The Battle of Huaihai was one of the three major battles in the Liberation War, and the annihilation of the Huang Wei Corps was an important part of the Battle of Huaihai.
The duel with Huang Wei's 12th Corps was the Central Plains Field Army of our army. This battle was not easy to fight in Zhongye, and later he was able to completely annihilate the Huang Wei Corps, and Huaye's help played an important role.
According to this, some people believe that Nakano's combat effectiveness is not good, and it is Huaye who relies on Huaye to fight Huang Wei.
In fact, this kind of voice appeared very early, as early as the Battle of Huaihai, some people said that Nakano did not fight well against the Huang Wei Corps, and Nakano's combat effectiveness was not good.
Unlike this voice, Admiral Su Yu believed that Nakano played well and that others should learn from Nakano.
So, how did Nakano beat Huang Wei, did Su Yu's words be sincere, or did he save face for Nakano?
In fact, if you look at the duel between Nakano and Huang Wei's corps, you can know the answer.
First, Liu Bocheng set up a pocket array
From the "Little Huaihai" to the "Great Huaihai," the Huaihai Campaign became bigger and bigger, and the situation became more and more unfavorable to the Kuomintang army.
After Huang Baitao's 7th Corps was surrounded by HuaYe and was in a state of chaos, sun Yuanliang's regiment stationed in Suxian immediately withdrew to Xuzhou City, while Liu Ruming, who was in charge of assisting in defense, led his army to retreat south. The Central Plains Field Army took advantage of the opening of the gate of Su County to capture Su County, and Zhang Jiwu, deputy commander of the Jinpu Road Command, was captured.
As soon as Suxian was lost, the xuzhou defenders' retreat to Bengbu was cut off by the People's Liberation Army. Greatly alarmed, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Huang Wei's 12th Corps, Li Yannian's 6th Corps, and Liu Ruming's 8th Corps to advance north in order to retake Su County.
Before Huang, Li, and Liu Corps could break the siege, the news that Huang Baitao's 7th Corps had been completely annihilated reached the Kuomintang army headquarters, and among the three corps advancing north, Li Yannian and Liu Ruming deliberately delayed their march north because they were afraid of being annihilated by the Plaster In the field battle, and only Huang Wei, who was loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, led the 12th Corps forward in a daze.
The predecessor of the Huang Wei Corps was the reorganized 18th Army, the commander of which was Hu Lian, and it had three divisions under its jurisdiction, namely the 11th, 3rd, and 10th divisions, of which the reorganized 11th Division was one of the "five main forces" of the Kuomintang army, and its combat effectiveness was very strong. Later, the Kuomintang army formed a mobile corps, the 11th Division was upgraded to the 18th Army, the 3rd Division was the 10th Army, the 10th Division was the 14th Army, and the 85th Army and the 4th Rapid Column were transferred.
Therefore, the 12th Corps has a total of 4 corps, a rapid column, a total strength of 120,000 people, the strength can not be underestimated.
Originally, the commander of the 12th Corps was Hu Lian, but because Bai Chongxi did not like Hu Lian, Chen Cheng recommended his close associate Huang Wei to make him the commander of the 12th Corps. Old Jiang was very satisfied with this arrangement, but the 18th Army in the 12th Corps was not happy, their commander had always been Hu Lian, and now suddenly a Huang Wei had suddenly landed, and naturally could not convince the public.
Huang Wei
Huang Wei knew that he did not have much prestige in the 18th Army, and at the beginning of his term of office, he made his attitude clear, he was only a temporary commander, and the commander would still be Hu Lian in the future. However, Hu Lian was unwilling to give Huang Wei a hand, and took advantage of the reason of the funeral to pick a fight and not do it.
Therefore, from the beginning of its formation, the 12th Corps was dissatisfactory and full of internal contradictions.
However, Huang Wei was very confident in the combat effectiveness of the 12th Corps, the 18th Army, one of the five main forces, and a fast column, and he was not afraid to fight a field battle with the People's Liberation Army.
Huang Wei's execution of Chiang Kai-shek's orders was indeed in place, and unlike Li Yannian and Liu Ruming, who could drag on, Huang Wei had been marching towards Suxian County. Local troops in the Yuwan Su District had been destroying Huang Wei's transportation facilities along the road and trying to slow down the Huang Wei Corps, but Huang Wei, with his highly mechanized corps, still entered Mengcheng on November 18 and approached Su County.
At this time, part of Hua Ye's main force was encircling and annihilating Huang Baitao in Nianzhuang, and part of it was blocking Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi's corps, and it was unable to pull out troops to block the three corps of Huang, Liu, and Li.
The Huang Wei Corps attacked the most fiercely, and someone must block this opening, and the Huang Wei Corps could not be allowed to affect the war situation. Hua Ye could not draw troops, and the heavy responsibility of blocking Huang Wei's corps naturally fell on Nakano's shoulders.
