Chapter 68 2. There is basically no war in Shenyang

At this time, Shenyang was already in chaos.The chaotic situation in Shenyang was quite prominent from the moment Wei Lihuang left. In order to take Wei Lihuang away, Du Yuming and the Kuomintang Air Force took the risk of sending two planes.The plane did not dare to land at Beiling Airport, but landed at Hunhe Airport, a smaller civilian airport.As soon as the plane stopped, before Wei Lihuang walked to the side of the plane, other officials who rushed to the airport after hearing the news all crowded in one after another, so crowded that they couldn't even close the cabin door.Of course, the flight crew did not dare to take off, so they had to lie to the officials who got on the plane, saying that the plane was malfunctioning and could not take off. Please go down first and help push the plane under the condition of lightening the load. After the plane started, everyone boarded one by one. machine.At the same time, the crew quietly notified Wei Lihuang, asking him to go to Dongta Airport as soon as possible, only there he could get on the plane.When the officials on the plane came down to push the plane, the plane suddenly closed the hatch and took off. There were injured and scolding people on the ground (their suitcases were still on the plane, and I don’t know how many gold and silver treasures they carried when they escaped). Ghosts were crying and howling, while those who hadn't squeezed in were laughing and sarcasm.In this case, the cars of Wei Lihuang and others transferred to Dongta Airport.When the plane transferred to Dongta Airport, Dongta Airport was also in chaos. Wei Lihuang boarded a large truck first, and opened the cabin door only when he turned the back door of the truck to the cabin door, which ensured that he could board the plane smoothly. .After Wei Lihuang got on the plane, the chief of staff of Wei Lihuang (just appointed concurrently as the commander of the New Sixth Army) Zhao Jiaxiang, Gao Xibing, vice chairman of the Northeast Political Affairs Committee of the Kuomintang, and Wang Wang, the governor of Liaoning Province, were lucky enough to squeeze in. Tie Han, Dong Yanping, Governor of Anton Province, Dong Wenqi, Mayor of Shenyang City, Pan Yukun, Commander of the New First Army, and Long Tianwu, Commander of the New Army.Others who failed to board the plane were forcibly blocked by Wei Lihuang's adjutants and guards. Even those who had squeezed onto the plane, such as Wu Hantao, governor of Hejiang Province of the Kuomintang, were kicked off the plane, and Peng Jiqun, governor of Nenjiang Province, fell off a ladder. He broke his back and was carried home.Even so, the officials still climbed desperately, some simply climbed to the wing of the plane and could not get off, and some smashed the window glass of the plane and got inside.Under such circumstances, Zhao Jiaxiang played a trick. He told the officials that there were 4 more planes coming to Shenyang to pick up people soon. , so that everyone who is eager to get on the plane knows it well.In this way, the officials who climbed onto the wing of the plane got off the plane, and Wei Lihuang was able to take off.For this reason, when Wei Lihuang's plane landed in Huludao and saw Du Yuming who came to pick him up, he said "I almost couldn't see each other".

Wei Lihuang and others left, leaving only Zhou Fucheng who was ordered to defend the city in Shenyang.Zhou Fucheng still has a total of about 80,000 people under his command. In addition to his two divisions of the 53rd Army, there are also two brigades of the 207th Division of the Youth Army, one division of the New First Army, and four divisions equivalent to divisions. The garrison column and some stragglers who fled into Shenyang from various places.Zhou Fucheng is an old soldier with a strong sense of warlord. He is stubborn, even almost stupid. At this moment, he is still thinking about how he came here for two days after Wei Lihuang left. Still thinking about how to defend the city.But he didn't know that his subordinates had been negotiating with our personnel for a long time, and they had already been brewing an uprising and surrendering.

The Fifty-Third Army was Zhang Xueliang's original army. It was the old Northeast Army, which was not much in the country at that time. The work of the three armed forces is to strive for them to leave Chiang Kai-shek, abandon the dark and turn to the bright. Zhao Guoping, deputy commander of the 53rd Army, had contact with Li Kenong, the head of our party's intelligence department, and others when the Northeast Army was stationed in Shaanxi. In the autumn of 1947, Lu Zhengcao, then head of the Northeast Bureau, sent a letter to him from Li Shucheng, a liaison officer, asking him to seize the opportunity and take action.After that, he had some contact with Li Shucheng.When Zhou Fucheng held a military meeting on the evening of October 30 after Wei Lihuang had left to study the issue of defending the city, Zhao Guoping saw that the officers at the meeting thought they could no longer fight, so he boldly advised Zhou Fucheng not to fight anymore and to put down his weapons.Zhou firmly disagreed, and arranged for his two adjutants to try to shoot Zhao Guoping, but the adjutants resolutely refused.Zhou Fucheng knew that the situation was over, so he wrote a note to Zhao Guoping: "Brother Guoping: The matter has come to this point, I can't do anything, I hope you take care of the future. I'm leaving." Zhou Fucheng left the headquarters like this.

