Chapter 11 Chapter 10: Han Xian's Chu wooden boat severely damaged the steel-armored flagship, and Lin Biao's troops attacked Shanghai South Island by wooden boat

General Han Xianchu's wooden boat severely damaged the armored flagship.Lin Biao's 50,000 troops took 350 wooden boats and forcibly crossed the gun beach in the strait to attack Hainan Island. (Hainan Island, March-April 1950) wide face.Thick eyebrows.big ears.On the top of his head, he has short, short, thick hair and a majestic snub nose; even though he is wearing a faded homemade military uniform, people can still feel that he is a powerful general at first glance, and he is Han Xianchu. At 19:00 on March 5, 1950, when it was getting dark, on Dengloujiao Beach at the southwestern tip of the Leizhou Peninsula, the cold wind of early spring blew in from the strait, and the waves beat against the side of the wooden sailboat that was about to sail.He walked slowly to the front of the team with live ammunition, and they stood still, accepting his inspection.This is the first battalion to cross the sea to implement the smuggling plan to attack Hainan Island, the first battalion of the 352nd Regiment of the 118th Division of the Forty Army, carefully selected 800 strong men, equipped with radios and two mortars.In the twilight, he could still see clearly the faces full of emotion and seriousness.As the deputy commander and commander of the corps, he personally came to Qiduchang to see off the first advance battalion crossing the sea, and awarded a red flag embroidered with the five characters "Crossing the Sea Pioneer Battalion" to the chief of staff of the division leading the battalion. Gou Zai Song.The advance battalion set sail on thirteen wooden sailboats. With the wind and the current, the warships set sail and marched through the waves to the Baimajing area in the northwest of Hainan Island where they were scheduled to land.

Han Xianchu stood on the shore, watching the wooden fleet gradually disappear into the night of Qiongzhou Strait.His mood was rolling like a sea tide.After the third field army Jinmen and Dengbu failed to attack the island across the sea, he knew that at this time, Mao Zedong and the heads of the Central Military Commission, including the commanders and fighters of the entire army, were paying attention to the attack on Hainan Island.This is a new topic of large-scale sea-crossing operations that has never been seen in the history of PLA warfare.Although he looked a little heavy, he was full of confidence.

The plan of smuggling came from the revelation that the Qiongya column sent a company to smuggle across the strait to cooperate with the army to cross the sea not long ago.Ye Jianying presided over the discussion and study of the Guangzhou Conference on Hainan Island on February 1, and determined the campaign guidelines of "active smuggling, combining small crossings in batches with final landing", which was endorsed by the Central Military Commission and Mao Zedong.In order to win this battle, the Corps made careful preparations for the battle.Having learned the lesson of landing in Kinmen when there are not enough combat ships, with the strong support of Ye Jianying and the Guangdong provincial government, a large number of ships were raised in the whole province of Guangdong.The governments at all levels in Guangdong and the participating troops at the military and division levels jointly organized the "Boatman and Ship Collection and Management Committee", and specifically divided the collection areas.The majority of fishermen actively donated their boats and signed up to join the war.Even the party and government agencies and troops in the Hainan Island base area and guerrilla zone also mobilized more than 400 boatmen on the island, recruited more than 170 wooden sailboats, crossed the sea in batches, and sent them to Leizhou Peninsula to support the crossing and landing corps fight.At that time, after receiving information, the Kuomintang army occupying Kuzhou Island in the Beibu Bay controlled a large number of ships. Han Xianchu immediately sent a regiment of troops to raid and seized more than 300 large and good sailboats.The army successively recruited 4,000 boatmen and more than 2,100 ships, which ensured that it was more than enough to carry more than 100,000 troops for a landing.

The Cross-Sea Combat Corps carried forward military democracy, held various "Zhuge Liang meetings", mobilized commanders and fighters to make suggestions and jointly study ways to deal with Kuomintang warships and aircraft, and adopted the suggestion of converting some wooden sailboats into "firepower boats".Huang Zi, director of artillery of the 40th Army, led some soldiers who knew carpentry and ironwork, installed car engines on wooden sailboats, and fixed small infantry artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns on board.After many trials and test firings, the "upper gunboat" was built. Deng Hua and Han Xianchu asked various troops to promote it, and soon formed a "earth fleet".During the sea-crossing operations, this fleet made great contributions to breaking through the blockade and interception of Kuomintang ships and aircraft.

