Chapter 7 Chapter 06 Attack on Zhanjiang

In April 1947, the Party Committee of the Guangdong District of the Communist Party of China sent Wen Zhuohua back to the South Road, established the Guangdong-Guangxi Border District Committee, and successively established mass organizations to carry out the struggle against the "three levy" and rent reduction and interest reduction.The people's armed forces grew rapidly during the struggle, and the People's Liberation Army Command of the Guangdong-Guangxi Border Region was established. Armed struggles were widely carried out in Sui (Xi), Lian (Jiang), Hua (zhou), and Wu (Chuan).

In December, Zhang Ruigui succeeded the commander-in-chief of the KMT's suppression in Guangdong and Guangxi.On the one hand, Zhang Ruigui organized the local reactionary armed forces, restored the reactionary regime, implemented joint guarantees, built bunkers, dispatched more spies, destroyed our transportation and tax stations, cut off our supplies, oppressed and rehabilitated, the so-called "nine points" Politics is divided into military”; on the other hand, the strength of the three regiments of Bao 1, Bao 9, and Bao 10 and more than 3,000 people in the self-defense brigades of Mao (name), Hua (zhou), and Dian (Bai) counties were assembled. Mopping up, Wu area.Zhang Zaihua and Wu used brutal fascist means to sweep Wuchuan first, then south, and then north.

In the struggle to liquidate landlords and bullies, the party organizations in our Hua and Wu areas did not pay attention to policies and strategies, expanded the scope of attack, made too many enemies, caused difficulties in the anti-mopping up struggle, and suffered serious setbacks in the struggle. Hua, Wuxin 4 regiments and The district and township teams were unable to gain a foothold and withdrew from Hua and Wu.The local government and various mass organizations were destroyed, and the masses suffered heavy losses.After Hua and Wu succeeded, the enemy became arrogant and wielded Sui and Lian in a vain attempt to further implement their second phase of the plan of "clearing the plains and besieging the mountains".

At this time, according to the instructions of the Hong Kong Branch, the Prefectural Committee of the Guangdong-Guangxi Border Area shifted from internal operations to external operations, and organized a main force of more than 1,500 people to advance into central Guangdong and Shiwandashan.After advancing eastward and westward, the troops mobilized the enemy and relieved the pressure on the Suilian area.However, the situation in Sui, Lian, Hua, and Wu areas is still very difficult. In April 1948, the Hong Kong Branch Bureau appointed Comrade Liang Guang as Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Provisional Military Commission of the Guangdong-Guangxi Border Area, strengthened the leadership of the Guangdong-Guangxi Border Area, corrected the "Left" and Right tendencies in the work, mainly "Left" tendencies, and improved The fighting power of the party organization.After reorganizing the party and the army, Comrade Liang Guang decided to attack Zhanjiang City in order to reverse the situation and create a new situation in the armed struggle in the Guangdong-Guangxi border area.

The district party committee appointed Wen Zhuohua (who was secretary of the Leizhou prefectural committee and political commissar of the 2nd detachment at this time) and Zhu Renshan, the commander of the 2nd detachment, to be responsible for the organization and command of the entire battle.Our Leizhou Prefectural Committee and the 2nd Detachment held several military meetings in Suixi successively to unify the thinking of all commanders and fighters.Wen Zhuohua said that at present, although the enemy is in an absolute advantage, it is precisely because of this that they underestimate me. They think that our army will not only dare not enter the cities, but also will not conduct major military operations in the countryside. If we know ourselves better than others, and if we are unprepared, we will be able to win by surprise and win this battle.Zhanjiang City is the political, economic, and military center of the Guangdong-Guangxi border area. When our army attacks Zhanjiang, it will force the enemy to retreat to Zhanjiang, disrupting the enemy's plan to clean up and mop up, and thus further open up the situation of armed struggle in the countryside for our army, consolidate the old areas, and open up new areas. Create favorable conditions for the new area.

