After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang army underwent a major reorganization in early 1946. After the reorganization of the Kuomintang army, five main forces with strong combat strength appeared, and these "five main forces" can be said to be the concubines of Chiang Kai-shek's concubines.
They were the Reorganized 74th Division, the New First Army, the New Sixth Army, the Integrated 11th Division, and the Reorganized 5th Division
。 However, without exception, these five main forces were all wiped out by the Platon Army regiment in the Liberation War, and the most dramatic of the collapse process was the integrated 11th Division.
So, how exactly did the reorganized 11th Division get annihilated by the Platon Army Regiment, and what kind of dramatic process did it have?
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The "Department of Civil Engineering" Chen Cheng's core unit was reorganized into the 11th Division
The predecessor of the integrated 11th Division was the Kuomintang 18th Army, while the predecessor of the 18th Army was the 11th Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army. At that time, the First Army had six divisions under its jurisdiction, of which 5 belonged to Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu department, and the division commanders were all students of Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military Academy. Only the 11th Division, composed mainly of The Fujian warlord troops who surrendered during the Northern Expedition, continued to be commanded by Cao Wanshun, a general who led the surrender, and Chen Cheng was sent to the division as deputy commander.
This was originally a means for Chiang Kai-shek to play the art of controlling human rights
First of all, to give the surrendered troops the greatest respect, not only to let the hostile forces see, but also to give enough face to the surrendered troops, and also to send their own concubines as deputies, not only to supervise the surrender, but also to take the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the people, the commander of the overhead division, control the troops, and finally the water came to fruition, the division commander was replaced by his own confidant, and the entire unit was reborn as his own concubine unit.
But Chen Cheng, the rectal son, did not know the principal's twists and turns, and blamed the principal for not giving himself a full teacher treatment, and in a fit of anger, he even threw up his sleeves and went to Tianjin to do Yugong. Principal Jiang, who loves talent and is eager to do the work personally, said that the other 5 division commanders Liu Zhi, Gu Zhutong, Qian Dajun, Jiang Dingwen, Zhu Shaoliang which is not the old qualification that came out step by step, hastily mentioned that you are the commander of the 11th Division, don't say that Cao Wanshun and his soldiers who surrendered to the truth will not be convinced, the other 5 division commanders may not be convinced, now let Cao Wanshun occupy a seat, in a few years your wings are hard, not yours.
After some pushing, Chen Cheng was convinced of the principal, and immediately happily returned to the 11th Division to be his deputy commander of the Supervision Army. After returning to the 11th Division, Chen Cheng, while rectifying military discipline, took the opportunity to cultivate his own forces in the 11th Division, and sure enough, in less than a year, he squeezed out Cao Wanshun and became the commander of the 11th Division.
Chen Cheng, who became the commander of the division, immediately carried out a major change of blood for the cadres, and from top to bottom all the officers of the Huangpu department were replaced; in the 11th Division, they put forward the slogan of not being afraid of death, not greedy for money, and being able to fight in battles, and demanded that the officers and men should only follow Chiang Kai-shek's lead.
In 1930, in the Central Plains War, which lasted for more than 5 months, the 11th Division braved the strong enemy and fought fierce battles with Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan and other warlords in Henan, which made great contributions to chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing government winning the final victory of the Central Plains War.
After the End of the Central Plains War, Chiang Kai-shek reorganized the 18th Army on the basis of the 11th Division, and Chen Cheng naturally became the first commander, and since then, the 18th Army has become the foundation unit of Chen Cheng's "civil engineering system".
As Chen Cheng's basic unit and huangpu concubine, the 18th Army continued to increase its prestige in the government and the army, whether it was weapons and equipment, or the political welfare treatment of the generals, it was first-class and good, which made Chen Cheng the emperor of the 18th Army, and the appointment of officers at all levels was based on Chen Cheng's words.
Chen Cheng's tough wrist made the 18th Army a team with strong cohesion.
A contest with Su Yu
In 1946, the Kuomintang army was reorganized, and the 18th Army was downsized into the reorganized 11th Division, with Hu Lian as the division commander. Hu Lian is a native of Huaxian County, Shaanxi Province, and is a huangpu ivy student. This northwestern Han had both the strong and aggressive character of the Northwest Hanzi and the cunning and treacherous maneuvering of graduates of professional military academies.
Once when fighting the Red Army, bullets entered his left cheek and penetrated from his right cheek, hu Lian was full of blood but refused to go down, but wrapped a towel around his face and continued to direct the battle, which was astounding.
Because in the confrontation with Su Yu, the 11th Division twice escaped the fate of being annihilated by the regiment, which became its bragging capital and was crowned as the Kuomintang unit that was least afraid of the People's Liberation Army.
Two battles that were flaunted by the 11th Division,
They were the Battle of Subei and the Battle of Nanma.
