Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Battle of Jinzhong

Xu Xiangqian recovered from his illness and went out of the mountain. The sword is not old.Under Yuncheng, Xu Xiangqian urgently "borrowed" troops from Wang Zhen to attack the city.Xu Xiangqian issued a death order to Wang Xinting: If Linfen cannot be defeated, you and I will go to Mount Wutai as monks.Yan Xishan's fellow countryman is an old enemy who ended his dream of being "Emperor of Earth".Mao Zedong smiled and asked Xu Xiangqian: How did your 60,000 people wipe out Yan Laoxi's 100,000 people? In the first half of 1948, with the success of our army in North China on the battlefield, the main force had an unprecedented development.In addition to the second, third, and fourth columns of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the eighth and thirteenth columns of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, five columns were formed, namely the first, sixth, seventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth columns.Among them, the field army is divided into two corps, one corps governs the 8th, 13th, and 14th columns, Xu Qianqian, the deputy commander of the military region, is also the commander and political commissar of the 1st corps, and Zhou Shidi is the deputy commander and deputy political commissar.The Second Table Tennis Regiment governs the 2nd, 3rd, 46th and 4 columns, with Yang Dezhi as the commander, and Luo Ruiqing and Yang Chengwu as the first and second political commissars.In addition, the Beiyue Military Region formed one column, and the Jizhong Military Region formed seven columns, with a total of 9 columns and 2 artillery brigades.Including local troops, the total strength reached 420,000.In addition, there are 4 brigades and 16 regiments of the Supplementary Training Corps.

The other half of the North China theater - the Shanxi battlefield is also a good show.Following the great victories in Yuncheng and Linfen, our army has achieved an impressive record in the great victories in Jinzhong.And the director of this series of war dramas is Marshal Xu Qianqian, who is well-known in the history of our army's war. Xu Xiangqian's ancestral home is Shanxi.His old opponent Yan Xishan is also an authentic Shanxi native.On the loess land of his hometown, Xu Xiangqian had infinite scenery, taught a good lesson to the "Emperor of Earth" Yan Xishan, and pushed the chariot of victory rolling forward.

1948 was the year when Xu Xiangqian won consecutive victories after his recovery from illness, and his victory record reached its peak. In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Xiangqian, the deputy commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army who had always been good at fighting, fell ill.A general who has been on the battlefield for decades is accompanied by a sick bed every day, and his pain and irritability may be more tormented than the disease itself.In desperation, he had no choice but to cheer the victory of the War of Resistance with everyone in the hospital in Yan'an.

When the curtain of the War of Liberation suddenly opened, Xu Xiangqian, who had been thinking about the army, could no longer lie down.Although he clearly remembered what Mao Zedong said when he came to the hospital to visit him: "Comrade Qianqian, rest assured, the Kuomintang will not let you idle in the future!" It's hard to feel at ease for a moment. In November 1946, after obtaining the consent of the central government, Xu Xiangqian excitedly packed his bags and left Yan'an together with Xu Teli's family, Wang Ming's family, Zheng Weisan's family, Liu Shaoqi's lover Wang Qian and others, regardless of enemy planes along the way The bombing and strafing, rushed to the front line of Shanxi day and night.

In June 1947, Xu Xiangqian was reappointed by the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China as the first deputy commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region.At that time, Commander Liu Bocheng and Political Commissar Deng Xiaoping had already leaped thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, and the military and political burden on the Shanxi battlefield fell on the shoulders of this general who had bid farewell to the battlefield for two or three years.But Xu Xiangqian, who rushed out of the blood and fire, is full of confidence, and he still has to reforge his once very sharp war sword in the flames of war.After understanding the situation on the battlefield, he decided to capture Yuncheng first, and then capture Linfen, to fight two beautiful annihilation battles and try the blade.

