In the War of Liberation, the Northwest Battlefield has always been a forgotten plate, except for the key offensive stage in 1947, depending on the fact that the entire Northwest has always been free from the main battlefield. Indeed, since the beginning of the war, in the Great Northwest, it has always been Hu Zongnan and Peng Zong who are singing the duo. However, Hu Zongnan, who had hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, was helpless in the face of Peng Zong, who had only a fraction of his own troops, and was basically carried around by Peng Zong's Xiye and then annihilated in the movement.
So what is the reason that Hu Zongnan, who held an army of 600,000 at his peak, has been losing battles under General Peng?
Peng Zong and Hu Zongnan
Hu Zongnan, who has been defeated and fought repeatedly
Among the huangpu students, Hu Zongnan can be regarded as a figure at the level of student president, huangpu was born in the first period, and he was a student of old Jiang, which made him called "the first protégé of Tianzi" from the beginning of his military school. Indeed, among many Whampoa students, he was the only one who was awarded the rank of general (lieutenant general plus general rank) before 1949. Even Wang Yaowu, who had made outstanding military achievements, and Du Yuming, the "firefighting captain" of the same period, had to stand aside.
The first general among the Whampoa students, Hu Zongnan (middle)
The reason why Hu Zongnan was promoted so quickly, in addition to his meritorious efforts in pursuing and suppressing our army during the Red Army period, also had a lot to do with the fact that he guarded the rear of the northwest during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, actively engaged in friction, and stubbornly sacrificed his life for old Chiang Kai-shek.
But then again, Hu Zongnan, who had been in the battle for a long time, was only loyal in the Liberation War, and in the face of Xiye led by General Peng, Hu Zongnan could be said to have repeatedly lost battles.
In the Liberation War, even if the northwest troops were transferred east into Guannei to fight, during the period from 1946 to 1948, Hu Zongnan could still concentrate more than 200,000 yuan of the central army in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and peng, who only had 30,000-40,000 troops all year round, the ratio of strength reached 7:1, and as a concubine unit, the equipment of hu zongnan was also close to the main force of the ace of the nationalist army, and its 1st and 29th armies were all aces in the ace.
But it is such a trump card that can only be beaten when facing Peng Zong.
Hu Zongnan's Northwest Central Army
In the Yan'an Defense War that began in March 1947, in the face of 140,000 Hu Zongnan's army, Peng Zong led the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Defense Army of less than 30,000 people to annihilate a total of 14,000 enemy in three battles and three victories (respectively, the battles of Qinghua, Yangmahe and Panlong) in mobile defense and transportation stations. After voluntarily abandoning Yan'an, he annihilated nearly 6,000 of Hu Zongnan's elite reorganized 36th Division in the Battle of Shajiadian in August. Coupled with the victory of other blockade battles, Nishino annihilated nearly 30,000 enemy troops before the winter break, more than his own troops.
Our army in the Battle of Shajiadian
In the first half of 1948, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Defense Army, which had been officially expanded into the Northwest Field Army, continued to march forward under the leadership of General Peng, and in the Battle of Yichuan in March, the 29th Army and reinforcements led by the famous general of the Nationalist Army, Liu Jie, were annihilated, and more than 30,000 people were annihilated by the enemy, and the commander of the 29th Army, Liu Jie, committed suicide. And successfully recovered Yan'an, and Hu Zongnan, who was still complacent about the occupation of Yan'an half a year ago, was now severely beaten in the face by General Peng.
In the offensive in April and June, Peng Zong launched the Battle of Xifu Longdong, in which our army once captured Baoji, but under the attack of Pei Changhui and erma in the northwest, Peng Zong had to withdraw from the Xifu area. Although Peng Zong always believed that the Battle of Xifu did not achieve the strategic objectives and failed, the battle annihilated nearly 21,000 Nationalist troops, and after nearly a year of fighting, although Hu Zongnan still maintained more than 200,000 regular troops, his experienced front-line combatants had been lost.
Hu Zongnan's troops defeated in battle (stills)
Beginning in the second half of the year, in order to cooperate with the counter-offensive in the Central Plains Liberated Areas of Guannei, Peng Zong launched three campaigns in Chengyi, Libei and Winter from August to November, annihilating more than 59,000 people of Hu Zongnan's group, directly pressing them in the northwest, and disintegrating his operational intentions to go out of the customs to assist the Central Plains battlefield. In the stage of the Great Counteroffensive in 1949, Xiye, which was reorganized into 1 field, continued to move south to Guanzhong under the leadership of General Peng, and Peng Zong, who was assisted by the 18th and 19th Corps from North China, launched the Shaanxi Zhongzhong Campaign one after another, directly driving Hu Zongnan out of Shaanxi and retreating to the Qinling front.
