Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: The Great Battle in North China

The commander of the enemy's 35th Army "Guo Mazi" uttered wild words: Our ever-victorious army grew up eating steel and chewing iron, who can do nothing to me?Fu Zuoyi was confused, and his determination was repeatedly difficult.Total attack, Zeng Siyu has a secret weapon.Guo Jingyun ordered to kill the new security guard.Turning to attack Zhangjiakou, Fu Zuoyi's dream of fleeing west was completely shattered.Mao Zedong personally congratulated the North China Field Army for winning two consecutive victories. The Battle of Pingjin has developed in full accordance with our army's strategic intentions, but Xibaipo is still busy.

On this day, Zhou Enlai held a telegram in his hand and said: "Chairman, Mr. Zhu, 'Dongye' just called. Lin Biao and the three columns of 'Dongye' guards have already entered the customs from Shanhaiguan." Zhu De said: "They walked through Shanhaiguan, but they exposed the secret of our army's offensive." Chairman Mao pondered, he did not understand why Lin Biao did not follow the instructions of the Central Military Commission. The last thing Guo Jingyun wanted was to be trapped in Xinbao. Xinbaoan is located on the railway line between Shacheng (Huailai) and Xiahuayuan. Battleground.Although Xinbao Town is small, its walls are very strong. The entire surface layer is made of blue bricks, and the inner upper layer is thicker. The city wall is about 9 meters high and the top is 3 meters wide. There are fortifications built by the enemy everywhere on it, so that they can concentrate their firepower. .

Xinbaoan has three gates in the east, west and south. In order to resist foreign invasion, there has been no north gate. The city is a cross street running from east to west and from north to south. The most prominent building of Xinbao is a bell tower located in the center of the city, which is also the commanding height of the whole city. There is a plaque on the bell tower with the words "Lock and key important place" written on it, which shows the importance of its geographical location. It is located in a compound in the northwest corner of the city not far from the Drum Tower.

On the day when he was trapped by the new security guards, Guo Jingyun led his men to the commanding heights of the city. At this time, he was still so arrogant.In order to stabilize the emotions of his subordinates, he boasted: "Our 35th Army grew up eating steel and iron, and defending the city is our housekeeping skill. When Zhifeng and Yan Xishan fought against Feng Yuxiang, we defended the sky. Zhen, we defended Zhuozhou during the Northern Expedition, Taiyuan during the Anti-Japanese War, and Guisui and Baotou during the bandit suppression. Except for Taiyuan, we have won every time. Now it is nothing to defend a new security guard! , the place name Xinbaoan is very auspicious to us. I am from Chang'an, my son is Guo Yongan, and now I come to Xinbaoan. Changan, Yongan, and Baoan are three "an". The Fifteenth Army will return to Peiping safely within three days."

At this time, Guo Jingyun was still so complacent, he only thought that the new security guard was a passing place, and he would not wait to die here.But his subordinates were all emotionally unstable. They only felt that the Thirty-fifth Army had got into the big fishing net of the Communist Army, and they were just waiting for when the Communist Army would come to collect the net.Guo Jingyun didn't have these thoughts in his mind yet. For two days in a row, Guo Jingyun led his troops to break through, but they all failed. At this time, Guo Jingyun began to waver, and he was a little at a loss. Could it be that the famous ace army of the 35th Army is really a shackle?

At this moment, he thought of Beiping and asked Fu Zuoyi for help.He understood that Fu Zuoyi would definitely not abandon the 35th Army that he started, and Fu Zuoyi would try to save him with nothing but the more than 400 "Daoji" vehicles.Sure enough, Fu Zuoyi urgently ordered An Chunshan to lead the 104th Army to respond. An Chunshan received the order, although he realized that this mission would be fatal, maybe he would be finished too. But he was more thinking of the trust of Commander-in-Chief Fu when he was in danger.So he started preparing without stopping.He immediately decided to let the deputy army commander Wang Fazi lead the two divisions to send troops to the new security.

Wang Fazi and Guo Jingyun agreed that the 104th Army would launch an attack at dawn the next day, attacking Maquanzi in the southeast of Xinbaoan, the 35th Army would go out of the city to fight together, and then the two armies would join forces at Maquanzi and return to Peiping. At dawn the next day, Wang Fazi concentrated the forces of 4 regiments, and under the cover of 12 aircraft, they bombarded the designated target fiercely. Leaving corpses all over the mountains and plains, but finally fell due to being outnumbered. When Wang Fazi came to the horse circle, he hurriedly called to Guo Jingyun to let him break through, but Guo Jingyun, the "general of ever victorious", was either putting on airs or misunderstood something, unwilling or afraid to take a step out of the city, insisting that the 104th Army enter the city pick him up.