Unexpectedly, Yuncheng and Linfen are actually two "hard peach cores".Xu Xiangqian went out to fight after being ill. Although he won, the victory was not easy. It can even be said that the two cities were conquered by ingenious tactics. More than a month before Xu Xiangqian arrived at the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu battlefield, the troops of the Taiyue Military Region once fought against Yuncheng, and they voluntarily withdrew because the city was indestructible.After Xu Xiangqian arrived at the front line of Yuncheng, he decided to use Wang Xinting's eighth column, Luliang's third brigade, Taiyue third regiment and other troops as the main attack.Unexpectedly, after a week of fierce fighting, Yuncheng was not captured, but four brigades of reinforcements sent by Hu Ning City crossed the Yellow River north from the Sanmenxia area to reinforce Yuncheng.In order to avoid being passive, the siege troops had to retreat first.

Just when the soldiers were anxious about not capturing Yuncheng, Xu Xiangqian learned that General Wang Zhen led the Northwest Second Column through southern Shanxi.Thinking of "Wang Beard", he slapped his thigh and said, "Yes." He didn't delay for a moment, and immediately went to discuss with Wang Zhen, asking Wang Zhen's column to help attack the city. Wang Zhen smiled and agreed happily.Speaking of war, he is also a quick temper.Wang Zhen made a condition to Xu Xiang: Mao Zedong must agree to this matter. After Xu Xiangqian reported to Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong agreed, and pointed out that Wang Zhen's column should be located at an important point on the north bank of the Yellow River, so as to ensure that the enemy in the south cannot cross the north.Mao Zedong mainly considered Hu Zongnan's 4 brigades and 1 cavalry regiment on the south bank of the Yellow River as the main force to reinforce Yuncheng, and especially reminded Xu Xiangqian and Wang Zhen to pay attention.

At that time, Shanxi was full of waste.For Xu Xiangqian, capturing Yuncheng is important, but land reform is also a major event.Since Xu Xiangqian wanted to attend the land reform meeting with Bo Yibo and Teng Daiyuan, Wang Xinting, the commander of the Eighth Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, could only be appointed as the commander of the Yuncheng Frontline Command, and Wang Zhen, the commander and political commissar of the Second Column of the Northwest Field Army, was appointed as the political commissar. , and jointly commanded the two troops to attack the city. Yuncheng is considered a "hard walnut".Wang Xinting and Wang Zhen commanded troops to fight from December 16 to 26, and they failed to conquer after 10 days of fierce fighting.The army has never fought such a difficult battle, and never suffered from this loss.Many middle and senior commanders felt sorry for the troops and hesitated to wait and see about the siege.After Xu Xiangqian found out, he sent a telegram to Wang Xinting: give a death order, insist on the last 5 minutes, and must take Yuncheng.

Persist in the last 5 minutes and finally pay off. On the night of the 27th, Wang Xinting and Wang Zhen's troops broke through from the north and west of the city respectively, entered the city, annihilated the defending enemy, and "ate" the first "hard walnut" with difficulty. The battle of Yuncheng further strengthened Xu Xiangqian's confidence in attacking the medium-sized cities.His eyes turned to Linfen, an isolated city in the south of Shanxi. Linfen is the largest city in southern Shanxi and a famous military town in history.Linfen City is high on the inside and low on the outside, with thick walls, like a yellow ox lying on the east bank of the Fen River. It is known as "City of Lying Ox".Some local people said that Linfen City had never been breached. In the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng led an army to attack the city. Not only did he fail to surrender the "lying bull", he was also shot blind in one eye, which made the leader of the peasant uprising army angry. He hung the armor on a tree outside the city, withdrew his troops and left.

Perhaps because of historical records, since the liberation of Yuncheng, the reactionary township groups and local tyrants in southern Shanxi all retreated to Linfen to hide, and regarded Linfen as a safe haven.Linfen defended the enemy relying on thick walls and deep trenches, and deceived our army to have no aircraft or artillery, so they were extremely arrogant for a while. Xu Xiangqian was determined to capture Linfen, and the Central Committee of Northern Shaanxi also placed high hopes on this.With the removal of Linfen, the battlefield situation in Shanxi will undergo major changes. In February 1948, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China issued an order, deciding to form the Linfen frontline headquarters, with Xu Xiang as the general commander.The central government's order was in line with Xu Xiangqian's wishes, and he had long been determined to subdue the "lying bull" in Linfen.

