Chapter 3 Chapter 2 First Trial of the Edge

On January 10, 1946, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party issued an armistice order, stipulating that all troops under the leadership of the two parties, regardless of regular troops, militias, regiments, irregular troops or guerrillas, should immediately stop all combat operations. In fact, the Kuomintang is just trying to buy time, mobilize troops, and rearrange the civil war. On June 1, 1946, the Kuomintang government formally established the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing.Bai Chongxi was the Minister of Defense, Chen Cheng was the Chief of Staff, Gu Zhutong was the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Chen Cheng was also the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Zhou Zhirou was the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Huang Zhenqiu was the Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Rear Service, and Xue Yue was the director of the Xuzhou Appeasement Office.

On June 2, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Jinan, presided over the military meeting in person, arranged to open up Jiaoji Road, cut off the connection between the north and the south of the liberated area, and attempted to wipe out the troops in the Shandong liberated area in one fell swoop.After the meeting, Wang Yaowu, the commander of the Second Appeasement Zone of the Kuomintang, immediately mobilized 15 divisions of 5 armies to press against the Jiaoji line. In order to smash the Kuomintang's offensive, the New Fourth Army and the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region issued a mobilization on resolute self-defense and smashing the Kuomintang's offensive, pointing out that the Kuomintang mobilized 90% of its army to attack the liberated areas nationwide, preparing to seize the Northeast with elite troops.The siege of the Central Plains Military Region, the Qingxiang in the south of the Yangtze River, the offensives in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places are also being intensively planned and launched.In Central China, the Kuomintang successively captured Liuhe, Jingjiang, Taixing, Dingyuan and other towns. After bloodbathing our Nantong area, it is now trying to seize Soviet Central.In this regard, we have made many concessions, but the Kuomintang has made progress and is arrogant.In order to defend peace, support the Northeast, defend Central China, and defend Central Soviet Union, we have to defend ourselves, we have to stop its attacks, and wipe out its vital forces cleanly and thoroughly.

Zhoucun and Zhangdian are two important towns on the Jiaoji line, where puppet troops such as Zhang Jingyue, Zhou Shengfang, Wang Yantian, and Li Qingshan are stationed respectively, with a total of more than 9,000 people.Since these puppet troops were incorporated by the Kuomintang, they used their existing dens to conspire to invade the Luzhong and Bohai Liberated Areas. Chen Yi decided to use Shanye (Shandong Field Army renamed from the Jinpu Front Field Army) as one column, one division each of the Seventh Division and one Eighth Division, as well as troops from Luzhong, Lunan, Jiaodong, Bohai, and Binhai District to attack Zhoucun, Zhangdian and other puppet troops. Army bases for attack operations.

On the evening of June 7, the fourth and ninth divisions and the first garrison brigade of the Luzhong Military Region, with the full cooperation of the seventh garrison brigade of the Bohai Navy Region, launched a violent attack on the puppet troops in the Zhoucun and Zhangdian areas. After a day and night of fierce fighting, Zhoucun, Zhangdian and more than 10 surrounding strongholds were conquered one after another.More than 4,000 remnants of the enemy broke through in a hurry, most of them fled westward to Jinan, and some fled to Shouguang and other places. The Thirteenth Security Regiment and other departments immediately entered the Zhangjialin area north of Zhangqiu from the Longshan line, intercepted the enemy fleeing west, wiped out most of them, and captured Li Qingshan alive.The 14th Security Regiment blocked the front and rear in the Yidu area and wiped out the enemies fleeing eastward.The battle ended victoriously, and more than 8,000 officers and soldiers below the brigade commander were captured.

At the same time, the Bohai Navy Region used the First Regiment, the Second Regiment, and the First Battalion of the Seventeenth Security Regiment, with the cooperation of the First Division of the Local Armed Forces of the Southern Hebei Military Region, to attack the Puppet Army Zhang Guangdi's Security Brigade and the Appeasement Army Wang Jixiang's Department guarding Dezhou. Wait for the attack. On the evening of June 10, the general offensive began.The commandos braved the fierce firepower of the enemy and fought bravely.At around 8 o'clock in the evening, the spy group broke through the south gate first.Immediately, the First Battalion of the Second Secret Service Regiment also broke into the city gate.After entering the city, the two regiments fought side by side, repulsed the enemy and counterattacked many times, inflicted mass destruction on the enemy, and forced the enemy to surrender.

At dawn the next day, the Second Secret Service Regiment assaulted Dongdi.Under my powerful military and political offensive, the two battalions of Wang Jixiang were forced to surrender in the afternoon of the same day.In this battle, our army killed Jin Dingzhou, the deputy commander of the major general of the Puppet Appeasement Army, and captured more than 4,000 officers and soldiers under the lieutenant general commander Wang Jixiang. While the troops of the Luzhong Military Region launched an attack on Zhoucun and Zhangdian, Ye Fei, commander of the First Column of the Shandong Field Army, and Lai Chuanzhu, political commissar, were ordered to lead their troops to attack and wipe out Tai'an, the first brigade of the puppet army in the Dawenkou area, Ning Chunlin, and Wu Huawen's newly organized Zhao Guangxing Department of the First Regiment of the Fifth Route Army.

At 22:00 on June 7, the first vertical brigade and the third brigade, with the cooperation of the local armed forces of the Luzhong Military Region, launched an attack on the defending enemy. After 18 hours of fierce fighting, they captured the four passes of Tai'an, forcing the remnants of the enemy to retreat into the city.During the battle, Qiu Yuquan, chief of staff of a brigade, was unfortunately shot and died. On the evening of June 10, the First Brigade and the Third Brigade launched a general offensive again after full preparations.Under the cover of artillery fire, the 3rd Brigade and 8th Regiment carried out multiple assaults from Xiguan, climbed with ladders, fought fiercely for 20 minutes, and bravely climbed to the top of the city.A brigade and a regiment also successfully set up ladders from Nanguan and entered the city.The follow-up troops took advantage of the situation to intersect and annihilate the enemy in depth, and quickly eliminated the stubborn enemy in the city.During the battle, Yizong also shot down a Kuomintang army support plane.In this battle, our army captured more than 3,000 officers and soldiers below the enemy's puppet deputy brigade commander and chief of staff.

On June 6, the First Column and the Second Brigade took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and launched a surprise attack on more than 1,000 people from Zhao Guangxing's puppet army guarding Dawenkou, and quickly cleared out the outer strongholds. On the evening of the 7th, taking advantage of the situation, they invaded Daweizi and Dawenkou Stations and wiped out more than 600 puppet troops.The remnant enemy fled south to Yanzhou, and Dawenkou was liberated by our army. At this time, Wang Jimei's Department of the puppet army entrenched in the Zaozhuang area in southern Shandong had been incorporated by the Kuomintang army and placed under the command of Wang Gang, deputy chief of staff of the Nineteenth Group Army.In order to eliminate this department, the Seventh and Eighth Divisions of the Shandong Field Army, with the cooperation of the local armed forces and militia in the Southern Shandong Military Region, launched the Zaozhuang Battle on June 9.Deputy Army Commander Luo Binghui supported his sick body and resolutely returned to the front line to take command.On the front line, he presided over a meeting of cadres above the regiment and regiment participating in the war, analyzed and studied the enemy's situation, formulated a combat plan, and personally led everyone to inspect the terrain near Zaozhuang. Completed all battle preparations.

