In November 1948, the Battle of Huaihai broke out, and in order to win the battle, both sides invested a large number of troops, the Kuomintang army invested 800,000 troops, and Chiang Kai-shek's last Huangpu elite was all pressed in. The People's Liberation Army also mobilized a total of 600,000 troops from the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army, but in this battle, the INTELLIGENCE WORK of the People's Liberation Army was also done to the extreme, and a large number of Kuomintang troops defected before the battle, giving the Kuomintang army a fatal blow, and Liao Yunzhou's 110th Division uprising is a very typical example.
Liao Yunzhou was born in 1903 in Fengtai County, Anhui Province, and was admitted to the Huangpu Phase V Artillery Department in 1926 and Sun Yi Middle School in 1927
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He joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Jing Renqiu. After the "April 12 Incident", Liao Yunzhou was ordered to hide for a long time, only with peace
Director of the Organization Department of the Northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the Military Department
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Single-line contact. In February 1938, Liao Yunzhou served as the colonel of the 656th Regiment of the 328th Brigade of the 110th Division, and during the Battle of Taierzhuang, Liao Yunzhou was a pioneer, charging forward, and making many meritorious contributions.
During the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese Songpu Division was surrounded by Chinese army regiments, and other Japanese troops rushed to De'an to avoid the complete annihilation of this division. Xue Yue immediately mobilized a part of his troops to block the Japanese reinforcements, and Liao Yunzhou's 656th Regiment was also sent to the front, and ambushed a heavy Japanese force at Ciba Mountain, capturing a large number of heavy and other booty. After the battle, Liao Yunzhou took a batch of booty to visit his brother Huang Wei.
At that time, Huang Wei's 18th Army was near the 656 regiment's garrison, and Huang Wei and Liao Yunzhou's brother Liao Yunze were classmates of huangpu I, so Huang Wei welcomed Liao Yunzhou's arrival. After Liao Yunzhou came to the 18th Army, he was very envious of the 18th Army's sophisticated weapons and expressed his hope to borrow a few artillery pieces to attack the Japanese army. Huang Weinian was in the friendship of Huangpu and immediately borrowed 8 artillery pieces for him.
Liao Yunzhou returned to the garrison with the eight artillery pieces given by Huang Wei, and met Xin Shaoting, the commander of the 328th Brigade, who also gave Liao Yun the four cannons to attack the Japanese troops who came to pursue. After the vanguard troops of the Japanese 27th Division entered the ambush circle, Liao Yunzhou ordered all artillery bombardment to be concentrated, destroying more than 20 Japanese tanks (including some combat vehicles), dozens of trucks, and annihilating hundreds of Japanese troops.
After this battle, Liao Yunzhou broke away from Tang Enbo's troops and threw himself into Huang Wei's men, becoming Huang Wei's confidant general. Liao Yunzhou was also gradually promoted to deputy brigade commander, brigade commander, deputy division commander, and major general of the 110th Division. In 1946, the Central Plains Bureau began to step up contact with Liao Yunzhou, and also installed many Communists in the 110th Division, and Liao Yunzhou arranged these comrades at a critical moment, and also tried to recommend them upwards and promote them to their posts. In 1947, Liao Yunzhou established a party branch in the 110th Division, and Liao Yunzhou served as the secretary of the party branch.
During the Battle of Huaihai, the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army led by Huang Wei was surrounded by the Central Plains Field Corps, while Liao Yunzhou's 110th Division was in the 12th Corps and was subordinate to the 85th Army of the 12th Corps. Although the 12th Corps was surrounded, Nakano could not eliminate it, because the strength of the Huang Wei Corps was not weak, the corps under the jurisdiction of the 18th Army, the 10th Army, the 14th Army, the 85th Army four corps and a rapid column a total of 120,000 people, are the elite troops of the Nationalist Army, of which the 18th Army is still the five main forces of the Nationalist Army, the combat effectiveness is very strong, and the entire Nakano is only 120,000 people, and the equipment is rudimentary, heavy weapons are scarce.
Huang Wei was not an idle man, and he also quickly saw the weakness of the lack of firepower of the Central Plains Field Army, so he took a decisive action, preparing to concentrate the four main divisions under the command of the corps, open the way with tanks, aircraft, and artillery, and organize the troops to force a breakthrough.
Knowing that the corps was about to break through, Liao Yunzhou, commander of the 110th Division, volunteered to be the vanguard of the breakthrough troops. Huang Wei trusted this Huangpu disciple, and Liao Yunzhou was a fierce general, he did not flinch like other officers, and every time he received a task, he would try his best to complete it. At the moment of life and death, Huang Wei was very touched to hear that Liao Yunzhou was willing to take the initiative to take responsibility, and Huang Wei also said happily: "Worthy of being a classmate of Huangpu, don't give you any weapons and equipment, tanks, howitzers, whatever you want." ”
Liao Yunzhou was also unceremonious, picking a large-caliber heavy cannon to take away, and later turning around and smashing the shell on Huang Wei's head. Before the 110th Division set off, Huang Wei also called Liao Yunzhou to the headquarters, took out a bottle of brandy that he had treasured for many years, and said to Liao Yunzhou: "Old classmate, this bottle of wine has been hidden for a long time, and I have not been willing to drink it for many years. ”
At six o'clock in the morning of November 27, 1948, Liao Yunzhou led the 110th Division to assemble on time at Zhaozhuang and Zhouzhuang near Shuangduiji. Because the secrecy work was done very well, there was no leakage of secrets during the march, and there was no desertion or falling behind. Huang Wei also constantly inquired about the progress of the 110th Division, and Liao Yunzhou kept reporting to it: "The progress is smooth. As a result, after Liao Yunzhou passed through the PLA defense line, the troops who followed behind were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.
On the night of the uprising of the 110th Division, Wang Jinshan, the commander of the Sixth Column, who was responsible for receiving the response, and Du Yide, the political commissar, visited the officers and men of the uprising on behalf of Chief Liu Deng and thanked Liao Yunzhou for his decades-long contributions. After the uprising of the 110th Division, it was reorganized by the People's Liberation Army into the 42nd Division of the 14th Army of the Second Field Army, and Liao Yunzhou continued to serve as the commander of the division.
Liao Yunzhou's uprising happened at the most critical moment of the Huaihai Campaign, giving Huang Wei's corps a fatal blow, after which Huang Wei organized many breakout operations, but they were all stopped by the Central Plains Field Army, and finally the entire army was destroyed, and the commander of the corps, Huang Wei, was captured. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Yunzhou served as the principal of the Shenyang Artillery School of the People's Liberation Army and the director of the Jilin Provincial Sports Committee, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
After Huang Wei was captured, he was very dissatisfied with Liao Yunzhou until he was pardoned in 1975, and he still did not want to see Liao Yunzhou. It was not until 1986 that the two sides met again on a fortuitous occasion, and the two who had been separated for decades felt the vicissitudes of the world after meeting, and they were full of regret.