Chapter 16 Chapter 15 Armageddon

It turned out that Du Yuming thought he had a plan and thought he could direct another successful retreat like Huludao. Unexpectedly, he was surrounded by the East China Field Army in the area near Chenguanzhuang, and he ended up in the same fate as Huang Wei.The distance between the two encirclements in the north and the south was only 75 kilometers. Although Du Yuming tried his best to break through the encirclement, he suffered disastrous defeats again and again, and gradually lost his confidence in joining forces with Huang Wei. On December 5, 1948, when Du Yuming convened Qiu Qingquan, Sun Yuanliang, and Li Mi to discuss the breakout plan and determined to break out to the south of the Huaihe River regardless of whether Chiang Kai-shek agreed or not, the General Front Committee of the Huaihai Battlefield of the PLA decided to wipe out the The enemy in the southern encirclement officially issued an order for the general attack on the Huangwei Corps.

At this time, in order to change the difficult situation on the Huaihai battlefield, the Kuomintang High Command is doing everything possible to mobilize reinforcements.They have discovered that the 20th and 28th armies of the Song Xilian Corps, which were won over by the Bai Chongxi Group in Wuhan after several twists and turns, have been shipped from Wuhan to the east on December 5, and are expected to arrive in the Bengbu area around December 15; they are on standby in Shanghai Dozens of ships, it is possible to pick up and transport the Kuomintang troops from Beiping, Tianjin, Tanggu, Tangshan and other areas to the south and divert them to the Xubeng battlefield; The activities have become more active. Recently, they have advanced to the south of Yujiaji and Baojiaji in the southwest of Guzhen, only 35 kilometers away from Shuangduiji. Although the enemies in the two encirclements in the north and south have repeatedly failed to break through, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.In view of this, the General Front Committee believes that for the enemies in these two encirclements, one of them must be wiped out quickly in order to maintain the initiative.For this reason, the General Front Committee reported to the Central Military Commission for approval, and decided to concentrate its forces to annihilate the Huangwei Corps first.

The Shuangduiji area where the Huangwei Corps is located is located 30 kilometers southwest of Suxian County. Within a narrow area less than 7.5 kilometers wide, there is only a small plain market town with more than 100 households and some scattered small villages. Double piles get their name from the fact that there are two natural mounds standing on the ground.One is called Pinggudui, with an altitude of 30.96 meters, and the other is called Jiangudui, with an altitude of 30.8 meters. The distance between the two is more than 1 kilometer.There is a well-known Yuhuang Temple in Pinggudui, but it is not this temple that really makes Shuangduiji famous, but because of the appalling bloody war that took place in this severe winter.

When the General Front Committee formally issued an order to attack the Huangwei Corps, Hu Lian, the deputy commander of the Huangwei Corps, was patrolling his battlefield within the Shuangduiji encirclement. Hu Lian flew to Shuangduiji on December 2.He figured out enough of the limelight this time, and he finally vented his grievances for not becoming the commander of the Twelfth Corps. When the Huangwei Corps set off from Queshan on the Pinghan Line, Hu Lian asked for leave on the grounds that his father was critically ill.Later, his father died of illness, and he stayed to take care of the funeral. After that, he took a ship to Shanghai for dental treatment.In the blink of an eye, it was the end of November.Although he left the Twelfth Corps in a fit of anger, he still couldn't let go of the Eighteenth Army. Chief, promoted to deputy commander of the Corps.He paid attention to finding news about the Twelfth Corps from the newspapers every day in Shanghai.With the keen vision of an old soldier, he saw from the fake news that the Huangwei Corps was besieged in the Shuangduiji area and could no longer stay in Shanghai.

At this moment, he was called to Nanjing.Chiang Kai-shek personally informed him of the situation on the front line and asked him what countermeasures he had.He was flattered and expressed his willingness to fly to Shuangduiji to assist Huang Wei in command and save the crisis together. On December 2, he took a small plane and landed at Shuangduiji's newly repaired airport. He was greeted like a moon by a large number of senior generals of the 12th Corps, including Huang Wei, Wu Shaozhou, Wei Zhenfu, Yang Botao, Xiong Shouchun, and Qin Daoshan. , the resentment that was full of resentment before is not worth mentioning.

As soon as Hu Lian arrived, he held meetings with the commanders of the various armies for several days, and accompanied by the commanders of the various armies, he went to various forward positions to inspect.Strange to say, the commanders of the army really admired him. Even Yang Botao, the commander of the 18th Army, had tears in his eyes when he saw him, and kept saying, "It's okay this time! It's okay this time!" Before the plane landed, Hu Lian ordered the pilot of the plane to fly around the encirclement at low altitude.Seeing the cobweb-like traffic ditches around Shuangduiji and the people hurrying to and fro, he couldn't help but feel apprehensive, only to realize that the People's Liberation Army is not simple, and its ambition is not small.Now, after several days of contact and on-site inspections with the commanders of the army, he saw the severe situation on the battlefield inside the encirclement. With Huang Wei's consent, he re-adjusted the deployment: use the 18th Army to defend Pinggu, Duijiangudui and Shuangduiji The area to the south was defended in depth; the Eighty-fifth Army garrisoned the Zhouzhuang and Lizhuang areas west of Shuangduiji; Zhuang and Liweizi areas; further speed up the improvement of the temporary airport near Shuangduiji; build a solid arc-shaped defense line with more than 100 vehicles filled with sand and soil in the southwest of Xiaomazhuang Corps.All ministries are required to take the house as the core, the bunker group as the backbone, and rely on strong fortifications to carry out active defense.At night, these fortifications were used to resist the attack of the communist army, and during the day, with the cooperation of planes, tanks, and artillery, they launched a fierce counterattack against the communist army.