At 19:00 on June 9th, the 20th Brigade of the Seventh Division and the first part of the 21st Brigade, the 23rd Regiment of the Eighth Division and one battalion of the 22nd Regiment, under the command of Luo Binghui, attacked the south of Zaozhuang Zhongxing Coal Company, which was guarded by Wang Jimei's department. Oi stronghold launched a fierce attack. The Eighth Division took the lead and broke into the enemy's stronghold first.Subsequently, troops from the Seventh Division also rushed in.The follow-up troops took advantage of the situation, charged in depth, and wiped out the enemy in large numbers.Wang Jimei fled south with the remnants of his troops, but was intercepted and annihilated by the 19th Brigade of the Seventh Division on the way, and Wang Jimei was shot dead on the spot.

Taking advantage of the victory, our army captured Zaozhuang at 9 o'clock on June 10, and captured the Kuomintang commander Wang Gang, commissioner Bao Guoquan and more than 3,300 officers and soldiers below. When the rebel armies from all walks of Shandong were fighting fiercely along the Jiaoji and Jinpu roads, Zhao Baoyuan, a puppet army who slipped through the net in Jiaodong, turned himself into a major general and division commander of the Kuomintang.He played the banner of the 12th Division of the KMT's provisional formation, and stationed in Jiaoxian, Gaomi, and Jimo respectively. With Jiaoxian County as the center, they echoed each other from a distance, forming a tendency to fight corners.

Xu Shiyou, the commander of the Jiaodong Military Region, and Lin Hao, the political commissar, analyzed and studied this change and concluded that the city wall of Jiao County was strong, and Zhao Baoyuan's command center was located in the city.We should concentrate our efforts on taking Jiaoxian County first, so as to create favorable conditions for the victory of the entire campaign.Therefore, it was decided to concentrate the main force to attack and wipe out the enemies in Jiao County first, and then transfer troops to conquer Gaomi and Jimo with the tactic of "tiger digging out its heart". In the dead of night, the Fifth Division and the Beihai Independence Regiment, led by division commander Nie Fengzhi and political commissar Liu Haotian, rushed towards Jiao County in the dim night.The original plan for the general attack was at 23:00 on June 8, and at 22:50, Nie Fengzhi suddenly heard the sound of guns and artillery near Xiguan—the 14th regiment was spotted by the defending enemy when it was moving towards Chengguan, so it turned in the fire. Master Nie Fengzhi immediately ordered the 13th and 15th regiments to rush into battle and launch a strong attack immediately.The total attack time was forced to advance by 10 minutes. It was raining lightly, and smoke was billowing on the battlefield. The 13th Regiment's 2nd Battalion and 5th Company first broke through the city wall and rushed into the city. Relying on the buildings in the city, they fought tenaciously, repelling the enemy's counterattack more than 10 times in succession, and tenaciously held the breakthrough. After dawn, the enemy's counterattack became more rampant.Nie Fengzhi ordered all the troops to be on strict alert, and surrounded Jiaoxian County from all directions with heavy troops to form an iron barrel. In order to quickly open up passages for the assault troops, the Thirteenth Regiment gathered more than 20 grenade launchers to bombard the defending enemy.The third battalion and the seventh company rushed to the top of the city in one go, and the rest of the troops rushed into the city one after another, starting hand-to-hand combat and inflicting mass destruction on the enemy.In the evening, all the defending enemies were wiped out. At the same time, the South China Sea Independence Regiment captured Lancun Station on the night of June 9 and wiped out Li Deyuan's troops in one fell swoop.The Binbei Independent Regiment regained Zhilanzhuang. Our army captured the county seat of Jiaoxian County and killed Zhao Baoyuan, so that the defenders in Gaomi and Jimo City were quickly surrounded by us, and they were in constant panic. Commander Xu Shiyou and Political Commissar Lin Hao were determined to strike while the iron was hot, and ordered the troops to attack Gaomi and Jimo cities in two ways. On the afternoon of June 12, after careful preparations, the main force of the Fifth Division and the Binbei Independent Regiment launched a fierce attack on the Gaomi defenders. After a night of fierce fighting, they broke through the south gate at 9:00 on the 13th and entered the city.By 12 o'clock that night, the Gaomi battle had ended victoriously. On the evening of June 14th, the Eighth Regiment of the Fourth Guard Brigade and the Divisional Forces of the Southern Navy took advantage of the situation to launch an attack on Jimo defending the enemy, captured the city gate that night, and forced the enemy to retreat into the city.At 14:00 the next day, the troops had just finished their lunch when they suddenly discovered that there was a fog outside the south gate. It turned out that the enemy was about to abandon the city and flee!The enemy army is like ants, rolling yellow dust all over the mountains and fields.Our army immediately attacked, boldly interspersed and divided, blocked the front and intercepted the enemy, and the enemy was defeated.Except for a few enemy troops who fled to Qingdao under the cover of aircraft, all the rest were wiped out. After nine days and nights of continuous hard work, our army, with the active cooperation of the local armed forces, militia and the masses of the people in Shandong, successfully completed the mission of rebelling against Jiaoji and Jinpu, annihilating more than 34,000 puppet troops and controlling the The Jiaoji and Jinpu railways with a total length of more than 700 kilometers created favorable conditions for defeating the Kuomintang's key attacks on the Shandong liberated area in the future. On June 24, 1946, at the Xuzhou Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang, Director Xue Yue and Li Mo'an, Commander of the First Appeasement District, were having a meeting.After the meeting, Xue Yue invited Li Mo'an to the secret