Chapter 17 Chapter 16 Going south to Guangdong, taking Yangcheng lightly with a snap of the fingers

Yu Hanmou held 150,000 mobs and was guarding Guangdong.The warriors of the four fields divided their troops into three groups, crossed the five mountains, and went straight to Guangzhou.Lin Biao ordered to stop the advance, and Chen Geng was indignant: What kind of order is this?A cigarette was lit between Mao Zedong's fingers, but he still acted according to the original plan.People in Wuyang City were panicked, and Li Zongren moved the capital in a hurry.Did Yu Hanmou flee to the west or to the southwest?Li Chengfang chased him wildly for seven days and nights, but jokingly said: I should give the Jade Emperor the first credit!The last Kuomintang Corps in Guangdong drifted helplessly to the South China Sea.

On May 26, 1949, in order to better implement Mao Zedong's large-scale roundabout and large-scale encirclement of the Central South and Southwest Kuomintang troops, the Chen Geng 4th Corps of the Second Field Army was assigned to Lin Biao's 4th Field Command to clean up the Bai Chongxi Group. Guangdong was one of the most important areas ruled by the Kuomintang.After the People's Liberation Army broke through the defense line of the Yangtze River, the Kuomintang government moved to Guangzhou in an attempt to reorganize its military strength and fought stubbornly, so Guangzhou was known as the "New Capital".

As early as August 24, the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense issued an order to Yu Hanmou, director of the Guangzhou Appeasement Office, asking him to gather all troops in Guangdong to ensure the safety of Guangzhou and to support Bai Chongxi in Hunan. At this time, there were still 6 divisions of Hu Lian's 12th Corps who fled from Fuzhou, 4 divisions of Fang Tian's 13th Corps who fled from Jiangxi, 6 divisions of the remnant of Liu Anqi's Corps, and Chen Jitang's 60th and 60th Corps in Yu Hanmou's jurisdiction. The two armies of 63, together with the 39th and 109th armies of Yu Hanmou's direct line, have a total strength of nearly 150,000.Even so, when Yu Hanmou received the order, he couldn't help but burst into wry smiles.He knows very well that it is quite scary in terms of the number of troops alone, but most of these troops are remnants and defeated generals who have been defeated by the Communist Party.

But no matter how Yu Hanmou complained, the People's Liberation Army troops had already pushed in front of him.At the time when the two armies of the four fields, the middle and the west, fought against Hengbao, the army of the east route had already opened the prelude to the Guangdong campaign.The two corps of Chen Geng and Deng Hua arrived at the border of Guangdong and Jiangxi, with their horses and bows bent, ready to go. On September 7, Ye Jianying held a combat meeting in Ganzhou, and jointly formulated a combat plan for the liberation of Guangdong with the heads of the Chen and Deng corps.At the meeting, Ye Jianying conveyed the instructions of the central government and the combat plan discussed with Lin Biao in Wuhan. After careful study, it was decided that Chen Geng would command the battle.

On September 29, Chen Geng reported the action plan for the Guangdong campaign: the attack will be divided into three groups.Taking the 4th Corps of the Second Field as the right-hand army, they set off on September 30 and attacked Rucheng, Lechang, and Renhua.If the enemy guards the Qujiang, Yingde, and Wengyuan areas, the 14th Army will go along the west bank of the Beijiang River, pass through Yingde and Qingyuan and go straight into Sanshui, cutting off the enemy's westward retreat to Guangxi; The Corps annihilated the enemies of Yingde and Wengyuan, and attacked Guangzhou from the west. If the enemy did not defend Yingde and Wengyuan, it quickly cooperated with the 15th Corps to go south and attack Guangzhou; with the 15th Corps as the left army, set off on October 1 , from the east of Wengyuan, attacked Yingde, then went south to the line of Longandong and Chebei, and attacked Guangzhou from the northeast; formed the Southern Route Army with the Guangdong-Guangxi Column, the Guangdong-Jiangxi-Hunan Column, and the Guangdong-Central Column, and advanced to Dongguan to break through. The enemy's Shunde and Foshan defense lines cut off the escape route of the Guangzhou defending enemy to the south.