Before attacking Kinmen, Ye Fei's troops could only carry boats ashore during the day to hide because they did not have air supremacy, and they could only train at night.Today's cross-sea combat corps in the four fields is equipped with the 1st and 9th anti-aircraft artillery regiments and the 28th cannon artillery regiment.In the maritime training area, there are anti-aircraft guns and cannons to deal with warships, so that the participating troops can practice hard day and night.After three months of training at sea, the commanders and fighters learned the skills of paddling, rowing, pulling sails, steering the helm, and recognizing wind direction and tides, and mastered various tactics and techniques of sea combat. They also trained more than 600 sailors.

In the dark, Han Xianchu left the Dengloujiao coastal crossing site, rushed back to the command post, and stood by the radio station. He didn't close his eyes almost all night. He was full of confidence in the careful plan for crossing the sea; Also full of confidence.The Fortieth Army under his command is a unit with a glorious history in the People's Liberation Army and the main force of the Fourth Field Army.Its predecessor was the third column of the Northeast Field Army, which was composed of the Shandong troops of the Eighth Route Army that crossed the sea and entered the Northeast after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.After its establishment, it fought in the Northeast. It was a well-known "whirlwind team". The myth that the children of the Sixth Army and the beautiful military equipment are invincible in the world".The 43rd Army, which fought across the sea with the 40th Army, is also the oldest unit of the People's Liberation Army. Its predecessor was the Sixth Column of the Northeast Field Army.The earliest predecessor of the 127th Division in the army was the Ye Ting Independent Regiment in the Northern Expedition Army. It participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Jinggangshan Division. In the era of the Red Army, it was the backbone of the Fourth Red Army and the First Red Army.Although these two troops were also "landland ducks" in the past, their military quality and morale were high, and they conducted field exercises at the seaside for a long time, and quickly mastered the essentials of crossing the sea with simple equipment.More than ten days ago, by chance, the sea combat effectiveness of this merchant army was tested after a drill.It was a sea drill and after returning to the voyage, Lu Xiangyun, deputy platoon leader of the fourth company and first platoon of the 38th Regiment of the 128th Division of the 43rd Army, led seven soldiers and fell behind on the sea in a wooden sailboat.In the early morning of the next day, through the thick fog, a Kuomintang warship was spotted approaching.Wooden sailboats have been unavoidable.Lu Xiangyun made a quick decision and ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle while disguising themselves as fishing boats.The warship was deluded and approached the wooden sailboat without warning.When the wooden sailboat was 50 to 60 meters away from the warship, the platoon leader Lu gave an order: "Fight!" In an instant, light machine guns, submachine guns, rifles and grenades opened fire violently, and quickly approached the warship while fighting.When the distance between the two ships was 30 to 40 meters, they threw out rows of grenades, hitting the deck of the warship with smoke and flowers.The Kuomintang sailors on board were panicked.Afraid of being hit again, the warship turned its rudder hastily, retreated a thousand meters away, fired a burst of artillery, and then sailed away.The wooden sailboat returned safely.The news spread and morale was boosted.The Crossing Sea Combat Corps awarded the ship the title of "Hero Ship", and awarded Lu Xiangyun the title of "Battle Hero of Wooden Boat Fighting Warship".

Han Xianchu believes that the commanders and fighters of his army can cope with accidents at sea and win. It was almost dawn.No news of the advance battalion yet.He misses it.According to the original plan, the advance battalion will disembark at the landing point in the Baimajing area of ​​Northwest Qiongxiong before dawn.Why is there no audio yet?The Kuomintang radio station on the island started broadcasting in the early morning, and the announcer was reporting the news: "General Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of defense, met a reporter from the Central News Agency in Haikou City yesterday and said: The three-dimensional defense line around the island composed of the national army, sea, land and air forces of Hainan Island can withstand the attack of any force." Attack. I named it the "Boling Line of Defense" with an alias of my name. If the communist army dared to cross the sea to invade, it would have to repeat the same situation as Jinmen Island. Gu Ning made the same mistake."

