Author: Lan Yan also fell into the city
The autumn of 1948 was an eventful autumn for Chiang. Just in late September, Jinan, the capital of Shandong, fell into the pockets of the People's Liberation Army's East China Field Army, and only a few isolated cities in the northeast were still trapped, and it was only a matter of time before they failed.
What makes Chiang Kai-shek even more panicked is that once the war in northeast China is over, hundreds of thousands of northeast field troops will enter the customs and join hands with the North China Field Army to attack north China, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
One day in late October, a restless Jiang flew to the Northern China "Suppression General" in the western suburbs of Beiping to discuss countermeasures with Fu Zuoyi. After some conspiracy, the two finally came up with a "brilliant plan" to turn things around.
【Fu Zuoyi】
The plan was roughly as follows: Fu Zuoyi personally led 5 main divisions to form a rapid force. Taking advantage of the weak strength of the North China Field Army in Hebei, it marched south from Beiping and Baoding, pretended to rush to aid Taiyuan, but in fact secretly attacked Shijiazhuang, and then directly attacked Xibaipo, where our head organ was located, and carried out the "beheading" operation to subdue the enemy with one move.
This plan is really vicious enough. If implemented smoothly, history may really have to be rewritten. What Jiang and Fu Zuoyi could not have dreamed of was that this top-secret information was leaked by a cavalry brigade commander named Eyousan under Fu Zuoyi after drinking.
Cui Yueli, the head of our Beiping underground organization, who took cover as a reporter, learned of this "beheading" operation from the mouth of Eyousan, who was burping wine, and risked great danger to start up urgently and sent the information to the North China Bureau.
After receiving the information transmitted by the North China Bureau, the chairman wrote three telegrams to the Xinhua News Agency in a row, exposing the conspiracy of Chiang Kai-shek and Fu Zuoyi. The enemy general Zheng Tingfeng was shocked to see the newspaper and scolded: What secret operation? The other party knows our actions very well, and sneaks a fart! Fu Zuoyi saw that nothing could be done, so he had to hastily collect troops.
【Chairman's residence in Xibaipo】
Fu Zuoyi stole chickens and did not become a rotten rice, and on the way back, he was constantly attacked by our army, losing more than 4,000 people and more than 90 cars. At this time, the war in the northeast was nearing the end, and Jiang Shi was worried that Fu Zuoyi's troops had been wrapped in dumplings by Huaye and Dongye, and wanted to withdraw Fu Zuoyi's entire army to the south and move them to Jiangnan by sea.
However, Fu Zuoyi had his own little calculations. He made a generous statement to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that sticking to North China was the overall situation, and retreating to Jiangnan was partial. There should be no retreat southward until the last resort. With our current strength, we can completely stick to it! Fu Zuoyi said it with a grand voice, but in his heart he actually did not want to leave his birthplace. He feared that if he withdrew to Jiangnan, his troops would be eaten by Chiang.
In fact, Jiang Shi was not willing to give up North China, and seeing that Fu Zuoyi was trying to hold on to it, he thought about it and let Fu Zuoyi contain Huaye and Dongye for a while, so that the Yangtze River defense line would have more time to improve and consolidate. Therefore, he agreed with Fu Zuoyi's claim, but only told him to temporarily guard Pingjin and ensure Tanggu. Once North China cannot support it, it can withdraw south from the sea.
Fu Zuoyi put on a posture of actively preparing for war, but in terms of troop deployment, he did not concentrate all his main forces on the (Beiping), (Tian) Jin, Tang (Shan), and Tang (Gu) fronts according to Chiang's wishes, but instead deployed 17 divisions of his own troops to pingsui Road and the area west of Beiping, and once the situation was not good, they could withdraw west to their hometown of Suiyuan; 25 divisions of the Jiang clan were placed in the Pingjin-Tang section of the Beining Line and the area east of Beiping, responsible for blocking the entry of Dongye into the customs and keeping the sea passage unimpeded.
In this way, Fu Zuoyi's 500-kilometer-long snake array, the snake's head was in Tangshan, and the snake's tail extended all the way to Zhangjiakou.
The chairman analyzed Fu Zuoyi's mentality based on the long snake array he had swung. Although he made a two-handed arrangement of retreating west and channeling south, it was more likely that he would retreat west, after all, Suiyuan was the old nest of his family.
At this time, Dongye had not yet entered the customs, and the most urgent thing at the moment was to leave Fu Zuoyi stranded in North China, and after the Northeast Field Army entered the pass, he and the North China Field Army surrounded and annihilated him. In order to achieve this strategic intention, the chairman instructed Huaye to send troops to surround Zhangjiakou and induce Fu Zuoyi to come to the west to cover Dongye's secret entry into the pass.
On the night of November 29, 1948, under the order of Yang Chengwu, commander of the 3rd Corps of the North China Field Army, the 1st, 2nd, and 6th Columns simultaneously launched an attack on the positions outside Zhangjiakou. The prelude to the Battle of Pingjin began.