Wang Lihuan, commander of the 130th Division of the 53rd Army, has more contacts with our party. In May 1948, four division-level officers captured by the 53rd Army in the Battle of Kaiyuan were released, and Wang Lihuan brought a personal letter from his old classmate Lu Zhengcao when he was teaching martial arts in the Northeast: Recently, I heard that Huanglong, the second division, organized the army in Yinchuan (Note: Huanglong is the ancient name of Kaiyuan, and Yinchuan is the ancient name of Tieling), which is admired from afar.The classmates who lectured on martial arts were scattered all over the place, and they had no contact with each other.Supervisor Han Gong (Note: Refers to Zhang Xueliang) is in prison, and there is no guarantee of safety; Xi'an's righteous deeds, we should not forget their difficulties.The Northeast has fallen, and the hometown has been ruined, and no one has rescued it for more than ten years.After the surrender of the Japanese invaders, Fang hopes to see the sun again.Unexpectedly, the civil war revived again, poisoning the souls.

Right and wrong advance and stop, as early as in the cave.Brother plays a very important role, so look forward to it.Brother Lu Zhengcao bowed.Other students, please pay your respects, and again. This letter shocked Wang Lihuan greatly, and he planned to "wait for the opportunity to make plans for it" in the future. On July 10, 1948, Wang Peiqing of our party established direct contact with Wang Lihuan.After the Liao Yaoxiang regiment left Liaoning, Wang Lihuan discussed with some officers of the 53rd Army how to put down their weapons, and prepared to deal with the 207th Division of the youth army most loyal to the Chiang Dynasty if necessary.At this time, the Harbin Radio Station of the Northeast Bureau kept broadcasting speeches by well-known democrats in Northeast China Gao Chongmin, Zhang Xuesi, Lu Zhengcao, Che Xiangchen, Yan Baohang, etc., advising the 53rd Army to lay down their weapons and stage an uprising in order to protect the lives and property of the elders in their hometown. The officers and soldiers of the 53rd Army had a considerable impact. On October 29, under the arrangement of Wang Huayi, a well-known democrat in Northeast China who was entrusted by our party to carry out liaison work in Shenyang, a former member of the Kuomintang Legislative Council and a member of the National Political Council, Wang Huayi, a group of senior military officers who had ties with our party An important meeting was held in Wang Hua's family, attended by Wang Lihuan, commander of the 130th Division of the 53rd Army, and Xu Gengyang, commander of the Temporary 53rd Division of the New First Army (the Temporary 53rd Division was not originally a team of the New First Army , but the local troops in the Northeast, which were organized into a division and assigned to the New First Army after the New First Army arrived in the Northeast. Xu Gengyang himself was from the Northeast Army and had a close relationship with the 53rd Army. Contact Uprising), Zhao Yi, director of the Northeast Military Law Enforcement Sub-Supervision Department of the Ministry of National Defense, Qin Xiangzheng, commander of the Shenyang Second Garrison Corps, etc., all present at the meeting agreed to launch the uprising, and conducted research and division of labor on various related issues.For Wei Lihuang and Zhou Fucheng, who were the most difficult to solve, it was decided to send Wei away from Shen and persuade Zhou to revolt.When Wang Lihuan talked with Wei before Wei Lihuang left Shen, Wei Lihuang told him that he already knew about their meeting. Wei said: "You have a meeting at Wang Hua's family, and you have a way to deal with Shenyang. I will leave, you can do it yourself !” That is to say, Wei Lihuang acquiesced in their preparation for the Shenyang uprising, which is undoubtedly a very favorable condition for the Shenyang uprising.After contacting the Second Dongye Independent Division outside Shenyang, Wang Lihuan, Xu Gengyang and others established the "Peaceful Liberation of Shenyang Committee" on October 31 and officially launched an uprising.The members of the committee included Wang Huayi, Zhao Yi, Wang Lihuan, Hu Shengyi (a democrat in Northeast China, who was then director of the Land Tax and Grain Management Office of the Liaoning Provincial Government of the Kuomintang), Xu Gengyang, Qin Xiangzheng, etc.In order to facilitate the coordination with all parties, the chairman of the committee was Su Bingwen, a famous Northeast anti-Japanese general and then director of the Northeast "Suppression General" Senior Staff Office, because he was Zhou Fucheng's superior.In this way, all the Kuomintang troops in Shenyang City, except the 207th Division of the Youth Army, laid down their weapons.

In the early morning of November 1, our Second Independent Division entered Shenyang through the defense area of ​​the temporary 53rd Division.Then, the first column, the second column, the 12th column and several other independent divisions of our East Field also entered Shenyang one after another. On November 2, the three main columns joined forces in the old city of Shenyang.In the words of those who witnessed it at the time, it was "the People's Liberation Army entered the city in four ways, everyone was in peace, the chickens and dogs were calm, and order was in order."It turned out that Qin Xiangzheng, the head of the Second Garrison Corps, who already had contact with our party, also dispatched 6 propaganda vehicles to publicize the welcome of the PLA and the maintenance of order on the streets of the city. Many citizens followed the vehicles and cheered.

