In November 1948, Du Yuming was transferred back to Xuzhou as the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Suppression General" and ordered Huang Botao's corps to meet in Xuzhou on the 20th, and the enemy gathered 800,000 troops to try to carry out the final struggle in the Huanghuai Battlefield.
To annihilate Huang Botao's corps, it was necessary to prevent the support of other reinforcements.
After meticulous planning, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, and other commanders of the General Front Committee urgently dispatched the 1st Column to join the Blocking Corps and attacked the flanks of the two corps of Wolf Mountain, Gushan Qiu Qingquan, and Li Mi from east to west of Fangcun to prevent the enemy's support with offensive action.
When the First Column heard that the enemy it was going to face was Qiu Qingquan's corps, everyone was scrappy and determined to defeat the enemy's "trump card."
HuaYe 1 Column and Qiu Qingquan Corps, the duel between the two aces begins here.
The 1st column is Huaye's ace unit, and Huaye's first column originated from the Mindong revolutionary armed forces founded by Ye Fei.
Ye Fei, born in the Philippines in 1914, is the only founding general in China with dual citizenship.
In 1933, Ye Fei participated in leading the "Huotong Rebellion", during which time under the leadership of Ye Fei, 7 revolutionary armed forces were established in eastern Fujian, which became the basis of the first column.
In 1934, Ye Fei and others, taking advantage of the opportunity, quickly grew and formed the Mindong Independent Division, but later encountered a frenzied counterattack from the enemy, and the troops suffered heavy losses.
In 1938, the independent division was reorganized into the 6th Regiment of the 3rd Detachment of the New Fourth Army, in order to go north to resist the Japanese, Ye Fei sent Wu Kun and He Kexi to lead the "Jiang Kang" 2 Road 2 Detachment and the 5th Road Troops to continue eastward, and on the outskirts of Shanghai, Liao Zhengguo also burned the enemy's aircraft and caused a sensation throughout Shanghai.
In May 1939, the 6th Regiment of the New Fourth Army advanced to the Su Changtai and Chengxiyu areas under the name of "Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army". (Referred to as "Jiang Kang").
Later, due to strategic needs, Jiang Resisted the West, leaving only 36 wounded, and with these wounded, he finally pulled out a team and became
18th Brigade of the New Fourth Army
The prototype.
In 1945, the Central Military Commission appointed Ye Fei as commander, Lai Chuanzhu as political commissar, Tan Qilong as deputy political commissar and director of the political department, and He Minxue as chief of staff, forming an expeditionary force to advance to the northeast.
The column has 3 brigades under its jurisdiction: the 1st Brigade is the 4th Column of the former Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region, that is, the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the former New Fourth Army, with brigade commander Liao Zhengguo and political commissar Ruan Yingping. The 2nd Brigade was the 18th Brigade of the 6th Division of the former New Fourth Army, with Brigade Commander Liu Fei and Political Commissar Peng Lin. The 3rd Brigade was the former Eastern Zhejiang Guerrilla Column (the 2nd Column of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region), with brigade commander Zhang Yixiang and political commissar He Kexi.
After the formation of the expeditionary force was completed, it planned to go north, and the predetermined route was: to cross the Longhai Road, pass through the coastal area of Shandong, reach Jiaodong, and cross the Bohai Sea from Longkou to Yingkou to land.
The 1st Column, which was supposed to go north to the northeast, had to stop going north because Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched a civil war, and in February 1947 it was reorganized into the 1st Column of the East China Field Army.
The first column was formally formed, and thereafter the first column was formed
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Run, starve, fight
"Famous, galloping on the battlefield of East China, crossing Sulu, fighting hard battles, and repeatedly building miracles." Every battle of the first column was an uphill battle, but the most famous one was
Battle of Laiwu
。
In 1947, after the defeat of the Kuomintang Lunan, it was decided to take Chen Cheng as the commander-in-chief and concentrate superior forces to attack Lunan.
Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to the Shandong battlefield and carefully planned the next operational deployment in his office in Nanjing.
He judged that the East China Field Army was in northern Jiangsu and southern Jiangsu. After the continuous battle, the casualties were very large, and they were already unable to fight, and cherished the fact that the main force of our army was gathered in the Linyi area, believing that this area was the capital of the Shandong Liberated Zone, and our army would certainly hold on to it with all its might, and at the same time trying to use military victory to exert a certain influence on the upcoming meeting of foreign ministers of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain.
So Chiang Kai-shek drew up a plan for the "Battle of Lunan.". Chiang Kai-shek concentrated 23 integrated divisions and 53 brigades on the three lines of Longhai, Jiaoji, and Jinpu, with a total of more than 310,000 people fighting the main force of Huaye in the Linyi area.
