What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The Battle of Liaoshen was a great battle, a life-and-death battle that determined the fate of Northeast China. This battle is more interesting. Before the battle began, Lin Zong was criticized by the chairman. Why? As we all know, it is a dispute about whether to fight Jinzhou first.
When the Liaoshen Campaign was about to end, Lin Zong was criticized by the chairman again, why was this? Because the Liaoshen Campaign left a small tail that was not very satisfactory. More than 10,000 Kuomintang troops fled from Yingkou.
Sometimes this is the case, the authorities are confused, the bystanders are clear. After the liberation of Jinzhou, he instructed Lin Zong that what he was most worried about was that the enemy would flee from Yingkou and that he must control Yingkou. Why is the chairman paying close attention to Yingkou? Because of the liberation of Jinzhou, the gate of the northeast was not closed, and the Kuomintang troops could still go out to sea from Yingkou and escape on warships, after all, old Chiang Kai-shek had warships.
Jumping out of the northeast to look at Yingkou, the problem is very clear, but the authorities tend to ignore Yingkou. Under the chairman's repeated orders, Lin Zong initially wanted to dispatch two columns to liberate Yingkou, but with the rapid changes in the situation in the northeast battlefield, the northeast field army was really lacking in skill.
The liberation of Jinzhou was immediately followed by the encirclement of Liao Yaoxiang's corps, which numbered as many as 100,000 people, and it was not easy to eat it, except for the troops surrounding Changchun, almost all the other units that could be used by the Northeast Field Army came to fight Liao Yaoxiang.
It was at this time that the Kuomintang's Fifty-second Army took advantage of the loophole, and the commander of the Fifty-second Army was named Liu Yuzhang, a native of Shaanxi, who graduated from the Huangpu Ivy Period. Liu Yuzhang's image is very prominent, and like his Principal Jiang, he is also a bald head.
(Liu Yuzhang)
Principal Jiang's bald head may have been deliberately left, and Liu Yuzhang's bald head was left in desperation. He was injured in the Battle of the Central Plains, his hair rolled down, "it was difficult to grow in grass", and he simply left a bald head.
Liu Yuzhang was also going to march west to join Liao Yaoxiang's corps, but when he heard that Du Yuming had suggested to Chiang Kai-shek that yingkou must be opened, he immediately took the initiative to ask Wei Lihuang to change direction and open Yingkou. In fact, Liu Yuzhang did not want to stay in the northeast for a long time, and the mood of the troops was very low. Wei Lihuang also wanted to leave a way back for himself, so he approved it.
Liu Yuzhang then killed Benyingkou without stopping. Because the main forces of the Northeast Field Army in the southern Manchuria region had been transferred, Liu Yuzhang basically did not encounter much resistance and occupied Yingkou. At this time, the Black Mountain Blockade Battle was fiercely underway, and the main forces of the Northeast Field Army were rushing to the Black Mountain area, and there was no time to take care of Yingkou.
When the chairman found out, he was very dissatisfied and criticized the Northeast Field Army, saying that you did not expect the enemy to retreat from Yingkou in advance, and we repeatedly ordered yingkou, but you still ignored Yingkou, resulting in Yingkou being occupied by the enemy.
In order to make up for this loss, after annihilating Liao Yaoxiang's corps, Lin Zong immediately ordered the Eighth Column and the Ninth Column to rush into the camp entrance. At this time, Liu Yuzhang also encountered trouble, the first trouble was that Wei Lihuang asked him to return to Shenyang, Liu Yuzhang felt that this was a meat bun beating a dog, there was no return, so he found a reason to refuse. The second trouble was that the warship was delayed, and Liu Yuzhang waited anxiously.
The warship arrived with great difficulty, and the pursuing troops of our army also arrived, and Liu Yuzhang ordered the troops to resist desperately while rushing to board the warship. In the end, nearly 15,000 men of his 52nd Army were annihilated, and more than 10,000 people successfully escaped with Liu Yuzhang, which was a small tail left behind in the Liaoshen Campaign.