Chapter 22 In the ninth quarter, the vanguard lost the first battle

Mao Zedong handed over the Northeast task to Lin Biao of Whampoa Phase 4, and Chiang Kai-shek put the hope of the Northeast on Du Yuming of Whampoa Phase 1. The Northeast dispute seemed to be a contest between two Whampoa students and two famous anti-Japanese generals On August 8, 1945, in accordance with the spirit of the "Yalta Conference", millions of Soviet Red Army, led by Marshal Malinovsky, entered the Northeast to fight the Japanese army, and quickly wiped out the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army. 670,000 people. On August 15, the Japanese Emperor unconditionally announced the surrender!

Japan has surrendered!Northeast China, this black land ruled by Japanese imperialism for 14 years, became a power vacuum for a while, and became the focus area that both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party wanted. As far as the Communist Party is concerned, the northeast is adjacent to the Soviet Union, the southeast is adjacent to North Korea, the southwest is connected to the Jireliao Liberated Area, and the Shandong Liberated Area is across the sea. In addition, it is far away from the ruling center of the Kuomintang, which is very favorable for the Communist Party to take the lead in controlling it.If the Communist Party can occupy the Northeast and establish a solid base in the Northeast, it will have strong economic strength and it will be easier to communicate with the Soviet Union.Once the Northeast falls into the hands of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek will not only receive rich products, but also use the Kuomintang troops in the north and the south to form a pincer attack on the Communist Party in the Central Plains, and take the initiative strategically.

Therefore, before and after the Japanese surrender, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China successively dispatched more than 100,000 troops, more than 20,000 party, government, and military cadres, and various technical personnel from the liberated areas such as Jireliao, Yan'an, and Shandong to the Northeast. The Northeast Democratic Allied Forces of the Political Commissar, and the towns and villages of Baishan Heishui have successively established people's democratic regimes at all levels. Compared with this, Chiang Kai-shek's reaction was obviously a beat slower.

In the later period of the Anti-Japanese War, most of Chiang Kai-shek's troops stayed in the southwest rear. On August 14, 1945, after the Soviet Red Army wiped out the Japanese Kwantung Army, KMT Foreign Minister Wang Shijie signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance in Moscow with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.According to the provisions of this treaty, the Soviet Union recognized China's complete sovereignty and the integrity of territorial administration in the three northeastern provinces; after the Soviet army entered the Northeast, China sent military and political representatives to the Soviet Army Command for communication.

Chiang Kai-shek thought very naively, thinking that with this treaty, he could directly take over the Northeast from the hands of the Soviets without any difficulty. On September 1, Chiang Kai-shek set up the Northeast Camp, chairman of the Military Commission, in Changchun, appointed Xiong Shihui as the director of the camp, and set up two political and economic committees under it, with Xiong Shihui concurrently serving as the chairman of the political committee and banker Zhang Jiaao as the chairman of the economic committee. The Northeast Special Commissioner's Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established in Changchun, with Chiang Ching-kuo as the special commissioner.

Xiong Shihui, courtesy name Tianyi, was born in Anyi, Jiangxi.When the Whampoa Military Academy was founded, he served as an instructor of the military academy and has since formed a relationship with Chiang Kai-shek. In 1932, when Jiang appointed Xiong as the chairman of Jiangxi Province and the director of the Nanchang Camp Office, Xiong vigorously promoted the three guarantee policies of Baojia, Baowei, and Fortress to cooperate with Jiang's policy of suppressing the Communist Party, which was highly appreciated by Jiang.Xiong is very good at observing appearance. When Jiang lived in Baihuazhou, Nanchang, he was dissatisfied with the environment on the lake, so Xiong built a bank with red stones, planted trees along the lake, removed turbidity and drained water, and set up a management office to take charge of it.The literati then made a couplet saying: "Half a lifetime of marriage and two cares, and a lifetime of career in Sanhu." .Later, in order to flatter Jiang, Xiong appointed Jiang Jingguo, the eldest son of Jiang, as the administrative inspector and security commander of southern Jiangxi.This time in the Northeast, he once again pulled Mr. Jiang by his side, and his intentions were not insignificant.

At the beginning of October, when the Soviet army began to partially withdraw from the Northeast, Jiang Jingguo, on behalf of the Kuomintang Ministry of Foreign Affairs, approached Vasilevsky, the commander of the Soviet Army, about the entry of the Kuomintang troops into the Northeast from Dalian. Vasilevsky opened his eyes wide and shook his head again and again: " Dalian is a port for transporting goods, not troops, how can you land troops there?" Jiang Jingguo was taken aback. He walked out of the gate of the Soviet Army headquarters angrily, and immediately reported the situation to his father.