Zhangjiakou was the capital of Chahar Province, the passage to Suiyuan, and the lifeline of Fu Zuoyi's westward retreat. Sun Lanfeng, commander of the enemy's 11th Corps stationed at Zhangjiakou, ordered an all-out resistance while urgently telegraphing Fu Zuoyi for help.
Fu Zuoyi, who was far away in Beiping, received a distress call from Sun Lanfeng, and was first shocked, but when he thought about it, he was relieved. At this time, the East Field Unit of the People's Liberation Army was far outside the Guan, which was only a local operation of the North China Field Army.
Fu Zuoyi decided to send his ace main force, the 35th Army, to rescue Zhangjiakou, severely damage Huaye, and then turn back to deal with the Dongye forces that would later enter the pass. For his own starting force, Fu Zuoyi had a mysterious self-confidence. Now that a full set of American equipment has been reassigned, the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.
Before leaving, Fu Zuoyi said to Guo Jingyun, commander of the 35th Army: The 35th Army is my life's work, and its position in my heart is the clearest. You must be careful when you go here, and return to the division as soon as the battle is over, and do not delay. Fu Zuoyi would not have dreamed that his starting capital would not go back this time.
The chairman was very happy to see that Fu Zuoyi had indeed won his plan to move the tiger away from the mountain. Immediately send a telegram to Yang Chengwu, be sure to trap the enemy in order to mobilize the enemy's western reinforcements.
Guo Jingyun, with the 35th Army, arrived in Zhangjiakou on the afternoon of November 30 in more than 400 military trucks. When Sun Lanfeng saw the rescuers, he was filled with tears of excitement. Early the next morning, Guo Jingyun personally led the 35th Army to join the Zhangjiakou defenders to attack Wanquan City, which had been occupied by our army.
After fierce artillery fire, the vanguard of the 35th Division broke into Wanquan City, but found that it had become an empty city; while Guo Jingyun was wondering, Ningyuan Fort, 30 miles southeast of Zhangjiakou, suddenly burst into gunfire. Guo Jingyun's face changed drastically, the 35th Army headquarters and the 267th Division were there, and Lao Tzu was caught up in their plan to attack the east and the west.
Guo Jingyun hurriedly commanded his troops to Ningyuan Fort to meet the battle. By the time they arrived at Ningyuan Fort breathlessly, the People's Liberation Army had long since disappeared. Guo Jingyun was so angry that he yelled at his throat, what kind of battle did he fight? There is a kind of you don't run, let's do a real knife and gun.
Guo Jingyun was fighting more and more, and Yang Chengwu was clear in his fight: surround Sun Lanfeng, drag Guo Jingyun, and wait for the Northeast Field Army to enter the pass and surround and annihilate them together.
No one expected that at this critical moment, something went wrong. Originally, according to the chairman's order, the Cheng Zihua Department of the Dongye Advance Corps should take the diameter and rush to Huailai to cut off the connection between Beiping and Huailai.
But Cheng Zihua and others considered that the position of Miyun was important, and if they did not take it first, the weight of the corps would be difficult to pass. Therefore, he ordered He Jinnian's 11 columns to attack Miyun. The Higashino Advance Corps had no idea that the battle would completely disrupt the Chairman's deployment.
When Fu Zuoyi learned that Miyun had fallen, his face changed suddenly. There are more than 6,000 people in the Miyun City Defense Force, and the main force of the North China Field Army is in Zhangjiakou, who can have such a big appetite? When he learned that it was the Higashino Advance Corps, he sat down on the couch with his ass down, and Han Yan could not speak.
Fu Zuoyi, who had returned to his senses, quickly spread out the map and found that the 2nd Corps of the North China Field Army and the Dongye Advance Corps that had entered the Zhuolu area had formed a situation of attacking Beiping from north to south. Fu Zuoyi judged from this that the People's Liberation Army was going to attack Peiping.
Peiping is in danger. Fu Zuoyi immediately ordered Sun Lanfeng to continue to hold Zhangjiakou, and Guo Jingyun led the 35th Army to quickly return to Beiping. Guo Jingyun returned to the division here, but he was anxious to spoil the chairman. The whole plan was disrupted by Cheng Zihua's stinky chess.
The chairman severely criticized the Higashino Advance Corps for acting without authorization, not only delaying the arrival of the designated area for a day, but also striking grass and snakes. It was hard to get the tiger away from the mountain, how could it make this tiger slip back again?
At this point, the chairman could only readjust the deployment of troops, hoping to intercept the 35th Army halfway through. Originally, according to the mechanized marching speed of the 35th Army, our army could not pursue and kill this "fierce tiger", but the arrogant Guo Jingyun repeatedly missed the fighter halfway, and finally the 35th Army was surrounded and annihilated by our army in the new security, and Guo Jingyun also "committed suicide."
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