The basic situation of the enemy is: the general headquarters of the Qing Dynasty in southern Guangdong and Guangxi is located in Xiying (now Xiashan). But the weapons are all broken rifles; the gendarmerie has 20 to 30 members, and they have no combat effectiveness; the police stations in Chikan and Xiying have no combat effectiveness; , Bao 1 Regiment followed me eastward and the troops have been transferred to Guangdong Central, Bao 9 Regiment has also been transferred, and only Bao 10 Regiment remains in Zhanjiang.The enemy troops stationed in Zhanjiang also belonged to Guangxi's Bao 2 and Bao 6 regiments. One of the regiments was transferred to encircle and suppress our westward troops, leaving only one battalion in Anpu. Therefore, only the Bao 10 regiment had some combat strength, but the garrison There is only one battalion in the camp.

The targets of our army's attack were: the 10th Regiment of the Enemy Security Regiment stayed at the battalion headquarters, the self-defense brigade headquarters, the police station; the Bank of China and the Central Bank; and the capture of the spy chief Zhang Pusen.The attack time was: 0:00 on July 10, 1948.The 8th regiment of our army was the main force in the attack.In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the main attacking force, Zhu Renshan and Wen Zhuohua also recruited brave and skilled backbones from other troops and local martial arts teams to 8 regiments to form 3 commandos with a total of more than 80 people.

Among them, more than 40 assaulters who attacked the left-behind battalion headquarters of the Bao 10th Regiment were divided into 6 groups, each equipped with a short gun and a grenade.In order to ensure the victory of the attack, our army organized the new 4th regiment to ambush between Chikan and Suixi, and the new 5th regiment to ambush between Chikan and Xiying, preparing to block the reinforcements. On July 9, our army adopted the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west, deliberately bluffing and operating in the Suixi area.Sure enough, the enemy was fooled, and the Bao 10th Regiment immediately rushed to sweep them up.That night, under the leadership of Zheng Shiying, the head of the commando, and Tang Lin, the deputy head of the commando, the commando set off from the confluence and entered Chikan.However, due to changes in the situation, the total attack time was postponed to 3 am on the 10th.The gunshots that attacked Zhanjiang first sounded from the headquarters of the 10th Baotou Regiment's left-behind battalion.Under the command of the deputy head Tang Lin, 40 commandos were divided into 6 groups and sneaked into Guangrongxing Firecracker Factory in the dark.

When the commandos rushed more than 10 meters away from the gate of the barracks, two sentries who were sleeping with long guns woke up in shock and hurriedly shot at our commandos.Zheng Xianpei, the leader of the assault team, had quick hands and quick eyes, "Bang! Bang!" Two shots killed two gate posts and took the lead in breaking into the barracks.Under the cover of the rifle platoon, the assaulters swarmed up and rushed to the barracks.Commandos fought bloody battles with enemy soldiers.However, because the enemy is well-equipped, and our army's assaulters are all short guns with few bullets, there is only one grenade per person, and they will be finished soon.

The enemy army, which was dying, saw that our soldiers had few bullets, and resisted stubbornly. An enemy soldier was hiding at the bottom of the window, and was about to shoot at my assaulter with a light machine gun. A young commando of mine rushed over desperately, knocked down the enemy soldier, grabbed the machine gun, and fired violently at the enemy. Pass the enemy's grenade and throw it at the enemy group.Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemy fled around holding their heads. It took only 20 minutes for our army to attack the left-behind battalion of the Bao 10th Regiment, and it ended in victory.Except for 1 deputy battalion commander who escaped with 2 soldiers and 1 light machine gun, the rest were all wiped out.In this battle, more than 80 enemies were killed, more than 40 were captured, 7 light machine guns, 1 heavy machine gun, more than 100 rifles, 11 pistols, more than 80 bayonets, more than 110 grenades, and more than 2,000 silver dollars were captured.

