Chapter 381 7. The process of entering Guangdong

On October 2, Chen Geng sent his troops into Guangdong, and the vanguard marched southward at a speed of 150 miles a day.The Cantonese army was frightened by the wind and fled south one after another. The first line of defense was useless. On October 6, the 14th Army of the Right Army of the People's Liberation Army attacked and occupied Lechang, and the 13th Army occupied Renhua.Under the attack of the right army, the 63rd Army defending Qujiang abandoned the city and fled south, and the 15th Army occupied Qujiang on the 7th.The gates of northern Guangdong were opened, and the right-hand army pursued southward. The Kuomintang army used the tributaries of the Beijiang River and the key points on the Guangdong-Han Railway to resist step by step.The 45th Division of the 15th Army captured Yingde Station on the 9th, annihilated a part of the 91st Division of the 39th Army of the Kuomintang Army, and entered the defense depth of the Kuomintang Army with two companies, and successfully seized the Yaobuxu Iron Bridge across the river. , Guaranteeing the passage of the main force of the army.

On October 6, the 43rd Army on the Left arrived at Wengyuan. On the 11th, the 127th Division rushed to Fogang and wiped out all the 307th Regiment of the 103rd Division of the 39th Army of the Kuomintang Army with American equipment. The 171st and 172nd divisions of the enemy's 7th army, and the 138th and 176th divisions of the 48th army, after 4 days of fighting, have been mostly wiped out, and a small part of the enemy broke through and scattered in the woods on the mountains. After the 15th Army occupied Jiangkou on the 13th, it defeated 4 regiments of the Kuomintang Army in Yuantan and wiped out more than 1,000 of them.On the same day, the 14th Army liberated Qingyuan.The 127th Division of the 43rd Army occupied Fogang on the 11th and wiped out a regiment of the 39th Army of the Defending Army. On the 12th, the 128th Division wiped out most of the 3rd Battalion of the 106th Regiment of the 36th Division of the 50th Army of the Kuomintang Army in Aotouwei. At dawn on the 13th, Hua County was occupied and the county security camp was wiped out.The 132nd Division of the 44th Army marched towards Liangkou and Conghua on the 12th, occupied Liangkou at dawn on the 13th, and wiped out a battalion of the 321st Regiment of the 107th Division of the 50th Army of the Kuomintang Army near the bottom of the water, and then marched towards Guangzhou; After annihilating a security battalion in Paitan, the 131st Division liberated Zengcheng on the 13th, seized Shitan Station on the 14th, and cut off the Guangzhou (Zhou) Kowloon (Dragon) Railway. At 17:00 on the 14th, the 382nd Regiment of the 128th Division of the 43rd Army entered Guangzhou and wiped out 2,000 members of the 107th Division of the 50th Army of the Kuomintang Army and the Joint Logistics Unit that had not retreated in time.The 396th Regiment of the 132nd Division of the 44th Army also entered Guangzhou at 21:00.At this point, Guangzhou was declared liberated.

While the 15th Corps liberated Guangzhou, the Guangdong-Guangzhou Column and the Guangdong-Jiangxi-Hunan Border Column liberated Heyuan on the 13th, Huizhou on the 15th, Dongguan on the 17th, and surrounded the 154th Division of the 109th Army of the Kuomintang Army at Longhuaxu, forcing the division to The deputy division commander Zheng Yintong led more than 3,000 people to surrender the next day, and continued to occupy the Humen Fortress on the 19th, cutting off the Kuomintang army's escape route along the south of the Pearl River. On the 16th, the 4th Corps caught up with the 103rd Division of the 39th Army of the Kuomintang Army in Southwest Town of Sanshui, forcing the division commander Zeng Sanyuan to lead more than 4,000 people to accept peaceful reorganization.On the same day, Shen Fazao's 4th Corps was defeated in Sihui and captured 500 people.