room for further secret talks.About half an hour later, Xue Yue took out a large kraft paper envelope, put it on the table twice, shrugged his shoulders twice, and said to Li Mo'an: "This is a battle plan drawn up by our Sui Department based on the intention of the Ministry of National Defense. It is a top secret. Yes, I have to hand it over to Commander Li. Don’t open it for now in Xuzhou, please go to the Wuxi No. Absolutely keep it secret. The Communist Party is very powerful, and their intelligence is very flexible. In the past, they would know if we didn’t do anything. When you go over there, you must pay special attention to confidentiality.” After speaking, he handed the secret document to Li Mo’an. This is a map of operational deployment, proposing that the invasion of the North Jiangsu Liberation Area should be carried out in two steps: the first step is to capture Dongtai, Xinghua, and the area south of Gaoyou; the second step is to invade Yancheng, Funing, Huaiyin, and Suqian, Lian The Kuomintang army in the direction of the water will meet.It also stipulated that the Huang Baitao Department of the Reorganized 25th Division would use Yangzhou as the base and attack in two ways: one way would attack Yiling, Fanchuan, and Sanduo towns; the other way would attack Shaobo and Gaoyou, occupying Sanduo towns, Gaoyou towns and beyond In the southern area, prepare to attack in the direction of Huaiyin.The Reorganized Eighty-Three Division Li Tianxia's Department used Tai County as a base to attack Qintong and Xinghua in separate routes, occupied Xinghua and the areas to the south, and prepared to respond to operations in the direction of Yancheng, Funing and Huaiyin.Reorganizing the Forty-ninth Division Wang Tiehan's Department took Nantong as the base and divided into two routes: one route attacked Shixiang, Chahe, Pincha, Jiaoxie, and Sancang River; the other route invaded Rugao, Hai'an, and Dongtai, occupying Sancang He, Dongtai and the areas to the south, join forces attacking Yancheng, Funing, Suqian, and Lianshui.The start of the invasion was scheduled for July 15, 1946. In his early years, Li Mo'an was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy together with Xu Xiangqian, Chen Geng, Guan Linzheng, Hu Zongnan, and He Zhonghan, and became one of the most important generals in the Kuomintang Whampoa military officers after Hu Zongnan. Wen Youwu Li Mo'an" said.He joined the Communist Party in his early years and got along very well with Ye Jianying, but he left the party organization for some reason.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Fourteenth Army. At the end of October 1937, Niangziguan fell, and Taiyuan was in a hurry.At this time, more than half of Li Mo'an's Fourteenth Army had suffered casualties, and the Eighty-fifth Division had only one battalion left.However, he still supervised the troops and persisted in fighting. It was not until November 8 that he voluntarily withdrew from his position and gathered in Zhaocheng on the west bank of the Fen River to rest. In mid-December of this year, Li Moan traveled with Wei Lihuang to visit the Eighth Route Army headquarters in Hongdong County, southern Shanxi, and met with Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and Zuo Quan, a classmate of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.The two sides had a pleasant discussion and shared their experiences in combating the enemy.Commander-in-Chief Zhu also held a grand welcome party for them. In mid-July 1946, Li Moan planned to attack Rugao in the north with the 49th Reorganized Division in the Nantong and Baipu areas; the 99th Brigade of the 69th Reorganized Division in the Jingjiang area and the Taixing area The reorganized 83rd Division divided into two groups to occupy Huangqiao first, and then cooperated with the reorganized 49th Division to attack Rugao; the 148th brigade of the reorganized 25th Division in the Taizhou area attacked Jiangyan eastward, and then jointly attacked Rugao The Kuomintang troops joined forces to attack Hai'an; the reorganized 65th Division in the Wujin area and the reorganized 21st Division in the Jiangyin area were the second echelon.A simultaneous offensive is scheduled to begin on 15 July. At 3 p.m. on July 13, Li Moan's Changzhou headquarters.Suddenly, the phone rang.The call was made by Li Tianxia, ​​commander of the Reorganized 83rd Division, saying that the first part of the People's Liberation Army was advancing towards Taixing City and Xuanjiapu.Li Tianxia thought it was just a small battle, so she just told the combat department of the headquarters to strengthen contact and pay attention to the situation. He never imagined that this was the beginning of the Soviet-China War.This is exactly the action taken by the Central China Field Army to surprise the enemy and preempt the enemy in order to deal a powerful blow to the invading enemy and disrupt its offensive deployment.The first division Tao Yong and Wang Jicheng attacked Xuanjiabao, trying to conquer it before 9:00 am on July 14.The main force went to the east of Xuanjiapu and assembled in a concealed manner, preparing to destroy the enemy who came to help at the port and Diaojiapu.The Sixth Division Wang Bicheng, Jiang Weiqing and two artillery brigades, one brigade attacked Taixing City at 11 o'clock on the 13th, and was limited to conquer before dawn on the 16th; enemy.Three regiments of Guan Wenwei and Ji Luo (Ji Pengfei) of the Seventh Column attacked the enemy coming to aid from Taizhou, leaving one regiment to defend Dongtai. The first division attacked the three regiments in Xuanjiabao, and quickly cleared the periphery that night, annihilating some of the enemy.In particular, the artillery unit used green gauze tents and grave bags to carry out close-range shooting.Due to the enemy's increased strength (originally a battalion, it increased to a regiment during the day), our several attacks that night were ineffective.The deputy division commander Tao Yong rushed to the Eighth Regiment on a flying horse and found that the enemy's strength had increased, and there was a problem with the deployment of Huaye—the whole field army deployed a 6:1 superior force in the battle of annihilation, but the