With tens of thousands of enemies in two strongholds in one night, why is the combat effectiveness of the Northeast Field Army so high?
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Tianjin is an iron city. Why is it called Iron City? Tianjin began to build forts in the city when the Japanese army invaded. From 1945 to 1947, the fortress inside Tianjin was repaired by the Kuomintang, and they even reinforced the barbed wire outside the fortress.
In a City of Tianjin, there are more than a thousand fortresses of all sizes. This is called the "Iron City".
01 Beginnings
At this time, it was the Northeast Field Army that was facing the Kuomintang army.
Faced with such complete firepower facilities and fortress groups in Tianjin, the commanders of the Northeast Field Army held a meeting overnight to try to take Tianjin City with minimal casualties.
In the end, the commander made up his mind. They decided to eat Tianjin away step by step.
02 Fighting
Therefore, Tianjin's peripheral positions became the main battlefield.
On 20 December, the commander of the Northeast Field Army gave the order to attack.
The first target of the warriors was the Ash Pile stronghold, which was nighttime.
When the artillery set up the gun mount, a dense barrage of shells shot out. The shells exploded in the stronghold, and the Nationalist soldiers had just grabbed their weapons and rushed out, greeted by the dense bullets of the soldiers of the Northeast Field Army.
The soldiers in the front suppressed the Nationalist soldiers as soon as the battle began, and the soldiers in the back row tacitly threw grenades.
Boom exploded, followed by the charge of the warriors. At this time, the stronghold was already surrounded inside and outside, and fighters from all directions rushed in, and soon defeated the soldiers of the Kuomintang army and took the stronghold.
This was only the first step, the warriors finished cleaning the battlefield, avoided the minefield under the confession of the prisoners, and went straight to Yang Liuqing.
Yang Liuqing stationed two combat brigades of the Kuomintang army, and the loss of the ash pile stronghold naturally aroused their vigilance. The soldiers had only just arrived at his side when they saw that the Kuomintang soldiers were on tight alert at this time.
"Fight!" The warriors did not drag the mud and water, the joy of victory still overflowed in their hearts, their morale was high, and they directly launched an attack.
Shells rained down on the Nationalist troops, followed by a dense torrent of bullets.
The two blows in the sky and on the ground caught the Kuomintang troops a little off guard and lost their lead.
The warriors were brave, they didn't carry many shells, and they had to fight quickly.
After several rounds of shelling, the warriors began to charge.
The leading warriors, who were all Czech or submachine guns, played a role of suppression of firepower. In the back row, it is tacitly throwing grenades to cover the soldiers in the front row.
The soldiers of the Northeast Field Army interpreted the infantry and artillery coordination to an extremely excellent point, and the soldiers' charge was also very exquisite, scattered, and bent.
This arrangement allowed them to reduce casualties in the charge by a large margin.
03 Victory
The fighters quickly rushed into Yang Liuqing's enemy position, just when their own shelling stopped.
The warriors roared in anger, the charge horn also blew continuously, and the blood flow of the warriors intensified, and it seemed to have an inexhaustible power.
As everyone knows, they have just finished a battle, and the blood on their bodies is still there.
The bravery of the warriors made Yang Liuqing's enemies feel afraid. More and more fighters rushed into the positions, swinging large knives and bayonets.
The bright blades were stained with the blood of the enemy, and even more soldiers shouted "preferential treatment for prisoners" For a split second, the unity of the Kuomintang soldiers was directly dispersed, some people directly raised their hands to surrender, and even more took advantage of this time to withdraw from the battlefield.
Only one regiment of the two brigades of Nationalist soldiers withdrew to the city of Tianjin, a great victory. It also laid a good foundation for the battle of Tianjin.
Resources:
"Liberation War", "Great Reference of China's Liberation War", "Record of the Battle of Pingjin"