It is said that Chiang Kai-shek is not easy, and although he has repeatedly lost battles with the Communist forces, he is always dissatisfied, always defeated and repeatedly fought, and in the red army period of the communist troops, he chased after the Red Army, and as a result, the Red Army fought more and more, and the more it fought, the stronger it became; after the victory of the War of Resistance, the Red Army changed its name to call the People's Liberation Army, Chiang Kai-shek still did not accept it, he said in his heart, the Communist troops changed their names or the Communist Forces, that is, they were incompatible with the Communist Party, so they still looked for the People's Liberation Army to fight, although every time they were counterattacked by the Communist Troops, they were not convinced. The reason Chiang Kai-shek stubbornly fought with the Communist troops was because he still had the capital to die at this time: there were many troops and many weapons.
On June 27, 1946, the end of Chiang Kai-shek's stubbornness came again, this time targeting Chen Geng's forces in southern Jin. The opponent he arranged for Chen Geng was Hu Zongnan, and hu Zongnan and Chen Geng were both graduates of the huangpu phase I, and the two men had equal academic qualifications; Chiang Kai-shek knew that Hu Zongnan and Chen Geng were sworn enemies at the Whampoa Military Academy, and they never even stood together in line classes, and Hu Zongnan was also President Chiang Kai-shek's "beloved disciple." Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek had reason to believe that Hu Zongnan would accomplish the combat tasks he had given him well: Hu Zongnan would concentrate his main forces north of Tongguan and enter the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Liberated Area to destroy the old nest of the Communist Party. A force was sent north along the Tongpu Road, facing the Yan Xishan forces in the World War II zone, attacking Chen Geng's main force in the area of Hongdong and Zhao Cheng, and then threatening the right side of Liu and Deng's main forces to prevent them from leaving longhai road in the south.
After explaining the combat task, Hu Zongnan saw that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to talk and stopped, as if there was something difficult to say, and under Hu Zongnan's questioning, Chiang Kai-shek said something, which made Hu Zongnan sigh endlessly.
It turned out that in October 1925, when the National Revolutionary Army was fighting the rebellious warlord Chen Jiongming in the Second Crusade in Guangdong, Chen Geng had saved Chiang Kai-shek in battle, so Chiang Kai-shek told Hu Zongnan not to beat Chen Geng to death in this encirclement and suppression, and if he really could not be captured alive, he would let chen Geng live, which was considered to be chen Geng's life.
Hu Zongnan was very excited to see the principal so nostalgic for the past, and said that when the students were sure to swear allegiance to death!
In July, Hu Zongnan ordered Dong Zhao, commander of the "Tianxia First Army", and The commander of the "Tianxia First Division" to lead 9 brigades (Xiao Chui Mingyue noticed that some sources said that there were 4 brigades, some said to be 10 brigades, and in the TV series "General Chen Geng" said that there were 9 brigades) to cross Maojindu and advance north from Pinglu to complete the combat tasks assigned by Chiang Kai-shek.
Regarding the "First Army under Heaven" of the Kuomintang Army, Xiao Chui Mingyue checked the relevant information and there were two "trademarks". One is India's new 1st Army, which was formed in 1942 during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, with all-American equipment and a 3:2 infantry ratio. As far as its equipment is concerned, it has fully reached the A-level level of Western countries, it has made expeditions to the Battlefield of India and Burma, and it is impossible to find out how the title of "First Army under Heaven" of this army came from, but it seems that it has obtained the acquiescence of the "official", which is considered a "national- level" trademark; the other is the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, during the Second Civil Revolutionary War, Hu Zongnan's First Division (subordinate to the First Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army) performed extraordinary in fighting against Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, which made the Northwest Army afraid. Therefore, the First Division was called the "First Division under Heaven" at that time, and later, the "First Division under Heaven" was expanded into an army, and it was also very brave in the War of Resistance Against Japan, plus Hu Zongnan was also the "first person to be born of Tianzi"; therefore, Hu Zongnan believed that the First Army had the "First Division under Heaven", and the First Army could be called "the First Army under Heaven" by extension.