After all, Xu Xiangqian is one of the few famous generals in our army, and he seems to have a better way of eating "hard walnuts".At that time, the comparison of forces between the two sides and the difference in terrain determined that the Battle of Linfen would be a protracted and cruel battle to attack the city like a "hard peach core".The main force of Yan Xishan's 66th Division, Hu Zongnan's 30th Brigade, and 8 local security regiments, totaling 25,000 people, defended Linfen.And Xu Xiangqian unified command of the Eighth and Thirteenth Columns, the Taiyue Military Region, and the Lvliang Military Region in Jinsui, a total of 53,000 people. Except for the old troops in the campaign, the rest of the troops had very little experience in fortified battles, and even 15 of them were just upgraded from local troops, with poor equipment and no artillery. Generally speaking, our army did not have the advantage. On March 8, the Battle of Linfen kicked off ahead of schedule. Xu Xiangqian hadn't planned to attack hastily.But on March 7, the Central Military Commission notified that Hu Zongnan would soon airlift the 30th Brigade in Linfen back to Xi'an.In order to prevent the enemy's westward movement and cooperate with the Northwest battlefield, Xu Xiangqian decided to launch the Battle of Linfen in advance.The 24th Brigade of the 8th Vertical set off overnight. Under the leadership of the brigade commander Wang Tang, they marched 120 miles a day and night, rushed to the vicinity of the airport in the south of Linfen City, set up mortars, fired 9 bombs in a row, and hit 2 enemy planes.The remaining 8 enemy planes had no time to transport troops and fled in haste.Hu Jun was dizzy, suffered heavy casualties, and fled to the city.Immediately afterwards, various units of our army came from all directions and surrounded Linfen. The strategic intention of blocking the enemy's westward movement has been realized, and the next step is to storm Linfen to finally solve the problem of the enemy's situation in southern Shanxi.But would the enemy be willing to admit defeat?Yan Xishan gave Liang Peihuang an order to stick to it, asking him to "survive the city successfully, and destroy the city to make benevolence".Liang Peihuang also stated that he would "make up his mind to live and die with Linfen".He gave the troops an order of "eight kills"; such as "kill those who are ordered to attack and delay in advancing", "kill those who are not ordered to abandon their positions", "kill those who are unable to help when an adjacent position is attacked", "kill the chief Death in battle, and those who do not perform their duties on behalf of the deputy officials will be killed." The battle develops steadily and orderly.After our army surrounded Linfen, we first cleared the periphery and opened up the road to attack the city.The enemy's artillery fire was very fierce. Our army charged many times without success, and the enemy and us suffered a lot of casualties.Unfortunately, my brigade commander Wang Yong was shot and died. On the position of Chengdong Electric Lamp Company, I won the position. Xu Qichang, the commander of the 66th Division of the enemy, personally supervised the battle and counterattacked continuously.Our soldiers repelled the enemy's counter-charge 7 times in a row with the determination of "the enemy can never take back the position bought by bloodshed" and "can advance one foot, not retreat one inch".In a rage, Xu Qichang dismissed a regiment commander and killed several officers and soldiers who were unable to fight. However, his well-organized counterattack seemed to hit a rubber wall and he could not move forward. When I attacked Dongguan, Li Haihai, a soldier from the Seventh Company of the 112th Regiment of the 13th Column, was wounded in the battle of ascending the city, buried in the soil, and did not retreat.He hid in the outer trench, organized more than a dozen wounded in the outer trench, dug fortifications, picked up ammunition, and continued to fight.The enemy rushed forward, and more than a dozen wounded fought back bravely. They were able to repel the enemy's counterattack 6 times in succession when our follow-up troops were difficult to reach. They persisted for a day and won precious time for our army to finally repel the enemy's counterattack.After the war, the Linfen Frontline Headquarters issued a commendation order to praise Li Haihui's heroic deeds, and named the seventh company "Li Haihai Hero Company". War is a big stage for heroes to display their talents, and a hero creates a company of heroes. The