Regarding his own deployment, Chiang Kai-shek was triumphant, believing that he had a large number of troops and that victory was in sight. Boasting left and right:
"Even if my troops are all tofu slag, they can swell and kill old sows!"
According to Chen Yi's deployment, Hua Ye's column reached the southwest of Laiwu City on February 19 and prepared to start a coordinated attack at 10 p.m. the next day.
But! Hostilities change. The two armies of the enemy Li Xianzhou group had already assembled in Laiwu. As a result, the encirclement task, which was originally planned to be undertaken by five columns, had to be undertaken by the first column itself.
Originally, the results of the tasks of the five columns were all completed by the first column, which shows the arduousness of this task, but the first column completed this arduous task.
On March 5, 1947, the headline of Shandong's "Dazhong Daily" and through the field newsletter broadcast by Xinhua News Agency, was titled "More Than 40,000 Jiang Juns":
During the battle to annihilate more than 50,000 enemy troops in Laiwu, the "Guangzhou" unit of the East China People's Liberation Army clamped down on Li Xianzhou,300, deputy commander of Jiang's 2nd Appeasement District, and the headquarters of the 73rd Army and the 46th Army were surrounded by us. On the night of the 1st (20th) of the battle, the "Guangzhou" troops advanced to the east, west, north, and southwest of Laiwu City, and that night, except for the mine heights in the northwest of the city, the rest of the outlying strongholds were all cleared by us, and Li Xianzhou's headquarters and the 73rd Army were encircled.
After learning that the Li Xianzhou group was surrounded, Chen Yi and Su Yu were very happy and immediately adjusted their deployment to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the Li Xianzhou group.
Chen Yi and Su Yu gave Ye Fei's death orders:
In any case, the 1st Column insisted on not being able to let the enemy escape from the city until around noon on the 3rd day.
The first column resolutely completed the task assigned by its superiors, and in the face of the enemy's attack, Ye Fei ordered the troops to only do seductive blockade. At 12:00 noon, and then deliberately opened the road, the enemy was particularly anxious to escape, so no plan for the first column was found.
The enemy was crowded all over the road, tanks and cars were crowded together one after another, and at 2 p.m., the enemy's rear end left Laiwu City.
At this time, the first column was waiting for the opportunity to annihilate the enemy, so the first column assembled on both sides of the road attacked fiercely, blocking front and back, and under the fierce artillery bombardment of the first column, the enemy was running around and it was difficult to take care of the front and back.
Ye Fei was a master of capturing fighters, and seeing that the enemy was in disarray, he immediately ordered the troops to attack to the west.
In just two hours, Hua Ye completely annihilated the Li Xianzhou Group cleanly and completely.
The casualties of the first column in laiwu in the first battle were very large, and there were not many captures, but the role of the first column was the greatest.
Su Yu
At the meeting of high-ranking cadres on March 8, he gave full affirmation when he made a "preliminary summary of the Battle of Laiwu", saying:
"In the coordination of the columns, it is said,
1 vertical is the most difficult
, although the capture was not large, but played a decisive role in the whole battle,
It should be counted as the first work
。 ”
1 Longitudinal galloping in Yuwan, crossing Sulu, fighting hard battles, repeatedly building qigong, becoming a "trump card" in the hands of Chen and Su, and using this "trump card" to deal with the enemy's "trump card".
During the Battle of Huaihai
Qiu Qingquan was only the last of the "aces" in the first column duel.
Qiu Qingquan, formerly known as Qingqian, is a character for Yu'an. Born in Zhejiang in 1902, he joined the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924, was promoted to major general in 1933, studied in Germany at public expense in 1934, first entered the Engineer College, entered the Berlin Army University for training after completing training, graduated and returned to China in 1937, participated in the Nanjing Defense War, was trapped in Nanjing, and later escaped, serving as the commander of the New 22nd Division of the 5th Army in 1938, in 1939
attend
Battle of Kunlun Pass
He became famous in World War I and joined Burma in 1943
Battle of Longling
Repeatedly built miracles. He is a famous anti-Japanese general with great military achievements.
In October 1948, Qiu Qingquan took over as commander of the Second Corps. The Second Corps consisted of the 5th, 70th, and 74th Armies, as well as the 112th Division of the 12th Army, the 181st Division of the 55th Army, and the Independent Cavalry Brigade.
Among them, the 5th Army is known as one of the "five main forces" of the Kuomintang army and is a very strong unit with strong combat effectiveness.