specific battle of the Eighth Regiment was 1:1. Annihilation war" has become a "stalemate war".He decisively ordered to stop the attack, adjust the deployment, and the eighth and ninth regiments opened up new attack directions.The Eighth Regiment was still the main attack and soon won the victory. The Sixth Division attacked Taixing City.That night, the three regiments launched attacks from multiple directions at the same time, and under the cover of firepower, they quickly completed the encirclement of the city's defenders.By dawn on July 14, the outer strongholds were cleared and they approached the city wall. A general attack was launched at 18:00. Under the cover of fierce firepower, our siege troops acted bravely, quickly broke through the city wall, and developed in depth. When the battle reached 24:00, part of the enemy was wiped out.The headquarters of the enemy's 57th regiment and a small number of troops (less than one battalion) were besieged in Qingyun Temple, and another battalion was besieged in the East Gate Temple. On the 15th, a regiment of the sixth division's reinforcements was transferred into the city to participate in the battle.With the cooperation of fierce artillery fire, the regiment launched a political offensive, and soon forced the Dongmen Temple defenders to surrender.So far, most of the enemy's 57th regiment has been wiped out.The Sixth Division left a small number of troops to continue to besiege the remnants of Qingyun Temple, in order to create the illusion of the enemy, while the main force moved eastward. The seventh column attacked the troops of Erjiazhuang. It thought that there were only two companies defending the enemy. Later, it was found out that the enemy had added a battalion on January 3. In fact, there were five companies in total, and the attack did not make much progress.Later, due to new combat missions, Qizong immediately withdrew from the battle. The Xuanjiapu and Taixing battles won the first battle between the Soviet Union and Central China in less than 60 hours, dampened the arrogance of the enemy, boosted our military power, and improved the confidence of the soldiers and civilians in the Liberated Areas in self-defense operations. On the evening of July 15th, in order to continue to destroy the enemy's vital forces, the Central China Field Army sent troops eastward, and decided to annihilate the enemy who invaded Rugao and reorganized the 49th Division in the movement. On the evening of the 15th, regardless of fatigue, the various ministries traveled long distances and marched towards the area south of Rugao at a speed of more than 100 miles overnight.The main five regiments of the First Division arrived at the area between Baipu and Linzi at dawn on the 18th, cut off the enemy's retreat, and blocked the enemy's reorganized 49th Division Division and 26th Brigade 20 kilometers south of Rugao. In Yuli's Guitou Street and Tianduli areas, fierce battles were launched with them.The First Division successively occupied Linzi, Guitoujie, Dingyan and other places on the same day, and until the morning of the 19th, they all occupied Tianduli, the headquarters of the enemy's reorganized 49th Division, and the surrounding villages to the south.The headquarters of the enemy division was isolated, and all the troops were in chaos. The morale of the army was shaken by panic, and they broke through to the south in the afternoon of the same day.The 1st Division immediately attacked across the board, the 7th Column and the Special Task Force of the First Central China Army Division cooperated closely, and simultaneously attacked from the north. By the end of the night, most of the division headquarters of the enemy's reorganized 49th Division and the 26th Brigade were wiped out. In the area west of Tianduli, only the division commander Wang Tiehan led more than a hundred people to break through to the west and fled to the garrison of the enemy's 79th brigade. The two main regiments of the Sixth Division moved eastward to the Hejiaba and Songjiaqiao areas on the evening of July 17, cutting off the rear of the enemy's 79th Brigade. At dawn on the 18th, the division attacked from south to northeast.The seventh column defended the enemy forces in Rugao County. From north to south, it closely cooperated with the sixth division's attack operations, annihilated one part, and compressed and surrounded the enemy in the Songjiaqiao and Yanghuaqiao areas.That night, the Sixth Division attacked. On the 19th, the two regiments assembled by the division were transferred eastward to participate in the attack on Yanghua Bridge.By the 20th, with the cooperation of the first regiment of the first brigade of the first division, the sixth division wiped out most of the enemy's 79th brigade. On the 21st, the Central China Field Army Command immediately decided to withdraw from the battle because the 65th Division reorganized by the enemy aided by Huangqiao was approaching the remnants of the 79th Brigade. The 55th Regiment of the Seventh Column arrived at Rugao City on July 16, built fortifications, and cooperated with the Central China First Army Division to guard Rugao City.The column led two regiments to cooperate with the first division and the sixth division to encircle and annihilate the enemy to reorganize the 49th division, and cooperated with the sixth division to block the enemy in Taixian County and Huangqiaodong. When the People's Liberation Army attacked Taixing City, the 65th Reorganized Division that Li Mo'an had mobilized to occupy Huangqiao hadn't arrived yet, and it happened that the 99th Reorganized Division under the jurisdiction of Dai Zhiqi, the 69th Reorganized Division that was about to be transferred to Xuzhou to occupy Suqian, The brigade (Brigade Commander Zhu Zhixi) passed through Wuxi by railway transportation.Chiang Kai-shek ordered the brigade to get off at Wuxi, cross the river from Jiangyin to Jingjiang to occupy the Yellow Bridge, and then together with the reorganized 65th Division (less than a brigade), launched an attack on Rugao and Hai'an. From July 30, the Kuomintang army concentrated the 160th and 187th Brigades of the 65th Division stationed in Rugao, the 105th Brigade of the 49th