Jinzhou, a city on the shores of the Bohai Sea, serves as the eastern end of the Western Liaoning Corridor and the Shanhaiguan at the western end of the country form a natural barrier between northeast and north China. Because of its dangerous geographical location, Gulai has always been a place where soldiers must fight.
If the Battle of Songjin four hundred years ago (1640 to be precise), the Fame of the Emperor Taiji, basically cleared the barriers to entry, then, 300 years later, the Communist Party will fight the Kuomintang here, but unlike the Qing, the Communist Party will go through this battle to choke the throat of the Western Liaoning Corridor in an attempt to trap the Kuomintang army in a cage.
In September 1948, after a strategic counteroffensive, the kuomintang-communist posture was white-hot, and it was about to enter the decisive stage, and the first battle was selected in the northeast, because in the northeast, the People's Liberation Army had an incomparable advantage.
After the surrender of Japan in August 1945, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party simultaneously sent personnel to occupy the northeast, but after three years of operation, the situation of the two parties was completely different:
The local and military leading bodies of the Communist Party have been fighting steadily and steadily over the past three years, liberating 97 percent of the areas and more than 86 percent of the population in the northeast, while the Kuomintang, under the management of Xiong Shihui, Chen Cheng, and Wei Lihuang, has shrunk down only in Jinzhou, Shenyang, and Changchun, while the strength of the kuomintang and the communist party also has a very disparity in strength.
The heads of both the Kuomintang and the Communists turned their targets to Jinzhou. For the People's Liberation Army, if it conquered Jinzhou, it would completely cut off the connection between the northeast and north China, and the Kuomintang troops entrenched in Changchun, Shenyang, and other areas were like fat meat on the edge of the pot, eating whenever they wanted, unless the Kuomintang had the ability to reach the sky.
However, for the attack on Jinzhou, Lin Biao had gone through a psychological struggle, and for Lin Biao, who was cautious in battle, the risk of attacking Jinzhou was relatively high, and after he chose to attack Changchun and Changchun, he finally made up his mind to attack Jinzhou.
On October 8, 1948, Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Liu Yalou summoned the heads of various columns to gather at Maoshan to survey the terrain and study the main direction of attack. On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the terrain and enemy situation, on the 9th, the front-line command post of the Northeast Field Army was formulated to conquer it
Jinzhou
Specific deployment and telegram to the Central Military Commission. namely:
The main forces of the 2nd and 3rd Columns and the 6th Column and the Seventeenth Division and the artillery attacked from north to south;
The seventh and ninth columns and the artillery column attacked from south to north;
The Eight Columns attacked from east to west.
From the perspective of deployment, the northern part of Jinzhou is the main direction of attack, the south and the east belong to the direction of assists, and the direction of assists in the south is Deng Hua, the commander of the seven columns.
Deng Hua, the officer in the early days of the Red Army, has grown into a column general with both military and political superiority through the agrarian revolution, the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation, and the seven columns he led have also grown into a tiger and wolf division. Before the Battle of Jinzhou, he led the seven columns for 17 days to join the five cities, and had just been commended, which could be described as morale.
Deng Hua was well aware of the importance of the Battle of Jinzhou to the entire Liaoshen Campaign, so he was also extra cautious when arranging the battle.
It was a day, foggy. The time of the general offensive was not determined, and Lin Biao's instructions were based on the dispersion of fog.
In the simple command post of the semi-underground bunker on the daughter river south of the city, Deng Hua was holding a telescope in an attempt to catch something favorable for the battle in the thick fog, but the fog was so large that even the dense cobweb-like communication trenches were submerged in the thick fog.
Deng Hua looked at the sky, the sea breeze in Liaodong Bay had not yet blown, and there was still a period of time before the fog dissipated. Deng Hua wanted to confirm the preparations for the operation.
Deng Huawei prepared a commando team for the capture of Jinzhou this time, and whether the commando team could break through the Xiaoling River would have a great impact on the operation of the entire Seven Columns. Deng Hua called Li Huamin, commander of the 132nd Division, and Li Huamin reported to Deng Hua on the preparations of the commando team to step on the Xiaoling River last night, and Deng Hua was very pleased, and then Deng Hua and Zhan Caifang, the commander of the Ninth Column, who were fighting in the same direction, confirmed the preparations of the Ninth Column, and everything was ready, and only the wind in Liaodong Bay was owed.
Finally, at ten o'clock, the fog cleared, the signal bomb was released, and the total attack began!
Heavy artillery fire from both sides alternated on each other's positions. The artillery column that attacked in the same direction as Deng Hua needed to open a gap for the commando, which was not difficult for the artillery trained by Zhu Rui, and several shells landed on a city wall almost at the same time, and the gap was opened!
The commandos, following the route explored yesterday, under the cover of fire, passed through the gap in the city wall, and soon entered the city, and planted a red flag on the city wall.
Following the route opened by the commando, soon the 394th regiment of the assault regiment also quickly entered the city. The soldiers of the Seventh Column, after entering the city, the battle objectives are different from the past, they need to break through the fortresses: banks, post offices, movie theaters... These were the strongholds of the Kuomintang army.
In the seventeen days of combat experience of the five cities of Lianke, Deng Hua summed up the experience of attacking the city, that is, when encountering artillery resistance, immediately stop attacking along the street, immediately explode, and open the way forward, which can not only reduce casualties, but also save time.
At 12:45, less than three hours before the start of the general offensive, the soldiers of the Seventh Column were the first to attack the core position, and first occupied the core positions such as the Jinzhou Cinema and Fan Hanjie's command center.
Fan Hanjie did not expect that the first to break the city was not the direction of assists, but the direction of assists, and hurriedly dispatched the reserve team to support, but it was too late.
The destruction of Fan Hanjie's command center also cut off the connection between the command post and the combat troops, and the combat units of the Nationalist army could only fight for themselves, but the result was the same, that is, they were divided, surrounded, annihilated or captured.
Although the Battle of Jinzhou lasted 8 days, the total attack lasted only about 6 hours. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy in Jinzhou was already like the end of the crossbow, fan Hanjie did not wait for reinforcements from Shenyang, Jinxi and other places after all, seeing that foreign aid was hopeless, it was important to save his life! However, Fan Hanjie, Lu Junquan, and others who absconded in makeup were captured at dusk that day!
Fan Hanjie was captured
The Seventh Column commanded by Deng Hua made a rapid breakthrough in the Battle of Jinzhou General Offensive, took the lead in landing on Jinzhou City in only 15 minutes, and broke into the enemy's core position 2 hours later, destroying the enemy's command center, and played an important role in the victory of the Jinzhou Campaign!
Jinzhou was lost, and from then on, the Kuomintang army in the northeast had no chance, could not break through the siege, could not withdraw from the northeast, and Chiang Kai-shek could only shout in vain!
In the entire Battle of Jinzhou, 100,000 enemies were annihilated, while the seven columns annihilated 30,000 enemies and captured 27,000 enemies, accounting for 1/3 of the number of enemies alone. In the Battle of Jinzhou, Deng Hua gave full play to his command ability, which fully reflected the positive role of the subjective initiative of the generals in the course of the campaign.
And Deng Hua will continue to lead the team to decisively fight Liao Yaoxiang, capture Tianjin, and liberate Hainan... Eventually, he returned to North Korea, the closest place to the northeast, to fight the "United Nations Army" led by the United States, ushering in the peak of his military career.