I believe that everyone is very familiar with the Huaihai Campaign, and in the entire history of war on the mainland, it is a very rare major armageddon. After the end of the battle, the enemy's strength of nearly half a million people was annihilated by our army, and two of the five main forces were also destroyed in this battle. Moreover, some of lao Chiang's last concubine troops were also among them.
It has to be said that this battle laid a solid foundation for the victory of the entire war of liberation. Then the reason why the enemy army suffered such heavy losses was also due to the command ability of old Chiang Kai-shek. As we all know, old Jiang is in every time
During the war, they liked to intervene in the command of the generals
This problem has also been ridiculed by many people
"Ambassador of Micro-Manipulation"
。
Many senior officers in the enemy camp complained about him, even those who were extremely loyal to him, and sometimes felt very helpless, in the course of this Huaihai campaign
Because of a telegram, all 300,000 elite soldiers under his command were killed on the battlefield.
So what did Old Chiang do at that time, causing such huge losses to his army? Next, let's review the Battle of Huaihai together, interested friends can pay attention to it a little bit, in order to watch more wonderful content in time.
Battle of Huaihai
Our army has won victories one after another
In 1948, with the successive victories of our army on various battlefields, especially the Liaoshen Battle on the northeast battlefield, the battlefield situation of our army had a major turning point. The enemy's strength plummeted from 4.3 million to 2.9 million. However, the strength of our army is steadily rising, even more than the enemy army.
In September, our army launched the Battle of Jinan, and this time, the enemy's plan for key defenses was completely broken, after that
Defenders in Linyi, Yantai and other areas abandoned the city and fled
This provides very convenient conditions for our army to continue to fight in the south. After the battle of Jinan, the Central Plains Field Army directly invaded Zhengzhou, and the defeat of these battles made all the soldiers of the enemy army begin to fidget.
In desperation, the enemy could only continue to retreat. At this time, General Su Yu proposed to the superior leaders to pursue the victory and completely recover Huaiyin and other places, thus launching the Huaihai War, because this request was very much in line with the next strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee, so the superior leaders quickly agreed to General Su Yu's proposal.
Subsequently, Commissar Deng was ordered to command the entire campaign, and when Su Yu made this suggestion, he only wanted to encircle and annihilate the enemy's Huang Baitao Corps, but he never expected it
The scale of this battle could later be so large
。 Organizationally, Hua Ye was originally wanted to serve as the main force in this battle, but because they had just captured Jinan not long ago, the losses were relatively large, and they had not yet had time to rest, if they rushed to attack at this time, I was afraid that all plans would be disrupted.
General Su Yu
Bai Chongxi refused to command
In addition, the soldiers were not yet equipped with winter clothes, so with the continuous replenishment of personnel, the time for the Battle of Huaihai was constantly postponed. Our army has already selected generals, but there are very few people in Chiang Kai-shek's hands.
At that time, the first candidate he considered was Bai Chongxi
But Bai Chongxi thought very thoroughly about the pros and cons of this battle, and he has always been called a military wizard by outsiders, and he still has good military talent.
In November 1934, the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, which our army paid a heavy price, was commanded by him, at that time
Our army was directly reduced from 80,000 soldiers before entering the war to 30,000, because the battle was of great importance
Old Jiang also put down his body and decided to personally go to Bai Chongxi to discuss the matter. Who admitted that Bai Chongxi agreed to this in front of Old Jiang, but
After Old Jiang left, he told the other side that he could not serve as the commander of this operation at all.
Bai Chongxi knew very well in his heart that this battle was completely self-inflicted for the enemy army, and this kind of "good thing" old Jiang did not look for others but came to him, and it was difficult to let all his troops die on the battlefield. Moreover, no matter how they deployed in this battle, they would eventually be led by the nose of our army, and they could only continue to defend, or they would deploy a large number of troops around the railway in Xuzhou and other places to resist our army desperately.
There's another way, that is
Directly put me Xuzhou and defend in the Huai River area
Bai Chongxi only warned them that they must hold the Huai River, but he himself was reluctant to join the war. After listening to his suggestion, Old Jiang obviously scoffed a little, but he still felt that he had some truth in what he said. After all, his command ability is very good.
On November 5, 1948, some senior officers of the enemy army went to Xuzhou for a meeting under the convocation of Gu Zhutong, and after discussion, they decided to use Bai Chongxi's plan to arrange troops on both sides of Jinpu Road for defense. Old Jiang also directly agreed to this plan. In fact, before this, Bai Chongxi had already understood Old Jiang very thoroughly.