On October 1, Mao Zedong was preparing for the founding ceremony, and in his busy schedule, he called Chen Geng back: "I agree with your deployment to attack Guangzhou." The next day, Chen Geng commanded three armies to go south, opening the prelude to the Guangdong campaign. At this time, the main forces of the four fields were fighting in southern Hunan, and Bai Chongxi shrank the Guangxi troops to the front line of Hengbao, which automatically disintegrated the "Hunan-Guangdong joint defense line".Bai Chongxi was too busy to take care of himself, Guangdong's defense could only be maintained by Yu Hanmou himself.

But Yu Hanmou led 150,000 crippled remnants and defeated generals, how could he resist Chen Geng's mighty army?There is only temporary cramming.He hastily built three lines of defense: the first line of defense was Qujiang, Shixing, Nanxiong, and Lechang, defended by the 39th and 63rd armies; The 23rd Army and the 70th Army of the 4th Corps defended; the third line of defense was Huaxian and Conghua, which were defended by the 32nd Army and the 50th Army of the Liu Anqi Corps from Qingdao.In addition, in Guangdong, there are the 10th and 18th armies of the Hu Lian Corps who fled from Fujian, stationed in Chao'an and Shantou in eastern Guangdong; From Zhanjiang to Hainan Island.

Yu Hanmou knew that these lines of defense were unable to keep Guangdong, so he just wanted to resist for a while, and then fled west to Guangxi to join Bai Chongxi, or fled directly to Hainan Island. On October 2, Chen Geng sent his army southward, and the vanguard marched into Guangdong at a speed of 75 kilometers a day.The Cantonese army was frightened and fled south one after another. Within a week, the People's Liberation Army had broken through Lechang, Renhua, Qujiang, and Yingde, and attacked Lianjiangkou Station. At this time, the Battle of Hengbao was going on fiercely. Lin Biao thought that Bai Chongxi must lead his troops back to the north for rescue, given that the Central Army had seized the four main divisions of the Guangxi clique. .So Lin Biao wanted to change the plan of the Guangdong campaign, and transferred the Chen Geng Corps into Guangxi to participate in the battle to encircle and wipe out the Bai Chongxi Group.

On October 10, Lin Biao called the Military Commission: The enemy's 7th Army and 48th Army's main force, a total of 4 divisions, have been surrounded by me in the area north of Qiyang.The enemy's combat power is very strong, and other armies are also returning north to aid.Our 13th Corps is advancing eastward from the Zhijiang River, but we can't catch up for a while, and our troops north of Qiyang are not absolutely sure of quickly destroying the enemy.Therefore, the battle north of Qiyang will take quite some time to resolve; the enemy on the Shaoguan-Guangzhou line is now retreating west of the railway, and Guangzhou will definitely give up. In order to increase the calculation of eliminating Gui enemies.At present, it seems that we should concentrate our forces to wipe out Bai Chongxi's forces.Otherwise, in the future, the troops will be dispersed in various provinces, but the enemy's forces will be concentrated instead, which will make the battle situation unfavorable to us.

Mao Zedong was very happy to hear that Lin Biao said that he had seized the 4 main divisions of the Guangxi clique and lured the main force of Bai Chongxi's department back to aid.Yu told Lin Biao and Chen Geng that day: You have seized 4 divisions of the Gui Army to the north of Qiyang, and the rest of the enemy troops are returning to help. Our army may wipe out the main force of Bai Chongxi in the Hunan-Guangxi border area.I am very relieved to hear that.I fully agree with your proposal. The Chen Geng Corps will go straight from Shaoguan and Yingde to Guilin and Liuzhou to cut off the enemy's rear and cooperate with the main force to gather and wipe out the white bandits.If this plan can be realized, it can greatly shorten the combat time, please implement it immediately.

