Chapter 9 Chapter 9

December 5th.The war room of Xiao Lizhuang of the General Front Committee was busy.The radio "tick-tick-tick" kept ringing, and command personnel and confidential personnel came in and out here in an endless stream.Deng Xiaoping, secretary of the General Front Committee, spoke with a strong Sichuan accent, and solemnly issued a general attack order to the Huangwei Corps: "From 4:30 p.m. on the 6th, the general attack on the enemy will begin across the board." "The Chenxie Group is to wipe out the enemies in Shenzhuang, Zhangweizi, and Zhangzhuang areas; the Xilian Group is to wipe out the enemies in the Sanguanmiao, Maweizi, Yuwangmiao, and Xuzhuang areas; the Wangdu Group is to wipe out the enemies in the south of Shuangduiji. The enemies of Wangmiao, Zhaozhuang and the former Zhouzhuang, Zhouzhuang, and Songzhuang to the west should each control the above-mentioned areas, and then make a general attack on both sides to wipe out the enemy."

A unit of the Central Plains Field Army moved along the communication trenches toward Shenzhuang, Zhangzhuang, and Zhangweizi. "All ministries should make the greatest sacrifices to ensure the completion of tasks, and must promptly and proactively assist friendly ministries to win." When the pointer on the horseshoe watch placed in Xiaolizhuang's war room pointed to 4:30, our army's fierce offensive artillery roared suddenly, shaking the mountain immediately.Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping looked at each other with knowing smiles on their faces. The Central Plains Field Army has launched a general offensive from the arduous blocking battle to this moment, and has suffered more than 20,000 casualties.However, the whole army enthusiastically responded to the decisive battle order of the heads of Liu and Deng to "take down Huang Wei, go straight to Nanjing, and liberate the whole of China", and the enthusiasm and morale were high.The heroic fighters tempered in the Dabie Mountains and the Huangwei Corps armed with American equipment opened the curtain of the desperate battle in Shuangduiji.

The small red flags were like drops of bright red blood, stained on the map of the war room of the General Front Committee of Xiaolizhuang.The 1st Battalion of the 35th Regiment of the 12th Brigade in Southern Shaanxi and the enemy repeatedly competed for Xiaoli Village more than 10 times. More than 200 commanders and fighters fought until only 40 remained, while more than 1,000 enemy corpses were trampled under their feet.With the cooperation of the East China Field Army, the Central Plains Field Army adopted the method of pressing step by step and peeling the skin layer by layer to eliminate the enemy.The nets on the east, west, and south sides became tighter and tighter. Among them, the southern line was in the direction of Huang Wei's breakout, so the fighting situation was even more brutal.That night, Chen Geng attacked Li Tulou 4, and Cheng Jun attacked Xiaozhouzhuang 7. The two regiments of the 4th vertical conquered the intended target in only one hour that night, wiped out all the enemy's 69th regiment, and captured more than a thousand enemies.

The offensive troops avoid the fierce firepower of the enemy, and adopt a large number of trenches and traffic trenches to extend to the enemy's position and narrow the encirclement of the enemy.After a battle on the periphery, our army finally smashed the shell of Huang Wei's "hard walnut" and approached the core position of the enemy's 18th army-Shuangduiji.In order to get close to Shuangdui, our army carried out approaching operations day and night, and countless traffic trenches meandered towards the enemy's position like a long dragon. The 18th Army of the Kuomintang guarding Shuangdui was troubled by this.At the beginning, every night, elite officers and soldiers were selected, and a group of five or six people took turns to attack our army that was approaching. advance forward.

Under such circumstances, Yang Botao ordered the 18th Army to use the same method as our army to build a traffic trench in front of the position and block our army's traffic trench head-on, in an attempt to delay our army's approach to its position.For a while, the enemy and the enemy carried out a traffic trench excavation battle of approaching operations and counter-approaching operations.However, the enemy soldiers were hungry and cold, weak in health, and the progress of the work was extremely slow. Some even gave up after digging a few shovels. At this time, Hu Lian called Yang Botao to the Corps headquarters and said to him: "Nanjing has an extremely top-secret plan. It has decided to use poison gas to wipe out the Communist army on a large scale, and plans to use planes to release poisonous gas around the Corps' positions. You go back and arrange it secretly. Now, prepare the land and air contact signals, and mark out our positions." Two days later, Chen Zhixuan, the chief of staff of the enemy station, went to Yang Botao and said: Nanjing has dropped a batch of poisonous gas bombs, and Huang Wei ordered them to Most of them were distributed to the 18th Army, and some were distributed to the 10th Army. Please ask Yang Botao, the ordnance officer, to go and collect them.The ordnance officer took people to collect more than 200 poisonous gas bombs and returned them. When he opened one of the boxes, he saw that each of these poison gas bombs was equipped with a launcher. There is an instruction manual in the box, indicating that the bomb should be fired at a 45° angle, and the maximum range is about 300 meters.Yang Botao distributed these poisonous gas bombs to the 118th and 11th Divisions.