Chiang Kai-shek was also quite surprised: "Didn't this polar bear obviously prevent our army from entering the Northeast?" Two days later, Vasilevsky returned to China to report on his work, and Chiang Kai-shek asked Xiong Shihui to contact the Soviet side again. Xiong Shihui took Zhang Jiaao and Jiang Jingguo to find Malinovsky, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Soviet Army, but Ma responded to Xiong Shihui's several key issues such as sea landing, transportation, and administrative agency reception with "no right" and "no right". "need to ask for instructions" as an excuse

After pushing it cleanly, Xiong, Zhang, and Jiang touched the cement on their noses. The attitude of the Soviets was completely beyond Chiang Kai-shek's expectations.Chiang Kai-shek gritted his teeth angrily: "Mother Xipi! Looks like I'm going to fight!" It turned out that after identifying the administrative officials in the Northeast, Chiang Kai-shek was hesitant about the candidate for the military head there.He first changed the Kunming Defense Command to the Northeast Security Commander's Department, and appointed Guan Linzheng as the Northeast Security Commander. Later, because Xiong Shihui expressed dissatisfaction with Guan Linzheng's arrogance and defiantness, he hesitated; in addition, the "Double Ten Agreement" had just been signed at that time However, it is not easy for him to take down his face and fight the Communist Party immediately, so he has been unable to do so for a long time.At this time, it happened that Long Yun stepped down and was "invited" out of Yunnan by him. Long Yun scolded Du Yuming, the former chief of Kunming's defense commander, and welcomed Guan Linzheng to Yunnan. Let Du Yuming be the commander-in-chief of the security of the Northeast, and the military leaders in the Northeast will be found, and Chiang Kai-shek's determination to fight the civil war will be strengthened.

In this way, Mao Zedong handed over the heavy responsibility of the Northeast to Lin Biao of Whampoa Phase 4, and Chiang Kai-shek placed the hope of the Northeast on Du Yuming of Whampoa Phase 1. The dispute for the Northeast seemed to be a contest between two Whampoa students and famous anti-Japanese generals. Indeed, there is a comparison between the two. In September 1937, Lin Biao fought the first major victory of the Chinese army since the "July 7th" Anti-Japanese War at Pingxing Pass in Shanxi; while in December 1939, Du Yuming fought a crucial battle at Kunlun Pass in Guangxi. fierce battle.

