In 1960, he served as the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force
Lieutenant General Cheng Jun, deputy commander and director of the Air Force Technical Department, passed through Xuzhou and specially rushed to the Huaihai Battle Memorial Hall in Xuzhou to visit, and what had just entered the gate was the commendation order he and other leaders of the column had issued that year, which was to commend the 1st Battalion of the 60th Regiment
In the last battle between Yue Haizhuang and the enemy Qiu Qingquan's corps, his thoughts could not help but go back to more than ten years ago...
Battle of Huaihai! Huaye 7 took back the 4 hours that Su Yu had decided on the fighter
The Battle of Xudong was the first stage of the Huaihai Campaign, a blockade battle of the East China Field Army, and at the beginning of the battle, Huang Baitao's corps was surrounded by the East China Field Army in the Nianzhuang area east of Xuzhou. In order to rescue Huang Baitao's corps, the Kuomintang strictly ordered Qiu Qingquan's corps and Li Mi's corps to set out from Xuzhou in an attempt to open up contact with Nianzhuang and rescue Huang Baitao's corps.
The East China Field Army ordered Song Shilun to be the commander and command the 7th, 10th, and 11th columns of Huaye to block the advance of Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi. The commander of the 7th Column was Cheng Jun, the commander of the 10th Column was Song Shilun, and the commander of the 11th Column was Song Shilun
Guan Wenwei.
In November 1948, Cheng Jun received a telegram from Du Yuming that he was assembling troops and preparing to assist Huang Baitao, and hurriedly called Xiong Yingtang, commander of the 19th Division, who was on the front line, to ask if there was any movement in front of the enemy.
When he learned that the enemy in front of him had not yet made any moves, Cheng Jun immediately ordered: "From now on, you must especially strengthen battlefield reconnaissance, withdraw the reconnaissance troops in your division, and make the search area a little farther, especially for several railway stations east of Xuzhou." Qiu Qingquan's troops always have to unload their vehicles in these places..."
Cheng Jun immediately looked at the position of the 19th Division on the map, listening to the gunfire around the mill in the distance, Cheng Jun's eyes appeared in front of the entire map of the entire mill village, at this time the 7 columns were in the center, and the 10 columns and 11 columns were on both sides, forming a bow-shaped defensive array.
Xiong Yingtang
Before dawn, Xiong Yingtang reported to Cheng Jun that the enemy's 70th Army had entered the position in front of Deng Lou and Yuan Shan, and was still advancing towards Lin Tong Mountain...
Cheng Jun immediately called the 19th Division and asked if it was the 5th Army that had entered Lin Tong Mountain.
As a result, the other party sent an uncertain and rough answer.
"What a little!" Cheng Jun shouted, "What are you?" How can such a sloppy report be made? ”
After a while, another voice appeared inside the earpiece: "Into... Commander Cheng, I am Xiao Xuelin..."
Upon hearing this stuttering voice, Cheng Jun immediately laughed: "Old watch, how are you..."
Xiao Xuelin immediately reported the intelligence collected to Cheng Jun.
After hearing this, Cheng Jun asked, "Which army is going to Lin Tong Mountain, and I haven't figured it out yet?" On what basis do you say that the 70th Army was in Deng Lou and Yuan Shan? ”
"Catch... Caught... One captive, one dropped... The corporal who was left behind..."
"Oops, caught a missed corporal of the 70th Army?" Cheng Jun immediately became mental, and quickly asked Xiao Xuelin to send the captives!
"Commander Xiong and the chief of staff are interrogating..."
"You tell them to send it to me when you're done asking." Asked what was going on, I asked the old bear to report it to me on the phone. Also, the attitude towards the captured corporal was a little better. ”
Near the evening, Cheng Jun had basically figured out the situation, and the New 5th Army that he had in mind had already entered the village west of Lin Tong Mountain to build fortification positions.
After drawing up the map, everyone waited for Cheng Jun's combat deployment and asked, "Commander, what should you think about Qiu Qingquan's troop deployment?" ”
Qiu Qingquan squeezed his 3 main divisions, the 96th Division of the 70th Army, the 45th Division and the 200th Division of the New 5th Army, together and formed them into a fist. He wanted to make a central breakthrough on the front of the 19th Division, which was more than 20 miles wide, and tear apart the 19th Division's defense line! ”
Looking at the map, the chief of staff sighed for a moment and then sighed: "Commander, this hand is really a bit powerful!" This deployment just gave full play to the strengths of these divisions... If the reserve team does not master it well, most of them will suffer greatly..."
