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On December 17, 1946, Zheng Dongguo, deputy commander of the Northeast Security Command of Chiang Kai-shek's army, commanded six divisions from Huinan, Liuhe, Huanren, and Kuandian to attack Badaojiang, Ji'an, and Linjiang in multiple ways, in an attempt to first open the Tongji Line (Tonghua-Ji'an), complete the blockade of the Tongji Railway Line, and then eliminate or trap the main force of the Democratic Coalition Army in Southern Manchuria in the Changbai Mountains.
Its specific arrangements were: the 2nd Division of the 52nd Army assembled at Kuandian as the right road and attacked linjiang from Ji'an along the west bank of the Yalu River; the 195th Division of the army assembled at the Erdaojiang River in Tonghua as the left road and attacked the Badaojiang and Linjiang rivers through the Sidao River; the 91st Division of the 71st Army was the middle road, from Huanren to the area of Liudaogoumen south of Tonghua, bypassing the Badaojiang River, and then attacking Linjiang. The 182nd Division and the Provisional 21st Division of the 60th Army, located in Huinan and Jinchuan, attacked the Maojiang area; the New 30th Division of the New 1st Army was in the Liuhe and Sanyuanpu areas, and the New 22nd Division of the New 6th Army was in the area east of Shancheng Town, all of which detoured to the Badaojiang area. In addition, the 207th Division of the Youth Army garrisoned the Xingjing and Fushun lines, and the main force of the 14th Division was west of Kuandian as a reserve, and the first part of the division cooperated with the 550th Regiment of the 184th Division at the shenziwo and Pulandian lines to blockade the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in southern Liaoning.
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On December 18, according to the battle plan, under the command of political commissar Peng Jiaqing and deputy commander Han Xianchu, the 4th Column divided its three subordinate divisions into three routes to insert themselves into enemy lines. The 34th Regiment of the 12th Division, as an advance detachment, set out from the area of Henglu and Taitai in Ji'an County on December 14, crossing the Hun River and inserting itself behind enemy lines. On New Year's Day in 1947, the regiment annihilated enough to defend 1 company of the enemy at three sub-strongholds. In addition to one of the main forces of the 12th Division, the other part went to the Shichengzi area of Fengcheng County to carry out activities;
The 10th Division, a right column, set out from the area around Dongsheng Village in Tonghua County on December 18 and advanced west across the meihekou-Ji'an railway, into the mountains on both sides of the Anfeng Line, where Chiang Kai-shek's rear was weak. On the 22nd, it met with the 3rd Sub-district of the Andong Military Region in Hongmiaozi, that is, to advance to the triangle of Benxi, Fushun and Yingpan. On the 23rd, it conquered Pingding Mountain in Xinbin County, Liaoning Province, and on the 27th, it conquered Weiziyu and eliminated 1 company of Chiang Kai-shek's army. Due to the lack of cold protection knowledge of winter operations, the 10th Division's main attack on 1 company suffered frostbite and more than 40 people in one night, which was even greater than the combat casualties. On the 29th, the 10th Division launched an attack on the 2 battalions of the alkali plant defenders. Because the "one point, two sides" tactic was not implemented, it was only a frontal attack, and the intercepting troops were paralyzed, so it became a rout war. On the 31st, the 10th Division attacked the small city of Benxi County, and the defenders counterattacked with armored vehicles, and the infantry took the opportunity to escape. The 10th Division did not expect it, and although it occupied the small city, it only captured 92 enemy soldiers and killed and wounded more than 30 people, with little success.
Han Xianchu
The 11th Division, a left column, set out from Liudaojiang on 18 December, crossed the Meiji Railway, the Tongyong Highway (Tonghua - Yongling), bypassed Tonghua and marched towards the Huanren and Kuandian areas. Along the way, Lianke Diaoyutai and Shuangshanzi conquered Niumaowu in Kuandian County on the 31st and eliminated more than 100 local armed people there. On January 1, 1947, the Taiping Post was captured. The 2nd Division of chiang kai-shek's 52nd Army retreated.