Just as these two troops were arguing with each other when you asked me to go out of the city to meet them, and I wanted you to enter the city to protect them, the Fourth Column of the Northeast Field Army wiped out another reinforcement of the enemy's Sixteenth Army in Kangzhuang, and occupied Kangzhuang, Bundao, On the front line of Qinglong Bridge, the enemy's 104th Army was surrounded. At 16:00 on the 10th, the enemy's 104th Army broke through and fled south, and was pursued by our Fourth and Eleventh Columns. At 23:00 on the same day, the Fourth Column and the Eleventh Column seized the rear of the enemy's 27th Division, and the vanguard inserted into the enemy's headquarters, disrupting the enemy's command system.At this time, the enemy had scattered all over the mountain and was defeated.

On the morning of the 11th, most of the 104th Army was wiped out.An Chunshan, the commander of the 104th Army, secretly changed into a soldier uniform the night before. After being captured, he lied that he had an 80-year-old mother who needed to be taken care of, and was released.On the same day, he returned to the headquarters of the "Suppression General" in North China to report the funeral to Fu Zuoyi. At this time, the Pingsui line was completely cut off, the enemy's 35th Army had no troops to assist in the west, and was unable to attack from the east. Xinbaoan became an isolated island, and the 35th Army fell into a desperate situation.

After failing to break through several times in a row, Guo Jingyun's face began to look depressed, and his temper became more and more irritable. At this time, he received a telegram from Fu Zuoyi: "Retreat lightly." Therefore, he destroyed all the weapons that should be destroyed, such as mortars and 105 howitzers, radio stations and cars, and all important documents that could not be taken away were burned on the spot. After he had made all these preparations, he fell into a state of satisfaction: leaving an empty city for the communist army. When preparing to break through, Fu Zuoyi's telegram came again: "Breakout is not easy, we should stick to it and wait for help." He also promised to send planes to provide material and ammunition support.

Guo Jingyun was completely confused, he left for a while and stayed for a while. He didn't know what Mr. Fu was trying to sell at this time, but there must be his special reason!Just follow orders, I hope God will bless the 35th Army! He prayed silently in his heart. Therefore, he forced the soldiers to repair the fortifications, and built shelters everywhere; outside the city, obstacles such as outer moats, bunkers, and deer rocks were built.At this time, the walls of Xinbaoan City were covered with bunkers and foxholes. There were gun holes at the waist of the city, and there were bunkers connected to the city at the foot of the city. The moat alone was a trench 5 feet to 8 feet deep and 1 foot wide. After finishing the fortifications, Guo Jingyun was in a great mood. He didn't believe that he could not defend for a month with such a strong barrier. He wanted to let the communist army understand how powerful his "ace" army was. The plane sent by Fu Zuoyi from Beiping also arrived to transport a large amount of food and ammunition to Xinbao, but I don't know if the plane has no eyes, or Xinbao is too small for airdrops. He, Guo Jingyun, gave everything to the communist army instead, and Guo Jingyun was so angry that he scolded his mother. However, Guo Jingyun has his own way, if there is no food, he will grab it from the homes of ordinary people in Xin'an City. In order not to go too far, he would stuff some gold coupons into the hands of these fellow villagers. Although the fellow villagers knew that these gold coupons were useless at this time, they could only eat Huanglian dumbly. Guo Jingyun lived in the city day after day, like an ant on a hot pot, unable to get out, and the communist army did not beat him. Letters of persuasion and some propaganda materials kept floating into the city, and the troops were demoralized. At this time, the North China Field Army outside the city and the city formed two completely different atmospheres. The cadres and soldiers worked together to repair the fortifications and conduct siege training. In the cold winter outside the Great Wall, the northwest wind is often blowing, the sky is covered with heavy snow, and the ground is frozen to a depth of more than 1 meter.The soldiers rushed to repair the fortifications, and there were many difficulties. They couldn't dig a hole the size of an egg with a single pick. Living in the wilderness, sometimes I would eat a mouthful of snow when I was very hungry. Just like this, I could dig two or three feet of frozen soil in an hour.In this way, after only a few days, the traffic trenches that can walk two people side by side formed a traffic network, and some were even hollowed out from under the railway and dug all the way to the bottom of the city wall.In addition to building fortifications, the soldiers also stepped up their combat readiness training. On the more than 30-mile defense line around the new security guards, the cadres and soldiers worked in full swing. Coffins and large cabinets for explosives, ladders and