Division, and the new 21st Division. The 7th Brigade and the 63rd Brigade of the 83rd Reorganized Division stationed in Jiangyan and Baimi, and the 148th Brigade of the 25th Reorganized Division have a total of 6 brigades. Attacking Hai'an, the front is less than 30 miles, and the depth is more than 20 miles. The brigades are closely moving forward. On the morning of July 30th, the 160th Brigade, 187th Brigade and 105th Brigade of the Kuomintang Army launched an attack on the 55th Regiment's position at about 10 o'clock. , Contacted the security forces of Huayuan Bridge and Yuanjia Bridge.The 55th regiment of our army fought back and forth, and after about four hours of fighting, they voluntarily withdrew to the Zhoujiazhuang area.The rest of the invading enemies all reached the front of the regiment's first-line position in the afternoon.That night, the regiment sent three battalions and two platoons to insert behind the enemy's rear to harass and harass the enemy, causing the enemy to panic and open fire on each other, making them restless all night. On the morning of the 31st, the enemy used planes to cover the regiment's position and rushed to the regiment's position in turn, all of which were defeated.In the afternoon, the reorganized 65th Division concentrated its forces to attack the Dengjiazhuang and Yangjiaqiao positions, and the rest of the roads made pincer attacks.Under the cover of heavy bombardment and artillery fire from enemy planes, the enemy charged nine times with a battalion to the position of a company of the Yangjiaqiao garrison.The regiment moved to the second-line defense at 12 o'clock that night.At dawn, the enemy's leading troops advanced to the front of Chenjiazhuang and Wangjiazhuang's positions. The two sides immediately fought fiercely. On the evening of August 1, the defenders took the initiative to move to the third-line position, and started a fierce battle with the tracking enemy at Yangjia Wharf, forming a confrontation. On the morning of July 30th, the enemy from Baimidong attacked Cuimu's position of the 59th Regiment several times, but were all repelled.After fierce fighting all day long, the enemy occupied Cui Mu, and the regiment moved to Qutang for defense at dusk. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon on August 1, the enemy continued to attack, forcing the regiment to withdraw from Qutang and transfer to the Huangziliang and Hujiaji lines for defense.In the early morning of the 2nd, the two enemy brigades attacked again and occupied the above-mentioned positions, causing the regiment to transfer to the front line of Sanli Temple (West Hai'an) for defense. On the afternoon of August 2, the enemy used eight planes to continuously bomb the seven vertical and three-line positions and Hai'an Township. At about 3 o'clock, heavy rain poured down, and most of the newly built fortifications collapsed under the bombing of enemy planes, destruction by artillery fire and the impact of rain.At dusk, Qi Zong transferred to Jiezhen for defense.In view of the fact that the headquarters of the Seventh Column had already dealt a large amount of consumption and severe blows to the attacking enemy, and completed the task of mobile defense operations, the Huaye Command decided to abandon Hai'an. The Seventh Column had a tenacious style and flexible command in the Haian defensive battle. It only used 2 regiments and 2 battalions with more than 3,000 troops. It fought for more than 4 consecutive days and heroically fought against 7 troops with superior equipment. The brigade attacked with about 50,000 enemies, killing and injuring more than 3,000 enemies successively, and only suffered more than 200 casualties. After Li Mo'an occupied Rugao, Hai'an, and Libao, he thought it was necessary to consolidate, improve the communication lines in the rear, and store some grain and ammunition before moving forward.For this reason, Li Mo'an adjusted his deployment on August 6. The 83rd Division still withdrew to Tai County, and the 65th Division (owed to the 154th Brigade) was attached to the newly organized 7th Brigade in Jiangyan and Hai'an. The brigade continued to develop diagonally. On August 10, the new Seventh Brigade marched from Hai'an to Fort Lee to take over the defense of the 105th Brigade.It was just dark, and the 19th Regiment had just completed the defense of Fort Li. The security had not yet been dispatched, the fortifications had not been completed, and the positions of the troops had not been properly distributed.The first division of the Central China Field Army attacked Fort Lee.At dawn on the 11th, the Eighth Regiment and Ninth Regiment of the Third Brigade of the First Division successively entered Fort Lee and started street fighting with the enemy.Most of the enemy's 19th Regiment was wiped out in melee hand-to-hand combat.The remnant enemy fled to Yangjiazhuang and joined the 314th Regiment.With the cooperation of the third brigade, our first brigade captured Yangjiazhuang at 14:00 on the same day and wiped out the defending enemy. Only a few people including the commander of the 105th brigade escaped. When the Central China Field Army besieged Fort Li and fought fiercely, the details of the enemy in Hai'an were not yet known. On the morning of August 11, the commander of the enemy's new seventh brigade led the 21st regiment to continue from Hai'andong to Libao to receive defense.The Central China Field Army immediately deployed two regiments, the 18th Brigade of the 6th Division and the 7th Column, and prepared for an ambush using favorable terrain such as sorghum fields and corn fields.At noon, when the enemy entered Lujiajian, they fell into the pocket position preset by the Central China Field Army and were surrounded by the Yangman River area. On the 17th, the Central China Field Army launched a general offensive, and after half an hour of fighting, the enemy was about to be wiped out.The remnant enemy fled across Henan and was intercepted and wiped out by the 16th Brigade, which was participating in the battle from the west of Dingjiasuo. Only Huang Boguang, the commander of the New 7th Brigade, led more than 300 people to escape to the southwest of Chaiwan. In this battle, the Central