In order to cooperate with the 4th Column in fighting behind enemy lines and containing Chiang Kai-shek's army in southern Liaoning, the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Liaoning Military Region advanced into the Qingcheng and Xiuyan areas and relied on Qingliangshan to create a guerrilla base area; the 4th Regiment of the 5th Division led the 4th Regiment to develop outwards relying on Kwantung Prefecture (i.e., Dalian City), and the 1st and 3rd Regiments of the 1st Independent 1st Division of Southern Liaoning advanced to the Zhuanghe and Xiuyan Wanfu areas, relying on the Yimian Mountains and buyunshan Mountains to establish guerrilla base areas; the main force of the division advanced north along the Biliu River.
The 4th Column fought behind enemy lines for half a month, conquered more than 20 strongholds, annihilated more than 3,000 enemy troops, and opened up a mountain base area east of the alkali plant, north of Niumaowu, and west of Huanren, spanning more than 150 miles. This move greatly surprised Du Yuming, and he urgently dispatched the new 22nd Division and 91st Division back to Benxi and Huanren, reducing the pressure on the Linjiang area.
The main force of the 3rd Column undertook the task of defending Linjiang. Under the command of Commander Zeng Kelin and Deputy Political Commissar Liu Xiyuan, our side frontally used the 9th Division, the 1st Independent Division of the 2nd Independent Division, the 4th Sub-district Independent Regiment, and the Li Hongguang Detachment to carry out a movement defense along the first line of LiangshuiHezi, Jinchuan, and Laoling to ensure the safety of the main side and rear; the 7th Division took the Areas of Sidaojiang, Wudaojiang, Xia Siping, and Dry Oniongou as the first line of defense, and fought step by step. The main force of the 8th Division gathered in the area of Red Clay Cliff and Sandaoyangcha, blocked the 91st Division's eastward advance with a movement defense, gradually retreated to the front line of Hongshibuzi for final resistance, and prepared to cooperate with the 7th Division to encircle and annihilate Chiang Kai-shek's army in the area of Sanchazi and Linzitou.
On December 22, the 2nd Division of chiang kai-shek's 52nd Army occupied Ji'an; on New Year's Day 1947, the 584th Regiment of the 195th Division advanced to the area of Liudaogou Gate Shansongwo, taking over the defense of the 91st Division of the 71st Army, consolidating the Tongji blockade line, and confronting the 3rd Column.
On December 24, Lin Biao telegraphed Chen Yun and Xiao Jinguang that the main force of the Northern Manchurian forces would fight on the south bank of the Songhua River to cooperate with the Southern Manchurian operation. In this telegram, Lin Biao put forward a new tactic of fighting a "hard fight," that is, concentrating superior forces, practicing the "one point, two sides" tactic, and fighting out part of the enemy in the spirit of fighting hard and fighting hard.
Lin Biao held that "due to the immaturity of the masses in our army in the northeast, it is very difficult for us to secretly approach the enemy, and the enemy we encounter is relatively strong, and it will collapse at the first blow." And because the enemy's railways and highways are too cumbersome and reinforcements are very fast, it is very difficult to seek annihilation battles that are broken under normally superior conditions. But in order to beat jiang jun's trump card. In order to reduce the madness of the enemy, in order to make the conditions of my half-life full maturity, for a certain period of time (in the condition of being half-ripe), within a certain limit (with the strength of several divisions, not the whole army), sometimes even if the conditions are insufficient, we must also fight categorically and strive to become a war of annihilation. If it cannot be annihilated, as long as the enemy is dealt a heavy blow, although there are not many captures, it will be considered a victory. Because of his great indirect victories, in addition to the so-called annihilation and guerrilla warfare in the past, we have recently proposed a new type of operation, that is, a hard-fought battle." "This kind of operation is different from the past, and it is not entirely certain that the result may become a war of annihilation, or it may be that both sides suffer heavy casualties." Lin Biao finally said that Northern Manchuria would fight like this, and hoped that Southern Manchuria would also use this tactic.
Chen Yun and Xiao Jinguang studied Lin Biao's telegram and called back on the 28th: "The changbai mountainous area is densely forested, the roads are limited, the population is very small, and the food is difficult, which is conducive to fighting a sports war and a defensive war. Today, under the circumstance that the enemy's main force is attacking southern Manchuria, we are leading the close coordination of the two fronts and the rear in order to disperse the enemy to pull back the enemy, break through the enemy individually, and win the persistence of southern Manchuria. We agree very much with the method of hard fighting; in the case of fighting in southern Manchuria and northeast China, under conditions where the base areas are immature, the mobile areas are restricted, the enemy is strong and we are weak, the urgency is compressed, and the main force of our army exists, we actually have to spell out a few pieces and change our strength. ”
In view of the fact that the new 22nd Division and the 91st Division had transferred to Benxi and Huanren in the west, and the Chiang Kai-shek army attacking Linjiang had temporarily taken a defensive position, the Liaodong Military Region concentrated the main force of the 3rd Column, the 4th Column Artillery Regiment and the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division on January 4, 1947, and launched a counterattack against the Chiang Army on the Tongji Line.