three-ring ropes for climbing the city, explosive racks for blasting, and blasting barrels were all prepared in piles.They deliberately expose the target, lure the enemy to expose the firepower, and provide a basis for future artillery fire. All the cadres and soldiers were eager to try, just waiting for the order to start the general offensive. They all wished to break into the new security immediately, capture Guo Jingyun, complete the task assigned to them by the Central Committee of the North China Field Army, and write a more glorious page for the history of the North China Field Army. On December 21, 1948, the Chinese People's Liberation Army completed the task of dividing and encircling the enemy's independent strongholds in Beiping, Tianjin, Tanggu, Xinbaoan, and Zhangjiakou, and cut off the way for the Pinglu defending enemy to flee south by sea, and began the Pingjin Campaign The second stage of the battle, that is, to annihilate the enemy one by one, kicked off the prelude to the Battle of Pingjin. According to the current situation, the Central Military Commission personally issued the combat order of "strike at the two ends first, and then take the middle". The Central Military Commission decided to order the Second Corps led by Yang Dezhi, Luo Ruiqing, and Geng Biao to take on the task of attacking and annihilating Xinbaoan.At the same time, in order to prevent the Zhangjiakou enemy from escaping, it was decided that the Three Corps led by Commander Yang Chengwu would be the enemy to prevent Zhangjiakou from fleeing west. In the early morning of the 21st, Yang, Luo, and Geng observed the battlefield again from the newly opened command post. Through the binoculars, they could clearly see the enemy in the new security city.At this time, I was looking up at the sky, eagerly looking forward to the plane that dropped supplies, but I didn't realize my fate.Our position outside the city seems to be as calm as water, but under this solidified calm, 100,000 soldiers of the Second Corps are lurking. In a circle of traffic trenches only 50 meters away from the root of the city, countless pairs of eyes are watching every person on the city wall. perforation.Circle after circle of these traffic trenches formed a dense spider web on the military map.In addition, there is a 500-mile-long telephone network around the new security guards, which can connect to each company's position.Seeing all this, Luo Ruiqing could no longer restrain the excitement in his heart, and said with emotion: "It has been nearly a month since we left the Bauhinia Pass in the north, and Chairman Mao directed us to finally cook this meal." According to the combat deployment, the four verticals mainly attack the southeast of the city, and the three verticals and eight verticals attack the south gate, west gate and northwest respectively. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon on the 21st, the Corps ordered all ministries: Clear the perimeter and open the channels on the front of their respective attacks! The soldiers who climbed the ice and lay on the snow for 12 days and nights had already exhausted their energy and sent all the deer villages, barbed wire fences, and bunkers that Guo Jingyun set up outside the city to the sky.At midnight, the assault troops entered the starting position of the attack, and the 35th Army was completely compressed in the city, becoming a veritable turtle in an urn. At 7 o'clock in the morning on the 22nd, Geng Biao asked the phone to be in the "command broadcast" state, and handed it to Commander Yang Dezhi, asking him to issue combat orders.Commander Yang looked at his watch, rolled up his sleeves, and started calling. "Comrade Zeng Siyu!" "Commander Yang, I'm at the Majiatai Command Post. Everything is ready for the Four Columns." "Comrade Zheng Weishan!" "Three verticals are waiting for orders!" "Comrade Qiu Wei!." "Ba Zong is on standby to go out." Team Yang Dezhi stood up from his seat, and the horseshoe watch seemed to speed up the rhythm suddenly, beating so excitedly... At 7:10, Yang Dezhi's very strong Hunan dialect rang on the phone: "The general offensive has begun!" Then, he hung up the phone with an extremely forceful "click". The place where Commander Yang Dezhi hung up the phone was like a detonator. In an instant, the first shells of many cannons flew out of the barrels at the same time, and hit the city wall of the new security almost simultaneously. Three signal flares drew a green arc in the gray sky and floated leisurely over Xinbaoan.The shells poured accurately on the castle, raising a column of smoke to the sky.The castle gradually sank downward in the cloud of smoke. After an entire hour of shelling, the new security city wall was peeled off, topped off, and penetrated layer by layer, revealing large "V"-shaped openings.In the thick smoke, the red flags of the blasting teams in the east of the city began to fly, and the continuous blasting once again set off a column of smoke, turning the city wall into a pile of ruins.In the southeast of the 9-meter-high new security wall, a gap was first blasted. Commanding the attack to the southeast of the city was Zeng Siyu, commander of the Four Columns.A person under the age of 40, for some reason, within