After Yang Botao got these "secret weapons", he really became more courageous.These days, he was scared of being beaten.As of December 3, the Huangwei Corps was besieged by our Central Plains Field Army troops for 9 days and nights, with a loss of nearly 30,000 troops.Huang Wei is also relying on his 18th Army to support the situation. The 18th Army soon formed a multi-layered, complete and difficult-to-split ring defense network with dozens of strongholds as the backbone in an area of ​​about 5 kilometers in length and width.Each stronghold is composed of multi-layer bunkers, shelters, deer villages and vertical and horizontal traffic trenches to form a three-dimensional defense.In addition to defending here, the 18th Army continued to attack our army.The terrain of this place is particularly complicated. With Shuangduiji as the core, Huang Wei and Yang Botao controlled almost every inch of the land with various artillery, light and heavy machine guns, and flamethrowers by relying on more than 20 small villages around them and relying on their group fortifications.This is what the enemy calls "hard walnut tactics."

Once these places, especially Dawangzhuang and Jiangudui, are occupied by our army, the southern gate leading to the enemy's core position will be opened.However, the 18th Army tried its best and failed to stop our army's offensive. On the evening of December 9th, after our army made long-term artillery preparations for defending Dawangzhuang against the enemy, our attacking troops quickly broke into Dawangzhuang following the barrage, and attacked the 33rd Regiment of the 118th Division of the enemy's 18th Army, known as the "Hero Regiment", through the traffic trenches. The Zhuang position launched a fierce attack, the enemy was routed, most of them were wiped out, and the rest surrendered one after another. The regiment leader Sun escaped alone, and Hu Lian dismissed him for investigation.

The loss of the Dawangzhuang position shocked Huang Wei and Hu Lian. They believed that the 18th Army's position could not be lost and must be taken back.Therefore, Yang Botao was ordered to mobilize troops to retake Dawangzhuang.Yang Botao mobilized a regiment from the 11th Division to use all the available troops of the 118th Division, and concentrated all the howitzers and mountain artillery to launch a fierce attack on our Dawangzhuang position.Dawangzhuang was immediately submerged in billowing smoke.The enemy started shelling at 00:30, dropping thousands of rounds within 54 minutes.

Before the smoke cleared, the soldiers of the enemy's 18th Army, driven by officers wielding pistols, rushed into the village and started hand-to-hand combat with our soldiers.The enemy army and our army rushed back and forth in the smoke and mist, fought each other, and fought house by house, house by house, wall by ditch.After a day of fierce fighting, the enemy's 18th Army failed to drive our army out of Dawangzhuang, and our army still guarded a corner of Dawangzhuang, standing still.When night fell, the enemy's 18th Army was afraid of our army's night offensive, so it withdrew to its original position.Without taking back Dawangzhuang, Yang Botao was afraid that Huang Wei and Hu Lian would blame him, so he falsely claimed that the counterattack had wiped out the four regiments of the People's Liberation Army.Huang Wei and Hu Lian, who didn't know the truth, rewarded Chiang Kai-shek on the one hand.

Jiangudui in the southeast of Shuangduiji is the commanding height of Shuangduiji, and it is also the main position to prevent our army from attacking.Huang Wei built a strong fortification on this high ground.To capture Shuangduiji, our army must capture Jiangudui.On the second day after the battle of Dawangzhuang, our army took advantage of the momentum and launched a fierce attack on Jiangudui.A regiment of the enemy's 18th Army defending on the high ground suffered heavy casualties. Seeing that the position was about to be captured by our army, Hu Lian ordered to release gas poisonous gas on our army, and most of our soldiers who were attacking died heroically.

