Chapter 21 Chapter 20 Ye Fei did not listen to the Soviet adviser, and used motorized mobile troops to defeat Hu Lian's three-dimensional attack

Ye Fei did not listen to the advice of the Soviet adviser, and defeated Hu Lian's three-dimensional attack with a unique motorized mobile unit. (Dongshan Island, July 16-18, 1953) General Ye Fei spent a lot of energy arguing with the Soviet advisers sent to the Fujian front. At the beginning, there were no Soviet advisors on the Fujian front, and the Chinese commanders deployed their defenses and commanded the operations.With the signing of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance, the close relationship between the two countries has developed in various fields.As a result, Soviet advisers also came to the Fujian front.After contacting the Soviet advisers, Ye Fei felt that some of them were not like advisers, but rather like superior leaders or "mother-in-laws" who were in charge.Regarding the defense of the Fujian frontline, Ye Fei, as the commander of the Fujian frontline, had two conflicts with the Soviet adviser.The first time was mainly a debate about the operational deployment of the Fujian front.After seeing the defense plan of the Fujian front line, the Soviet adviser criticized: "letting the enemy's troops land ashore and fight in, is this also called defense?"

Ye Fei patiently explained: "Our strategic policy is to lure the enemy deep, and then gather and annihilate them. If the enemy lands on a large scale, we will not defend the important towns except Xiamen, such as Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. It comes in. We don't have a navy yet, so we can't cut off the enemy's sea connection. Avoid our weaknesses and let it in, the enemy's navy can't play a role, and its air force is also limited. Our army calls this method of "closing the door" Beat the dog'. This is our forte!" The Soviet adviser was puzzled when he heard this, and shook his head again and again, as if he heard Ye Fei telling a story from the Arabian Nights: "This... This is also called defense. Losing the coastline, losing the city, and letting the enemy invade the interior. The enemy is evil. Dogs, we don’t let them enter the door, don’t let them go ashore to bite people, and let them drown in the sea.”

Ye Fei smiled lightly: "Of course we want the vicious dog to drown before it lands, but according to our national and military conditions, we can't do it yet." The Soviet adviser stood up proudly: "Yes! It can be done. We will defend frontally and deploy the garrison along the coastline. Wherever the enemy lands, we will destroy it there!" The Soviet advisers then proposed their frontal defense plan.Ye Fei felt that this frontal defense policy of "resisting the enemy outside the country's gates" once caused the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to suffer a great loss in the Jiangxi Soviet era. The failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign was a bloody lesson.Ye Fei felt that he couldn't elaborate with this alien Soviet adviser, so he could only say: "The policy of active defense and closing doors to fight dogs is adopted by the East China Military Region and Chairman Mao."

The Soviet adviser did not stop: "I will also tell you Chairman Mao Zedong." The second argument made Ye Fei even more ridiculous.That was when talking about the learning of landing operations by the Chinese army, Ye Fei said that our troops are now summing up their own experience and lessons, the experience of winning Xiamen Island and Hainan Island, and the failure of attacking Kinmen Island.Ye Fei also contacted and said that his troops also learned from other people's experience in landing operations.In particular, it talked about the successful experience of the American and British coalition forces landing in Normandy during World War II.

Gu Xiang of the Soviet Union was annoyed when he heard this: "You, the commander of the Communist Party, how can you talk about the wars of the US and British imperialism?! Our Soviet army also has landing operations!" Ye Fei could only smile wryly.Because in World War II, the British and American troops had more experience in landing operations, while the Soviet army lacked actual combat examples in this regard. Ye Fei offended the Soviet adviser. When the Soviet adviser went back to see Chen Yi, the commander of the East China Military Region, he said: "The commander of your Fujian front is an Anglo-American faction!" and reported Ye Fei to the Military Commission.Before returning to the Soviet Union, the Soviet adviser passed through Beijing and sued Mao Zedong again, saying that "Ye Fei is not reliable", and asked Mao Zedong to remove him from his post, and said that he would sue Stalin.Chen Yi later told Ye Fei about this matter.Peng Dehuai also told Ye Fei.Peng Dehuai also said that he did not buy the account of the Soviet consultant.

