Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen Start from the beginning, Duoxin Security takes Zhangjiakou

Fu Zuoyi ordered the 35th Army to wait for help in Xinbaoan.Guo Jingyun claims to have a fine tradition of defending the city, and has never shown weakness in Tianjin, Zhuozhou, Taiyuan, or Baotou.It wouldn't be a big problem to have a new guard now.Yang Dezhi first behaves first and then fights. If this Guo Mazi is stubborn, he will fight with real swords and guns!The People's Liberation Army flooded in with eight new security guards. Guo Jingyun pulled out his pistol and turned it to his own head. By December 20, 1948, the Kuomintang army in North China had been driven into five isolated cities by the People's Liberation Army.

The situation is as gratifying as the autumn field, and the time for harvest has come. As early as when the People's Liberation Army was mobilized and besieged Fu Zuoyi's troops one by one, Mao Zedong and the Central Military Commission had already planned the order of attacks to wipe out each one: Tanggu and Lutai were the first, Xinbaoan was the second, Tangshan was the third, and Tangshan was the third. The fourth is Tianjin, Zhangjiakou, and finally Beiping. But plans don't always change fast.The 87th army defending the enemy in Tangshan abandoned the city and retreated to Tanggu, and the 86th army defending the Lutai army quickly fled to Tianjin. These situations were obviously not expected by Mao Zedong when he started planning.Therefore, the current situation has become like this: there are more than 50,000 enemy troops in Zhangjiakou, and the Yang Chengwu Corps of the North China Field Army surrounds them with more than 80,000 people in 8 brigades. It is relatively difficult to wipe out the enemy quickly.The 35th Army, the enemy of Xinbao, has about 16,000 people in two divisions, and is surrounded by about 90,000 troops in three columns of the Yang Dezhi Corps of the North China Field Army. Our army has an absolute advantage.Moreover, the 35th Army is Fu Zuoyi's most elite trump card army. The complete annihilation of the 35th Army will be a huge military and spiritual blow to Fu Zuoyi.Tianjin has about 130,000 defenders, and Beiping has about 250,000 defenders. They are the two major cities with the largest and most concentrated enemy forces, and they should be put at the end to concentrate their forces to deal with them.Tanggu is the enemy's exit to the sea, and there are more than 50,000 defenders. Seizing Tanggu will completely close the enemy's retreat in North China, and it must be captured.Therefore, Mao Zedong repeatedly instructed: "As long as Tanggu and Xinbao are conquered, the overall situation will survive." According to this situation, after the Northeast Field Army completed the division and encirclement of Ping, Tianjin, and Tang, Mao Zedong and the Central Military Commission decided to implement "strike first." The two ends, then take the center" method, first start with the new security guards in the west, and finally deal with the enemies of Pingjin.

Xinbaoan is a castle with only a thousand families on the Pingzhang Highway. It is located between Xiahuayuan and Shacheng.It is the former town of Zhangjiakou and the back of Beiping City. It is known as the "Land of Locks and Keys". It is said that this castle was set up in the Ming Dynasty as a support point from Xuanhua to Huailai to fight against Mongolian cavalry.It covers an area of ​​about 1 square kilometer and is surrounded by a city wall. The wall is 12 meters high and the top is 6 meters wide.The Bell and Drum Tower in the center of the cross street in the city is the commanding height of the whole city.Out of the need to prevent the Mongolian cavalry from the north from going south, Xinbao has never had a north gate.

Of course, Xinbaoan was not originally called Xinbaoan, and the name Xinbaoan was only used in the Qing Dynasty.When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, Cixi fled in a hurry and settled here.The old empress traveled all the way, day and night, already dizzy with hunger. When they arrived here, the eunuchs looked for food everywhere, and finally found a bowl of gruel in a nearby house, and after holding it to the old empress, Cixi felt a little more at ease, so a If you are happy, you will name the place Xinbaoan. Now, Guo Jingyun's 35th Army is being besieged in this new security that once made Cixi feel a little more secure.Although he had broken through several times, he was always knocked back to his original place by Yang Dezhi's troops.With no hope of breaking through, Guo Jingyun changed his strategy helplessly. He ordered his men to build fortifications in the city day and night in an attempt to stand firm and wait for help.

