Cheng Jun led the 7th Column to successfully complete the task of blocking the attack, and before he could rest and celebrate, he received a new order to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of the Huang Wei Corps.
On November 23, the enemy's plan to carry out the "Battle of Xu Beng" was shattered, and Qiu Qingquan, Li Mi, and Sun Yuanliang's three corps shrank south of Xuzhou and could not go south, and Li Yannian and Liu Ruming gathered north of Bengbu and did not dare to advance. Huang Weize's army of 120,000 men marched towards Su County.
Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and Chen Yi spotted the LoneLy Huang Wei Corps, believing it to be a good time to annihilate him, and immediately surrounded it in a double pile. At the same time, a telegram was sent to the central government, asking Nakano's 11th Column to return to reinforcements, and at the same time sending two or three more columns to join the battle.
The next day, the Central Military Commission called back and fully agreed to the plan of the General Front Committee. On the 25th, the Huaye side fully supported Nakano's battle plan and made operational arrangements, in addition to Nakano's 11th Column, Su Yu also sent The 7th Column of Huaye and the 11th Column of Su to participate in the battle.
After receiving the order, Cheng Jun immediately led the 7 columns to reach the vicinity of Shuangduiji in the southwest of SuXian after a day and two nights of rapid march.
He rushed to the General Front Committee with political commissar Zhao Qimin to report to Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and Chen Yi.
Chen Yi greeted the two at the head of the village, and when he saw Cheng Jun and Zhao Qimin, the servants of the wind and dust, Chen Yi opened his arms and laughed, "You two, why are you late to arrive at this moment!" But let's wait! ”
Coming to the headquarters, Liu Bocheng looked up and down at Cheng Jun, then turned to Chen Yi and smiled: "There are no weak soldiers under the strong general." Your column commander is very dignified and has a confucian style, which is quite good! ”
Chen Yi laughed: "This year, they pulled nails in Shandong, engaged in internal annihilation of the enemy, fished a lot of oil and water, had a good life, and all of them were full of red light..."
Cheng Jun reported the number and equipment of his 7th Column, as well as the combat effectiveness and combat style of 3 divisions and several main regiments, to the General Front Committee one by one.
Liu Bocheng listened to Cheng Jun's report and did not reply, but only when Cheng Jun reported to the column mountain artillery regiment did he stop: "Again, how many mountain cannons are there?" ”
"9 doors. There are 2 doors of Wumble and 7 doors of American. It was paid between the spring and the Yanzhou in July. ”
"Hooray! You're rich! fine! So how many shells do you have? Chen Yi asked very happily.
"Each door is brought in two bases (60 rounds)."
"You have more shells from one mountain artillery regiment than all of Nakano's belongings!"
Cheng Jun looked at Chen Yi very doubtfully.
Chief of Staff Li Da looked at the confused Cheng Jun and added, "We now have only 43 mountain guns in total, and there are only more than 200 shells!" ”
The number Li Da said made Cheng Jun very shocked, a large field army group only had more than 200 shells in total, how difficult it should be to fight this battle!
At the end of the report, Li Da conveyed the arrangements of the General Front Committee for the 7th Column: "The 7th Column is deployed south of the Shuangduiji, belonging to the sequence of the Southern Group, and is under the command of Commander Wang Jinshan of the Nakano 6th Column and Political Commissar Du Yide. Participate in the attack on the Yellow Wei Corps. ”
When it was time to eat, Deng Xiaoping came out of the command post, shook the hands of Cheng Jun and Zhao Qimin, and said in a hoarse voice: "You have come just in time!" This time, our hanging mind is put down! ”
When Cheng Jun and Zhao Qimin left the General Front Committee, Chen Yi gave a special account to the two of them: Last year, when we were at the most troubled place in Linqu, Nanma, Liu Deng disregarded his own difficulties and attacked the outside line in advance, allowing Nakano's troops to carry hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops, lightening the burden on us, but we ourselves were dragged thin. However, you annihilated the enemy in the inner line of Shandong, won successive victories, captured a lot, raised strong troops and horses, and greatly improved your combat effectiveness... This time to fight Huang Wei, the difficulty of not being right is not small, how powerful is not in the heart. You should have the courage to contend for heavy burdens, learn from Liu Deng, and follow Comrade Nakano's example..."
