In November 1948, just as the East China Field Army was fighting to the death with Huang Baitao's corps, Huang Wei's corps had reached the front line of Taihe and Fuyang in Anhui, at which time Liu Deng made the annihilation of Huang Wei's corps the target of the second phase of the Huaihai Campaign, which was also a very important battle during the Huaihai Campaign.
The double stack was located in Su County, Anhui Province at that time, and now belongs to it
Suixi County, Huaibei City, Anhui Province. The 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army was the most elite corps of the Kuomintang Army in Guannei at that time, under the jurisdiction of the 18th Army, the Tenth Army, the Fourteenth Army, the 85th Army, and the four corps also had a fast column, well-equipped and strong combat effectiveness, the number of artillery and tanks in this corps was obviously more than other corps, and there were many cars and strong mobility.
There is also a big difference between the 12th Corps and other Kuomintang corps, that is, the 18th Army, one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang Army, is also in this corps, and the 18th Army is the core unit of the civil engineering department, and many generals of the civil engineering department, such as Chen Cheng, Luo Zhuoying, Huang Wei, Hu Lian and others, all started with the 18th Army. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the 18th Army is very strong, whether in terms of the quality of soldiers or weapons and equipment, it is higher than other Kuomintang troops, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, this unit has made outstanding achievements and repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army.
The commander of the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army was Huang Wei, in fact, the most suitable personnel for the commander of this corps should be Hu Lian, but the factional struggle within the Kuomintang Army was fierce, Bai Chongxi did not agree to Hu Lian as the commander of the 12th Corps, and finally Chiang Kai-shek pulled out Huang Wei, a nerd who wanted to run a school and was the principal.
It is not that Huang Wei is not unable to fight, but he is too rigid in operational command, and he is not suitable for this important position in the face of the intricate and complicated decisive battle of the Huaihai Campaign, which is related to the fate of the Kuomintang. Moreover, many generals within the 12th Corps, such as Hu Lian, deputy commander of the 12th Corps, Yang Botao, commander of the 18th Army, and others did not obey him, Hu Lian, Yang Botao heard that it was Huang Wei as the commander, and immediately took sick leave to go home, and later Huang Weihao said that he was only temporarily serving as a commander for a period of time, and after this period, Hu Lian came to be the commander of the 12th Corps, and they agreed to come back. In order to win over Wu Shaozhou, the commander of the 85th Army, Hu Lian suggested that he also be promoted to deputy commander.
Although the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army was full of contradictions, it was not easy for Nakano to eliminate them. The 12th Corps has 120,000 people, most of them are American ordnance units, especially the 18th Army, the officers are all military school graduates, most of the soldiers are Kuomintang party members, peacetime military training is extremely strict, but also pay more attention to tactics.
Since Nakano advanced into the Dabie Mountains, it has not eased up, and almost all heavy weapons have been lost, and the entire Nakano artillery of more than 75 mm has only a few dozen guns, and only more than two hundred shells. In terms of soldiers, the veterans of Nakano lost more than half of them in advancing into Dabie Mountain, and before the Battle of Shuangdui, the number of each column was between 14,000 and 17,000 people, although some independent brigades and independent regiments were barely enough to make up 120,000 people, but most of them were recruits, and the combat effectiveness could not be compared with the Huang Wei Corps.
For this situation, Liu Deng is not unaware, but this battle is too important, it is a battle during the Battle of Huaihai, and if the Huang Wei Corps is not annihilated, the Battle of Huaihai is bound to fall into a state of anxiety, and Nakano must be taken down. At the pre-war mobilization meeting, Deng Xiaoping, secretary of the General Front Committee, stressed:
As long as the main force of the enemy on the southern front is annihilated, the Central Plains Field Army will be exhausted, and all the field armies in the country can also win a national victory, and this price is worth it!
At dusk on November 24, 1948, Nakano's various units attacked in all directions, and by the early morning of the 25th, Nakano had surrounded the Huang Wei Corps in an area of about 7.5 kilometers southwest of SuXian County centered on the double pile.