The 7th Division of the 3rd Column launched an attack on Chiang Kai-shek's army attacking Liudaogou and occupied Hot Water River, forcing the enemy to retreat to the Erdaojiang and Sandaojiang areas. Due to the slow movement of the 8th Division, the 8th Division, which cooperated with the operation, failed to attack on time and failed to achieve the goal of annihilating the enemy's first unit. In order to control favorable areas and ensure the safety of Tonghua, Jiang Jun counterattacked on the 8th and occupied the lively street and yangmu bridge.
On 10 January, the main force of the 3rd Column launched an attack on the 195th Division of Lively Street. Due to the lack of organization and coordination, and the failure to form an encirclement, the 195th Division fled to Sandaoweizi. After that, the 195th Division counterattacked in order to maintain contact with Tonghua. 3 Even if you don't grasp the essentials of active defense, just fight with your opponent in the trenches, I will fight when you come up, and I will not chase you when you retreat. On the 12th, the 195th Division attacked the Longtou area with 4 battalions of troops, and at one point occupied several high ground. The 7th Division organized two regiments to counter-charge and retake the high ground. In order to change this tug-of-war, the commander of the military region instructed the 3rd Column to concentrate the 7th and 8th Divisions to attack the enemy in the first road. On the 13th, the 3rd Column began to attack the enemy. The vanguard captured a high ground and wiped out 1 company of defenders. Other units also made continuous assaults, and the 195th Division finally could not resist and fled in the direction of Tonghua.
Du Yuming
In view of the fact that the Democratic Coalition Army cut off the railway between Tonghua and Ji'an, Du Yuming, in order to restore contact, ordered the 2nd Division of the 52nd Army to attack north from Ji'an, and on January 16 occupied Theo daoweizi in an attempt to join the 195th Division and open the Tongji Line again. The 2nd Division, sensing that the Democratic Coalition army was detouring to its side, hurriedly retreated to Ji'an, and its 5th Regiment was on the qinggouzi line. On the 18th, the 36th Regiment of the 4th Column 12th Division attacked Ji'an and mobilized the 5th Regiment to return south, the main force of the 4th Column attacked north at Da mosquito ditch, the 7th Division of the 3rd Column attacked south from YangQiaozi, the 8th Division served as an interception in the Tianqiao Mountain area, and the 9th Division alerted in the direction of Tonghua, forming a pinch attack on the 5th Regiment of the 2nd Division of The Chiang Kai-shek Army. On the 19th, the 11th Division of the 4th Column intercepted and annihilated a part of the 5th Regiment, and the 10th And 7th Division encountered the 584th Regiment of the 195th Division. Fierce battles several times a night. On the morning of 20 January, most of the 584th Regiment escaped, and only one battalion in the small desert ditch was completely annihilated.
At this point, the One Bao Linjiang, which lasted more than 1 month, ended. The South Manchurian forces of the Democratic Coalition Army broke the attempt of Chiang Kai-shek's army to open up the Tongji Railway and Highway, recovered the area south of Tonghua, and annihilated more than 4,900 Chiang Kai-shek troops.
The first battle won by our army under extremely difficult conditions after the leaders of the South Manchuria Sub-Bureau decided to adhere to the policy of Southern Manchuria. At that time, the troops were very tired, and there was a shortage of weapons, food, and clothing. The 3rd and 4th columns did not rest, and they threw themselves into the internal and external fronts. In the cold of minus 30 or 40 degrees in the northeast, many people do not have cotton clothes and cotton pants, and can only tie grass to their bodies to protect themselves from the cold. The 4th Column advanced behind the enemy and suffered 679 frostbite losses, accounting for about 44% of the total casualties of 1525.
Although the battle was won, it also exposed some deficiencies in the operational command of the Democratic Coalition. The main reason is that the concentration of troops is not enough, and after defeating the opponent, it fails to boldly encircle and completely annihilate.
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