Du Yuming, Dai Anlan, Zheng Dongguo, and Qiu Qingquan all came from this unit, and it was also the new 11th Army, the first mechanized army of the Kuomintang.
In Chiang Kai-shek's mind, the Second Corps was an ace corps, with quite strong offensive and maneuverable capabilities, and superior in quality to other Kuomintang corps. Therefore, he had high hopes for the Second Corps.
This is a very strong fighting force.
Therefore, as early as May 1948, Chairman Mao asked our main force in Huaye to seek and annihilate the enemy.
When the soldiers of the first column heard that they were facing the enemy ace of the Qiu Qingquan Corps, they were very excited, and everyone was very emotional, determined to catch this big fish first, and then surround and annihilate it.
We must defeat Qiu Qingquan's 'trump card'.
”
In November 1948, the 1st Column of Huaye launched a fierce attack on the 70th Army under Qiu Qingquan according to the deployment of Huaye Command. After two days of fighting, the enemy lost his position. This made Qiu Qingquan, who had always considered himself an "ace army", feel very humiliated and angry, so he personally led the supervision team and stormed the defensive positions of the First General Brigade under the cover of aircraft and artillery.
The enemy's firepower was particularly fierce, and the bombs fell like money, and the entire position was overturned.
Many warriors were buried in rubble
After the artillery fire, the enemy began to rush up, but was beaten down by a column, and as a result, Qiu Qingquan ordered the overseers below to shoot and kill the retreating people, and the enemy was forced to rush to the position...
The positions of the first column were retaken by the enemy. The battle was fierce, and the soldiers of the first column did not flinch, and finally crushed the enemy's attempt to reinforce.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek's elite Huang Wei Corps also planned to reinforce Xuzhou, and the enemy was very arrogant in his own equipment, but he was blocked by Nakano' step by step, making the Huang Wei Corps exhausted.
At this time, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission and Chairman Mao, the General Front Committee of the Huaihai Campaign ordered Huaye's main force to block the enemy, and the 1st Column and the 4th and 12th Columns were organized into the East Blocking Corps, under the unified command of Tao Yong, commander of the 4th Column, and Guo Huaruo, political commissar.
The task of the first column was to organize a defense centered on the mouth of the water and block the southern reinforcement of Qiu Qingquan's corps.
The reason for the choice of Shuikou Village is determined by the special location and terrain of Shuikou Village.
Shuikou Village is located on the south bank of the Old Yellow River, is a large village with a length of 3 miles from east to west, and is only one river away from Wolf Mountain and Gushan Mountain. To the north of the village, there is a river embankment about 5 to 7 meters high as a natural barrier, which is conducive to the defense of our army; the old Yellow River is dry and waterless, and the terrain north of the bank is open, which is conducive to killing and injuring the enemy.
However, this terrain also favors the movement of the enemy's mechanized troops.
Therefore, this place is the only way for the Qiu Qingquan Corps to go south, and to hold here is to get stuck in the neck of the Qiu Qingquan Corps.
No sooner had the fortifications of the First Column been completed than a unit of the 70th Army of Qiu Qingquan's Corps had already launched an attack on the positions of the First Column.
The soldiers of the first column were very shrewd, and only began to fire when they brought the enemy closer to about 300 meters in front of the position. After a burst of shooting, the enemy quickly retreated.
In order to sabotage the enemy's attack, Liao Zhengguo, commander of the First Division, took advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to organize troops overnight and carry out multiple attacks on the enemy. Among them, the soldiers of the three companies and one platoon of the first regiment of the first regiment of the first division, under the leadership of the deputy instructor, went deep into the enemy's position and fought with the enemy with a white blade, and only eight people remained in the platoon, but they still insisted on fighting.
The enemy's offensive steps were disrupted, and the enemy had to retreat, but Qiu Qingquan did not accept defeat, he was a grumpy and arrogant guy. At this time, we are looking for fun.
When he heard the news of the counterattack of the first column, he scolded: "Grandma is a bear" and immediately went to the position to supervise the battle.
On the 25th, Qiu Qingquan replaced the 70th Army, used the ace 5th Army, and with the cooperation of aircraft and tanks, launched a fierce attack on the defensive positions of the first column, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce.
The warriors of the column started with "
People are in the position, and they vow to coexist and die with the position
"The spirit of the enemy has fought."
Six days and six nights
The position was littered with the corpses of the enemy and the soldiers of the 1st Column, and the blood stained the entire position red, and after killing and wounding a large number of enemies, the first column finally thwarted Qiu Qingquan's support attempt and ensured that the other troops annihilated the Huang Baitao Corps and the Huang Wei Corps.