At the end of 1946, the Kuomintang troops began to carry out a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of the Liberated Areas, and the reorganized 11th Division and the Reorganized 69th Division came in the direction of Suqian with great momentum in an attempt to rob this place, cut off the two major liberated areas of central China and Shandong, and annihilate the liberated areas with other three major armies.
Dai Zhiqi, then commander of the 69th Army, was a member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang 'Three Youth Leagues,' and as a core member of the Three Youths Department and a close confidant of Chiang Ching-kuo, he was anxious to establish the Immortal Qigong and add bricks and tiles to Chiang Ching-kuo's higher level. Dai Zhiqi led the 69th Army, did not care about military strategy and tactics at all, did not communicate and cooperate with the coordinated troops, and did not consider whether the front was a trap or a pie, but only rushed forward with excitement, as if the People's Liberation Army was waiting for itself to go hunting.
Educated in the professional military knowledge of the Whampoa Military Academy and having experienced the baptism of the fierce battlefield, how Hu Lian did not understand Dai Zhiqi's dirty thoughts, he also understood Su Yu's consistent tactics, so he only followed far behind the 69th Army, coldly watching Dai Zhiqi enter the mouth of Su Yu's big fish like a bait, but he thought of being a fisherman and taking the opportunity to catch this big fish.
Sure enough, the 69th Army entered the pocket, and Su Yu commanded the strength of 24 regiments of Huaye and Yamano, and the regiment surrounded the 69th Army. Dai Zhiqi, who was deeply besieged, panicked in an instant, and received Dai Zhiqi's call for help, Hu Lian thought that the opportunity for fishing was coming, and immediately ordered his troops to attack.
However, to Hu Lian's surprise, before the hand-to-hand combat, the 11th Division encountered the hard bone of the Nine Columns led by Xu Shiyou, and the battle lasted for a day, and there was no cheap catch at all, and there were many casualties. However, Dai Zhiqi's status was special, and Hu Lian did not dare to leave the 69th Army to retreat on its own, and ordered the suspension of the attack and the construction of fortifications in preparation for another battle.
The Ninth Column found that the enemy had suddenly stopped attacking, and judged by past experience that the enemy was fleeing. After receiving the report, Su Yu, the commander-in-chief of the field army, immediately sent Ye Fei to lead a column to detour behind the 11th Division and block its retreat. Ye Fei sent a brigade to complete this task, but unexpectedly, he actually crashed into the powerful fortifications built by Hu Lian, and the two regiments were surrounded by the 11th Division, and they were in danger.
A dramatic scene soon appeared, and the two regiments that were ordered to intersperse each other in a roundabout way rushed left and right in the encirclement circle of Hu Lian's army, and inadvertently hit Hu Lian's headquarters near Cao Jiaji's headquarters, which frightened Hu Lian not lightly, nor did he care about Dai Zhiqi, and ordered the troops to retreat quickly, and the encirclement of the two regiments of the People's Liberation Army was also lifted.
With the retreat of Hu Lian's 11th Division, the 69th Army became a completely isolated army and was soon destroyed by Su Yutuan. Taking advantage of the gap between Su Yu and the annihilation of the 69th Army, Hu Lian led the 11th Division to accelerate the escape, and luckily escaped the disaster.
Unexpectedly, less than a year later, in July 1947, the reorganized 11th Division led by Hu Lian and the main force of Huaye led by Chen Yi and Su Yu encountered again in Nanma.
This time, HuaYe's military strength was no longer the same as that of a year ago, and Su Yu, who had just annihilated the Kuomintang reorganized 74th Division in the Battle of Menglianggu, surrounded Hu Lian's 11th Division in Nanma, an inch surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river on one side, with three times the enemy's strength.
Taking advantage of the terrain, Hu Lian built countless letter bunkers to resist stubbornly, a large bunker was equipped with several small bunkers, the troops were scattered in various bunkers, the PLA artillery attacked into the bunker to avoid, when the PLA began to attack, it relied on the bunker to block the attack, this tactic slowed down HuaYe's attack speed.
While occupying the geographical advantage, it did not happen that the day also came by chance, and for several days of heavy rain, most of Huaye's shells and bullets could not be used by the tide, and the reinforcements mobilized by the Kuomintang, the reorganized 25th Division and the 64th Division, came to the aid of the starry night, and there was no hope of encircling and annihilating the reorganized 11th Division, so Chen Yi and Su Yu had no choice but to order them to withdraw from the battle.
Twice escaped from Su Yu's men, and the Kuomintang was so proud that
Chiang Kai-shek even praised Hu Lian's 11th Division as a "communist nemesis."
Even running away is so tall that it really makes people speechless. Soon, however, the integrated 11th Division will face the fate of annihilation.
Liu Bocheng's skinny dog array
At the beginning of 1948, the reorganized 11th Division was re-expanded into the reorganized 18th Army, with two integrated divisions, the 3rd Division and the 11th Reorganized Division.