The enemy's brutal actions in violation of the Geneva Conventions angered our military leaders at all levels.In order to combat the enemy's arrogance, our army concentrated a large number of artillery and bombarded Jiangudui violently. Countless shells flew towards the enemy's formation with revenge.For a time, the Jiangu pile became a sea of ​​flames.Within a few days, Huang Wei changed three commanders in Jiangudui, but failed to hold on. In the end, Jiangudui was conquered by our army in one fell swoop. After our army occupied the commanding height of Jiangudui, Huang Wei felt very panicked and quickly ordered Yang Botao to regain the position at all costs.Therefore, Yang Botao mobilized all his troops, including the secret service battalion, artillery battalion, and engineer battalion, and launched a group charge to Jiangudui, but was hit head-on by our army.Huang Wei, who is rich in military experience, saw that the situation was not good, and quickly ordered his fast column and the 18th Army headquarters to shrink to the vicinity of the Corps headquarters. Under the powerful offensive of our army, the defensive position of the Huangwei Corps is shrinking day by day, and the People's Liberation Army is approaching every day! Every night, under the cover of night, the soldiers lined up and marched forward in a serpentine shape.When they were sixty or seventy meters away from the enemy, they all lay down together and started digging.In the blink of an eye, many horizontal foxholes were dug, and then dug from horizontal to kneeling and vertical. They connected with each other and formed a line. With bunkers and air-raid shelters, they formed a complete offensive position and approached the enemy from all directions. Seeing this, Yang Botao, commander of the enemy's 18th Army, said very worriedly: "The communist army digs fortifications at night and advances tens of meters, or even one or two hundred meters a night. How can our little territory stand up to their continuous efforts?" Cannibalize!" What Yang Botao said was the truth.The people in Shuangduiji had a vivid metaphor for the shrinking defensive positions of the Huangwei Corps.They said: "Huang Wei came to Shuangduiji and became the head of the district first, then the head of the township, and then became the head of the village." After our army captured Jiangudui, Huang Wei's corps headquarters was directly threatened by our artillery fire.Huang Wei huddled in the shelter all day long, terrified all day long.He regretted that he had come to the East China battlefield. Since the formation of the 12th Corps, it has been fighting in Henan and the Dabie Mountains adjacent to Henan and Hubei for more than a year. It has been old enemies with Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping.After entering the Xubeng battlefield this time, the 12th Corps has come to an end.First of all, the 12th Corps set off from Queshan in a hurry. At the time of departure, all the armies were not fully prepared. The personnel, weapons, food and supplies were not fully dispatched and raised, and the officers and soldiers were depressed. They were constantly blocked by the People's Liberation Army along the way, and they were very tired. .Marching thousands of miles, people are exhausted and horses are exhausted, which violates the taboo of military strategists that "those who seek profit for a hundred miles will lose their generals".After finally entering the Xubeng battlefield, he was beaten dizzily by the People's Liberation Army. Not only did he have no rear supply line, but also no friendly army to help him. He fought alone and was trapped in two piles. What the hell is this fight!Thinking of this, Huang Wei, who has always been arrogant and arrogant, couldn't help sighing in despair: "If you don't know where to fight, you don't know when to fight, how can you be defeated!" At this time, the sound of guns and guns outside stopped, and there was a rare moment of silence.Huang Wei felt that his waist was numb after sitting for too long, so he put on his coat and walked out of the shelter. When the heavily armed guard standing at the door saw the commander come out, he hurriedly snapped to attention.Huang Wei walked forward along the trench outside the bunker with a dazed expression. Coming to a ridge, Huang Wei half leaned there, looking up to the sky.Due to the long time without light, his cloudy eyes felt a little stinging, he blinked his eyes, and looked towards the distant position again.In his field of vision, a piece of ruined walls and bare tree poles appeared.In front of the remnant wall, lay several corpses of soldiers who had been blasted to pieces.Huang Wei felt sick for a while. "Commander, it's dangerous outside. Communist artillery shells will fly in at any time." At some point, Wu Shaozhou, deputy commander and commander of the 85th Army, came to Huang Wei's side. Huang Wei turned his head, looked at Wu Shaozhou, said nothing, turned around and walked towards the shelter, Wu Shaozhou followed closely.Just when they reached the entrance of the shelter, a shell flew over with a sharp whistle, landed not far from the shelter and exploded. The flying shrapnel hit the head of a guard next to Huang Wei. Howled and fell down.When Huang Wei walked into the shelter, he was afraid for a while. In such a