The Liaoshen Campaign, which began on September 12, 1948, was liberated on October 19 of the same year, and Jinzhou and Changchun were liberated one after another, and the Northeast Nationalist Army had only three strategic points in Jinxi, Shenyang, and Huludao. Chiang Kai-shek was not satisfied, so he ordered the "Westward Advance Corps" Liao Yaoxiang to carry out a military operation to retake Jinzhou.
With a total of 11 divisions, 3 cavalry brigades and more than 100,000 people, Liao Yaoxiang Corps was an elite unit in the Kuomintang army. They did not retake Jinzhou from the People's Liberation Army, but within 60 hours, they were completely annihilated by the poorly equipped Northeast Field Army.
Is Liao Yaoxiang's corps so weak? Even if he couldn't hold out for 3 days, Chiang Kai-shek sent troops to rescue him. It should be known that in the first stage of the Huaihai Campaign, it took 15 days for our army to completely annihilate the Huang Baitao Corps, which had no danger to defend and a strength of about 120,000 troops.
How could the Liao Yaoxiang Corps, which belonged to the elite of the same national army, be as thin as paper, wear it with a little force, and end them? The well-equipped 100,000 horses were completely annihilated within 60 hours, which was basically the result of Chiang Kai-shek's greed.
Liao Yaoxiang Corps, under the jurisdiction of the 9th Corps Headquarters, the New 1st Army, the New 3rd Army, the New 6th Army, the 71st Army, the 49th Army, a total of 11 divisions, plus 3 cavalry brigades. Among them, the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army are the 2nd of the 6 main forces of the Kuomintang Army, with the strongest combat effectiveness, the most well-equipped, American-style training, and all personnel equipped with American weapons. Moreover, the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army are veteran elite units, which have fought head-on battles with the Japanese 18th Division in the Indo-Burma Battlefield for 15 months without falling behind. Liao Yaoxiang's corps was definitely not weak.
Liao Yaoxiang, the supreme commander of Liao Yaoxiang's corps, was born in a scientific class, fought countless battles, and was a famous general, nicknamed "
Jungle Tiger", the new 6th Army created by one hand, prides itself on being the "boss of the national army" and is known as "invincible in the world".
Liao Yaoxiang's reputation was not blown out, but played out, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he led his army to the northeast to participate in the civil war, first occupying Benxi and then copying Siping, once forcing Lin Biao to withdraw his army.
In the Liaoshen Campaign, Lin Biao personally deployed and commanded the battle of the Liao Yaoxiang Corps, and the two could be said to be old rivals. At the beginning of the Liberation War, Lin Biao and Liao Yaoxiang collided together. At first, Liao Yaoxiang personally led the New 6th Army, landed from Qinhuangdao, entered the northeast, and engaged the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army commanded by Lin Biao. In January, panshan, liaozhong and Tai'an were occupied; in March, it opened up important communication lines in the northeast and captured Changchun.
In May, the capture of Weiyuan Fort directly forced Lin Biao to prepare for a retreat. When he withdrew from Siping, Wang Jifang, chief of the operations section, carried a large number of important documents to the Kuomintang army, and Lin Biao made a big fuss, but it did not help, and the Kuomintang top brass also learned from the documents that the current state of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army was seriously injured. The Kuomintang army began to pursue all the way, directly driving Lin Biao's troops north of the Songhua River before stopping.
Liao Yaoxiang is a famous talent, which we have to admit, but he also has a big shortcoming:
Overconfidence.
Overconfidence, that is conceit. Resisting the offensive pressure of the Japanese army on the battlefield of The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and winning consecutive battles in the middle and before the War of Liberation gave Liao Yaoxiang great confidence and also gave him a wrong "understanding" of his tactical strategy and the Kuomintang army. Liao Yaoxiang's whole life is linked to "self-confidence", and he is also confident in success and self-confidence in failure.