Fu Zuoyi was thinking about his "trump army" and was so anxious that he went to the house, but he had no choice but to send a telegram to Guo Jingyun: "Encourage the officers and soldiers to carry forward the fine tradition of guarding Zhuozhou and Guisui, and stick to it to wait for the current situation. Change!" At the same time, planes were continuously sent to drop food and ammunition to support the 35th Army. In order to rescue his "ace army", Fu Zuoyi dispatched almost all available aircraft in Beiping City, either to help the 35th Army in combat, or to deliver grain bombs to the new security guards.However, the plane that delivered the food bomb was afraid of being shot down and did not dare to fly at a very low altitude, so it had to drop it at a high altitude.

In this cold winter, the north wind howled, and most of the food and ammunition dropped by air were blown to the positions of the People's Liberation Army.The officers and soldiers of the 35th Army in Xinbaoan City looked at the planes shuttling in the sky and watched the airborne items fall on the PLA positions, and they couldn't help feeling bitter. In order to encourage his subordinates, Guo Jingyun summoned cadres above the battalion to lecture: "Our 35th Army has a fine tradition of defending the city. When we fought against Feng Yuxiang, we guarded Tianjin; during the Northern Expedition, we guarded Zhuozhou; during the War of Resistance Against Japan, we guarded Taiyuan ;During the war against communism, we defended Baotou in Suiyuan. We have never shown weakness in these city defense battles. Now guarding a new security guard will not be a big problem!"

The more Guo Jingyun talked, the more complacent he became: "Today we guard Xinbao, which is different from the previous few times. The city we are guarding now has an auspicious name. I am from Chang'an, and my son is Yong'an. Chang'an, Yong'an, Bao'an, relying on these three, can guarantee that our 35th Army can return to Peiping safely!" Stand by!Under Guo Jingyun's repeated instigation, the 35th Army finally made a final decision.They rushed to work day and night, building street warfare fortifications, using hundreds of cars as fortifications, blocking the streets and alleys, and repairing the Bell and Drum Tower in the center of the city as a defense and command center. Outer trenches and bunkers.

Guo Jingyun divided the north-south line of Xinbao into two defense zones, east and west.The military headquarters is located near the Bell and Drum Tower.Artillery positions are deployed in the West Defense Zone.In order to allow all ministries to work together to defend, Guo Jingyun also established a new security defense command, with the two division commanders of the 101st Division and the 267th Division serving as the chief and deputy defense commanders. December is the season when the weather is cold and windy, and the temperature in the Xinbaoan area has dropped to -30°C at the lowest point, and the dripping water turns into ice.The 35th Army trapped in the city saw that there was no hope of escape, and all of them trembled in their hearts.However, the soldiers of Yang Dezhi's 2nd Corps, who were surrounded outside the city, were in the ice and snow every day, building fortifications and training on the battlefield at the same time, and their emotions were boiling.

A burst of slogans shook the Kuomintang army flag on the city wall: "Two and a half years of hard work, revenge and meritorious deeds are today, kill Fu Jun's lifeblood, and capture Guo Jingyun alive." While pretending not to care, he cursed a few times in front of his subordinates, while secretly beating drums in his heart.He himself has felt that the end is approaching quietly, but he is not willing to obey fate so obediently, he still has to struggle and fight. In order to let Guo Jingyun's "ace army" go out of history as soon as possible, Yang Dezhi ordered all the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Corps to overcome the difficulties of the freezing weather and dig cobweb-like trenches and traffic ditches around the new security at the fastest speed.The eighth column worked hard, and the total length of the traffic trenches dug by itself reached more than 20 kilometers. The third and fourth columns even dug the traffic trenches to a place only a few meters away from the front of the position.

Doomsday is approaching the 35th Army.A careful siege plan has been formed. Yang Dezhi ordered the main force of the third column to prepare to attack eastward from the Xinzhuang area in the southwest of Xinbaoan. Break through; the main force of the fourth column attacks westward from the east of Xinbaoan and the Shangxiabali and Zaokou areas in the northeast. The area is the siege reserve team and prevents the 35th Army from breaking through to the east; the main force of the eighth column attacks the northwest corner of Xinbaoan from the Jimingyi area in the northwest. Everything is arranged.Yang Dezhi, Luo Ruiqing, and Geng Biao reported to Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Liu Yalou on December 19 that all preparations for our corps' attack and annihilation of the 35th Army of the New Security Guard had been completed.