At this time, Hu Lian was not as crazy as when he first came to Shuangduiji.He felt an unprecedented threat, and felt that the territory he occupied was shrinking day by day.He may not have heard such a saying from the people of Shuangduiji: Huang Wei was the head of the district when he first came, and then he was demoted to the head of the township, and then became a small village head.But he undoubtedly heard what Yang Botao, commander of the 18th Army, said.Yang Botao compared the continuous advance of the PLA to "cannibalization".He said: "How can our little territory stand up to their encroachment like this!"

After many days of inspections in Shuangduiji, he gradually realized the horror of this "cannibalization".He discovered that the communist army dug fortifications every night and advanced tens of meters, or even hundreds of meters, overnight.Sometimes, the People's Liberation Army can carry a door panel on its back during the day and dig it out, but shooting them with guns doesn't work.He is worried that he has no good plan so far. Another thing that troubled him was the "extremely powerful cannon" of the People's Liberation Army.Many Kuomintang officers and soldiers believed that this was a "new weapon" imported from the Soviet Union and turned pale. He also experienced its great power, but he could not find a way to deal with it.In fact, this is not a foreign thing at all, but a mass invention of Nakano officers and soldiers.When Nakano Qianli jumped into the Dabie Mountains, he almost lost all his heavy weapons.Gao Wenkui, the deputy platoon leader of the engineering company of the 4th and 11th Brigade, used his brains to try to make a homemade cannon. He used the captured gasoline barrels and hooped steel rings as launchers, and pushed the explosive packs in the launcher out by the power of explosives.The test was quickly successful.Later, the cannon was able to project tens of kilograms of explosive packs at a time, and the huge explosion caused by the explosive packs landing, destroyed and killed all the bunkers, fortifications and enemies within tens of meters.Officers and soldiers call it Feilei, Earth Plane, Earth Tank, or simply call it the explosive projectile.

At this time, the Central Plains Field Army also adjusted its combat deployment in time according to the defensive situation of the Huangwei Corps: the main artillery force of the Central Field Four Columns, Nine Columns, and Eleventh Columns attached to Huaye Special Column, as well as the Henan, Anhui, and Soviet Independent Brigades, were the eastern group. The vertical commander Chen Geng and the political commissar Xie Fuzhi unified command and were responsible for annihilating the remnants of the 14th Army of the 14th Army, the 75th Division of the 10th Army and the 1st Army in the area east of Shuangduiji, Shenzhuang, Liweizi, Zhangweizi, Yangweizi, and Yangzhuang. The 1st and 4th divisions; with Nakano 1st, 3rd, Huaye 13th and Artillery 1 as the western group, under the unified command of the commander of the 3rd Chen Xilian, responsible for annihilating Zhouzhuang, Xiaomazhuang, Sanguanmiao, Maweizi, Yu The 18th Division of the enemy's 10th Army in the Huangmiao and Xuzhuang areas, and one part each of the 85th Army; with the Sixth Column of Zhongye, the Seventh Column of Huaye, and the Twelfth Brigade of Southern Shaanxi as the southern group, the commander of the Sixth Column Wang Jinshan, the political Commissioner Du Yide unified command and was responsible for annihilating the enemy's 18th Army and a part of the 85th Army south of Shuangduiji.Set the focus of the attack on the East Group, and seek to capture Shenzhuang, Yangweizi, Yangzhuang and other places first, so that the enemy's defense system will collapse and the core position where the regiment headquarters is located will be completely exposed.After the East Group's attack is successful, focus on the South Group, and carry out the main assault from south to north, so as to finally wipe out the Huangwei Corps.

At 4:30 pm on December 6, the Central Plains Field Army's East, West, and South Groups launched a general attack on the Huangwei Corps with the cooperation of the Huaye Seventh Column, the Thirteenth Column, and the First Special Column Artillery.Gunfire engulfed the double stack area.The attacking troops from all walks of life jumped out of the starting position of the attack one after another, and rushed towards the enemy bravely.The enemy fights trapped beasts.They blocked the People's Liberation Army's attack with the help of bunkers, strong fortifications, and a tight fire net composed of various weapons, and they continued to counterattack with the support of tanks and artillery.Some positions changed hands several times, and the fighting was extremely tragic.The 1st Battalion of the 35th Regiment of the 12th Brigade of Southern Shaanxi, where the South Group is located, fought very hard with the enemy in the battle for Xiaolizhuang. They were frustrated in many attacks, but their bravery and tenacity made the enemy terrified.After more than 10 repeated battles, our army captured Xiaolizhuang. In the end, there were only 40 of the more than 200 officers and soldiers in the whole battalion, and more than 1,000 enemy corpses were trampled under their feet.On this day, the People's Liberation Army successively captured Liweizi, Litulou, Xiaozhouzhuang, Songzhuang, Dongmaweizi and other places.Under the political offensive of the People's Liberation Army and the instigation of the 19th Division of the Huaye Seventh Column, Huang Zihua, the commander of the 23rd Division of the Eighty-fifth Army, led a total of more than 3,000 people from the division and two regiments to surrender. Zoom out further.