After the founding of New China, the situation on the front line in Fujian has been changing constantly, some of which are unexpected changes.Ye Fei has a deep understanding of this.Therefore, the defense deployment of the Fujian frontline troops is constantly changing.It is difficult for Soviet advisers to have a deep understanding. Since the failure of the 28th Army to attack Kinmen, the East China Military Region, especially the troops on the front line in Fujian, including Ye Fei himself, wanted to attack Kinmen again to avenge and fight for their spirits, so they put it in a very important position to attack Kinmen again.Especially after Lin Biao's four-field troops captured Hainan Island with a fleet of wooden boats and the Kuomintang army withdrew from Zhoushan, Mao Zedong had instructed the Central Military Commission and the three-field troops to actively plan for the Taiwan campaign, and began to prepare from all aspects.The Seventh and Ninth Corps, the two main forces of the three fields, have already carried out large-scale military training at sea. Attacking Jinmen again is no longer the main concern of Mao Zedong, the Central Military Commission, and the East China Military Region; at that time, even Ye Fei felt that attacking Jinmen again was just around the corner. It is imperative.

The outbreak of the Korean War and the US sending troops to Taiwan brought about major changes in the military situation facing New China.On June 30, Zhou Enlai conveyed to Navy Commander Xiao Jinguang the new deployment of "postponing the time to attack Taiwan".In early July, the central government formed the Northeast Frontier Defense Army; in early September, out of anticipation of the impending reversal of the Korean War, Mao Zedong instructed the Central Military Commission to order the Ninth Corps of Song Shilun, which was originally scheduled to be the main force to attack Taiwan, to go north and prepare to serve as the first army of the Korean War. Second echelon.On September 15, U.S. troops landed in Incheon, North Korea.On the same day, the Central Military Commission officially ordered to postpone the attack on Kinmen.In the military struggle between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, there was a situation where the Kuomintang and the Communist Party changed positions.Banditry in Fujian Province, stimulated by the U.S. invasion of Korea, became rampant again from the autumn of 1950 onwards.In November, Mao Zedong once again ordered the troops of the Fujian Military Region to postpone the attack on Jinmen, go all out to suppress bandits, and set a six-month limit to eliminate all bandits in the province, and generally implement land reform.

In this way, Ye Fei was ordered to stop all preparations for another attack on Jinmen, and put the Tenth Corps into the battle against bandits with the main force of five divisions.Finally, before June 1951, the task of eradicating bandits was basically completed.At this time, the People's Liberation Army Navy and Air Force have not yet entered Fujian, and there are only three armies in charge of Fujian's front-line defense missions.Fujian's coastline is more than a thousand kilometers long, and landings can be made everywhere.There are only so many troops under Ye Fei. In the face of the joint threat of the United States and Chiang Kai-shek in the Taiwan Strait, there are two strategies for consolidating coastal defense.In "Memoirs of Ye Fei", it was described——

One is to devote all three armies to defense, but in doing so, there will be no mobile forces in depth, which is very passive and unfavorable; the other is to use only two armies as defensive forces, and use one army as a mobile force in depth. This is more active and advantageous. , we repeatedly studied and considered, and decided to adopt the second plan, but there are two difficulties in implementing this plan.The first difficulty is that only two armies are responsible for defending the coastline of more than 1,000 kilometers, which cannot be taken care of; the second difficulty is that there is only one army in the depth maneuvering force, and it is very difficult to maneuver along the coastline of more than 1,000 kilometers.Proceeding from the actual situation on the Fujian front at that time, the way to solve and overcome these two difficulties is to divide the Fujian front into two combat directions, the first combat direction is the direction of Fuzhou in northern Fujian, and the second combat direction is Xiamen in southern Fujian. , Zhangzhou and Quanzhou directions.As for the policy of coastal defense, we have decided to adopt the policy of controlling the sea surface to defend the coast. This can greatly save and reduce the defensive forces on the front line... The solution to and overcome the second difficulty, that is, the way to maneuver the mobile force, is to use the coastal areas of Fujian. Using roads to maneuver with mobile forces, that is, to change the conventional method of only marching quickly on foot, and to use vehicles to load troops to maneuver. In this way, the mobility of mobile forces will be much stronger.This is actually the motorization of the infantry (mobile troops). They are not equipped with cars at ordinary times. When it comes to combat, the mobile troops are concentrated in cars and become motorized troops.