However, the "First Brigade of the World" does have some beginnings, the brigade commander Huang Zhengcheng hangs the rank of lieutenant general, it is said that such a high-level general as a brigade commander is rare in the Kuomintang army, it should be the only one, Huang Zhengcheng once studied in Germany, lived in Hitler's military school, the brigade is fully equipped with American equipment, and equipped with radios, once Chiang Kai-shek's vigilance unit, known as the "Chiang Family Royal Forest Army", can be described as the concubine of Chiang Kai-shek's army. It is said that during the march, if other units block the way in front, the "First Brigade of the World" directly opened the way with machine guns.
Chen Geng
When Hu Zongnan's "Tianxia First Army" was advancing northward, Hu Zongnan sent a telegram to Yan Xishan, meaning that Chen Geng was making trouble in your place, and Principal Jiang really couldn't stand it anymore, and wanted me to wipe out Chen Geng's troops in southern Jinnan, I had already sent Dong Zhao to lead the First Army north, and you also sent the 34th Army south, and our two armies were so pinched from north to south, Chen Geng was killed before he could kill him, and Chen Geng was better off getting rid of him, and if Chen Geng fled, dong Zhao arrived at your place anyway. Just let him help you take care of the Jinnan region, and you will be safe.
The "King of Shanxi" Yan Xishan was an old fox, otherwise how could he have ruled Shanxi for so many years, and as soon as he saw Hu Zongnan's telegram, he knew that Chiang Kai-shek was killing two birds with one stone, on the one hand, he got rid of Chen Geng and on the other hand, he pinned down his own forces in southern Jin. However, in any case, Chiang Kai-shek is also his own boss, and the military expenditure or whatever must be paid from Boss Jiang's finances, so it is not easy to openly oppose Boss Jiang's will, so he has to go against the yin and yang, ostensibly promised to be good, and thank Boss Jiang for thinking thoughtfully, must let the 34th Army cooperate well, but secretly instruct the 34th Army, you go south, the general direction can not be wrong, you are willing to go as slow as you want to go, you are willing to stop for the New Year, I don't care, let Boss Jiang's troops fight with Chen Geng. We only need to look after this piece of Shanxi, whether it is Chen Geng or Boss Jiang, whose troops come, Shanxi is not welcome!
On July 7, Liu Bocheng, commander of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, and Deng Xiaoping, political commissar, called Chen Geng:
According to the internal situation report, the enemies of Yuncheng and Jiexiu plan to march along the north and south of Tongpu in the near future to seek and annihilate your troops. The troops of the Taiyue Military Region had been ordered to block the southward march of the Yan (Yan Xishan) army north of Linfen. I hope that you will secretly gather the main force of the column in Wenxi and east of Xia County, and seek to annihilate the Hu army in the movement.
That meant that Hu Zong's southward march was just a pretense, so that the troops of the Taiyue Military Region could block his troops and just for the sake of stagnation, and Chen Geng's troops could concentrate their main forces to deal with Hu Zong's southern part.
Sure enough, Yan Xishan's 34th Army was blocked, Yan Xishan was happy and broken, no, it should be reported to Hu Zongnan that it was anxious, and in the early morning of July 11, Hu Zongnan received a telegram from Yan Xishan that "100,000 fires" sent by Yan Zongshan, saying that his 34th Army had been attacked by the main force of the communist army south of Huo County to Xinzhi, hoping that Hu Zongnan's troops would quickly go north to rescue. Hu Zongnan was really happy and bad, thinking that Yan Xishan, a soft persimmon, had already glued Chen Geng to it, so he ordered his troops to accelerate their advance, hoping to attack Yan Xishan's troops from north to south and capture Chen Geng alive.
On July 12, two brigades of the 1st Reorganized Division in the south of Huzong advanced along the railway to Wenxi, and the 31st Brigade of the Reorganized 27th Division advanced to Xia County.
On the night of July 13, Chen Geng's troops, which had long been secretly assembled near Xia County, raided the enemy's 31st Brigade and captured the enemy's telephone. As early as 1928, Chen Geng was appointed chief of the Intelligence Section of the Special Branch of the CPC Central Committee and engaged in intelligence gathering and counter-espionage work; therefore, Chen Geng knew that this radio was a good thing for obtaining the enemy's intelligence, and immediately instructed the Communications Section of the Column Headquarters to keep secrets about the telephones, and to pay close attention to using the captured telephones to listen to enemy contacts, decipher the enemy's contact codes, and obtain intelligence.
