Chapter 392 8. Win the final contest

Fleeing and rebelling, at this time, only the 5th Corps led by Li Wen was left in the Jiang army in the Chengdu area, ready to fight to the end.Li Wen is Hu Zongnan's confidant, and before leaving, Hu once came to see him.Hu said to Li: "After I leave, there is still a counterattack plan that needs to be planned urgently. Here in Chengdu, there is no time to take care of it. Zongnan begs Brother Li to look at the party and the country, and then hang around here for a while, trying to break out of the siege. Xikang. At that time, my brother will go to the country again to fight side by side with you."

As Hu Zongnan's closest subordinate, Li Wen gathered the strength of seven armies, preparing for the final contest with the People's Liberation Army. Li Wen's deployment was: on the left route along the south bank of the Xinjin River, through Pujiang and Qionglai to break through; One army feigned an attack on Qionglai to contain the People's Liberation Army there. On the night of the 24th, as soon as Li Wenbu started to move, he was violently blocked by our army. On the 25th, Chiefs Liu and Deng ordered the 3rd and 5th Corps to resolutely encircle and wipe out the fleeing enemy:

"The Hu bandits are now fleeing to the southwest. Those who fled from Wenjiang via Chongqing will arrive near Dayi today (25th) (our 12th Army in Dayi withdrew to Qionglai). Other enemies in the former Xinjin area also Abandoned the city and fled (a part of our 10th Army occupied Xinjin this afternoon). Another part of the enemy's vanguard (the 5th Corps of the captive supply department) rushed to the north of Pujiang this afternoon. Now our 12th Army, 16th Army, and The main forces of the 10th Army and the 18th Army are encircling and annihilating the enemy on the arc line of Qionglai, Pujiang, and Xinjin. The 11th Army immediately moves east of Xinjin to Jianyang to block the enemy who may flee south."

At the same time, to He Long and Li Jingquan: "Please order the 18th Corps to advance to Chengdu and the areas east of it in the current situation, and encircle and wipe out the enemies who may flee to the northeast." On the same day, Li Wen led his troops to attack Qionglai and Dayi. Our 5th Corps followed the orders of the heads of Liu and Deng, and ordered the 46th Division of the 16th Army to attack Guohouchang, Chaoyang Temple, and Juntianba; the 48th Division attacked Qingshuipu and Wolongtang; the 47th Division moved from Danling to Pujiang County Dongzhishou'an attacked.

When the 1st Division of the 1st Army, the vanguard of the enemy, rushed to Wushanpu, the position of our 46th Division, the main force of the division immediately launched a fierce attack on the fleeing enemy, interspersed and divided.When the battle ended at 15:00 on the same day, more than 2,000 remnants of the enemy's 1st and 3rd armies were wiped out. The 48th Division intercepted and wiped out part of the enemy's 1st Army at Gaohekan. At the same time, the main force of the 3rd Corps pursued the fleeing enemy from the east, north, and west.Except for a small number of troops to escort the prisoners, our 46th Division launched a pursuit.At dusk, the enemy was compressed in a small area northeast of Xicaichang.

In order to quickly gather and annihilate the enemy, in addition to the 48th Division of our 16th Army mopping up the scattered enemies in the Qingshuipu area, Yin Xianbing, the commander of the 16th Army, ordered the 47th Division to advance to Shou'antang and cooperate with the 46th Division to fight.At the same time, the 52nd Division of our 18th Army marched rapidly from the Meishan area to the Longchang, Jiangjunku, and Shouanchang areas to prevent and annihilate the fleeing enemy.Our 53rd Division marched day and night from Longjudang to the Sanweiba, Wulongchang, and Wumiaogou areas in the southwest of Jianyang to block the remnants of Li Wen's troops.

At this time, Li Wen yelled at the fleeing troops: "If you fight hard, you will light, if you don't fight light, you will light." He took out a pistol, killed the two regiment leaders who had abandoned the formation and fled on the spot, and drove the remnants to attack our army's position. Charge round after round. Our soldiers held their positions and fought tenaciously.The fierce battle lasted for a whole day, killing off the enemies who tried to flee. The enemy's vanguard fled westward along the Chuankang Highway, but was resolutely blocked by our army.The machine gun company of a certain unit of our army exerted its greatest power, and each machine gun fired an average of more than 3,000 rounds of bullets.The company commander held two heavy machine guns and fired more than 4,000 rounds of bullets at once.The enemy's field artillery battalion left more than 20 field artillery and more than 300 livestock on the road.

On the morning of the same day, the enemies in Xinjin City fled westward one after another, and they were in a mess before leaving the city. People, horses, carts, and artillery filled the two-foot-wide street in Xinjin City in a mess, leaving a large number of people along the road. Wounded soldiers, dead bodies, documents, ammunition, livestock, cars and various military supplies.These relics became the guides of our army. Our commanders and fighters sneered: "Hu Zongnan really knows how to do things, and puts road signs for us everywhere." On the 26th, various armies of the People's Liberation Army launched a full-line attack on the enemy surrounded by Gaoshanpu, Xicaichang, and Ant Mountain in the Xinjin, Dayi, Qionglai, and Pujiang diamond-shaped areas.

The 16th Army of Yang Yong's 5th Corps launched an attack on the remnants of the enemy's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 27th armies gathered in the northeast of Xicaichang, and captured more than 5,000 enemies.The other part of our 16th Army wiped out one part of the enemy in the Songzhen area, and captured more than 1,000 people under the deputy commander of the enemy's 3rd Army, Shen Kaiyue. The warriors of our 18th Army also wiped out more than a thousand enemies on the front lines of Shou'an Field, Panlong Field, Guyi Town, Longju Field, Renshou, Sanchaba, and Gaojia Field. The main force of our 5th Corps took advantage of the victory to search and wipe out the remnants of the enemy. The 47th Division cooperated with the 3rd Corps in Tongqiao to wipe out the 35th Division and captured more than 1,800 enemies. The 48th Division wiped out more than 2,700 remnants of the 1st and 3rd armies in Qingshuipu and Fuxingchang areas. The 46th Division cooperated with brother troops to chase and wipe out the headquarters of the enemy's 5th Corps. Li Wen, the commander of the enemy's 5th Corps, led more than 10,000 remnants to surrender to our army when he was desperate.So far, the seven armies of Li Wen's bandits have all been wiped out under the resolute attack of our army.

On the 27th, Chengdu was liberated. In the Battle of Chengdu, more than 300,000 enemy Hu Zongnan Group were wiped out (most of them revolted and a small part was wiped out), and only a few of them fled to Xichang. On December 30, Chengdu held a grand entrance ceremony.General He Long sat in an open jeep and led his troops into Chengdu, and the whole province of Sichuan was declared liberated.