Chapter 54 1. Jung Dong-kook's "helpless"

While the battle between South Manchuria and Beining was in full swing, Changchun in North Manchuria was lifeless. After our Northeast Field Army ended its winter offensive in March 1948, only three major cities in the Northeast were still in the hands of the Kuomintang army, namely Shenyang, Changchun and Jinzhou. In the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek and Wei Lihuang, Shenyang is the location of the Northeast "Suppression General", and it is the center defended by Wei Lihuang with an army of 300,000. Wei Lihuang thinks he can still hold it.Jinzhou is the closest to the pass, and can basically support each other with North China. There is also an outlet to the south, and Fan Hanjie leads an army of 150,000 to defend, so it is not a big problem.The most worrying thing is Changchun.The reason is simple. When Siping fell, Changchun was stuck between Harbin and Siping. The north-south railway was no longer accessible. Most of the Northeast Field Army’s main force was in North Manchuria.

Even if Lin Biao did not launch an attack, Changchun would still be living a life of "embarrassed on all sides" surrounded by four sides.External communication depends entirely on airplanes. For Changchun, not to mention hundreds of thousands of citizens, it is useless to supply 100,000 Kuomintang troops (Changchun Airport was captured by our army in May, and Changchun’s external communication was basically cut off. The source of materials depends entirely on airdrops).Therefore, Changchun became a burden for Wei Lihuang.Wei Lihuang once said to people in private: "Changchun is a burden, like an appendicitis. I hate Chen Cixiu (that is, Chen Cheng) for taking such a deadly move." The army was transferred out to strengthen Jinzhou's defenses.But Chiang Kai-shek disagreed.Chiang Kai-shek believed that Changchun was a big city in the Northeast, and if it was abandoned, the influence at home and abroad would be too bad.What's more, if you defend Changchun, you can attract Lin Biao's troops and reduce the pressure on Shenyang and Jinzhou.It is easy to give up, but it is difficult to regain it.So Chiang Kai-shek decided to stick to Changchun.Now that you have decided to guard it, who will you send to guard it?

At this time, there were two armies stationed in Changchun, one was the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army system, and the commander was Zeng Zesheng.One is the newly formed New Seventh Army after the New First Army was divided into two, and the commander is Li Hong.There is also an official in the city, Liang Huasheng from Jilin Province.In Wei Lihuang's eyes, none of these three people had the talent in this area, and a competent person had to be sent there.Among all the officials in Northeast China at that time, only Zheng Dongguo could be sent. Zheng Dongguo was born in the first generation of Whampoa, a direct descendant of the Jiang family. He had done a lot of military exploits in many years of campaigns. He was considered a famous general at the time. In March 1946, he was dragged by his old classmate Du Yuming to the Northeast and served as a security guard in the Northeast. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the headquarters, acting as Commander-in-Chief when Du Yuming was ill. After Chen Cheng arrived in Northeast China in 1947, he became the deputy director of Northeast Xingyuan. After Wei Lihuang came to the Northeast in 1948, he became the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Suppression General" in the Northeast.Therefore, among the senior generals in the Northeast, he was regarded as a "senator of the three dynasties", and coupled with his status as a "student of the Son of Heaven", Wei Lihuang believed that he could be in charge of one side.The Kuomintang's Northeast "Suppression General" had a total of 8 deputy commanders in chief: Zheng Dongguo, Fan Hanjie, Sun Du, Ma Zhanshan, Wan Fulin, Liang Huasheng, Chen Tie, and Zhang Zuoxiang.Among these 8 people, only Zheng Dongguo, Fan Hanjie, Liang Huasheng, and Chen Tie were born in Huangpu. Among the four, Chen Tie was an old subordinate of Wei Lihuang. During the Anti-Japanese War, when Wei Lihuang fought against the Japanese invaders in Shanxi, he established a good relationship with the Eighth Route Army. .Since Chen Tie was from Zunyi, Guizhou, and he was from the same town as He Yingqin, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was pulled out by He Yingqin to serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of the First Army of the Yunnan Army.Firstly, because he is from Guizhou, the Dian army is easy to accept; secondly, He Yingqin wants to use him to replace Sun Du, commander-in-chief of the First Army when necessary.When Chiang Kai-shek decided to transfer the Yunnan Army to the Northeast to fight the civil war, he followed him to the Northeast.It just so happened that Wei Lihuang came to the Northeast again, thinking about their old relationship, he was made the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General".In his capacity, Chiang Kai-shek would not let him take charge of his own affairs anyway (Chen Tie established contact with our party after the Liaoshen Campaign ended, and later revolted in Guizhou).There is also Liang Huasheng, who was brought by Du Yuming. He is a bully and has a bad relationship with all parties.

When he was the chairman of Jilin Province, he had a very bad relationship with the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army stationed in Jilin. The army commander Zeng Zesheng was in the same situation as him. Liang Huasheng himself had no troops and was a poor deputy commander. He could no longer gain a foothold in Changchun and had to run away. Go to Shenyang to dawdle.Among the other four, Sun Du was a member of the Yunnan Army, who was stationed in Rehe at this time.There are also 3 people, all well-known figures of the old Northeast Army appointed by Chiang Kai-shek to put on an appearance in front of the Northeast people. In fact, they are nominal figures with no soldiers, no rights, and nothing to do.Therefore, among the eight deputy commanders-in-chief, only Zheng Dongguo and Fan Hanjie can really work.Fan Hanjie went to Jinzhou, and of course only Zheng Dongguo was the most suitable one to go to Changchun.

Zheng Dongguo also saw the above situation clearly, so although many friends advised him not to go to Changchun, he understood that he had to go to Changchun if he really wanted to.In this way, when his request for resignation from Chiang Kai-shek was invalid, and his request for leave from Wei Lihuang was unable to leave, in his own words, he had no choice but to accept the deputy commander of the Northeast "Suppression General" and the commander of the First Corps in March 1948. And the appointment of the chairman of Jilin Province, to Changchun. After Zheng Dongguo arrived in Changchun, he picked up 16 words: "Strengthen the fortifications, control the airport, consolidate the interior, and search for food." Two months later, Changchun's Dafangshen Airport fell, and Changchun was called "the isolated island on land". There are only 12 characters left in the 16-character guideline.To put it more simply, it would be two words: trapped.