On January 23, 1947, after four months of fighting, the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army were officially merged into the East China Field Army, with Chen Yi as commander and political commissar, Su Yu as deputy commander, and Tan Zhenlin as deputy political commissar, of which deputy commander Su Yu was responsible for specific campaign command.
At this time, the Kuomintang had just experienced the Battle of Subei, the defeat of the Battle of Lunan, and more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops were wiped out by Su Yu. Chiang Kai-shek sent Chen Cheng, chief of staff of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, to sit in Xuzhou and replace Xue Yue, who had lost two consecutive battles.
The success or failure of the party-state depends entirely on the battle of Lunan, and only success is allowed, not failure
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At this time, Chen Cheng had not yet given up Linyi, and he believed that the reason for the failure of the Lunan Campaign was mainly due to the adventurous advance of the various units, and Chen Cheng formulated the tactic of "fighting steadily and steadily and advancing hand in hand" for this purpose. With Linyi as the center, Chen Cheng organized two assault groups, of which the Northern Front Group was commanded by Li Xianzhou, deputy commander of the Second Appeasement District, with a strength of three integrated divisions (armies) and nine brigades, from Mingshui, Zhoucun, and Boshan to the south, to Laiwu, Xintai, and Mengyin, targeting the rear base of the Shandong Liberated Area.
The Southern Front Group, commanded by Ou Zhen, commander of the reorganized 19th Army, had a strength of eight integrated divisions (armies) with a total of 21 brigades, attacking Linyi from south to north from Taierzhuang, Xin'an Town, and Chengtou, and eight reorganized divisions (armies) were responsible for garrisoning along the Longhai Railway, the Jinpu Railway, and the Jiaoji Railway.
Chen Cheng also transferred four reorganized divisions (armies) from the battlefields of southern Hebei and northern Henan and deployed them in the Lunan area, intending to block the reinforcements of Liu Deng's army after the battle began, or to prevent HuaYe from going south.
The total strength mobilized by Chen Cheng totaled a total of 19 reorganized divisions (armies), 49 brigades, a total of 300,000 people, of which 11 reorganized divisions (armies) and 30 brigades directly attacked Linyi, and the strength of the troops was still very strong.
Before Chen Cheng rushed to Xuzhou, Chiang Kai-shek also entrusted Chen Cheng with a appointment of Zhang, appointing Hao Pengju as commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. This Hao Pengju was originally a bandit leader, who defected to the Japanese during the War of Resistance, and after the end of the War of Resistance, the Communist Party reorganized this unit out of the desire to stop the civil war, but Hao Pengju hooked up with Chiang Kai-shek. On January 27, 1947, Hao Pengju defected to Chiang Kai-shek, and his four divisions were deployed in the outer areas of Haizhou.
On January 28, the Xuzhou Appeasement Office issued an order for combat. On the 30th, Ou Zhen commanded eight integrated divisions to attack Linyi in three ways, drawing lessons learned from the fact that the Kuomintang army had been divided and annihilated in the past.
Adopt the tactics of concentrating forces, fighting steadily and steadily, advancing hand in hand and avoiding prominence, and advancing at a speed of no more than ten kilometers per day.
In order to defend Linyi, Su Yu ordered the three columns to be responsible for blocking the enemy who blocked the road from the front, hoping to find fighters to annihilate the prominent road between the enemy's left and right roads. But Ou Zhen did not give Su Yu this opportunity, in
After discovering Chen Yi and Su Yu's intentions, he immediately moved the troops on the left and right roads to the middle, and even directly stopped advancing, built fortifications on the spot, and shrunk together like a hedgehog, and the excessive caution of the Kuomintang army made Su Yu unable to find a breakthrough.
On February 4, the vanguard of the Li Xianzhou Group on the northern front had already occupied Laiwu, and the speed of advance was also very fast. On the same day, the Central Military Commission sent a telegram suggesting that if necessary, Linyi could be abandoned, the enemy could be lured deep, and the fighter planes should be sought in order to gain the initiative in combat.
