In January 1947, the two major field armies in East China and Shandong opened their doors, and the first battle took only 42 hours to annihilate Chiang Kai-shek's entire 26th Division and the First Rapid Column.
Then, according to the original plan, the two major field armies took advantage of the victory to pursue, seek to annihilate the enemy and reorganize the 33rd Army, and prepare cameras to retake Taierzhuang and Yixian.
Chen Yi decided to take advantage of the victory of Tao Yong's 1st Division, Lunan's 8th Division, Garrison Brigade, Luzhong 4th and 9th Divisions to take advantage of the victory to annihilate the enemy in Zaozhuang and Yixian County. Ye Fei 1 marched westward, tasked with stopping enemy reinforcements and liberating Qi Village.
On the evening of the 8th, the 1st Column entered the reinforcement position on time. On the evening of the 9th, the others surrounded the enemies of Yixian and Zaozhuang respectively. At dawn on the 11th, the right wing conquered YiXian County, completely annihilated the enemy, and captured Ma Liwu alive. The 1st Column immediately advanced and surrounded the enemy in Qi Village.
On the evening of the 13th, the 1st Brigade of the 1st Column entered the outskirts of The village of Zhanqi. On the evening of the 14th, an attack was launched, and on the 15th victory took Qi Village down, completely annihilating the enemy and capturing 2,500 enemy people. Unexpectedly, Tao Yong's 1st Division did not attack Zaozhuang. The enemy of Zaozhuang used the fortifications constructed by the Japanese puppet army to hold firm. Tao Yong fought for 5 days, and the casualties were not small, but he could not take it down.
After 5 days of failure to lay siege, Tao Yong proposed to stop attacking Zaozhuang and withdraw his troops.
This shocked Su Yu.
Because, Tao Yong is a brave and good warrior, and will never easily concede defeat. Now he is proposing to withdraw from the offensive, which shows the seriousness of the matter. However, Su Yu was also caught in a contradiction and did not know the trade-off. So, he called Ye Fei.
Ye Fei still took the lead in battle, saying, "Fight, take down Zaozhuang!" ”
"Okay?" Su Yu said, "Tao Yong wants to propose the withdrawal of troops. ”
"When we attacked Qi Village with 1 column, we only used 1 brigade, and there were still two main brigades that did not move, so we could transfer the 2nd brigade to The command of Tao Yong and cooperate with the attack on Zaozhuang."
Su Yu Dayue: "Good! Then you and Tao Yong and He Yixiang will come to me quickly to discuss it. ”
At this time, the situation is very serious. The enemy's reorganized 11th Division and the reorganized 64th Division have all entered the taierzhuang and Hanzhuang fronts, and the reorganized 74th division is also marching towards Xin'an Town.
Enemy reinforcements are approaching Zaozhuang!
Ye Fei ran to Tao Yong first and said, "Keep fighting!" Can't take this breath. In fact, there is no secret to attacking the stronghold, the key is to explode. ”
Tao Yong asked him, "What is the situation on the other side of your Qi Village?" What about casualties?"
Ye Fei said: "It has been taken, and the casualties are not large, a total of more than 100 people." ”
Tao Yong exclaimed, "How did you fight?"
Ye Fei said, "The key is blasting. ”
Then, Ye Fei and Tao Yong rushed to Su Yu together. Several people deliberated and decided: send two regiments of the 1st Column and 1 regiment of the 8th Division to assist the 1st Division in attacking Zaozhuang.
That night, heavy snow fell on the shoulders of the soldiers who had been marching all night, but the three regiments of white-clad immortals who fell from the sky arrived at the designated position on time.
Tao Yong's troops simultaneously attacked the enemy of Dajing from the north, northwest, west, and southwest, and then besieged the enemy of Dong Dajing with the strength of 1 brigade, the 23rd Regiment of the 8th Division of Lunan attacked from Zhengnan Lao Station and Juren Hospital to the east, and the 2nd Regiment and the 4th Regiment of the 1st Column also attacked from southeast to northwest in the direction of Yangjie and Laozaozhuang.
At dusk on the 17th, the 4th Regiment of the 1st Column blew up the bunker in the southeast corner, opened the gap, occupied the Catholic Church, and opened the stalemate in one fell swoop. Subsequently, Tao Yong's unit also captured Beidajing.
On the evening of the 19th, the general attack on Zaozhuang Daweizi. The 4th Regiment of the 1st Column captured Laozaozhuang, and the 2nd Regiment used the tactic of continuous blasting to blow up the Deer Village and Weizi, first breaking into the Great Weizi and advancing deep into Xiaoxin Street, while the other attacked from the west of the South Dajing and also developed in depth.
The 23rd Regiment of the 8th Division of Lunan failed to explode and was put into battle by the 1st Column breakthrough.
On the 20th, the People's Liberation Army captured ZTE Company, completely annihilated the enemy, and captured the enemy division commander Zhou Yuying. Zaozhuang also won a great victory in the battle.
As soon as the defending enemy was completely annihilated, and the enemy reinforcements were already in sight, Su Yu gave an order, and the two major field armies immediately withdrew to Linyi.