The attack on the Kuomintang Zhanjiang Self-Defense Brigade was also fierce.Our army occupied the surrounding commanding heights and sealed the gate of the self-defense brigade.The enemy tried to forcefully seize the door several times to escape, but was repelled by our army's fierce firepower. The enemy suffered heavy casualties, so they had to retreat upstairs to resist.So, my assaulter set up a ladder and wanted to attack from the top of the building.But the ladder he brought was not long enough to climb the stairs, so he had to use firepower to restrain the enemy and prevent him from coming out. The commando who attacked the Inspectorate was blocked on the road, and after entering the city, the guide took the wrong road again, which delayed the fighter plane.But the enemies in the police station have lost contact with the enemies in various strongholds, and they can't figure out the situation in the city. They have been hiding in the building, which is good for me to control the enemy forces in Chikan. The commandos who attacked the bank entered the urban area late and attacked the central bank at dawn. They fought bravely and quickly wiped out the armed guards and broke into the warehouse. Harvest, had to rush to attack the Bank of China.Drawing lessons from the attack on the central bank, the commando first captured the bank manager and forced him to open the iron cabinet of the bank, thus successfully seizing a large number of Kuomintang banknotes and more than 25,000 Hong Kong dollars.It is a pity that the evacuation order has been received at this time, so we had to withdraw from the urban area on time. During the attack, our army once sent a detachment to capture the South Road spy chief Zhang Fusen, but because this guy was extremely cunning, he learned the lesson of being captured by our army in Puning and was almost shot. After he arrived in Zhanjiang, he acted secretly. Frequently changing the place of accommodation made my small team run out of space.Unexpectedly, by coincidence, when the attack started, our frontline command moved from the edge of the city to the urban area as the battle progressed, and it happened to be located near Zhang Fusen's secret accommodation. When he called, he was discovered by our army sentry.When I sent people to search for him, he tried to escape and was shot dead by our soldiers on the spot. In this battle, the People's Liberation Army of the Guangdong-Guangxi border area attacked the Kuomintang's reactionary lair in Zhanjiang with lightning speed, making the Kuomintang reactionary army frightened and forced to return to the defense city, reducing the pressure on the base areas. In September 1949, in order to wipe out the enemy's outlying strongholds, attack the main force of the Kuomintang army in Lianjiang County, consolidate local order, and welcome our army to go south, the 1st Detachment of the Guangdong-Guangxi Border Region Column ordered the 1st Regiment to eliminate the Shiling stronghold in Lianjiang County. enemy. Shiling is a small town located 40 kilometers west of Lianjiang County. It was the northwest barrier for the Kuomintang troops stationed in Lianjiang County at that time.Pulling out this stronghold will help liberate Lianjiang, Cut off the enemy's retreat.The Shiling stronghold guarding the enemy is the Kuomintang Chen Ruilin officer team. A total of the front team hides the food truck in the woods. The PLA warriors have returned victoriously. More than 250 people, most of whom are officers above the platoon, are well-trained and experienced in combat. They are also American style. equipment.The stronghold tower is strong, surrounded by moats, barbed wire fences are erected on the periphery, and densely covered with mines, the entire terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The combat mission to encircle and wipe out Shiling and defend the enemy was issued by Comrade Huang Mingde, commander and political commissar of the detachment, on September 24.Huang Mingde and Zhou Bin, the deputy political commissar, convened a meeting of the leading cadres of the 1st Regiment and the 16th Regiment of the 6th Brigade (the original 1st Regiment and the new 3rd Regiment) in Panlongtang Village to study the battle plan.The specific combat deployment is that the 1st regiment will be the main attack, first take the hilltop position, control the whole town, and then organize a commando to attack the city; the 16th regiment will be responsible for the reinforcements, and the troops will move to Dongzhai Village east of Shiling, and use the Jiuzhou River as a barrier to prepare to block the attack. Aiding the enemy from the direction of Liancheng.After our 1st regiment accepted the task, it decided to complete the encirclement of the enemy at the second dawn (September 26), causing the army to approach the city.In order to successfully complete the combat missions, the regiment leaders also held a combat meeting with the participation