a few days, the "black hair" on his head was replaced with "white hair". Everyone looked carefully, and it turned out that the frost that had set in winter made his "black" hair all over his head. Hair becomes "white". He was very worried about attacking the new security guard.The thought that had been pent up in his heart for several days finally came out: "It is impossible to build new security without artillery. Right now, there is no arsenal, and even if there is, it is too late to build it now. Let's use local materials and build a heavy artillery unit." He spoke very easily and excitedly, but everyone was confused by what he said. Even political commissar Wang Zhao didn't know what his heavy artillery unit was? Where did the "heavy artillery unit" come from?Everyone asked in unison. Commander Zeng Siyu smiled mysteriously. It turned out that he wanted to gather the mortar companies of each regiment in the column, organize them into battalions and regiments, and distribute several mountain artillery pieces. He fully concentrated his combat experience on the ingenuity in front of him: that is, if the artillery shells "single-handed" of each family are combined for general use, wouldn't they become a "heavy artillery force"?This single force was originally an old-fashioned mortar captured from the Kuomintang army. This unique "heavy artillery unit" beat the enemy's 35th Army into a dizzy state. They didn't know what new weapons came, and they screamed and screamed.In this way, relying on this so-called "new weapon", the East City Gate was blasted open. My thirty-three regiment took advantage of the thick smoke and rushed towards the east gate. Defending the east gate of the city was a regiment of the enemy's 267th Division, headed by Li Shangjiu.Although he gave the death order to block the east gate no matter what, everything seemed to be against him, and our troops still poured into the east gate like a tide. For this reason, Guo Jingyun hated Li Shangjiu to the core. At 9 o'clock, the eight columns in the west and northwest of the city began to attack. Since the west is close to the headquarters of the 35th Army, it is the focus of the enemy's defense, and the enemy's main force, the 101st Division, is responsible for guarding it.Guo Jingyun built a large number of low-level bunkers here, that is, hollowed out the lower part of the city wall to build a hidden firepower point, so it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Due to the lack of reconnaissance of these bunkers in advance, the troops did not go well here.The 22nd Brigade and the 23rd Brigade suffered successive setbacks.Since the eight verticals participated in a tough battle for the first time since their establishment, they were frustrated on the battlefield, which made them very annoyed.The soldiers yelled: "If you die, you have to attack it!" "If you die, you have to go to the city!" They rushed up again and again.The 68th Regiment dispatched more than 30 blasting teams in a row, all of whom were attacked by hidden fire as soon as they approached the castle. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Corps adjusted the artillery fire for them again and joined the reserve team. The commanders of the eighth column and the brigade threw off their clothes and rushed to the line of fire to command the battle. Zhang Zhenchuan, Chief of Staff of the 68th Regiment, personally organized firepower, then covered, and then exploded.Xu Xueshun, the deputy squad leader, jumped up, blew the fuse, and held up the "嗤嗤" flaming explosive package and charged at the enemy.The enemy was so frightened that he dropped his machine gun and ran away. Xu Xueshun ran to the edge of the city, threw the explosive package that was about to explode, and rolled into the moat by himself.With a loud noise, together with more than 20 bundles of 50-jin explosive packs delivered earlier, they all detonated. Xu Xueshun was knocked unconscious, and the city wall completely collapsed. Forty minutes later, the 22nd Brigade and the 23rd Brigade boarded the city wall one after another, and then launched intensive firepower to suppress the enemy's counterattack. After receiving the news that the attack on the west and north of the city was blocked, Commander Zheng Weishan decided to organize troops to break through from the south city, and then attack the enemy's back to the northwest to meet the troops attacking the city from the front. He carefully selected a blasting team and organized a blasting attack on the city. 1 time, 2 times, 3 times... Finally, the blasting failed due to the excessive firepower of the enemy. So, he decided to attack the city by climbing ladders.Although some soldiers fell down, more soldiers rushed up. In this way, the three verticals attacked the city from the south and west. Although Guo Jingyun invested in the direct resistance of the special forces, workers, and communications battalions, it was of no avail.The enemy was forced to abandon the walls and retreat into the city. Just when the People's Liberation Army broke through the city wall, Guo Jingyun walked to the command post with unusually heavy steps.At this time, the command post was in a mess.He drew out his pistol, and with a "bang" gunshot, Guo