At this time, the People's Liberation Army was in full swing, the Kuomintang army was left and right, tired of coping, Hu Lian's 18th Army was constantly running around on various battlefields to fight fires, the main opponent of the 18th Army had become the Central Plains Field Army, and Liu Bocheng, who was the commander of Nakano at the time, tried several times to take the opportunity to surround and annihilate the 18th Army, but was cleverly avoided by the cunning Hu Lian.
After the Battle of Huaihai began, Hu Lian's reorganized 18th Army and several other corps merged into the 12th Corps, Hu Lian thought that he would be promoted to the commander of the corps naturally, but he did not expect Bai Chongxi to insert a lever, Chiang Kai-shek in order to balance, appointed Huang Wei as the commander, Hu Lian as the deputy commander, frustrated, Hu Lian excused his father's serious illness, took a vacation home.
Who knows, the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse, Huang Botao's 7th Corps was trapped in the area of Nianzhuangwei by the People's Liberation Army, Du Yuming led his army to rescue them repeatedly without success, chiang Kai-shek was in a panic, and he could not take into account the reality that Huang Wei's command ability was insufficient, and ordered Huang Wei to lead the 12th Corps to march into Xuzhou to relieve the siege of Huang Botao's corps.
Of course, the siege must be won by speed, it is said that Huang Wei's 12th Corps is a corps with a very high degree of mechanization, if it quickly reaches the Xuzhou battlefield, it will inevitably make Hua Ye's belly and back to the enemy, and the siege of Huang Botao's corps will be solved.
But Huang Wei was a dead-headed man who did not appreciate the key to this battle at all. The large number of rivers in Henan and Anhui caused certain obstacles to the rapid advance of the heavy weapons troops, coupled with the continuous harassment of small units of the People's Liberation Army along the way, until November 18, the 12th Corps arrived in the Mengcheng area, and was stubbornly blocked by the 2nd and 6th Columns of Nakano stationed on the north bank of the Vortex River.
Huang Wei should understand that his task was not to entangle and engage with the People's Liberation Army, but to quickly detour back to relieve the siege of Huang Botao's corps, but Huang Wei single-mindedly fought with the 2nd and 6th columns, and as a result, he was also surrounded by Liu Bocheng's 7 columns in a double pile.
Just when Huang Wei's 12th Corps was surrounded, Huang Botao's corps had been completely annihilated, and the Nationalist army in Xuzhou City could not shrink. At the critical moment, Hu Lian was called back by Chiang Kai-shek, flew to the double pile, and coordinated with Huang Wei to break through, and Hu Lian threw out the famous "hedgehog swelling snake method". It is to first put the thorn away, let the snake wrap it, and unexpectedly stretch out the thorns of the whole body, and stab the snake and swallow it.
Just when Hu Lian was trying to break through the siege, Liu Bocheng was also trying to figure out how to annihilate the 12th Corps. At that time, Nakano, in the process of advancing into Dabie Mountain, in order to seize time, threw most of his heavy weapons in the Yellow Pan Area, and in the process of changing battles in Dabie Mountain, the troops did not have a decent rest for more than a year, and the physical and mental strength of the soldiers were very tired.
There is no excellent weaponry, the soldiers are physically physically exhausted, although the strength of the 12th Corps is comparable, but to destroy the 12th Corps, it is like a skinny dog to eat a behemoth, if it is not good, it will break the stomach, Liu Bocheng figuratively called this style of play "Skinny Dog Array". But the arrow had to be sent on the string, and Deng Xiaoping issued a harsh word: "Even if Nakano is finished fighting, he will also die with Huang Wei's corps." ”
At the crucial moment, the Central Military Commission ordered Chen Yi and Su Yu to entangle Du Yuming's clique on the one hand, and on the other hand, it dispatched 3 columns and an artillery unit to aid Nakano on the battlefield of extremely tense liberation. Hu Lian repeated the same trick and built a letter bunker to resist, but after all, it was the end of the crossbow.
Soon, Huang Wei's corps was in a situation of running out of ammunition and food, so he sent Hu Lian to Nanjing to report to Chiang Kai-shek on the situation of the double pile, hoping to get a proper solution. Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek's father and son acted in a movie "Wen Tianxiang" for Hu Lian, suggesting that Hu Lian studied Wen Tianxiang and was loyal to the party and the state.
With nothing to gain, Hu Lian flew back to the double pile, bringing Chiang Kai-shek's instructions to allow a breakthrough in a critical moment.
On December 12, 1948, Nakano and Huaye launched a general offensive against the 12th Corps, and at about 5 p.m. on the 15th, Huang Wei and Hu Lian, who saw that the general trend had gone, ordered their troops to break through.
Huang Wei was captured in the breakout, Hu Lian escaped by chance, and since then, the 11th Division, which is known as one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang army, Chiang Kai-shek's ace army, was completely destroyed in the Huaihai battlefield.