On the thirtieth day of the 1948 month, although Xibaipo was freezing cold, Chairman Mao's heart was warm and baked, and after the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin, the situation in China as a whole can be said to have suddenly opened up, and the Communist Party of China had won a decisive victory in the War of Liberation.
The significance of the victories in the three major battles is far more than this, these victories have made the Chinese People's Liberation Army high morale, can support the victory of all victories across the country, and the day of reunification of the Chinese land to end the war is coming.
At this time, the total strength of the People's Liberation Army has reached 3.58 million, of which the strength of the field troops has also increased to 2.18 million, the equipment of all the troops has been renewed, and our army not only has a strong artillery unit, but also other engineers, railway troops, armored troops, signal troops, etc. have a certain scale.
After the tempering of the three major battles, the senior officers of the PLA units have learned a lot of experience in the operation of large corps, and the strong soldiers will be strong and the strong will be strong, and the excellent commanders often determine the combat effectiveness of the entire unit.
After the end of the three major battles, the northeast, north China, and the north of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were connected, covering a total area of 2.61 million square kilometers and a population of more than 200 million, at this time all the PLA troops had only one belief, that is, to cross the Yangtze River and overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's rule.
For the sake of his own rule, Chiang Kai-shek also thought of the conspiracy of the golden cicada to break out of his shell; on the one hand, he announced that Li Zongren would take over the post, and on the other hand, he manipulated Li Zongren to negotiate with our party behind the scenes, but these conspiracies had long been seen through by Chairman Mao, and in order to reduce casualties and stop the civil war, Chairman Mao decided to negotiate with the Kuomintang without violating specific conditions.
On April 20, 1949, our Party gave the Kuomintang the last time to sign the peace talks, but the Kuomintang refused to sign and personally closed the door to the peace talks.
After the Kuomintang refused to sign, at 20:00 on the evening of the 20th, Tan Zhenlin issued an order to the 21st, 24th, 25th, and 27th Armies to "cross the river."More than 500 cannons of the Middle Road Assault Group opened fire at the same time, and the artillery fire reflected the entire sky into a purple-red color, and the defensive troops arranged by Chiang Kai-shek in the Yangtze River area collapsed at a touch, and the entire defense line was vulnerable.
On April 23, the People's Liberation Army conquered Nanjing, and the focus of the next battle was the isolated city of Shanghai!
In fact, long before the battle of crossing the river began, Cai Wenzhi, director of the Third War Department of the Ministry of National Defense, stressed at the meeting many times that the focus of defense should be placed west of Nanjing to prevent the People's Liberation Army from crossing the river from Hagi Harbor, but this suggestion was not adopted by Tang Enbo.
The main forces of the Kuomintang were all drawn to Shanghai by Tang Enbo, but the defense of Nanjing was empty, resulting in the rapid capture, Cai Wenzhi was very angry, Cai Wenzhi, who had just withdrawn from Nanjing to Shanghai, was very aggrieved, if according to his own plan, where there is such an embarrassment as it is now, there is no way out after the sea, thinking of this he actually scolded Tang Enbo's incompetent people at the combat meeting.
Tang Enbo was also angry by Cai Wenzhi, scolding that the withdrawal of troops was arranged by Chiang Kai-shek during the battle, and seeing everyone's confused expression, Tang Enbo could only read Chiang Kai-shek's warrant again, and everyone looked at each other and calmed down.
On April 25, Tang Enbo detoured from Hangzhou to Shanghai and issued ten "battle orders" for the Shanghai garrison.
1. Disobey the order and kill those who retreat from the battle;
2. Weak will, collaborating with the enemy to kill traitors;
3. Kill the departed without permission;
4. Abandon the position and kill those who cannot recover;
5. Create rumors to confuse the public and disturb the hearts of the military to kill;
6. Do not pay attention to confidentiality, and kill those who leak military aircraft;
7. Sit back and watch the success or failure, and kill the rescuers;
8. Delay communication and kill those who have lost contact;
9. Those who do not cherish weapons and ammunition and withhold military pay are killed;
10. Kill those who violate military discipline and slacken off and neglect;
These ten battle orders were murderous, but Tang Enbo still felt unstable, and ordered the implementation of military rules such as the "Officers and Soldiers Company Sitting Law," the "Secrecy Law," and the "Anti-Espionage Law" in the troops, which were extremely strict!
Tang Enbo understood that strict military rules alone could not guarantee morale, so he re-opened the "Senior Personnel Combat Training Course" to allow everyone to regain confidence in defending Shanghai.
The military class was headed by Tang Enbo, Gui Yongqing, Luo Zemin, and others, who led the trainees to visit the bunker groups at the Hongqiao and Yuepu positions, and said triumphantly: This is the most advanced bunker fortification group in the world, and no one has the ability to destroy it!