of the company commanders. They made specific deployments for the commandos and the combat missions of the companies and how to coordinate operations. Mountains to isolate and threaten enemies in strongholds. In the early morning of the 20th, the 1st regiment began to march towards Shiling. When our troops moved a few hundred meters away from Shiling Town, the enemy's forward guards discovered our army's actions.They fired at our army in a panic, and then all the gun towers and bunkers in Shiling Town also shot at our army from all directions.Intensive firepower blocked the way forward for our army.In order to reduce casualties and avoid premature exposure of strength, the regiment's front-line command post decided not to engage in frontal fire with the enemy, and ordered each company to take a squad as a unit, leap forward covertly, and gather at designated locations for standby.Give the order, and the squads move quickly.In just over 10 minutes, the troops safely passed through the enemy's fire blockade and arrived at the designated location, which is the scheduled starting position for the attack - the front line of Guan Gong Temple, completing the encirclement of the enemy. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the battle to attack Houshan started.Under the personal command of Comrade Chen Rongdian, the head of the regiment, the heavy machine guns of the 1st company were mounted on the second floor of the Volunteer Shrine, condescending, and fired at the enemy. As soon as the 1st company's gun fired, the 3rd company concentrated all its firepower to suppress the enemies in the trench and cover the 1st company's attack. In an instant, gunshots and grenade explosions rang together, and the 1st Company, which was ambushing on both sides of Guan Gong Temple in advance, took advantage of our powerful firepower, seized the fighter, and quickly charged towards the enemy's formation.When the Sharp Knife Squad rushed to a distance of more than 30 meters from the enemy bunker, a row of evil bullets were suddenly fired from the bunker, hitting the squad leader Li Cheng in the abdomen. He immediately fell to the ground and lay there forever on the land that was about to be liberated.The blood of the martyrs will not be shed in vain, and the flames of anger are burning in the hearts of the soldiers.The squad leader fell down, and the soldiers rushed forward bravely one after another, firing bullets at the enemy group one after another, and hand grenades exploded in the enemy's trenches, hitting the enemy's flesh and blood.The sharp knife class rushed up!The commandos rushed up!Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemy left several corpses and one wounded.I fled back to my lair embarrassingly along the traffic trench. The battle to seize the back mountain is over, which creates favorable conditions for our side to control the whole town, monitor the enemy's actions, control the enemy's firepower, and finally capture the stronghold.Taking advantage of the first step of victory, our army immediately launched a political offensive.Comrade Huang Mingde, the commander of the detachment, based on the strategic thinking of "attacking the heart first, and secondly attacking the city", arranged the land security in Shiling to be under the pawnshop wall to send a message to the enemy, asking them to send representatives out of the city to negotiate; Comrade Luo Yongji (the principal of Wenzhong at the time) who was working wrote a letter to Chen Ruilin, urging him to lead his troops to surrender and redeem themselves by meritorious deeds.At 2 o'clock in the afternoon that day, the enemy finally sent Lai Shuting, the mayor of Shiling Township, to talk to our army.Commander Huang explained our army's policy to Lai, pointing out that they have become entangled, and the only way out is to surrender.Otherwise, our army will completely, cleanly and completely wipe them out; and order him to reply before 7 pm that day. The enemy representatives left.Commander Huang Mingde and deputy political commissar Zhou Bin immediately convened a meeting with the leading comrades of the 1st regiment. Commander Huang clearly pointed out: We must beware of the enemy's tactics of delaying troops.The attention of our army must be placed on the careful battle deployment, and we must pay close attention to all preparations for the siege. If the enemy does not surrender, we must immediately attack the city according to the plan.Then, the regiment headquarters organized a commando team, consisting of more than 20 outstanding fighters selected from each company.Li Li, the commander of the 1st company, was the commander of the assault. The 1st and 2nd companies are the main attackers, the 3rd and 4th companies are working together, and the 5th and 6th companies are the reserve team. At 7 o'clock in the evening, the enemy showed no sign of surrender.The detachment headquarters issued a siege order. The enemy