Chapter 400 6. People who witnessed it said "Hainan Defense Operation Plan"

Within a month, the People's Liberation Army succeeded in smuggling four times in two consecutive batches, which greatly shocked the Kuomintang army on Hainan Island.Xue Yue was shocked and felt that the defense of Hainan was in jeopardy. In order to "make up for it", on the one hand, he dispatched troops to track and pursue our army's advance landing troops, trying to encircle and annihilate us when our foothold was not stable. Continue to step up high-handed rule, eradicate dissidents, and shock the hearts of the people, so as to maintain its crumbling reactionary regime.

However, at this time, people in Hainan Island were panicked and morale was low, but Xue Yue was still determined to fight the People's Liberation Army to the end.He judged that our army must make a large-scale landing in April, so he quickly transferred the 252nd and 256th divisions and most of the navy and air force originally stationed in Qiongnan to the front of the strait to strengthen defense, and ordered the whole army to arrive at the front of the strait at dusk every day. After dawn, they will all be fully armed for battle, the coastal defense forces will all enter the position, and the commanders will all enter the command position.At the same time, Xue Yue also tried his best to deceive and propagate, and publicized among the soldiers that "the communist army's captive policy has changed. Anyone who escapes to Hainan Island and is captured alive will be treated as a diehard, cramp and skinned, and be executed." ". After the Battle of Baishamen in early April, in order to calm people's minds and publicize his "war achievements", he put up slogans everywhere saying "Celebrate the great victory of Baishamen, annihilate more than 1,000 Communists", and mixed his soldiers with captured PLA soldiers. In the middle, they loaded more than ten large trucks and forced them to patrol the streets of Haikou City to demonstrate to the public. They also called Taiwan to report their merits to Chiang Kai-shek and asked to send a ship to Hainan to pick up the prisoners of war to Taiwan.While boasting that "Boling's line of defense is impenetrable", they also publicized "immediately cross the sea and counterattack the mainland".

In fact, Xue Yue's bluff is purely self-deception. In the face of the powerful People's Liberation Army, any of his measures and means seem stretched and helpless. According to Lin Huicai's recollection, the real situation of Xue Yue and others at that time was: "The People's Liberation Army crossed the sea four times and landed successfully in front of the enemy. Li Yangjing, chief of the general staff, and Chen Jitang, chief executive of the Hainan Special Zone, both panicked. They were troubled by the successful landings of the People's Liberation Army many times. In the end, on the one hand, he asked Chiang Kai-shek for help, but on the other hand, he was forced to bite the bullet, disregarding the taboo of military strategists, and adopted the decision-making of direct defense, with defense as the main task of contingency, fortifying everywhere and being weak everywhere, so that he was hit by the People's Liberation Army later. It will collapse."

Lin Huicai was one of the drafters of the original "Hainan Defense Operation Plan". He believed that as the commander of the Hainan Kuomintang Army, Xue Yue was not only in a dilemma in strategic decision-making, but also made repeated mistakes in the specific deployment of troops. His analysis can be described as sharp: "According to the judgment of the defense operation plan, the places where the People's Liberation Army troops cross the sea and land should be in the coastal areas of Chengmai and Lingao counties, and the 32nd Army of the 23rd Corps, which has relatively sound combat effectiveness, should have been deployed in this area. In the Wenchang and Danxian areas, due to the long voyage to cross the sea, it is not convenient for the army to move after crossing the sea. The defense plan has always regarded it as an assist aspect, and only deployed some defense and security troops to monitor their smuggling, and controlled the mobile corps in Ding'an and Chengmai. In the middle area, I thought it would be countermeasures."

"However, Xue Yue's deployment of troops, on the one hand, may have been constrained by Liu Anqi of the 23rd Corps and refused to listen to the transfer; In many coastal strongholds in the two regions, the violent and incompetent Xue Yue was deceived and mistakenly believed that the main attack of the People's Liberation Army was directed at Qiongshan and Wenchang. On the lines of Jiaji and Yulin, the broken second-rate troops were deployed on the defense lines of Chengmai and Lingao areas, which bore the brunt. Later, when the defense line was broken through, the 32nd Army was divided and used by mistake, dragging down He ordered the 252nd Division of the army, but left the 266th Division of the army idle in the Wenchang area, giving the Liberation Army every opportunity to defeat it, which fully exposed the clumsiness and incompetence of the commander. The Last Struggle of Hainan Island and Its Destruction", contained in the 17th series of "Guangdong Literature and History Materials", the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Guangdong Provincial Committee of Literature and History Materials Research Committee, December 1964 edition, pages 48-50)