Chapter 255 7. Deployment of the troops of the enemy and us in the attacking battle

Jinzhou is the main throat from the pass to the northeast.It was called "Mountain and Sea Key" in ancient times.The capture of Jinzhou can close the Northeast Kuomintang army, forming a trend of "closing the door and beating the dog". Jinzhou is also the gateway to Shenyang.The capture of Jinzhou also opened the door to Shenyang. Over the past few months, Mao Zedong and the Central Military Commission have repeatedly emphasized the capture of Jinzhou in the policy of the Liaoshen Campaign and several telegram instructions.Since September 12th, the Northeast Field Army captured Changli and the area west of it, cutting off the connection between the enemy Jinzhou and Tangshan. Especially after capturing Yixian at the end of September, the enemy of Jinzhou was completely surrounded by our army. .

After eliminating the enemies on the outskirts of Jinzhou, Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Liu Yalou adjusted their deployment: With the 17th Division of 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, and 6 verticals, a total of 16 divisions and the main artillery column with a total of 250,000 troops, attacked and wiped out the enemy in Jinzhou.With 4 verticals, 11 verticals, and 2 independent divisions, under the unified command of Cheng Zihua, commander of the 2nd Corps, located on the front line of Tashan and Hongluoxian (Jinxi Old City) in the north of Jinxi, to deal with the enemy who sent Jinzhou from Jinxi . With the independent 8th Division, we actively acted near Shanhaiguan to confuse and restrain the enemy.

With 5 verticals, 10 verticals, 6 verticals (less than 17 divisions) and 1 vertical, the 3rd Division, the 2nd Independent Division, and the 1st Cavalry Division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are located in the Zhangwu and Xinlitun areas. Lai Chuanzhu unified command and was ready to meet the Westward Aid Jin Corps commanded by Liao Yaoxiang. With the 12th vertical, it moved south from the Changchun area to Tongjiangkou, and turned to the south in standby to pin down the enemy from Shenyang.Five independent divisions were added, together with the six independent divisions that had been tasked with besieging Changchun and the 20 divisions of the 2nd Inner Mongolia Cavalry Division, under the command of the commander of the 1st Corps Xiao Jinguang, continued to besiege the enemy in Changchun.

Sitting in Jinzhou is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General" and the director of the Jinzhou Advance Command Center, Lieutenant General Fan Hanjie. After Fan Hanjie arrived in Jinzhou, he first inspected the city's fortifications and defenses for a week.Since Wei Lihuang arrived in Shenyang, he ordered Li Xian, the engineer commander of the "Suppression General", to be responsible for the design and construction of Jinzhou's city defense fortifications.According to Wei Lihuang's requirements, the city defense fortification should be a permanent fortress with reinforced concrete structure. The headquarters will distribute cement, steel bars and other materials, and the officers of the engineering units of each army and division will serve as technical guidance. Fortification drawing construction.

The design of the engineering headquarters of the "Suppression General" is that the Jinzhou city defense fortifications use the company as a combat unit to build a strong stronghold, which is composed of closed tunnels and mother-in-law bunkers. Even if it is surrounded by four sides, it can still fight independently.In the shelter of the company command post, enough ammunition and food should be stored, as well as kitchens, toilets, health centers and other equipment.Outer trenches of 2 meters in width and depth should be dug outside the positions, and barbed wire fences should be erected.However, this huge project was not completed due to insufficient materials.From May to September when the People's Liberation Army besieged Jinzhou, only one-third of the city's fortifications were completed as required.Due to the lack of steel and cement, most of the fortifications just built independent cement bunkers. The largest can accommodate a squad, and the smallest can only accommodate an infantry group.

Fan Hanjie was disappointed and deeply worried about Jinzhou's city defense fortifications.Soon, Wei Lihuang, accompanied by Li Xian, came to inspect the construction of the fortifications. Fan Hanjie immediately suggested to Wei Lihuang that the progress of the Jinzhou city defense fortifications was too slow and of low quality, and it was difficult to resist the attack of the People's Liberation Army. He asked for more funding. In particular, we will speed up the dispatch and transportation of materials such as steel bars and cement that are urgently needed for the construction of fortifications.After the inspection, Wei Lihuang was very satisfied, and said to Fan Hanjie: "When Jiangxi was fighting against the communist army, where was there such a concrete fortification? We could win the battle at that time, and now we have such a fortification, and there is no problem."

Wei Lihuang ignored Fan Hanjie's request, and Fan Hanjie said angrily later: "This is the Kuomintang army's style of exaggerating itself, belittling the enemy, and deceiving itself for a long time. The drawing on the defense equipment map is very beautiful, with solid fortification equipment and careful planning. It was made of firepower nets. In fact, it was just a piece of empty paper, which could not withstand the wind and rain, and it would be broken when it was blown. The so-called modern reinforced concrete fortifications in Jinzhou were all destroyed after 31 hours of fierce fighting by the People's Liberation Army."

At that time, in and around Jinzhou City, the troops under Fan Hanjie's command mainly included Shen Xiangkui's New 8th Army (Temporary 54th, Temporary 55th, and Temporary 88th Divisions), Sheng Jiaxing's 93rd Army (Temporary 18th, Temporary 20th, and Temporary 22nd Divisions), Huang Wenhui's The 88th Division, Yang Chaolun's 184th Division directly under the 6th Corps, the Field Artillery Battalion directly under the Jinzhou Command Post, the 105th Howitzer Company and 1 Tank Company, totaled 8 divisions and more than 100,000 people.Among the above-mentioned troops, the Temporary 54th, Temporary 55th, 88th and 184th Divisions were all reorganized after being annihilated by the Northeast People's Liberation Army.Most of these units are recruits, and the number of troops is not sufficient, and most of them have not reached the original number of establishments. For example, the 55th Division has only more than 4,000 people, which is less than half of the original strength.

With such a broken and incomplete army to undertake the task of guarding Jinzhou, Fan Hanjie felt uncertain, so he had to gather all the main forces together to defend Jinzhou with 7 divisions, and made the following deployment of troops: First, temporarily The 54th Division is responsible for the defensive task of Zijing Mountain in the east of Jinzhou to the southeast of Songshan; the temporary 55th Division is responsible for the defensive task of Nanshan; The 93rd Army Division and the 93rd Army (the 20th Division for the time being) are responsible for the defense of the west of Jinzhou from the highland on the west side of Nuerhe Station, through the 188th Highland, Erlang Cave, the Synthetic Combustion Plant, and the Water Distribution Pool to the city hall; the third and temporary 20th Division defense County; the fourth and 88th divisions are the general reserve of the Jinzhou command post.