Chapter 362 10. The strong cooperation of the guerrillas

The main force of the Central Route Army encircled and wiped out the main force of Bai Chongxi in the Hengbao area. By the morning of October 11, the four fields had captured nearly 30,000 officers and soldiers of Bai Chongxi. The division commander, the division commander of the 176th division, and the Kuomintang officers at the level below the deputy division commander are countless. For Bai Chongxi, since his debut, he has never encountered such a big defeat.The 7th Army, the 100th Army, and the 122nd Army no longer exist, and neither does his trump card army. While the Central Route Army gathered and annihilated the 7th Army, the West Route Army was ordered to advance to the Wugang and Xinning lines. On the 10th, the 152nd Division of the 39th Army captured Wugang, and wiped out more than 2,000 people from the 189th Regiment of the 63rd Division of the 14th Army, the 14th Army's Left Guard Office, and the 5th Shonan Bao Regiment. The 114th Division, the first of the 38th Army, rushed towards Baoqing. On the 9th, the 62nd Division of Baoqing's defending enemy abandoned the city and fled to the west. , Baoqingxi Shixiajiang area. On the 13th, our army wiped out the enemy and forced part of the enemy's new 8th Army to surrender. The 145th Division of our 49th Army liberated Baoqing.In this way, the area from the west of Baoqing to the Zhijiang line is completely under the control of our army.

At the same time, the main force of the 47th Army of the 47th Army, which was ordered to stay in western Hubei to monitor Song Xilian's troops under the order of the Yesi, launched an attack on the 122nd Army of Song Xilian who was guarding Dayong in western Hunan on the 14th. The enemy commander Zhang Shaoxun was captured alive, and the two cities of Dayong and Sangzhi were liberated. So far, the Battle of Hengbao, which began on September 13, 1949, when our West Route Army attacked Xiangxi, ended in victory. During the Battle of Hengbao, guerrillas from all over Hunan, encouraged by the PLA's successful march into Hunan, went out more actively to attack the Kuomintang's regular troops and local armed forces, and actively cooperated with the main force of the Fourth Field Army to fight.

The southern Hunan guerrilla detachment was active in Yizhang, Guiyang, Linwu, and Jiahe. During the retreat of the Kuomintang army, it liberated Yizhang and recovered Rucheng. On October 13, it liberated Guiyang and wiped out more than 900 local armed forces of the Kuomintang.The Shonan Guerrilla Command led the 2nd Brigade and the Guard Brigade to join forces with the 136th Division of the 46th Army at Jieshou in Chaling on October 4, and then cooperated with the 136th Division to liberate Leiyang on October 8.On the same day, the 6th Battalion annihilated more than 600 members of the security regiment in Baisha at the junction of Guiyang and Changning.The Southern District Command Post of the Southern Shonen Guerrilla Command led the 1st and 3rd Brigades to liberate Chen County on October 7.

The 7th and 10th Regiments of the Lianjiang Detachment of the Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan Border Columns were active in Yizhang, Linwu, Lanshan, and Jianghua. The 10th Regiment liberated Yizhang County on October 22.The Hengxi guerrillas were actively active in the areas on both sides of the Hengbao Highway, attacking the Kuomintang troops fleeing to the west. They cooperated with a part of the Fourth Field Army to wipe out more than 50 people from the Seventh Army. There are nearly 200 kinds of guns and 1 60 gun.When Bai Chongxi's troops retreated to Guangxi, the 1st Hunan guerrilla column intercepted the Kuomintang army many times between Hengyang and Qiyang, attacked the landlord's armed forces, surrendered more than 800 guns, and liberated Qiyang County.

The 10th Commando of the Xiangxi Guerrilla Army, in the battle to liberate Dayong, scouted the situation for the 139th Division, acted as a guide, assisted in raising food, and ensured the victory of the battle. The second detachment of the Central Hunan Guerrilla was active in Shaodong, Shaoyang, and Qiyang, actively cooperating with the main force of the field army to pursue and block the Kuomintang army.