situation, Huang Wei felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles, and his days felt like years.He clearly knew that the number of mobile troops in his hands was getting smaller and smaller, and it was difficult to even deploy a row. As long as a gap was opened, it would be difficult to fill it.The commanders of the army directly commanded the battle in the village where they were stationed. Once the position was breached, there was no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. They were either killed or injured, or bowed their heads and were captured.In such a precarious situation, Huang Wei is still unwilling to fail like this.So he sent someone to invite Hu Lian, the deputy commander, and said to Hu Lian: "Brother Boyu, you have seen that the current situation is very unfavorable. The Communist army surrounded our troops in this tiny place. Some of my brothers, what will happen in the long run. I want to send you to Nanjing immediately to report to the principal and receive good advice. What do you think?" "Brother Pei, what will you do when I go back to Nanjing?" Hu Lian looked at the haggard Huang Wei and said worriedly. "Hey, I don't care about that much now. I just hope that you will go to see the principal quickly and ask for reinforcements. In this way, you and my brothers will still have a chance to meet again. Otherwise, the 12th Corps will probably lose brother Huanran." It's over." Suddenly, Huang Wei seemed to have a premonition, changed his tone, and said sadly: "Boyu, don't come back after you go. Since I am in a dangerous situation, I have already put life and death aside Yes. If one day I become a benevolent, you can still regroup and serve the party and the country." Huang Wei paused, his voice dropped an octave, and continued: "If that is the end, please take care of my family members. A support." Hu Lian knew Huang Wei's temper, so he stopped talking and slowly stretched out his right hand to him: "Brother Pei, you must take care of it!" "Go, go!" Huang Wei couldn't tell whether he was crying or laughing on his face. Hu Lian turned around and left the shelter, and walked towards the temporary airport with heavy steps. The small plane took off crookedly on the runway of the temporary airport, circled over Shuangduiji, and flew towards Nanjing.This day is December 7th. After Hu Lian went to Nanjing to ask for help, he was almost the first to go, and our army began to consider plans to increase troops. War is brutal.Anything can happen in war.In the battle to encircle and wipe out Huang Wei, after layers of skinning battles, most of Huang Wei's main force has been wiped out by our Central Plains Field Army troops, and the number of troops he can use for assault operations is unexpectedly less than six regiments.The Central Military Commission judged the situation and decided to concentrate its efforts to wipe out the Huangwei Corps first.The General Front Committee understood and ordered the East China Field Army to besiege the Du Yuming Group with 10 columns, and then mobilize some troops to go south to quickly solve the Huangwei Corps.The General Front Committee decided that Chen Shiju, chief of staff of the East China Field Army, would lead the 3rd Column, 11th Column, and Luzhongnan Column to participate in the encirclement and annihilation campaign against the Huangwei Corps. On the night of December 10th, the two heads of the 3rd vertical, Sun Jixian and Ding Qiusheng, went to the General Front Committee to accept tasks.Considering that Huang Wei is Chiang Kai-shek's direct line of troops, and his 18th Army is one of Chiang Kai-shek's five main forces, in order to speed up the demise of Huang Wei's corps, the General Front Committee asked the 3rd Column, 11th Column, and Lu Zhongnan Column to help light the fire .Commander Liu Bocheng instructed to send effective troops to join the battle from the 6th vertical section of the Central Plains Field Army.Later, Commander Chen Yi worriedly told the two of them that the three of you will take charge of the assault this time, and don't forget that you represent the East China Field Army. It is the greatest support for brotherly troops; secondly, we must humbly learn from brotherly troops and take the initiative to unite; thirdly, all captured spoils, ranging from weapons and ammunition to captives, as small as daily necessities and paper, must all be handed over to brotherly troops , No one is allowed to "lay an ambush". A few days later, at dusk, the battle to attack Huangwei Corps began. One battalion each from the 3rd and 6th verticals launched an attack on the enemy's core group fortifications on the east side of Shuangduiji side by side. This stronghold is only two kilometers away from Huang Wei's corps headquarters, and it is the last barrier to its southeast.In order to defend, the enemy built thick earth polders, forming a circular defense with many bunkers as the backbone.Six tentacles-like corporate fortresses protrude from the outside of the polder.Inside the polder is a complicated traffic trench, densely packed with honeycomb-like foxholes and shelters, and the enemy's mobile forces can drop along the trench to any breached gap at any time.The 54th Regiment of the 18th Division, an elite unit of the Huangwei Corps, is in charge of defense here.This regiment was