But in fact, this was Lin Biao's wrong estimate.Bai Chongxi did once want to lead the main force back to aid the four besieged divisions, but he quickly gave up this plan, which made Lin Biao's plan to wipe out Bai Chongxi's main force in the Hunan-Guangxi border area fell into vain. However, since Lin Biao had ordered the Chen Geng Corps to suspend its attack on Guangdong, he did not want to change the order, and still insisted that the Chen Geng Corps enter Guangxi from the west. On the 11th, he called the Military Commission in the name of the Front Committee of the Four Fields: From many operations, it can be seen that Bai Chongxi's combat policy is to gather his most elite main force and seek my weak points to attack in an erratic way.Its troops are very effective and move very fast.If we do not annihilate this enemy, we will not be able to disperse our forces to mobilize the masses and maintain traffic.According to this situation, in order to annihilate Bai Chongxi, our forces must have an absolute advantage, and we must attack the enemy from at least two or three directions, resulting in a situation of encirclement and suppression; at the same time, we must try to prevent the enemy in Guangdong from getting closer to Bai Chongxi in order to divide the enemy. All annihilated.Therefore, we believe that in order for the enemy of Guangdong not to retreat back to Guangxi, I should not continue to attack Guangdong for the time being, but use the large cities and important areas of Guangdong as a tool to attract the enemy of Guangdong; In the battle against the enemy, we first achieved the annihilation of the enemy in Guangxi, and then with the cooperation of the military and government, we used the four-field troops to solve the enemy in Guangdong. Lin Biao eloquently sent this thousand-character telegram, mainly to show that his combat intention was to defeat Guangxi first and then Guangdong, and use Guangzhou, the political and economic center, to attract the Cantonese army to prevent the Cantonese army from retreating to Guangxi. At the same time as sending a telegram to the Military Commission, Lin Biao also telegraphed the Chen Geng and Deng Hua corps: If there are no enemies surrounded by you and there is no possibility of reliably capturing the enemy, then all units of the Chen and Deng Hua corps should be on the ground Stop waiting, don't go south for now.However, if a certain unit has surrounded the enemy or is sure to surround the enemy, a certain unit can continue to advance, and the rest of the troops are still on standby. "What is this order?" Chen Geng was very unhappy when he received the above-mentioned telegram. He quickly found Ye Jianying and others, spread out the map, pointed and said: "First of all, I firmly support the Military Commission and Siye's proposal to The policy of annihilating Bai Chongxi's main force on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi. However, I have some opinions on giving up attacking Guangzhou and transferring our corps into Guilin. We are 650 kilometers away from Guilin. In terms of time, we are not as good as the 18th Army, 46th Army and 13th Corps Hurry up, these troops are all closer than us, why should we seek far? If our corps abandons the battle in Guangdong, I am afraid that both ends will be miscalculated. On the Guangxi side, we have no time to cut off Bai Chongxi's retreat to the south; on the Guangdong side, the 15th Corps and other troops are not strong enough to Complete the task of liberating the entire province." After hearing Chen Geng's analysis, Ye Jianying couldn't help nodding. Chen Geng continued: "It's better for us to take Guangzhou first, and our Corps will immediately take Nanning directly from Wuzhou by water." "Comrade Chen Geng's suggestion is very good. I agree to report it to the Military Commission and the Front Committee of the Four Fields." Ye Jianying made a decision, but he considered the issue more comprehensively. In order to prevent Lin Biao from having opinions, he added, "Special It should be added that this may be our partial view, if the Military Commission and the Front Committee of the Four Fields stand at the height of the overall situation and believe that the Guangdong combat plan should be changed and our corps transferred to Guangxi, we will also resolutely implement it.” At 21 o'clock that night, the overall situation of the Hengbao battle had been decided. After considering the opinions of Chen Geng and others, Lin Biao still insisted not to fight Guangzhou for the time being, so as to prevent the two forces of Yu Hanmou and Bai Chongxi from merging into one. The differences of opinion between Lin Biao and Chen Geng became more and more serious, and Mao Zedong had no choice but to come