In addition, Luo Zemin also repeatedly stressed that Shanghai is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is very beneficial to the Operation of the Kuomintang Army, and that fighting in Shanghai is both able to defend and escape, and with these impregnable fortifications, as long as it is willing to defend for half a year and a year, it will definitely not be like Jinan, Shenyang, Tianjin and other places.
On April 26, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Tang Enbo on Fuxing Island and focused on inquiring about the Shanghai defense plan.
Tang Enbo was relieved, and then he whispered to Chiang Kai-shek: We have another plan, once the troops are insufficient, we are ready to seal off the section of Pudong from Chuansha to Jinshan with seawater, so that the saved defensive forces can be transferred to Puxi.
Chiang Kai-shek's eyes lit up after hearing this, is this not the same as when he ordered the detonation of the Yellow River embankment at the mouth of the Garden during the War of Resistance, although this plan delayed the action of the Japanese army, but millions of people in Henan and Anhui provinces were affected, and now Tang Enbo is going to repeat the events of that year, seeing that the mainland can no longer stay, where Chiang Kai-shek can take care of others.
Chiang Kai-shek said to Tang Enbo: Don't be silent beforehand, and then he instructed Tang Enbo to be careful.
Tang Enbo saw that Chiang Kai-shek did not object, but instead told himself to be careful, and he understood that Chiang Kai-shek agreed to his plan, but he still had illusions, and Tang Enbo planned that on May 7, Du Changcheng, the captain of the demolition brigade, would lead people to Pudong to first investigate and install explosives at selected explosion sites.
After receiving the order, Du Changcheng rushed to Pudong with Li Youjie, chief of staff of the 37th Army, and Qi Youren, commander of the engineer battalion, and after some reconnaissance, decided to place explosives on the seawall in the Fengxian Zhalin section, and when the tide came on May 18, they could arrange for the explosion, and for the sake of safety, they also transported a truckload of explosives, just to successfully complete the task.
On May 12, the units of the Third Field Army launched an attack from the outskirts of Shanghai, and the bunker groups that Tang Enbo relied on were uprooted point by point under the fierce impact of the People's Liberation Army, and by May 14, the area around Fengxian and Jinshanwei was captured by the Ninth Corps, and Tang Enbo's plan of "flooding Pudong with water" was foiled.
On May 27, after 16 days of shanghai liberation, the confident Tang Enbo originally thought that Shanghai could be defended for at least half a year, but it was only 16 days before the People's Liberation Army broke through, so he did not think about it anyway.
In order to defend Shanghai, Tang Enbo also sent chen Yi, the "righteous father" who was very kind to him, Chen Yi was a nobleman of Tang Enbo, in 1924 Tang Enbo was desperate to study in Japan, and returned to China to seek financial support, at this time, Chen Yi, who was the commander of the Zhejiang Army, expressed his willingness to sponsor Tang Enbo to continue to return to Japan to complete his studies.
Tang Enbo was touched by Chen Yi's generosity, and bowed to Chen Yi: The parents who gave birth to me, Chen Laoye, the one who knows me, the students are willing to worship you as a teacher, life and death, Chen Yi has no heirs, seeing that Tang Enbo also trusts him in this way, and later also gives his niece Huang Jingbai to Tang Enbo as a wife.
Later, on Tang Enbo's career path, Chen Yi used his connections to help many times, and Tang Enbo also had great respect for Chen Yi, and after Tang Enbo became the commander of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou garrison, Chen Yi asked his nephew to bring his own handwritten letter to Shanghai to persuade Tang Enbo to surrender.
However, Tang Enbo, a "clever" person, felt that Chen Yi could no longer help him at this time, and in order to hug Chiang Kai-shek's thighs, he reported Chen Yi's affairs, and everyone in the Kuomintang knew about the relationship between Tang Enbo and Chen Yi, and Chiang Kai-shek was naturally no exception, so he asked Tang Enbo for his opinion.
Tang Enbo said that the national affairs should not be favoritism, in this way, Chen Yi, who was in the dark, was betrayed by Tang Enbo, on February 23, 1949, Chen Yi was arrested by the secret agent Mao Sen, on the 30th was escorted to Taiwan, on June 18, 1950, Chen Yi was executed in Taiwan.
In order to "defend Shanghai", Tang Enbo did not hesitate to "sell his father for glory", but even then he failed to defend Shanghai, and his wife Huang Jingbai had a grudge with Tang Enbo after learning that his uncle had been executed, and soon after he took his children to settle in the United States, and Tang Enbo died in Tokyo while going to Japan for medical treatment in 1954, which is another kind of retribution.
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