The three major battles were strategic decisive battles between the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang army, and China's political power was basically transferred from the Kuomintang to the Communist Party. The three major battles were deployed from different directions: the Pingjin Campaign was mainly responsible for attacking the Kuomintang's armed forces in hebei and achieving the recovery of positions in north China. After the Liaoshen Campaign, the Communists brought the heavy industry in the northeast under their command, which directly plunged Chiang Kai-shek's troops into a state of insufficient succession, symbolizing that the trumpet of victory was about to sound. Although the strength of the communist army in the Huaihai Campaign was far inferior to that of the Nationalist army, the Communists relied on undefeated perseverance and the support of the local people to drive Chiang Kai-shek's troops out of this land, and also sounded the clarion call for the victory of the subsequent Battle of crossing the river. It is precisely because of the extraordinary disparity in strength between the two sides that Chiang Kai-shek arranged the most powerful troops in this war, which proved that the difficulty of the battle process of the Huaihai Campaign was not comparable to that of Liaoshen and Pingjin.
From September 12, 1948 to January 31, 1949, the Liaoshen Campaign, the Huaihai Campaign, and the Pingjin Campaign broke out on the land of China, as the third stage of the civil war, clearing the way for the founding of New China. In the two battles of Liaoshen and Pingjin, our army won victories relatively easily; however, the situation at the Huaihai Campaign was different, it was a war of unprecedented scale, and it was particularly difficult to win. The Kuomintang believes that it can defeat us by superiority in numbers and equipment, and the soldiers of our army have suffered considerable damage, but the PLA has still won brilliant victories under various complicated conditions, providing conditions for the PLA to cross the Yangtze River in the south. In fact, the Kuomintang has invested a lot of military talents in this campaign, and we are about to declassify them for everyone.
In the 64-day Battle of Pingjin, Fu Zuoyi, as the main commander with outstanding ability, had no way to take over the million divisions of the two units of the People's Liberation Army. His troops could not be compared with the Central Army of the Nationalist Government in terms of strength or equipment, and with the support and loss of Chiang Kai-shek in Northern China, the remaining part was not here, but all retreated to the south, and the Pingjin Campaign was finally won by the People's Liberation Army.
As for the Liaoshen Campaign, there was a popular phrase in the Liaoshen Campaign, "Director Chen is really capable, Shenyang South Station passes through the North Railway Station", which means that the decision of the Nationalist general Chen Cheng turned Shenyang into an isolated island, and the Ninth Corps led by them had long lost its glory of that year, and even the New First Army and the New Sixth Army, which were the aces of the Kuomintang, were quite powerful, including such powerful units as the Forty-ninth Army. The Huaihai War was considered to be the most difficult battlefield to win, and judging by the people involved in the war and the scope of the war, people could feel that this was a hellishly difficult war, and even if the Kuomintang invested 800,000 advanced troops, it could not shake the fact that this was a difficult war.
In Chiang Kai-shek's original plan, Bai Chongxi was the best candidate to serve as the commander-in-chief, but Bai Chongxi refused to accept Chiang's command, so Chiang Kai-shek handed over the post of commander-in-chief to Du Yuming, which shows that Du Yuming's combat ability should still be among the best in the Nationalist army. So what is Du Yuming's record? The fact is that the results he achieved in the northeast were very pleasing, which was one of the main reasons why Chiang Kai-shek called him at an urgent moment. However, Du Yuming handed over a very poor answer in the examination of the Battle of Huaihai, and the error in the prediction of the battle situation was the first reason, and the development of the war in this battle showed that he had made a wrong command at the beginning, and before he arrived in Xuzhou, the development of the Huaihai Campaign had deviated from his prediction. Secondly, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly changed his plan, so that Du Yuming's original battle plan was completely disrupted. Considering these specific circumstances, if Du Yuming had fought according to his original plan and Chiang Kai-shek had not intervened to direct the operation, the difficulty of the Huaihai Campaign would have been raised to a higher level.