Liao Yaoxiang was born in a small village in Shaoyang, Hunan Province, to a well-off family, and his grandfather was Mr. Private School. Liao Yaoxiang was pinned high hopes on by his grandfather and father, and regarded it as the hope of shining the lintel of the Liao family, and for his development, he could pay more money.
The Liao family is a family of cultivators, Liao Yaoxiang began to receive enlightenment education at the age of 6, and after 6 years of traditional private school education, it was also the modern education of the county high school and Changsha Yueyun Middle School. In the summer of 1925, Liao Yaoxiang, who graduated from high school, decided to go south to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy. Liao Yaoxiang is very competitive, from childhood to adulthood, he is a good student with good character and excellent learning, and his family is also very satisfied with him.
However, in applying for the Whampoa Military Academy, the Liao family was "dragging its feet." The Liao family is not a landlord, but the family has a private school and a few acres of farmland for Liao Yaoxiang to study in Changsha for 5 years, which has hollowed out the family foundation and owed foreign debt. Because his family could not raise the travel expenses from Changsha to Guangzhou and the next living expenses, Liao Yaoxiang's desire to apply for a military school was disappointed, but he was not reconciled and chose to join the nearest army and become a big leader in the 3rd Division of the Hunan Army.
In 1926, Liao Yaoxiang got his wish and was admitted to the 6th Cavalry Section of the Whampoa Military Academy, where he was a classmate of Luo Ruiqing, Guo Tianmin, Chen Bojun, Dai Kasa, Wei Chongliang, Zang Kejia and others. In 1930, Liao Yaoxiang was brushed off with the top three results in the study abroad examination, because Liao Yaoxiang was short, ordinary-looking, and had no military might. However, Chiang Kai-shek vigorously defied the public opinion and handpicked him to study at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France.
Liao Yaoxiang did not disappoint Chiang Kai-shek and graduated in 1936 with the first place in his major. Liao Yaoxiang, who returned to China in the same year, was destined to be loyal to Chiang Kai-shek's command in this life, and he was also destined to rise to the top of the Chinese military circles. In early 1938, Liao Yaoxiang served as its chief of staff of the 200th Division, China's first mechanized force. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liao Yaoxiang made many good achievements, and Chiang Kai-shek naturally did not hesitate to promote and give the best treatment to this person who he had single-handedly appointed and arranged for further study.
The troops under the command of Liao Yaoxiang have always been the best equipment of the Kuomintang (such as aiding China and the United States), and the quality of soldiers is also the highest, and even the training is specially helped by Western countries to carry out rectification. In 1906, Liao Yaoxiang, who came out of a small mountain village in Hunan, was the senior commander of the most elite army in the country at the age of 31, and left his name in the top leader of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek, which is definitely a young and promising version of the Republic of China army.
Liao Yaoxiang's psychology also changed, becoming more and more confident, and even somewhat stubborn and insistent on himself. Stubbornness is not bad, this is a neutral word; this mainly depends on the result, the result is good, stubborn opinion is the advantage; the result is bad, stubborn opinion is a character defect. However, Liao Yaoxiang's stubbornness was premised on not completely disobeying Chiang Kai-shek's orders, which also laid the groundwork for the defeat in the last battle of his life.
The northeast battlefield was the first to be opened up and was the one that Chiang Kai-shek attached the most importance to. To this end, as soon as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended, Liao Yaoxiang and the New 6th Army were airlifted back to Nanjing by US aircraft arranged by Chiang Kai-shek to accept the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army; then the New 6th Army was the first to enter the northeast, control the northeast and receive Japanese weapons. Chiang Kai-shek's reuse, inherent cognition and successive victories made Liao Yaoxiang gradually lose himself.
On October 18, 1948, Chiang Kai-shek, who had been unable to sleep at night by the Northeast War Situation, flew to Shenyang for the third time and presided over and commanded the northeast war. Chiang Kai-shek's visit was not to deploy an offensive, but to arrange a retreat. However, Chiang Kai-shek's retreat was not simply a retreat.
