In October 1947, Yang Dezhi, Yang Chengwu, and Geng Biao gathered outside Xuchengshui City, planning a battle around the enemy, facing the cunning enemy army, the time was urgent, after the agreement, Yang Dezhi and Yang Chengwu decided to cut first and then play, immediately deployed, and finally this prepared rapid war, a trigger. In the end, a comprehensive victory was achieved, and Mao Zedong after the war was even more exaggerated: it is worthy of being eryang! So how did this battlefield come to an end? Why cut first and play later?
Yang Dezhi
Eryang cooperated and taught Xu Shui
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has just been won, and the War of Liberation has also been in full swing. At that time, the organization sent Hu Zongnan's troops to liberate Shijiazhuang. At that time, shijiazhuang controlled by the Kuomintang only had two divisions of troops left, and our army even took advantage of the victory to pursue and liberate the surrounding areas, and the Kuomintang officer Luo Lirong and his troops were besieged inside, forming an "isolated island."
At that time, Luo Lirong was trapped in it, there was nothing he could do, and only one division came to ask for support several times, and Luo Lirong, who originally wanted to attack strongly, faced with such a situation, now only wanted to escape from this "lonely city" as soon as possible. Fortunately, not long after Chiang Kai-shek held the Peiping Military Conference, at which Luo Lirong told Chiang Kai-shek about his current situation, insufficient troops, lack of grain and grass, and hoped to be able to retreat safely and retreat to Baoding.
At that time, the Kuomintang was pursued by our party and suffered heavy losses in troops. Listening to Luo Lirong's idea, Chiang Kai-shek also felt that the plan was feasible and approved it. With permission, Luo Lirong quickly returned to the team and gathered his men and horses to prepare for evacuation. In order to avoid being discovered by the Communists, Luo Lirong also blocked the news, turning Shijiazhuang into an "isolated city" that could only enter and exit.
However, in the tight seal, it was still found abnormal by our army. In order to break the enemy's plan, the Party Central Committee immediately made arrangements to build a new "Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army." Yang Dezhi was appointed commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army, Yang Chengwu was made the second political commissar, and Geng Biao was made chief of staff. Their task was to pave the way for the liberation of Shijiazhuang, annihilate the enemy's living forces, break their defensive deployment, and round up Luo Lirong.
Although the "Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army" formed this time is a new unit, and the weapons of the soldiers are relatively backward compared with those of the Kuomintang, fortunately, they all have rich combat experience and are also led by "Eryang". I have to say that it is still very imposing.
At that time, the fierce attack of the Kuomintang, the Third Army guarding Shijiazhuang, suffered heavy damage, and finally our army was left with only one division of defensive strength. The Qingfengdian must be taken to pave the way for the subsequent liberation war, so the Battle of the Qingfengdian can be described as the "most important".
Under the leadership of "Eryang" and Geng Biao, the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army was a general who crossed the barriers all the way, and the field was bound to win, which consumed a lot of the Kuomintang troops. Chiang Kai-shek also sensed our army's intentions and immediately sent 3 divisions of troops out of the customs to reinforce, but this situation was more favorable to our army.
Because the previous Kuomintang troops were distributed in a triangular shape, they concentrated in Xiongxian, Baxian, and Xincheng north of the Daqing River to garrison a division, and also assigned a brigade to Zhuoxian and Laishui, while in the area of Beihedian and Xushui, two divisions of the Second Army were stationed in Baoding. Such a triangle is their strategic point, which makes it difficult for our army to attack, and it is also a place that gives Chairman Mao a headache. Now there is a flaw in Chiang Kai-shek's deployment.
This triangle and the Luo Lijung troops are the targets we are going to attack this time. "Eryang" likened this triangle to a bull's head, Beiping in the north is the bull's head, Tianjin and Baoding are on both sides of the bull's leg, this time we do not attack the hardest bull's head nor fight the difficult bull's leg, from the north of Baoding as the center of the circle, the offensive can also be said to be a siege point to fight for aid, quickly eliminate the Kuomintang's living forces.
And this Xushui County where you are now is the so-called center of the circle. Xushui County can also be said to be the gate of Beiping, or an important junction of the Pinghan Railway, which can be said to be the top priority. Geng Biao, who was fighting together, did not know the idea of "Eryang", and after scouting around, he was informed of their plan by "Eryang".
The first thing to do is to turn a blind eye, turn a blind eye to the small movements of the enemy's reinforcements south of Peiping, paralyze them, and make them let down their guard. Then we had a big move and hit them off guard. After listening to it, Geng Biao also agreed that the guard force in this place was relatively weak, and as long as the battle plan was formulated, it could be said that victory was in sight.