the main force of the original 11th Division, known as the "Weihu Regiment", also known as the "Tiger Regiment", and it was the unit that Huang Wei relied on at that time. Firepower preparations began at 3:50 p.m. on the 14th. Before the attack, I bombarded the enemy's positions with powerful artillery fire for two hours. All our commanders and fighters brought enough grenades and explosives. When they saw the enemy, they would fight and blow up the bunker. , The potential is the same as that of a tiger.Defending the enemy is also very tenacious. Not only did they organize several consecutive counterattacks, but they were also dying in the besieged bunker.When the enemy's counterattack was at its craziest, almost every few minutes, our army's attacking troops sent out a signal flare to request artillery support.With the coordination of infantry and artillery, the powerful artillery fire has effectively supported the development of the assault force. The battle lasted for more than two hours, and the "tiger regiment" was completely wiped out by our army. Hu Lian flew to Nanjing, hurried to the presidential palace to meet Chiang Kai-shek, and reported the situation of being besieged.After Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he spoke in a Zhejiang accent and said unhurriedly: "The reinforcements I transferred have arrived in Pukou, and they will soon go to Bengbu to join Li Yannian's regiment and go north to relieve your encirclement. Follow-up troops will also arrive one after another. I hope you will continue Continue to hold on for a while." After hearing this, Hu Lian groaned inwardly, and a thought flashed through his mind: The 12th Corps is over. At 6:30 that night, Chiang Kai-shek invited Hu Lian to the presidential residence for dinner, and invited Chief of Staff Gu Zhutong, Deputy Chief of Staff Lin Wei, Deputy Commander of the Air Force Wang Shuming, Song Xilian, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Central China "Suppression General" and Jiang Jingguo, etc. people.How could Hu Lian have any thoughts on eating, his mind was full of things. Chiang Kai-shek is much older these days, thin and haggard, and seems to be thinking about his own thoughts and rarely speaks.Sometimes he made gestures and greeted his students to eat.Everyone just held their bowls and ate in silence, except for the occasional sound of chopsticks touching the edge of the bowl, which made people tremble. After a while, Chiang Kai-shek let out a sigh of relief and put down his chopsticks.His students said in a hurry: "Principal, you have to take care of your health." Chiang Kai-shek looked at everyone, hesitant to speak. After dinner, Chiang Kai-shek invited all the generals to watch a movie.Everyone sat down, the projector sounded "tap-tap-tap", and a bright beam of light was projected on the screen, and the title of the film - "Wen Tianxiang" was released.The generals are naturally dumb eating wontons - they know it well.Chiang Kai-shek often talked about patriotic generals such as Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang to his students, and asked his students and even the entire "national army" to serve him loyally and serve the country.When the battle of Xu Bang was in danger, everyone knew what it meant for Chiang Kai-shek to show "Wen Tianxiang". After watching the movie, Chiang Kai-shek stood up slowly from his seat, nodded to everyone, walked up to Hu Lian, shook hands, and said, "Boyu, I've thought twice, but you still break through." After speaking, he walked out of the auditorium . The generals didn't come back to their senses until Chiang Kai-shek's back disappeared at the door, and looked at each other in blank dismay. Before Hu Lian left, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the attendants to send a batch of tobacco, alcohol, and fruits to condolences to Huang Wei and other generals.This time when Hu Lian came to Nanjing, Huang Wei and other generals advocated that Hu Lian should not return to Shuangduiji to die with everyone, and asked him to clean up the mess and deal with the aftermath.But Hu Lian is indeed considered a bloody soldier, and he doesn't want to live in peace at this time, and Chiang Kai-shek also hopes that Hu Lian will return to Shuangduiji to help Huang Wei save the crisis on the Xu Bang battlefield. Hu Lian took a small plane back to Shuangduiji, where the war was raging and the smoke was filled. However, what Hu Lian brought to Huang Wei and other generals of the 12th Corps was only real tobacco, wine and fruit. After seeing Huang Wei, Hu Lian immediately informed him of Chiang Kai-shek's decision to approve the 12th Corps' breakout.Huang Wei scratched his head ponderingly, and said: "We must obtain the support of the air force and the support from the direction of Guzhen, so that our army can act." Hu Lian nodded in agreement, and added: "Sufficient ammunition must be dropped by air." He Seeing Huang Wei's expression of approval, he said: "I will ask the principal for help immediately." After speaking, he dictated a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek to the combat staff. After Chiang Kai-shek received Hu Lian's telegram, he fully agreed. He said that he would personally supervise the implementation, let the air force provide support, and throw in enough food and ammunition. Even