"Commander, how can you be so familiar with the operational characteristics of these divisions?"
"Qiu Qingquan is my old rival!" At the beginning of the War of Liberation, the first enemies I encountered were the New 5th Army and the integrated 74th Division. Qiu Qingquan was then the commander of the New 5th Army. This Qiu Qingquan and Zhang Lingfu, commander of the 74th Division, fought with us for half a month in Huainan, and our 1 brigade and 4 regiments and their 4 brigades had to fight from the yangtze river to the south bank of the Huai River. The battle was very fierce, and the troops of our 5th Brigade suffered heavy casualties! What a killing of red eyes! You say, can I still not be familiar with him? ”
Cheng Jun's words aroused everyone's interest, and he immediately surrounded him and asked him to talk about the past.
After Cheng Jun spoke for a while, the guard brought a large basin of boiled peanuts in brine, which was the "night snack" prepared by the guards for Cheng Jun, but Cheng Jun took it to everyone to share.
"Nice, new peanuts, it's delicious." Cheng Jun grabbed a handful of peanuts and sniffed it, then peeled one and ate it in his mouth, and then asked the guard: "Hey, is this it?" ”
"That's all there is to it!"
Hearing the guard say this, the chief of staff grabbed the guard: "Little slippery head, you take out the commander's wine, let's taste it!" ”
"No way! So many people... What if I run out of drinks? ”
"I'll pay you!" The chief of the operations section had already searched out the wine behind the door and placed it on the table for everyone to share.
"Time flies so fast!" Cheng Jun was the first to sigh.
"In the blink of an eye, 3 years have passed! Now, Zhang Lingfu is dead, and the only two great wrongdoers of that year are this Qiu Qingquan. For several years, he fought against Nakano. During the Battle of Jinan, he came to Xuzhou, and we did not hand over. Unexpectedly, this time, I collided with him again! ”
"This is what the common people say is that the road is narrow!" The chief of staff replied.
"Commander, do you see any difference between Qiu Qingquan's use of troops this time and the one you used in Huainan?"
"The biggest difference is that Qiu Qingquan is now slipped!"
"Slipped up. Well, that's an interesting one! ”
Cheng Jun then pointed to the distribution map of the three divisions on the map and said, "You see, Qiu Qingquan has 3 divisions with strong combat effectiveness in his hands, and he is supported by aircraft, artillery, and tanks, and he has also encountered this kind of open terrain that is most favorable to mechanized troops." He should have unleashed the strength of all 5 corps of the corps and carried out a great encirclement and a big detour against us; but he went so far as to make such a conservative combat deployment. ”
"What does this have to do with slippage?" The chief of the operations section did not understand and asked.
Cheng Jun then told everyone a little-known secret
That is, after the annihilation of the 74th Division last year, Qiu Qingquan became the target chosen by Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng, and every time they fought, they wanted to beat him, and after a long time, he was afraid, and Danzi became smaller. Later, I listened to Mr. Zhu's carrot cutting tactics, and I was even more timid and did not dare to move forward! Therefore, as soon as he goes to the battlefield, he slips, and for such an action as a lone army, he can push and push again! That's going to be the way it is!
The chief of staff and the chief of the operations section understood the reason why Qiu Qingquan was posing for this offensive now, and almost at the same time said: "According to his style of play, go hand in hand, fight steadily and steadily, and nibble little by little at our position of tens of miles deep, then how many days will it take for him to hit the Mill Zhuang Wei?" ”
"10 days. He estimated that we would only be able to withstand his attack for 10 days at most, and after 10 days, we would not be able to fight anymore due to casualties and ammunition consumption..." Cheng Jun replied affirmatively.
"He also doesn't want to think about what will happen to Huang Baitao in 10 days!" The chief of operations asked.
"Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek and Du Yuming repeatedly demanded that Huang Baitao must persist for more than 10 days."
"If we didn't wait for 10 days, Huang Baitao was wiped out, and our position was not taken down, how should Qiu Qingquan explain to Old Jiang?"
"Do you think that Qiu Qingquan will open up his old roots to fight with us for this?" Quite the opposite. The more tenacious our troops are, the greater the casualties they inflict on him, and the more slippery they will fight.
In the past year or so, since the army turned to the outside line, we have fought several blockade battles, and on any occasion, which time did the Kuomintang reinforcements go to save their besieged brother troops?