Dawangzhuang, which is just south of Shuangduiji and not far from Jiangudui, was originally the position of the 118th Division of the 18th Army of the enemy. exposed.Hu Lian gave Yang Botao a death order: "Order the 33rd Regiment to take Dawangzhuang!" At dawn on December 10, the 33rd Regiment of the 18th Army of the enemy, under the cover of tanks and artillery, took turns to attack the 1st Battalion of the 46th Regiment of the 6th Column of Dawangzhuang Zhongye, the 3rd Battalion and the 1st Battalion of the 57th Regiment of the Huaye Seventh Column. The positions attacked, and their barrage of artillery reduced the entire village to ruins.The officers and soldiers of the three battalions of Zhongye and Huaye were not intimidated by the aggressiveness of the enemy. They used all possible hiding places such as ruined walls, ditches, and bomb craters to attack the enemy tenaciously.From dawn to dusk, the troops repelled 15 enemy attacks successively, causing hundreds of thousands of enemies to come and go, and Dawangzhuang was always firmly in their hands.The People's Liberation Army defended Dawangzhuang with their own blood and lives.Before the enemy's last charge, there were only 21 people left in the three battalions who could continue to fight. After repelling the enemy's last charge, there were not many people left. Hu Lian did not admit defeat.At this time, he gathered hundreds of car soldiers, cooks, grooms, logistics soldiers and other miscellaneous personnel from the 18th Army, and rushed towards Dawangzhuang again.His wishful thinking was well executed. At this time, the People's Liberation Army had lost its combat effectiveness, let alone the soldiers of the Eighteenth Army, it was not difficult for anyone to occupy it.While he was waiting for his dream to come true, a group of troops suddenly appeared from nowhere, all armed with carbines, each of them was young, strong, witty and agile, and in the blink of an eye, all the hundreds of people from the 18th Army were wiped out.It turned out that in order to defend Dawangzhuang, Huaye Qizong had to use the column guard company.This shows that the forces of both sides have reached their limits, and there are not many mobile forces in their hands. The 33rd Regiment of the 18th Army of the enemy suffered almost all casualties, but failed to capture Dawangzhuang. Hu Lian immediately dismissed the head of the regiment for investigation. In the early morning of December 10, leaders of the East China Field Army Su Yu, Tan Zhenlin, Chen Shiju, Zhang Zhen and others learned that the 20th Army and 28th Army of the Kuomintang Song Xilian Corps had been shipped from Wuhan to the east on December 5th and would reinforce the Huaihai battlefield; The Du Yuming Group has strengthened its defenses, and it will take time to completely wipe out the enemy.They immediately called Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, and the Central Military Commission: "It is recommended that Huaye draw out some troops to deal with Huang Wei first. Then, Zhongye is responsible for blocking Li, Liu, and Song enemies, and then we concentrate Huaye to deal with Du and Qiu." , Li Group." After Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and Deng Xiaoping received the telegram from the leaders of Huaye, they thought it was a good suggestion, which would help concentrate their forces to deal with Huang Wei first.They immediately called back and agreed. In the afternoon of the same day, Su Yu, Tan Zhenlin, Chen Shiju, and Zhang Zhen called Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, Deng Zihui, the Central Military Commission, and the East China Bureau: "I heard from the phone call. We have decided to deploy the Three Columns, the Su Shiyi Column, and the Luzhongnan Column, plus an artillery unit." , went south that night to participate in the battle to annihilate Huang Wei, and Comrade Chen Shiju led the south. Please assign them combat tasks." After the telegram was sent, Huaye's southward troops immediately prepared for departure.That night, Chen Shiju, chief of staff of Huaye, led them to the south at night and starry night. Prior to this, in order to ensure uninterrupted operations to encircle and annihilate Huang Wei, our army re-deployed in preparing to block attacks from the Southern Front Li Yannian, Liu Ruming Corps, and Song Xilian Corps who might come to help. In addition to the original Huaye Six Columns, The General Front Committee also added the Second Zhongye Column, the troops of the Yuwansu Military Region and the Western Henan Military Region, and the 11th Division of the Huaye Bohai Column, all under the command of Wang Bicheng, the commander of the Huaye Sixth Column, and Jiang Weiqing, the political commissar, to resolutely delay these enemy forces. Army's offensive until Huang Wei was encircled and wiped out. It's snowing, and the land of Xuhuai is silvery white.The enemy in the encirclement circle was not full enough to eat, not warm enough to wear, hungry and cold, and the situation was even more difficult.Not only are they in short supply of rations, but they are also extremely short of firewood.Everything that can be burned has been exhausted, and even the coffin boards of the dead can't be dug. It is rare to look forward to airdrop rations, but there is no way to turn it into cooked food.What was even more difficult was the wounded soldiers with missing arms and legs. They could only huddle in the open trenches that were not sheltered from the wind and snow, and suffered countless deaths from cold and hunger. On December 12, Commanders Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi issued the "Letter to Urge Huang Wei to Surrender Immediately". Huang Wei turned a deaf ear to the PLA's final warning. The