The next step was to discuss the battle plan, and the three of them immediately held a military meeting. The Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army has four columns, and the leaders of the three columns are also attending the meeting this time. Listening to Yang Dezhi's talk about the battle plan, Chen Zhengxiang, Zheng Weishan, Zeng Siyu, and others were all excited. The three people quarreled to take the lead, and Yang Chengwu looked at them and signaled everyone to be quiet. He said, "There is no support in this operation, it is the main force." After hearing this, the crowd immediately agreed with this approach, and everyone no longer had to argue about being the main force. Subsequently, Yang Dezhi explained the combat mission to everyone, saying that this siege was only a means, and the important thing was to fight and annihilate the enemy.
How to make the enemy really think that the siege is true and the siege is false, this is the most important thing. The siege must exaggerate the momentum, show great courage, and attack Xu Shui quickly and accurately. Let the enemy really think that we are attacking Xushui County with all our strength, so that the enemy can draw reinforcements from the triangle and we can annihilate them in the movement. In the end, everyone decided that the second column led by Chen Zhengxiang would carry out the task of besieging the city. With Xushui as the center, it began to attack from the north and south directions, swept away the enemy forces on the outskirts of Xushui, and then began to encircle.
Zheng Weishan and Zeng Siyu led the third and fourth columns in the designated areas, prepared, and when the enemy reinforcements were brought, they adopted roundabout encirclement tactics to break the enemy troops one by one. At this time, it is also necessary to allocate a part of the troops to reconnoiter the enemy's movements and prevent the enemy troops in the direction of Baoding from suddenly reinforcing. The battle plan was established, and Yang Dezhi reported to the chairman, and Chairman Mao also trusted them very much, saying that "Eryang" was an old partner, and this operation was also very optimistic about them. After obtaining consent, "Eryang" also began this cooperation and surrounded Xushui.
In critical situations, cut first and play later
On October 11, the war officially began, and everything began to be implemented according to the previously deployed battle plan. After fierce fighting, the second column once attacked Xushui City, but the enemy also held the heart of breaking the net of fish death, and fiercely resisted. After our army attacked the city, it had to retreat. After receiving the news from the front, Yang Dezhi did not pay too much attention, saying, "It doesn't matter if you withdraw from the city, what we want is to create momentum, and the offensive we want to show will violently attract the attention of the enemy." Tell everyone that what we are doing now is to destroy more enemies, and this time we will not only eat chicken, duck and fish meat, but also large steamed buns." Looking at the inevitable momentum of our army, the enemy army was also shocked, and the news of the emergency of the Xushui War was urgently transmitted to the outside world, and this news also quickly reached Sun Lianzhong, commander of the Kuomintang Eleventh Theater, who quickly understood the situation, Xushui is an important strategic location of the Kuomintang, absolutely cannot be lost, even if it is a trap set by the enemy, it must be drilled inside, so Sun Lianzhong urgently sent five divisions plus ten infantry regiments to reinforce Xushui. After the arrangement was completed, Sun Lianzhong regretted in his heart that he had not placed enough troops in Xushui.
When "Eryang" received such news, he was also very surprised, thinking that the enemy army would only send two more divisions at most, but he did not expect to send so many troops. However, the troops they had designed to draw out luo Lirong did not move at all. At present, so many troops are gathered in the small triangle of Xushui, Gucheng, and Rongcheng, and it will be quite difficult to implement the plan at that time, which is very unfavorable to our army.
Yang Dezhi looked at the situation in front of him and decided to change his strategy, disperse the enemy's forces, and expand the battlefield in order to maintain the advantage of the battlefield. After making the decision, he went to ask Chairman Mao, who knew that before the news could be passed on, he was disturbed by the telegram sent by Nie Rongzhen. Luo Lirong moved with the Third Army.
When we received the telegram, Luo Lirong had already fled from Shijiazhuang with the Third Army for some time, and they were taking the direction of Xinle, probably trying to join other enemies and form a pinch attack on our army. At present, Luo Lirong's Third Army is only 90 kilometers away from Baoding. The "Eryang" who had learned all this realized that the battle plan needed to be greatly rectified.