On the 17th, Chen Geng learned that the 21st Corps of the Kuomintang Army retreated from Foshan to Yangjiang, the 4th Corps retreated from Gaoyao to Yangchun, the 39th Army retreated to Yangjiang from Gaoming, and the 63rd Army retreated along the Xijiang River to the border of Guangdong and Guangxi. Li Chengfang, commander of the army, commanded a total of 6 divisions of the 14th, 13th, and 15th armies to pursue.On the same day, the pursuit troops annihilated all the 441st Regiment of the 147th Division of the 39th Army of the Kuomintang Army in Songbaikeng, Gaoming County, wiped out the 70th Army Guard Battalion in the northeast of Gaoyao, and forced Liu Tiren, commander of the 91st Division of the 39th Army, in Zhaiwuxu, Heshan County. He led more than 2,700 people in his ministry to accept peaceful reorganization.

By the 20th, the troops on the right had reached Yaogu and annihilated more than 1,000 people from the 3rd column temporarily organized by the Kuomintang in Guangdong Province; During the escape process, the Kuomintang army had a chaotic organizational system and did not organize cover and resistance. On the 22nd, more than 2,000 people from the 3rd Division of Guangdong Security surrendered near Enping, and more than 3,000 people from the temporary second column surrendered in Jiangmen. On the 23rd, more than 2,700 people from the 4th Division of Guangdong Security were forced to surrender in Nafuxu, Taishan County.On the same day, Liu Anqi, commander of the 21st Corps, led the 50th, 32nd Army, the remnant of the 39th Army and two supplementary regiments of the 70th Army to the Baishaxu area of ​​Yangjiang.

At 1 o'clock on the 25th, the 4th Corps divided the troops entering the Yangjiang area into two groups, the east and the west, and attacked from the east and west.On the morning of the same day, the Kuomintang army concentrated its forces to break through 8 times from Baishaxu to the west. The West Group of the People's Liberation Army (right troops) fought tenaciously and finally smashed the Kuomintang army's attempt.At 14:00 on the same day, in view of the failure to break through to the west, the Kuomintang army turned south to the sea, trying to escape by boat from Jiuqiang port. The PLA quickly blocked it.The 120th Regiment pursued from Hanhe Temple to Pinggangwei, and captured nearly 2,000 people successively.The troops on the left crossed the Moyang River and then advanced to the south of Pinggangwei. The 112th Regiment of the 38th Division went straight to Jiuqiang Port along Gangtou and Liancun.While attacking key points on the coast, the troops blocked the sea with artillery fire.Except for a small part of the Kuomintang army that broke out to the south and fled in warships, about 10,000 people were killed or drowned.The People's Liberation Army smashed the Kuomintang army's attempt to escape from the sea and encircled it in a narrow area with a diameter of less than 7.5 kilometers north of Pinggang Wei. On the morning of the 26th, the People's Liberation Army launched a general offensive, and the Kuomintang army was wiped out by noon.

In the battle of encirclement and annihilation in Yangjiang, the People's Liberation Army wiped out more than 40,000 Kuomintang troops, including more than 30,000 prisoners, and wiped out the main force of Yu Hanmou. During the encirclement and annihilation of Yangjiang, the 67th Army of the Hu Lian Corps withdrew to Zhoushan in early October, and the 18th and 19th Army withdrew to Kinmen successively from early October to late October. On October 24, the Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi border columns liberated Shantou.So far, all Chaoshan areas except Nan'ao Island have been liberated.The 45th Division of the 15th Army, with the cooperation of the Yuezhong Column, liberated Jiangmen on October 22.More than 500 people on 11 ships of the 4th Patrol Fleet of the Kuomintang Army revolted on the sea south of Jiangmen on the 25th.

During the Guangdong campaign, the Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan border columns cooperated with the main force of the field army to liberate the area west of Yuehan Road and the north bank of the Xijiang River.The Guangdong-Guangxi border column instigated the uprising of two battalions of the 62nd Army of the Kuomintang Army and the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division of Guangdong Security, and liberated the Leizhou Peninsula except Zhanjiang.