Kuomintang authorities frequently dispatched air force planes to support him. On December 13, they dropped more than 100 tons of bombs on the PLA positions and released poison gas. On the evening of December 13, the Huaye southward troops led by Chen Shiju arrived at the Shuangduiji area after three consecutive nights of rapid march.Since the forces to encircle and annihilate the Huangwei Corps were sufficient, the Huaye Eleventh Column, which originally planned to go south with Chen Shiju, returned to the northern line to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of Du Yuming's group. The General Front Committee adjusted the deployment in time, joined the South Group with the newly arrived Huaye Three Columns, and transferred the Huaye Thirteen Columns from the West Group to join the South Group, and changed the focus to the South Group.So far, the Southern Group has the Six Columns of Nakano, the Three, Seven, and Thirteen Columns of Huaye, the First Special Column Artillery, and the Twelfth Brigade of the Southern Shaanxi Military Region, all under the unified command of Chen Shiju. As soon as Huaye's southward troops arrived at the Shuangdui area, they immediately entered the attack starting position and prepared to fight. The Eighth Division of the Huaye Three Columns came to the area west of Jinji in Suxian County to assemble and stand by. Division commander Chen Shifa, division political commissar Wang Liusheng and other division chiefs and the main battalion "Luoyang Camp" battalion commander Zhang Ming urged their horses to the Nakano Six Columns command post to receive orders. Task. Wang Jinshan, the commander of the Sixth Column of Nakano, was very happy to see them coming, and greeted them with a smile. No matter what difficulty, just bring it up, you are not welcome!" Commander Sun Jixian of the Huaye Three Columns handed over the mission to the commander of the Eighth Division and the battalion commander of the main battalion.Referring to the map of the enemy's situation on the ground, he said that after more than ten days and nights of "skinning battles" by the Nakano brothers' troops, the enemy had only the last line of defense left.In order to stand by and wait for help, they used the 54th Regiment of the 18th Army and 18th Division of the 18th Army, which they have always known as the "Tiger Regiment", to defend the defense line of the southeast barrier of the Xiaomazhuang Corps Headquarters.This was a tough battle. The Huaye Three Columns sent the "Luoyang Camp" of the 23rd Regiment of the Eighth Division as the assault battalion, and the Nakano Sixth Column sent the "Xiangyang Camp" of the 49th Regiment of the Seventeenth Brigade as the assault battalion.These are two battalions that are good at attacking fortifications, and they are two iron fists.Now, we are going to smash the enemy's "tiger group" with these two iron fists.This time our Eighth Division fought side by side with the Nakano Sixth Column and Seventeenth Brigade. This is a good opportunity to learn from the big brother Nakano, and we must learn from them. Commander Sun said to Zhang Ming, the battalion commander of the "Luoyang Battalion", "You are the only battalion in the entire column to participate in the assault. You are not only representing our three columns, but also representing the East China Field Army. I ask you: First, you must first fight Go in. Only by going in first is the greatest support for the brother troops. Tell all commanders and fighters not to have any worries, the artillery fire of the whole column will come to support you. If the two battalions of your regiment are not enough to make the second echelon, the whole column will be Your second echelon. Second, you must humbly learn from the brother troops and take the initiative to unite. All the materials captured in the battle should be sent to the brother troops, and no one is allowed to ambush!" When Zhang Ming accompanied the cadres of the Huaye Eighth Division to the forward position, Li Desheng, the brigade commander of the Sixth Column and Seventeenth Brigade of the Central Field, also brought their brigade cadres.The position here was obviously built in a surprise attack just now, and the fragrance of the soil could still be smelled.The traffic ditch is winding, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, as neat as a knife cut. Air-raid shelters, bunkers and bunkers of different sizes are lined up on both sides, as well as street signs, small wells, and a large shelter that can be used as a command post. It feels like a camp home. The brigade cadres of the 17th Nakano Brigade introduced the current enemy situation in detail to the Huaye comrades. Everyone looked at the terrain together, selected assault points, carefully studied the tactics and coordinated actions, and completed these assaults—including traffic ditches, bunkers, and command The well-equipped positions in the location were handed over to them one by one.Brigadier Li Desheng said: "You will fight as soon as you come, and the difficulties will definitely be not small. For the sake of common victory, you don't have to be polite. If you have any difficulties, we will definitely help solve them with all our strength." Zhang Ming, the battalion commander of the assault battalion, considered tomorrow's assault mission and thought that it would be best to build an arc-shaped trench from northeast to southwest at a distance of 70 to 80 meters from the enemy's front.The troops will not be able to enter the position until dawn tomorrow, and will launch an attack in the afternoon. It is obviously too late to dig such a trench under the enemy's firepower in broad daylight.He spoke his mind. Brigadier Li Desheng said bluntly: "Yes, how can we