peripheral battle is also a critical moment for Xu Xiangqian to display his commanding talents.After the battle began, the enemy first put local armed forces outside the city to hold their strongholds and fought against me, and then used the two regiments of Hu Zongnan's 30th Brigade to fight against me, and sent planes from Xi'an, Taiyuan, and Tianjin to help in the battle. The indiscriminate bombing and the vicious release of poisonous gas attempted to consume my main force outside the city and make me lose my ability to attack the city.Xu Xiangqian saw the enemy's intention clearly, readjusted the deployment, reserved some main forces to prepare to attack the city, made each army take turns to fight the enemy on the periphery, wiped out the enemy's vital forces, controlled the moat outside the moat, and stepped up to complete the tunnel work to break the city for the tunnel. creating condition.And the main force of our army takes turns to go into battle and take turns to rest, but it doesn't consume too much.The move was a huge success.The battle lasted until April 10. I cleared all the outlying strongholds and blasted the city wall of Dongguan. Two brigades broke into Dongguan and basically wiped out the enemy's 66th Division. Only a few people such as Xu Qichang fled to the city. Although the battle has progressed, the battle is also tragic.In the outskirts of Linfen City, the fierce gunfire lasted for more than 20 days.Although our army wiped out more than 3,000 enemies in the past 20 days, its own casualties were not less than 3,000. Although the periphery was cleared, the siege plan failed to be realized, and the morale of the troops was greatly affected. After calm analysis, Xu Qiang made another determination: If Linfen is not captured, he will not return to the army. Xu Xiangqian, who was born in the Whampoa School, is also a man who has read military books and is familiar with Chinese history.The rumble of artillery on the battlefield did not interfere with his clear thinking.He thought of the Tu Xingsun in classical novels, who could walk through the ground, come and go without a trace, and felt that the "Tu Xingsun method of warfare" could also be used to fight Linfen. The troops rely on tunnel blasting to break through the enemy's "bronze and iron walls".Since the enemy's advantage is on the ground, then we are better than the ground. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De was also very concerned about the Linfen battlefield. Together with Liu Shaoqi, he sent a special telegram to Xu Xiangqian, introducing Nie Rongzhen's successful experience in attacking Shijiazhuang, and hoped that Xu Xiangqian would make persistent efforts to conquer Linfen. On May 7, Xu Xiangqian wrote the "Comprehensive Report on the Combat Situation Since Kelin Dongguan" to Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi and others, reporting the situation of the simultaneous combat on the ground and underground.However, due to the high cost of siege, Linfen was not conquered after more than two months of continuous fighting. Someone behind the back of the battlefield commander Xu Xiangqian proposed to abandon Linfen and return to the east. After Zhu De heard this kind of discussion, he immediately wrote to the leaders of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, asking them to do their best to support Xu Xiangqian and never give up Linfen automatically. Xu Xiangqian didn't know the above situation at the time, and he was still studying the "Tu Xingsun tactics" to defeat Linfen wholeheartedly.Xu Xiangqian even said to Wang Xinting, the main fighter: Even if the beard is beaten white, Linfen must be beaten down. If you can't be beaten down, you and I will go to Mount Wutai to become monks. During the fierce battle, Xu Xiangqian sometimes read Soviet novels, and sometimes practiced brush calligraphy in the combat duty room. When a piece of paper was filled with writing, he rolled it up and lit a cigarette. On May 10, Xu Xiangqian wrote to his wife, Huang Jie, saying: "The capture of Linfen is just around the corner... I have not directly commanded a war for several years. , I don’t have much combat experience, and my combat effectiveness is not high, it’s really worrying, and now I’ve finally survived.” Xu Xiangqian is full of confidence in his "Tu XingSun" tactic, and the key to the final success of the "Tu XingSun" tactic is to break through the city's tunnels.In this regard, Xu Xiangqian personally intervened, mobilized a large number of troops and migrant workers, and stepped up the tunnel earthwork.The