"Okay!" Lin Biao replied succinctly, "You can persuade Guo Jingyun to surrender in advance." On the same day, the People's Liberation Army's emergency letter of persuasion to surrender was also sent to Xinbaoan City. The 35th Army had already begun to turmoil, and some Kuomintang soldiers quietly climbed down from the top of the city to surrender to the People's Liberation Army.But Guo Jingyun looked blankly. He looked at a persuasion letter: "Commander Guo Jingyun and all the officers and soldiers of the 35th Army: You are surrounded in the isolated city of Xinbaoan. You are short of food and ammunition, and there is no hope of reinforcements. You are completely desperate and waiting to be wiped out. The fate of Fu Zuoyi is gone. Nankou, Tongxian, Shahe, Liangxiang, Lugouqiao, Fengtai, Mentougou, Shijingshan, Nanyuan, Langfang, Tangshan and other military and economic important places have been lost. The 104th Army and the 16th Army were mostly wiped out between Huailai and Kangzhuang, and the 105th Army was also surrounded by me in Zhangjiakou. Just like you, they could not escape. Since Fu Zuoyi could not save the 104th Army, 16th Army and 105th Army , how can we save you? Since we can’t protect Beiping and Tianjin, how can we save Xinbaoan and Zhangjiakou? Therefore, don’t think about any reinforcements. Didn’t you fall into a tight siege just because of the reinforcements in Zhangjiakou? The 104th Army and the 16th Army Wasn’t it just because you were reinforced that you were wiped out? Don’t even think about getting out of the siege by chance. Our army surrounds you like an iron barrel, and the People’s Liberation Army is everywhere along the way from Beiping in the east to Zhangjiakou in the west. Wings, even if you have wings, you can’t fly out. Don’t imagine that the fortifications you have built can hold fast. May I ask how the fortifications of Xinbao are compared with the fortifications in Shijiazhuang, Linfen, Baoding and other places? Not to mention Jinan, Jinzhou, Changchun, Shenyang, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Xuzhou, etc. The overwhelming firepower of our army, as long as we concentrate on bombarding you for a few hours or a little longer, your entire army will be wiped out immediately. For the sake of caring about the more than 20,000 of you and not making unnecessary sacrifices, our army makes a special suggestion to you: immediately surrender to our army, follow the example of Changchun Zheng Dongguo and the New 7th Army, our army should guarantee the safety of all your officers and soldiers and keep you with you Bringing property will not be confiscated. What our army asks of you, as long as you do not destroy weapons, cars, all military assets, and all documents, etc. when you surrender. If you dare to refuse this advice of our army, our army will give you Launch an attack and wipe out all of you quickly and cleanly. Those who know the current affairs are heroes. At this critical juncture, I understand that there are many smart people among you. Time will not wait for you too much, so make a quick decision on where to go. Accept the suggestion of our army if you wish , Immediately send responsible representatives out of the city to negotiate with the army headquarters.” "I'm going to fight until I die, and I have no chance of surrendering!" Guo Jingyun angrily crumpled up the letter of persuasion, threw it to the ground, stepped on it and stomped on it a few times. The only way to survive was blocked by Guo Jingyun, and the end of the 35th Army came. "We are going to fight first and then fight!" Yang Dezhi said, "Since this Guo Mazi is stubborn, let's fight with real swords and guns!" At 16:00 on the 21st, the sky gradually dimmed. The three columns of the Second North China Corps, together with an artillery regiment of the Fourth Column of the Northeast Field Army who came to support, began to attack Xinbao under the unified order of Yang Dezhi. Guns rang out all night, and there was no sign of the 35th Army in the outer positions of the new security guards. At 7:10 am on the 22nd, the sun rose brilliantly from the east, and Yang Dezhi gave the order for a general offensive.The signal flare drew several green arcs in the cold winter sky, floating leisurely over the new security guard. Immediately, 156 cannons of the People's Liberation Army fired from Xinbaoan Dongguan to the city, and the shells fell like raindrops on the position with a radius of about 100 meters.The city walls, fortifications, houses, and wherever the shells went, they all set off bursts of smoke and dust, and the frozen land was already shaken. An hour later, the fortress on the new security wall was destroyed, the firepower point was smashed, and a gap was blasted in the city wall. At about 9 