There are always people in the world who hit the south wall and don't turn back.
Obviously, Xue Yue was one of them!
In the Battle of Subei, Dai Zhiqi's death did not stop Xue Yue, and after rectifying the people and horses, Xue Yue, who did not believe in evil, continued to command his army to march forward.
It has to be said that although Xue Yue's four-way army lost one road, the other three roads were not affected at all, and still came from the southeast, south, and north directions.
At this moment, the mountains and central China are still in danger!
So how was the next Battle of Lunan fought?
How did Xue Yue get beaten to autism by Su Yu?
Xue Yue
Today's Brief History Archive will tell you about the story of the Battle of Lunan.
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After the Battle of Subei, Xue Yue divided the remaining troops into three armies:
The first and southeastern directions were garrisoned by Li Liangrong's 28th Division and Zhang Lingfu's 74th Division;
Second, the southern direction was garrisoned by Hu Lian's 11th Division and Zhong Jigui's 7th Army;
The third and northern directions were garrisoned by Wang Changhai's 77th Division, Zhou Yuying's 51st Division, Liu Zhensan's 59th Division, Ma Liwu's 26th Division, and the 1st Rapid Column.
Obviously, the difficulties that Su Yu has to face are really not small!
Faced with such a dilemma, Su Yu began to lock himself in the room alone, looking at the battle map on the wall alone, thinking about ways to crack it.
At this moment, Su Yu suddenly thought that after the end of the Battle of Subei, our army's westward advance into Huaibei already had an advantage, and we should take this opportunity to mobilize Xue Yue to return to Huaibei and take the opportunity to defeat all his men and horses.
Su Yu, Chen Yi
So Su Yu joined forces with Chen Yi, and the two decided to jointly report to Chairman Mao for decision.
Chairman Mao's side is also worried, and although the victory in Subei is worth rejoicing, the battlefield in East China is obviously still tight, and we should study the next step as soon as possible.
Therefore, Chairman Mao had already conceived a plan to attack Xue Yuelu's southern road, that is, the northern direction, before Su Yu and Chen Yi had reported their westward march to Huaibei.
However, Su Yu and Chen Yi's westward expansion plan was obviously inconsistent with it, but Chairman Mao did not intend to remotely control the two, but decided to give the two enough space to play.
Su Yu was approved, but he was not so relieved, after all, the battlefield was changeable, how could it not change with the times?
On December 19, 1946, Xue Yue took the lead in making a move, only to see Xue Yue order Zhang Lingfu to take the 74th Division and Zhong Ji to take the 171st Division of the 7th Army from Lianshui in an attempt to capture Muyang.
Zhang Lingfu
It seems that Xue Yue is still a bit heartbroken!
Muyang was Dai Zhiqi's battlefield of death, and Dai Zhiqi's death not only made Chiang Kai-shek unacceptable, but even Xue Yue was the loss of a major general.
Knowing that Xue Yue had entered Muyang again, Su Yu decided to fight this road first, so Su Yu ordered the main force to go south and take Zhang Lingfu's 74th Division as a target for annihilation.
It is worth mentioning that this is also the first time since Su Yu led Hua Ye that he fought with Zhang Lingfu.
Zhang Lingfu was not a mediocre person, and when he learned of Su Yu's move, he hurriedly ordered the 74th Division and the friendly 28th Division to move closer together and respond to each other.
In this way, Su Yu really couldn't say anything.
Su Yu
On December 24, Su Yu decided to voluntarily abandon the plan to attack Zhang Lingfu, just as the so-called step back from the sea and the sky, abandoning the original plan did not mean failure.
Su Yu then decided to follow Chairman Mao's plan and return to Lunan to look for a combat opportunity, and after making up his mind, Su Yu and Chen Yi reported the new plan to Chairman Mao.
This time Chairman Mao still agreed with and respected their choice, and Chairman Mao called back:
"If we abandon the plan to attack the reorganized 74th Division, it seems appropriate to concentrate the strength of 25 regiments to annihilate the enemy in Lunan; the Lunan campaign has a bearing on the overall situation, and it is necessary to deploy and prepare time in order to fight a greater annihilation war than subei."