Jingyun took his life in the new security guard. Guo Jingyun, the commander of the "Trump" Army of the Kuomintang, never even dreamed that Xinbaoan would be his burial place.Our People's Liberation Army gave him a humanitarian resettlement, specially bought a coffin, and buried him next to the train station outside the East Gate. In January 1949, in order to promote the peaceful liberation of Peiping, his body was deliberately taken out and handed over to Fu Zuoyi's subordinates. After the troops entered the city gate, they started fierce street fighting with the enemy.As the enemy retreated into the city, all roads and streets were blocked according to the large number of bunkers and fortifications in the city. Now, placed on the street and in a relatively wide field, every car is filled with sand, and shooting bunkers are dug under the car. The new security has become an authentic "fortification city". The street fighting was extremely fierce. The enemy hid in the courtyard and the underground fortifications at the root of the city and continued to resist, while the siege fighters used the method of digging walls and holes, jumping from room to room, interspersed in small groups, and detoured vertically and horizontally, quickly overwhelming the enemy's defenses. The system is broken, and the bayonet fighters are more brave until they defeat the enemy. The people of North China also played a huge role in the New Security Campaign.All the militiamen in front of the support were full of enthusiasm. They braved the dense rain of bullets and frequently shuttled between the positions and the ammunition depots to deliver ammunition to the soldiers who were besieging the city.Seeing that the cotton-padded jackets on the soldiers were burned to pieces, they rushed to take off their cotton-padded jackets and put them on for the soldiers.In the makeshift ambulance, the women in front of the support chewed up the food and fed the seriously wounded people mouth to mouth. At 5:00 p.m., the attacking forces of the third, fourth, and eighth verticals successfully assembled, and dazzling flares flew into the sky. In the Battle of Xinbao, one army headquarters and two entire divisions of the enemy's 35th Army were wiped out, and they captured Wang Leizhen, the deputy commander, Feng Zi, the commander of the 101st Division, Wen Hanmin, the commander of the 26th Division, and more than 8,000 soldiers. officers and soldiers.They seized 400 American trucks, more than 20 small sleeping cars such as "Toyota" and "Gies", and Guo Jingyun's special blue-gray "Chevrolet" car.As for weapons and ammunition, there are countless.Under the command of the Central Military Commission, the North China Second Corps achieved brilliant victories and played the march for the liberation of North China. At 6:00 p.m., Yang, Luo, and Geng sent a telegram to the central government to announce the great victory of Xinbao. Chairman Mao and the Central Military Commission replied: At 18:00 on the 22nd, I learned that it is very comforting to wipe out the enemy of Xinbaoan.I hope you follow the policy of Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, and Su Yu in the Xubeng battle, immediately recruit the largest number of captives into the army, and quickly dissolve them.Ten days of rest and preparation for action. However, the troops only rested for one day, then put on Zhengchen and headed for Peiping. Xibaipo. The atmosphere today seems to be different from the past. After the news of the attack on the new security guards came here, there seemed to be a cheerful and relaxed atmosphere in the air. In Chairman Mao's bedroom, the gas lamp seemed to be particularly bright. Chairman Mao, Vice Chairman Zhou and Boss Zhu all had smiles on their faces. At this time, the soldiers on duty brought the food, and everyone looked at each other.yes!Over the past few days, we have been paying attention to the changes in the battlefield situation, and none of us have had a decent meal.Today there are pickled radishes, peppers, stir-fried cabbage, stewed tofu, and green onion and soy sauce soup.This is Chairman Mao specially invited Zhou Enlai and Zhu De to have a meal, so it changed from the usual three dishes to four dishes and one soup. During the banquet, the three leaders talked and laughed happily.They were all thinking about future campaigns and operational strategies, and the meal turned into their work seminar. Beiping, Fu Zuoyi's residence. For an indescribable amount of time, Fu Zuoyi locked himself in a room.He didn't want anyone to disturb him, so he just sat quietly in his armchair, lowered his head, and said nothing. A single lamp, and the heavy twilight seems to weigh down the house!Fu Zuoyi was still sitting like that, and the people next to him could understand the mood of the commander-in-chief of the "communist suppression" at this time, and no one dared to speak. What happened in front of him was so exciting to him that he couldn't believe it was real.His most beloved troops and generals were wiped out in an instant, thinking about it, he couldn't help crying. If he didn't let the 35th Army go out of Beiping to help Zhangjiakou, if the Communist Army couldn't stop the 35th Army, if An Chunshan succeeded