There was too much time to think about the emergency meeting between "Eryang" and Geng Biao, and the current plan should be stopped urgently, otherwise luo Lirong would really be able to escape successfully. Looking at the map, the three people thought about where is the best battlefield, and after some discussion, "Eryang" decided to bypass Baoding and make Qingfengdian an emergency battlefield. This is exactly the middle point of 90 kilometers, and Luo Lirong's troops are already less than 90 miles away from here, and our army has 250 miles, that is, more than a hundred miles. According to the speed of the enemy's march, our army must urgently march 250 miles within 24 hours, arrive at Qingfengdian, and seize the opportunity. Not only that, but it was not possible to attack the whole army, and it was also necessary to leave a part of the troops to continue to attack Xu Shui to confuse the enemy. After finalizing the plan, our army had not much time left, there was no time to ask Chairman Mao, now time is the most precious, not a minute or a second can not be delayed, Yang Dezhi immediately made a decision, first cut and then play, ordered the large troops to rush to Qingfengdian.
The warriors rushed to the Qingfeng Shop
The Battle of Qinghedian was a great victory and Luo Lirong was captured alive
Time passed minute by minute, the soldiers did not dare to rest for a moment, at that time the average speed of our army was 7 miles per hour, and this time the time was tight, the soldiers' legs were already numb, although it was autumn, but the clothes were also soaked with sweat, the soldiers were frozen and shivering at night, the soles of their feet were also ground out of blood bubbles, and some soldiers walked directly to sleep, but they were still walking. It usually takes a day and a half, but this time our warriors were done in just one day.
Seeing that the warriors had just left the battlefield and walked for another day and a night, counting down the eight days without rest, looking at the tired warriors "Eryang" was full of worry in his heart. Finally, our army successfully arrived at Qingfengdian in the early morning of the next day, and the soldiers did not rest after arriving, but looked for the best position of attack, looked for an ambush point, and waited for the arrival of the enemy. Finally, at noon, Luo Lirong arrived at Qingfengdian with the Third Army, and the newly arrived Luo Lirong troops were besieged by our army, and Luo Lirong was also very experienced in combat, and urgently organized troop defense.
Taking advantage of the victory, our army began to besiege Luo Lirong's troops, and the Battle of Qingfengdian was officially launched. The fatigue of the warriors that "Eryang" was worried about did not appear at all, and they were very excited when facing the enemy. The enemy who fought was gradually defeated and retreated, but this battle was also very difficult for our army to fight. Because Luo Lirong's troops have rich combat experience, their combat effectiveness far exceeds that of our army. Moreover, Luo Lirong was good at arranging troops, and he set up a plum blossom-shaped coordinated defense system in the village centered on the southwest Village. It can be said to be unbreakable.
Faced with such a defensive situation, our army also did not have a good countermeasure, and immediately the "Eryang" and Geng Biao urgently analyzed the current battlefield situation, and Yang Dezhi said: "This battle cannot be delayed, it must be decided quickly, the soldiers of our army are already extremely tired, and such a war is too exhausting." Yang Chengwu also said, "Such a formation must first divide the enemy before we can break Luo Lirong's plum blossom array, and we must change the way we charged before." In the end, it was decided to send a team of troops to attack the east and west of the same room, a team of troops to attack Gao Jiazuo, and the rest of the troops to attack the southwest village where the Third Army headquarters was located.
On the second day, the war entered a white-hot situation, and after our army changed its strategy, the offensive was rapid. Luo Lirong's Third Army was also almost unable to hold on, the plum blossom array was destroyed, they retreated to the southwest Village, closed themselves together, and became a stone team, but our army's offensive was high, the soldiers bravely fell into the battle, and the solid stone array was also torn open. "Eryang" immediately issued a general attack, and with the cooperation of various columns, the Battle of Qinghedian was a great victory, and Luo Lirong was captured alive.
Luo Lirong didn't want to believe that a unit was obviously still fighting on the Xushui battlefield, how could it be here in the blink of an eye. And the plum blossom array defense that he had arranged so carefully was broken in less than a day. The war went well. The enemy was annihilated by more than 17,000 people, including 11,000 prisoners and more than 10 school-level officers.
The victory in this campaign was a great victory after the Jin-Cha-Ji battlefield turned into a strategic counteroffensive, and it also opened the way for the subsequent campaign to liberate Shijiazhuang, and played an important role in reversing the situation of the war of liberation for our army. After the end of the war, "Eryang" reported to the chairman that he had previously cut and played after, and the chairman, instead of blaming them, praised them very happily: "Well done, it is really worthy of Eryang." Solved one of my heart problems."
In the face of the unexpected situation on the battlefield, the "Eryang" were able to make a decision on the spot, have courage and strategy, and it is precisely because of heroes like them that our army has won great victories on the battlefield one after another. They are worthy of being the people's heroes and founding heroes. Do you still know the stories of "Eryang"? Well, this issue of the content ends here, everyone has something to say, you can leave a message in the comment area.