o'clock, the North China Four Columns first entered the city from the gap opened by the artillery fire in the southeast, and then the east gate of the new security guard was also blasted, and another PLA soldier rushed in, and the fiery red battle flag fluttered in the billowing smoke. towards the city center. Now that the breakthrough has been consolidated, the artillery units of the People's Liberation Army immediately adjusted the attack target to the target in the city. The barricades of the 35th Army and the cars filled with sand were blown up and flew around, the smoke rose into the sky, and the flames of war filled the air.The follow-up offensive troops of the People's Liberation Army were like an irresistible torrent, pouring into the city continuously, bravely interspersed, dividing the enemy piece by piece, and eating them one by one. Seeing that the new security guard was about to collapse, Guo Jingyun was furious.The day before, he sent an urgent telegram to the North China Headquarters requesting reinforcements of artillery shells, and sent planes to assist in the battle. At that time, the headquarters replied briskly: "Send ten planes to help in the battle at 7:00 tomorrow morning, and the other ten tons of ammunition will be transported from Qingdao tomorrow morning." But on the morning of the 22nd, before Guo Jingyun had time to eat breakfast, the PLA's general offensive had already begun.When the artillery bombarded the mountains and the ground shook, Guo Jingyun was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, staring at his watch and shouting to his subordinates: "It's already 7:10, did you hear the sound of an airplane outside?" The subordinates answered truthfully: "No." At 7:20 and 30, Guo Jingyun asked anxiously again, but the plane still did not come.He angrily said to the chief of staff: "You write another telegram to the commander-in-chief, do you still want us?" A telegram was sent, but there was no reply.After 8 o'clock, the planes from Peiping and Qingdao still hadn't arrived. Street fighting was unfolding everywhere, and Guo Jingyun finally gave up hope for the North China Headquarters. Instead, he used the phone to continuously issue orders to the 101st Division and the 267th Division, ordering them to resist desperately.But their positions are still owned piece by piece by the PLA.Although Guo Jingyun roared like thunder, he was helpless. At this time, Wang Leizhen, the deputy commander of the 35th Army, was ill in bed because of typhoid fever.In the afternoon, heavy gunshots from every corner of the city awakened Wang Leizhen from his drowsiness.He saw several guards and wounded soldiers whispering to each other in panic. Knowing the urgency of the situation, he immediately struggled to stand up and asked the soldiers to help him to Guo Jingyun's command post.Seeing him coming in, Guo Jingyun said anxiously, "It would be better if you could come." Wang Leizhen saw that the command post was dead, and Guo Jingyun was helpless, so he immediately called the 101st Division and ordered the division to send a company to arrive immediately. The military department took Guo Jingyun back to the 101st division headquarters. Wang Leizhen dragged his sick body and said to Guo Jingyun: "I have already contacted the 101st Division. You can go there. After all, that division is an old army that you have led for many years. It is more convenient for you to move. The situation is already like this. , Hurry up and find a way to survive yourself, and you don’t care about me, I’m so sick that I can’t walk anymore.” Guo Jingyun was speechless and could only accept it silently.However, all the people sent by the 101st Division were beaten back by the People's Liberation Army. Immediately afterwards, the telephone line was also cut off by the artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army.Guo Jingyun had no choice but to stay in the headquarters and wait for his doomsday. At this time, there were shouts of killing and gunfire in Xinbaoan City. The People's Liberation Army's tide-like attack liberated the positions of the 35th Army one by one. At 16:00, the 101st Division and the 267th Division had all been eliminated. The military headquarters of the 35th Army became the last remaining small Kuomintang army position.Teams of People's Liberation Army troops who arrived successively surrounded Guo Jingyun's small courtyard heavily. The tide has gone!Guo Jingyun sighed to Tianchang, and ordered his subordinates to immediately send the last telegram to the North China headquarters, saying, "The city of Xinbaoan has been broken, and I am determined to die in Xinbaoan." It's a pity that this telegram has not been sent yet. A PLA soldier has already climbed onto the roof of Guo Jingyun's military