On the morning of November 25, 1948, 7 columns of the Central Plains Field Army attacked the Huang Wei Corps, known as the "ace troops", annihilated thousands of enemies, and surrounded them in the areas of Zhongyiji, Wang Zhuzhuang, Majialou and Shuangduiji in the southwest of Su County, Anhui.
Huang Wei was hit hard by this blow, and the first big thing to do was to report to Nanjing and ask for approval for him to change his policy and move south to Guzhen and Bengbu.
However, just like in Mengcheng, Huang Wei did not get approval from Nanjing for a long time. All the departments said that the PLA was compressing step by step and tightly closing the encirclement.
"Double stack!" Huang Wei's palm slammed into the map and he let out a long sigh.
It is a plain market town with more than a hundred households, named after two ancient mounds. The headquarters of the Twelfth Corps could only be shrunk in the double-pile area.
Huang Wei drove around and saw that all the armies had suffered losses of varying degrees, especially the morale of the Fourteenth Army had dropped significantly.
These circumstances made Huang Wei extremely depressed, and while ordering the various departments to take a break, he waited for instructions from the Nanjing side, hoping that the above would understand the crisis of the regiment and support his plan to move closer to Guzhen.
A senior counselor saw Huang Wei's sad face and said with a smile: "Commander, the double pile set is a great luck!" ”
Huang Wei looked at him, puzzled.
"Commander, I'll break words." The high counselor looked very relaxed.
"Hmm." Huang Wei's nose snorted coldly, he was an atheist and not interested in tricks like word breaking.
The staff member became serious: "The commander really doesn't have to worry. Historically, great generals have been sent out, and they have all paid attention to geographical signs. Just by relying on the three words 'double stack set', we will be fierce. ”
Huang Wei felt strange and listened with some interest.
"You look at it from the word breaker - the 'heap' of the 'double heap set', the eleven best also; the 'set', the eighteen best also; and the double, the good and the good! Taken together, it is the eleventh division and the eighteenth army, isn't it a great fortune? ”
The Chen Cheng system originated in the Eleventh Division and the Eighteenth Army, and was then known as the "Civil Engineering Department". Huang Wei is the main backbone of the "civil engineering system", and these words naturally sound like a spring breeze, and think of it like drinking glycol.
Perhaps it was Gao Gan's "auspicious words" that inspired Huang Wei's ambition, and he felt that the combat effectiveness of the troops was still there, especially the Eighteenth Army, with a perfect basic structure and a strong spirit.
On the other hand, he believes that the People's Liberation Army is not enough to block along the road, as long as it is a drum and a drum, fight him a fish to break the net, there is no unbreakable defense line.
In the case of delaying the approval of the Nanjing side, Huang Wei was fierce and sent an order to all the departments: rest for one day, and on the morning of the 27th, the whole line attacked and broke through in one fell swoop.
However, the PLA's Nakano columns had long been in a tight position, and Huang Wei's forward breakthrough troops were fiercely repelled by the PLA one by one.
What Gao said when he split the words did not have any effect, but instead put Huang Wei in an embattled situation. Feeling extremely helpless, he immediately sent a telegram to Nanjing for help.
On December 1, Hu Lian flew to Shuangduiji on the orders of old Jiang, and Huang Wei took a large number of senior generals to greet him.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Hu Lian appeared, he shouted at Yang Botao, Qin Daoshan, and other military leaders: "How did you fight this battle?" In Nanyang, I have confessed that fighting with the communists (troops) should not rush forward! The confluence of the two main forces of the Communist Party (Army), you obviously know that its ambitions are not small, why do you still have to throw yourself into the net? ”
Yang Botao and Qin Daoshan and others invariably pointed their eyes at Huang Wei. Huang Wei's face was gray and black, and he did not say a word.
Huang Wei waited for Hu Lian to lose his temper and said, "Bo Yu, go back to the Corps Headquarters?" ”
Hu Lian saw that the wall chart of the Corps Headquarters still had Huang Baitao's Seven Corps logo on it, and poked his finger fiercely, saying, X is finished! ”
Huang Wei lowered his head and took a long breath. If he had known that Huang Baitao had abandoned the mill on the 20th and the whole army was destroyed on the 22nd, he would never have crossed the Xun River to the north, would never have attacked Nanpingji, and would not have fallen into this step!
Hu Lian and the other generals eased up, pointed to the map, repeated their respective locations, paced two steps in front of the flip chart, and said coldly, "Do you know the story of the hedgehog eating the snake?" ”
The house is as quiet as an empty valley.
"The hedgehog first retracts the thorn into its body and lets the snake wrap around. When the snake was completely tight and triumphant, the hedgehog violently raised its vertical thorns. He stretched out his arms as if he were the cunning prick, "and the snake was pierced into several pieces, and then swallowed in one bite at a time." ”
The generals had a look of admiration on their faces. "Now, the communist snake is wrapping around us, and as long as we still have thorns, we can eat this snake!"
The generals nodded their heads one after another, and Hu Lian was also a little moved by the theory he had spoken.
Subsequently, he glanced at Huang Wei, who also listened very energetically and admired him, and squeezed out a sneer of contempt at the corner of his mouth: "The hedgehog's thorns are innate, and the combat effectiveness of my Twelve Corps is well known, mainly depending on how our generals are!" ”
He glanced at Huang Wei, who seemed to have become a subordinate, raised his voice, waved his fists, and said, "What kind of general will lead out what troops." A tiger leads a flock of sheep, and the sheep will also become tigers! In turn, a sheep leads a flock of tigers, and the tigers will also turn into sheep! ”
Huang Wei turned his head awkwardly and looked out the door.
However, neither Gao Gan's word-breaking jiyan nor Hu Lian's theory of a hedgehog eating a snake failed to help Huang Wei save the situation. On December 15, the elite of the Twelfth Corps, chiang kai-shek's army, except for Hu Lian and others, completely destroyed the entire corps, and Huang Weibing was defeated and captured.