Chapter 6 2. Take Fu Zuoyi's lair directly

On August 9, 1948, the newly formed Third Corps of the North China Military Region held an expedition mobilization meeting in Yuantai Village, Yi County, where the headquarters is located at the foot of Langya Mountain.Nie Rongzhen made an important speech at the meeting. He said: Destroying the enemy on the northern front is the common task of Northeast China and North China.The Second Corps went to Jidong to cooperate with the Northeast.Now it is not a question of the enemy attacking our base areas, but a question of our going to fight on the enemy's line.As soon as the Second Corps went to fight in the east of Jidong, Fu Zuoyi immediately transferred the soldiers there, and when we fought in Baobei, he immediately transferred the soldiers again, in a panic.Some people called Fu Zuoyi the "commander of troop deployment".Now Fu Bu's lair is empty, according to the instructions of the Military Commission, the Three Corps must overcome all difficulties, resolutely copy his lair, and pose a great threat to him.

On September 5, the various units of the Three Corps set off from Yi County and Laiyuan respectively, and marched into Suiyuan.After joining up with Li Jingquan, who led a working group of more than 600 people in Shuo County, the advance detachment led by Zhao Guanying, the deputy chief of staff of the Second Column, entered Suiyuan disguised as a Kuomintang army. It became clear: Fu Zuoyi had a total of three infantry divisions, two cavalry brigades, and the local security regiment in Suiyuan, totaling about 60,000 people.The large troops of the Three Corps fought the first battle on September 24, wiped out more than 3,000 enemies in three days, and controlled more than 200 kilometers of Pingsui Road. On September 27, Jining, an important town in Suidong, was conquered.Then, the entire Suinan and Suidong regions were captured, and even the important town of Baotou fell into my hands.In one month, more than 6,500 enemies were eliminated.Fu Zuoyi hurriedly flew back to Sui (now Hohhot) to deploy defenses.

In order to keep his old home, Fu Zuoyi hurriedly dispatched the 35th Army and the Temporary Fourth Army to rush west to help. However, under the deployment of the Central Military Commission, Yang Dezhi's North China Second Corps launched an attack on Miyun and Tongxian in the north of Beiping in the third vertical, and Sanhe in the east of Beiping in the fourth vertical, all about 50 kilometers away from Peiping. .Immediately afterwards, it started in Shunyi and Huairou in the suburbs of Beiping.At this time, Fu Zuoyi had to call back his main force, the 35th Army to defend Beiping (as Fu Zuoyi's trump card army, the 35th Army had more than 400 large trucks, basically a mechanized force), and also transferred 104 Army, Sixteenth Army and the new Fourth Cavalry Division to deal with the attack of our Second Corps.In order to prevent the Kuomintang troops in North China from interfering with our Northeast People's Liberation Army, which had already started the Liaoshen Campaign, Nie Rongzhen ordered Yang Dezhi to draw the enemy away from the Beining Line and lead them to Pingsui Road.Therefore, Yang Dezhi commanded the troops to lead the two enemy armies into the Pingbei mountainous area, and then turned to fight towards the Pingcheng Line and the Pingsui Line.

Fu Zuoyi was afraid that our army would capture Zhangjiakou, so he hurriedly transferred the army to Zhangjiakou.In this way, Fu Zuoyi's army was running around without making any achievements, going south and north, and constantly tossing and turning. In September 1948, the Northeast Field Army on the Northeast battlefield had cut off the Beining line and surrounded Jinzhou, creating a favorable situation for closing the door and beating dogs in the Northeast.In order to rescue the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Northeast, first of all to rescue the Fan Hanjie Group in Jinzhou, Chiang Kai-shek held a special military meeting in Beiping on September 30 to rescue the Northeast.According to Chiang Kai-shek's will, the Operations Department of the Ministry of National Defense formulated the "Summary of Guidance on the Operation of North China to Suppress Generals in Liaoxi", requiring Fu Zuoyi to go all out to rescue the Northeast.With more than half of Suiyuan already lost and all the suburbs of Beiping fighting, Fu Zuoyi could not go all out, let alone take command responsibility, so he had to threaten to resign immediately, and asked Chiang Kai-shek to personally command the rescue operation. He said: "The seat is highly respected, and only when the supreme commander comes to command can he succeed." Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to lower his requirements and asked Fu Zuoyi to send part of his troops to form the Dongjin Corps to rescue Jinzhou.As a result of several bargainings, finally, a division belonging to the 62nd Army and 92nd Army stationed in the Tangshan area, an independent Fifth Division, and the 39th Army as far away as Yantai were dispatched to form the Eastward Corps. Under the leadership of Hou Jingru, he went to rescue Fan Hanjie.In other words, only five divisions were actually transferred from the North China battlefield.

In this way, the Central Military Commission's goal of keeping Fu Zuoyi's army in the North China battlefield and preventing it from supporting the Northeast battlefield has been fully achieved.