do without such a trench for charging and starting? This preparation work must be done. Well, you can rest assured!" In the middle of the night, Zhang Ming came to the forward position ahead of time to take a look, ho!It's amazing, a very standard curved trench with a length of more than 150 meters appears in front of you!His heart was warm, and he repeatedly thanked his comrades in the field who stayed on the ground and were in charge of guarding. Before dawn, Huaye's third vertical and eighth division "Luoyang Camp" entered the position on time.The cooks of the Nakano army brought over baked yellow and fragrant oil cakes, and stuffed them into their hands whenever they saw them. At around 4 p.m. on December 14, the South Group of the People's Liberation Army under the command of Chen Shiju, together with the East Group under the command of Chen Geng and the West Group under the command of Chen Xilian, simultaneously launched a fierce attack on the core position of the Shuangduiji Huangwei Corps. More than a hundred artillery pieces of the South Group roared, blasting out thousands of shells and countless powerful "flying thunders".After about an hour of rapid attack, most of the enemy group's fortifications were destroyed.The "Xiangyang Camp" of the Sixth Column and Seventeenth Brigade of Nakano and the "Luoyang Camp" of the Eighth Division of Huaye's Third Column fought side by side. They were like two iron fists. After a desperate struggle, they finally smashed Huang Wei's "tiger regiment". After the war, each unit of the Huaye Three Columns counted the trophies, and under the auspices of a minister of the column, they handed over a lot to the Nakano brother troops. On the same day, the diary of the Nakano Headquarters recorded how the two fraternal troops smashed the "Tiger Regiment" with both fists: This evening, the Sixth Column and Seventeenth Brigade and the Huaye Third Column and Eighth Division two regiments conquered the southern end of the airport Group positions, annihilating the 54th Regiment of the 18th Army, one each of the Eighth Regiment, and one Ninth Regiment. While the "Luoyang Camp" and "Xiangyang Camp" were fighting fiercely with the enemy's "Tiger Regiment", an extremely fierce battle was going on at Jiangudui, overlooking the headquarters of the Huangwei Corps and the temporary airfield. This tug-of-war within 200 meters around Jiangudui has been going on for a day and a night. There are corpses and wounded soldiers everywhere. The air is full of blood and gunpowder. The ice cubes creaked under their feet.The officers and soldiers of the Sixth Column of Nakano used their blood and lives to clear the enemy positions around Jiangudui. Now it is the turn of the 61st and 62nd Regiments of the Seventh Column of Huaye to seize the main enemy positions in Jiangudui. It is said that guarding Jiangudui is the 354th Regiment of the 118th Division of the 18th Army of the enemy, commanded by the commander of the 18th Army, Yang Botao, by remote control in the army command post hundreds of meters away. Under the cover of artillery fire, the two regiments of Huaye Seventh Column took turns attacking the Jiangudui enemy positions.Due to the enemy's use of poison gas bombs, our army had to withdraw after several successful attacks.The soldiers covered their mouths and noses with towels wet with urine, which greatly disabled the power of the enemy's gas bombs.Jiangudui was eventually trampled underfoot by the People's Liberation Army. At the same time, the East Group commanded by Chen Geng and the West Group commanded by Chen Xilian also made rapid progress, quickly dividing the enemy's deep positions, causing the remaining positions of the enemy's Fourteenth Army, Tenth Army, and Eighteenth Army to collapse one after another.Seeing that the general situation was over, Huang Wei decided to break out westward at 18:30 on the 15th. Huang Wei, Hu Lian, and Wu Shaozhou each took action in a tank.However, they are too late.The People's Liberation Army has already laid a net to wipe out all the remaining troops that broke out to the west.Huang Wei, the commander of the Corps, and Wu Shaozhou, the deputy commander and commander of the 85th Army, became prisoners of the People's Liberation Army. Only Hu Lian escaped by chance.Yang Botao, commander of the Eighteenth Army, Qin Daoshan, commander of the Tenth Army, were captured, and Xiong Shouchun, commander of the Fourteenth Army, was shot dead.At this point, the 120,000 members of the Huangwei Corps were wiped out. When the Huangwei Corps was wiped out, the Du Yuming Group, which was surrounded in the Chenguanzhuang area, did nothing and could only watch them being wiped out.Li Yannian and Liu Ruming's corps were also looked down upon by the People's Liberation Army, and they had nothing to do.Under Chiang Kai-shek's strict order, his second son Jiang Weiguo was ordered to lead a chariot regiment to join the battle.Li Yannian's corps advanced no more than 1 to 3 kilometers a day, and sometimes even stopped moving forward.After Huang Wei was wiped out, they retreated more than 50 kilometers overnight.The two armies of the Song Xilian Corps transferred from Wuhan also delayed.Commander Liu Bocheng vividly compared the style of play at this time to "eat one (Huang Wei Corps), hold one (Du Yuming Group), and watch one (Li Yannian, Liu Ruming Corps)". On December 16, the Huangwei Corps was wiped out.Li Yannian's corps was forced to flee south. On December 17, Mao Zedong instructed Su Yu and told Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and Deng Xiaoping: "I can surround Du Yuming's ministries with about 10 days to rest and adjust, and concentrate Huaye's full strength before launching an attack." To conduct a political offensive, except