Chiang Kai-shek judged that the attack on Jinzhou had already inflicted heavy casualties on Lin Biao's Northeast Field Army, which required at least a month of rest before it could once again carry out a large-scale campaign. This judgment, from the God perspective of the latecomers, is grossly wrong.
Chiang Kai-shek ordered Liao Yaoxiang's westward marching corps, starting from Zhangwu and going south through the Black Mountains and the Great Tiger Mountains, with the help of Du Yuming's eastward marching corps, to retake Jinzhou, which had just been taken by the People's Liberation Army, and then cover the Shenyang defenders from the Beining Railway and withdraw to Guannei. The 3rd Brigade of the 207th Division and the heavy artillery armored units in Shenyang were all given to Liao Yaoxiang's Westward Advance Corps to enhance its combat effectiveness. The 8th Corps remained in Shenyang, and the 52nd Army Liaoyang went south to seize Yingkou, and in order to attack the unfavorable westward advancing corps, it changed the route of Yingkou and joined the Shenyang defenders to retreat from the sea.
Chiang Kai-shek's plan is very beautiful, he can advance or retreat, and he is "based on advance and retreat," but the plan is always planned, and it cannot catch up with the changes on the battlefield. Moreover, the top level of the Kuomintang on the northeast battlefield was full of contradictions and would be centrifuged. Liao Yaoxiang was a young and strong faction in the Kuomintang army, who had studied abroad, and his military career had always been very smooth, and even the first Siping Campaign took advantage of Lin Biao, so he became more and more arrogant and conceited, looking down on Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and other PLA generals on the outside, and looking down on the Kuomintang generals who had not studied and did not know the advanced military theories and command tactics of the West.
Zheng Tingji, a lieutenant general in the Huangpu Fifth Term, a lieutenant general in the 49th Army, and a subordinate of Liao Yaoxiang in the Liaoshen Campaign, commented on his immediate superiors as follows:
"He's a nerd, he reads a lot, he has a weapon theory, and he can't fight without equipment." I attach great importance to training and pay attention to the small movements of soldiers. Shoot, aim, climb on your own; attach great importance to rifle coordination. ”
It's a very comprehensive summary indeed.
Liao Yaoxiang believed that the Plaster relied on man-sea tactics and bravery, but it could be solved by using artillery and U.S. weapons and equipment. Zheng Tingji also said that Liao Yaoxiang pointed to the map before the war, and said that his head was the Tao, how to arrange how to fight, but as soon as the cannon fire sounded, he could not hold his breath, he was all in chaos, and he did not know how to fight. Judging from the results of the Liaoshen Campaign, Liao Yaoxiang was indeed like this.
At the beginning of the Liaoshen Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek thought of forming the East Advance Corps and the West Advance Corps, first attacking the Northeast Field Army on the Beining Road, then withdrawing from the northeast, and dispatching the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army to defend the capital Nanjing. His actual posts were acting director of the Northeast Xingyuan and commander-in-chief of the Northeast Bandit General Headquarters, and Wei Lihuang, who was in charge of the Kuomintang troops in the northeast, and Liao Yaoxiang, all of whom did not approve of going straight out of western Liaoning. Chiang Kai-shek knew this, so he transferred Du Yuming, who was sitting in Xuzhou to prepare to command the Huaihai Campaign, to go north and take up the post of deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Suppression Campaign and commander of the Jireliao Border Region, full-time for this operation.
To this end, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Shenyang to personally supervise. Forced by Chiang Kai-shek's orders, Liao Yaoxiang occupied Zhangwu and then did not dare to advance further in the direction of Jinzhou. One is that the EastWard Advance Corps is stuck in Tashan and cannot move; the other is that the People's Liberation Army is frantically sweeping away the cities on the outskirts of Jinzhou.
After Chiang Kai-shek learned of this, he recalled Yue Fei and Song Gaozong Zhao Shuo like 12 gold medals in a row, and repeatedly urged Liao Yaoxiang to personally lead the army, cross the Xinkai River overnight, occupy Xinlitun, and not hesitate to release it
"If there is any further delay, it will be conducted under military law"
。 Speaking of this, can Liao Yaoxiang not continue to move forward?
