Chapter 64 4. Inadvertently smashed five headquarters

Just when our army was about to launch a general attack on the enemy, my three verticals accidentally smashed the entire system of Liao Yaoxiang Corps. When the three verticals were attacking the enemy's 71st Army in Zheng'anbao, they found that the 71st Army had already moved southeast, so they chased in the southeast direction. In the early morning of October 26, the 3rd Battalion of the 21st Regiment of the 3rd Vertical and 7th Division chased to the Hujia shack in the northeast of Heishan. They saw many cars and cannons around the village. It was probably an enemy headquarters, and the 3rd Battalion rushed immediately. They went up, but the enemy's blocking firepower was so strong that they couldn't get in.The 19th Regiment who followed behind cooperated with the 3rd Battalion to rush to a high ground to the west of the village, suppressed the enemy's firepower, and continued to shoot into the village.The second platoon of the eighth company of the third battalion detoured from the south of the village to the enemy artillery position in the east, and captured 18 heavy artillery pieces, dozens of trucks, and captured nearly a hundred enemy soldiers.After the enemy found out in the village, two battalions rushed out to compete with the second platoon for the heavy artillery positions.Due to the outnumbered enemies, all the cadres and soldiers in the second platoon died honorably after a fierce battle.Although our army did not break into the Hu family's hut, and was unable to encircle it due to insufficient troops, it had beaten the village into chaos, and a large number of enemies could be seen fleeing to the east or south.In the afternoon, the 3rd Division and 9th Division rushed to the north of Hu's shack, and engaged fire with the enemies who were desperately fleeing on the road.At dusk, our army learned from the prisoners that it was the enemy's New Third Army who had fled, and that the headquarters of Liao Yaoxiang's corps, as well as the headquarters of the New Third Army and the New Sixth Army were stationed in the Hu's shack. In a small village about one mile east of the shack.

The reason why the three verticals disrupted Liao Yaoxiang's headquarters all of a sudden was because our army advanced very fast, which was beyond the enemy's expectations, and on the other hand, it was because the enemy made a low-level mistake in a panic.According to Yang Kun, Liao Yaoxiang's chief of staff, on the afternoon of October 25, the Kuomintang Air Force plane called him in the air using land and air contact numbers, and found that there was a 5-mile-long army south of Zhangwu heading towards Wuliangdian in the northeast of Montenegro. Drive in and ask him if he is his own army, if not he will be bombed and strafed.Yang Kun said that it is not his own troops, so you can bomb and shoot.After that, Yang Kun was busy with other things and forgot to report this important event to Liao Yaoxiang.Afterwards, I found out that this large force was Dongye Liuzong. They were advancing south of Montenegro, and soon cut off Liao Yaoxiang's retreat.Since Liao Yaoxiang didn't know that the main force of our army had surrounded him and had penetrated from north to south, he slowed down his retreat.He planned to lead the New Third Army, the New Sixth Army, and the New First Army to retreat first on the 26th, and ordered the 71st Army, which was not directly related, to take over the defense of the Hu family's shack on the evening of the 25th.Xiang Fengwu, the commander of the 71st Army, didn't know that his actual situation was at stake. He said that the troops were too tired, and he would talk about it tomorrow morning.When the third column suddenly appeared in the Hu's shack in the early morning of the 26th, the enemy's 71st Army and the New Sixth Army were still handing over their defenses step by step, so the high ground to the west of the Hu's shack would allow the Three Columns to quickly attack without much effort. Occupy quickly.

Although the three verticals attacked the Hu family's shack, although not many enemies were eliminated, they completely disrupted the enemy's command system.Liao Yaoxiang later recalled: On the morning of the 26th, the first blow of the third column of the People's Liberation Army and its neighboring troops to the north smashed the "head" of the Kuomintang Liaoxi Corps, which is the forward command post of the Corps. The headquarters of the six armies and three armies.Because these troops are in the state of marching, the communication system has not been established in the first place, so when the regiment headquarters and the three military headquarters were disrupted, the commander was in a situation where he could not command and could no longer control the troops.But the troops were paralyzed and disintegrated because they lost their heads and were at a loss as to what to do.Obviously, the fate of the Corps is extremely critical.

In this case, Liao Yaoxiang's specific situation was "the nearest PLA soldier was about four to five hundred meters away from me, and the rifle bullets flew over my head."He went to look for Long Tianwu, the commander of the new army. Long Tianwu had already left the headquarters with a few people, left the troops alone, and fled for his life.He went to look for Pan Yukun, the commander of the New First Army, but Pan Yukun also disappeared, and no one in the military department knew where the commander was.He could no longer command the troops and had to flee for his life.He first went to the 30th Division of the New First Army, and then went to the 22nd Division of the New Sixth Army in the Tang's shack that afternoon.Because the New 22nd Division is Liao Yaoxiang's old unit, Liao Yaoxiang was the commander of this division when he was in India during the Anti-Japanese War, and Li Tao, the current commander of the New Sixth Army, was his successor commander, so both Liao Yaoxiang and Li Tao fled to the New 2nd Division. Twelve divisions.Liao Yaoxiang wanted to rebuild a temporary command system here, but until he was captured, the temporary command system could not be established.