long snake-like tunnel stretches to the bottom of Linfen city step by step. In mid-May, with amazing perseverance and spirit of sacrifice, our army dug two tunnels over 110 meters long to the bottom of the Linfen city wall after 27 days and nights.At the end of the two tunnels, one contains 6,000 catties of yellow explosives, and the other contains 12,000 catties of black explosives.At this time, in order to ensure safety, all fires should be eliminated. When iron objects collide, sparks are easy to occur. All iron objects should be replaced with wooden sticks.In order to transport the explosives, more than 300 people were connected one by one, from the explosive storehouse to the entrance of the tunnel.Brigade Commander Huang Dingji of the 23rd Brigade commanded at the entrance of the tunnel and transported explosives together.It was raining again, and the commanders and fighters were afraid that the explosives would be wet by the rain, so they took off their military jackets to cover the explosives... Everything was ready, and the headquarters planned to attack the city on the night of May 17. On the night of May 17th, three signal flares rose, the hand-cranked generator shook violently, the landslide and the ground cracked, the large pillars of the frontline headquarters shook continuously, and the sand and soil rushed down. The enemy flew into the sky in an earthen plane, and then clods of earth and bricks fell like hailstones. In an instant, the sky was dark and the city wall blasted two large gaps 40 meters wide.The enemy was stunned for a moment.Our commando immediately rushed into the city, divided and wiped out the enemy, and settled the battle that night.Liang Peihuang led 2,000 remnants to flee for their lives, crowding each other, and countless people fell into the city and into the water.All fleeing enemies were annihilated by our ambush troops. The Battle of Linfen lasted 72 days, and Xu Xiangqian commanded our new army to win another victory.In the Battle of Linfen, our army wiped out a total of 25,000 people including the 66th Division and the 30th Brigade, Liang Peihuang and Xu Qichang were captured alive, and southern Shanxi was completely liberated.This is a special way of fighting, created by the soldiers and civilians in the Liberated Areas.The 23rd Brigade of the Eighth Vertical Brigade successfully completed the tunnels and took on the main task of attacking the city, which played a key role in ensuring the success of the breakthrough. The Central Military Commission named the brigade the "Linfen Brigade" and commended it. Since then, the "Linfen Brigade" dominated the liberation battlefield and became famous on the Korean front.In different historical periods of the Republic, this heroic unit has repeatedly made extraordinary achievements and shocked the world, becoming a legendary and glorious unit in the ranks of the People's Liberation Army. The development of our army in North China heralds the development and growth of our People's Liberation Army. In May 1948, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China appointed Nie Rongzhen as the third secretary of the North China Bureau and the commander of the North China Military Region, and appointed Xu Xiangqian, Gen Daiyuan, and Xiao Ke as the first, second, and third deputy commanders of the North China Military Region.The Jinchaji and Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu troops merged to form the First, Second, and Third Corps of the North China Field Army. With the addition of local armed forces, the region has a total of 500,000 troops, strong and strong, and has become a veritable strategic mobile force of the Central Military Commission.Among the three corps, Xu Xiangqian also served as the commander and political commissar of the First Corps. His main task was to launch the Jinzhong Campaign and attack Yan Xishan in Jinzhong. Yan Xishan is from Wutai County, Shanxi. In 1913, he defected to Yuan Shikai and served as the governor and governor of Shanxi. In May 1927, he was attached to the national government and served as deputy commander of the army, navy and air force and chairman of the Shanxi provincial government.Over the past few decades, when warlords from all over the country have changed their generals, only Yan Xishan has not fallen for more than 30 years. Even Chiang Kai-shek expressed surprise at this, so Yan Su is known as the "Emperor of Earth" in Shanxi. After Linfen was conquered by Xu Xiangqian, Yan Xishan still had 5 armies, 13 divisions and about 100,000 civilian guards in Jinzhong.These