though it was a empty promise, Hu Lian and Huang Wei still felt a little more at ease in their hearts.These days, they have been concentrating one battalion to two regiments every day, and under the cover of tank soldiers, artillery and air force, they are constantly counterattacking.At the same time, Huang Wei clearly knew that his troops were no longer able to fight anymore, and now the area he could defend was less than 1.5 kilometers away.When the People's Liberation Army launched a fierce attack, Chiang Kai-shek wrote a personal letter to Huang Wei and his army commanders, signed a "reward order" to all officers and soldiers of the 12th Corps, and airdropped it to his position together with the gas bomb instructions that had been prepared.However, the officers and soldiers of the Huangwei Corps regarded Chiang Kai-shek's "reward order" as a "reminder", and when they saw this "reminder", they knew that it was almost over.After thinking about it carefully, it is not unreasonable. Chiang Kai-shek knew to issue a "reward order" as soon as the troops were in danger.What is it if it is not a reminder.The biggest wish in Huang Wei's heart is to hope that Chiang Kai-shek's promise can be fulfilled this time. Under Huang Wei's repeated requests, in order to save Huang Wei's corps and make him break out of the encirclement, Chiang Kai-shek finally ordered the airdrop of grain bombs to Shuangduiji, and instructed the air force to drop erosive gas bombs.Later, Minister of Communications Yu Dawei said to Chiang Kai-shek: "The use of erosive gas bombs is prohibited by public international law." After listening to Yu Dawei's words, Chiang Kai-shek changed the name again, then threw tear gas bombs, and said: "This is not a poison bomb, it can be used." But what Chiang Kai-shek said was what he said, and what he did was what he did. At dusk, the afterglow of the setting sun added a bit of desolation to this open area. Huang Wei's 12th Corps was shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere and despair.The wounded could not be healed, and the corpses of the dead were not buried. It was very miserable inside and outside the barracks, and the cold weather made people even less motivated to fight.In contrast, on the side of the People's Liberation Army, the light of torches is everywhere, and there are front teams everywhere. At this time, our army learned from an intercepted letter from Huang Wei to Wang Shuming, deputy commander of the Air Force, that Huang Wei could no longer support it. After the roar of guns and artillery, our army started a new round of political offensive, and the voice of our army's "Urging Huang Wei to Surrender Immediately" sounded from the loudspeakers on the ground: General Huang Wei: Now most of the four armies you belong to have been wiped out, and the 85th army has been completely wiped out except for a few personnel. The 14th Army belongs to only 2,000 people, and more than two-thirds of the 10th Army has been wiped out. Even the ace 18th Army you rely on has been wiped out by more than half.Your entire regiment was wiped out in just a few days.And the Sun Yuanliang corps you hoped for reinforcements has been completely wiped out; the two corps of Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi have fallen into a tight siege and have suffered heavy losses. They cannot protect themselves and will be wiped out.Li Yannian's corps was blocked by our army and was still 80 miles away. Now it was difficult to move an inch and suffered heavy casualties.Under such circumstances, if you yourself and your subordinates make desperate resistance, not only will there be no way out, they can only be completely destroyed under the intense artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army.As the commander of the corps, you should cherish the lives of your subordinates, lay down your weapons immediately, and stop letting your officers and soldiers make unnecessary sacrifices.If you accept our last warning, please immediately send representatives to this headquarters to negotiate the conditions of surrender. The time is urgent, please make a decision immediately. Under the powerful political offensive of our army, the morale of the Huangwei Corps fluctuated, and whole companies and battalions surrendered to our army with weapons. Huang Zihua, the commander of the 25th Division of the 85th Army, brought two regiments and their division headquarters at once. of troops.However, Huang Wei was still extremely stubborn, refusing to surrender, and prepared to release poison gas on our army in order to break through. As the sky gradually darkened, a few American jeeps passed through thousands of torches, and the flames, streams of people, and cars continued to flow. This hot scene was in stark contrast to the desolation and desolation of the enemy's positions.The leaders of Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi and Deng Xiaoping, who were sitting in the car, were very excited. After inspecting the situation on the battlefield, the jeep drove to the headquarters of the 1st column. That night, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, Commander Yang Yong of the 1st Column, and Political Commissar Su Zhenhua studied the combat plan for attacking Shuangduiji in the column headquarters, and decided to divide into three