On August 28, 1946, the Kuomintang High Command mobilized 14 integrated divisions (32 brigades), totaling 300,000 troops, and launched a major offensive into the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Liberated Area.
Can the enemy fight at present? If you want to fight, how to fight?
The commanders and political commissars of the columns of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army (i.e., Liu Deng's army) deeply felt that this battle was unprecedentedly difficult to fight, because the troops that our army could mobilize were actually only more than 50,000 people, and the gap with the enemy was too big.
Wang Jinshan, commander of the Sixth Column, shot up the case: "Grandma is a bear, let me take the lead, Lao Tzu has never been a shrunken-headed turtle in his life!" ”
He bit his ear with du Yide, the political commissar sitting next to him, and stood up: "I advocate fighting, I have discussed with the political commissar, just take our six columns to take the lead, try the enemy to pound two, even if the whole column is exhausted, it is worth it!" ”
Deng Xiaoping praised one after another: Soldiers should have this kind of indomitable courage and this kind of overriding arrogance!
Deng Xiaoping was excited: "I support you, you fight!" ”
Liu Bocheng stood up excitedly: "Good, I fully support!" ”
The enemy's reorganized Third Division rushed all the way, the reorganized Forty-seventh Division was on its flank, and the reorganized Forty-first Division folded toward Dongming on the Yellow River for a roundabout attack.
With the existing strength of Liu Deng's army, if he wanted to eat two divisions in one bite, he did not have such a big appetite. Liu Bocheng was patiently looking for the fighter, and he opened the door and sacrificed the magic weapon that the Red Army had tried and failed since the Jinggangshan period - to lure the enemy deeper.
"The communists are nothing more than that." Zhao Xitian actually came to the conclusion that this general of the Young Zhuang Sect, because he was related to Gu Zhutong, was also a disciple of Tianzi, and he usually listened to too much praise and flattery, and he had long been arrogant and outrageous.
He reported to Liu Zhi that Liu Bocheng had collapsed and could not form an army, and it would not take more than two weeks to take the whole of Jiluyu and catch the communist army to the Taihang Mountains.
Liu Zhi was suspicious and asked in secret language: "Do you want the plane to cooperate?" ”
Zhao Xitian interrupted him impatiently: "There is no need for any aircraft, just with my current equipment, the communist army will not be able to eat it at all." ”
This passage was slapped by Ming Yu, and Liu Zhi was shocked and reminded him to use a password.
"It doesn't matter, the communists can't hear it." Zhao Xitian was still grinning widely and didn't care.
Liu Bocheng sneered secretly, for the sake of the way of the general, caution is the key, based on this alone, it has been concluded that Zhao Xitian will not have a big show.
Zhao Xitian's arrogance also infected Liu Zhi, and Liu Zhi, who was eager for merit, temporarily changed his position, changing the plan of the reorganized Third Division and the reorganized Forty-seventh Division to attack Tao alone, and the reorganized Forty-seventh Division attacking Heze alone, and the interval between the two divisions expanded from 20 miles to 25 miles, and the interval became larger the further west they went.
The right eye behind Liu Bocheng's frame brightened, and the fighter plane had clearly appeared in front of him.
remove! Give up the rhubarb set! Abandon the size of Yang Lake! Pull the enemy away and make a "please enter the urn"!
On September 3, the enemy's reorganized Third Division was lured into the predetermined battlefield, and with Liu Bocheng's order, several ambush troops were killed together.
This is a tough contest, there is no room for both sides to dodge, soldiers against soldiers, generals, knives and guns in unison, there must be no hesitation, a little timidity, half a concession.
The focus of contention between the two sides is Dayang Lake, which is the support point of the entire battlefield, and when the Dayang Lake is broken, the headquarters of the reorganized Third Division is directly exposed to our attack network.
On the contrary, the encirclement set up by Liu Deng opened a gap, and once the reorganized Third Division broke out and joined the reinforcements, Liu Deng would immediately fall into danger.