Lai Chuanzhu, political commissar of the Corps, came into the room: "Xue Yue is bragging again!" Han Xianchu smiled lightly: "How can you be brave if you don't brag?!" Lai Chuanzhu recalled the past and said: "I remember that when Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in the fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Central Red Army moved to the west. Li Jukui and I led the first division of the Red Army to the rear. Xue Yue served as the commander-in-chief of Chiang Kai-shek's former enemy and led Chiang's direct line The three armies chased after him. At that time, he bragged to the Central News Agency reporter that he wanted to wipe out the Red Army on the Xiangjiang River in northern Guangxi and capture "Zhu Mao" alive. Our first division has not slept for four days and four nights, and has not eaten food all day. It was still a bloody battle, repelling the attacks of Xue Yue's troops time and time again, and ensuring that the central column crossed the Xiangjiang River—”

Han Xianchu said: "Now history has turned upside down, we are the ones chasing him! The Qiongzhou Strait, which is tens of nautical miles wide, cannot stop our pursuit." It was not until the afternoon of the next day, March 6, that accurate information was obtained.When the advance battalion crossed the strait, it really encountered an accident. When the fleet sailed about 30 nautical miles away from Hainan Island, the wind suddenly stopped, and the wooden boats could only rely on oars and sculls to sail very slowly. It was impossible to land at the scheduled point at Baimajing before dawn as originally planned.Chief of Staff Gou Zaisong was not surprised when encountering a change, and immediately ordered the ships to prepare for battle, making full preparations to deal with the attack by the Kuomintang sea and air force.At dawn on the 6th, Gou Zaisong found dozens of Kuomintang army sailing ships traveling in the same direction, and immediately ordered all the ships to disguise themselves as civilian ships and follow the Kuomintang army fleet. approach, making it impossible for patrol aircraft to tell the difference.At about 1:00 noon, the fleet of the advance battalion approached the scheduled landing point in the Baimajing area, and was noticed by the Kuomintang army.The wooden fleet of the advance battalion was intercepted by two warships and four aircraft of the Kuomintang army and fiercely fired by the Kuomintang troops on the shore.Under the three-dimensional attack of the Kuomintang army, the advance battalion fought back with firepower while rowing hard to the shore.At this time, the eighth and ninth regiments of the Qiongya column, which had secretly moved to the Baimajing area in advance, heard the gunfire on the coast, and immediately rushed to respond and attacked a battalion of the Kuomintang defenders.At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the advance battalion, supported by the eighth and ninth regiments of the Qiongya column, forcibly grabbed the beach and landed successfully.Then, the advance battalion smoothly entered Qiongzong's base area to rest.

When the radio reported that the advance battalion had entered the base area, Han Xianchu let out a long breath and smiled. At one o'clock in the afternoon on March 10, a reinforced battalion of the 43rd Army set off from Jizhou Island on the outskirts of Zhanjiang City, overcame the storm on the way, and successfully landed in the Chishui Port area of ​​Qiongbei. After the successful smuggling of the two advance battalions, the Cross-Sea Combat Corps decided that the 40th Army and the 43rd Army would each send a reinforced regiment to smuggle and land in front of Qiongbei.At 6:00 p.m. on March 26, a reinforced regiment of 3,000 members of the 40th Army, divided into 81 wooden boats, set off from Dengloujiao under the leadership of Ma Baishan, the deputy commander of the Qiongya Column.At 10:30 p.m. on March 31, more than 3,700 reinforcement regiments of the 43rd Army, led by division commander Wang Dongbao, set off from Boxu Port at the southeastern tip of the Leizhou Peninsula in 88 wooden boats.These two reinforced regiments had many ships and their targets were too large. They had been discovered during the voyage, and they were attacked by Kuomintang army planes and warships successively.The reinforced regiment of the 40th Army deviated from the scheduled landing point due to the thick fog on the sea, and actually landed in an area with strong frontal defense of the Kuomintang defenders.Holding the belief that "a brave man wins in front of a strong enemy", the strengthening regiment carried out a storming attack and landed on the beach, destroyed the frontier bunkers of the defenders and went ashore, and joined the Qiongya column's support troops.