headquarters, and a shuttle of bullets knocked out the radio antenna. Guo Jingyun turned pale with shock, and shouted like crazy: "Quickly, quickly push the gasoline barrel in and light it, we will die for the country together!" Hearing this order, several subordinates quickly ran to the gasoline barrel in the yard, and kicked the gasoline barrel further away. "You bunch of spineless idiots!" Guo Jingyun immediately pulled out his pistol when he saw that his hope of self-immolation was shattered. He shot the deputy army commander Wang Leizhen first, and then turned to his own head. He yelled in the direction of Beiping: "I, Guo Jingyun, am sorry for you, Commander-in-Chief." Following another gunshot, Guo Jingyun committed suicide. The 35th Army was completely destroyed. When the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army rushed in, they found that Wang Leizhen was not injured at all, but there was an extra hole in his hat.It must be that Guo Jingyun shot the gun crookedly in his haste.After liberating the new security guards, Yang Dezhi specially ordered his subordinates to buy a coffin, buried Guo Jingyun beside the train station outside the east gate, and put a tombstone on it. At 18:00 on the 22nd, Yang Dezhi sent a telegram to the Central Military Commission: "The battle is over, the enemy has been wiped out, and the results of the battle are yet to be investigated. It took 11 hours from the beginning to the end of the general offensive." The Central Military Commission replied: "It is very comforting to wipe out the enemy of Xinbaoan." At dawn on the 23rd, Yang Dezhi, Luo Ruiqing, Geng Biao and others entered the New Security City.They came to Guo Jingyun's command post in Banjie Lane, North Street.Seeing that the 35th Army, the fierce opponent for many years, was wiped out under his own hands, Yang Dezhi's inner excitement was very different from the past.He said emotionally to Luo Ruiqing: "Killing the 35th Army, I feel a little bit like crossing the Dadu River 13 years ago." Luo Ruiqing smiled: "At that time, the enemy was chasing us, but now we are chasing them!" "Yes," Yang Dezhi nodded, "But they only chased us for a year at that time, but we have been chasing the 35th Army for many years." After Fu Zuoyi heard the news of Guo Jingyun's suicide and the collapse of the 35th Army, he suddenly felt dizzy and couldn't hold himself back, so he collapsed on the chair.When he woke up, tears and snot were all over his face. At 17:00 on December 22, 1948, when the soul of the 35th Army broke the new security guard, Fu Zuoyi stretched out his only slightly warm hand to Zhangjiakou.He sent urgent telegrams to Sun Lanfeng, Commander of the 11th Corps, Yuan Qingrong, Commander of the 105th Army, and Dong Qiwu, Deputy Director of the Northwest Military and Political Commissioner's Office: "Guo Jingyun fought fiercely with the communist army all day long, and the communication was interrupted. It must be bad luck, so you must discuss the breakout plan immediately. Withdraw back to Suiyuan before December 23." After the new security guard fell, Zhangjiakou was in a panic. After receiving Fu Zuoyi's telegram, Sun Lanfeng and others immediately convened a meeting to discuss the westward withdrawal plan.Several people argued for many times, and finally decided to break through at dawn on December 23. In comparison, the situation in Zhangjiakou is indeed better than that of Xinbao.There are not only 5 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry brigades of about 56,000 defenders, but also the city defenses are extremely strong.As early as October 1946, when Fu Zuoyi captured Zhangjiakou from the People's Liberation Army, he used it as a base to start building fortifications. In June 1948, in order to prevent the North China Liberation Army from capturing Zhangjiakou, Fu Zuoyi forced more than 20,000 ordinary people to build more than 500 bunkers around Zhangjiakou, and surrounded Zhangjiakou tightly. At the beginning of Zhangjiakou's siege, the 11th Corps of the Kuomintang Army adopted the policy of "field warfare according to the city" and divided the troops in Zhangjiakou into two parts: field troops and city defense troops.The field troops consisted of the 210th and 259th Divisions of the 105th Army, the 258th Division of the 104th Army, and the 5th and 12th Reorganized Cavalry Brigades. It is composed of the 251st Division of the 105th Army, 3 security regiments under the Chahar Provincial Security Command, an independent field artillery battalion, an armored vehicle brigade, and a reconnaissance brigade. Sun Lanfeng, commander of the 11th Corps, once boasted: "The construction of these fortifications and the deployment of personnel are no less than the Great Wall, so that Zhangjiakou is covered with