But Huang Wei was not a fool, he soon saw that Nakano's family base was not thick, and immediately organized his troops to prepare to break out from Nakano's weak defenses. Huang Wei initially wanted to organize four divisions, namely
The 11th and 118th Divisions of the 18th Army, the 18th Division of the 10th Army, and the 110th Division of the 85th Army, let them fight a bloody road for the whole army with the support of aircraft, artillery, and tanks.
At this time, the commander of the 110th Division of the 85th Army, Liao Yunzhou, who graduated from the Huangpu Weapons, stood up and asked to take the lead, and Huang Wei looked at this Huangpu Fifth Stage disciple, was very moved, felt that his Huangpu colleagues were still reliable, and immediately drew a batch of heavy weapons to strengthen Liao Yunzhou's 110th Division. But what Huang Wei did not expect was that Liao Yunzhou was an underground party with more than ten years of party experience, and the 110th Division led by Liao Yunzhou was all obedient to him, and as long as Liao Yunzhou issued an order, it could revolt at any time.
On the 27th, Chiang Kai-shek ordered four divisions to break through, Liao Yunzhou led the 110th Division to the front, Liao Yunzhou led the troops quickly rushed out of the position of the sixth column, and reported to the rear that the progress was smooth as he walked. Huang Wei was very excited, and ordered the three divisions that followed behind to step up the breakthrough, and as a result, after the 110th Division rushed out, the sixth column quickly closed the passage, and the Nationalist troops in the back were beaten with a blindfold, and Huang Wei was completely confused. After the breakthrough failed, Huang Wei commanded the troops to hold their positions.
Although the breakthrough failed, the 12th Corps of the Nationalist Army was after all a strong force of the Nationalist Army, and this unit quickly stabilized its position, building thousands of bunkers and excavating many large-scale ring fortifications in a very short period of time.
Nakano lacked heavy weapons and could not attack at all, coupled with the gentle terrain in the double-stacked area, Huang Wei had cleared all the obstacles in front of the position, and as long as Nakano dared to rush upwards, he would be frantically poured by the firepower of the United States. There was no way, Nakano could only take a huge amount of close-in operations, shrinking the distance with the enemy little by little, attacking village by village, and capturing one village to consolidate one village.
On December 2, 1948, Nakano finally put it on
Compressed in a narrow area of 5 km vertically and horizontally centered on double stacks. During this period, in order to ensure the safety of Nakano's flanks, Huaye's main force was divided into three parts, one to block Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi's corps, and one to block Li Yannian and Liu Ruming's corps, and in addition, Su Yu also sent Chen Shiyu to lead three columns and artillery of the special forces column to support Nakano.
After HuaYe's fresh forces arrived on the battlefield, they immediately changed the situation on the battlefield, and Huaye concentrated hundreds of cannons to fiercely bombard the Huang Wei Corps, causing great casualties to the Huang Wei Corps. The most difficult place to fight in the Battle of Shuangduiji occurred in Dawangzhuang, which was located at the southern gate of Shuangduiji, only a few miles from the headquarters of the 12th Corps, and its strategic location was very important.
In order to defend Dawangzhuang, Huang Wei placed the 33rd Regiment of the 118th Division of the 18th Army in this place, which was composed of veterans who had been in battle for a long time, and was called the Tiger Regiment. In order to lay down the Great King Zhuang, the Six Columns of Nakano and the Seven Columns of Hua Ye invested a total of four regiments of troops, followed by the former servants, and finally completely annihilated the Tiger Regiment, and after the war, the Great King Zhuang did not even have a complete wall.
The destruction of the Tiger Regiment caused the 12th Corps to lose its last barrier, and on the 15th, Huang Wei began to order the troops to break through. In the process of the breakthrough, Huang Wei's corps was completely annihilated, and in addition to a few generals such as Hu Lian, deputy commander of the corps, Wu Shaozhou, deputy commander and commander of the corps, Tan Daoshan and Yang Botao, deputy commanders of the corps, Wang Yue, deputy commander of the army, Wang Yuanzhi, Yin Zhongyue, Xia Jianjie, Pan Qi, and other 27 general-level officers were taken prisoner.