Bai Chongxi
In this case, Old Jiang will definitely send other troops up, and even if he fails, he will not be very distressed.
He already had an army of 800,000 under his command, so how could he care about the lives and deaths of these people?
The chances of this Battle of Huaihai being able to win were very small, and everyone knew it very well, but Old Jiang didn't understand it.
Liu Zhi was dispatched to command the battle
Many enemy generals chose to consult with Bai Chongxi, but they were scolded, and Bai Chongxi directly told the crowd that Old Chiang Kai-shek did not understand the military. Seeing that Bai Chongxi's attitude was very resolute, old Jiang had no way,
He could only turn his head to Du Yuming, hoping that he could take over the heavy task of commanding this time
。 However, he ignored that Du Yuming had been transferred to the northeast battlefield, and the always suspicious old Jiang could only hand over the matter to Liu Zhi. This man was the commander of the Xuzhou Regional Bandit Suppression Command.
Liu Zhi followed Lao Jiang from the time of the Northern Expedition and was relatively kind, but when he commanded on the battlefield, he was much inferior.
Controlling a million soldiers and horses for a while caught him off guard.
In the very beginning, his command was very problematic, not only
Instead of following the previously established deployment, the forces were continuously reduced from the western side of the Tsuura Road.
What made people feel most speechless was that he did not wait for the 7th Corps to successfully cross the river, and directly ordered Li Mi to lead his own corps to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Xuzhou, when our Huaye Corps began a fierce attack on Huang Baitao's troops. Prior to this, Huang Baitao originally wanted to lead the troops to retreat in advance, but their superiors asked them to retreat after joining the 44th Army.
National army strength
This made him very happy in an instant, after all, with the 44th Army, their number reached 120,000 people. So he agreed very happily. However, what he never expected was that it was precisely because of his own bad thoughts that the entire team was destroyed. They waited for three days for the 44th Army, and during that time,
Our army rushed to the battlefield quickly, and when the enemy's 64th Army was crossing the river, it was successfully blocked by our army
The other party has no power to fight back.
In the end, the strength of one division was completely destroyed in the hands of our army. In order to preserve his remaining power, he sent a request for support to Li Mi. However, Li Mi had already withdrawn under Liu Zhi's command and had no intention of supporting them at all. Li Mi's troops were previously stationed in Cao Baji, which was a transportation fortress to attack Xuzhou, and if there was a problem in this place, I am afraid that Xuzhou was also in danger.
Huang Baitao's army was defeated, and Liu Zhi was withdrawn
This made Huang Baitao, who was already in difficulty, even worse, his own troops had already lost a lot, but now he had to divide two divisions to garrison Cao Baji and other places.
These two divisions were also completely wiped out by our Army's North China Field Army
。 After that, General Su Yu ordered his troops to take control of the defenders of Xuzhou, and another team was responsible for catching up with Huang Baitao, and finally besieged him in the Nianzhuang area.
This wave of operations by Liu Zhi made Old Jiang furious, and he didn't expect Liu Zhi to be so incompetent. Du Yuming had to be transferred back from the northeast battlefield and began to command the operation. After this,
Liu Zhi was also often ridiculed by other generals, both overtly and covertly
In the face of these gossip, he can only alleviate the embarrassment by self-deprecating.
After Du Yuming took over, he continued to implement it in accordance with the previous strategic plan, and did not make any targeted measures; under such circumstances, the enemy and us both held separate meetings, and Lao Jiang re-made the strategic deployment at the meeting, and his idea was to re-occupy Suxian County, and then launch a key attack on our army.
Liu Zhi
When two enemy forces came to the vicinity of Nianzhuang, they prepared to rescue Huang Baitao's troops here. In order to wipe them out, our army took the initiative to withdraw from the mill village, and sure enough, these two troops came to the mill very smoothly.
Thoroughly into the trap of our army,
Just when they were complacent about their victory, Huang Baitao on the other side felt extremely absurd, his troops were still trapped, how could victory be said?
Seeing that this unit had no hope, he placed his hopes on Huang Wei's troops. At this time, the distance between the Twelve Corps and SuXian was already very close. His hopes were completely dashed, and he relied on the advantages of the local terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and struggled to hold on for more than ten days, and finally arrived
On November 17, the Huaye Column of our army launched a final onslaught on them.
Our artillery was aimed at the enemy's position and fired at the same time, and the enemy troops inside the mill were beaten to the point of dizziness, and soon, under the cover of artillery fire, our soldiers drove straight in and launched a frenzied attack on the mill. But Huang Baitao's soldiers were very bloody, they would rather die than surrender, even if they fought until the last moment.