iron armor and cannot be approached within 30 miles." But once the war broke out, the development of the situation was not as originally envisioned.After the new security guard was lost, Fu Zuoyi hurriedly telegraphed Sun Lanfeng: "The incident happened suddenly, and there is no value in guarding Zhangjiakou. While Yang Chengwu's main force is in the east, go west as quickly as possible, and cooperate with Dong Qiwu, there is hope to keep the team." Sun Lanfeng decided: In order to distract the attention of the People's Liberation Army, the infantry should withdraw from Dajingmen, the cavalry would advance from Qili Chafang to Shangdu, and finally retreat to Suiyuan.The entire breakout operation was under the unified command of Yuan Qingrong, commander of the 105th Army. However, neither Fu Zuoyi nor Sun Lanfeng thought that when he was about to withdraw, Yang Chengwu's main force was no longer in the east, but moved to the west.Mao Zedong had already thought of the way out for Sun Lanfeng in Zhangjiakou for Fu Zuoyi when he decided to call in the new security guard.Two days before the attack on Xinbao, the fourth column of the Northeast Field Army was transferred from Huailai and Kangzhuang to the east of Zhangjiakou to replace Yang Chengwu; Yang Chengwu transferred the main force of the 3rd North China Corps to the north and northwest. The trap had been dug, but Sun Lanfeng didn't realize it. At 22:00 on December 22, according to the deployment of the breakout, the 259th Division of the 105th Army of the Kuomintang took the lead in sneaking out of the Dajingmen in the dark night, moving to the northeast, and was immediately hit by the North China First Column of the People's Liberation Army.Gunshots rang out all night. At 4:00 am on the 23rd, the 5th and 11th Reorganized Cavalry Brigades in Zhangjiakou City also began to break out westward, but found that the road ahead was heavily guarded by the People's Liberation Army, so they diverted and flocked to the direction of Dajingmen. At this time, the Zhangjiakou Garrison Headquarters and security forces also rushed to Dajingmen, and more than 50,000 defenders were on the same road, pushing and shoving each other into a mess.From Dajingmen, along the river beach and highway, there are people everywhere.Cavalry, infantry, artillery, camel teams, luggage, and horses, as if rushing to a temple fair, people shouted and neighed, and they were in a mess. At dawn on the 23rd, Yang Chengwu, commander of the 3rd North China Corps, determined that after Zhangjiakou's defenders broke through to the north with all their strength, he immediately issued an order to encircle and wipe out the enemy troops in Zhangjiakou to break through. After the ministries received the order, they set off one after another, and all arrived in the mountainous area north of Zhangjiakou at around 22:00 on the evening of the 23rd. In the north of Zhangjiakou, there are two big mountains, East and West Taiping Mountains. A river beach about 500 meters wide is sandwiched between the two mountains. After exiting Dajingmen, it extends northward to Xidianzi and Chaotianwa, about 10 kilometers long.It was cold winter, and there was a frozen river in the middle of the river beach. There was an old road on the left side of the river bed, leading northward to Zhangbei.This road is the only way for the enemy to escape. Sun Lanfeng's more than 50,000 defenders thought that the North China First Column's troops were unable to stop it, so they attacked with artillery fire all the way, and all the way people fled in panic.Yang Chengwu saw that the enemy's army was in a state of disarray, and everyone was scrambling to escape, so he immediately ordered a full-line pursuit. The various units of the People's Liberation Army that arrived one after another rushed out of the mountain area, fighting and chasing him fiercely.In the beginning, all the troops carried out operations according to the original deployment. After chasing after the Dajingmen, it was already dark and it was difficult to fully respond to each other.I had no choice but to chase wherever I heard gunshots, and chase wherever I saw flames.The organizational system of each unit has been completely disrupted. Everyone has only one goal, and they will not let go of every enemy that can catch up. The fourth column of the Northeast Field Army had just rushed to Zhangjiakou after four days and nights of rapid march from Huailai. Before they had time to rest, they went into pursuit again.They chased from day to night, and then after midnight, and cut off Sun Lanfeng's troops from the south at the small pass of Taolai Temple.The first row rushed up first. In order to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves, they put on the cotton padded clothes