Chapter 136 5. Hu Zongnan's painstaking search for the Northwest People's Liberation Army

While celebrating the capture of Yan'an, Hu Zongnan did not forget to eliminate the Northwest People's Liberation Army.He was anxious to have a decisive battle with the main force of the Northwest People's Liberation Army, wishing to wipe out the Northwest People's Liberation Army at once. On March 24, the day Hu Zongnan arrived in Yan'an, Xue Minquan, deputy chief of staff of the Xi'an Appeasement Office, reported to him that the biggest difficulty for the troops was supply. However, for Hu Zongnan, the biggest problem is that the enemy's situation is unknown.He wanted to fight the Communist army, but he couldn't find where the main force of the Northwest People's Liberation Army under the command of Peng Dehuai was, let alone where the leading organs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission led by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai were.This is the question that Hu Zongnan is eager to clarify, and it is also the news that Chiang Kai-shek is eager to get.

In the past few days, Hu Zongnan has been reading a telegram from my Xinhua News Agency on March 20, which said: "The traitor Chiang Kai-shek attacked Yan'an, the holy land of democracy. After our military and civilians in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region firmly resisted, he dealt heavy casualties. On the 19th, our People's Liberation Army With the task accomplished, withdraw from Yan'an", "Chiang Kai-shek used 9 reorganized divisions and 13 reorganized brigades on the front line, and concentrated all the main forces of Hu Zongnan in an attempt to occupy Yan'an with a surprise attack and attack the great China. Headquarters of the Communist Party". "The political purpose of Chiang Kai-shek's attack on Yan'an this time is obviously to boost up the already depressed morale within him, and to embolden the main fighters in his party at the Third Plenary Session of the Kuomintang Central Committee; 'Policy and policy made Marshall tide over the difficulties at the Moscow Foreign Ministers' meeting. The strategy of our People's Liberation Army has always been not to stick to one city or one place, but to annihilate the enemy's vital forces. The defense of Yan'an this time focuses on disrupting its surprise attack and ensuring the security of the head office. Safe transfer. It can now be announced to the world that this project has been successfully completed, and Chiang Kai-shek's plan to flee to Yan'an before March 10 has been broken. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is intact and still stays in northern Shaanxi to guide the whole country patriotic self-defense war." (Xiong Xianghui: "Twenty Years Underground and Zhou Enlai")

Hu Zongnan saw that the sending location of this telegram was still "Yan'an", and said that the head office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was still in northern Shaanxi.The more he looked, the more flustered he became, and the more he looked, the more worried he became.He is distressed, he is angry, the joy brought to him after the capture of Yan'an and the joy brought to him by his new marriage have long since disappeared.He not only sent four planes, but also ordered the reconnaissance force to immediately find out the whereabouts of the head office of the CPC Central Committee and the main force of the Northwest People's Liberation Army.However, the team leader in charge of detecting radio stations reported that after the capture of Yan'an, there was no fixed large-scale radio station signal in northern Shaanxi, and sometimes small radio stations were caught, but they disappeared quickly and erratically, making it difficult to determine the Communist Army headquarters. where.

This disappointed Hu Zongnan so much.However, he did not give up.He thought, from March 13th to 19th, the CCP’s army fought with its hundreds of thousands of troops for seven days. It can be seen that the CCP’s army in charge of blocking missions is by no means a small number, and it will never be armed in some places. How could it be possible? If you say you don't see it, you disappear?Besides, the head office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is the nerve center of the CCP. Large-scale radio stations, vehicles and supplies, brains, men and women, old and young, it is not easy to hide, and the action is not effective. This is a common problem of all head offices. However, it is impossible not to leave some clues, why can't there be any signs?

After the movement of the main force of the People's Liberation Army has never been detected.Hu Zongnan started from his subjective assumptions, trying to find the main force of the People's Liberation Army in the area east of Ansai and west of Panlong for a decisive battle, so he ordered the 1st Army to "sweep" Ansai first, and then turn eastward from the area north of Ansai; the 29th Army To "sweep" the area northeast of Yan'an and west of Panlong, the two armies jointly captured the main force of the People's Liberation Army in the area west of Panlong and north of Yan'an and wiped it out.