defending the city was panicked because the back mountain fell.In order to prevent our army from attacking the city at night, as soon as it was dark, they used intensive firepower to block the line of the suspension bridge, and the other three sides also fired at the same time, trying to prevent our army from approaching.Regardless of the enemy's fire blockade, our commanders and fighters quickly entered the scheduled attack position under the cover of night.In order to cover the advance of the commando team, we concentrated our firepower to suppress the enemy's firepower points in the two artillery towers in the northeast of the city. Under the cover of strong firepower, the commando team carried the ladder and other equipment to climb the city, seized the opportunity, and quickly rushed from the hidden area to the moat. The enemy discovered our army's attempt to cross the river, and the firepower became more fierce. Machine guns and rifles fired in unison, causing waves of spray in the water.Our army's battle across the river stopped temporarily.Swimming was blocked and the siege was affected.At this critical moment, Captain Chen Rongdian was extremely calm.After exchanging opinions with political commissar Zhong Yongyue, he immediately decided: 1. Each company stands by on standby, monitors the enemy, and cannot slack off fighting; 2. Reorganize the Commando; 3. The "Front Finger" of the regiment quickly reported the situation to the detachment headquarters and requested artillery support from the 16th regiment; 4. Prepare the equipment for crossing the river.Soon, there was a notice from Qi, the commander of the detachment, who decided to send artillery from the 16th regiment to support the battle of the 1st regiment, which greatly encouraged the commanders and fighters of the 1st regiment. In the morning of the next day, the artillery of the 16th Regiment, led by regimental commander Li Shude, arrived at the position of the 1st Regiment and quickly set up the artillery.Immediately, one after another shells flew towards the enemy camp, where the shells landed, bricks and stones flew across the blockhouse, and the enemy cried and howled.At this time, a white flag was unfurled from the artillery tower in the north of the city; then, a man who looked like an officer ran up the artillery tower and shouted in a trembling voice: "Brothers in the PLA, stop fighting. We are willing to surrender and disarm. Please send representatives to negotiate!" ..." In this way, the enemies entrenched in Xingling surrendered, Shiling was liberated, and this important town in Lianxi really returned to the hands of the people!In this battle, more than 250 enemy officers and soldiers were captured, 5 light machine guns, 2 heavy machine guns, more than 250 other guns, a batch of military supplies and hundreds of stones of food were captured.Our army sacrificed 1 person and injured 2 persons in the battle at Houshan. The victory in the Shiling battle united the entire northwestern region of Lianjiang, forcing Chen Junzhen, the puppet county magistrate, and Li Wo, the secretary of the Kuomintang party department, who were trapped in Lianjiang City, to abandon the city and flee to Zhanjiang.Our army immediately liberated the entire territory of Lianjiang, clearing away obstacles for our army going south. In July 1949, as the People's Liberation Army went south, Bai Chongxi, the commander of the "Central China Suppression General" of the Kuomintang, retreated steadily and began to flee to the Qinlian area and Leizhou Zha Island in the Guangdong-Guangxi border area, and fled to Hainan through this area Island signs. At this time, after the spring and summer offensives of 1949, except for Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, and Lianjiang in the Gaolei area, Fangcheng and Qin counties in the Shiwan mountain area, except for three or five major strongholds such as the county seat, all other Controlled by our army.Most of the villages in Hepu and Lingshan counties in the Liuwanshan Mountains are also controlled by our army.In order to open up the corridor from the Gaolei area to the Liuwanshan and Shiwan area, unite the base areas into one piece, do a good job of blocking the enemies fleeing south, welcome our liberation army to fight in the Guangdong-Guangxi border area, and prepare for the liberation of the entire border area, the Party Committee of the Guangdong-Guangxi Border Area of ​​the Communist Party of China In accordance with the instructions of the South China Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the development of the connection between the Gaolei area and the Liuwanshan and Shiwanshan Mountains, and to integrate the base areas into one, the deployment is active in Zhouzhou Peninsula and Lian (Jiang) Hua (county) Wu (Chuan) The 6th detachment, the main frontier force in the area, advanced into the Qinlian area, and asked the 3rd detachment in the Shiwanshan area to move eastward