Zhao Qimin hurriedly expressed his position: "Comrade Cheng Jun and I are both ideologically prepared for this. ”
Huang Wei placed the 33rd Regiment of the 118th Division of the 18th Army on Dawangzhuang and Jiangudui, and also placed a division of the 85th Army on the line of Xiaowangzhuang and Xiaozhouzhuang. Chiang Kai-shek of the 18th Army Division was one of the "five main forces", and the 33rd Regiment was the main force of the main force, and there was also a title of "Tiger Regiment". Cheng Jun judged that this was the core position of the Huang Wei Corps, and it was also a throat place related to the life and death of the Huang Wei Corps.
Three days later, Cheng Jun received a new order from the General Front Committee to attack the enemies of Dawangzhuang, Jiangudui, Xiaowangzhuang, and Xiaozhouzhuang in 7 columns.
On the evening of December 2, the 7th Column was ready to start the attack, and at this time, Chen Yi called: "After the study of the General Front Committee, I plan to transfer your mountain artillery regiment to Linzhuoji and return to noji for unified use." ”
"Do you want the whole group to go, or do you want to leave me two doors?"
"It's all, not a single one."
"That... Good. I perform. ”
"We're going to cut this piece of your flesh, and you don't have to cry out in pain!" Ha, ha..."
"That day, in Xiao Lijia Village, you were so interested in me as an artillery regiment, I expected that you would beat me up."
"Well, this matter, it is finalized like this!"
"Over the years, in the face of the orders of my superiors, which time has I ever talked about the price?"
"I want to get it." For Cheng Jun's answer, Chen Yi was very happy.
Cheng Jun immediately summoned the commander of the artillery regiment: "You should go back immediately to prepare, leave for the night today, take all the shells with you, and don't leave a single shot." ”
Before leaving, Zhao Qimin sent off the running group and said, "On behalf of our comrades of the whole column, you will go to accept the review of the chief of Nakano and the leading organs..."
Two days later, Chen Yi sent a telegram from the Central Military Commission and Mao Zedong on November 13: "The 7 column artillery has been used by Liu, Chen, and Deng, and will not be said here." However, the artillery column (note: that is, the two regiments of howitzers of the Huaye Special Column) should all go to fight Huang Wei with thick firepower. ”
Born in 1906 in Jimo County, Shandong Province, the commander of the Huaye Artillery Column was Chen Ruiting, who applied for the Jinan Normal School in 1925 and was later admitted to the Hebei Military and Political School (later became the 7th Phase of the Whampoa Military Academy). At the beginning of his enrollment, he chose to be assigned to the artillery team, and later promoted to artillery company commander and battalion commander for merit. He secretly joined the Communist Party of China in 1937. In 1941, he applied to lead an uprising, but because there were too few Communists in the army, he only brought out more than 1,000 people, and as a result, because he did not strengthen ideological education in time, this group of people mutinied, and he was also attacked by his subordinates, causing serious injuries.
Fortunately, the party organization sent excellent doctors and nurses in time to save him. Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and others sent a telegram of condolences:
Just when the anti-communists launched a large-scale attack on our Party and our army in disregard of the great enemy, you resolutely revolted with the consent of the Party. When the news came, the whole army celebrated. Unfortunately, the anti-communists submitted a poisonous plot, causing many comrades to die and you were seriously injured. This is the loss of our party and our army, as well as the loss of the people of the whole country. Special telegram to the martyred comrades deeply condolences and expressed deep condolences. May you cherish yourself, restore your health as soon as possible, and continue to struggle for the party's cause.