China Field Army concentrated its absolutely superior forces and firepower, annihilating more than 5,000 Kuomintang troops, killing and wounding more than 3,000 people, and Huaye casualties more than 900 people. On August 13, the Central Military Commission instructed the Central China Field Army: "The scattered enemies in the central Soviet Union will help us defeat them one by one. I hope to arrange a few more battles, that is, like the traffic corps, and wipe out all who can be wiped out. If you can completely smash the central Soviet Union The attack of Jiang's army will have a great impact on the overall situation." According to the instructions of the Military Commission, the Central China Field Army is determined to concentrate its superior forces, penetrate deep into the hinterland behind the enemy's rear, and launch an offensive against Dingyan and Linzi, where the enemy's forces are relatively weak on the front line of Nantong and Rugao, to open gaps and lure the enemy. Send aid and annihilate them during the campaign. At 9 o'clock in the evening on August 21, the First Division of the Central China Field Army launched a surprise attack on the enemy defending Dingyan.Dingyan defended the enemy's Seventh Corps of Traffic Police with more than 1,300 people in 4 brigades. With the cotton mill at the south end of the street as the core and the temples at the east end and northwest corner as support points, they fought stubbornly.The Seventh Regiment and Eighth Regiment of the Third Brigade of the First Division launched attacks from the northeast and northwest. On the 23rd, they captured the Jiedongtou Temple and wiped out the enemy at 10:00. At 18:00 on August 21, the Sixth Division launched a fierce attack on the two brigades of the 11th Corps of the Linzi Defending Enemy Traffic Police, and the enemy resisted stubbornly.The Sixth Division immediately adjusted its attack deployment, concentrated its superior forces and firepower, and launched an attack again at 14:00 on the 22nd, and fought fiercely until 17:00 to wipe out all the enemies. After capturing Dingyan and Linzi, the Fifth Brigade went into battle on August 22, attacking the two traffic police brigades guarding Dongchen.Part of the 59th Regiment of the 7th Column attacked Lifa Bridge, but the Lifa Bridge was occupied by the 59th Regiment because the defending enemy had withdrawn to Hai'an. In this battle, more than 3,500 people from 5 brigades of the enemy traffic police corps were wiped out. While the Central China Field Army was fighting fiercely with the Kuomintang army in Dingyan and Linzi, the Huaibei battlefield was occupied by the Kuomintang army advancing eastward from the Suxian area, and was preparing to continue to invade Huaiyin.In order to cooperate with the above-mentioned actions, the enemy's reorganized 25th Division went northward along the canal road from Xiannv Temple and Yiling on August 23, and attacked Shaobo, Qiaoshu and Dinggou. Shaobo is the gateway to the southern part of Huaiyin, the capital of the Central China Liberated Area. The rivers and ports are densely covered with branches, and there is only one land road, the canal embankment, and the terrain is dangerous.The Central China Field Army is determined to stick to the Shaobo area.The 25th Division of the Kuomintang Reorganization that attacked Shao Bo had Japanese and American equipment. The division commander Huang Baitao boasted: "It will take a few hours to take Shao Bo." At dawn on August 23, the enemy began artillery preparations, and then attacked Dinggou, Qiaoshu, and Shaobo in three directions.Fighting until the evening, the enemy attacking Dinggou was repulsed, the enemy attacking Qiaoshu and the tenth column of the Central China Field Army formed a confrontation, and the enemy attacking Shao Bo was repulsed. On August 24, the enemy continued to attack, and Qiaoshu was occupied by the enemy.The two sides confronted each other in the area north of Qiaoshu.The enemy's 108th Brigade continued to attack Shaobo. With the support of aircraft and gunboats, they attacked the defenders' positions from both wings several times. They crossed four times and were all repelled.Two enemy gunboats were also destroyed. On August 25, the enemy continued to attack Shaobo and made a frontal breakthrough along the embankment of the canal.After fighting fiercely all day long, the enemy suffered heavy casualties after repeated hand-to-hand combat.At dusk, the enemy was repulsed again.The tenth column captured two enemy motorboats. On August 26, the enemy reorganized the 25th Division and reinforced the 108th Brigade with a regiment from the 40th Brigade. Division commander Huang Baitao personally supervised the battle.The officers and soldiers of our tenth column fought tenaciously and fought fiercely for 3 hours, repelling the enemy and causing heavy damage to the enemy.Because the main force of the Central China Field Army won a major victory in the Ruhuang Road battle, the enemy's flanks were seriously threatened, and the enemy was forced to retreat across the board after dusk. In this battle, the Central China Field Army used 6 newly formed regiments to rely on their positions to resist the crazy invasion of the enemy's 3 brigades from land and water, killing and injuring more than 2,000 enemies.The tenth column suffered more than 1,000 casualties.The troops participating in the war were brave and tenacious, creating a model of defensive warfare on the Central China battlefield in the early days of the War of Liberation. After the battle of Dingyan and Linzi, Li Moan's headquarters felt that the communication line between Nantong and Rugao had been cut off, and that Rugao City had been surrounded on three sides. They were afraid that the People's Liberation Army would attack Rugao, and the troops stationed in Rugao were too weak to defend, so they ordered Rugao to defend. The army strengthened the city defense fortifications.At the same time, on August 23, the reorganized 99th Brigade (less than one battalion) stationed in Huangqiao was ordered to advance from the east of Huangqiao to strengthen Rugao's defensive strength.Since Zhu Zhixi, the commander of the 99th brigade, was attacked by the People's