groups to launch the final general attack on Shuangduiji. Mainly, it was changed to the command of the East China Field Army Chief of Staff Chen Shiju, and the 3rd and 13th Columns of the East China Field Army were transferred to join the South Group to fight, and the East and West groups cooperated.Breakthroughs were made from the south and east respectively.All the special longitudinal artillery of the East China Field Army of the campaign reserve team were put into battle. On December 14, our army divided into three groups to attack Shuangduiji. In the fierce battle until the night of the 14th, the South Group captured the southern end of the enemy's temporary airport and Jiangudui, and the East Group captured Yanglaowuzhuang and Yangziquanzhuang, so that Huang Wei's core position was completely exposed. On December 15, after several days of hard thinking, Huang Wei worked out a 16-character breakout plan.He called together the commanders of the various armies and conveyed his breakout plan of "opening bows from all sides, attacking from all sides, finding cracks, and breaking out of the encirclement". Everyone in the army knows that their time is numbered. According to Huang Wei, the People's Liberation Army focused on the south and east to block the way to Bengbu, so the west and north must be the weak links in the rear, and the force will not be too strong. Therefore, he put the main breakthrough direction on The three directions of west, north and east were determined to break out at night. Chiang Kai-shek was shocked when he received the breakout plan reported by Huang Wei.Chiang Kai-shek believes that it is difficult for ground troops to break out without the support and cover of the air force to break out at night.Chiang Kai-shek ordered Wang Shuming, deputy commander of the Air Force, to fly to Shuangduiji immediately to stop Huang Wei's plan to break out overnight.But Huang Wei couldn't listen to anyone's words at this time. This was the only and last time he disobeyed Chiang Kai-shek's order. After several days of preparation and survival instinct, Huang Wei still quickly made up his mind and broke through overnight.He announced the combat deployment without hesitation: After the whole army broke through the encirclement, they all rushed to Fengtai, Anhui immediately, and assembled again after rendezvous. The 10th Army: The 75th Division and the remnants of the 114th Division broke through to the east, broke out of the encirclement and headed south to Bengbu. The 18th Division broke through to the northeast corner. For the 18th Army: the 11th Division broke through to the west, and Huang Wei, Hu Lian, and Wu Shaozhou personally commanded the chariots to open the way forward. The 118th Division and all artillery and engineering remnants broke through to the northwest. As soon as the order was issued, all officers and soldiers of the 12th Corps felt heavy and nervous.This breakout only had a general goal and direction, and no one knew what the specific regulations were, so everyone had to make their own escape plans.Later, the ministries stopped communicating with each other, and even the telephone lines were disconnected. At the same time, the attacking troops of our army on the opposite side have also made preparations and are waiting in full force. On the morning of the 15th, apart from enemy planes circling over Shuangduiji and hastily dropping a few bombs on our forward positions for a brief bombardment, there was almost no major battle. In the afternoon, the enemy planes began to bombard our positions indiscriminately, and then from all directions, dense enemy columns and a large number of enemy tanks broke through the encirclement, some of which were followed by many vehicles. Judging from the enemy's formation, the focus of the enemy's breakthrough is mainly on the 1st column. Yang Yong, the commander of the 1st column, and Pan Yan, the chief of staff, reported to the headquarters while commanding the operations separately.All of a sudden, the phone in the column headquarters rang one after another, and good news came one after another. It was all about how many thousand people were captured here, and how many guns were captured there.At this moment, the 1st Vertical Command received a report from the guard company that an enemy tank had rushed to the road east of the command post. At the same time, Commander Yang and Political Commissar Su Zhenhua both heard the rumble of the tank engine.They judged that this might be the enemy's senior officer breaking through with a tank, and immediately ordered troops to intercept, but the enemy tank had already driven southwest along the road. 1 Zong did not make a wrong judgment.Although Huang Wei and Hu Lian did not carry out Chiang Kai-shek's order, they were still afraid that they would not get the support of the Air Force for night operations in tanks. When the various ministries were preparing to break out, they ordered the 11th Division and only six tanks to carry out the attack at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. To break through, Huang Wei and Hu Lian took one each, mixed with other tanks and rushed out. Unexpectedly, our army had been prepared for a long time, Huang Wei and Hu Lian did not let his troops know about Huang Wei's and Hu Lian's early actions.The sound of gunfire