On October 14, Liao Yaoxiang's troops crossed the river to the west and attacked Xinlitun; a day later, Liao Yaoxiang captured Xinlitun and divided his troops to the outskirts of Montenegro. It was also on this day that Jinzhou fell, but Liao Yaoxiang only received the news on the 16th of the next day.
Liao Yaoxiang immediately ordered his troops to stand still and not to advance again, and he rushed back to Shenyang to discuss countermeasures with Wei Lihuang. The two men agreed that they should immediately retreat to Yingkou. However, Chiang Kai-shek did not think so, and still forced the EastWard And Westward Advance Corps to advance in tandem to attack the People's Liberation Army and retake Jinzhou. His basis is exactly what he said earlier, and the PLA suffered heavy casualties in the attack on Jinzhou.
On the evening of October 20, Liao Yaoxiang officially got it
Chiang Kai-shek's order to attack Jinzhou with all his might
The troops of Huludao and Western Liaoning would assist in the attack together. But
Wei Lihuang, a superior commander who directly controlled the northeast war situation, ordered Liao Yaoxiang to quickly return to Shenyang.
Two orders, who should listen to?
Regarding the next action of Liao Yaoxiang's department, the Kuomintang top brass argued endlessly, and it was for 5 days before Chiang Kai-shek gave up his plan. Why give up? Because of the three men who directly commanded the Northeast Army, Du Yuming, Wei Lihuang, and Liao Yaoxiang, none of them agreed with his plan to retake Jinzhou, and finally took the order to retreat directly to Yingkou. But this is too late, the People's Liberation Army has already moved, and Liao Yaoxiang himself has taken action to stick to his ideas.
Liao Yaoxiang felt that the westward advance was certainly hopeless, but withdrawing to Shenyang was to cross three major rivers, and if it was attacked by the People's Liberation Army in the middle, it would be difficult to care about it, and the consequences would be bad. And even if it is returned to Shenyang, it will not have any positive impact on the northeast war situation, but it is a chronic death. Therefore, liao Yaoxiang suggested to Chiang Kai-shek a long time ago that the troops should withdraw from Yingkou, which was the only way to survive. Although this proposal was finally adopted, Liao Yaoxiang had already mobilized his troops and began to act.
Leading the army to Yingkou and then retreating, there were two ways: the first was to cross the Liao River from the Juliu River station, cross the Liao River in the south, and retreat to Yingkou through Liaozhong; the second was to retreat from Xinlitun down through The Black Mountain and the east of the Big Tiger Mountain to Yingkou. The first plan had to cross four rivers, march slowly, and be easily caught by the Platon Army, which had its intentions, intercepted halfway or taken directly to the camp to wait for the rabbit. This cannot be adopted.
The second option also has difficulties, such as no decent roads, such as narrow corridors, but the distance is short, there is no obstruction of large rivers, and it can take less than three days to pass under the rush march. On the 16th, the order to move west came, but Liao Yaoxiang refused to carry it out, asked Wei Lihuang for help, and explained to Chiang Kai-shek the feasibility of his plan. Liao Yaoxiang began to make arrangements intensively, and on the 18th, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Shenyang, was not convinced, insisted on his idea of moving west, but said that he could study it again.
On the 18th, Liao Yaoxiang said that he was ready and asked Wei Lihuang to issue an order to implement the plan. However, no matter how dare Wei Lihuang give orders for Chiang Kai-shek, Liao Yaoxiang himself did not dare to make a claim, and could only wait quietly. In this way, Liao Yaoxiang's plan to capture Montenegro and use it as a cover for the main force of the corps to pass through the narrow corridor was temporarily shelved. 100,000 elite people and horses, just like this, can not advance, do not retreat, waste day after day of time. However, the Kuomintang side was also holding a meeting to discuss, and Wei Lihuang and Du Yuming were summoned by Chiang Kai-shek to Beiping to discuss with Fu Zuoyi.