for those done by the troops, please draft oral broadcast words, once every three to five days, change the content according to the battlefield situation, and call us to revise and broadcast.” Mao Zedong asked Su Yu and the others to carry out continuous political offensives against the Du Yuming Group, and asked them to draft oral radio speeches. He first practiced it himself and turned on the lights to fight at night. A wonderful and exquisite oral radio speech "Urging Du Yuming and Others to Surrender" was born. model essay.This letter to Du Yuming and others in the name of the Central Plains People's Liberation Army Headquarters and the East China People's Liberation Army Headquarters was broadcast continuously on Handan People's Broadcasting Station, and was printed as a leaflet and distributed to the Chenguanzhuang encirclement. It had a great shocking power. The same voice echoed in the ears of Du Yuming and others and many KMT officials for several days in a row: When Mao Zedong was drafting this eloquent and wonderful article, he telegraphed Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi in the name of the Central Military Commission: "I would like to invite Comrades Bocheng and Chen Yi to come to the Central Business Unit together." After the Huangwei Corps was wiped out, Huaihai battlefield In terms of military strength, the People's Liberation Army has an absolute advantage, and the Du Yuming Group cannot escape the fate of being wiped out.Therefore, the Central Military Commission dared to transfer the two commanders away from the Huaihai battlefield at the same time.This also shows that the central government is no longer worried about eliminating the enemy in front of it, and has set its sights on the future. It's also rare for Su Yu to relax, and he doesn't have to stare at the map and watch the phone day and night.He knew that Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and Deng Xiaoping were going to come to Cai Ao Huaye Headquarters that night, so he stood at the entrance of the village in the snow and waited for a long time.This is naturally due to his deep friendship with these three members of the Standing Committee of the General Front Committee, old superiors, and old comrades-in-arms. At the same time, because there is no magic spell on his head, he is freed from a high state of mental tension, and it is rare to have a leisurely stroll in the village.Seeing the snowflakes fluttering in the wind, he suddenly thought, isn't this the heavenly soldier who will deal with the enemies suffering from hunger and cold in the encirclement of Chen Guanzhuang?He just waited patiently until the three of them arrived. The next day, December 18, Tan Zhenlin arrived from the front line.Members of the General Front Committee, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Su Yu, and Tan Zhenlin, under the chairmanship of Secretary Deng Xiaoping, held the first meeting of the General Front Committee since its establishment in the Huaye War Room in Cai Ao. The topic of study was not to fight Du Yuming, but to annihilate the Du Group's rest plan, next-step battle plan, and future battle plan for crossing the river, and in accordance with the spirit of the Central Military Commission's instructions, will bring the research results and the opinions of the General Front Committee to the Central Committee.The content discussed at the meeting involves major issues such as the future combat policy of the troops, and is absolutely confidential.The meeting also focused on the telegram of the Central Military Commission on December 12 (the Military Commission specifically stated: This telegram is only sent to Liu Chendeng, please Xiaoping to be responsible for Su Tan and Su Tan to read it when Su Tan comes to your place for a meeting. After reading it, burn it and keep it confidential .) were discussed. After the snow, the sun shines brightly.During the meeting, five members of the General Front Committee were chatting and joking in the small courtyard, and the photographer proposed to take a picture of the five chiefs.Chen Yi said happily: "I want it!" Then, everyone stood in a row in the yard covered with a thin layer of snow, with the pomegranate tree whose leaves had already withered in front of the door and window of the war room as the background. , leaving an extremely precious historical photo. On December 19th, Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi left Cai'ao in two jeeps and went to Xibaipo where the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is located. Deng Xiaoping still returned to Xiao Li's house in the southeast of Linhuanji, and Tan Zhenlin drove back to the southwest of Xuzhou to deal with the Du Group in the encirclement.Su Yu sent away several members of the General Front Committee, plunged into the war room, and devoted himself to intense work.He regards this as the first need of life, and he never thinks about how easy it is for the more than 200,000 enemy troops in the Chenguanzhuang area to be wiped out. At this time, the Du Yuming Group was deeply surrounded and had no way to escape.When to beat him, the initiative is completely in the hands of the People's Liberation Army. On November 29, the Battle of Pingjin began.In order to stabilize the Fu Zuoyi Group in North China and prevent it from retreating southward by sea, the Central Military Commission once asked the East China Field Army to encircle and not attack the Du Yuming Group, and "not to make final arrangements for annihilation within two weeks." Beginning on December 16, Huaye frontline troops were ordered to encircle and not fight, and transferred to positions to rest.There were no major combat activities in the entire Chenguanzhuang area, only occasional