forward in person.This is a question that requires serious thinking. He held a magnifying glass against the military map and fell into long-term thinking.He initially supported Lin Biao's proposal to transfer the 4th Corps into Guangxi because the enemy of Guangxi was aided from the north, but now it has been confirmed that the enemy of Guangxi did not aid from the north.Chen Geng's analysis is correct. The 4th Corps' entry into Gui was too far away to stop the Gui enemy from retreating south.In this way, because Bai Chongxi has a way out in the southwest, he is likely to retreat into the two provinces of Yun and Gui.The scope of operation of the four fields is the six provinces in the central and southern regions. Yunnan and Guizhou belong to the combat area of ​​the second field, and the second field has few soldiers, so it is difficult to independently solve the enemy that merges in the southwest and central China.It is inevitable that Siye will follow Bai Chongxi's troops into the southwest, which will disrupt the entire strategic deployment. A cigarette was lit between Mao Zedong's fingers. At 6 o'clock in the morning on the 12th, Mao Zedong finally sent a telegram to Lin Biao: If the enemy defends Guangzhou or our army may be in Guangzhou or outside Guangzhou, in order to destroy the enemy's vital forces, the Chen Deng Corps will continue to advance to Guangzhou.But Chen and Deng should be careful to use the necessary force to go directly between Guangzhou and Wuzhou, cut off a section of the Xijiang River, cut off the enemy's escape route to the west, and prevent the Guangzhou enemy from concentrating on Guangxi.If it is found out that the enemies in Guangzhou are fleeing to Guangxi, the Chen Geng Corps will follow them into Guangxi without stopping.If the enemy in Guangzhou does not flee to Guangxi, the Chen and Deng corps will still implement the original plan to occupy Guangzhou unchanged. Mao Zedong's telegram was concise and neat, and Chen Gengru received the sword of Shangfang and immediately swung to Guangzhou. Chen Geng's 4th Corps, as the right army, quickly marched southward after being ordered. At dawn on the 13th, the 43rd and 45th Divisions took the lead in crossing the Pajiang River and defeated the 4 regiments of the enemy's 103rd and 147th Divisions.At the same time, the 40th Division defeated the two divisions of the enemy's 23rd Army near Qingyuan County, and immediately occupied Qingyuan and continued to advance. At this time, Deng Hua's Siye 15th Corps of the left army was also heading towards Guangzhou. Li Zuopeng's 43rd Army and Fang Qiang's 44th Army came especially quickly. They traveled day and night from Wengyuan and Xinfeng to Fogang. , Conghua, Zengcheng. The Qianwei Division of the 43rd Army, under the leadership of division commander Wang Dongbao and political commissar Liu Jinping, set out from Nankang and crossed the Meiling Pass, the gateway to Guangdong, trekking in Dayuling and Huashi Mountains. On October 9, when passing by Wengyuan, the reconnaissance company commander took the two prisoners he had just captured, and reported to the division commander Wang Dongbao that there were 307 soldiers from the 103rd Division of the 39th Army in Fogang County and Hua County ahead, known as the "Steel Regiment". The regiment guards.The enemy has a total of more than 2,000 people, fully equipped with American weapons, has occupied the mountains on both sides of the Fogang River, and has built relatively strong fortifications and bunkers. Fogang is only more than 100 kilometers away from Guangzhou. Obviously, the enemy wants to prevent the People's Liberation Army from advancing to Guangzhou. The Vanguard Division of the 43rd Army immediately marched more than 70 kilometers in a hurry, surrounded Fogang, and launched a general attack at 15:00 on October 11. With the support of powerful artillery fire, after two hours of fierce fighting, more than 2,000 people under the head of the enemy's "Steel Corps" Wang Jiajia were wiped out, and Fogang was occupied.At the same time, the 128th Division of the army advanced from the east of Fogang City to Huaxian County and Guangzhou. On October 13, it captured the Gaotang Railway Bridge and the Renhexu Road Bridge, and wiped out two enemy battalions. So far, the People's Liberation Army has approached Guangzhou from the east and north.The Kuomintang troops north and east of Guangzhou, except for a part of the 109th Army on Guangjiu Road who fled to Chaoshan, the rest retreated into Guangzhou.Seeing that the situation was very bad, Yu Hanmou immediately began to nervously arrange the general retreat according to Chiang Kai-shek's deployment of "preserving strength and withdrawing to Hainan". The city of Guangzhou suddenly became chaotic. On