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This is true. Also, Huang Baitao and Qiu Qingquan have been in conflict for a long time..."
On November 13, Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi, two corps of four well-equipped mechanized troops, under the cover of more than 100 tanks, hundreds of heavy artillery, and several aircraft, launched a full-line attack on the 40-mile position defended by the 7th, 10th, and 11th Columns of Huaye, east of Xuzhou.
In fact, just as Cheng Jun and others expected, the attack of Qiu Qingquan's corps was met with stubborn resistance from Hua Ye, and the progress was very slow, often without any progress for a day; the speed of attack of Qiu Qingquan's regiment's snail climbing disappointed Chiang Kai-shek, who thought that with the help of aircraft and tanks, Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi's two corps would be able to echo with Nianzhuang on the second day, but on the third day, there was still no progress, and Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Qiu Qingquan with a hundred thousand urgent telegrams to rescue Huang Baitao's corps within a time limit. Violators of military law are engaged.
After Qiu Qingquan received this telegram, he was greatly dissatisfied and scolded: "We are desperate in the front, but in the rear is retreating, how can this kind of battle still be fought, why does the old man not command himself, so who dares not to give him his life, even if Xuzhou is dangerous, then he can also be the commander of the aircraft!" ”
Cheng Jun commanded the troops to complete the three solid lines of defense, making this place an insurmountable barrier for the enemy, Cheng Jun has fought many well-known defensive battles in his life, this time the defensive war is also his classic battle, in the long-term battle, he summed up his own set: "Troops with a good style are placed on the flat ground, and the flat land is a high mountain; the troops with bad style are placed in the mountains, and the mountains are only a flat land." ”
He also used this sentence to motivate the troops in the second and third front positions, asking them to turn each position into an insurmountable mountain for the enemy.
The enemy was helpless in front of Cheng Jun, and did not make any progress until November 16, when Mao Zedong sent a telegram:
"The enemy's 44th Army and 100th Army have been annihilated, and the 25th Army and the 64th Army have also annihilated one unit each, and have been scheduled to attack Nianzhuang on the night of the 16th. Now it is time to order the 7th Column, the 10th Column, and the 11th Soviet Column to retreat backwards, giving the enemy the opportunity to advance eastward, and it seems appropriate to postpone the general offensive for a day or two before we can lure the enemy deeper. How? I hope that the opportunity will be cut off. ”
After Hua Ye took the initiative to retreat in Pantang Town, it caused a huge sensation within the Kuomintang and propagated the so-called victory everywhere. Fabricating a myth of "xudong's unprecedented victory" and "pantang victory", Chiang Kai-shek, who thought he was about to win, issued an order to "pursue the whole line".
In desperation, Du Yuming ordered Qiu Qingquan to divide his troops and go straight to Daxujia Station, while Cheng Jun used a second line of defense 5 miles west of Daxujia to meet the pursuit of Qiu Qingquan's army.
Cheng Jun ordered the 20th Division and the 21st Division of the 7th Column to build a series of independent ring defensive positions in the areas of Yuehai, Shaolou, Liu Lujia, Maguzi, and Huoshen temples north and south of the station to resist the enemy's attack.
The 200th Division of the enemy's New 5th Army, the first mechanized division of the Kuomintang army, chased after Xuejiahu South of Daxujia, and pursued Yue Haizhuang and Shao Lou the next day.
When they arrived at Yue Haizhuang, they faced the strong position of the 1st Battalion of the 60th Regiment of the 7th Column. The 1st Battalion constructed an ingenious defensive position here. Far from the village, they dug a trench, bunker, shooting bunker and deer shell. Even if the village is destroyed, it will not hurt the position in the slightest.
The enemy was blinded by Huaye's position, and did not launch an attack that day, but waited until 4 p.m. to start opening the road with cannons and launching a fierce attack. Enemy fire has largely become scorched earth.
After the artillery fire, the enemy charge group began to attack, but was stopped by the 1st battalion to cut off the enemy's attack, it turned out that the positions shown to the enemy by the 1st battalion were fake, when the enemy attacked, the 1st battalion fighters had retreated, and when the enemy artillery stopped, they appeared at a new attack site, and suddenly the enemy was knocked unconscious and blinded.
The attacking enemy was cut off, the enemy who invaded the village was quickly eliminated, and after the battle, 5 companies were found out of more than 300 prisoners.
Cheng Jun, who received the telegram, was extremely happy and issued a commendation order.
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