Xiao Yongyin, commander of the Eighteenth Brigade of the Sixth Column, moved the command post to the front line and shouted into the microphone:
"52nd Regiment, 52nd Regiment, attack me!" Can't attack? If you can't attack, you have to attack! ”
"54 regiments, 54 regiments, hold me up!" I immediately sent reinforcements. ”
"What? The 49th Regiment could not hold on, and was not allowed to retreat! Take a step back, Lao Tzu kill your head! ”
Dropping the microphone, Xiao Mercury still scolded and grinned: "Mother, this reorganized Third Division is really not easy to entangle." ”
The reorganized Third Division was indeed not a soft persimmon to be kneaded, and the formation was arranged like an iron barrel.
Zhao Xitian was also very calm, he was a relative of the commander-in-chief of the army, Liu Zhi did not dare not save, and the reorganized Forty-first and Forty-seventh Divisions on the left and right wings did not dare not support.
With this confidence, the reorganized Third Division fought calmly, with tanks on the periphery, artillery in the center, and infantry attacking in all directions.
48 hours have passed, and Liu Bocheng still has not succeeded. According to the reported materials, the third division of the reorganized division is surprisingly tenacious, even if you rush under his nose, he dares to hold a bayonet against you, the bayonet is broken with the butt, the butt is broken and bitten with teeth, and it is better to die than let half a step.
Liu Bocheng was furious: "You must also use a cattle knife to kill chickens!" ”
On September 5, he personally took command and mobilized all his troops to fight with all his might.
At present, the 41st Division of the Enemy's Reorganized Third Division has broken through the layers of blockade and is coming in the direction of Dayang Lake, the Forty-first Division has advanced to Dongmingji, 20 kilometers away, and the reorganized 11th Division is also close to Dingtao.
Liu Bocheng shivered in his heart: Now it is time for the fish to die and break the net, and it is necessary to fight a quick decision! Otherwise, even if you want to withdraw, it is not easy.
He ordered Wang Jinshan to take out all the family foundations of the six columns.
The 46th Regiment went up and the 47th Regiment went up, which were the two regiments that Wang Jinshan could fight best, and the history could be traced back to the Red Army period, and it was also his last trump card.
Zhao Xitian finally realized that the great trouble was coming, although Liu Zhi repeatedly asked him in the telegram to "hold!" Reinforcements are about to arrive, they are about to arrive", but after a few days of fighting, the shadows of the reinforcements could not be seen.
He did not know that Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping had exhausted all the units of the Hebei Luyu Military Region to resist the attack, and that some of the troops of the third and seventh columns of the main force had assisted in the battle, and that they had set up multiple anti-blocking nets, and even though the enemy on the periphery was desperately trying to break in, they still did not want to be next to the reorganized Third Division.
The More the People's Liberation Army fights, the absolute advantage of four to one makes Liu Bocheng always grasp the initiative on the battlefield.
In the continuous attack, Zhao Xitian's nerves collapsed.
The shouts of "surrender the gun and don't kill" had already echoed around the headquarters, and Zhao Xitian's soul seemed to be out of the box, and he was already overwhelmed.
Is it war? Or escape? Is it to draw a gun and cut yourself and be loyal to the party-state? Or do you bow your head and confess your sins and go to a new life?
But one thing he understood was that in the competition with Liu Bocheng, whether it was fighting wisdom, fighting courage, fighting formation, fighting will, fighting endurance, fighting nerves, he was not in a grade.
On August 8, the gunfire of several days of liveliness stopped, the reorganized Third Division was completely destroyed, the commander of the division, Zhao Xitian, was captured, and the number of Nationalist troops lost as much as 17,000.
This was the Battle of Dingtao in the history of Biao Bing's army, which was chiang kai-shek's third military defeat after the Battle of the Central Plains and the Battle of the Soviet Union, which caused the main and passengers on the southern front to change the situation, and the advantages of the Kuomintang army were greatly eroded and weakened.
After the war, Liu Bocheng praised that the commander of the Sixth Column, Wang Jinshan, had taken up the case before the battle, and he could withstand it at a critical moment, and the key to victory in this battle was the key.