Liberation Army on the way, he asked Rugao to send troops to respond. On the 25th, Wang Tiehan, commander of the enemy's 49th Division, unified command of the entire 187th Brigade of the 65th Division sent by Hai'an, a regiment of the 79th Brigade, and a battalion of the 99th Brigade stationed in Rugao. Three-way response.When the 99th Brigade reached the boundary, it was suddenly attacked by the Sixth Division of the Central China Field Army from both sides of the road.The Sixth Division used one part to detour behind the enemy, cut off its retreat to the Yellow Bridge, and quickly completed the encirclement of the 99th Brigade.After a night of fierce fighting, until dawn on the 26th, the enemy was compressed to the east boundary and Dangli line. On the morning of August 25, the enemy's 187th Brigade, 79th Brigade, and 99th Brigade dispatched by Rugao were intercepted by the 3rd Brigade of our 1st Division north of Jiali.Our fifth brigade cut off the enemy's retreat to Rugao and completed the encirclement of the enemy. According to the development of the battle, in order to divide and wipe out the enemy, our army adjusted its deployment, concentrated the strength of 10 regiments, and first encircled and wiped out the enemy at the demarcation line. At 13:00 on August 26, the Sixth Division, in close coordination with the First Brigade of the First Division, launched a general offensive. After 2 hours of fierce fighting, the enemy was wiped out. After the demarcation enemy was wiped out, the 1st Brigade of our 1st Division, the 18th Brigade of the 6th Division, and the special task force of the military region marched eastward overnight. Together with the 3rd Brigade and the 5th Brigade of the 1st Division, a total of 15 regiments, we made an all-out general attack and stepped up. Li, the enemy of Xiejiadian. On the morning of August 27, under the rescue of the enemy dispatched by Rugao, Jiali's enemy broke through the encirclement eastward.Our troops attacked across the board and wiped out the enemy in the area west of Rugao and east of Xiejiadian.Less than a thousand remnants fled back to Rugao.The rescued enemies were also defeated, and half of them were wiped out. On the evening of August 26, the Seventh Column launched an offensive with two regiments against the stronghold of the 63rd Brigade of the 83rd Division reorganized by the enemy on the Jiangyan and Hai'an Lines. By dawn, they captured Dabaimi and wiped out a company defending the enemy, forcing Xiaobaimi defended the enemy and fled to the ditch. On the evening of the 27th, the seventh column captured Qutang and wiped out one battalion of the enemy.So far, all the traffic between Magou and Hujiaji has been controlled by the Central China Field Army. On August 28, the Central China Field Army besieged Huangqiao with the Fifth Brigade.One battalion and one company of the 160th Brigade of the 65th Division of the Defending Enemy Reorganization surrendered under our military and political offensive. On the 31st, Huangqiao recovered. In this battle, the Central China Field Army wiped out two and a half brigades with more than 17,000 people, and captured the enemy's 99th brigade commander Zhu Zhixi, deputy brigade commander Liu Guoguang, 187th brigade commander Liang Cailin and more than 12,000 people below. , killing and injuring more than 5,000 people.The Central China Field Army also injured more than 3,500 people. The above seven battles wiped out a total of six brigades of the Kuomintang army, five traffic police brigades, and more than 53,000 people, known as "seven battles and seven victories".More than 3,000 cadres and soldiers were killed and more than 13,000 were injured in various departments of our army.Our army has figured out the combat rules in the early days of the War of Liberation and gained valuable experience in defeating the Kuomintang army with American equipment. In June 1946, Nanjing Xiaoling Wei University playground. A troop with American equipment, wearing American steel helmets, grass-green khaki military uniforms, and hard-soled leather shoes under the scorching sun, all wearing American-made M-1 Garand automatic rifles and Thompson submachine guns , The gloves are dazzlingly white, and they look so mighty and full of air. On the side of the large playground, there are many American tanks, 105mm howitzers, 75mm mountain guns, 37mm anti-tank guns, 82 mortars, 60 mortars and light and heavy machine guns. Accompanied by Yu Jishi, Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling reviewed the team.Chiang Kai-shek nodded from time to time.Looking at this neat, disciplined, strong and well-equipped division, a satisfied smile appeared on his face. This is the 74th Division after reorganization. The Seventy-Fourth Division at this time was the original Seventy-Fourth Army, one of the five trump cards of the Kuomintang. Although it was a division, it still retained the establishment of an army.There are more than 30,000 people in the whole division, which is more capable than before. The Seventy-Fourth Division is capable of attacking and defending well, and is good at fighting tough and vicious battles. It is the unit with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Kuomintang trump card army.During the Anti-Japanese War, he participated in many major battles such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Shanggao, the Battle of Western Hubei, the Battle of Changde, the Battle of Changheng, and the Battle of Western Hunan, and won the titles of "Anti-Japanese Iron Army" and "Hu Ben".After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek transferred this army to Nanjing to take on the task of defending the capital and the national government, so it was called the "Yulin Army". Zhang Lingfu, the commander of the division, is a graduate of the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.Compared with other generals of the Kuomintang, he is brave and tenacious in combat, fierce and aggressive, good at fighting tough and vicious battles, good at and willing to work for his master.He is snobbish and ruthless, killing people without blinking an eye.His first wife was Xing Qiongying. After Zhang Lingfu made a fortune, he thought she