upside down, squeezed in from the chaotic crowd, rushed up to the small hill southwest of the Taolai Temple, set up their machine guns, and fired at the fleeing enemy. Sweeping, the sudden attack frightened the enemy to retreat to the opposite mountain in a hurry. After the enemy understood the situation in front of him, he decided to take back the mountain pass and find a way out. Yuan Qingrong, the commander of the 105th Army, personally commanded, charging with more than 2 battalions each time.From midnight to dawn, the platoon of Sizong fought continuously for 7 hours and repelled 11 enemy charges.The snow on the battlefield had already been melted by the enemy's artillery fire, and the blood and snow mixed together, trickling. By dawn on the 24th, tens of thousands of fleeing enemies were compressed by the People's Liberation Army into the narrow ravine 10 kilometers long and less than 1 kilometer wide between Dajingmen, Chaotianwa and Xidianzi.Infantry, cars, cavalry, artillery, and all kinds of materials filled the passageway, cooking it into a pot of porridge and turning it into a mess.As the sky brightened, the enemy realized that the end was coming, and they rushed for their lives.The cavalry knocked down the infantry, the cars overturned the wagons, the wagons rolled over into the crowd, and there was chaos under the rain of bullets from the high ground on both sides. Sun Lanfeng saw that the army of more than 50,000 people had become like this, so he had to issue the last order: "Each for your life, and you will count as much as you escape." Before he finished speaking, he ran for his life first, and other commanders at all levels also fled before dawn. Yuan Qingrong, commander of the 105th Army, fled to a small hill to the east of Zhangjiakou with his subordinate troops. When he looked down, he saw a cliff.Sun Lanfeng's luck was better, he took a few bodyguards with him, relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he made a detour to the west and escaped with his life. This battle lasted until 15:00 in the afternoon. In addition to liberating Zhangjiakou, the People's Liberation Army also wiped out Sun Lanfeng's 11th Corps, 105th Army, 210th Division, 251st Division, 259th Division, 310th Division, 104th Army's 258th Division, The 5th and 11th Cavalry Brigades and the 4th and 5th Security Regiments were reorganized, with a total of more than 54,000 people. Yuan Qingrong, the commander of the 105th Army, Yang Weiyuan, the deputy commander, and most of the brigade commanders were captured. 410 artillery pieces became the spoils of war for the PLA, but the PLA only suffered more than 900 casualties. The enemies of Xinbaoan and Zhangjiakou were quickly annihilated, the main force of Fu Zuoyi's direct troops in North China was completely lost, and the Pingsui line was completely controlled by the People's Liberation Army. On December 26, "People's Daily" published an editorial, warmly celebrating the liberation of Zhangjiakou.The editorial pointed out that in October 1946, when the People's Liberation Army withdrew from Zhangjiakou, it solemnly declared: "We are concentrating superior forces to destroy the enemy's vital forces. The faster we destroy his vital forces, the faster we can return. We must Come back to reunite with the people of Zhangjiakou, and now I have fulfilled my promise." The recovery of Zhangjiakou and the annihilation of Fu Zuoyi's direct troops, "This is only the beginning of the Battle of Pingjin, and the war to completely wipe out Jiang Fu's army is going on. If Jiang Fu's bandit army in the Pingjin area does not surrender, they will have to wait for all to be wiped out!" Snowflakes are falling, and 1948 is about to pass.For Fu Zuoyi, this year has been a heart-wrenching year.In just a few dozen days at the end of the year, Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, Luanxian, Tangshan, Lutai, Junliangcheng, Gubeikou, Miyun, Huairou, Shunyi, Tongxian, Zhangjiakou, Zhangbei, Wanquan, Huaian, Xuanhua, Zhuo Lu, Xinbao, Huailai, Nankou, Changping, Mentougou, Nanyuan, Fengtai, Wanping, Changxindian, Liangxiang, Fangshan, Zhuoxian, Daxing, Langfang, Wuqing, Anci, Jinghai and countless other cities, They were lost one by one, and now the only remaining troops in Beiping, Tianjin, and Tanggu are still shivering in the cold wind.What's next? Lin Biao's army is gathering around the only three remaining cities day after day. It seems that the time for Pingjin to fall will not be too far away. But he is not reconciled, and he still wants to use the little force in his hand to fight the People's Liberation Army to the death. "Although the cold wind is cold, I am not afraid of severe cold!" Thinking of this, Fu Zuoyi straightened his clothes, stood up, and wandered around the room.