Chapter 22 The Eighth Strategist

Show it to move, benefit it to be quiet and have the master, benefit it to move and be quiet. Deliberately exposing my feint attack, using the enemy to stand firm here, I secretly detour to attack the enemy's other place, this is the function of the principle of Yi Gua. Winning by surprise comes from the normal method of using troops. Only by inducing the enemy to judge our action intention according to the normal principles of using troops can we achieve the goal of winning by surprise. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei general Deng Ai was stationed on the north bank of Baishui, and Shu general Jiang Wei sent Weihua to defend on the south bank of Baishui and set up camp. Deng Ai said to the generals: "Jiang Wei suddenly returned to the army to fight against me. We have few soldiers and fight as usual. Jiang Wei should have crossed the river to attack without waiting for the bridge to be built, but there has been no movement so far. I guess he wanted to cut off my way back, so he let Yihua restrain me. He himself must lead the main force to attack Taocheng (now Taocheng) eastward. Xibaili, Minxian County, Gansu Province) went." So Deng Ai ordered to sneak back to Taocheng that night from the small road, and Jiang Wei crossed the river there, but because Deng Ai went to Taoyu first and defended the city, Taocheng was not captured.

This is a case where Jiang Wei was not good at using the strategy of secretly crossing Chencang, but Deng Ai saw through his tricks. "Crossing Chencang secretly" is an allusion. It is said that when the Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang was forced to enter Hanzhong. In order to prevent the invasion of Yongwang Zhanghan and paralyze Xiang Yu, he poured down the plank road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong. In 206 BC, the general Han Xin was about to They dispatched troops, pretending to repair the plank road, but secretly led the army to take a small road back to Chencang, launched a surprise attack, defeated Zhang Han, and then advanced step by step, sweeping Xiang Yu's territory. The final battle of Jiuli Mountain forced Xiang Yu to commit suicide in Wujiang.Played the Han family for Liu Bang.

In the spring of 1947, more than 300,000 Kuomintang troops, under the command of Chief of Staff Chen Cheng, carried out a key attack on our Shandong liberated area. The situation at that time was that Chen Cheng asked Ou Zhen to lead 8 reorganized divisions with more than 20 brigades, 60 miles north of Xin'an Town at the east end of Longhai Road, and divided into three routes: left, middle and right, from the south to Yuanjie Yi; Along the way, 3 armies and 9 divisions commanded by Li Xianzhou, the deputy commander of the "Second Appeasement Zone", attacked from the north to Laiwu and Mengyin in the south from the Mingshui and Zibo sections of Jiaoji Road. Chen Cheng attempted to use the 300,000 troops to pass through Attacking from north to south, the general was wiped out in the Yimeng Mountains.

A fierce battle is imminent. Linyi.The capital of the Shandong Liberated Area. Commander Chen Yi, Deputy Commander Su Yu, and Deputy Political Commissar Tan Zhenlin are gathering in the war room of the headquarters. Facing a powerful enemy, Commander Chen Yi, who is always humorous and witty, stands in front of the map and frowns, thinking about the strategy to defeat the enemy. At that time, Su Yu and Tan Zhenlin were busy marking the location of the enemy's invasion reported from various places on the map. The enemy is approaching step by step, how to fight? After thinking hard for a long time, Commander Chen Yi finally made up his mind.He said to Su Yu, Tan Zhenlin and the staff around him: "The reactionary sent more than 300,000 soldiers and horses. The equipment is better than ours. It is not necessary to be more difficult. We should concentrate our superior forces to attack his isolated No. 1 and second and third-class troops. The enemy The second- and third-class troops were wiped out, and their vitality was reduced, so the first-class troops lost their support and became a weak enemy, which can be slaughtered by me." Afterwards, Commander Chen Yi studied the specific combat plan together with Su Yu and Tan Zhenlin.One is to strengthen the reconnaissance of the Li Xianzhou Group, the enemy on the northern line, and secretly monitor its movements; the other is to order local armed forces to quickly build a bridge over the canal on the western line.These two orders are to confuse the enemy, so as to create the illusion that I am preparing for a decisive battle with the enemy on the southern front. The bridge building seems to be a retreat prepared in case of accidents.

