Hainan garrison 100,000 troops can not hold? During the war, Xue Yue made a major mistake and regretted it after the war

Wen/Jibu said that before the Hainan Campaign began, many people in the Fourth Field Army were quite apprehensive, and even more so, some generals even advocated waiting for our army to have a formed air force and navy before fighting on the island. The reason why such a situation occurs in our army is, first, because the Hainan Island Campaign belongs to naval warfare and our army is not good at it, and second, because the Four Fields have gone through a long war, and the soldiers are already a little tired of war, after all, the "enemy" on the other side is also Chinese. Although It is said that Shino is known for his combat effectiveness, but that is only in the pure land combat category, they have not fought a sea route landing campaign, for this aspect of the actual combat experience can be said to be zero foundation, plus many of Shino's fighters are "dry ducks", some fighters in the training degree of seasickness is very serious, which directly or indirectly caused a significant decline in combat effectiveness. The stills coupled with the fact that the Third Field Army had just lost the Battle of Kinmen at that time, and the First World War caused nearly 10,000 troops to cross the sea almost completely destroyed, and there was such a lesson and psychological impact, which caused many Siye soldiers to have very little confidence in the sea crossing operation on Hainan Island. On the contrary, the enemy Xue Yue on the opposite side of our army was full of confidence in this battle to defend the island, and among the many senior generals of the National Revolutionary Army, Xue Yue's military level was still very high. Especially during the agrarian revolutionary war, Xue Yue led his troops to engage our Red Army many times, and during the Long March he also chased our army all the way. After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, General Xue Yue became famous in the defense of Changsha and was known as the "Tiger of Changsha". By December 1949, Xue Yue was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to defend Hainan, where he had 100,000 elite troops, 50 advanced warships and more than 40 American fighters.

In order to defend Hainan Island, he directly used a lot of manpower, material and financial resources after his arrival, and spent several months to build a solid "three-dimensional defense system around the island" and named it "Boling Defense Line". After the completion of the vast defense system, Xue Yue could be said to be proud and boasted that Hainan Island was impregnable, so he waited for the opposite side to come and die. In this regard, under the continuous insistence of General Han Xianchu, Siye still launched a landing operation on the island, and finally annihilated more than 30,000 enemies at the cost of more than 4,500 casualties, directly and successfully liberated Hainan, and created a military miracle in which wooden ships defeated ironclad ships. Then, why did Xue Yue, who had 100,000 elite soldiers and also had the "Boling Defense Line", still not hold Hainan? The main reason for this was that Xue Yue had made an extremely serious mistake, that is, he ignored the role of the "Qiongya Column".

To say that the reason why Siye was able to liberate Hainan so smoothly, the Qiongya Column was absolutely indispensable. Before the battle began, Feng Baiju had sent his chief of staff, Fu Zhenzhong, to smuggle across the strait with elite scouts, and passed on important information such as the ports of various people along the coast, the hydrometeorological data of the coastline, and the garrison of Qiongya to the Siye Combat Headquarters, so that he knew himself and the other in front of the station.

After the Battle of Dengdao began, the Qiongya Column and the Siye Dengdao troops joined forces and directly launched a fatal blow against the enemy, which Xue Yue did not expect, causing him to quickly fall into passivity and eventually lose. In fact, before the Battle of Hainan Island began, the situation of the Qiongya Column was very difficult, and during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Qiongya Column had been fighting independently and could hardly receive the support and assistance of the fraternal troops, so they often faced the dilemma of insufficient ammunition and various supplies.

Before the Qiongya people's landing on the island began, although the Qiongya column had grown to the scale of more than 20,000 people at that time, the guns and ammunition it was equipped with was seriously insufficient, and the heavy weapons for attacking the stronghold were even more few. Therefore, when Deng Hua proposed to let the Qiongya Column provide support after the battle began, Feng Baiju directly made a request to his superiors, which was a request based on the actual situation of the Qiongya Column at that time. First, when the enemy's defensive line is not too tightly arranged, a certain number of troops can be sent to smuggle themselves over to strengthen the receiving strength of the Qiongya column; second, if the first point does not work, then a group of military cadres and technicians can be dispatched to transport weapons and other weapons across the sea to enrich the strength of the Qiongya column. Xue Yue We can see from this requirement that the Qiongya column lacked guns and ammunition before the landing operation. However, Xue Yue just failed to seize this favorable opportunity, and from his arrival in December 1949 to March 5, 1950, the Battle of Landing islands began, and in the past three months, Xue Yue had not made any effort to deal with the Qiongya Column, which directly wasted the great fighter. After the war, Xue Yue was very upset about this, if he could draw out a certain amount of troops to encircle and suppress the Qiongya Column on a large scale, then the strength of the Qiongya Column at that time would be absolutely impossible to resist.

If that is the case, if the Qiongya Column wants to merge with the Four Wilds, it will be very difficult, and if the Four Wilds lose the support of the Qiongya Column, then it will be extremely difficult for Hainan Island to take it down.

In his later years, Xue Yue's reference materials for this article: "Battle of Hainan Island", "Liberation War", "Biography of Xue Yue", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Battle of Hainan Island, Xue Yue, Feng Baiju, etc."