on the western front came one after another, Huang Wei had no time to think about it, and decided to fight to the death. After Huang Wei and Hu Lian's breakthrough gunshots fired ahead of time, the other units of the 12th Corps rushed out in a panic as soon as they got the news. At dusk, the sky is getting darker, leaving only a smear of setting sun in the west like blood.Huang Wei only felt that today's dusk was full of dangers. Today's dusk was different from the previous dusk. There were bursts of gunshots everywhere on the battlefield.Huang Wei's heart was extremely agitated. While the tanks were marching, Huang Wei saw that the two tanks rushing forward, one drove into the river, and the other fell into the trench, and became prisoners of our army one after another.Seeing that the situation was not good, he turned around and drove back without even having time to identify the direction. After a night of assault, Huang Wei failed to find a breakthrough, and hit walls everywhere.Seeing that the sky was slowly getting brighter again, he still couldn't break out of the encirclement.At this time, the roar of the plane sounded again in the sky, followed by thick smoke and explosions.Huang Wei immediately understood that it was the air force who came to support him.Huang Wei and Hu Lian regained their spirits and ordered the tank to rush out. It didn't take long for Huang Wei and Hu Lian's tanks to rush towards our army's position. They fired at full speed, rushed southward regardless of enemy and friend, and fled for their lives in the direction of Bengbu. After finally escaping from the battlefield, Huang Wei and Hu Lian had no troops following them except for a few drivers.After driving a long distance, Huang Wei and Hu Lian both jumped out of the car. They said goodbye desolately, and made a simple appointment to meet up in Chu County. Huang Wei's tank headed southwest, while Hu Lian headed for Fleeing to the south, we broke up. The tank that Hu Lian was riding in just drove not far along the main road leading to Bengbu when a militia team came in front of him. Tanks pass.Seeing this, Hu Lian hurriedly urged the driver to drive quickly.The militiamen were choked by the smoke and dust from the tanks, and they all complained that the guy driving the tank was too reckless. Hu Lian roared away all the way until noon, when the tank ran out of fuel, and then stopped in a remote field, and fled to Bengbu with the support of two drivers. Besides, Huang Wei was not as lucky as Hu Lian.Just after driving not far, the engine of the tank broke down.Huang Wei was so frightened that he climbed out of the tank and plunged into a wheat field.Not long after he lay on the ground, he was captured by two PLA soldiers with guns. "what is your job?" "I am the secretary of the 14th Army's military department." Afterwards, he, who pretended to be the captain secretary, was escorted back to the prisoner's shelter.When registering in the asylum, Huang Wei wrote in the register: "Fang Zhengxin, from Yiyang, Jiangxi, Secretary of the 14th Army's Captain." When he was interrogated, he was asked when he joined the army and what How much is the monthly salary, Huang Wei can not answer for a long time. Later, Li Yongzhi, a new soldier who had worked as a groom for Huang Wei, recognized him.At this time, Huang Wei could no longer hide it, so he had to admit: "I am Huang Wei." At this point, Huang Wei became a prisoner of our army. Yang Botao, commander of the 18th Army, and Wu Shaozhou, deputy commander of the Corps and commander of the 85th Army, were also captured successively. Only Hu Lian fled back to Bengbu in embarrassment, and the entire 12th Corps was wiped out. The People's Liberation Army wiped out more than 125,000 members of the Huangwei Corps, and seized the seal of Huang Wei, the commander of the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army The news of the complete annihilation of the Huangwei Corps spread to Nanjing, and everyone was shocked.Chiang Kai-shek flipped through newspaper reports on the front with trembling hands.In the room, Gu Zhutong and He Yingqin were silent like cicadas, not daring to make a sound. Suddenly, Chiang Kai-shek yelled: "Chen Geng! It's you Chen Geng again! I don't have you as a student, I don't have you as an unworthy person! Huangpu is rebellious!" Huang Wei's question almost exhausted him, but he still lost so badly!His 12 Corps were wiped out!Huang Wei was captured!It's really sad. At this time Hu Lian came in, looking very embarrassed.He escaped in a tank with Huang Wei that day, but Huang Wei was captured and he escaped by chance.The whole army was wiped out, and he fled back alone. He was so terrified that he didn't dare to lift his head when he saw Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek couldn't argue, and immediately asked: "Why didn't you obey my order and break out during the day under the cover of an airplane?" Hu Lian said: "Jiangudui fell, and the communist army took control of the commanding heights." Chiang Kai-shek: "Why don't you take down Jiangudui? The 18th Army is my main force..." 胡琏有口难言，他说：“12兵团已困守20多天，饥寒交迫，四次争夺尖谷堆均失败，我们已没有力量夺回阵地……”往下，胡琏没有再分辩，望着蒋介石说：“学生有罪，请校长责备。” 蒋介石一听，叹了一口气，转过脸来说：“那你就任12兵团司令官，组建新的兵团，到国防部去商讨细则。” 胡琏感恩戴德地退了下去。 蒋介石兀自余怒未息，还在大骂陈赓。 随着黄维的被歼，第二阶段的决战拉下了胜利的帷幕。12月18日，中央军委和毛泽东主席发来了《贺淮海战役第二阶段大捷电》。