The 1st Field Army fighting in the Northwest in 1949
Mr. Peng, who is highly skilled
Looking at the 2-year fighting method of Hu Zongnan and Peng Zong in the northwest, whether it was in the battle of inferior strength (three battles and three victories) or the battle of superiority in manpower (Shaanxi Central Campaign), it was General Manager Peng who always led Hu Zongnan's nose to go, and our army fought when it wanted to fight, and avoided war if it did not want to fight. Hu Zongnan was passive everywhere, and after knowing it in battle, he felt that he was always defeated repeatedly.
And the reason why Hu Zongnan was beaten everywhere in the northwest, Yu tianjun summed up 3:
First of all, it is General Manager Peng who is superior.
Here I have to say that General Peng's command art is very strong, there are two commanders in our army who dare to fight the battle of the gods and immortals, one is General Peng, the other is Su Yu, and it is most appropriate to describe him with "having a fierce tiger in his heart and sniffing the roses" as the most appropriate, it seems that General Peng is aggressive in fighting, in fact, before each battle, he will carefully and deeply buckle the deployment of various departments. And in the use of tactics, Peng always likes to conduct in an eclectic manner. For example, in the initial battle, Yan'an was used as bait to play Hu Zongnan around.
Mr. Peng at the mobilization meeting
On the battlefield, General Manager Peng also often used the tactics of encircling points to fight for aid and attacking the west from the east to mobilize Hu Zongnan, and used Hu Zongnan's psychology of rushing to make quick gains to seize and target Hu Zongnan. For example, the three battles and three victories in the Yan'an Security War are like this. At the same time, in the training of the troops, General Manager Peng must also be more skilled, and Nishino is getting stronger and stronger through the grievance meeting and the transformation of the captives. The proportion of part of the liberation fighter column in Nishino reached more than 70%. And to be able to transform these fighters into his own revolutionary comrades, Mr. Peng is also indispensable.
Our army marched in Chaoxi Province
Second, it is Hu Zongnan's own reasons.
Of course, Peng Zongnan's ability is strong, and naturally Hu Zongnan is weaker, in fact, Hu Zongnan's highlight moment is only during the period of pursuing and suppressing the Red Army, after the War of Resistance has entered the stage of stalemate, the south of Hu Zong in the northwest is basically in the defensive stage, saying that it is defensive but not fighting the Japanese army. Therefore, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hu Zongnan was more focused on military training, and in the period of the Liberation War, Hu Zongnan, who had been in the battle for a long time, was naturally inferior to General Peng.
Hu Zongnan of Zhida Talent (Stills)
Moreover, Hu Zongnan himself has his own flaws, and he likes to pursue superficial phenomena, such as the persistence of occupying Yan'an, which allowed Peng Zong to fight several annihilation battles. At the same time, when he was fighting in the northwest, he did not look up to Peng Zong at all, and compared with the northwest, he wanted to lead his troops to fight in the Central Plains and Guannei to earn battle merits. Therefore, Hu Zongnan, who was uncertain in the direction, was beaten piecemeal by Peng Zong, not only failed to support the battlefield in Guannei, but made Peng Zong weaker and weaker.
It is most appropriate to describe Hu Zongnan with Zhi Dacai...
Finally, there is the internal problem of the national army itself.
Hu Zongnan is a mediocre talent, but the good villain is also a soldier who has been with him for a long time, although there are no bright spots, but he will not make any mistakes. However, compared with our flexible and changeable army, the defense area is too large, and Hu Zongnan's group troops must not only prevent General Peng's troops, but also defend Chen Geng's troops in southern Jin and western Henan, so don't look at the more than 200,000 troops, but it is actually difficult to expand.
The interior of the Nationalist army is not monolithic, Hu Zongnan likes to exclude dissidents, and when fighting, he also interacts with the old Jiang Xue, which makes the generals below full of complaints. At the same time, even the northwestern troops, which have deepened the system of the central army of the Nationalist Army, are also corrupt in their internal rule, and officials are greedy for military materials, and the materials on the troops cannot be guaranteed.