sporadic gunfire.Due to continuous rain and snow, even the sound of airplanes was seldom heard, and there was a rare calm. During the nearly 20-day rest and reorganization period, Huaye troops carried out a variety of lively situation and task education based on the characteristics of their own positions, carried out organizational reorganization, selected outstanding cadres, carried out meritorious service campaigns, and recruited outstanding officers and soldiers to join the party. Unite to educate the newly liberated fighters, carry out military training in front of the enemy according to the characteristics of the enemy, launch mass political offensives against the enemy, and so on.The morale of the officers and soldiers of all units was high, and their appearance was completely new. During the most tense days of the war, the officers and soldiers ate and lived in the trenches, regardless of wind, frost, rain, snow, day and night, they would lie down with their guns and clothes when they were sleepy, and eat a few cold meals and hard food when they were hungry. wheat cakes.It's easy to deal with when it's sunny, but it's miserable when it rains and snows for days - the trenches are low-lying and waterlogged, and people eat and live in muddy water all day long.The air on the battlefield was turbid, with the smell of dead bodies, blood, excrement, all kinds of inexplicable smells rushed to the face, making people feel nauseated and suffocated.Now, the officers and soldiers take advantage of the rare peaceful days on the battlefield to transform the battlefield environment.While sending security personnel to monitor the enemy, they organized officers and soldiers to remove the dirt and feces inside and outside the trenches, bury the corpses of nearby enemies, dredge drainage ditches, dig reservoirs or wells, and build "public toilets". The appearance of the position suddenly changed.Some companies even saw gasoline barrels in two and used them as bath tubs, and built a unique "position bathroom". In order to let the frontline officers and soldiers eat well and sleep warmly, the Eight Immortals of each army crossed the sea and showed their special abilities.Some put hot dishes and rice in thick grass pans, some wrapped hot dishes and rice in cotton-padded quilts, and sent them to the front positions still steaming.Some even used their brains to invent and create, and built small smoke stoves at the front to heat the food sent from the rear of the position.Through the care of leaders at all levels and the continuous efforts of logistics personnel, the frontline troops generally ate hot meals and hot dishes.Some troops are constantly renovating their tricks and changing ways to make everyone eat well and have a good taste. Steamed buns, rice, steamed buns, and pancakes are often made in different ways.The director of the reconnaissance company of the first vertical and second division is from Huainan, Anhui. He holds "tofu banquets" for the whole company twice a week, which is praised by everyone.In terms of keeping warm and anti-freeze, everyone used their ingenuity and wisdom to turn the frontier into a veritable "home of positions".Since the gutters and cisterns were built, the water has a place to go, at least the foxholes and shelters where people live can always be kept dry.Soldiers put thick straw or straw mats in the foxholes and shelters, and slept huddled together at night, relying on everyone's body temperature to keep warm, even if the north wind roared outside, the heat in the shelters was blowing against the face. In these windy, snowy and freezing days, the enemies in the encirclement are short of food and grass, and have no reinforcements outside. The situation is getting more and more difficult.The enemy's withdrawal from Xuzhou was too hasty. At that time, they only planned to go to Huainan.This is far inferior to Huang Wei.When Huang Wei set off from Queshan, Henan, he considered that he could only get supplies when he arrived in Bengbu or Su County, and he would continue to consume them along the way, so he specially allocated transport vehicles carrying food, ammunition, oil and other urgently needed materials to accompany the army.Even so, Huang Wei was surrounded for a long time, and he was short of food and ammunition, and he was stretched everywhere.Today, the situation of Du Yuming Group is even worse.When they came out of Xuzhou, they didn't bring much fuel, and now many cars and tanks have to lie down and become decorations.Now, the Du Yuming Group lacks everything, relying on airdrops of gasoline, ammunition, rice, steamed buns, and pancakes to maintain it temporarily.If the weather is bad and cannot be transported by air normally, there will be great panic in terms of food for two or three million people.In addition to weather factors, the airdrop effect is also restricted by the size of the airdrop site.As the encirclement shrinks day by day, supplies are dropped on the enemy's positions at first, but only a part of the enemy can get them later, and finally the enemy only gets a small part, and most of them fall to the People's Liberation Army.In order to snatch airdropped supplies, the phenomenon of enemies shooting each other and killing each other happened from time to time.Many people couldn't bear the torment of hunger, and they killed mules and horses and divided them for food. There were no skins or bones left.Even so, it was difficult for everyone to fill their stomachs, so they racked their brains to find food, and ate up everything that could be eaten, such as wheat seedlings and bark.Some officials took the opportunity to speculate. It is not uncommon to sell a piece of biscuit for one or two silver dollars.If it catches up with the continuous