle of the Giant Goldfish lasted 16 days. The Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army made great strides to advance deep into the enemy-occupied area and moved to more than 600 miles. More than 5,500 people were injured.7371 rifles, 755 light and heavy machine guns and a large amount of ammunition and military supplies were seized.Recovered 9 counties and forced the Kuomintang army that had already occupied Puyang and Daming to withdraw, which once again shattered the Kuomintang army's attempt to open up the Pinghan Road, and also supported the East China Field Army's operations in southern Shandong.

As a successful example, the Giant Goldfish Battle has been recorded in the glorious history of our army.Proceeding from the actual situation on the battlefield, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping adopted the tactics of "criticizing exuberance and suppressing falsehoods" and "controlling the enemy with three changes" in the battle, which fully demonstrated the distinctiveness of our army's older generation of military strategists who insisted on seeking truth from facts and flexibly deployed troops in combat command. Features and superb command art. Liu Deng's report to the Military Commission on January 30 summarized the experience of the giant goldfish campaign.Regarding the purpose of this battle, Liu Deng said: "To wipe out a large number of enemies in a wide maneuver is to insist on the initiative. Our army tried to destroy Wang Jingjiu's group on the north bank but failed, resulting in a stalemate. Chiang Kai-shek is trying to use the Yellow River to separate us from the north bank. Therefore, I resolutely used the 3rd, 6th, and 7th brigades to go south to recover Juye, Jiaxiang, and Chengwu, and then regained the southwestern part of Shandong, so as to actively change the strategic situation." "No matter how the enemy captures Pu (Yang), Fan ( County), Guan (City), Daming, Nanle, threatened my rear, pretended to cross the Yellow River to force me to look back, and finally had to turn their main force to the Longhai line and become passive."

Liu Deng pointed out: "If you attack the enemy, you must save them, and destroy those who save them; if you attack the enemy, you must retreat, and destroy those who retreat. This is a good way to fight mobile warfare and destroy the enemy." , he was particularly urgent and effective when he was called for help. The main force of the 88th Division, and even the 140th Brigade of the 70th Division (with no combat experience) who had just arrived in Xuzhou in Taiwan, Zhang Lanfeng and Liu Ruzhen also came, but they were all wiped out by us one after another. gone." The shortcomings in the battle were "due to insufficient soldiers and insufficient ammunition supply (my firepower was too weak to capture Jinxiang), which affected the continuous combat and the settlement of the battle. The progress of the battle was not fast and thorough. This is a big step for the army The great hardship of mobile warfare should be remedied." ("Liu Bocheng Military Selected Works")