Within a month, two batches of four advance smuggling troops from the Crossing Sea Corps successfully landed one after another, which proved that the three-dimensional defense line carefully set up by Xue Yue around the island was not indestructible.Encouraged by the headquarters of the Cross-Sea Corps, they decided to use the main force of the Corps to carry out a large-scale forced landing across the strait.Deploy the main force of the 40th Army and a part of the 43rd Army as the first echelon, and the main force of the 43rd Army as the second echelon. After the first echelon landed and seized and consolidated the beachhead, they quickly set off and landed. The Qiongya column and the advance The smuggling troops actively responded to the main force's forced crossing and landing. Hundreds of wooden sailboats in the first echelon of the main force of the Crossing the Sea Corps set off to cross the Qiongzhou Strait, and fought fiercely with the Kuomintang army planes and warships at sea. Miraculously, Jiang Jun's flagship "Taikang" was sunk in one fell swoop.Here is an excerpt from the "War History Documentary" of the Battle of Hainan Island—(058-059) On the afternoon of April 16, the east wind was blowing and the tide was calm. It was an ideal time to cross the Qiongzhou Strait.The first echelon of the cross-sea combat corps, with a total of more than 50,000 people, moved secretly to various departure sites.At 19:30, the first echelon of 350 warships, divided into east and west formations, lifted anchor at the same time from the harbors at the southern tip of the Leizhou Peninsula, and headed for Hainan Island in a mighty manner. As soon as the crossing formation was eight nautical miles away from the shore, it encountered a patrol plane of the Kuomintang army.A string of dazzling flares lit up in the sea and sky, and the fleet was discovered by patrol planes, and was immediately bombed and strafed.Some ship sides were pierced, and sea water poured directly into the cabin.The warriors who crossed the sea showed no fear. Some used machine guns and rifles to shoot at the planes that dived and strafed;In the middle of the night, the fleet was attacked by the Kuomintang warships. The escort firepower fleet on both sides of the formation quickly deployed, turned on the side of the Kuomintang warships, and tried to get as close to the warships as possible. The melee power of various firearms on the "earth gunboat" aimed at the command tower, engine room, turret and other vital parts of the Kuomintang warship and fired fiercely, beating the officers and soldiers on the ship at a loss. In the fierce naval battle, there was a deed in which a "earth gunboat" outwitted the Kuomintang army's flagship "Taikang".The command ship of the 40th Army's escort firepower fleet fell behind due to engine failure and became a lone ship.After dawn, a large warship of the Kuomintang army was found following.The commander of the firepower fleet, Huang Zi, and the cadres on the ship decided to use confusion and melee methods to deal with it after research.Therefore, the artillery was covered with a tarpaulin, most of the people went down to hide, and disguised the "earth gunboat" as a "transport ship" full of cargo. The captain Tie Jun personally took the helm and sailed towards the Kuomintang warship calmly.Sure enough, the Kuomintang warship took the bait and drove over in a big way.When the command ship went to the right side of the warship and entered the blind spot of its main gun shooting, Huang Zi issued the order of "fight".The gunners lifted the tarpaulin and fired salvos, and more than 30 shells flew towards the Kuomintang ship one after another, causing the behemoth to be hit in many places, and it turned around and fled southward, trailing black smoke.It was later learned that this large warship was the flagship of the Kuomintang Navy's Third Fleet - the "Taikang".Fleet commander Wang Enhua died after being seriously injured in this battle.After the war, the 40th Army awarded the command ship the title of "Battle Hero", and awarded the commanders and crews of the ship and the boatmen each a meritorious service.During the sea-crossing and landing operations to liberate Hainan Island, the firepower fleet sank one warship and damaged two, creating a miracle of sinking a warship by a wooden boat. After fighting all night, the first echelon of the Cross-Sea Combat Corps approached Hainan Island.Regardless of the frantic shooting of the defenders, the landing fleet rushed to the coast like sharp arrows.When the fleet was 50 or 60 meters away from the shore, the warriors on the leading ship jumped into the chest-deep water and rushed towards the land.Under the support of the Qiongya column and the advance smuggling troops, at 6 o'clock on the 17th, all the first echelons boarded the scheduled landing area from Lingaojiao to Huagang. In this battle of crossing the sea, from the smuggling of the first advance reinforced battalion, the smuggling of the first reinforced regiment, to the forced crossing of the first echelon of the main force, General Han Xianchu commanded the 40th Army to take the lead.In