Chiang Kai-shek flew to Shenyang without setting a good policy, and then asked Wei Lihuang and Du Yuming to fly to Beiping to continue discussing the policy. It's funny enough. On the night of the 20th, Liao Yaoxiang rushed to Shenyang to receive the latest order that Du Yuming received from Chiang Kai-shek in Beiping:
Capture Montenegro and Yingkou as quickly as possible.
Liao Yaoxiang was overjoyed, and it was better to come late than not to come. Moreover, Liao Yaoxiang was full of confidence, believing that with his 100,000 troops, our army would be able to crush its teeth and eat it, not to mention that our army had just finished the campaign to attack Jinzhou. Therefore, Liao Yaoxiang's retreat to Yingkou was very calm. As everyone knows, the Northeast Field Army is waiting for Liao Yaoxiang to act.
Jinzhou was captured by the Northeast Field Army on the 15th; our army attacked jinzhou and only rested for 3 days before regaining its main combat capability. On October 17, Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan jointly sent a telegram to the Central Military Commission to ask for instructions on the next move. Chairman Mao briefly put forward a conservative opinion, rested for 15 days, and then launched an attack on Jinxi and Huludao. However, on October 18 the next day, Lin Biao, through Liao Yaoxiang's forces, occupied Xinlitun and continued to advance south, accurately judging that the enemy forces in Shenyang were preparing for a general retreat.
Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan immediately sent a telegram to the Central Military Commission, suggesting that the enemy be lured deeper, a great war of annihilation should be fought, and the Kuomintang troops who wanted to retreat one by one should be destroyed, and none of them would want to leave. On the 19th, the Central Military Commission approved the proposal and reminded it to deploy powerful corps in the areas of Yingkou, west of Yingkou, and north of Yingkou to block the enemy's retreat from the sea.
At 10:00 a.m. on the morning of the 20th, Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan made relevant arrangements for the "Battle of Western Liaoning"; intercepted the vanguard, dragged the tail, pinched the middle, and carried out the tactic of dividing and then encircling, so as to achieve the goal of completely annihilating the "Westward Advancing Corps" of Liao Yaoxiang's troops. The Northeast Field Army moved as planned, while Liao Yaoxiang was still waiting for the results of the discussions between Chiang Kai-shek, Du Yuming, Wei Lihuang, and others.
Located south of Zhangwu and west of Shenyang, Black Mountain and Dahu Mountain are the intersection of the two railways and highways of Beining and Zhangwu; it is also the only place where Liao Yaoxiang's troops enter Jinzhou in the west and flee to Yingkou in the south. In short, the People's Liberation Army was waiting for the Kuomintang army to throw itself into the net.
At that time, the 10th Column of the Northeast Field Army was stationed around the Black Mountain and the Great Tiger Mountain, and its task was to block Liao Yaoxiang's westward advance. As soon as the headquarters order was issued, Liang Xingchu, commander of the 10th Column, and Zhou Chiping, political commissar, gathered the leaders of the various divisions, deployed combat tasks, and issued an oath of "sticking to Montenegro, resisting the enemy, and coexisting and dying with the position." Orders were given, and the ministries moved quickly to build fortifications.
On the day of the 20th, the 5th Column and the 6th Column marched to conceal and quickly penetrate behind the enemy's rear to cut off Liao Yaoxiang's retreat in the direction of Shenyang; the 2nd Independent Division seized the Yingkou and cut off the enemy's sea retreat; the 1st Column, 2nd Column, and 8th Column formed the 1st Echelon, starting from Jinzhou in three routes, marching eastward in a hurry, serving as the main attacker of the normal battlefield; the 2nd Column, 7th Column, and 9th Column were the 2nd Echelon, followed by the 1st Column, 2nd Column, and 8th Column; the 4th Column and 11th Column were at Tashan to block enemy reinforcements in Jinxi and Huludao; and the 12th Column and independent divisions in Changchun were stationed in Changchun. Travel south day and night, as a fresh force, and respond to the main force to fight.