At that time, even the first-line combat troops of the Volunteer Army on the Korean battlefield marched on two legs.There is only one car regiment in the entire East China Military Region, equipped with cars captured in the Shanghai Battle, and controlled in Shangrao for mobile use.Ye Fei once asked the East China Military Region to transfer the car regiment to Fuzhou, but was not approved.Where did the cars needed to carry an entire army come from?Ye Fei is a very capable person. He made an idea from the transportation vehicles in Fujian, and stipulated that when the coastal combat troops need to use cars, the transportation vehicles of various local departments, whether they are passenger cars, trucks, agency vehicles, or road operation vehicles, all belong to the troops. use.At that time, ideological work was easy to do, and all departments expressed their unconditional obedience.At that time, Haikou in Fujian was blocked, and the Yingxia Railway had not yet been completed. The transportation was all by road, and there were many local transportation vehicles.Once the statistics are collected, once it is concentrated, it can afford to transport an army, and this army will be turned into a motorized army!

Ye Fei also arranged a special drill. As soon as the alarm sounded and an order was issued, civilian commercial vehicles and buses in all places would be immediately unloaded by underground people, and the vehicles would go to the predetermined concentration point and be transferred to military transportation. In July 1953, the Korean Armistice became the general trend.Although the United States signed the first armistice agreement in its history that did not win, it signed it in order to withdraw from the quagmire of the war.The Korean armistice was not only resolutely opposed by the Syngman Rhee Group, but Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan was also deeply disturbed.Chiang Kai-shek had a helpless fear of the possible easing of tension between China and the United States.Therefore, before the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a rare and largest military operation in several years, which was actually a symbolic counterattack to the mainland.The target Chiang Kai-shek chose was Dongshan Island. Dongshan Island is the southernmost island off the coast of Fujian. It is easily attacked by the enemy at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong provinces. It has always been a weak link in the defense of the southeast coast of the PLA.The Fujian Military Region stationed the main force of the 80th Public Security Regiment and a sailor company with a total of 1,200 people on the island, and built some fortifications in advance.The Fujian Military Region and the Guangdong Military Region have formulated a reinforcement plan in advance when the island is attacked. The commander of the KMT army attacking Dongshan Island was Kinmen Defense Commander Hu Lian, who was famous in Taiwan for his victories in Kinmen and Guningtou.This person has fought against the People's Liberation Army for many years and has always been more cautious.In this attack, he used all the military branches, the air force, navy, army, and for the first time used airborne troops.The number of offensive troops and firepower is also unprecedented.Before the attack, the air force was dispatched to bomb the bridges along the coast of Fujian, and also destroyed the Jiulong River Bridge, the only way from Quanzhou to Dongshan Island by car.In this way, he judged that the main force of the reinforcements sent by Ye Fei from Quanzhou would take three days at the fastest to arrive. He could fight for three days, and within three days, use his superior force to eat up the People's Liberation Army troops guarding the island.This is called "eating the small with the big, advancing quickly and retreating quickly".At noon the day before launching the attack, Hu Lian also sent a plane to scout whether the bridge on the Jiulong River had been repaired.The pilot reported that there were no repairs, only piers. The Dongshan battle that started at dawn on July 16 was indeed extremely intense, and Chiang Kai-shek showed his roots.The planes bombed indiscriminately, the naval guns bombarded the fortifications on the island, the white umbrellas were spotted, and the paratroopers dropped by air; then, the army landing force, led by 21 American amphibious vehicles, rushed to land on the beach.The Kuomintang army was dispatched by the 45th Division of the 19th Army stationed in Kinmen, with more than 10,000 troops.After landing, they made a quick attack, and after capturing Dongshan County in the middle of the island, they rushed to the 200 Highland of Gongyun Mountain, the commanding height of the whole island near Zhuo'an Bay, in the northwest of the island.Then, more than a dozen transport planes flew from Taiwan's Hsinchu Airport to the sky above the Bachimen Ferry in the north of Dongshan Island, which is close to the mainland. Chen Daiji was captured, cutting off the connection between Dongshan Island and the land.The Kuomintang army appeared overwhelmingly on Dongshan Island with an overwhelming advantage. The situation is very critical!After the Kuomintang army landed, under the cover of tanks, they continued to advance deep into the island.The original plan of the island guard troops was to stick to Dongshan Island with one battalion, and move the rest of the troops to maneuver outside the island, and counterattack after the main force arrived.In critical situations, the troops guarding the island still maintained telephone contact with Ye Fei, who was commanding in Fuzhou.Ye Fei agreed with the island defenders to change the original plan. They would no longer use the main force to move out of the island. Instead, they would retreat deep into the center of the island while holding back tenaciously. On the morning of the 16th, they retreated to Gongyun Mountain, the commanding height of the island. 