particular, the 50,000 troops of the first echelon were divided into 350 wooden sailboats to cross the strait, fought fiercely with the planes and warships of the Kuomintang army in the strait, and then successfully landed on the beach. is a miracle.It not only excited the whole army of the People's Liberation Army, but also shocked the whole army of Taiwan's Kuomintang army.As a result, Taiwan's newspapers, magazines and war history books have spent a lot of ink and ink to fabricate legends for General Han Xianchu.Some said that he was "one of the few commanders in the CCP with experience in land and sea amphibious operations" and "had received training in amphibious landing operations in the Soviet Union."Fabricated that he "led his troops to attack Guningtou in Jinmen and returned in a disastrous defeat", "The CCP did not sentence him to military law, just because he was still valuable in the military, but transferred Han Xianchu to participate in the war on Hainan Island in order to prepare for the atonement." The transfer of Han Xianchu was a later event. Because General Han commanded cross-sea operations on Hainan Island, he showed wisdom and bravery from land warfare to naval warfare. Important position, that's all for later. When Xue Yue leaned on the railing on the "first building in Hainan" and looked into the distance, he still remembered the phone call he had just made with Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek.Originally, after the fall of Xichang, Xue Yue made a special trip to Taiwan to meet Chiang Kai-shek and asked to withdraw to Hainan Island voluntarily to save the capital of his 100,000 troops; Chiang Kai-shek refused.However, a few days ago, Chiang Kai-shek called again—— "Brother Boling, Hainan Island has 100,000 soldiers, can it be defended?" "Chairman, the nearest place from Hainan Island to the mainland is eleven nautical miles, which is more than 20 kilometers by sea. I would like to see the Communist Army How did the wooden boat collide with the warship?" Xue Yue replied. "You can't lose Jingzhou carelessly!" "Chairman, during the Anti-Japanese War, you asked me to guard Changsha. I fought three battles in Changsha and wiped out hundreds of thousands of Japanese invaders. I didn't embarrass you." Chiang Kai-shek was silent on the phone for a moment, then changed his tone and said in a heavy tone: "Boling, it's not that I don't tell you to stick to it, you have to stick to it until the end. When you have to, don't use all the 100,000 soldiers to fight. You Do you understand me?" Xue Yue answered disapprovingly, "Understood." The reason why Xue Yue was a little disapproving was that he felt that the three-dimensional defense line he had deployed around the island, coupled with the natural Qiongzhou Strait, was more than enough to deal with the PLA's wooden fleet.Therefore, he proudly called the line of defense on Hainan Island the "Boling Line of Defense". He has used the title "Burling Line of Defense" more than once.It turned out that Xue Yue was ordered to follow Zhu Mao's Red Army on the Long March until Guizhou, and was appointed chairman of Guizhou Province.He lived in Guiyang for several years until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937.He didn't want to settle down in the rear, so he volunteered to go to the front to fight against Japan. After the Changsha fire in the winter of 1938, he succeeded Zhang Zhizhong as the chairman of Hunan Province, and also served as the acting commander of the Ninth War Zone. After he took charge of Changsha, the Japanese army dispatched about 400,000 soldiers. People, three offenders in northern Hunan, attempting to take Changsha directly.Xue Yue set up a defense line on the Miluo River, which is famous for Qu Yuan's throwing water, and named it after his name "Boling".He commanded the first, second, and third Changsha battles here, and won consecutive victories.This is the battle in which both the enemy and the enemy invested the most troops, the largest scale of operations, the longest front and the most enemies since the War of Resistance Against Japan entered a stalemate.It can be said that General Xue Yue made great achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan.However, he also named the line of defense on Hainan Island to prevent the People's Liberation Army from crossing the sea under Chiang Kai-shek's order as the "Boling Line of Defense". