In August 1949, as the Third Field Army (formerly the East China Field Army) entered Fujian to fight, the enemies who were showing a tendency to flee at that time gradually withdrew from the mainland one after another, and defended Kinmen Island, which was across the sea from Xiamen. In order to annihilate the enemy on Kinmen Island as soon as possible, in October 1949, Ye Fei, commander of the Tenth Corps of the Third Field Army, studied and deployed the mission of landing on the island, thus opening the curtain on the Battle of Kinmen.
However, in the Battle of Kinmen, due to our army's lack of experience in sea crossing operations and the insufficient number of ships crossing the sea, the follow-up echelon troops could not follow up, and the troops who landed first became the lone army without backup, which eventually led to the failure of this operation to cross Hayden Island. So, which army was in charge of crossing Hayden Island at that time? Who was the commander at the time? Let's move on.
The predecessor of the 28th Army of the Tenth Corps of the Third Field Army was the Tenth Column of the East China Field Army, which was formed by the gradual development of some units of the Shandong Bohai Naval Region of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. At that time, the 28th Army had three divisions, including the 82nd Division, the 83rd Division, and the 84th Division, with a total strength of about 45,000 people. In the Liberation War, the 28th Army and its predecessor, the Tenth Column of the East China Field Army, can be said to be an ace main column with extremely strong defensive combat capabilities, and successively participated in many major battles such as the Battle of Laiwu, the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Shatuji, the Battle of Jinan, the Battle of Huaihai, the Battle of Crossing the River, the Battle of Shanghai, and the Battle of Fuzhou, and made outstanding achievements.
In particular, in the Battle of Huaihai, the 10th Column of the East China Field Army, the predecessor of the 28th Army, stubbornly blocked the enemy's Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi corps in the Xudong area, creating favorable conditions for the main force to successfully annihilate Huang Baitao's corps at Nianzhuang. This blockade war was later combined with the Tashan Blockade Battle and the Black Mountain Blockade Battle during the Liaoshen Campaign as the three major blockade battles of the Liberation War. Due to the repeated good changes in the Tenth Column of the East China Field Army in the blockade operation, the saying that "the platoon of artillery will not move, it must be the tenth column" has gradually spread.