Chapter 275 12. Will attack Taiyuan City Wall

In January 1949, the Battle of Pingjin ended successfully. The Central Military Commission and Mao Zedong ordered the 2nd and 3rd Corps of North China and the 1st Artillery Division of the Fourth Field Army to go to the front line of Taiyuan.In this way, the number of troops attacking Taiyuan increased from 1 corps to 3 corps, plus 7 columns, troops from the Jinzhong Military Region, with a total strength of 200,000.I surrounded Taiyuan with an absolutely superior force. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yan Xishan used the pretext of meeting Chiang Kai-shek, loaded the doctor, cook, barber, and foreign dogs with him on the plane, and transported them to Nanjing.Wang Jingguo (Taiyuan garrison commander), Sun Chu (deputy director of the Appeasement Administration), Dai Bingnan (commander of the enemy's 30th Army) and others who were trapped in Taiyuan City still tried to resist.Our side has repeatedly proposed to peacefully resolve Taiyuan, but they have all rejected them.

On April 2, 1949, the Taiyuan Frontline People's Liberation Army launched a general offensive.After clearing the periphery, the soldiers approached the city wall of Taiyuan. At 5:30 on April 24, one after another red flares pierced the night sky like meteors.Suddenly, 1,300 cannons fired together, and thousands of rockets flew towards the city wall.People only heard the howling like a gust of wind, and could not tell the gunshots from the cannons.At dawn, the thick smoke from the shells filled the position like a thick fog. It was 50 meters away from the city, and even the city wall could not be seen clearly.Our artillery broke through the city and fired, blocked and suppressed the fire at the same time. The city of Taiyuan suffered a huge earthquake, and the city walls and bunkers collapsed in batches.The enemy's cannons have long since become dumb, unable to fire even a single shot.Our soldiers didn't need to hide at all, they straightened up and looked at the impact point, chatting and laughing.

The original plan was to shell for four hours from 5 o'clock to 9 o'clock, but the soldiers couldn't bear their temper. At 7 o'clock, the troops from the north and south had already begun to ascend the city.The troops in the east became anxious when they saw it. The assaulters climbed up before the breakthrough was completed.The first person to climb the city was the assaulter Liu Yongchang. He climbed to the top of the city wall, but couldn't find a place to hold his hand.Just as he was hesitating, an enemy's corpse happened to be buried on it, with two feet exposed, so he grabbed it and jumped up.They cooperated with the follow-up troops and occupied the breakthrough.At this time, the powerful People's Liberation Army Corps rushed into the city like a raging tide bursting a dike from 12 breakthroughs in the south, north, and east.

The vanguard troops who entered the city were swift and brave.The enemy concentrated their firepower and obstructed them in every possible way. They cleverly opened the passage from the house above the house, passed the enemy's firepower point, and continued to advance.The tanks that the enemy was preparing for street fighting were captured by soldiers of the People's Liberation Army before they were launched and the driver jumped into the driver's cab.Driving the enemy's tanks forward, 80 minutes into the city, the red flag was planted on the Bell and Drum Tower in Taiyuan City.

The "Bunker City" was destroyed, and Taiyuan City was liberated.People in Taiyuan City and Shanxi Province celebrated the great victory of the people by setting off firecrackers and beating drums and gongs as if celebrating the new year.