on the basis of consolidating and expanding the Fangcheng base area. The 4th detachment in the Liuwanshan area was in He (Pu) Ling (mountain) border area launched an offensive and responded to the action. At the beginning of July 1949, apart from the 18th Regiment of the 6th Detachment staying in the Leizhou Peninsula, the 16th and 17th Regiments were directly commanded by the detachment headquarters, starting from Lianjiang and advancing towards the Qinlian area.Before the 6th Detachment moved westward, under the command of the detachment commander Fu Zhixing, the 10th Regiment of the 4th Detachment captured Nali Town, an important stronghold in Qindong, wiped out 1 security battalion, and captured 87 people including Zhu Mengyue, the battalion commander Zhu Mengyue. The enemy effectively supported the actions of the six detachments.After the 6th detachment arrived at Baisha, Hepu, it joined with the 7th company of the 1st regiment led by Zhu Wei, the combat section chief of the 4th detachment who came to greet him, and pulled out the tiles located at the junction of the three counties of He (Pu), Lian (Jiang), and Bo (Bai). In Yaoling reactionary stronghold, more than 20 enemies were eliminated, and 1 light machine gun and 30 long and short guns were seized. However, after the battle at Wayaoling started, Lin Jingqiu, captain of the Hepu County Self-Defense Force, hurriedly led the self-defense brigade, together with the Gongguan District Squadron, Baisha Township Team, and more than 500 guards stationed in Longtan, Bobai County, came to reinforce Wayaoling. .As a result, we were repulsed in the area of ​​Pingya Camp in Baisha, killed and captured more than 60 enemies, and seized 1 light machine gun and more than 40 long and short guns.After the Battle of Wayaoling, the 6 detachments marched through the mansion to Jiuzhou Wei, which belongs to Hepu County, conquered Jiuzhou Wei, wiped out more than 30 defending enemies, killed its leader Ning Changgui, captured the township head Wu Xianchen alive, and handed over 1 light machine gun There are more than 20 long and short guns, and open warehouses to distribute food to the local people.During the attack on Jiuzhouwei, the enemy's Hepu County 1st Self-Defense Brigade came from the direction of Zhanghuang for reinforcements.Our army repelled it on the front line of Xinxu, and more than 20 people including Ding Yizhong, the captain of the death brigade, seized a batch of weapons.After the Jiuzhou battle, the 6th detachment moved to Ling (Shan) South. With the active assistance of the He (Pu) Ling (Shan) Border Area Working Committee and Tan Jun, director of the political department of the 4th detachment, they peacefully liberated Shrike, the second largest town in Lingnan. Wei, and helped organize the establishment of the Shrike Brigade (more than 300 people).Afterwards, they conquered the reactionary stronghold of Ping'an Township, entered Luwuwei, and successfully joined forces with the 10th and 12th Regiments of the 4 detachments that came. Then, Shen Hanying, secretary of the former committee, presided over an enlarged meeting of the former committee, summed up the fighting situation after the westward advance of the six detachments, and deployed the next action.After the meeting, the 17th Regiment of the 6th Detachment, with the assistance of the 7th Company of the 12th Regiment of the 4th Detachment, pulled out the reactionary stronghold of Lengshuitang (Qingtang Township, Qin County) in the Lingqin border area, captured Li Jinyu, the head of the enemy township, and seized a light machine gun , 18 long and short guns, and more than 10 prisoners. At the same time, 6 regiments of 16 regiments, 4 regiments of 10 regiments, 1st Battalion and the Shrike Battalion joined forces to attack Xichang Town, an important coastal town in the southwestern part of Hepu, and captured Li Rongjing, the captain of the 2nd Self-Defense Force of Hepu County, Wu Tianyue, the deputy captain, etc. 39 people, more than 20 enemies were killed and wounded, 1 light machine gun and more than 40 long and short guns were seized.After the fighting in Lengshuitang and Xichang Town, the 17th and 16th regiments of the 6th Detachment continued non-stop, starting from Lengshuitang and Xichang Town respectively, and advancing towards the Xiaodong area in the northeast of Qin County. The 4th detachment stayed in the Hepu Liangbei and Lingnan areas to remove the reactionary strongholds in the Qinheling border area. During the westward march of the 6th Detachment, the 3rd Detachment, on the basis of consolidating and expanding the Fangcheng base area, was ordered to advance eastward to Qin County in late July, and carried out three strikes on the way. The battle of the troops under its jurisdiction. On August 7, our eastward marching troops braved the scorching heat and arrived at Nadaxu, Qin County. Zhang Ruigui, who fled back to his old nest in Natong Village, Guitai, Qin