Chairman Mao
Su Yu fully understood Chairman Mao's instructions that if Lunan could win, then shanye and central China would be able to fully meet, and it would be more convenient for Shandong to fight in the future.
But Lunan, does it really mean that you can fight?
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Lunan is not easy to fight!
Let's take a look at this team of people and horses in Lunan north of Xue Yue:
First of all, let's talk about Ma Liwu's reorganized 26th Division, which is the Central Army of the Huangpu Department under Chiang Kai-shek, all of which are sophisticated and beautiful weapons operated by Chiang Kai-shek, not only equipped with heavy weapons such as tanks and howitzers, but also high-grade weapons such as anti-tank rocket artillery.
Chiang Kai-shek
The 1st Rapid Column was even more bullish, because this column was founded by Chiang Kai-shek's second son, Chiang Weiguo, and was Chiang Kai-shek's most proud armored infantry mixed unit.
The remaining 77th, 51st, and 59th divisions, although inferior to the first two units, were more than enough as a meat shield.
In the face of such a powerful opponent, our army is really difficult.
Even Zhong Zhiguang, deputy director of Huaye's political department, recalled in his later years:
"Future generations must not mistakenly believe from my above-mentioned understated words that Chiang Kai-shek's army is so vulnerable and that our army is so easily annihilating the enemy in large numbers."
Bell period light
It can be seen from this that Lunan's battle is really difficult to deal with.
No matter how difficult it is to fight, su Yu locked on Touna, and began to think about which way should he fight first?
If you fight the 59th Division and other small troops first, you can save the victory, but it is meaningless to the overall situation of Lunan;
If you fight the powerful 26th Division and the 1st Rapid Column, although it is difficult, it can turn the tide of the war in East China.
So Su Yu decided to attack Ma Liwu's reorganized 26th Division first, and among them, Su Yu saw two opportunities:
First, if the 26th Division is fought, other units will not actively reinforce, because the 26th Division and other units have always been in conflict;
Second, the first attack of the 26th Division, Su Yu can concentrate 27 main forces, the advantage is also very obvious.
Ma Liwu
After repeated decisions, Su Yu ordered an attack on Ma Liwu's integrated 26th Division, and also circled Ma Liwu's position on the battle map, and said excitedly:
"Just beat him, he's New Year's, we're new year's."
The goal was set, and Su Yu began to deploy:
1st, Ye Fei 1st Column, He Yixiang 8th Division, Tao Yong 1st Division north, with Qian Jun 9th Division, Sun Jixian 4th Division arrived in Lunan, a regiment, and He Jian 10th Division, Coastal Guard Brigade and Lunan Military Region Special Forces Regiment in Lunan Province;
Second, all the above main forces are ready to annihilate the integrated 26th Division and the 1st Rapid Column first;
Third, after annihilating the reorganized 26th Division, expand the victory results, go straight down to Yixian and Taierzhuang, and annihilate one or all of the reorganized 59th Division.
Su Yu's deployment was very detailed, but Chairman Mao was still a little worried.
On January 2, 1947, just a few hours before the battle began, Chairman Mao was still not very reassured, and specially called Chen Yi to ask whether Su Yu was in place.
It can be seen that Chairman Mao attaches great importance to Su Yu and is assured!
The next performance, I believe su Yu will not fail to live up to Chairman Mao's expectations!
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Before the campaign was launched, Su Yu ordered all the participating units to advance covertly and reach the designated position to assemble and stand by to ensure that they could quickly launch an attack on Ma Liwu and annihilate each one.
The more special is Tao Yong's 1st Division, because the road is far away, Tao Yong can only take the 1st Division and must march during the day.
Tao Yong
Su Yu saw the opportunity and decided to deliberately let Tao Yong march during the day to confuse Xue Yue.
After Xue Yue received the news, he fell into the trap of Su Yu, thinking that the communist army often operated at night, but now it appeared during the day, and it seemed that he was defeated and did not dare to fight again.
Ma Liwu, a subordinate of Xue Yue, and the 26th Division also relaxed their vigilance, let the soldiers under them shine brightly, ate and drank, and had a happy New Year, and he also left the army to go to the county town to participate in the New Year's party.
But who would have thought that he would never come back from this walk.