200 Heights.Due to the tunnels and earthworks built on the mountain in advance, under the bombardment of the Kuomintang army's bombs and artillery shells, it withstood the day and night onslaught of ten times the number of enemy troops, repelled dozens of attacks, and held the final core position. Chen Yi knew the situation of the battle in Shanghai, and was very anxious, and kept talking with Ye Fei.The village where the telephone switchboard of the guarding troops was occupied was occupied, and the telephone squad did not run away, but hid itself and kept in touch with Fuzhou.The Kuomintang army searched the entire village, and even the telephone line was not found.It is guaranteed that in the fierce battle, Ye Fei from Fuzhou can talk to Captain You Meiyao from Shoudao.Ye Fei made a phone call and asked Captain You to stand guard for a day and a night, so that the reinforcements could rush to fight back. After the Dongshan battle started, according to the predetermined combat plan, the 31st Army, one division of the 28th Army, and the 41st Army in Guangdong were reinforced by Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Chaoshan respectively.Order it.There was no need to mobilize at all. Passenger and freight vehicles from Fuzhou to Quanzhou and Zhangzhou were mobilized.Hundreds of vehicles along the way moved quickly, and immediately drove to the assembly point to load the combat troops, and then drove day and night to Dongshan.The smoke and dust billowed, the motor roared, and the scene was very spectacular.Troop reinforcements advance at full speed and operate during the day, regardless of the bombing of enemy planes, and the overturned cars are pushed to the side of the road without blocking the traffic.On the way to reinforcements, there were less than a hundred casualties.Under the strong organization of the local government, migrant workers repaired and erected the bridge slab on the night of July 15th to ensure the unimpeded flow of reinforcement vehicles. The vanguard of the reinforcements rushed to the island at night when the battle started and before dawn the next day.On the morning of the second day, the Kuomintang paratroopers near the Bachimen Ferry were wiped out in one fell swoop, Chenjia Town was also occupied, and the connection with the garrison at 200 Heights on Dongshan Island was established.The reinforcements from Shantou also arrived.The main force of the two reinforcements landed on Dongshan Island on the third day, that is, before dawn on July 18, to counterattack. They cooperated with the island defenders to attack and surrounded the Kuomintang army in a roundabout way.Due to the failure to quickly occupy the port, less than one-third of the Kuomintang troops boarded the ship and fled.At that time, the People's Liberation Army did not have sea and air forces to intercept it.In the Dongshan battle, the People's Liberation Army wiped out 3,379 Kuomintang troops at the cost of 1,250 casualties and missing people, of which 2,477 were killed and wounded, and 842 were captured. Ye Fei recalled afterwards: "We had a defeat in Jinmen, and the KMT had a defeat in Dongshan; Hu Lian was promoted because of Jinmen, but he was unlucky because of Dongshan's defeat. It is also retribution!" Mao Zedong was very concerned about the battle on Dongshan Island.On the third day of the battle, at 12:00 noon on July 18, the reinforcements had already landed and were annihilating the Kuomintang army. Mao Zedong went to the General Staff War Room in Beijing and ordered him to directly connect to the phone of Commander Ye Fei in Fuzhou.At that time, because there was no direct line, the voice was very low, and it had been transferred through the leader on duty of the East China Military Region.Ye Fei once described in his memoirs—— The chairman is most concerned: the enemy's Dongshan landing may not be the main direction.He reminded me: Dongshan may be to attract our attention, and then land in another place.The chairman asked me: Are there enough troops, and do we need reinforcements?I replied: I am prepared, and I have prepared for the enemy to land in the second direction.I said: I have enough troops, and now I still have a military mobile force that has not been used, and is ready to be used when the enemy lands and attacks in another direction.The chairman asked again: What are the requirements?What's the problem?I thought about it and said: There are no requirements or difficulties.That is, all the cars have been used up, but I have ordered that the local vehicles on the main road from Shangrao to Fuzhou be concentrated in Fuzhou for motoring, and I request the central government to order Jiangxi to take over the local transportation task from Shangrao to Fuzhou.The chairman was surprised when he heard this, and asked: There is a car regiment in the East China Military Region, why didn't they give you the Fujian front line?The chairman got angry and immediately ordered to the East China Military Region: Your car regiment will drive to Fuzhou immediately. The victory of the Dongshan Island battle on the Fujian front was the biggest victory for the mainland army and civilians to counter the harassment of the Kuomintang army in Taiwan. The Kuomintang army's tactics of "eating the small with the big" ended in bankruptcy.After the battle was over, Mao Zedong sent a telegram to commend him, saying: The Dongshan battle was not only a victory for Dongshan, nor a victory for Fujian, but also a victory for the whole country.