When the Nationalist army completed the formation of the 12th Corps, Huang Wei was elected commander. For such an ending, some people are very dissatisfied and therefore directly take leave to return to their hometown, and the protagonist of the story is Hu Lian. Hu Lian had thought that the position of commander was in his pocket. However, in the middle of the Battle of Shuangduiji, when Huang Wei was surrounded and suppressed by the communist army, Hu Lian, because he had been worried about his 18th Army, reached the Shuangduiji battlefield by flight attendant, and his arrival reassured the Nationalist army in the center of the encirclement circle a lot. Considering the current war situation, Hu Lian decided that only by doing a good job of defense would he have a chance to win, and issued instructions to the outside world, and the Nationalist army quickly established a very good defense system according to the current situation, so it also made the attack of the communist army's Nakano extremely difficult. Later, the reason why our army was able to win the final victory in the Battle of Shuangduiji was inseparable from Hua Ye's help.
Huang Baitao was a senior general in the Nationalist Army, and during the Liberation War, Huang Baitao entered the Jiaodong battlefield, which was really majestic and invincible. He was still fighting until his death, and the Kuomintang finally honored him with the title of second-class general, so it can also be said that he was a buried military talent. Although it was able to predict the situation of the battle, his advice was not heeded by the generals in times of danger, so that the entire army was trapped in the town of Xin'an, and there were no reinforcements to rescue it. Although he was in a predicament and it was difficult to get out, he did not passively resist the war, but fought for the last strength to break through, under his resolute resistance policy, our army's soldiers were killed and wounded, and when the breakthrough was about to be successful, it happened that the East China Field Army happened to pass by, resulting in his failure to break through, but this war also fully demonstrated his bravery.
Qiu Qingquan's title as a fierce general is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but he does not have a feeling of coarseness and thinness, and Cheng is also brave, which means that what has achieved him is brave, and the best portrayal of defeat is also brave. During the Battle of Huaihai, Qiu Qingquan was targeted and taken care of in the Sniper War in Xudong, and he should have tried to find a way to retain 300,000 soldiers as much as possible, but he did not do so, but stubbornly insisted on his own ideas, failed to understand that Chiang Kai-shek was already struggling on the edge, did not correctly estimate the strength of our army, and actually took 300,000 lives to realize his idea, that is, near Chen Guanzhuang, he openly rejected Du Yuming's request to carry out the gun surrender plan, and later these 300,000 soldiers were defeated by our army, and he was also killed in battle. When we evaluate this character, we must divide into two sides to see, the reason why he is called "Qiu Crazy" is because he is not afraid when he fights, perhaps because of such a reputation, the 300,000 soldiers do not dare to disobey his orders, only to go to the end with him, defeated, and then captured.
As the most crucial battle in the Liberation War, the Battle of Huaihai, it is a famous battle in which the weak defeat the strong. It is correct simply judging from the number of troops invested by both sides and the excellent quality of their equipment. Many sources can be found that the Kuomintang's military strength is far inferior to that of the Communist Party, and the number of people confronting the battlefield is 600,000 to 800,000, but in the places where the enemy cannot see, there are actually a large number of people covering and supporting the communist army, and even millions of people are transporting food for the PLA. The victory in the war proves that only by supporting the interests of the masses of the people, mobilizing the masses of the people, integrating with the masses of the people, gaining the strength of the masses of the people, and only under the guidance of socialism can we safeguard the ultimate interests of the people and regain political power.
The Battle of Huaihai was the second of the three major battles, which almost affected the direction of the war and played a decisive role in the Liberation War. The number of participants on both sides can almost be said to be the largest, with the Kuomintang sending more than 800,000 people and the Platon Army totaling 600,000. More than double the number of people in the People's Liberation Army. The Huaihai Campaign brought heavy casualties to both the Kuomintang and the Communists, and the total number of casualties in the Huaihai Campaign was as high as more than 170,000, even if the victory eventually belonged to the Chinese People's Liberation Army, it also caused great casualties, and the number of dead and wounded soldiers in our army far exceeded 120,000. The number of casualties caused by this battle was the highest in the PLA war, Chiang Kai-shek lost control of the battlefield north of the Yangtze River in this extremely difficult war, and it is expected that the Later Nationalist Government in Nanjing was overthrown by the PLA.