At this time, Chen Cheng can be said to be full of confidence, although the previous Kuomintang army lost more than 200,000 troops in northern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, and Lunan, but Chen Cheng believed that as long as he occupied the rich Suwan region and squeezed all of Huaye into Shandong, it could be regarded as a strategic victory.
Although the enemy was heavily armed, Chen Yi and Su Yu found that the southern front troops in Europe were advancing densely, cautiously and slowly, but
The Li Xianzhou Corps on the northern front was advancing alone, and compared with the European Corps, the strength of the Li Xianzhou Corps was much weaker
。 After penetrating deep into the liberated areas, Li Xianzhou's corps was often attacked by local armed forces, and the pressure on the logistics supply line was very high, so Wang Yaowu had to send three divisions of troops to specifically maintain a long supply line from Tusikou to Laiwu and Xintai.
Under these circumstances, Chen Yi and Su Yu resolutely decided to abandon Linyi and fight the enemy on the northern front first.
Su Yu decided to leave the second column and the third column in Linyi, playing the role of Huaye's main force and containing the Ou Zhen Corps on the southern front, and the remaining main columns all secretly went north to prepare to annihilate Li Xianzhou's corps on the northern front.
On February 7, HuaYe's second column attacked Humpback Town, Tabu, and attacked the rebellious Hao Pengju, and Zhang Zhen personally commanded the battle on the front line. In just over a day, Hao Pengju's troops were annihilated and Hao Pengju was captured alive. At this time, it was less than ten days before Hao Pengju mutinied.
Since February 15, huaye's main force is rapidly moving north, and the second column and the third column have abandoned Linyi after completing the blockade task and continue to lead the nose of the Ouzhen group on the southern front. After the Southern Front group captured Linyi, Ou Zhen sent a report to Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng:
In the First World War of Linyi, the Nationalist army was united in good faith and fought in blood, annihilating 6 enemy brigades and winning the initial battle. ”
In fact, in the defense of Linyi, HuaYe only invested a total of six brigades of troops.
Wang Yaowu, chairman of Shandong Province and commander of the Second Appeasement District, saw the PLA's actions very clearly, and he believed that Chen Cheng and Ou Zhen must have lied about the war situation.
Wang Yaowu's intelligence officers had already sent him information on Huaye's main force going north, so Wang Yaowu ordered Li Xianzhou's corps to shrink its strength and not to continue to advance alone without Chen Cheng's approval.
After Chen Cheng learned that the northern front troops were retreating, he immediately told Chiang Kai-shek about Wang Yaowu's complaint, and Chiang Kai-shek scolded Wang Yaowu bitterly, and Wang Yaowu had no choice but to order Li Xianzhou's corps to continue to advance while continuing to collect intelligence on Huaye.
When Wang Yaowu ordered Li Xianzhou's corps to shrink its strength, Chen Yi and Su Yu were indeed nervous, deeply afraid that the troops would run such a long way and let the enemy escape, and some generals had already suggested launching an attack in advance, but Chiang Kai-shek's orders made Chen Yi and Su Yu breathe a sigh of relief.
On February 19, Chiang Kai-shek delivered a speech at the Nanjing Kuomintang Officers' Training Corps: "Now the bandit army in Guannei can be divided into about five times ... In these five parts, as far as my observation is concerned, Chen Yi is the most tenacious, the most well trained, the most scheming, and the most difficult to eliminate. However, since the Nationalist army recovered and conquered Linyi in the north, Chen Yi had lost his old nest and could no longer play the same role as in the past. ”
On February 19, the aerial reconnaissance of the Kuomintang army and the intelligence in Wang Yaowu's hands were already obvious, and Wang Yaowu's intelligence officers returned to report that Huaye's 1st Column and 1st Division had waited for three days west of Laiwu, and also found that the People's Liberation Army was assembled in Lucun.