troops were distributed in key towns along the railway from Yuci to Lingshi and along the highway from Taiyuan to Xiaoyi. Yan Xishan also used 13 of the infantry and artillery regiments to form the "Shock Corps" to provide mobile assistance and control Jinzhong.The troops that Xu Xiangqian was able to command at that time included the Eighth Column, the Thirteenth Column, the Taiyue Army, and the troops under the Jinsui Military Region and the Beiyue Military Region, a total of 46 regiments with more than 60,000 people, and they were at a disadvantage in terms of strength.If you fight head-on, it's hard to say who will win. Xu Xiangqian and Yan Xishan are really old rivals.After the failure of the revolution in the Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Soviet areas, Xu Xiangqian returned to Shanxi for a while to find a job.Yan Xishan's hometown is just across the river from Xu Xiangqian's.In Hubei, Henan and Anhui, Xu Xiangqian commanded the Red Army to repeatedly defeat Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army. Yan Xishan not only did not feel that Xu Xiangqian was an opponent, but was deeply proud of Wutai for having such a handsome talent as Xu Xiangqian, and praised Xu Xiangqian whenever he met.Hearing that Xu Xiangqian had returned to Shanxi, he went out to greet him personally.Knowing that Xu Xiangqian wanted to go back to his hometown, he sent a car to see him off, and sent someone to send generous gifts to Xu's family. Of course Xu Xiangqian knew Yan Xishan's intentions.When the two met again, Yan Xishan said, "Come here, I will immediately appoint you as the head of the regiment." Xu Xiangqian shook his head quietly. "Teacher, when you come back, I'll give you a job right away." Yan Xishan eagerly made a wish.He knew that Xu Xiangqian, who was born in Huangpu, was worth more than this teacher.He also knew that among Xu Xiangqian's Huangpu classmates at that time, no one could surpass the senior official of the teacher. But Xu Xiangqian still shook his head and said, "Even if you give me a commander, I can't do anything with you. After all, we don't agree with each other." One conversation made Yan Xishan full of emotions and sighed endlessly.He knew he couldn't get Xu Xiangqian to join him.But he knows one thing: generals like Xu Xiangqian are rare.One day, his military talents will be revealed. Perhaps out of respect, perhaps out of fellowship, Yan Xishan did not harm Xu Xiangqian, but was more courteous.Maybe he also hopes that one day Xu Xiangqian will be moved by his sincerity, change his mind and join his Jinsui Army.He had said to many unconvinced generals of the Jinsui Army more than once: "Xu Xiangqian is handsome, none of you can compare with him. It's a pity! It's a pity!" As the stars shifted, Yan Xishan's words came true.But what troubled him was that Xu Xiangqian became his opponent, and a tough opponent who made him suffer repeated defeats. Xu Xiangqian foresaw that Yan Xishan's troops were besieged in the isolated city, and food was extremely difficult, so they would inevitably come out to grab wheat during the wheat harvest season.The Jinzhong Plain for thousands of miles is the granary of Shanxi and an important base for Yan Xishan's military food supply.In Yan Xishan's view, if Jinzhong was lost and the army had no supplies, more than 100,000 officers and soldiers would go into chaos without fighting.Therefore, whenever the waves of wheat rolled up on the fertile plains thousands of miles away in the middle of Shanxi, Yan Xishan took food preservation, robbing, and storage of grain as the key to strategic defense in Shanxi, and it became a focus of the struggle between the masses of Jinzhong and Yan Xishan.In Shanxi at that time, even children sang songs: "The wheat should not be yellow, because the yellow is not enough to pay the public grain!" After Linfen was liberated, although Yan Xishan was extremely depressed, he was still reluctant to give up Shanxi.In the combat meeting of the senior generals, it was even ironic to put forward the "Sixteen-Character Jue" that "everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, 'one run is everything, one run is all victorious'".In Xu Xiangqian's opinion, this "Sixteen-Character Jue" is pure nonsense, it is "if nothing is prepared, the east wind will not blow".However, Xu Xiangqian paid great attention to the word "run" in Yan Xishan's "one run, all things", and cleverly adopted various countermeasures to prevent Yan Xishan's army from "running away" easily. In early June, Xu moved forward to deploy the Jinzhong