Chapter 261 13. Taking Shenyang City lightly

When Mao Zedong, Lin Biao and others discussed the encirclement and annihilation of the Liao Yaoxiang Corps, they considered the annihilation of the enemy in Shenyang.At that time, it was estimated that there were two possibilities: one was that the enemy of Shenyang reinforced the Liao Yaoxiang Corps; the other was that the enemy of Shenyang retreated to Yingkou. However, after our army's encirclement and annihilation campaign in western Liaoning started, the Shenyang defenders not only did not reinforce western Liaoning, nor did they retreat to Yingkou.This prepared time for our army to attack and annihilate the enemy in Shenyang after annihilating the Liao Yaoxiang Corps.

On October 27, when Lin Biao was about to end the encirclement and annihilation campaign in western Liaoning, he deployed the 1st and 2nd Columns to rush towards Shenyang on the 28th, preparing to attack and annihilate the enemy forces in Shenyang.According to Lin Biao's deployment, the 1st and 2nd verticals, together with the 12th vertical and the Liaonan Independent Division, which went south from Changchun, attacked and wiped out the enemy in Shenyang. When the main force of our army encircled and wiped out the Liao Yaoxiang Corps, the 12th Vertical and the Liaonan Independent Division entered the Shenyang area to contain the Shenyang enemy.According to Xu Gengyang, the former commander of the 53rd Division of the New 1st Army of the Kuomintang, recalled: "After the liberation of Changchun, the Liberation Army in northern Liaoning immediately went south and rushed towards Shenyang. About October 26, the vanguard arrived in the suburbs of Shenyang. At that time, it was in the northeast of Shenyang City. Only one regiment of the 207th Division, which had just arrived, rushed into the position to defend, so that the line of defense was breached, and a part of the People's Liberation Army rushed to the vicinity of Shanzuizi and Yamanashi Hongdian. Shenyang City was tense, and Wei Lihuang was even more panicked ” (Xu Gengyang: "The Personal Experience of the Liaoshen Campaign", p. 445)

At dawn on November 1, our army launched a general offensive to Shenyang! 1 As soon as the cannon fired for the vertical attack, it hit the first part of the 207th Division, the main force defending the enemy.The enemy's 207th Division defended desperately, heavy artillery returned fire, and tanks intercepted.Seeing that the main attack direction was blocked, Li Tianyou actually set up the command post of the column at the headquarters of the 9th Regiment, which was attacking in the direction of Tiexi District.At 10 o'clock in the morning, the 1st attacked Shenyang City vertically.

2 Zong successfully broke through the enemy's first line of defense before dawn, and made a deep attack from northwest to southeast from Tiexi District. After the 1st and 2nd verticals broke through Tiexi District, the 12th vertical also opened a bloody road from the south of the city and pushed into the city. The Kuomintang troops in the urban area fled watching the wind, and there were groups of rout soldiers flying white flags or red cloth belts around their necks, actively inquiring about the location of the People's Liberation Army and demanding surrender.Some military officers drove around the city in jeeps, looking for the People's Liberation Army barracks to accept surrender.

At noon on November 1, the People's Liberation Army hit the bank building.Zhou Fucheng led more than 300 people from the 8th Corps to formally surrender.Liu Zhen, commander of the 2nd Column, asked Zhou Fucheng to order the 207th Division of the Youth Army, which was still resisting, to surrender. The 207th Division had resisted for two days and nights in Dongdaying and Qiao's shack, and they ignored Zhou Fucheng's orders.Liu Zhen yelled angrily: "Resolutely and completely annihilate it!" On November 2, the 207th Division of the Youth Army was finally destroyed under the attack of our superior troops and firepower.So far, Shenyang has been completely liberated, and 130,000 Kuomintang defenders have been wiped out.