Wang Yaowu was frightened into a cold sweat, and immediately ordered the 46th Army to quickly withdraw to Laiwu and join forces with the 73rd Army to hold firm, and at the same time ordered the 73rd Army and the 77th Division to return to the formation through Boshan south, so as not to disperse the troops and be annihilated by each one.
After receiving the change in the enemy situation, Su Yu decided to launch an attack in advance, ordering the first column to attack the headquarters of Li Xianzhou's corps and the 73rd Army, the fourth column to attack the 46th Army in Yanzhuang, the new 36th Division in the sixth column and the Ninth Palace Tusikou, the main force of the Eighth Column and the Ninth Column to annihilate the 77th Division south of Boshan, and the tenth column to capture Jinyang Pass and cut off the retreat of the Nationalist army.
At dusk on the 20th,
Laiwu had already gathered the strength of the 46th Army and the 73rd Army, and Su Yuyuan planned to surround Laiwu with five columns, but by this time, only Ye Fei's column had reached Laiwu. Ye Fei did not hesitate and decisively ordered his troops to launch an attack on Laiwu.
The main force of the Nationalist army that contained Laiwu. While attacking Laiwu and containing the main force of Li Xianzhou's corps, Wang Bicheng commanded Huaye's sixth column to attack the town of Tusikou, which was the rear base of Li Xiantao's group, storing hundreds of tons of ammunition and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain.
In the early morning of the 23rd, the Kuomintang troops in Laiwu City began to retreat, and the commander of the 46th Army, Han Liancheng, was an underground party, he found an excuse to sneak out, and then mysteriously disappeared, leaving the 46th Army leaderless. At this time, the plaster's troops had all arrived one after another, and the front-line combat strength and the strength of Li Xianzhou's corps were roughly equal.
The distance from Laiwu to Tusikou Town was 15 kilometers, and more than 50,000 Kuomintang troops of Li Xianzhou's group with all their artillery, trucks, and heavy loads crowded on this road. At this time, Wang Shuming, commander of the Kuomintang Air Force, personally sat down and commanded more than 20 fighters to protect the ground troops.
Su Yu commanded the heavy artillery of the Huaye Special Forces Column to violently bombard the enemy group, and ordered the first column, the fourth column, and the sixth column not to hesitate to be bombed by enemy aircraft, and resolutely rushed up and approached the enemy. Our army is surrounded from all sides,
More than 50,000 enemies were compressed in a low-lying area of the Shahe River, 5 kilometers from north to south and 3 kilometers from east to west
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The Kuomintang army was in chaos, and the chain of command was paralyzed. In just three or four hours, the PLA ended the fighting.
On the 24th, Chiang Kai-shek secretly flew to Jinan, and as soon as he entered the city, he scolded Wang Yaowu for splitting his head and covering his face: ""
You have only lost two armies and one division in the battle of Laiwu, lost so many light and heavy weapons, strengthened the enemy's strength, and it will be even more difficult to fight in the future.
Wang Yaowu was scolded without the slightest temper and did not dare to say a word.
In this battle, there were not many real vicious battles, and the main battle ended in chaos, and HuaYe's weapons and equipment were changed again. Wang Bicheng's 18th Division of the 6th Column of Nakano was all replaced with American equipment, the 16th Division also had two regiments and 1 battalion for American equipment, the 49th Regiment of the 17th Division was American equipment, and the 51st Regiment had 1 battalion and two companies for American equipment. Wang Yaowu was also angry and scolded Li Xianzhou later:
"More than 50,000 people, in 3 days, they were wiped out, that is, 50,000 pigs were released and the communist army was called to arrest them, and they could not be arrested in 3 days."
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In this battle, which lasted 63 hours, the East China Field Army suffered more than 8,800 casualties, annihilated the Kuomintang army's 1 "appeasement" area forward command post, 2 military headquarters, 7 divisions a total of more than 56,000 people, of which more than 40,000 were captured, if you count the operations on the southern front and the eastern section of Jiaoji Road, a total of more than 70,000 Kuomintang troops were annihilated. Liberated 13 counties such as Boshan and Zichuan.
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