Campaign.Some people saw that Yan Xishan's troops would "run away" and thought it would be safer to wipe out one or two divisions of the enemy.Xu Xiangqian had a huge appetite at this time.After hearing this, he shook his head and said: "In Jinzhong, we must dare to fight against the enemy's routine. It is because Yan Xishan wants to 'run', so the opportunity for combat is fleeting. We must seize the opportunity and determine to wipe out 4 to 6 divisions of the enemy. In this way I am responsible for the wrong deployment." After Xu Xiangqian returned to Changzhi, he went to the library of the military region to find a map in person.The staff officer in charge of the library thought that the troops were going to cross the Yellow River to support the northwest operation, so he quickly took out some maps in the direction of western and northern Henan.Xu looked forward, waved his hands again and again, and said, "I want a map of Qin County." In the gallery, Xu Xiangqian accidentally obtained a map of the enemy's "Jingangling Defense Plan".In the Battle of Qin County, this defensive map helped Xu Xiangqian a lot.With this map, he will be the first to deploy and fight, and take the initiative in every battle. In the early stage of the Battle of Jinzhong, Xu Xiangqian repeatedly considered Yan Jun's intentions and movements, and believed that Yan Xishan was most afraid of losing strength, and his tactics were actually always ready to escape.Therefore, it is necessary to confuse the enemy, make the enemy dare to come out, and send the enemy away; at the same time, we must seize the opportunity to wipe out the enemy quickly and prevent the enemy from escaping.Therefore, he sent a local army, pretending to be the main force of the Liberation Army Corps in Linfen, to Fenglingdu in southern Shanxi to collect ships, making a gesture of preparing to cross the Yellow River to support our northwest battlefield; at the same time, he released a group of prisoners, intending to let them spread the news , Make the enemy mistakenly think that our main force will not advance to Jinzhong immediately.He also ordered the troops of the Lvliang Military Region to attack Fenyang and Xiaoyijian, and led the main force of the enemy to advance westward, and ordered the troops of the Taiyue Military Region to advance northward and occupy Lingshi in camera.The two main columns of the Corps secretly marched towards Jinzhong from the Taiyue Mountains in the Jinzhong Plain. Xu Xiangqian's series of ecstasy tricks really worked.Yan Xishan saw that our troops appeared to the west of Xiaoyi, Lingshi was attacked by me again, and my main force was "going far to the south of Shanxi". He felt that it was a "very good opportunity" to take advantage of it.That is to say, Gao Naozhi led a total of 13 regiments from the 34th Army and other departments to rush to the west of Xiaoyi and besiege our Luliang troops.The Luliang troops stood firm to contain the enemy, and Yan Xishan sent his "personal trainer" 72nd division and "personal training artillery regiment" to reinforce.The enemy was dispatched, and the fighter Xu Qianqian had been looking forward to for a long time finally appeared. With his order, the main force of our corps suddenly plunged into the Jinzhong Plain, attacked the blockhouses and seized points, and approached the railway line. When my main force appeared, Yan Xishan realized that it was a trick, and immediately dispatched the 34th Army to reinforce Pingyao in a hurry, and stick to the point line. Zhanglan Town in Pingyao was intercepted by our army.At that time, the personal trainers, the so-called troops trained by Yan Xishan himself, were also the main force of the "Blitz Corps". They were marching forward under the leadership of Major General Chen Zhendong, when they suddenly encountered dozens of mortars and dozens of light and heavy machine guns from our army. .The formation was in chaos, and they fled to Fenhe Bay one after another. The enemy and the enemy fought fiercely on the river beach. In just two hours, more than 12,000 people were wiped out for Yan Xishan's "trump card", and dozens of mountain artillery were all captured by me.At the same time, in the north of Pingyao, our army annihilated the 40th enemy division that was being mobilized.Subsequently, they captured Jiaocheng and Qixian.When attacking Qi County, our army used dozens of mountain artillery captured to open a large gap more than 20 meters wide in the city wall. In a few hours, nearly 4,000 people from the 34th Division were wiped out. In the battle of Jinzhong, our army