The Heavenly Lotus Network approached Liao Yaoxiang's corps from all directions, and when our army moved, Liao Yaoxiang himself went to Shenyang to receive orders.
Lin Biao did not yet know where to eat Liao Yaoxiang's corps; our army had no experience in eating the 100,000 elites of the Kuomintang in field battles. Our army was moving, and at dawn on the 21st, Liao Yaoxiang's corps also began to move.
The 71st Army of the Westward Advance Corps launched a fierce attack on Montenegro: the 1st Brigade of the 207th Division, under the cover of heavy artillery fire, attacked from the Hujia Shack, a village on the road to Shenyang on the east side of the Black Mountain, from east to west; the main force of the 71st Army, from north to south, attacked from the north side of Montenegro and surrounded Montenegro.
Liao Yaoxiang thought that the capture of Montenegro was a sure victory and an easy one. Unexpectedly, he did not attack for several days, Liao Yaoxiang was slow to react, and he also knew that the situation was not very good, this was to drag the westward troops and wait for the arrival of the Jinjin Liberation Army. On the 24th, Liao Yaoxiang personally commanded 4 main divisions and 1 independent brigade of the 71st Army, the New 1st Army, and the New 6th Army, and with the support of more than 200 heavy artillery pieces on the ground and more than 200 aircraft in the sky, they stormed the positions of Montenegro and Dahushan in an attempt to seize the road and flee.
Lin Biao personally ordered the 10 columns:
"We must keep the enemy's corpses in front of me so that we cannot advance." As long as you hold out for three days, Liao Yaoxiang's western advance army will be completely annihilated. ”
Liang Xingchu, commander of the 10th Column, relayed the order of the various departments to "hold on for three days". Liang Xingchu knew that all the officers and men of the 10th Column knew that Commander-in-Chief Lin Biao said that three days would be three days, and that he would only arrive early, and it would never be possible to be late! The Montenegrin blockade battle was extremely fierce, and the 10th Column Commanders and Fighters did a very good job, successfully blocking Liao Yaoxiang's troops for three days and three nights, so as to buy enough time for the main force of our army to move east.
Montenegro and The Great Tiger Mountains could not be attacked for a long time, and Liao Yaoxiang finally stopped stumbling and prepared to cross the Liao River from Tai'an and retreat to Yingkou. At this time, if you want to withdraw in a different direction, is it too late. The Northeast Field Army was already in place: the 7th Column and the 8th Column detoured to its right side, and the 5th Column and 6th Column detoured to its left side and attacked; the 1st Column, 2nd Column, 3rd Column, and 10th Column made a frontal assault to attract firepower and carry out simultaneous encirclement and cutting; the Independent 2nd Division also set out from the north of Yingkou and marched rapidly to the Tai'an area and completely closed the gate.
On the 25th, liao Yaoxiang's vanguard force, the 49th Army, arrived northwest of Tai'an and was exchanged fire by the newly arrived Independent 2nd Division. At the same time, the 7th column and the 8th column were also inserted between Dahushan and Tai'an successively, blocking the southward escape route of Liao Yaoxiang's corps. Liao Yaoxiang saw that Yingkou could not go, so he thought of withdrawing to Shenyang, but it was too late, the sheep had already run out, and what was the use of replenishing the sheep pen.
The 5th and 6th columns marched south from Zhangwu and inserted themselves between Xinmin and Shenyang on the 25th and 26th respectively, cutting off the retreat route of Liao Yaoxiang's corps to Xinmin and Shenyang. The rest of the columns also advanced eastward from the Black Mountain and the Big Tiger Mountain area, completing the encirclement, and Liao Yaoxiang's main 9 divisions were trapped by our army in a small area on both sides of the road east of Montenegro, and the other 3 divisions were also surrounded in a small area east of the Big Tiger Mountain.