However, Nakano's situation is equally difficult. At that time, Nakano was one of the most capable main forces, but after "chasing deer in the Central Plains" and advancing into the Dabie Mountains, Nakano was seriously attrition, with most columns having only six regiments and only five regiments in the ninth column, with less than 20,000 people in each column. When crossing the Yellow Pan, Nakano also discarded a large number of heavy weapons, so that some columns only had a few guns. With such a number and equipment, it was extremely difficult to block the three large corps of Huang, Li, and Liu.
After consultation, Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and Chen Yi decided to use the Ninth Column to cooperate with Hua Ye to contain Liu and Li Corps, and to concentrate the strength of five columns to surround and annihilate Huang Wei's Corps.
In order to achieve this goal, Liu Bo set up a pocket array and waited for Huang Wei to drill inside.
Second, Huang Wei made mistakes one after another
In order to open the road to Su County as soon as possible, Huang Wei ordered the 18th Army to occupy Nanpingji and forcibly cross the Xun River. The 118th Division, the main division of the 18th Army, under the cover of the rapid column, launched a fierce attack on Nanpingji, but was stubbornly blocked by the Nakano Fourth Column led by Chen Geng.
Under the artillery fire, the soldiers of the four columns always held their positions, and even if the 118th Division opened the road with 20 tanks, it was still unable to break through our army's position.
Seeing that the attack could not be moved during the day, the 18th Army waited until the evening and launched a night attack. When the Kuomintang army occupied the beachhead position, it was found that our army had long since withdrawn.
It turned out that this was exactly the pocket array laid out by Nakano's front: after the 18th Army occupied Nanpingji and crossed the river, Nakano immediately absorbed the 18th Army with the fourth and ninth columns, and then attacked the south bank of the Xun River with the strength of five columns, dividing and annihilating the 18th Army and the troops behind.
When the 18th Army crossed the Xun River to continue to Suxian County, the reconnaissance personnel of the various units of the Huang Wei Corps found signs of the main movement of the PLA on both the front and flanks, and the 85th Army, which joined Huang Wei from the rear, also reported that Houlu Mengcheng had been occupied by the PLA.
It was only then that Huang Wei realized that the 12th Corps was already at risk of being encircled. However, at this time, Huang Wei still had a chance to escape, and if he could immediately order the whole army to move closer to Liu Ruming and Li Yannian's corps, it would be difficult for Nakano to tighten the encirclement.
However, Huang Wei made one mistake after another at this time.
First, Huang Wei hesitated at a critical moment and lacked the courage of a commander. Huang Wei was the commander of the corps for the first time, and he did not dare to change the direction of the march without asking the Ministry of National Defense for instructions, so he made the whole army wait for a day, and only in the middle of the night did he issue the order to transfer to Guzhen, wasting precious time.
Second, there are also problems with the deployment of Huang Wei.com. Huang Wei let the 14th and 85th Armies, which were less effective in combat, cover the transfer of the main forces, the 10th Army and the 18th Army. After Receiving the order, Yang Botao, commander of the 18th Army, saw the problem: the 10th Army and the 18th Army had strong combat effectiveness and could have retreated on their own, but now they wasted time and tossed half a day to let the various armies rotate and retreat, in fact, the 14th Army and the 85th Army were pushed to the People's Liberation Army.
Third, Huang Wei did not issue a retreat order because of a small matter. The inexplicable disappearance of a staff officer with the corps transfer order was not a matter of urgency, but Huang Wei sat still, so that the entire corps waited for a day with guns and bullets. The result was that the time to retreat was wasted, and the whole army was in a state of impatience.
In fact, Huang Wei did not know that his staff officer who sent the order had been captured by our army. Knowing that Huang Wei's regiment was going to run, Nakano immediately accelerated the pace of the march and pounced on the double pile.
After a delay in hearing from the staff officer, Huang Wei decided not to wait any longer, but at this time it was late, the field of vision was very poor, the local highway was lacking, and there were puddles everywhere, which was not conducive to the mechanized operation of the large corps. Huang Wei decided to camp in Shuangdui for one night and wait for the day to move.
With this, the Huang Wei Corps could no longer go away.
Nakano had completed the encirclement of the Huang Wei Corps and launched a surprise attack on the 14th Army, which had succeeded the 10th Army in garrisoning the south bank of the Xun River. Shortly after the 14th Army arrived at its position, the deployment was not yet complete. Nakano's four columns came down like a fierce tiger, and swept away the 14th Army.
The 14th Army's rout fled in a hurry to the 114th Division of the 10th Army stationed southeast of Nanpingji, and when the chaos was over, the 114th Division was forced to fight, one regiment was completely annihilated by our army, and the whereabouts of the regimental commander were unknown.