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Xue Yue got a idle job as a "commander of the army of the National Government" and had nothing to do.Before Chiang Kai-shek retired in January 1949, he was appointed to succeed Song Ziwen as chairman of Guangdong Province.He took office for less than a year. In mid-October 1949, Guangzhou was occupied by Chen Geng's army, and he, the chairman of Guangdong Province, had no choice but to cross the sea and station in Haikou City.Sticking to Hainan Island, he was able to enjoy the scenic spots here. The five princes including the poet Su Shi of the Song Dynasty and the famous general Li Deyu of the Tang Dynasty were all demoted to Hainan Island. Among these five princes, he especially admired Li Deyu of the Tang Dynasty. He was an outstanding military strategist who was able to lead troops to win battles. And eliminated the rebellion in the feudal town.He also served as prime minister twice, but was rejected by good people and cronies and demoted to Yazhou.Yazhou is in the suburbs of Haikou today.Li Deyu also wrote a beautiful poem in Yazhou: "Going up to the Jiangting alone to look at the imperial capital, it takes half a year for the birds to fly. The rivers and mountains are only afraid of people returning, and a hundred turns will go back to the county." When Xue Yue was upstairs reciting Li Deyu's good line "It takes half a year for a bird to fly", a subordinate came to report that the tide in the Qiongzhou Strait has been flat and the current has been slow for the past two days, and the sea is blowing northeasterly, which is a good time for the Communist Army sailing fleet to cross the sea.Xue Yue just replied: "Understood." He didn't take it seriously in his heart.A sailboat is a sailboat!He said at military conferences more than once: "Warships are steel armor after all. Sailboats are wooden boards after all. The Qiongzhou Strait is not a Yangtze River that can be crossed at will!" On the night of returning to the headquarters in Haikou after visiting the Wugong Temple, Xue Yue received a report from the Air Force and Navy: the Communist Army sailing fleet was found crossing the sea, and it had been strafed by aircraft and bombarded by warships.There have been several small communist army smugglings in recent times, and he took it for granted, thinking it was another "small communist army crossing happily to meet the guerrillas on the island".He simply ordered the troops on the coast to step up vigilance.When it was almost dawn in the middle of the night, he was woken up from the bed and got reports that several communist troops had landed on the Qiongbei coast, and even Chengmai Bay, west of Haikou City, had landed. He thought it was not a big deal. As for the matter, how many soldiers can be transported with wooden sailboats? !Therefore, he deployed and mobilized troops, first of all to eliminate the landing troops that landed in Chengmai and threatened Haikou. At this time, the east-west formation of the first echelon of the Crossing Sea Corps had successfully landed on the beach at various landing sites in Qiongbei, and went straight to the coastal strongholds of the Kuomintang defenders.The landing troops of the 40th Army conquered nine bunker groups in a row, seized Lingao Mountain, surrounded Lingao County, and the main force advanced in depth.The 118th Division of the Forty Army wiped out the defenders in the US-Taiwan area.The 119th Division of the 40th Army attacked the headquarters of the 64th Army of the Kuomintang in Calais and occupied Calais.It's like a whirlwind rushing, overwhelming.After the main force of the 128th Division of the 43rd Army landed, they seized defensive strongholds such as Caifangling and Qiaotou, and surrounded Huachang Port. Xue Yue didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly mobilized four regiments to Fushan to prevent the landing troops from developing in depth, so as to ensure the safety of Haikou City's flank.However, the People's Liberation Army's 127th Division, which had already been on the island, sent an advance smuggling regiment to attack Fushan, and cooperated with the main force of the 128th Division to defeat the Fukuyama defenders and captured Fushan.By the afternoon of the 19th, the first echelon of the Crossing Sea Corps, with the active cooperation of the Qiongya Column and the smuggling troops, took control of various strongholds along the Qiongbei coast and broke through Xue Yue's so-called "Boling Line of Defense". Xue Yue hurriedly dispatched troops and generals. On the afternoon of the 19th, he ordered the 62nd Army to gather in the Chengmai area, and ordered the 252nd Division of the 32nd Army stationed in Haikou to reinforce the Chengmai area.In the early morning of the 20th, the 128th Division of the People's Liberation Army encountered the headquarters of the 252nd Division and two regiments of the Kuomintang Army in Huangzhu and Meiting, north of Chengmai County. s attack.At the same time, the smuggling advance regiment of the 127th Division advanced to the Meiren area, seized favorable terrain, built fortifications, and prepared to send reinforcements to ensure that the 128th Division encircled and wiped out the main force of the 252nd Division of the Kuomintang Army. In the siege of the division, the 62nd Army, the 13th Division, the teacher and another regiment of the 252nd Division were ordered to quickly reinforce Meiting and Huangzhu, and implement an anti-encirclement against the 128th Division of the People's Liberation Army.Xue Yue thought he was a master of chess, and he was not without pride. He said: "The mantis catches the cicada, but the oriole is behind! As far as I know, the Communist army has no follow-up fleet to cross the sea, and the Communist army that has landed will be wiped out by me soon." He carried himself away and reported to