Such morale and spirit caused great obstacles to our army, and this battle was fought very hard, and for five whole days, both sides paid a terrible price, until the 22nd.
Only then did our army finally capture the enemy's headquarters at Mill Village
。 Even so, he still did not succeed in capturing Huang Baitao, he had already led his troops to break out from the flank, and the Ninth Column of our army could only pursue all the way.
Huang Baitao
Huang Baitao's troops were completely annihilated
In the end, huang Baitao's team was only a few hundred people, and finally he realized that he had no way out, so he had to choose suicide to end his life. In the course of the entire war, nearly 100,000 men of the Seventh Army were annihilated by our army, of which only more than 10,000 were captured, and the rest were sacrificed on the battlefield. And our army also sacrificed a lot of soldiers, more than 70,000 people.
This war is
After the mainland entered the civil war period, the battle with the greatest casualties
The village was successfully conquered by our army, and as of now, the first stage of the Huaihai Campaign has been completed. This provides a great advantage to our army's subsequent operations.
Since the complete annihilation of the Seventh Corps, on November 27, 1948, the enemy 6th And 8th Corps, fearing a surprise attack by our army, began to postpone the march, which was directly caused
The 12th Legion was left alone
At this time, the East China Field Army of our army also discovered this excellent opportunity, and they were ready to take advantage of this opportunity to completely take down the Twelfth Army.
None of the three corps could move closer to Xuzhou in a short period of time. But this will not open up the connection between Xuzhou and Bengbu. For a time, the situation on the battlefield was really not optimistic for the enemy army. When the enemy's 12th Army approached Nanpingji and prepared to cross the Xun River, it found that our army was encircling them.
In desperation, they marched rapidly all night and began to march in a southeasterly direction, thinking that they could gradually approach the 6th Corps from this side, but
Our army also discovered their intentions, so they concentrated all their forces
, to fight as hard as possible against the Twelve Corps. Soon, in the southwest direction of Su County, the 12th Corps was surrounded by our army.
However, Huang Wei was still very clever, and he took advantage of the fact that the encirclement circle of our army was not very tight, mobilized the strength of 4 divisions, organized a vanguard force, and found the area where our army's strength was relatively weak in the southeast direction. Then began the all-out breakout. However, the next thing that happened to him was that there was a name in their team
Liao Yun Zhou
The real identity of the division commander is actually an underground party member of our army.
At the most critical moment, he led all his fighters to defect, and in this way, Huang Wei's carefully planned breakthrough plan completely failed, and many fighters in the enemy army were also very flustered after seeing this scene, and the troops in the team were scattered and demoralized, and could only wait for rescue in the same place.
The enemy was defeated
Old Chiang watched his troops being annihilated by our army one after another, the eastern front of Xuzhou had been completely exposed to the perspective of our army, and the only retreat route from Xuzhou to Bengbu had also been completely cut off, plus now the Huang Wei Corps was about to face the risk of total annihilation, and it was completely impossible to sit still. The relevant meeting was held immediately. After some analysis, they found
At this time, if the few corps stationed in Xuzhou did not retreat, they would inevitably be completely harvested by our army.
So they can only
Forced to abandon Xuzhou
, and retreated to the Gangnam area.
Soldiers of our army
With the defeat of Huang Baitao and Huang Wei's troops, only Du Yuming's troops remained. He had a total of 300,000 defenders, and after they retreated from Xuzhou, they retreated in the direction of Yongcheng, and the East China Field Army soon learned of this and immediately sent troops to intercept them.
At the same time, the enemy's troops deployed on the southern front of Li Yannian also withdrew to Bengbu, so our army directly transferred the forces against them to the team pursuing Du Yuming.
Prepare to annihilate Du Yuming's army in one fell swoop
。 In the process of marching, he also received orders from Lao Jiang to support other troops, so he could only choose to change the direction of his march, and finally by December, he was completely blocked by our army in the Yongcheng area.
At this time, the Battle of Pingjin was also in progress, and in order to cooperate with the completion of the encirclement of Fu Zuoyi and others, our army postponed the general attack against Du Yuming for twenty days. During this time, their lives were also very difficult,
The extreme shortage of supplies, coupled with the cold weather, caused many soldiers to lose the passion to fight
He couldn't fight and couldn't break through, which made Du Yuming very uncomfortable.