Su Yu saw the opportunity and immediately ordered an attack on the reorganized 26th Division, and the 26th Division, which was singing and dancing, did not expect at all, and was quickly destroyed by Hua Ye.
Seeing such a scene, the remaining remnants of the 26th Division hurriedly retreated and the 1st Rapid Column moved closer together, becoming a terrified turtle in an urn.
Just at this moment, suddenly it rained and snowed in the sky, the road was difficult for a while, and Su Yu's general offensive could only be temporarily stopped, and HuaYe's staff officer hurriedly asked Su Yu:
"Have the plans changed?"
But Su Yu did not hesitate in the slightest, and even said with great excitement:
"Unchanged, this is God's help to us, rain and snow, the road is difficult, trapping the enemy's heavy equipment there, he will be even more difficult to escape."
Therefore, huaye people and horses braved the bad weather of wind and rain and continued to attack bravely.
Ma Liwu, who was attending the New Year's party in Yixian County, learned that the 26th Division had been basically destroyed, and he was almost heartbroken, in order to save the last lifeline, Ma Liwu asked Xue Yue to order the remaining remnants to break through quickly.
Xue Yue also agreed to Ma Liwu's request, and also promised to send a plane to cover.
Unfortunately, the breakthrough was meaningless, the remnants had just broken out of the dense fire net, and the heavy weapons were then stuck in the mud, unable to move.
The rain and snow fell heavier and heavier, and Huaye became more and more courageous, and the 1st Rapid Column was wiped out in this flying snow.
After years of painstaking efforts, Ma Liwu was so desperate that he recorded the battle in his diary:
"This is one of the most painful losses in external and internal combat since Chengyu led the troops!"
Xue Yue was equally dumbfounded, bent on thinking that the tragic result of this tragic result was entirely due to their strategic guidance errors and the perfection of the communist army's plan.
However, Xue Yue must not have imagined that the so-called perfect plan of the communist army was a new tactic created by Su Yu -- a rapid maneuver along the two wings of the enemy group to encircle the key points, and the successful use of the pincer attack method to encircle the opponent.
Later, when Xue Yue learned that this failure was the masterpiece of Su Yu, who had never entered the gate of the military academy but still had 21 years of front-line combat experience, he couldn't help but sigh:
He hadn't been to military school, so why was he so good?
However, su yu obviously did not intend to stop this battle result, and Su Yu, who had a chance of victory, decided to consider the second stage of the operation and realize Chairman Mao's intention to consolidate Lunan.
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In fact, as mentioned above, after Su Yu ate the 26th Division, he planned to take over Liu Zhensan's 59th Division.
Liu Zhensan
However, after taking the 26th Division, Su Yu's appetite became larger, and Su Yu felt that it was not enough to take Yi County, the key was to take Zaozhuang to open up the Situation in Lunan.
So Su Yu and Chen Yi reported the plan to Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao immediately agreed and quickly approved Su Yu's plan.
Su Yu then led a light command post and rushed to the front line of Yixian and Zaozhuang.
It was very smooth to win YiXian County.
On January 9, 1947, Su Yu ordered the suppression of Ma Liwu in the city, and these artillery fires were originally under Ma Liwu's subordinates, but at this moment, they turned their faces and did not recognize anyone, and were attacking their former "comrades-in-arms".
On January 11, after the artillery fire had destroyed Yixian county, ma Liwu could only disguise himself and sneak out of the city to prepare to escape, but he was quickly recognized by Hua Ye and became a prisoner.
Ma Liwu was captured, and at the moment he saw Su Yu, he looked up at the sky and sighed:
"Heaven doesn't help me."
But Su Yu corrected:
"It's not that the sky doesn't help you, you forgot a little, you want to celebrate the New Year, we also want the New Year, and I prefer the new year to be lively." 」
YiXian was broken, and Su Yu immediately set his sights on Zaozhuang.
Zaozhuang's garrison was Zhou Yuying's 51st Division, and although this unit was not Chiang Kai-shek's concubine, Zaozhuang was in a superior geographical position, and in the past it was an important stronghold of the Japanese puppet army, with strong fortifications.
Therefore, Zhou Yuying was not worried, and even provoked Su Yu to say that Zaozhuang was "impregnable".