Chiang Kai-shek: "The communist army has been surrounded and landed", and arranged a venue for the "congratulatory meeting" in the center of Haikou. Deng Hua, the commander of the 15th Corps of the People's Liberation Army, experienced many battles and was resourceful. He was determined to use his tactics, and took advantage of Xue Yue's main force to besiege the landing troops of the 43rd Army. Xue Yue's main force.This is the famous encirclement and annihilation battle in Qiongbei with layers of encirclement circles.The key to victory lies in the fact that the landing echelon of the 43rd Army can hold its ground and withstand the onslaught of the Kuomintang army that is several times its size. The Kuomintang army attacking the 128th Division surrounded them, and the Qiongya Column cooperated in the battle.After receiving the order, the 40th Army set off on the night of the 19th with six main teams from the Calais and Dovin areas, and rushed eastward despite the bombing and strafing of the Kuomintang planes. The decisive battle started in the early morning of the 21st.The main force of the 40th Army was still on its way to the east. The 62nd Army of the Kuomintang and other departments, supported by aircraft and artillery, launched a fierce internal and external attack on the position of the 128th Division of the People's Liberation Army.The 128th Division did not show any weakness, quickly adjusted its deployment, used a small number of troops to resist the siege from the outside, and concentrated its main force on the inside to annihilate the besieged 252nd Division of the Kuomintang Army.The battle was fierce, with heavy casualties. The third battalion and sixth company of the 382nd Regiment of the People's Liberation Army, which attacked from inside, stormed the core positions of the Kuomintang army several times without stopping. Only one platoon leader and six soldiers were left in the whole company.The deputy division commander Sun Qianqing directly commanded, the battalion commander Liu Lianke covered it with machine guns, and the platoon leader Liu Wancheng led the remaining six warriors to charge up, and finally blew up the bunkers one by one and conquered the position.The advance smuggling 379th Regiment and other departments, with the cooperation of the Third Corps of Qiongya Column and the Independent Regiment, repelled the repeated attacks of the Kuomintang army.Finally, time was gained, and the main force of the Forty Army rushed to Chengmai County, and then divided into two troops and went northward. On the evening of the 21st, they arrived at the east and west sides of Meiting and surrounded the Kuomintang troops besieging the 128th Division. Pinching situation.On the battlefield, there was a complex situation of encirclement and anti-encirclement, internal lines and external lines. Neither side dared to fight with artillery, and fought hand-to-hand in many places.The landing echelon of the People's Liberation Army is the first-class main force of the four fields, and the more they fight, the more courageous they become. On the morning of the 22nd, the landing echelon and the Qiongya column's coordinating troops launched a fierce attack together. At this time, Xue Yue, who was commanding in Haikou City, realized that it was the large troops of the People's Liberation Army's four fields.He remembered that Chiang Kai-shek had told him not to use up all his troops, so he was worried that the main force would be wiped out, so he hurriedly ordered the remaining troops to retreat.In this battle of encirclement and annihilation, the landing troops of the People's Liberation Army wiped out Xue Yue's 252nd Division and severely damaged its 62nd Army and other departments.The Qiongbei garrison area, the core position of Xue Yue's defensive system around the island, collapsed.On the morning of the 23rd, the landing force went on to attack the city of Haikou, which was occupied at that time. Seeing that the general situation was over, Xue Yue ordered the entire army to retreat on the afternoon of the 22nd in order to avoid the destruction of the entire army, and sent an urgent message to Taiwan to send ships to Qiongnan Yulin Port and Basuo Port to pick up and transport the troops to Taiwan.After Xue Yue gave the order, he boarded the plane with Chen Jitang and other important party, government and military officials from Guangdong Province and Hainan Island, and fled to Taiwan.The troops defending the island wantonly destroyed roads and bridges on their way to the south, allowing more than 70,000 Kuomintang troops to retreat to Taiwan by boat in Yulin and other ports after discarding their heavy equipment.Throughout the Hainan Island campaign, the People's Liberation Army attacked the island with casualties and missing more than 4,500 people, killed more than 6,000 Kuomintang troops, and captured more than 26,000 people. After General Xue Yue went to Taiwan, he never gained Chiang Kai-shek's trust and was out of work for a long time.In August 1958, he served as a member of the Executive Yuan.Since 1966, he has been the chairman of the "Recovery Mainland Design Committee".