At this time, the enemy was already in a difficult situation, but since most of Du Yuming's clique was Chiang Kai-shek's concubines, they were stubborn, refused to surrender to our army, and were still struggling to the death.
On January 6, 1949, for the sake of the overall situation of the Pingjin Campaign, the troops on the Huaihai front were ordered to attack Du Yuming's group in order to achieve the goal of annihilating the enemy.
HuaYe's first column received orders to first annihilate Xia Zhuang's enemies with the help of other columns, then divide the two corps of Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi, and finally march west to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of Du Yuming's group and Qiu Qingquan's corps.
Night fell, and as the red flares were fired, the battle began. The 2nd Division of the 1st Column, under the cover of the strong artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army, launched an attack on the enemy garrison of Xiazhuang, and after the 2nd Division's surprise attack, it took Xiazhuang in one fell swoop. At the same time, the 3rd Division also captured the enemy bunker group between XiaZhuang and Xia Zhao.
At midnight, Deputy Commander Liu Fei ordered the 7th and 9th Regiments of the 3rd Division to seize the Luo River embankment, severing the connection between Zhu Xiaozhuang and the enemy in Ding Zaoyuan, and also severing the connection between Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi's two corps.
It was filled with enemy bunkers and resisted desperately with their own heavy artillery fire. After repeated battles, the 3rd Division finally had a battalion capture an enemy position of about 200 meters after paying heavy casualties.
These 200 meters were a fatal threat to the enemy, and a large number of enemies were immediately dispatched to launch a fierce attack on the 200 meters position, but the PLA soldiers who defended the position heroically killed the enemy, held the position, and launched a white-knife battle with the enemy, repelling the enemy's counterattack again and again.
Seeing that it was impossible to capture the position, the enemy inhumanely used poisonous gas, and at the same time dispatched aircraft to strafe the position...
Platon soldiers blocked the enemy's attack in poison gas and fire, and after all-night fighting, only a few dozen people were left in a battalion to hold the position.
Taking this opportunity, the other troops of the 1st Column 3rd Division took the opportunity to capture Zhu Xiaozhuang, and it took only 3 hours to launch an attack on Ding Zaoyuan.
Stationed here was the 45th Division of the 5th Army, one of the "five main forces" of the Kuomintang
。 The division was very stubborn in its own well-equipped and stubborn, and repeatedly counterattacked the PLA positions.
In order to completely annihilate the enemy, the 3rd Division exerted military pressure on the one hand to annihilate the enemy and launched a political offensive to disintegrate its military morale.
Throughout the night, the soldiers of the 3rd Division kept shouting at the enemy:
Brothers and men of the Chiang Kai-shek Army, you have been completely surrounded, and there is only one way to die if you stubbornly resist in the end. ”
"Hurry up and surrender, your wives and children are suffering and freezing at home, but you are fighting for the rich, is it worth it?" Do you? ”
"Chiang Kai-shek can no longer control you, and if you are not killed, you will have to starve to death."
The shouts of the soldiers of the 3rd Division played a role, arousing the hope in the hearts of the enemy's lower-class soldiers.
Soldiers kept sneaking over, and by 10 a.m. the next day, the enemy could no longer organize effective control, and 3,000 men, including the division commander and deputy division commander, had to surrender.
The once arrogant enemy division commander surrendered and never saw the prestige of the past, and the first thing he did was to reach out for steamed bread to eat.
Chiang Kai-shek's last "ace army," the 5th Army, was completely annihilated.
The "ace army" was destroyed, and the other troops soon could not hold on.
The divisions of the First Column carried out the command of the headquarters to "attack bravely, boldly intersperse, and eliminate the remnants of the enemy", and soon eliminated the enemy...
Shortly after the end of the Huaihai Campaign, the People's Liberation Army was unified and reorganized, and huaye 1 column was reorganized into the 20th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Ye Fei was transferred to the commander of the 10th Corps, the 20th Army was under the command of the 9th Corps, Liu Fei was appointed as the commander, Chen Shifu was the political commissar, Zhang Yixiang, the deputy commander, Tang Guanghui, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department, and Liao Zhengguo, chief of staff.
The original 1st Division was reorganized into the 58th Division, with Division Commander and Political Commissar Zeng Ruqing; the former 2nd Division was reorganized into the 59th Division, with Division Commander Cheng Yetang and Political Commissar Zhang Wenbi; the former 3rd Division was reorganized into the 60th Division, with Division Commander Chen Ting and Political Commissar Qiu Xiangtian.