in taking over Guo Jingyun... If, what's the use of it?If I had known this earlier, why bothered to get the drunkards of the communist army to drink!The Communist Army sent the Thirty-Fifth Army out of Beiping to annihilate it. How could he not think of it?He couldn't help sighing sadly: "It was I who killed the 35th Army and Guo Jingyun! I was still led by the nose by the Xibaipo Communist Army. It wasn't my decision-making mistakes. How could there be such a situation?" After the New Security War, the central government did not decide to attack Zhangjiakou immediately, but it had expected that Sun Lanfeng, who was guarding Zhangjiakou, would jump over the wall in a hurry. Therefore, the Third Corps of the North China Field Army that surrounded Zhangjiakou made full preparations for the battle, and the four verticals that entered the northeast coordinated fight. Sure enough, after Xinbao's 35th Army was wiped out, Sun Lanfeng felt that Zhangjiakou was becoming more isolated and hope of receiving help was cut off, so he decided to break out of the siege and flee for his life. He wanted to rush out of Zhangbei first, and then fled westward to Suiyuan. The Three Corps led by Yang Chengwu carefully analyzed the current situation. They carefully analyzed the enemy's situation and believed that it was more likely that they would break through to the west, because the terrain in the west was open, but they did not rule out the possibility of breaking through to the north. There was a road in the north. Through Zhangbei, in October 1946, when the enemy attacked Zhangjiakou, it came from this road. According to the judgment, troops have been deployed to the west and southwest; in the north, there are also troops based on the mountain, ready to block the charge of the enemy group.In addition, Yang Chengwu also led the command post, which was transferred from the south bank of the Dayang River to the West Taiping Mountain. West Taiping Mountain, located in the northwest of Zhangjiakou, faces East Taiping Mountain across the river.Between the East and West Taiping Mountains is a river beach that stretches for more than 10 miles. The river beach starts from Xidianzi and Chaotianwa in the north, and leads to Dajingmen in the south. The road is on the right side of the river bed. That night, Yang Chengwu led all the staff of the command post to stand on the West Taiping Mountain to observe the enemy's situation. It was scratched away, but these generals didn't realize it.They used binoculars to find that the enemy showed signs of breaking out to the north. In addition, there were enemy cavalry in the Dayanghe River, indicating that the enemy was also breaking out to the southwest. It turned out that the enemy was very cunning. After the Xingbao 35th Army was wiped out, they worked out their own plan to break out of the siege: the infantry went out of Dajingmen and headed north; Cover the movement of infantry.But the enemy cavalry was blocked from breaking through, and they were unwilling to sacrifice themselves to cover the infantry, so they simply turned back to Dajingmen.In this way, all the enemies are concentrated in one direction - to break through the Dajingmen to the north. At dawn, countless shells exploded on the positions of the third brigade such as Madianzi and Chaotianwa, and black smoke formed one piece. At this moment, from Dajingmen to the outside, along the river beach and road, there are enemies everywhere.Due to the narrow location here, enemy cavalry, infantry, artillery, camel teams, luggage, and horses crowded into a lump like they were going to a temple fair.The whole army of the enemy has come here.The attacking enemies, led by several Kuomintang flags, were driven by the supervisory team wielding big knives, and rushed towards the position of our third brigade in dense numbers.They want to put all their eggs in one basket and kill a bloody road. In response to the current enemy situation, Yang Chengwu decisively issued an order to encircle and wipe out the enemy. According to his order, the third brigade sticks to the positions of Xidianzi and Chaotianwa.The second column attacked from Huangtuling to Dajingmen, the 3 brigades of the first column were under the command of the sixth column, and the 2 cavalry divisions of Chaharmeng Banner entered Wujiazi, Madiyingzi, Hannuoba, and Dianmenkou , Guangtuba and its southeast area constitute the second and third blocking lines; one brigade of the Northeast Fourth Column is inserted into Chaotianwa and the southeast of Xichaozi, forming a north-south pincer attack with the Sixth Column; the other two brigades and the first and second columns Side by side, attack Zhangjiakou City from the southeast and southwest.Such a tight encirclement can put the enemy in a desperate situation, but it takes time for the troops to reach the designated location, and the headquarters has set 10 o'clock that night. From the order until 10 o'clock in the evening, no matter how fierce the enemy attacks, the third brigade must resist tenaciously and block the enemy in this long and narrow ditch.It can be said that the blocking mission of the third brigade will be related to the victory or defeat of the Zhangjiakou Battle. Commanding the third brigade