At the same time, Commander Chen Yi also decisively ordered to voluntarily abandon Linyi, although this made many people puzzled at the time, because Linyi was the capital of the East China Liberated Area after all.But afterwards it proved that Chen Yi's decision was very wise and correct. After the enemy learned of my above-mentioned actions, they were overjoyed. Peng Xuepei, the propaganda minister of the Kuomintang, shouted in Nanjing: "The capture of Linyi is an unprecedented victory for the national army in the decisive battle in southern Shandong." Chief of Staff Chen Cheng also believed that the chances of victory were within his grasp, and he boasted, "Chen Yi's remnant troops are no longer able to fight the national army. They are trying to (cross the canal) to join forces with Liu (Zuocheng) and Deng (Xiaoping), and the national army is chasing and suppressing them." Among them, the overall situation in Shandong is about to be determined." Therefore, Chen Cheng instructed Li Xianzhou on the North Road to resolutely and quickly attack Xintai and Mengyin, so as to cut off our army's "west retreat".

In fact, Chen Yi built the bridge on the canal just to confuse and mobilize the enemy. After learning that the enemy believed it, the main force of our East China Field Army returned to the north except for the third column and the second column to fight the enemy on the southern line. Quietly rushed towards the Li Xianzhou Group in the north. In Shandong in February, the spring was cold and cold, and the north wind blowing from the south was occasionally mixed with snow particles, wrapping the frozen red cheeks of the soldiers, and Commander Chen Yi's mount exhaled white mist.Regardless of the cold weather, our army rushed northward secretly and quickly.

On February 20th, our 8th and 9th verticals arrived at the Hezhuang area first. The enemy of Hezhuang was unprepared and was quickly annihilated by me, cutting off the road to Boshan. On the morning of the 21st, our five columns, 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, and 9th, surrounded Laiwu City and the area to the north with lightning speed. The enemy 73rd Army and 46th Army led by Li Xianzhou Became the turtle in the urn, day and night, our 6th column quickly wiped out the 36th division of the enemy's 12th army at the silk-spinning mouth north of Laiwu, and Li Xianzhou's escape route to Jinan was also cut off.

So far, the upper echelons of the Kuomintang have just realized that our army is "building plank roads openly and crossing Chencang secretly."Li Xianzhou was urgently ordered to lead his troops to break through to the north and move closer to Jinan. Zhou Zhirou, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Air Force, personally commanded a large number of planes to bombard my troops besieging Li Xianzhou indiscriminately.He tried in vain to blast a way out for Li Xianzhou, but it didn't work. On February 23, with an order from Chen Yi and Su Yu, our army launched an attack from all sides, quickly cutting the enemy into several sections, disrupting the enemy's organizational system, and the enemy was suddenly leaderless.The troops ran wild and could not organize effective resistance. After 6 hours of fierce fighting, two armies and one division of the enemy were wiped out, and the enemy commander Li Xianzhou was captured alive, thus smashing the Kuomintang's key attack on the liberated areas.

On November 28, 1943, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met in Tehran and decided to open a second battlefield in Europe in the first half of 1944, that is, to land from western Europe and fight directly against Germany. At that time, there were three more suitable sites in northwestern France. In order to choose the best plan, Churchill and General Eisenhower convened the chiefs of staff of the three armies to make a serious comparison and study, and thus formulated the "Overlord" operation in Normandy. plan. In order to reduce sacrifices, the Allied Command decided to use the method of sneaking over to create false impressions, so that Hitler misjudged that the Allied landing area was Calais instead of Normandy, so as to ensure the success of the Normandy landing. For this reason, the Allied Forces implemented a series of Suspicion of soldiers -.

