1991 Chinese War History Film, produced by Bayi Film Studio, starring Gu Yue, Su Lin, Zhao Hengduo, Lu Qi, Fu Xuecheng, Xie Weicai, Liu Xitian and so on.
Beginning in the second half of 1948, the Kuomintang army implemented key defenses and adhered to the strategic points with heavy troops. The CPC Central Committee held a meeting of the Politburo in Xibaipo and established the task of transitioning from guerrilla warfare to regular warfare, building an army of five million, annihilating five hundred enemy brigades, and fundamentally defeating the Kuomintang reactionaries in about five years.
In September, the East China Field Army conquered Jinan and captured Wang Yaowu, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the three corps of Huang Baitao, Qiu Qingquan, and Li Mi assembled in Xuzhou to go north to break the siege, and Su Yu, acting commander and acting political commissar of the East China Field Army, sent a report to the Central Military Commission proposing that the Huaihai Campaign be approved to annihilate Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps, which was far away from Xuzhou, and Li Yannian's Ninth Appeasement Zone, in preparation for the capture of Xuzhou.
After the Central Plains Field Army occupied Kaifeng in Zhengzhou, it had a major impact on the deployment of the campaign, Liu Bocheng and Li Da contained Zhang Gan's Third Corps and Huang Wei's Twelfth Corps, the four columns of Nakano's main force marched east from Zhengzhou into the Xu Beng Battlefield, and the Huaihai Campaign was expanded into a campaign jointly coordinated by the two major field armies in the Central Plains of East China, and the entire campaign was uniformly under the command of Chen Deng.
The Kuomintang Xuzhou General Headquarters shrank its troops, centered on Xuzhou, and used the two railway lines of Jinpu and Longhai to strengthen the defense of the Central Plains and East China, and adopted a strategic defensive posture. Gu Zhutong, chief of the Kuomintang general staff, and He Yingqin, minister of national defense, held an operational meeting and decided to concentrate superior forces on both sides of the Jinpu Railway between Xu Andang for strategic defense, under the command of Liu Zhi, commander-in-chief of Xuzhou.
In November, about 150,000 men in seven columns of the Central Plains Field Army, and Huaye, a total of 600,000 men, pounced on Xuzhou. Liu Zhi ordered the troops around Xuzhou to move closer to Xuzhou, Hua Ye pursued the shrinking Huang Baitao Seventh Corps, and Li Mi's Thirteenth Corps refused to help. He Jifeng and Zhang Kexia led the Kuomintang Third Appeasement District uprising, and Hua Ye cut off the retreat route of the Seventh Corps through its defensive area and encircled it in the Nianzhuang area. Chiang Kai-shek hastily dispatched Du Yuming to be the deputy commander-in-chief of Xuzhou and the director of the Forward Command, specifically responsible for directing the operation, causing Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi to go east to relieve the siege of Huang Baitao, and the Kuomintang army on the Xu Beng battlefield increased to 800,000.
Nakano captured Su County, cutting off the Xuzhou garrison's retreat to Bengbu, and the Central Military Commission formed the General Front Committee for the Huaihai Campaign, with Deng Xiaoping as the Secretary of the General Front Committee. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Huang Wei's 12th Corps, Li Yannian's 6th Corps, and Liu Ruming's 8th Corps to retake Suxian to the north. Su Yu ordered song Shilun, commander of the 10th Column, to command Huaye's three columns to defend frontally to block Qiu Qingquan and Li Mibu who had gone to break the siege, and Huaye's main force annihilated all 100,000 people of the Seventh Corps, and Huang Baitao was killed. After that, Nakano concentrated his forces to encircle Huang Wei's 12th Corps in a double pile, and Huang Wei commanded four divisions to break through with all their strength, of which liao Yunzhou, commander of the 110th Division, led his troops to defect in front of the front and failed to break through, and could only hold on to help.
Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Xuzhou garrison to retreat south, Liu Zhi commanded the Sixth eighth corps to come to the north again, Du Yuming commanded 300,000 Xuzhou defenders to abandon Xuzhou and retreat to the southwest, and Hua Ye dispatched ten columns to pursue the siege.
Huaye Chief of Staff Chen Shiju led five columns plus special forces columns to join Nakano's siege of the 12th Corps, eliminating 120,000 Nationalist troops, capturing the commander of the corps, Huang Wei, and deputy commander Hu Lian, who escaped.
After the People's Liberation Army completed the division and encirclement of Pingjin and other places, it launched a general offensive against the besieged Du Yuming's troops, Du Yuming was captured, Qiu Qingquan was killed, Li Mi escaped, the Huaihai Campaign ended, and the People's Liberation Army occupied a large area of land north of the Yangtze River.
From November 6, 1948 to January 10, 1949, two major field armies and 800,000 Kuomintang troops fought fiercely for 65 days and nights north of the Huai River south of Longhai Road, annihilating five Kuomintang corps, 22 corps, 56 divisions, and a total of 550,000 people.
The Battle of Huaihai was a victory for five million former migrant workers pushed out on carts and a victory in the people's war.