is Zhang Kaijing, a veteran party member in 1927 who opened up the Jiangbei base during the Anti-Japanese War.He once commanded three companies in Shajiabin to resist the attack of the "Loyalty and National Salvation Army" brilliantly.Destroy enemies several times larger than yourself.At this time, as soon as the artillery fire stopped, the enemy attacked the Xidianzi and Chaotianwa positions of the third brigade with two divisions. Xidianzi is a small village on the left bank of Dagou, six or seven miles north of Dajingmen. There is a road next to the village, which leads directly to Ulan Hada. It is the only way for the enemy to escape to Suiyuan. Crazy to take here. At this time, Heiyaya's enemies rushed towards Xidianzi.Suddenly, artillery fire broke out, beating the enemy dizzy and rolling all over the slope, and the retreating enemy flooded the supervising team like a flood that opened the gate.The soldiers of my Eighth Regiment, One Battalion and One Company cheered happily: "Repulsed, repelled!" The enemy was not reconciled, so they concentrated their forces to counterattack to the north frantically. The first and third battalions of the Eighth Regiment, especially the first company, which were responsible for the blocking mission, would face greater tests. Suddenly, the enemy appeared on the hill on the right side of the company. That hill was condescending and was a blank spot. The enemy suppressed the company with crazy firepower there. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the enemies who fell down just now rushed up in a swarm.At this moment, all the soldiers of the company dropped their bombs bravely. The dense grenades exploded in the enemy group, and the hillside was covered with enemy corpses.But the whole company didn't have many bullets and grenades. They waited motionless on the position. The enemy was only six or seven meters away from them. The enemy officer shouted: "There is no one inside, go!" As soon as the company commander shot the gun, the guy fell down, and the other enemies rushed for their lives and broke up. After repeated fighting, Xidianzi was temporarily occupied by the enemy because the enemy was outnumbered. The enemy used 2 divisions of heavy troops to attack frantically for 8 hours, only occupying Xidianzi Village.The enemy never dared to fight at night, and as the day ended, they all retreated. At this time, there was a sudden burst of gunfire in Zhangjiakou City.The first and second columns of the Three Corps and the Fourth Northeast Column have successfully completed their missions, rushed into Zhangjiakou, took advantage of the victory to chase the enemy out of Dajingmen, cut the enemy in half, and captured more than 10,000 enemies. In this way, 50,000 to 60,000 enemies were compressed and surrounded outside the Dajing Gate.In Chaotianwa and Xidianzi 20 li long narrow ditch.Enemy vehicles and horses scrambled for their lives, cavalry knocked down infantry, carts overturned into the crowd, a row of cars that could not be taken away were burned, flames shot up into the sky, people shouted and horses neighed, and there was a mess. Although the enemy is still rushing from east to west, struggling desperately, but due to the chaotic organizational system, they have lost their combat effectiveness. At this time, General Yang Chengwu was standing on the West Taiping Mountain.Before you know it, night has fallen, and the outlines of mountains, forest belts, villages, rivers and other scenery become more and more blurred, and finally merge into one.The heavy snow that fell in the sky soon turned the sky and the earth into white, and also shrouded Commander Yang Chengwu's whole body in snow mist. On December 12, the Chinese People's Liberation Army launched a full-scale encirclement and annihilation campaign against the enemy, and various troops entered the enemy group one after another, fighting vertically and horizontally.From Dajingmen to Xidianzi, there are enemy cavalry and infantry everywhere.There were too many cavalry, and the chaos became a mess. The horses rushed around, blocking the enemy's own escape route, and the enemy was quickly divided into countless small pieces.Due to the bravery of the People's Liberation Army in combat, the enemy is at the end of its strength. Therefore, wherever the enemy flees, the People's Liberation Army will pursue them. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the battle to encircle and annihilate Zhangjiakou ended successfully. The Battle of Zhangjiakou wiped out 5 divisions and 2 cavalry brigades of the enemy's 11th Corps.The Xinhua News Agency telegraphed on the Pingjin Front on January 3 that: Annihilate the headquarters of the 11th Corps of the enemy's regular army, the 258th Division of the 104th Army, and all of the 5th Cavalry Brigade and the 11th Cavalry Brigade.Annihilate the Chahar Security Command of the irregular army and all of the fourth and fifth security brigades under it.A total of 54,000 enemies were wiped out, including 50,000 prisoners. There were 13 general-level officers captured by the enemy, including Lieutenant-General Yuan Qingrong. Dajingmen has become a witness of history. This is a pass of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. The