Both Pingxing Pass and Kunlun Pass are offensive battles.What Lin Biao occupied was a condescending favorable position, and what he fought was a skillful battle, a surprise in strategy and tactics, to attack him by surprise; Du Yuming relied on his attack on the precipitous mountain shape of "one man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it", and he fought a tough battle, and it was a real fight. Head-to-head battle. Lin Biao commanded the 115th Tuba Road Division with millet and rifles, and Du Yuming led the 5th Army, the only mechanized army in China. Their opponents were also the Itagaki Seishiro Division known as the "Steel Army".Lin Biao attacked the 21st Brigade's supply team and rear guard; Du Yuming attacked the 21st Brigade's main force. Pingxingguan wiped out more than 1,000 enemies, Kunlun Pass wiped out more than 4,000 enemies, and the brigade commander was also killed.The Battle of Kunlun Pass made Du Yuming famous, and the victory of Pingxing Pass made Lin Biao a famous general who broke the myth that the "imperial army" was invincible when the Chinese army retreated steadily. Now, the two main generals of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will once again set up a ring in the Northeast, and try it out! Like Chiang Kai-shek, Du Yuming also believed in force.Faced with the reality that the Northeast had been occupied by the Communist Party and the KMT's fantasy of relying on the Soviet Union to take over the Northeast was no longer possible, the choice before Du Yuming seemed to be resorting to force.Therefore, when he took up his new post, he brought the elite soldiers of two Chinese expeditionary forces, Shi Jue's 13th Army and Zhao Gongwu's 52nd Army, to the Northeast, and on November 15, he rushed to Shanhaiguan. At that time, the CCP troops defending Shanhaiguan had only more than 10,000 people, and there were many recruits. On average, there was only one gun for every two people.With such a disparity in strength, it is not surprising that the CCP abandoned Shanhaiguan. Ten days later, Du Yuming captured Jinzhou again.Soon, Shenyang was also saved in his palm. Now that the war has begun, the big battle is to come. Of course, the 13th Army and the 52nd Army alone are not enough in the vast Northeast.In this way, after taking Jinzhou, Du Yuming called Chiang Kai-shek again and again, demanding that a large army be sent northward quickly to eliminate the CCP army in the Northeast, and then return to Shiguan to fight. As a direct disciple, Du Yuming naturally wanted wind and rain in front of Chiang Kai-shek, and the strategic position of the Northeast was extraordinary.In this way, Chiang Kai-shek sent two of his five trump card main forces, the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army, together with Lu Junquan's 93rd Army, Chen Mingren's 71st Army, and Zeng Zesheng's 60th Army, to the Northeast battlefield. The New 1st Army was transported from Guangzhou to Qinhuangdao by US warships in March 1946. Before mobilizing the New 1st Army, Chiang Kai-shek said to Du Yuming: "The New 1st Army is the number one army in the world. If they go, the Northeast will surely be stabilized!" Du Yuming smiled and said yes repeatedly. Sun Liren said with a smile: "The Communist Party is vulnerable, we are like a tiger fighting a fly!" As an American-style mechanized unit fought on the India-Myanmar battlefield, the New 1st Army showed extraordinary combat effectiveness as soon as it arrived in the Northeast. At that time, the Soviet Union was withdrawing its troops in an all-round way. After Jinzhou and Shenyang fell into Du Yuming's hands one after another, Jiang's army then used these central cities as the base point to expand in a radial manner. In March, the New 1st Army, which had just disembarked from the U.S. warship, drove the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army to the north in cars and tanks. All the news on the medium and long-term lines was the victory of the New 1st Army: On March 24, they captured Tieling On March 27th, they occupied Kaiyuan, and on April 4th, they captured Changtu. They were almost unstoppable.Sun Liren, who was always full of ambition, said with a smile, "The Communist Party is vulnerable, and we are like a tiger beating a fly!" Objectively speaking, this statement is not all lies.For three years in India and Burma, the Japanese with modern weapons in their hands and the "spirit of Bushido" in their heads were defeated by the New 1st Army and bowed their heads. American weapons compete?Isn't this a tiger hitting a fly?Sun Liren believed confidently. In terms of weapons alone, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army cannot compare with the New 1st Army: the New 1st Army has jurisdiction over the New 38th Division, the 50th Division, and the New 30th Division. Each division has 3 infantry regiments, 2 artillery battalions, and 36 heavy artillery pieces. , 1 Battalion of Engineers, 1 Battalion of Communication Corps, 1 Battalion of Supplies, 400 trucks, 1 Company of Special Service Corps, and 1 Field Hospital.Each regiment has 3 battalions of infantry, 1 company of mortars and 1 company of flat-fire guns, 48 ​​heavy mortars, 1 communication company, 1 health team, and 1 special agent platoon. The whole regiment has about 3,000 people.The army has more than 27,000 guns, of which there are more than 8,000 Thomson light machine guns and carbines alone; while a column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army has only more than 13,000 various firearms and more than 70 cannons. However, this is by no means the only magic weapon for victory on the battlefield, and the world has changed. Today's Communist Party is no longer the Communist Party of yesterday, and today's Northeast Democratic Alliance Army is no longer the Tuba Road of the past.What Sun Liren encountered was an opponent supported by the people, and Sun Liren's opposition to him was an opposition to the people.What's more, there is a general named Lin Biao among them! Lin Biao was taciturn and good at thinking.Seeing Sun Liren's arrogance, he said coldly: "Riding a donkey to read the libretto, just wait and see!" The "No. 1 Army in the World" was wounded by Lin Biao for the first time Lin Biao was leading his troops to garrison Siping at that time.Changtu is not far from Siping. When Changtu is lost, Siping is also shocked. The New 1st Army who got Changtu seemed to be looking for something, and was about to attack Siping immediately, and then continued the triumph. Lin Biao had a calm face, and he was thinking about how to give the New 1st Army a little color. In the northeast of mid-spring, the snow has begun to melt, and the roads are becoming increasingly muddy and slippery. On the night of April 8, the New 38th Division occupying the Xinglongquan, Xinglongling, and Liutiaogou lines north of Changtu was suddenly attacked by the 8th Brigade, the Independent Brigade, the 10th Brigade, the 1st Division, and the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army. A total of 12 regiments in the column attacked violently.After the officers and soldiers of the new 38th Division woke up from their sleep, they quickly jumped on the tanks to fight, but their tanks, cannons, and tanks roared for a while, and then fell into the quagmire and couldn't move! Teacher Li Hong was so angry that he stomped his feet and cursed!He ordered the soldiers to abandon their vehicles and attack on foot, but had the soldiers of the New First Army wearing leather boots ever fought in the ice, snow and mud?What's more, in the dark night?Therefore, although the soldiers got out of the car, they got stuck in the mud and couldn't move away after taking a few steps, so they had to stay where they were and were beaten passively. After a night of fierce fighting, the New 1st Army lost 4 entire companies with a total of more than 1,200 people. The "No. 1 Army in the World" suffered its first serious injury since returning to China.For this reason, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army gave the New 1st Army a jingle: "The New 1st Army claims to be an eagle, but it is actually a bear. It acts like a tortoise and fights like a reptile!" Just at this time, the Queen of England sent an invitation letter to Sun Liren asking him to come to England to receive the medal.How can you give up this rare glory? !Sun Liren greeted Du Yuming and went to England by himself.