October 11, Li Zongren convened an emergency meeting to discuss the matter of "moving the capital". This was the second time the Kuomintang government moved the capital within half a year.Attending the meeting were Executive Premier Yan Xishan, Chief of Staff Gu Zhutong, Yu Hanmou and Xue Yue from Guangdong and Guangxi. "The current situation is serious, and the fall of Guangzhou is imminent. We need to speed up the implementation of the division of office plan. The presidential palace and the Executive Yuan will be temporarily relocated to Chongqing, and the central courts will be relocated to Hainan Island." Li Zongren said to Yu Hanmou: "Please command Liu Anqi's corps to cover government agencies. Evacuate. The government personnel must evacuate within two days. As for me, I have decided to stick with Dean Yan until the 20th.” Li Zongren's plan to "move the capital" also alarmed Chiang Kai-shek. On the 12th, the sad-faced veteran chairman flew to Guangzhou in person.But he didn't come here this time to make any suggestions, he came here specifically to dismantle his old rival Li Zongren. "Yan Xishan doesn't want to go to Chongqing, I think it's better to go to Taiwan." Chiang Kai-shek said in a tone-deaf way. Yan Xishan really obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's words, and Li Zongren became a polished commander again.The next day, he didn't stick to it until the 20th. He packed up his things and left Guangzhou angrily. Everyone left, leaving only Yu Hanmou to worry about himself. When he met Gu Zhutong, the chief of staff, he began to complain: "Chief, how do you let us use the broken and incomplete troops to resist the tiger and wolf army? I think Guangzhou is We can't keep it, not only Guangzhou can't keep it, if it doesn't work, my little army will also be finished." Gu Zhutong patted Yu Hanmou on the shoulder: "Don't guard it. It's useless to guard it. President Jiang specially instructed before boarding the plane that all Guangzhou troops will be withdrawn to Hainan Island. What's the trouble? Let's act quickly." Yu Hanmou was overjoyed when he heard that, and happily rushed to Hainan Island. Before leaving, he told his troops: "Take away as much military supplies as you can, and destroy everything if you can't take it away. Don't leave anything to the Communist Party!" Gu Zhutong also added fuel to the back and issued orders: "The president instructed that the Baiyun and Tianhe airports must be blown up, the military warehouses in Shijing, Shibei, Huangpu and other places, as well as the main roads and railway bridges in the city must be blown up. Important factories Equipment that cannot be transported to colleges and universities must also be destroyed.” The city of Guangzhou became even more chaotic. Burning, smashing, bombing, and looting flooded the entire urban area. At this time, Chen Geng's three-way army had not yet arrived in Guangzhou.The fastest runner among these galloping troops should be the 128th Division of Li Zuopeng's 43rd Army.They pursued the remnant enemies who had withdrawn from the three lines of defense all the way, and chased into Guangzhou on the afternoon of the 14th. But it wasn't Guangzhou's defenders who came oncoming, but a group of students waving colorful triangular flags. "Comrade People's Liberation Army!" The students shouted loudly as if seeing their relatives. "The Kuomintang troops have fled, and the citizens are preparing to welcome the People's Liberation Army into the city. Go and stop the sabotage activities of the spies." The officers and soldiers of the 128th Division heard that the spies in the city were blowing up bridges and burning warehouses, and hurriedly ordered the troops to run forward.They quickly took over the radio stations and police stations in the city, and occupied Li Zongren's Presidential Palace, Yan Xishan's Executive Yuan, and Baiyun Airport. At the same time, the 132nd Division of the 44th Army also quickly entered the urban area from the northeastern suburbs of Guangzhou. The next day and night, the People's Liberation Army occupied all important targets in the urban area. After the Kuomintang "fallen" in Nanjing, it lost its "capital" for the second time within half a year. While some units of the 43rd Army and 44th Army occupied Guangzhou, other people from all walks of life were still nervously cleaning up the remaining enemies in Guangdong. On the afternoon of the 14th, the 40th Division of the 14th Army captured Sanshui County, and then confronted the 103rd Division of the 39th Army of the enemy's 21st Corps across the river. Of the three corps commanded by Yu Hanmou, one had fled from Jiangxi and the other had fled from Fujian.However, only Liu Anqi's 21st Corps belongs to the Guangdong system, and