Chapter 119 11. Victory is inseparable from the people

During the battle, the vast local armed forces of the Shandong Military Region actively cooperated: the troops of the Jiaodong and Bohai Navy Regions took the initiative to intercept the 8th Army of the Kuomintang Army near Changyi, wiped out 4 battalions, and suppressed the army's western aid operations; the troops of the Luzhong Military Region Carry out extensive raids on the Jiaoji Line, Zhangdian (now in Zibo City), and Laiwu Highway, blowing up 6 iron bridges, destroying 13 bunkers, pulling out many strongholds, and annihilating nearly 4,000 Kuomintang troops, ensuring that the field army is in the main Combat on the battlefield.

In response to the operations of the East China Field Army, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China instructed the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army to take the initiative to attack the Henan-Shandong border in late January and captured 8 counties west of Xuzhou and on both sides of the Longhai Railway. The 5th Army of the Kuomintang Army and the reorganized 85th Division and other units in the battle were a powerful strategic cooperation for the East China battlefield. Timely and powerful combat support work is an important factor for the PLA to win the victory in Laiwu.During the entire campaign, I participated in the battle with 205,000 troops in 8 columns (one said 9 columns), 171,000 civilians in the front (accompanied by the army), a total of 376,000 people, and a daily food consumption of 470 tons (1.25 kg per person per day). It is quite arduous, and under the transportation conditions of relying on wheelbarrows and shoulder-carrying people, it requires a large number of well-organized support workers to complete.

The Shandong Provincial Front Support Committee mobilized 620,000 civilian workers, including 250,000 permanent civilian workers and 370,000 temporary civilian workers. They relied on them to directly support the Laiwu Campaign day and night. At the same time, about 5 million people (including 1 million women) in central Shandong participated in various combat operations, mobilizing more than 16,000 stretchers and more than 10,000 cars.The field army moved from south to north, striding forward and retreating; wherever the troops went, the front team followed.Just relying on shoulders to carry hands and push, horses and donkeys to carry, created a miracle of using simple equipment to support large corps in sports warfare.

In order to delay and disrupt the attack of the Kuomintang army, the party, government and army in the Laiwu area also organized a large-scale raid by 100,000 people. For 7 consecutive days and nights, the main traffic lines and branch lines from Laiwu to Zhangqiu, Xintai, Boshan and other places were completely destroyed. The road-breaking team implemented a segmented responsibility system, so that "where the enemy repairs, it will be broken; It encountered great difficulties. Its leading troops started from Hezhuang to Laiwu, and advanced less than 10 kilometers a day. Wang Yaowu instructed the Southward Corps to replenish food on the spot, ammunition was picked up by each department, and the road was repaired by itself. The subordinate troops rushed to the Sui Department and the military station Called to complain: "Empty rooms are cleared, ten rooms are ten empty, supplies are difficult, and the supply is difficult. "It is impossible to send troops to pick up food and ammunition" (quoted from "Laiwu Battle Enemy Information"), Wang Yaowu had to transfer 1 of the 73rd Army One division and two divisions of the 12th Army maintained a long supply line. In this way, the already scattered forces were further dispersed. The three armies meandered down from Boshan and Wenzu in the north, along the Tusikou, Laiwu, Yanzhuang and Xintai were arranged in a long snake array that could not look at each other from head to tail. People repaired during the day, and we broke it at night" ("Dazhong Daily", 1947, the scale of the battle was unprecedented, the number of troops participating in the battle was large, the demand was large, and the fighter planes In the fleeting situation, the people of Shandong, on the basis of strengthening the combat organization in the winter of 1946, through the joint efforts of the party, the government, the army and the people, gathered a large amount of scattered materials and sent them to the frontline troops within a limited time , is indeed an important factor in the victory of the battle.