was rustic. When the army was stationed in Guangyuan, he married Wu Hailan, a girl from Sichuan.Wu is not only beautiful, but also virtuous, decent, and reasonable.But Zhang Lingfu has always been worried about Wu.One day, a colleague returned to the army after visiting relatives, and he asked, "Did you see my wife?" Seeing that he was very jealous, the colleague joked, "I see, at the entrance of the movie theater, your wife is wearing a cheongsam, and there is a The young man is in a suit and leather shoes, and the two of them are very affectionate!" Zhang Lingfu was so angry that he couldn't even speak when he heard that his wife was "unfaithful", and he was depressed for several days.Later, he asked Hu Zongnan for leave and went home with a pistol. When he saw his wife, he said to her calmly: "I haven't eaten dumplings for a long time, please make dumplings for me! "After hearing this, my wife immediately went to the vegetable field to cut leeks.张灵甫便尾随其后，待妻子蹲下割韭菜时，拔出手枪，朝妻子后脑就是一枪，将妻子枪杀在菜地里。随后，他连妻子的尸体也不掩埋，便扬长而去。 1946年7月16日，国民党军三个师（旅）和另一个团共计3万余人，以天长、盱眙为目标，分路向淮南路东解放区进犯。整编第七十四师与国民党另一支王牌主力第五军密切配合，由六合向天长方向实施主要突击；以第五军第九十六师由来安向盱眙实施助攻；以第七军第一七二师一个团由明光向盱眙方向策应。企图将我淮南军区部队歼灭于天长、盱眙之间，而后向东北方向挺进，以配合由淮北东犯、由苏中北犯之国民党军会攻两淮。 敌炮火猛烈，淮南军区部队寡不敌众，被迫撤出来安。张灵甫穷追不舍，在竹镇、汊涧两次与淮南军区部队发生激战。敌七十四师用美制榴弹炮、山炮将解放军阵地轰成一片火海。在坦克掩护下，敌七十四师终于攻入竹镇、汊涧。 7月17日晚，淮南军区在周骏鸣司令员和肖望东政委的指挥下，对由六合进占樊家集地区的国民党军整编第七十四师实施反击，但由于战前准备不足，对地形不熟，协同不好，未能得手。淮南军区部队被迫向后转移。 7月25日，国民党军整编第四十五师、第九十六师在强大炮火和飞机的配合下，分别向天长、东阳、盱眙发起猛攻。淮南军区部队英勇抗击，激战数日，歼敌一部，但终未能阻止国民党军的进攻，战局急剧恶化。国民党军随即全线迫近。淮南军区部队根据华中军区命令，除留第六旅十六团配合第三军分区武装就地坚持游击战外，主力于29日撤出淮南地区。30日，国民党军进占盱眙。8月初，由湖南长沙东调之国民党整编第二十六师进占淮南，我第五军由淮南北调冀鲁豫战场。 淮南得手后，张灵甫气焰更加嚣张，立即移师淮北，伙同整编第二十八师、第七军，进攻宿迁、泗阳等城，并窥视苏皖解放区首府——淮阴城。 淮阴、淮安是华中解放区的战略要点，一旦失陷，华中野战军主力在苏中就无法立足，只能撤回苏北，这样，解放军的作战回旋余地就会变得更为狭小，经济上也将增加很多困难，从而使我军在战略上处于被动地位。 9月初，敌整编第七十四、二十八师沿运河向东进逼淮阴，同时以一部由宿迁向沭阳方向佯动，以迷惑、牵制我山东野战军。 陈毅发觉国民党的企图后，十分焦急。他一面命令华中野战军第九纵队、第五旅、第十三旅在淮阴以西的运河南岸阻击敌人，一面向中央军委告急，请求火速调粟裕、谭震林率华中野战军主力北上增援淮阴、淮安。 9月11日，中共中央军委主席毛泽东接到陈毅的电报后，致电陈毅、粟裕、宋时轮、谭震林：“敌六个师南下，两淮（淮阴、淮安）危急，粟率主力（一、六师）立即开往两淮，准备配合陈宋主力彻底歼灭该敌。但陈宋现应独立作战，务于粟谭到达前，歼灭南下之敌一两个旅，极挫敌之前进，争取时间以待苏中主力到达，协力歼灭全部。” 接到毛泽东的电报后，粟裕立即停止围攻海安，率华中野战军主力冒着滂沱大雨火速北上。但海安距两淮250公里，沿途水网密布、河流纵横，加上天降大雨、道路泥泞，华中野战军主力无法及时赶到淮阴参战。 9月11日，国民党整编第七十四师、第二十八师和第七军向淮阴城发动了猛烈进攻。 国民党军的大炮向淮阴城足足轰击了1个小时，发射了上万枚炮弹，炮火将昏暗的天空映得通红。数十架P-40战斗机、P-51战斗机和B-25轰炸机，不停地对我守军阵地进行狂轰滥炸。 轰炸炮击过后，整编第七十四师、第二十八师和第七军以密集队形向淮阴城发动轮番冲击。 华中野军第九纵队、第五旅冒着敌人的猛烈炮火浴血奋战，用机枪、步枪、手榴弹打退了全副美械装备的国民党军一次又一次的进攻。 原山东野战军第七师十九旅五十六团团长王培臣同志回忆： 当时淮阴情况极为严重。城东南为敌二十五师；城西南为敌七十四师，该师的2个团已突入城西南门；城西为敌二十八师；城西北为敌广西军第七军、第四十八师。淮阴城除东、北两门外，余处均在敌人包围中。我第七师十九旅五十六团奉命连夜急走百余里，去参加保卫淮阴战斗。城内只有南门的第二师六旅十八团和西门的第七师十九旅五十六团2个团，城西北有第九纵队（张震部）4个团。后来，由中原突围过来的第一旅旅长皮定均3个团到淮阴城来增援。我军共有9个团坚守淮阴城，要挡住敌人3个师（军）50多个团的进攻，战斗非常激烈。 从9月11日至17日，国民党军的五次强攻均被打退，我军伤亡极为惨重。防守部队歼敌一部，击落飞机2架。但华中野战军主力受雨天、船少影响，北上增援不及；山东野战军主力被第七军牵制，南下增援受阻；守卫部队兵力不足，伤亡较重，未能遏制敌人攻势。19日，国民党军整编第七十四师突入城内。守卫部队再战不利，即于黄昏忍痛撤离淮阴。山东野战军亦撤出战斗，转至涟水地区休整待机。22日，国民党军进占淮安，基本上控制了运河以西地区。 打下淮阴，张灵甫亲自穿着华中野战军指挥员的服装到南京蒋介石官邸晋见蒋介石及宋美龄。他不仅把华野指战员的棉布衣服作为战利品，同时指出了华中野战军官兵棉衣、布鞋的诸多好处。蒋介石说：“若是有10个七十四师，恐怕天下无敌呀！” 胶济铁路是一条山东东西大动脉，它连接着济南、青岛两个重镇，是山东东部地区的交通命脉。 山东地区的国民党军为配合南线主力向华中解放区进犯，妄图打通胶济路。 6月22日开始，胶东军区第五、第六师等部对敌实施机动防御。7月4日，国民党军以第三十六师两个团分三路进犯南泉车站。驻守该车站的胶东军区警备四旅八团二营，在敌飞机、大炮猛烈轰击和数倍于己之敌的连续冲击下，顽强抵抗，坚守阵地两昼夜，给敌以重大杀伤，迫其退至宋家泊子、袁庄一线。9日，敌人再度以重兵来犯。该营四连排长魏来国率领全排坚守车站东面的蓝格庄阵地。他观察了一下敌人的来路，随即依托堑壕，凭着手中的“三八”大盖，发挥其多年练就的高超射击技能，在敌刚发动攻击时，就一连击倒多人。遭到敌人集中火力压制，他又转至一片坟地继续射击，先后以135发子弹毙伤敌人110名，给来犯之敌以迎头痛击。战后，魏来国荣获胶东军区“射击英雄”称号。 7月12日，国民党军攻占即墨、南泉、胶县县城后，继续向西推进。25日，国民党军第八师占领芝兰庄。胶东军区司令员许世友和政委林浩，面对敌人咄咄逼人之势，决定迅速挥师高密、胶县一线，迎头痛击此路之敌，遏制其继续西上。 7月28日，胶东军区五师师长聂凤智，遵令冒着滂沱大雨率部西进。当晚，该部十三团及十五团1个营向芝兰庄之敌发起猛攻。七连班长刘奎基带领全班冲杀在前，突破前沿阵地之后，只剩下他和4个战友，虽人人负伤，仍毫无惧色，利用身边工事，与数百敌人激战一整夜。在全师向芝兰庄发起总攻时，他又不顾身上多处伤痛，只身扑向尚在顽抗的敌人，先后夺下2挺机枪，毙伤敌方20余人，俘敌副团长以下17人。战后，刘奎基被胶东军区授予“战斗英雄”称号。 为给胶济路西段进犯之国民党以有力打击，7月上旬，山东野战军将第一纵队北调，会同鲁中、渤海两军区部队歼敌。但因未建立强有力的统一指挥方针，各部首次配合作战，协同不好，未能大量歼灭敌人。至7月5日，进犯之国民党军在周村、张店会合，完全控制了胶济路西段。6日，敌以8个团的兵力，沿张八路以宽大正面向淄川、博山地区推进。7日，我鲁中军区第九师二十六团三营在冲山坚守了8个多小时，打退敌人2个团兵力的6次冲锋。10日，该师二十七团一营一连一排，在排长李干的带领下，于天台山击退敌人1个营的5次进攻，歼敌270余人，牢牢地守住了阵地。最后，李干与全排战士大部壮烈牺牲。战后，为表彰他们的功绩，山东军区授予九师二十六团三营为“冲山阻击营”，鲁中军区授予九师二十七团一连一排“李干排”的光荣称号。 7月11日，国民党军相继占领淄川、博山。 8月初，第一纵队调赴鲁南作战。胶济路段沿线军区部队，即以地方武装和民兵开展游击战，并集中主力，寻机歼敌。8月22日至24日，鲁中军区九师一部，向文祖镇发起攻击，仅用了7个多小时，将该镇一个营又一个连的守敌歼灭。 随后，四师攻击部队分兵四路向埠村之敌发起攻势。一营二连首先突破敌人防御，后续部队趁势突入村内。负责主攻东门的十团三营，与敌激战一夜，于次日拂晓攻入城内。负责攻击城西北的十二团一营突入城里以后，即向敌团部所在地三清观方向攻击前进。负责主攻西门的十二团二营，与敌激战4个小时，攻开两个缺口。随后，十二团三营协同一营、二营向三清观进逼，遭敌炮火猛烈轰击，陷入困境。师长廖容标、政委王一平迅速调整部署。担任助攻的十团三营以10分钟突破敌前沿阵地，给敌侧后造成重大威胁后，十团一营、二营及十二团一营趁势一举突入三清观据点。在城外担任阻击任务的各部队顽强阻击，灵活截歼。四师的埠村之战，歼敌一个建制团又一个营，生俘敌团长刘士岭及以下1000余人。中央军委和毛泽东主席闻讯，立即给陈毅等发来嘉奖电：“望传令嘉奖。即使是小胜仗，亦足以长人民之志气，灭敌人之威风，故应当奖励！” 10月2日，胶东军区五师十三、十四、十五团向灵山之敌暂编十二师一团发起猛攻。十三团一营在团长夏侯苏民指挥下，于23时将东头之敌全部肃清；二营四连先由北侧攻至灵山脚下，占领敌第一道堑壕；三营七连于次日零时15分占领灵山东侧八角庙，将残敌压至灵山庙一线。十四团趁势向灵山北侧发起攻击。二营六连突破敌前沿阵地后向纵深推进，连长王永田脚、臂中弹，门牙被打掉几颗。他不顾身上和嘴里鲜血直流，抱起炸药包炸毁灵山敌人最后一座地堡，为进攻部队扫除了障碍。 历时一夜的灵山反击战，歼敌1600余人，生俘敌团长刘安太。 10月7日，敌五十四军一九八师在飞机配合下，向胶河一带的胶东军区部队发起连续猛攻，企图强渡胶河，进犯高密。我六师七团和滨北分区独立团奋勇阻击。七团二营以2个连的兵力，在卢家岭连续击退数倍于己的敌人多次进攻。三营九连一班8名战士，在班长苏永江带领下，扼守胶河铁桥，与一个连的敌人厮杀9个小时，子弹打完、手榴弹用尽，遂与敌拼起刺刀，最后全部壮烈牺牲。胶东军民称赞他们为“胶河八勇士”。 10月19日夜，我六师（欠一个团）协助西海地方武装进袭昌邑。西海独立团突入昌邑围墙，很快被敌反击逐出。八团也因梯子过短无法登城。就在这时，七团六连攻破了城墙，趁势与跟进的5个连队向敌纵深突击，但由于突破口狭小，遭敌密集火力封锁。七团排长于慎修不顾多处负伤，奋力爬至敌人地堡，用肉体堵住敌人的机枪射孔，为给部队开辟前进道路献出了自己年轻的生命。突入城内的5个连队与大部队中断联系，陷于敌人包围中。他们孤军作战，毫不畏惧，与敌顽强战斗一整天。 10月中旬，鲁中、渤海、胶东军区部队撤出了胶济路。 1946年7月，淮北和鲁西南阴雨不断，大雨倾盆。 7月25日，陈毅率山东野战军指挥部，越陇海路到达淮北。27日至29日，陈毅指挥该部发动朝阳集战斗，歼进犯之敌整编第六十九师5000余人，顿挫了进犯之敌的锋芒。8月初，陈毅决定以山东野战军八师和二纵及华中野战军九纵部队一起聚歼蒋军第七军一七二师，攻占泗县县城，歼灭敌人的有生力量，保卫苏北解放区。 8月7日，连续急行军五六天的八师，冒着滂沱大雨到达泗县城下。午夜时分，八师以5个营的兵力发起攻城战斗，他们连续爆破，二十二团2个营不到10分钟即突破大北门和西北门攻入城内。 入城后，敌人多次组织顽强反扑。攻击部队因准备不足，未能及时打通两面突破口取得联系。天亮后，守军以猛烈炮火卡断城内外联系，先对突入西北门的2个营疯狂连续冲击，继而又集中炮火、飞机、步兵打击攻入大北门的2个营。该两营反复拼杀顽强坚守。是夜，八师投入第二梯队，仍因力量不足难以发展，形成对峙局面。同时，九纵在城东的攻击未奏效，二纵因河水阻隔既不能攻西门又无法增援大北门。8日凌晨2时，部队向陈毅报告了战斗情况。陈毅甚为焦虑，当即派参谋长赶去八师进行处置，同时发电询问具体战况。 8月9日，五河敌人来援，被第七师击退，而更多敌人正准备向淮北运动。城内八师战士与敌拼杀竟日，血流遍地，河水因之染红，但战斗仍在僵持消耗状态。是夜，指挥部下令八师停止攻击，将全部主力撤至睢宁以西休整待机。 这次战斗，八师等部队虽浴血苦战两天两夜，毙伤俘敌3000多人，但我军亦伤亡2000余人，担架不足，机关和工作人员都参加了担架队。从山东南下时，每个连队都是一百五六十人，这一仗下来，有的连队仅剩下二三十人。八师本来是善打攻坚战的，在战士的心目中，他们总是攻必克，战必胜，这次打得心里窝囊。山野西击津浦线计划失利，士气受挫。陈毅得知后，于10月4日给八师领导写了一封信，信中说：“3个月来仗未打好，不是部队不好，不是师旅团不行，不是野战军参谋处不行，主要是我这个统帅犯了两个错误……我应以统帅身份担负一切，向指战员承认这个错误。”他坦诚自责，肯定八师“始终是很好的头等兵团，纪律为各军之冠”。八师领导读了这封信，受到极大感动与鼓舞。他们认真总结了泗县失利的教训，使城市攻坚的组织指挥、战术技术、协同配合方面得到很大提高。后来由第八师扩建的华东野战军第三纵队，成为第一等的城市攻坚部队，在洛阳、开封都取得了辉煌的战绩。