Huang Wei's armies were forced to abandon their outlying positions and join Huang Wei at the Double Stack. At this point, Nakano had completely completed the encirclement of Huang Wei's corps.
Third, the double pile set blood war
The double pile is located on a plain, the terrain is open, and it is not easy to defend, only the two small mounds in the north and south are high points.
However, Huang Wei did not despair, his 18th Army was one of the five main forces, had fought with the People's Liberation Army several times, had strong combat effectiveness, and his 12th Corps had many heavy weapons, and there was a fast column. Fighting a head-on battle with Nakano, Huang Wei was not very afraid.
The double pile is located in the plain and lacks a high ground, but the open plain is not conducive to the PLA charge. Taking advantage of this, Huang Wei had four armies and a rapid column shrink into a regiment, build ring fortifications, and organize a fire network with tanks, artillery, and machine guns.
Huang Wei calls himself the "Iron Walnut Tactic", and if Nakano attacks, he is convinced that he can make Nakano lose a few teeth.
However, Huang Wei was not ready to sit still, and he was ready to take advantage of Nakano's unstable foothold and select four main divisions to advance in tandem and tear through Nakano's encirclement.
Liao Yunzhou of the 110th Division took the initiative to ask for help, asking to take the lead. Dare to act as a pioneer in times of crisis, Huang Wei was very touched and praised Liao Yunzhou.
Huang Wei would never have dreamed that Liao Yunzhou was actually an underground member of the Ccp.
After Liao Yunzhou returned to the division headquarters, he immediately sent the information to nakano's sixth column on the opposite side of the position. Wang Jinshan, commander of the Sixth Column, personally drew a road map for the 110th Division to pass smoothly from the position of the Sixth Column.
The uprising of the 110th Division was a huge blow to the Huang Wei Corps, and the generals at all levels of the army were suspicious and distrustful of each other, and the morale of the corps was severely damaged.
Nakano's morale was boosted, and the columns began to attack Huang Wei's corps.
However, the battle to annihilate Huang Wei was very difficult.
After all, the 18th Army was the main force of the Nationalist Army, and the will to fight was very strong, and the 12th Corps had a large number of heavy weapons and twenty tanks. In contrast, Nakano, the most powerful column has only three mountain cannons.
Under the powerful firepower, Nakano's offensive battle was very difficult, and the sacrifices of the previous days were also very large.
Su Yu was very understanding of Nakano's difficulties, he once led the advancing division to fight guerrillas in the nationalist area, and he deeply understood the impact of the gap in equipment on the war situation.
Therefore, Su Yu said in the summary of the Battle of Huaihai:
Some comrades believe that Nakano has not fought the Huang Wei Corps for many days, and this understanding is wrong. Some of our comrades have forgotten: Nakano was the first to undertake the most arduous task of attacking from the outside, and our comrades forgot the equipment of others... One column in Nakano had only 10,000 or 20,000 men, while each of our columns in Huaye had at least 20,000 men. The enemy's 18th Army is stronger than the 5th Army, not weaker than the 74th Division, and the 10th Army, 14th Army, and 85th Army are not weak. With equipment like Nakano, it is not easy to destroy the strongest enemies. People have played to the strong points of our army's combat, and we should learn from them with an open mind. ”
After the Nakano raid did not achieve results, it also quickly changed its offensive thinking and adopted the mode of operation of fragmentation, reconnaissance, close combat, and coordinated infantry and artillery.
The enemy's fire was fierce, and Nakano dug up the bunker, first digging out the lying bunker, then digging out the kneeling bunker, and finally digging up the shooting bunker. Relying on the trenches, Nakano quickly broke through the enemy's heavy fire defense line, giving Huang Wei's corps a huge blow.
In order to make up for the lack of firepower, Nakano also invented the "flying thunder", commonly known as "conscienceless thunder", this kind of home-made explosive projectile has a great effect.
In the end, with the assistance of huaye artillery column, commander Chen Geng of the fourth column of Nakano unified command, concentrated superior forces, and broke through the position of Huang Wei's corps.
At the moment of death, Hu Lian also flew to the double pile set in an attempt to command the 12th Corps. However, the 12th Corps had reached the end of the road, with the cooperation of Nakano and Huaye, more than 100,000 people in 4 corps and 1 fast column of huang wei corps were completely annihilated, huang wei and Yang Botao were all taken prisoner, and only Hu Lian escaped by chance.
Looking at the whole process of Nakano's fight against the Huang Wei Corps, from blocking Huang Wei, to laying down the pocket array to lead Huang Wei into an ambush, and then forming an encirclement, Nakano's tactical implementation was in place, and the combat effectiveness of each column was very strong.
In the end, Huang Wei needed Huaye's assistance, but it was because the loss of Nakano's soldiers and equipment when he advanced into Dabie Mountain was too serious. But Nakano's combat effectiveness is beyond doubt, and this is summed up best by General Su Yu's words.
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