Indeed, Su Yu suffered a lot of dark losses in the process of attacking Zaozhuang, and the two sieges also made no progress and lost one after another.
On the other hand, Xue Yue hurriedly ordered the 11th Division and the 64th Division to quickly reinforce Zaozhuang, and Zhang Lingfu's reorganized 74th Division was also on the way, and the situation was imminent at this moment.
Su Yu understood that he must take Zaozhuang before Xue Yue's reinforcements arrived, otherwise his previous achievements would be abandoned.
Therefore, Su Yu changed his strategy, in addition to the original Tao Yong 1st Division continued to attack the city, and increased the strength of Ye Fei's 1st Column and a regiment of He Yixiang 8th Division, assisting the 1st Division to attack Zaozhuang together.
Subsequently, Su Yu summoned Tao Yong, the commander of the 1st Division, and Kang Lin, the commander of the 3rd Regiment, to discuss the objectives of the battle, and Kang Lin was an old subordinate of Su Yu during the New Fourth Army period, who had studied the method of blasting.
Conlin
Next, Kang Lin talked to Su Yu about his ideas and suggestions, since he wanted to break through the fortifications, he must use the method of continuous blasting.
Su Yu agreed with this, and then Kang Lin said:
"It is proposed to form a siege group of 50 to 60 people, divided into several groups of blasting, firepower, and assault, to conduct special training, and to dig a passage to the foot of the Zaozhuang city wall, so that the blasting is safer and more reliable."
Subsequently, Su Yu gave Kang Lin 3 days, and Kang Lin did not live up to the trust of the old leader, and successfully trained the blasting team in these three days and mastered the blasting technology.
It seems that it is inevitable to take Zaozhuang and take the Battle of Lunan!
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The troops and firearms were deployed, the tunnels had been dug, and everything was ready, leaving only Su Yu to give orders.
Su Yu was still kind in the end, as can be seen from the time of the original Battle of Gaoyou, su Yu took the initiative to write to the defenders in the city when he attacked Gaoyou City, hoping to lay down his weapons and take the initiative to surrender.
This time, too, Su Yu took the initiative to send a letter of persuasion to Zhou Yuying in Zaozhuang City in the name of Chen Yi and Su Yu, hoping to win Zhou Yuying's initiative to surrender.
However, Zhou Yuying did not appreciate it at all, and still under the cover of the air force, he counterattacked Su Yu's command post, which was really ill-knowing.
Since that's the case, then Su Yu has nothing to wait for!
On January 19, 1947, Su Yu ordered the general offensive to begin.
Tao Yong led the 1st Division, the 1st Column and the 8th Division as reinforcements to continue to complete the goal of blasting, and after blowing out 5 huge breakthroughs, the main force successfully entered the city and began to fight with the defenders in the city.
Soon, the already weak reorganized 51st Division was completely annihilated, and Zhou Yuying was captured alive.
When Zhou Yuying resisted, Xue Yue's reinforcements had not yet arrived, and when he heard that Zaozhuang had been destroyed, Xue Yue was also discouraged and ordered the rescue operation to be stopped.
In the Battle of Lunan, our army won the final victory.
Looking back at the whole process of Lunan, it was divided into two stages: Dayi County and Zaozhuang, and about 53,000 people of Xue Yue were eliminated, which became another major victory after the Battle of Subei.
It is worth mentioning that the tanks and artillery captured in this battle became the basis for Su Yu to form a special forces column.
It can be said that if there was no Lunan Campaign, how could the Special Forces Column be successfully formed?
After the victory in the Battle of Lunan, Chairman Mao was very happy to hear the news, and repeatedly called Chen Yi and Su Yu in the East China Battlefield:
"Very good and very comforting. I hope to reward meritorious soldiers. ”
Indeed, the soldiers up and down Huaye were absolutely indispensable to the annihilation of the three integrated divisions of the enemy's 69th Division, 26th Division, and 51st Division in about a month!
The fighting methods of Chiang Kai-shek and Chairman Mao once again ended in failure, but Chiang Kai-shek could not do anything but once again punish a group of "elite soldiers and fierce generals" in anger.
After disposing of it, Chiang Kai-shek once again began his "battle" plan.
And Su Yu calmly waited for his so-called new tricks!
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