Some soldiers even chose to surrender directly to our army. As our army shouted at them every day and persuaded them to surrender, more and more soldiers defected, and there were more than fourteen thousand people. From this data
It is enough to prove that our army's persuasion has played a very important role and completely destroyed the morale of the enemy
Looking at the scene in front of him, Du Yuming felt powerless, although they had air support, but it was far from enough, and it was obvious that Old Jiang had left him behind.
Du Yuming
Later, in mid-December, they had tried to successfully break through under the cover of air artillery fire, but at this time they had no idea and no specific ability to implement it. During this period,
Old Jiang also wanted Bai Chongxi to send troops to support, but Bai Chongxi did not send troops for a long time, making the gap between the two grow larger and larger.
Before that, Old Jiang had also sent people to assassinate Bai Chongxi many times, but they had not succeeded, and the struggle between the two had never stopped, which led to the enemy always having various emergencies when facing our army, and finally it was out of control.
Du Yuming's troops were defeated
In the past twenty days, our army has actually gathered fifteen columns to the outskirts of Chen Guanzhuang. It's really huge, six hundred thousand people. Everyone is waiting for this final fatal blow, hoping that this time the enemy will be completely wiped out in this land. On January 6, with the order of General Su Yu,
The East China Field Army launched a general offensive against Du Yuming
More than 300 cannons completely suppressed the enemy, taking advantage of the cover of artillery fire, the soldiers rushed up, the war reached the climax, in just two days, the enemy's 14 regiments, nearly 20,000 troops were completely annihilated.
This time, Su Yu did not expect to have such a huge harvest. And the task was completed ahead of schedule.
Du Yuming's troops were drastically reduced
It was when morale was low, and our army thought that this was the best time to eliminate him, so on the 8th, the soldiers of our army launched a fierce attack on the enemy army, just when they were unable to support it.
He offered to let the Fifth Army come out to fight, which was the main force in the enemy army, and had also been a heavy battle and had super combat effectiveness.
The warriors fought hard
However, under such circumstances, the entire army has no morale to speak of, on the contrary, our army is in an unstoppable state, what about the enemy's main force, and now they only have the remnants of the defeated generals left, how can they compete with our army? Of course, the later results did prove this point, and the Fifth Army was defeated in the course of our army's battle, and was completely defeated under the hands of the East China Field Army.
The next day, our army directly captured the headquarters of the other side,
Du Yuming could only lead his cronies to try to break through, but in the end he was unfortunately captured
However, at this time, the enemy still had nearly 100,000 troops left, in order to eliminate all these enemies, our army released the words that Du Yuming, who had already been captured, and when the enemy heard the news, it was simply unbelievable, but the facts speak louder than words, and without the commander, these soldiers undoubtedly became a scattered sand, and in this way, our army only took one day to destroy all these remnants.
In the five days of the battle against Du Yuming, of his 200,000 troops, 170,000 troops were annihilated. More than 60,000 people died on the battlefield alone. And our army only lost about 10,000 people, I have to say,
This war was the lowest casualty of our army in the Battle of Huaihai.
Looking back at the entire campaign, the enemy's 800,000 troops were completely annihilated, lao Chiang's strength was directly reduced by more than half, and our army actually suffered more than 100,000 casualties.
The military and the people have a heart
However, the real reason behind our army's final victory is actually indispensable to the support and help of the common people, and every time it comes to the Battle of Huaihai, I think many people have heard this sentence, that is, this battle was pushed out by the people with a trolley. So what's going on here?
People deliver supplies
It turned out that in the course of the heroic struggle of the soldiers of our army on the front line, there were more than 400,000 migrant workers in Anhui and other places in Henan Province, and the rest of the temporary migrant workers reached millions.
In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers' supplies, they took the burden in their hands, or a small cart, and transported the supplies one by one
The process was very arduous, but the people were willing.
In their hearts, as long as they can win the war, whatever price they pay can be accepted, suffering and suffering is nothing, and the bloody sacrifice of the soldiers is the most painful. Soldiers cannot be left without even the most basic supplies on the front lines. The strength of the masses is always the greatest.
Thousands of ordinary people have delivered countless materials to the battlefield.
There are hundreds of millions of catties of grain alone, hundreds of thousands of livestock, and boats. These things provide a solid backing for the warriors to achieve victory. However, there were actually many reasons for the defeat of the Kuomintang, in addition to the people's strong support for our army, the most important thing was their internal estrangement and struggle, and the various units could not trust each other, let alone unite and cooperate with each other. So their failure is inevitable.
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Battle of Huaihai: 300,000 troops were destroyed by a telegram from Old Chiang Kai-shek, why did Bai Chongxi not send troops to support