During the Liberation War, the artillery of Siye played a huge role in the offensive and field battles, and each time they were put into battle, hundreds of them were put into battle; during the Jinzhou Campaign, the headquarters of Siye (Dongye) transferred the main force of artillery and column, counting more than 300 heavy artillery of each column, and there were also various small-caliber guns, more than 600; during the Tianjin Campaign, the various mountain artillery, field artillery, howitzers, cannons, cannons and other large-caliber artillery that Siye (Dongye) participated in the battle were 538, and there were more mortars of all kinds... Therefore, the artillery of the four fields cannot be said to be powerful.
For the powerful artillery of The Four Fields, there is a saying that the cannons of the Four Fields were all supported by the Soviet Union, especially some of the generals of the Kuomintang army who lost the battle were firmly determined that the heavy weapons of the Four Fields were secretly sent by the Soviet army when they retreated from the northeast. At that time, according to Moscow, there were 800,000 rifles, 20,000 light machine guns, 5,000 heavy machine guns, and various types including 5,000 mortars, 1,500 combat vehicles, 600 tanks, 800 aircraft, and ships in the Songhua River. As seen by the refugees who escaped from Songbei, such as xu chariot weapons, the Russian army, in addition to supplying the communist army at any time, was in an endless stream of people on the way to Jiamusi, which was the place of concentration. (At that time, Jiamusi was an important rear base for Shino.)
According to this Kuomintang receiver, the Soviet Union gave most of the weapons to Shiye, but there are two problems here, if Shino really has so many heavy weapons, then the Kuomintang army in the northeast obviously did not support 1948, and he learned from the mouth of the so-called "refugees", that is, all conjectures, speculations rely on one mouth, no evidence, such a statement, obviously some self-deception. Liu Yalou, former chief of staff of Siye, once refuted this ridiculous point of view, saying: "The average person always thinks that the Soviet army has left a lot of weapons for Siye, which is a misunderstanding... At that time ,the Soviet army] not only did not give us weapons, but also ate a lot of our troops... Stalin tried to take care of relations with the Kuomintang. ”
So, the question is, since the Soviets did not have large-scale support weapons, how did the powerful artillery force of Shinono be organized in just three years? Turning over the history, we can find that the construction of artillery in the four fields mainly relies on 4 words - self-reliance.
Self-reliance consists of 4 parts: picking, buying, building, and paying.
In August 1945, the End of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in September, Zeng Kelin flew to Yan'an to report that the northeast was full of weapons, so the central government gathered 100,000 people from the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army to go to the northeast, of which the Yan'an Artillery School also organized more than 1,000 people to go to the northeast under the leadership of Zhu Rui. However, after Zhu Rui arrived in the northeast, he found that things were not as reported by Zeng Kelin, weapons could be taken at will, the Soviet army not only did not give weapons, even the gate of the arsenal did not let Zhu Rui and others get close, for this, Zhu Rui could only think of his own way, he heard that when the Soviet army was carrying materials in various warehouses, he left some cannons, so he actively ran to various places to check, and if so, he and his comrades-in-arms relied on picking up and picked up a batch of cannons, such as picking up 27 various artillery and anti-aircraft guns in Fushun, of course, Not all guns are intact.
In addition, Zhu Rui also heard that in the land of northern Manchuria, there were weapons and materials abandoned by the Japanese army, so he sent everyone out, even in the deep ravine, and did not fall, once, he received a report from his compatriots, saying that when the Japanese army was retreating, they pushed several cannons to Jingpo Lake, he did not say a word, took people to go, threw away the ice to catch cannons, and later worked hard to pull up 3 cannons. In addition to the cannons, Zhu Rui also managed to collect shells, and in the area of Jingpo Lake, he found a secret warehouse containing 150,000 shells.
Then there was the purchase, the Soviet army in the northeast at that time was not generous, so Shino exchanged grain with them for weapons, used gold to buy cannons and shells, and Zhu Rui personally went to Pyongyang, North Korea, to negotiate with the Soviet generals, in exchange for some cannons and shells in a bartering manner. In this way, by the way of picking and buying, by February 1947, the artillery school led by Zhu Rui had collected more than 700 people of various artillery, and he also expanded the artillery unit on this basis.
In October 1947, at the suggestion of Luo Ronghuan, the Northeast Bureau established the Military Industry Department, and in 1948, the Quartermaster Department was established, and in 1948, the Quartermaster Department was established to develop its own military industry. With the efforts of Luo Ronghuan, He Changgong, Wu Xiuquan and others, by the summer of 1948, the northeast had 55 large and small arsenals, which could not only repair various weapons, but also produced a large number of shells, bullets and so on. The most famous of these is the Dalian Arsenal, which by 1948 produced more than 30,000 rounds of 75 mm shells a month.
In previous wars, Siye captured a large number of artillery pieces from Chiang Kai-shek, the commander of the transport brigade, including many advanced American-made howitzers, and in the Jinzhou Campaign alone, Siye captured 1121 guns of various kinds of the Kuomintang army. In addition, some Kuomintang troops also brought a lot of artillery during the uprising, for example, in Changchun, the uprising of the 60th Army and the New 7th Army, as well as some local armies, a total of 317 guns of various kinds, more than 8,000 shells, which in a broad sense, is also captured in combat.
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