County, immediately ordered more than 600 people from a battalion of the 2nd Security Regiment stationed in Dasi and a total of more than 600 reactionary militia groups to attack that day. dike. The 26th Regiment of the 3rd Detachment of our army fought back and gave the enemy a head-on blow, chasing the enemy for more than 10 kilometers. On the 10th, the 26th Regiment ambushed 7 of Zhang Ruigui's transport ships in water and land near Niupi Village and wiped out 1 enemy platoon. On the 12th, the 26th and 27th regiments encountered Zhang Ruigui's troops in Guantang Village again. After fighting for less than half an hour, they wiped out the second company of the Guangdong Security Independent Battalion.In the above three decisive battles, our army fought wittily and flexibly, killed and captured nearly 200 enemies, and captured 1 60-gun, 1 heavy machine gun, 8 light machine guns, more than 13 rifles, and 7 supplies.Zhang Ruigui fled back to Qin County in embarrassment. In mid-August, the eastward advance troops of the 3rd Detachment arrived in the northeast of Qin County and joined the 21st Regiment of the 3rd Detachment in Qin County.At the same time, 6 teams and 2 regiments entered the base area of ​​Bajia Village in the northeast of Qin County at the same time in two routes. On August 15, the 17th Regiment of the 6th Detachment captured the stronghold of the 2nd Dachonglingbao Regiment south of Xiaodong, liberated Xiaodong Town, a traffic pass on the Yongqin Highway, and successfully joined forces with the 21st, 26th, 27th, and 28th Regiment of the 3rd Detachment.At this time, the Front Committee held a second meeting. The meeting decided: sweep out the reactionary strongholds in Xiaodong, Pingji, Bancheng and Lingxinan, and Hebei border areas in Qin County, and establish the Qinheling Border Region with Xiaodong as the center. In the base area, guard the Yongqin Highway, cut off the connection between the enemies in Guangdong and Guangxi, and make preparations to block the fleeing enemies and welcome the army to go south. Among the reactionary strongholds in this area, the two strongholds of Banchengwei and United Family Village in Qin County are the most stubborn. There were 200 people in the self-defense brigade and the landlord's armed forces; the local reactionary leader Liu Futian was the head of the Bancheng Township and the self-defense brigade, and the head of the Mujia Village. The landlord's armed forces for tens of miles around Bancheng were all under his control.According to the situation of the enemy and ourselves, the front committee quickly made combat deployments: ordered 6 detachments and 16 regiments to attack Bancheng, 17 regiments to attack Mujiacun, and 3 detachments 21 and 27 regiments to be responsible for vigilance against Luwu and Xiaodong respectively. On the evening of September 12, the battle to attack Banchengwei started.I saw that the commanders and fighters of the 16th regiment quickly cleared the outer positions with lightning speed.Under the cover of intensive and effective firepower, the assault team approached bravely, set up a ladder to climb to the enemy gun tower, and fought down from the roof.The enemy was so dizzy that they were captured one after another. After the Battle of Bancheng started, the 17th Regiment's attack on Mu Family Village also began. The commanders and fighters of the 17th regiment surrounded the whole village while capturing the Caibei highland, and fought house-to-house with the enemy. The battle lasted until the afternoon of the second day, and the enemy retreated into a gun tower. The 27th Regiment of the 3rd Detachment used downward firepower to cooperate with the attack, and the bullets were like locusts.At the same time, a political offensive was launched against the enemy, and the fortress was finally captured.More than 50 enemies were killed in the two battles, 85 people under Liu Futian and his squadron leader were captured alive, 3 light machine guns and more than 40 long and short guns were seized; more than 30 people detained by Liu Futian were rescued, and our army only sacrificed 1 soldier .The next day, according to the demands of the masses, the People's Government of Qin County sentenced Liu Futian to death and executed him by shooting on the spot.All other captives were released after being educated. After the battles in Bancheng and Mujiacun, the three detachments carried out the battles of Najin, Rensi, Kubu, and Pingnan respectively, and wiped out a large number of the enemy's vital forces: in the one close battle alone, the 26 regiments of the three detachments wiped out the enemy. The 6th Guangxi Security Regiment strengthened a company with 134 people, and seized 6 heavy and light machine guns and 85 rifles. At the end of September, my southward liberation army had entered the territory of Guangdong Province and was approaching Guangzhou.In order to welcome the army going south and liberate the whole border area, the