the 39th Army is the backbone of this Corps.The 39th Army participated in the aid of Jinzhou with Hou Jingru in October 1948, and fought face to face with Siye in Tashan.After the Battle of Liaoshen, it was transferred to Bengbu to participate in the Battle of Huaihai. After the Du Yuming Group was wiped out, the army withdrew to Nanjing.Most of the 103rd Division and 91st Division of this army are from Guizhou. When the Nanjing regime was in turmoil, they witnessed the transfer of wealth by the four major families to Taiwan. They have clearly seen their end. The generals of the two divisions have long been planning an opportunistic uprising.Since Mou Longguang, chief of staff of the 103rd Division, and Li Jishen's secretary, Yu Ke, were old friends, they started contacting in early 1949. In mid-May, Mou Longguang left for Hong Kong to meet Yu Que, but at that time Li Jishen had already gone to Peking to prepare for the CPPCC meeting.Later, through Yu Que's connection, Mou Longguang contacted Zhang Tong, the person in charge of the CCP in Hong Kong. Zhang Tong clearly pointed out the great significance of the uprising of the 39th Army. He said: "The 39th Army is currently the army with the best equipment and the most sufficient personnel in the Kuomintang Army. The others have collapsed. There are still more than 100,000 people in the Guangxi Clan. , but most of them were expanded after the Huaihai Campaign, and the personnel and equipment are not as good as yours." Zhang Tong took out a diary and opened it to Mou Longguang, "At present, there are many troops joining Hong Kong. The Kuomintang has already planned to flee to Taiwan for refuge. There is no big battle to fight, we are very happy that you are here, we attach great importance to your army." Mou Longguang said sincerely: "For the sake of the country and the people, we don't want to fight anymore, and are willing to vote for the Communist Party, so as to end the war as soon as possible and rebuild our homeland." "It is a great event for you to volunteer for the people." Zhang Tong closed his notebook, "You are waiting in Qujiang, and after the liberation army goes south to get in touch with you, we will work together to liberate Guangzhou." Zhang Tong confessed, "We The underground party will be notified to contact you, and of course your safety will be guaranteed. Please tell your teacher Zeng Yuansan and Liu Tiren, the commander of the 91st Division, that the CCP wholeheartedly welcomes their righteous actions!" Mou Longguang returned to Qujiang, told Liu Tiren and others the details, and has been waiting for the People's Liberation Army to come to Guangzhou. On the afternoon of October 13, when the vanguard of the People's Liberation Army arrived in Sanshui, Zeng Yuansan saw that the time was ripe, so he quietly said to Mou Longguang, "Chief of Staff, try to contact the People's Liberation Army." Mou Longguang immediately wrote a letter and sent someone across the river overnight to hand it over to Deputy Commander Wang Yanquan of the 40th Division of the 14th Army of the People's Liberation Army who fought across the river. The 40th Division immediately stopped fighting, and Chen Geng sent Fan Ziming and others from the Political Department of the Corps across the river for negotiations the next day. Fan Ziming met with Zeng Yuansan and Mou Longguang and said: "Commander Chen Geng knew that you two loved the country and the people, and sympathized with the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army. You made great contributions during the War of Resistance, and the people will never forget it!" Zeng Yuansan smiled: "Thank you General Chen Geng for your compliment. To be honest, I am determined not to fight. In our division, most of the officers are from Guizhou, and most of the soldiers are from Shandong. I can't bear to drag them into the sea. Stay away from home and relatives. I have no other requirements, as long as there is no war." Fan Ziming then got to the point, and he put forward five demands: issue a telegram to announce the uprising; call back the 309th regiment that had gone far away in the name of Master Zeng; hold the 23rd Army and prevent it from passing through you Division positions; contact the 91st Division and the 147th Division, and strive for their uprising together; after your division uprising, cross the river to gather and reorganize. Zeng Yuansan immediately put forward a different opinion: "I don't have any other ideas. I can't agree with the 23rd Army." Mou Longguang hurriedly persuaded: "Holding the 23rd Army is a revolutionary action..." Zeng Yuansan interrupted him and said: "But I can't do this kind of thing. We all fought together once, and now we are going our separate ways. I am determined