won the first battle and gave Yan Xishan a blow.At this time, in order to preserve Shanxi and contain our army in North China, Chiang Kai-shek called Yan Xishan, made an official and made a wish, and encouraged Yan Xishan, asking him to "boldly fight the communist army and defend Jinzhong". But Xu Xiangqian would not give him such a chance. On the night of July 6, the enemy's 33rd Army, 34th Army, and 10th Corps, as well as the headquarters of Zhao Chengshun's Army Group, left the railway and began to retreat to the northwest.The main force of our army pursued vigorously, and some troops rushed to the front of the enemy to intercept the enemy.At this time, Zhao Chengxuan's army was surrounded by our regiments in a small area about 20 miles from east to west and less than 10 miles from north to south along Dachang Town, Xiaochang Village, Xiyuan Village, and Nanzhuang. Seeing that the way of retreat was cut off, the enemy hurriedly built fortifications and resisted stubbornly.Our army concentrated its forces and firepower, attacking and annihilating the enemy from village to village.I used the main force of the thirteenth column to attack and annihilate the thirty-fourth army, and the main force of the eighth column to attack and annihilate the tenth corps.The enemy's Tenth Corps is composed of Japanese war criminals as the backbone.After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Yan Xishan frantically retained thousands of Japanese invaders whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people, gave them promotions and generous treatment, and formed the Tenth Corps (equivalent to a division). On the 12th, the remnants of the enemy retreated to Xiyuan Village and Xiaochang Village, and our army launched the final battle of encirclement and annihilation.On the 15th day of the battle, all of Yan Xishan's field corps were wiped out, Zhao Chengshou and Shen Rui were captured, Yuan Quanfu was wounded and committed suicide due to defeat.Before his death, Yuan Quanfu said to his chief of staff: "I didn't expect Xu Xiangqian to be so powerful!" After our army gathered and wiped out Zhao Chengshou's group, the enemies in all counties in Jinzhong abandoned their cities and fled. I took advantage of the victory and pursued them all the way to the city of Taiyuan.In the Battle of Jinzhong, Xu Xiangqian created an example of our army's large corps fighting with fewer and more and wiped out the enemy.The Central Military Commission said in a congratulatory message: "Congratulations on your great victory in annihilating 1 army headquarters, 5 military headquarters, 5 divisions, 2 corps and liberating 14 counties in the Jinzhong area after the great victory in Linfen." The city of Taiyuan is approaching, and the time has come to finally end Yan Xishan's reactionary rule." Sweeping Jinzhong, Xu Xiangqian wiped out 100,000 enemies with 60,000 soldiers, creating a miracle. In the future, Xu Xiangqian attended the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xibaipo.At the meeting, Mao Zedong once jokingly said to him: "Qianqian, tell everyone how your 60,000 people wiped out Yan Laoxi's 100,000 people?" Prior to this, on July 19, just after the end of the Battle of Jinzhong, Mao Zedong sent a congratulatory message in the name of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.The telegram stated: "Under the direct command of Comrades Qianqian and Shidi, the Battle of Jinzhong achieved such a brilliant victory in just one month due to the hard work of the whole army, the support of the people, the efforts of the rear to support the front, and the victorious cooperation of various battlefields. The record is of great help to the whole battle situation.” Sending a congratulatory message in the name of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China shows that Mao Zedong attached great importance to and rejoiced in the victory of this battle.Throughout the War of Liberation, many congratulatory telegrams were sent in the name of the Central Military Commission, but not in the name of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.In the battle of Jinzhong, Xu Qiangqian's sword was not old, but his fellow villager Yan Xishan became a cold cicada in three autumns.What made it even more difficult for Yan Xishan to accept was that Xu Xiangqian's great victory in Jinzhong was tantamount to completely wiped out the periphery of Taiyuan City. Taiyuan City is in danger. Yan Xishan's "Emperor of Earth" dreams in Shanxi for more than 30 years are like floating bubbles, disappearing one by one without a trace.