Welcome to Shi Yuan's history column No. 2747. In the classic TV series "Bright Sword", General Ding Wei said a classic line when chatting with Li Yunlong and Kong Jie, which boosted morale: "I can sweep Liao Yaoxiang an army with one division." Does Ding Wei's words reflect the real situation, or are they bragging between brothers when they chat?
At the end of the Liberation War, Ding Wei became the commander of the column of the Northeast Field Army, that is, the commander of the army. Before that, he had already been the commander of Dongye's main division, and he said that a division could sweep away Liao Yaoxiang and an army, and objectively speaking, this sentence should be understood in different periods. In some periods of the war, Ding Wei's troops may really have this kind of strength, and even on the battlefield, we will understand it in detail.
The northeast region was an absolutely key area of contention between the Kuomintang and the Communists during the War of Liberation. Our army was militarily weak in the early stages of the war, and it was only possible to seize the strategic initiative if the nationalist army seized the northeast before it was seized. In order to achieve military objectives, in the second half of 1945, the Central Military Commission dispatched a large number of outstanding cadres of the main force, and 110,000 horses and horses went to the northeast one after another, and quickly expanded to the scale of hundreds of thousands of people, equivalent to a main strategic cluster, that is, the Fourth Field Army, which later became famous all over the world. On the part of the Kuomintang army, it even sent a large number of AMERICAN ace armed forces and expeditionary forces stationed in India to the northeast by air and sea during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and also tried to seize the opportunity.
In the early days of the Northeast Liberation War, The famous general Liao Yaoxiang in Ding Wei's mouth was not the commander of the Kuomintang corps, but the commander of the ace New Sixth Army. It should be said that before 1947, ding wei's division wanted to defeat Liao Yaoxiang's ace army, which was almost impossible, even a fool's dream, and it was really good to encounter it and not be completely annihilated by the other side. In the Battle of Shaling, there was an example of a main force of the New Sixth Army defeating six regiments of our army, and our army paid more than 2,000 casualties, and the number of casualties of the other side was only one-third of that of our army. This was the real comparison of the strength of the two sides at the beginning of the war, so at this stage, what Ding Wei said could only be a big sentence.
But in the middle and late stages of the War of Liberation, the situation was different. Based on the policies of south and north fighting, the construction of second-line corps, and the land reform in northeast China, the strength of the Northeast People's Liberation Army has been greatly enhanced. In terms of military confrontation with the Kuomintang army, it also changed from a complete inferiority in the early stage to being able to annihilate the enemy in an integrated division and an entire army, and in terms of the scale of the base areas and the comparison of combat strength, it achieved a great reversal: in the middle of 1947, the total strength of the Northeast Democratic United Army (the predecessor of The Four Fields) was already more than half a million, surpassing the Kuomintang army in the same area in one fell swoop.
After Liao Yaoxiang was promoted from the commander of the New Sixth Army to the commander of the Ninth Corps, the subordinate troops once reached a huge scale of five armies and more than 120,000 people, and was the most powerful main corps of the Kuomintang army. At this time, in addition to the New Sixth Army under Liao Yaoxiang, the New First Army and the Seventy-first Army were also the ace main forces of the Northeast Nationalist Army. However, the overall combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang army has been greatly reduced to that of before, the combat confidence of officers and men has also been greatly shaken, and the internal situation has gradually become corrupt. In the Battle of Liaoshen in 1948, the five corps of Liao Yaoxiang's corps were quickly surrounded and completely annihilated by the People's Liberation Army in the western Liaoning battlefield, and 120,000 troops were wiped out, and Liao Yaoxiang himself was taken prisoner. In the process of encircling and annihilating the enemy, Ding Wei's troops and a division to collect the enemy's army are really not a big word, it is likely that there is a prototype in real history, and the location is in the Western Liaoning Plain.
It is worth mentioning that although Ding Wei said that "one division sweeps Liao Yaoxiang and one army," he did not say which army it was, and did not necessarily refer to Liao Yaoxiang's basic unit, the New Sixth Army. The New Sixth Army is known as the "cabbage heart" of the Northeast National Army, and is the essence of the United States. After Liao Yaoxiang became the commander of the Ninth Corps, some of the units under his command were not strong in foundation and combat effectiveness, and they were the temporary and newly formed second-line troops when Chen Cheng was in charge of the army in the northeast, and it was likely to show a rout situation in the face of the tiger and wolf division in Dongye. Although he is only a novel and film and television character, Ding Wei is indeed the strongest in the iron triangle of "Bright Sword" on the whole, and is better than the protagonist Li Yunlong.
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