Many people have mentioned the breakthrough in the Central Plains, believing that this is a miracle in military history, especially the Pi Dingjun Brigade with a team of 7,000 people, with 300,000 enemy troops, went around in circles in the lofty mountains and mountains, and finally saved the formation and jumped out of the encirclement circle, we seem to be very easy today, but the encounter of the leather brigade in the mountains is a difficulty that we are far from imagining, in fact, our army has no hope at all for whether the leather brigade can jump out of the encirclement.
In October 1946, the Kuomintang army led by Chiang Kai-shek tore up the peace agreement and attacked the Central Plains Liberated Areas with a total of 300,000 troops in 10 integrated divisions, in fact, before that, the Kuomintang army had concentrated more than 20 divisions on the periphery, gradually encroaching on the Central Plains Liberated Areas, resulting in more than 50,000 people in our Central Plains Military Region being surrounded in a narrow strip of less than 100 miles.
However, a hasty breakthrough is bound to attract the attention of the enemy, so the Central Plains Military Region ordered the 1st Column and 1st Brigade to pretend to be the main force and break through to the east of the Jinpu Railway to alleviate the risk of the main force encountering a large-scale attack.
While Pi Dingjun was holding the enemy back in the form of guerrilla warfare in the eastern Hubei region, he was actually thinking about finding a way out, and it was impossible to complete the task, so he directly threw the troops down, moreover, there was a large-scale enemy army behind the butt to chase and intercept, sitting was the same as waiting for death, and more importantly, their combat purpose was to attract the enemy army, and to divert the enemy's deployment in the west, so as to win favorable fighters for the breakthrough of the large troops. After learning of our army's movements to the east, the enemy mistakenly thought that the direction of our army's breakthrough was in the east. So 5 brigades were mobilized to attack the pi brigade positions.
Although Pi Dingjun only had one brigade, this battle was fought with great momentum, as if the real main force was there, and it was not until July 1 that the enemy realized that the main force of our army was breaking out to the west and had already run 200 miles away, during which Pi Dingdu was able to have a sufficient rest time for the troops, and withdrew the troops into Liu Jiachong, west of the White Bird Garden, and the troops implemented a high degree of discipline, not speaking, not smoking, and not making a fire. Until the early hours of the next day, he suddenly sped south for 50 miles.
The enemy also learned the next day that there was only one brigade of troops breaking through in front of them, and when they were preparing to attack Baiqueyuan, the Pi Brigade had already quietly crossed the area where the enemy had sealed the most tightly sealed, and turned to the east, and the enemy was embarrassed and angry, so he immediately mobilized heavy troops to follow the Pi Brigade and fought another offensive battle at Daniu Mountain near Dabie Mountain, and this battle was also the most difficult battle of the Pi Brigade, and it was also in the case of hunger and thirst, one brigade and one regiment led the whole brigade to kill a bloody road.
After that, while fighting guerrillas in the Dabie Mountain area, while helping the people to carry water and chop firewood, because of the broad mass base, the leather brigade won the support of the local people, Pi Dingjun continued to lead the army to the east to break through, all the way through the enemy's blockade, until after entering the central China Liberated Area, the unit was reorganized into the 13th Brigade of the Central China Field Army, and in the central plains breakthrough, the leather brigade had 21 combat sizes, the number of sacrifices and fallen troops reached more than 2,000 people, but 5,000 people broke through the siege and preserved the complete structure.