After Chen Ruiting recovered from his injuries, he went to the Party School of the Central China Bureau to study. In October 1944, he was appointed Chief of Staff and Commander of Artillery at the Headquarters of the New Fourth Army. But the newly created unit had no guns, no shells, and he was a "light rod commander." But he did not compromise, but told everyone: There are no guns and no guns, but we have Chiang Kai-shek, the transport brigade leader, and as the war develops, he will give us the latest American cannons.
Sure enough, with the victory of the Liberation War, the artillery column began to have its own artillery, and after the Battle of Lunan in January 1947, the artillery column suddenly had 48 105 American howitzers and 28 tanks. In March, Huaye officially established a special forces column, which had jurisdiction over artillery, cavalry, engineers, chariots and other services.
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The artillery of an, Menglianggu, Nanma, Linqu, Shatuji, Yudong, Kaifeng and other battles made many meritorious achievements. In mid-to-late September 1948, during the Battle of Jinan, Chen Ruiting commanded more than 500 artillery pieces of 10 artillery regiments, setting a precedent for our army to "use powerful artillery fire supplemented by explosions to seize large cities where the enemy is strongly fortified and heavily defended."
In november 1948, in the Battle of Huaihai, Chen Ruiting led the artillery to continuously participate in the battle of Huaye, and also participated in the battle of Nakano, which played a huge role.
By the time of the Battle of Huaihai, the Huaye Artillery Column already had 4 artillery regiments, 1 engineer regiment, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 tank brigade, and 1 special branch school, as well as large units including directly subordinate organs and detachments, including guard battalions.
In the first phase of the Huaihai Campaign to annihilate Huang Baitao's corps, the artillery supported Huaye's eighth, sixth, fourth, and ninth columns to clear the perimeter of Nianzhuangwei. In the offensive on the 16th and the general offensive on the 19th, the artillery continuously improved its combat methods and effectively supported the infantry operations.
Before the annihilation of the Huangwei Campaign, Liu Bocheng took out the previous telegram and said: "Chairman Mao Zedong attaches great importance to the total annihilation of the Huangwei Corps, and has made a report to the General Front Committee and the Former Committee of the East China Field Army: 'The East China Artillery Column should go all out to attack Huang Wei with thick firepower. This instruction is very important, and three artillery regiments in East China have already opened up. In this way, we have to concentrate the artillery for use. ”
Then he went to the front of the map and arranged the operational deployment: "With the 4th, 9th, and 11th Columns and the 3rd Regiment of The East China Special Column Artillery, the 14 companies of the column artillery formed the East Group, under the unified command of Comrade Chen Geng, the commander of the 4th Column; the 1st, 3rd, and 13th Column Artillery Regiments of the East China Special Column and the 1st Regiment of the East China Special Column Artillery formed the Western Group, under the unified command of Comrade Chen Xilian, commander of the 3rd Column; with the 6th and East China 7th, we also left five companies of the 1st Regiment of the East China Special Column artillery to form a mobile artillery group, and the former committee has decided on December 6. Three groups attack at the same time! ”
On December 13, the Huaihai General Front Committee launched an offensive order against Huang Wei's corps, and suddenly the sound of "boom, boom, boom" continued, and the entire enemy's position was covered with artillery fire...
The artillery was handed over to Nakano's command, and Cheng Jun led his troops to fight a bloody battle against Dawangzhuang without the support of artillery.
On December 15, after the total annihilation of the Huang Wei Corps, Cheng Jun received a telegram from Chen Yi: The 7th Column broke into the double piles to gather the divisions and regiments of the Yellow Regiment, and all heavy weapons on the position, including howitzers, mountain artillery, field artillery, chemical mortars, and firearms above heavy machine guns, were not allowed to move, including ammunition, and were all captured by Nakano's troops.
This instruction of Mr. Chen did not arouse the opposition of the 7 verticals, but everyone was very supportive. Although a long list of figures was missing from the statistics of battle results, the spiritual outlook of the troops had achieved a great harvest.
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