snowstorm and the airdrop is cut off, a piece of sesame seed cake can be sold for three to five silver dollars.Many people risked their lives to snatch some airdropped food. At this time, our army's political offensive has a great disintegrating effect on the enemies in the encirclement.Our army had a huge impact on the enemy by continuously broadcasting "Urging Du Yuming and Others to Surrender" and shouting at the enemy positions, and sending rice and steamed buns to the enemy's front positions at night.They were skeptical at first, wanting to get the food, but also afraid that the People's Liberation Army would suddenly shoot.Later, seeing that the People's Liberation Army did not shoot, but delivered food to them sincerely, without the slightest malice, so they had the courage to eat it.From then on, I would come uninvited every morning, and there were more and more people.Some simply took their guns and defected to the People's Liberation Army, never going back.Against this background, it is not surprising that the People's Liberation Army exchanged a load of meat buns for a company of Kuomintang soldiers. this is a true story.An old cook of the People's Liberation Army took a load of meat buns to the front, lost his way on the way, and touched the enemy's position.When the enemy's bullet was loaded and he ordered him to "stop", he had an idea and said tactfully: "Tell your company commander, just say that the People's Liberation Army regiment sent someone to deliver meat buns." The enemy's company commander came, He told again about the fact that the head of the regiment sent him to deliver the meat buns, and took the opportunity to promote it.The starving ghost-like enemies were already salivating, and regardless of the company commander's stop, they swarmed forward to grab the meat buns.A large load of meat buns seemed to be snatched up.The company commander was not far behind, and stuffed it into his mouth while grabbing it.The old cook took the opportunity to raise the grenade and shouted loudly: "Don't move!" Then he solemnly announced, "Brothers, don't be afraid! If you don't have enough food, we have enough over there, just go and eat it!" The Kuomintang soldiers responded one after another. , Shouting in unison: "Quit! Hand in your guns! Hand in your guns! Hand in your guns to the People's Liberation Army!" In this way, the old cook brought back a company of soldiers with a load of meat buns, not a few of them. 转眼到了年底，形势继续朝着有利于人民而不利于国民党的方面发展。鉴于东北野战军和华北军区部队已完成对傅作义集团“隔而不围”、“围而不打”的部署，华东野战军经过短期休整，军事政治素质有明显提高，作战准备已较充分。粟裕于12月31日请示中央军委和总前委，建议在杜聿明集团尚未得到充分补给，且疲惫、动摇、恐慌之际，对其发起攻击，争取全歼该敌。中央军委于1949年1月2日复电同意。1949年1月4日深夜，粟裕致电中央军委、邓小平、张际春、华东局：“我们决于1月6日开始对邱、李部之围歼战。首先求歼李弥的十三兵团，后攻歼李部得手后，即转移兵力聚歼邱部。估计李兵团大部被解决后，邱敌亦可能寻隙夺路向南突围，则战斗亦可能较快结束。”中央军委和总前委当即复示同意。 华东野战军随即按照先歼包围圈东部的李弥兵团，再歼西部的邱清泉兵团的次序来配置兵力，其具体部署是：以三纵、四纵、十纵、渤海纵队及冀鲁豫军区两个独立旅共11个师（旅），为东集团，由宋时轮、刘培善指挥，负责主要突击，向敌防御阵地的东突出部实施攻击，在北集团一纵配合下歼灭李弥第十三兵团，而后由东向西南突击，协同南北两集团歼灭邱清泉第二兵团。以一纵、九纵、十二纵共8个师，为北集团，由谭震林、王建安指挥，由北向南攻击，一纵与三纵会合割裂邱李兵团的联系，协同东集团歼灭李兵团。以二纵、八纵、十一纵，共8个师，为南集团，由韦国清、姬鹏飞指挥，由西南向东北陈官庄方向攻击，协同东集团和北集团歼灭邱兵团。 另外以5个纵队、15个师（旅）和3个独立团为战役预备队，并同时担负阻击任务，布置成外围封锁线，以截歼可能突围之敌。 华野全军指战员终于满怀豪情地迎来了新的一年——1949年的曙光。新年元旦发生了两件大事： 一是蒋介石发表求和文告，表示愿意下野谋取和平。 二是新华社发表了1949年新年献词《将革命进行到底》。献词指出：“中国人民将要在伟大的解放战争中获得最后胜利，这一点，现在甚至我们的敌人也不怀疑了”。并发出了“把伟大的人民解放战争进行到底”的庄严号召。 通过学习，官兵们看到了人民解放战争的最后胜利已为期不远，同时也看到蒋介石这个最大的战犯为形势所迫提出求和。但蒋介石求和是假，借以苟延残喘是真，而且死抱住老一套不放，说什么确保国体呀、法统呀、军队呀、生活方式呀等，可见扫帚不到，灰尘照例不会跑掉——蒋介石是相当顽固的。大家都从学习中看清了方向，明确了责任，激发起高涨的战斗热情，决心沿着党中央、毛主席指引的道路奋勇前进，“将革命进行到底”，在围歼杜聿明集团的战斗中立新功。 1949年1月6日下午3时30分，华野在中野配合下，对包围在陈官庄地区的杜聿明集团发起猛攻，炮火吞没了当面敌军的阵地。中野部队发明的“飞雷”，也在这次作战中得到推广。许多敌人一提起我军的“新式武器”，就不禁胆战心惊。 经过2小时的激战，华野各集团勇猛插入敌军纵深阵地，先后攻克敌军所占村庄13个，歼敌万余人。随后，各部队发扬连续作战的精神，继续向负隅顽抗之敌发起攻击，迫使李弥兵团所部步步后退。至7日9时，华野东集团在北集团的协同下，攻占了李弥兵团的防御突出部，迫使其放弃陈阁、马庄等8个村庄。为了不给敌人以喘息时间，宋时轮、刘培善重新调整部署，继续对李弥兵团发起猛攻。激战至当日晚上8时，我军先后攻占敌军据守的11个村庄，自动投降者极多。李弥兵团主力被歼灭，残敌退往邱清泉兵团防区。 为防止敌军向西突围，1月8日晚，华野指挥部及时调东集团的渤海纵队到西边八纵与九纵之间接合部一带布防。9日上午，邱清泉兵团果然在20余架飞机掩护下向左寨方向进攻，并施放毒气，企图夺路向西突围，当即遭到八纵、九纵和渤海纵队猛烈拦击。敌军虽一度占领左寨，但遭到八纵、九纵顽强反击，死伤惨重，纷纷溃退。 9日全天，东集团和北集团协同作战，趁敌人恐慌溃退之机，大胆穿插分割敌人，使敌人的防御体系支离破碎，控制地盘越来越小。四纵不失时机地由东向西猛攻，先后攻占竹安楼和临时飞机场，迫使崔庄之敌四十二师投降。三纵、十纵在突破敌军阵地后，与四纵并肩向西推进，势不可当。这时，国民党军已到了山穷水尽的地步。解放军的政治攻势也起了潜移默化的作用，许多人抵抗意志极差。9日24时，十纵包围了胡庄七十二军军部，迫使中将军长余锦源率残部投降；随后又歼灭八军军部，俘虏少将军长周开成；接着又与四纵并肩战斗，一举攻占李弥兵团部所在地黄庄户。此后，东集团的三纵、四纵、十纵犹如三枝利箭，箭锋直指杜聿明、邱清泉的指挥中心陈官庄和陈庄。 谭震林、王建安指挥的华野北集团也势如破竹，锐不可当。 一纵1月9日下午一举攻占朱小庄，使国民党最后一支“王牌军”、“五大主力”之一的第五军发生恐慌。当天午夜，一纵三师政委邱相田接到七团政委徐放的报告，说驻丁枣园的敌五军四十五师师长崔贤文派人打着白旗前来接洽投诚问题，请求如何处理。邱相田与师长陈挺研究后指示：“由你们团大胆审慎地处理。”七团徐放和团长黄河清商量，决定派团宣教股长金乃坚深入敌穴做工作。结果不费一枪一弹，在金乃坚的带领下，敌五军四十五师师长崔贤文以下4000多人，加上沿途自动加入的，一共7000多人，全部投向了解放军。敌第五军四十六师残部被迫缴械投降，第二零零师被全歼。至此，被蒋介石、邱清泉视为命根子的第五军寿终正寝。 九纵所向披靡，攻击矛头直指陈官庄核心阵地。10日拂晓，敌七十四军和五军残部在飞机施放毒气的配合下，妄图从九纵二十五师七十三团防御正面突破，遭到我七十三团“钢八连”的坚决回击。官兵们一面尿湿毛巾捂住口鼻，一边奋勇抗击敌人，并组织火力对低空俯冲的飞机射击，使敌人突围受挫。敌人的十多辆坦克分别被七十五团三营俘获一辆，被七十五团担架队“吓瘫”一辆，被七十四团官兵“活捉”一辆，被七十三团三营机枪连指导员迟浩田和火箭筒手陶仁祥击中一辆。同时，我军抓到敌连长和四名坦克兵。其余的坦克在逃跑中被友邻部队缴获或击毁。与此同时，九纵司令员聂凤智指挥七十六团对邱清泉兵团的最后据点刘集发起猛烈攻击，在兄弟部队配合下，仅30分钟即全歼守敌万余人。九纵乘胜向西猛追，致使敌人溃不成军。第二兵团中将司令官邱清泉逃至张庙堂时，见大势已去，走投无路，即举枪自杀。 十二纵攻占刘庄，截歼向北突围的李弥兵团残部万余人，俘敌2000余人，其中包括中将兵团司令官李弥——不料押解途中被他侥幸逃脱。 韦国清、姬鹏飞指挥的南集团，以二纵、八纵、十一纵主力在陈官庄包围圈以南构成铜墙铁壁般的阻击阵地，打退敌人的多次进攻，使敌人的突围企图一再受挫，对我军望而却步。从9日夜间起，全线转为出击，使敌人腹背受敌，更加速了敌人的最后灭亡。 见华野各路大军冲进陈官庄，敌人作鸟兽散。敌指挥中心已不复存在，整师整团的敌人向解放军缴械投降。杜聿明见失败已成定局，带着少数随行人员逃离陈官庄，行至张老庄附近被解放军俘获。至此，杜聿明集团除逃到淮河以南的李延年、刘汝明兵团外，其余被全部歼灭。 淮海战役从1948年11月6日开始，到1949年1月10日结束，历时65天，我军全部歼灭国民党徐州集团精锐部队22个军、56个师（内有4个半师起义），共55.5万余人。此外，我军还击退了李延年、刘汝明兵团，基本上解放了长江以北的华东、中原地区。10天后，蒋介石宣布“引退”，国民党统治集团从此陷入土崩瓦解状态。 淮海战役的胜利，同人民群众的无私支援密不可分。据不完全统计，战役期间出动民工约543万余人，其中随军常备民工22万人，二线转运民工130万人。部队动用担架20余万副，大小车辆88多万辆，挑子30余万副，船只8500余艘，筹运粮食5.7亿斤。陈毅曾深情地说，淮海战役的胜利，是人民群众用小车推出来的。 淮海战役的可喜结局，也给了远在西柏坡的毛泽东意外的惊喜。新中国成立之初，毛主席对当年的总前委成员说：“淮海战役打得好。好比一锅夹生饭，还没有完全煮熟，硬被你们一口一口地吃下去了。” 消息传到莫斯科克里姆林宫，斯大林听说淮海战役中，中国人民解放军60万人打败了国民党80万人，既惊喜又不可思议，当即在他的记事本上写下：“60万战胜80万，奇迹，真是奇迹！”