At this point, Liao Yaoxiang's 100,000 elite men and horses were completely surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops of the Northeast Field Army, which was rushing to arrive. In the past, at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu's army fell into the ten-sided ambush of Han Xin, but this was no more than that. There is no way to heaven and no door to the earth, and Liao Yaoxiang has tasted what it is like. At this point, there is no need for any tactics, just chase the enemy and fight.
On the 26th, in an area of about 120 square kilometers of Montenegro, Dahu mountain and Raoyang River, the Northeast Field Army launched a centripetal assault, encircling, dividing, and annihilating the tactics of directly attacking the Yellow Dragon - looking for the command center of Liao Yaoxiang's corps and destroying it. The 3 columns commanded by Han Xianchu took less than 3 hours to eliminate Liao Yaoxiang's corps headquarters, the New 1st Army Headquarters, the New 3rd Army Headquarters, and the New 6th Army Headquarters. Liao Yaoxiang's corps was leaderless, and all communication at all levels was interrupted, fighting separately and in chaos.
Lin Biao ordered all columns, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, squads, and fighters of the field army to pursue wherever there was the enemy's attack and wherever there was gunfire. Our army began to penetrate deeply, penetrating deep into the enemy's interior and encircling the enemy. Thus, a magical scene appeared:
Hundreds of thousands of troops were mixed together, and the establishments on both sides were all disrupted.
Liao Yaoxiang's army was defeated, and Liao Yaoxiang himself completely lost control of it, and he himself was mixed up in the chaotic army that was running around and scaring away. A reconnaissance section chief, alone capturing an artillery battalion of the New 6th Army, abounds. By the early morning of the 28th, the Battle of Western Liaoning was over, and the Northeast Field Army had completely annihilated more than 100,000 people of Liao Yaoxiang's corps, including the main forces of the New 1st Army and all the New 6th Army, which were known as the five main forces of the Kuomintang.
The battle that followed was the same as the water, because the Kuomintang top brass had never thought about what would happen after Liao Yaoxiang's corps was completely annihilated. The "Westward Advancing Corps" was completely annihilated, and Wei Lihuang, who felt that the general situation had gone, boarded a plane and fled from Shenyang; on November 2, the Northeast Field Army captured Shenyang; on November 10, the Northeast Field Army occupied Jinxi and Huludao, which were "empty" (all the Kuomintang troops withdrew); on November 12, it recaptured Chengde. By this time, the Liaoshen Campaign was almost over, and the entire northeast was liberated.
The demise of Liao Yaoxiang's army had a lot to do with Liao Yaoxiang's own arrogance and lack of courage, but I personally believe that it was mainly due to Chiang Kai-shek's own greed. The Liaoshen Campaign developed to the people's liberation army to capture Jinzhou, Chiang Kai-shek knew that the general trend in the northeast had gone, and it was time to dispatch elite troops out of the northeast to defend Nanjing, where the Yangtze River was dangerous, but he was not willing, and felt that he could still fight, so he constantly urged Liao Yaoxiang's corps to advance westward and westward.
When he learned of the fall of Jinzhou, Liao Yaoxiang clearly knew that the troops could no longer advance westward, let alone think of retaking Jinzhou again; Chiang Kai-shek did not agree and wanted to continue to advance westward, but Liao Yaoxiang, Du Yuming, Wei Lihuang, and others did not agree, and neither side could convince anyone, so it would be consumed. From October 16 to October 21, Liao Yaoxiang stayed in the Xinlitun area, motionless, and waited for hundreds of thousands of Northeast Field Troops.
Liao Yaoxiang did not have the courage as a direct executor, and Chiang Kai-shek was not wise enough as the top decision-maker.
One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies.
Besides, the generals are incompetent. To use a four-word idiom to describe, Liao Yaoxiang is unscrupulous; Chiang Kai-shek is not enough in four words:
Indecisiveness that cannot make wise choices and is not good at listening to the opinions of others.