westward marching troops of my sixth detachment returned to Lianjiang successfully after receiving the order from the column. It took 3 months to open up the corridors of the Guangdong-Guangxi border area and unite the base areas into one combat operation. This operation was successfully concluded. A total of 20 major battles were carried out, 17 reactionary strongholds were removed, 1074 enemies were wiped out, and all kinds of troops were seized. There were 644 weapons, 11 warehouses were opened to distribute grain, and more than 10 towns and strongholds such as Wayaoling and Baishaxu were liberated. In late October 1949, the vanguard of the 4th Corps of our Southward Army advanced to the front lines of Huazhou and Lianjiang.Hundreds of people from the Lianjiang county government of the Kuomintang and its reactionary armed forces were terrified and fled to Zhanjiang by abandoning the city.So far, there are only two local reactionary forces left in Lianjiang, the Xiao Lianwang Joint Defense Brigade and the Yangwu Dam. At the end of October, after the liberation of Shiling Town, the 1st Regiment of the 1st Detachment of our Guangdong-Guangxi border area column was resting and waiting for orders near Liancheng. At 2 o'clock in the morning on November 3, the 1st regiment and the 1st detachment 3rd regiment (Guangxi Bobai's troop) received an order from Huang Mingde, the commander and political commissar of the detachment, asking them to go to Liangdong District before 7 o'clock that day to eliminate the Xiaolian bandits.At 3 o'clock in the morning, our troops set off quietly. After 4 hours of hard marching, they arrived at Dongqiao Village near Liangdongwei before dawn.District leaders and village cadres introduced the local enemy situation to Zhong Yongyue, political commissar of the 1st regiment, and others.At 8 o'clock in the morning, my team of more than 500 people set off from Dongqiao Village, and after an hour of rapid march, they arrived near Qiling Village at 9 o'clock in the morning.At a place 300 meters away from the village, the enemy suddenly fired at our army to prevent our army from advancing.The regiment headquarters ordered the troops to evacuate and hide nearby, and sent a reconnaissance team to understand the enemy's situation. At 10:00 in the morning, the regiment headquarters held a meeting of cadres above the company level, and formulated the following combat plan: 1. Concentrate firepower and seize the high ground; Clear the village and disperse the remnants of the enemy; Fourth, strengthen the political offensive to promote the division and disintegration of the enemy army.The specific deployment is: the 1st company and the 5th company of the 1st regiment are the main attackers; the 3rd company and the 4th company concentrate their firepower to support the attack on the mountain; At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, our army's attack on the high ground started. The 3rd company first concentrated its firepower to suppress and shoot the enemies on the high ground. The 4th Company carried out a fire blockade on the core fortifications in the village. Twenty minutes later, my 1st company of warriors attacked from the south.When the soldiers of our army in front rushed to the halfway up the mountain, more than 20 enemies in the village rushed to the foot of the mountain along the traffic trench in an attempt to reinforce the enemy on the high ground.The commander of our 1st company made a decisive decision and decided to annihilate and aid the enemy first, and then occupy the high ground. He ordered the 2nd row to the left and the 3rd row to the right to contain the enemies on the mountain with a small number of troops, resulting in a situation of flanking the more than 20 enemies on both sides. More than 20 enemies were quickly besieged at the foot of the mountain.Seeing that there was no way out, these guys had no choice but to raise their hands and obediently became prisoners.After 4:00 p.m., the regiment headquarters stepped up the preparations for the night assault, and at the same time took advantage of the gaps in the battle to launch a political offensive against the enemy and organize personnel to launch a front-line call.Under the influence of our military's political offensive.The enemy's firepower gradually weakened, and more than a dozen officers and soldiers rushed out of the position to surrender to our army. At this time, the commando of the 1st Regiment and the reconnaissance team of the Southward Army touched the gun tower and were about to attack the gun tower.Xiao Lian, the captain of the enemy defense brigade, saw that the situation was over, and was afraid of becoming a prisoner, so he and his father disguised themselves as farmers and fled.His men cried out in the chaos and promised to surrender. In this battle, our army killed and wounded more than 10 enemies. More than 140 officers and soldiers surrendered from the enemy. batch.