to surrender. I will not interfere if others surrender or not. The same is true for my teacher. If the 309th regiment is willing to come back, I welcome it, and if I don’t want to come back, I won’t chase it.” Due to different opinions, Fan Ziming decided to report the negotiation situation to the head of the 14th Army first and ask for instructions to make a decision. Army commander Li Chengfang nodded after understanding the situation: "There is bound to be a battle if the 23rd Army is held hostage. They don't want to fight, so there is no need to force it. We only make four requests: 1. Immediately broadcast the uprising; Our military headquarters, both sides mobilize ships, and the troops must cross the river to assemble; third, talk to the 91st division and introduce our people to do the work; fourth, we must chase the 309th regiment back.” Zeng Yuansan immediately agreed to Li Chengfang's request. On October 16, Zeng Yuansan issued a telegram announcing the uprising, and then led his troops across the river by boat to accept the adaptation. The 309 regiment rushed back after receiving the order from Master Zeng, and when they learned that the whole division had revolted, they immediately crossed the river to join the uprising team. At this time, the 91st Division, which had withdrawn to the Heshan area, learned that more than 5,000 people from the 103rd Division had revolted, and quickly joined the People's Liberation Army. On October 17, a total of 2,700 members of the 91st Division were also reorganized by the PLA. After the uprising by Zeng Yuansan and others, Chen Geng immediately understood the movements of Yu Hanmou's main force. Except for the 63rd and 109th armies who fled to Guangxi, the rest fled towards Yangchun and Yangjiang, with the ultimate goal of fleeing to Hainan Island. Originally, Chen Geng was judging Yu Hanmou's movements after learning that our army had captured Guangzhou.Mao Zedong also sent a telegram at this time: The direction of the enemy's escape from Guangzhou is either to go due west into Guangxi, or to go southwest into Hainan Island.It seems that our Fourth Corps should take advantage of the victory and pursue it until it occupies Gaoyao, Deqing, Fengchuan, Gaoming, Xinxing, Yunfu, Yunan, Luoding and other counties. If necessary, it will also occupy Wuzhou, then stop and rest and wait for your unified deployment. Gui battle.Occupying the above-mentioned counties, on the one hand, may annihilate part or most of the fleeing enemies, making it easier for the 15th Corps to attack Hainan Island, destroy the remnants of the enemy, and pacify the whole of Guangdong;Whether this is possible is a matter of discretion. After Chen Geng received the above-mentioned telegram from Mao Zedong, he felt troubled: Is the main force of the Guangdong enemy "going westward into Guangxi" or "going southwest into Hainan Island"?At this juncture, he received Li Chengfang's report, and he couldn't help applauding happily: "This information from Li Chengfang is very important. Now we know exactly where to flee from the enemy." Therefore, Chen Geng immediately decided that Commander Li Chengfang would command the 3 divisions of the 14th Army, the 43rd and 44th Divisions of the 15th Army, and the 38th Division of the 13th Army, a total of 6 divisions, and rushed to pursue Yangchun and Yangjiang in the southwest. Immediately after Li Chengfang was ordered, according to the current positions of the six divisions, the troops were divided into three groups to chase and flee the enemy: the right army was the 125th regiment of the 42nd division and the 120th regiment of the 40th division. , Chunwan Market pursued in the direction of Yangchun; the Central Route Army consisted of the 41st Division and the 118th Regiment, starting from Gaoyao and Southwest Townships, seized Xinxing, cut off the Gaoyao enemy's escape route to the south, and pursued Yangchun through Tiantangwei; the Left Route Army was The 43rd Division and the 44th Division set out from Southwest Town, pursued towards Yangjiang via Heshan and Danshuikou, and controlled Beijin Port; with the 38th Division as the second echelon, they sailed from Qingyuan to Sanshui by boat, and pursued towards Xinxing and Yangchun. Maneuver in the direction of Enping from Gaoming.At this time, the troops had been marching for more than half a month, and they were quite tired. However, with amazing perseverance, they pursued for 7 consecutive days and nights, and finally caught up with the fleeing enemy in the Yangjiang and Yangchun areas on the South China Sea. . At this time, it was raining continuously and the roads were muddy. In this hilly area, apart from the mountains, there were rice fields criss-crossed by water networks.But these difficulties