In this way, Shenyang declared a peaceful liberation.The Dongye headquarters decided that Luo Shunchu, the political commissar of the three verticals, would first enter the city to handle some urgent matters. At this time, there are still two problems that need to be solved. One is Zhou Fucheng, the commander of the Kuomintang's defense of the city, and the other is the 207th Division of the Youth Army. Zhou Fucheng was arranged by his subordinates in the building of the World Union Bank, and various parties did a lot of work to persuade him to revolt.Su Bingwen was his old superior, Zhao Yi was his old classmate, and Wang Lihuan's deputy teacher, Xia Shi, was his brother-in-law. It was useless to persuade him. Even his own daughter flew from Peiping with a letter from Mrs. Zhang Zuolin to do it. The work was useless, and he even shouted that his daughter should be shot (the stupid Zhou Fucheng would never have imagined that his biological daughter was already an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party).

In this case, the subordinates had no choice but to leave him.After our army entered the city, Huang Daxuan, the company commander of the Sixteenth Regiment of the Vanguard Regiment of the Second Vertical Division and the Sixth Division, led two platoons to search along Zhonghua Road and Mawan Road. At the Hegong Bank, when they saw enemies in the building, they immediately surrounded and shouted, but no one responded, so they rushed in, and no one fired. There was a row of Kuomintang soldiers inside, some sitting, some lying down, A number of pistols were thrown on the table.Company Commander Huang asked them where the officials were, and the soldiers all pointed upstairs with their hands.After Huang Lianchang took people upstairs, he saw an officer come out and said to Huang Lianchang: "I am Zhou Fucheng, and we are discussing with you about surrendering." Huang Lianchang didn't know who Zhou Fucheng was, he just thought It's ridiculous, what time is it now, why are you talking about surrender?So Zhou Fucheng was sent to the captive team.

All the officers and soldiers of the 207th Division of the Youth Army were members of the Kuomintang selected from various units. They were very reactionary and stubborn. At this time, there were two brigades in Shenyang (the other brigade was transferred to the Liao Yaoxiang Corps and was wiped out in the Battle of Western Liaoning). Stationed in the southwest of Shenyang.The uprising officers of the 53rd Army tried their best to do the work of some officers of one of the brigades, hoping to draw some people to participate in the uprising, but to no avail.The head of the East Field Headquarters issued a special order to arrest Dai Pu, the commander of the division: "The commander of the 207th division, Dai Pu, is extremely reactionary and has ordered his subordinates to burn supplies. I hope that all departments will pay attention to tracking down and arresting them, so that they can be dealt with according to law after the war." But Dai Pu Park had already disguised himself to escape in the chaos, so he was not captured and brought to justice.However, because Dai Pu had fled, the division was unable to form an effective resistance under the pressure of our army. On the afternoon of October 31, when our 12th and 2nd Columns were encircling Shenyang, they were at Xiaoguozhuang and the 2nd Column. The Zero Seventh Division exchanged fire.Because the enemy had built a lot of "movable bunkers" welded with 3 cm thick steel plates in advance, they could be pushed and walked inside, just like human armored vehicles, which once caused resistance to my vanguard.The next day, the large troops of our army arrived, concentrated 18 artillery companies to bombard the enemy, and then rushed to fight with bayonets nearby, killing more than 13,000 people from the 207th Division in Sujiatun.

At the same time, I Yizong also rushed to Shenyang on October 31, and fought against the 207th Division in Tiexi District, broke through the enemy's defense line, and entered the city.The Second Zong also marched deep into the city from Tiexi District, and captured more than 4,200 people under Li Zhuangyi, commander of the New First Brigade of the 207th Division, in a building near the train station. On November 2, the independent 12th and 13th divisions of our army captured the last stronghold of the 207th division in Dongdaying. The other part tried to escape in Qiao's shack by pretending to surrender, but failed. Also wiped out by our army.The annihilation of the 207th Division was a real battle fought by our army during the liberation of Shenyang.

In the process of liberating Shenyang, our army wiped out more than 130,000 enemies, including 106 general-level officers; seized a large amount of weapons and materials, including 1,685 cannons, 4,811 machine guns, more than 70,000 rifles, 841 vehicles, 43 tanks, and 114 armored vehicles.This is the first time in the history of our army that so many military supplies have been obtained in one battle.Our army has another extremely important achievement in Shenyang, which is to take over the Shenyang Arsenal, the largest armory in China at that time, intact.Chen Xiuhe, the lieutenant general director of the Shenyang Arsenal, is Chen Yi's cousin. He is a decent man and tends to be progressive. With his hard work, he resisted the Kuomintang government's plans to relocate or bomb the factory many times, and transferred 8,000 sets of equipment to the factory. , The large arsenal with 12,000 employees was completely protected (the guns and ammunition produced by the factory every month can equip a division), and a large amount of ammunition and equipment were handed over to the Northeast Bureau, which played a huge role in supporting the national liberation war effect.