First, in order to show that the Allied forces would land at Calais, the Allied forces set up a false headquarters in Kent on the east coast, which sent out a large number of telegrams. It is judged that the headquarters of the Allied forces is located in Kent. Second, Patton was a general known for his bravery in the United States. His bravery and skill in battle made Germany hear Patton's name as terrifying as hearing the arrival of the plague god.Therefore, the German High Command analyzed that wherever Patton appeared, there would be major military operations.The Allied forces were going to land in western Europe, and Patton was the commander in charge of the main offensive mission. General Eisenhower, based on the mentality of the enemy high command, deliberately let Patton walk and appear on the streets of Kent, so that German spies would report the incident to the high command. One important "information".

Thirdly, the British Army Staff used materials such as wood, tarpaulin, paint, etc. to manufacture thousands of fake cannons, fake tanks, and fake landing boats, and "deployed" these things in the southeastern part of the UK far away from France. Nearest to the Pas de Calais. Fourth, the Allies piled up a lot of fake gliders in Kent, and deliberately sent some trucks to drive around the edge of the forest, over the fields, to make the Germans think that there was a large supply of military supplies in the Kent forests. Calais landing force. Fifth, the Allied forces often dispatched a group of bombers to carry out strategic bombing at the same time on the marching military targets in Calais and Normandy, and consciously made the bombing ratio of the two places 2:1, so as to convince the Germans that Calais was landing region, and the bombing of Normandy was merely a cover-up. Sixth, on the eve of the attack, the British army dispatched a large number of planes and scattered countless pieces of tinfoil in the air, making the march look like a large fleet heading east from Dieppe to coastal radar. Drive to Calais. Facts have proved that the above-mentioned suspicious strategy has fully achieved the expected strategic purpose. In order to find out the landing direction of the Allied forces, the German High Command not only sent a large number of spies, but also sent planes to fly over the Xiangjili Strait many times for aerial reconnaissance. However, in order to keep the secret of the "Overlord" operation, the British government prevented its spies from collecting and passing The intelligence clearly stipulates that "after April 1, 1944, the sea area from Woxin to the Cornwall Peninsula and the area extending 16 kilometers inland on the coast is a military restricted area; the privilege of diplomatic pouches is temporarily revoked, and communication in secret Foreign diplomats stationed in London and their family members are not allowed to leave the UK until the end of June.” As a result, German spies have never obtained accurate information about the “Overlord” operation.German reconnaissance planes took many photos in the sky, and saw countless tanks, artillery and military trucks gathered near the British port of Dover opposite Calais.Like a million soldiers ready to go. For all the above, Hitler and the German High Command judged that Calais was the landing site for the Allied forces, and based on this judgment, 23 divisions were deployed in Calais, and a solid defensive line with a depth of 6 kilometers was built along the coast. Hitler And the German high command was fooled. In the early morning of June 5, 1944, it was the time when the Allied forces were scheduled to attack. However, at this time, the English Channel was blustery, the waves were raging, and the weather conditions were harsh, which was not conducive to the army's attack. General Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief of the "Overlord" operation, and many senior military officers gathered at the Southwick apartment.Eisenhower mused silently: Should the attack be carried out as planned or postponed?After a while, he raised his head, looked around with piercing eyes, and then gave the order firmly: "Let's go!" As a result, thousands of Allied troops rushed to Normandy from the air and sea, and overcame the harsh weather, successfully landed in Normandy. At this time, the German Command in Paris received a report of a massive Allied attack in Normandy, but German Marshal Rundstedt believed that this was nothing more than an Allied attack.In order to cover the landing at Calais, the German naval forces on the western front saw a large fleet heading for Normandy from coastal radar. When they reported this to the commander in chief, the commander in chief's chief of staff replied: "Did your technicians make a mistake, maybe it was a flock of seagulls?" When the front line reported the news of the Allied attack on Normandy to Hitler, the fascist leader still believed in his misjudgment and reprimanded him angrily. Said: "The Allied attack on Normandy was nothing more than a diversionary feint." In this way, the Allied forces successfully broke through Hitler's vaunted "Atlantic Barrier", and continued to expand the offensive against the German army, developing in depth, and marching into Germany's local area, thereby accelerating the demise of the Third Reich.