failed to stop the officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army who were good at enduring hardships and stand hard work, but greatly delayed the progress of Yu Hanmou's remnants.Later, Li Chengfang said jokingly: "If it wasn't for God's grace, the enemy might have slipped away if it rained for days on end. The Jade Emperor should be credited first." Among the three groups of men and horses, the fastest is the West Road. They detour to the enemy's right flank at a speed of 75 kilometers a day.Some companies only cook one meal for two days, and the soldiers eat dry food while walking.I only slept for two or three hours a day, and often fell asleep while walking. The squad leader was afraid that someone would fall behind, so he took out the old method in the Northeast. The whole class held a rope, and the squad leader led the rope in front. The deputy leads the tail of the rope at the back.Following a route parallel to the enemy, they gradually overtook the enemy. On the evening of October 23, they finally surpassed the enemy's vanguard and blocked the enemy's westward escape. The next day, the central and eastern troops also entered the Yangjiang area and completed the encirclement of the main force of the Cantonese army. Liu Anqi, the commander of the 21st Corps of the Cantonese Army, realized that he was in a dangerous situation. He could no longer reach Zhanjiang, so he asked Yu Hanmou to send a warship to Hailing Island so that he could board the nearby ship and escape. On the 24th, Liu Anqi commanded the Guangdong Army to break through to the west and launched six offensives, all of which were repelled by the West Road People's Liberation Army. At 1 o'clock in the morning on the 25th, Li Chengfang divided the forces of the six front-line divisions into two groups, east and west, and carried out double-sided attacks on the enemy.After dawn, Liu Anqi adjusted her deployment and launched a new offensive again.Although the Cantonese army was still struggling and attacked more and more frantically every time, the position of the People's Liberation Army stood firm.The eight offensives were like huge waves hitting the rocks. Although the momentum was scary, it had no effect. At 14:00 in the afternoon, Liu Anqi saw that there was no hope of breaking through to the west, so she ordered to turn south to the sea.But there is no big port by the sea, and there are not too many boats.He knew that this was the last twilight of the 21st Corps, and he couldn't care about anything else, so he counted as much as he could escape. After Li Chengfang discovered Liu Anqi's attempt, he immediately ordered the East Road troops to advance southward, and first attacked the key points on the coast.Liu Anqi was at the end of her rope, so she had no choice but to order the troops who arrived at the beach to board the boat and flee, and at the same time ordered the follow-up troops to take cover.The artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army attacked the coast and blocked the offshore sea.From the dusk of the 25th to the dawn of the next day, in addition to a small number of Cantonese soldiers who escaped by warships, nearly 10,000 people in Liu Anqi's team were killed or drowned in the offshore. The general attack order was issued, and the three troops launched an attack at the same time. More than a dozen commandos broke into the enemy's formation and quickly interspersed, chopping the enemy into pieces, and the establishment was in chaos.By noon on the day of the battle, all the besieged enemies were wiped out, and the "Battle of Encirclement and Annihilation in Liangyang" came to an end.The 4th Corps of the People's Liberation Army wiped out more than 40,000 people from the 21st Corps and the 4th Corps of the Yu Hanmou Group in one fell swoop. The , 32nd, and 63rd armies also have only a lingering strength left. However, the Hu Lian Corps guarding the Chaozhou and Shantou areas felt that they could not protect themselves, and never dared to go further west.Waiting and watching until the 24th, Hu Lian knew that there was no place for him in the mainland, so he sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, affirming his predicament and asking Generalissimo Jiang for instructions.Chiang Kai-shek knew that Hu Lian's corps was no longer capable of fighting, so he might as well withdraw to Taiwan or Hainan, so he sent a telegram to order him to withdraw from the sea.Hu Lian's department immediately left the mainland by boat and drifted to Hainan. On October 29, the Guangdong campaign came to an end.In this 34-day continuous battle, Chen Geng commanded the 4th and 15th Corps and other departments to wipe out more than 10,000 people from the Yu Hanmou Group and liberate 38 counties.