four characters "Dahao Heshan" written by Gao Weiyue, the governor of Chahar in the Qing Dynasty, are hung on the gate.Because of the dangerous terrain here, it has always been a battleground for military strategists. After the "September 18th" Incident, the Communist Party member Ji Hongchang led the anti-Japanese athletes out of Dajingmen to march northward, fought bloody battles, regained Duolun and other lost territories, and drove the Japanese invaders out of the whole of Chahar. On August 24, 1945, the People's Liberation Army entered the city from Dajingmen, recovered Zhangjiakou, and wiped out the Japanese troops entrenched in the ancient city. In October 1948, under the mad power of Chiang Kai-shek, the People's Liberation Army endured humiliation and left Dajingmen with tears in their eyes.At that time, everyone swore: "Zhangjiakou, we must come back!" Today, history has finally made a just verdict, "Great Rivers and Mountains" has returned to the hands of the people, and Zhangjiakou has returned to the hands of the people. In the middle of the night on December 24, a telegram flew to the Second and Third North China Corps with congratulations from Chairman Mao of the Central Military Commission. "North China Second and Third Corps: Congratulations on your great victory in annihilating Xinbaoan and Zhangjiakou within a few days and regaining Zhangjiakou." This congratulatory message is not only a congratulation to the Second and Third North China Corps, but also a reward from the central government for their successful elimination of the enemies of Xinbaoan and Zhangjiakou. Although Yuan Qingrong, who was captured in this battle, resisted stubbornly at the beginning, killed and wounded the signal soldiers who were chasing him, and pretended to be an ordinary company commander, he received preferential treatment and was personally received by Yang Chengwu, Yang Dezhi, and Luo Ruiqing. He had a sincere talk, which made him give up his anti-communist stance.Later, Fu Zuoyi requested to be released, and was assigned to a certain tank army as the deputy commander, making due contributions to the army building. Sun Lanfeng, commander of the 11th Corps, led a small number of guards and fled to Shangdu. The victory of Xinbaoan and Zhangjiakou battles dealt a heavy blow to Beiping Fu Zuoyi. He not only lost his ace troops, but also cut off his way to escape westward.Although it was impossible to escape westward, they still had the possibility of joining the Tianjin troops and fleeing southward along the Jinpu and Pinghan railways.In addition, the possibility of Jiang Jun's escape by sea in Tanggu still exists. Therefore, the central government decided: the next move is to encircle and wipe out the enemies in Tianjin and Tang, control Haikou, cut off and close the retreat route of Jiang's army, and further isolate Beiping. The central government originally planned to attack and annihilate the Tanggu defenders first, but because the back of Tanggu is close to the sea, the terrain is open, there are many rivers and salt fields, and it does not freeze in winter. The headquarters was set up on a warship, ready to escape at any time, and had little impact on the battle. Therefore, the central government changed its planned plan and concentrated its forces. First, Tianjin was dealt with, and only a part of the troops were used to monitor Tanggu. After Mao Zedong agreed to delay the attack on Tanggu, he drafted a third telegram overnight and sent it to Lin Biao.Put forward the following opinions: "First, in addition to transferring the Northeast Fourth Column from Zhangjiakou to Beiping, please consider whether the troops are sufficient. If not, you should transfer Yang Chengwu's department or even Yang Dezhi's department to participate in the Pingjin operation..." After Mao Zedong drafted this telegram, he still felt uncomfortable. What if Lin Biao couldn't stop it? Therefore, Mao Zedong wrote a telegram to Nie Rongzhen and Bo Yibo of the North China Military Region, asking them to organize troops in the military region and send troops to cooperate with the main force of the field army to wipe out the enemies who might break out of Pingjin and flee south.He felt that Taiyuan was much lighter than Pingjin, so he simply transferred most of Xu Xiangqian to eat Fu Zuoyi first.In his telegram to Xu Xiangqian and Zhou Shidi, he wrote: "You are going to lead the three columns of the First North China Corps to Shijiazhuang in a five-day journey to block and defeat the enemy who fled south of Tianjin, so that the Northeast Field Army can rush to gather and annihilate them. This is just a preparation for a possible situation and may not be implemented, but you should be prepared for it." On the morning of December 28, Lin Biao called the Central Military Commission: "For the sake of prudence, it is better for our two Yang Corps to move to the vicinity of Peiping, so that there will be more strength. Sufficient strength to remedy." 毛泽东见电后十分高兴，改变了5天前对两杨兵团下达的一取大同、归绥、二取后套，三取宁夏的命令，令二、三兵团参加平津会战，归林彪统一指挥。 这时，华北二兵团和三兵团在休整中，依照中央军委改编命令，开始使用新的番号，原华北第二兵团改称第十九兵团，原第三兵团改称第二十兵团，原一兵团改称第十八兵团。 根据平津指挥部的命令，三兵团（二十兵团）由张家口地区出发向北平孙河镇地区集结，二兵团（十九兵团）由新保安地区向北平沙河镇集结。 平津战役的大幕至此完全拉开，我华北军区野战军不但为战役的创造立下大功，又主动地配合东北野战军直至最终全歼华北敌军。