Subsequently, the 4th Column, with the cooperation of other columns, launched the Wenxia Campaign and the Tongpu Campaign, annihilating more than 16,000 enemy troops, and on August 14, cutting off the contact between Yan and Hu.
Stealing chicken did not become a counter-erosion of rice, originally came to fight Chen Gengbu, and now it was counter-attacked by Chen Gengbu, Chiang Kai-shek was not happy, Hu Zongnan was damaged by Chen Geng and his heart was even more uncomfortable, and he took the initiative to attack Chen Gengbu with anger.
After repeated defeats and battles, the Kuomintang army has the ability to find a fight!
On September 20, Hu Zong, who was stationed in Linfen and Jicheng, attacked Fushan with the 27th Brigade of the 30th Division and the 167th Brigade of the 1st Division.
The Kuomintang army came to fight, and Chen Geng was also willing to fight, and he changed the law to fight, and Chen Geng decided to take the initiative to abandon Fushan City and encircle the points to help according to the situation on the battlefield.
Sure enough, as Chen Geng expected, Dong Zhao and Luo Lie, who were in Linfen, found that the 27th Brigade and the 167th Brigade were trapped in Fushan City, and immediately sent the 1st Brigade along the Linfu Highway to rescue them, and the 2nd Regiment, the main force of the brigade, entered Guanque Village with murderous spirits and unceremoniousness.
Because Chen Geng had already deciphered the secret language of Hu Zong's southern part of the country and the code names of his troops by using the interception of the captured radios, and synthesized the enemy's telephone calls, Chen Geng accurately judged the enemy's combat deployment and the position of the enemy troops, and Chen Geng and other leaders of the column decided to launch the "Linfen Campaign" and annihilate the enemy's "First Brigade under Heaven."
Chen Geng thought about it this way: The 2nd Regiment of the "First Brigade under Heaven" had once served as Chiang Kai-shek's "Yulin Army", and the destruction of this regiment would definitely hurt Hu Zongnan's heart, and he grabbed the enemy 2nd Regiment and took Dong Zhao's nose and won the initiative in the campaign.
Therefore, on September 22, when the enemy 2nd Regiment entered guanque village on the Linfu Highway, Chen Geng immediately ordered Li Chengfang, commander of the 11th Brigade, to encircle and divide the enemy 2nd Regiment. At the same time, Chen Kang, commander of the 13th Brigade (ZhenBuki Mingyue reminded him to see the name clearly and not to be confused with the two words Chen Geng, about these two people, Xiao Chui Mingyue confessed to Chen Geng in the article "The Captured Enemy Chief of Staff Confesses to Chen Geng: Your Army Uses Soldiers Like Gods, Fat Cows Drag Thin, and Finally Killed") led his troops to deploy defenses around Xizuoling to prevent and block the reinforcement of the 27th Brigade and the 167th Brigade of the Kuomintang Army occupying The city of Fushan County to Guanque Village. Zhou Xihan, commander of the 10th Brigade, was ordered to lead his troops to the west of Guanque to block the enemy who might arrive from Linfen and ensure the safety of the 11th Brigade.
After launching the attack on the enemy's 2nd Regiment, Chen Geng sat by the radio all the time, closely monitored the changes in the enemy's situation, and adjusted the deployment of our army's troops according to the changes in the enemy's situation.
Zhou Xihan
At first, Wang Yawu, the commander of the enemy's 2nd Regiment, also thought that he had encountered a small group of "Tu BaLu", and Chen Geng learned of this situation through the radio and ordered Li Chengfang to seize the fighter and launch an attack overnight. Wang Yawu was strongly attacked by our army, and only then did he think that it was Chen Geng's main force, and hurriedly called for help to the brigade commander Huang Zhengcheng, and the information of the enemy's 2nd regiment's urgent telegram for help was transmitted to Dong Zhao, who was greatly shocked, which was too unexpected for him, he originally thought that the communist army was weak and did not dare to fight strongly, so he pushed the strongest second regiment to the front line, but Chen Geng this time specifically picked a hard fight. If the 2nd regiment is unexpected, the consequences will be unimaginable.
At this moment, dong zhao, who was also worthy of being the commander of the "First Army under heaven", was in a hurry: using 2 regiments as bait, dragging Chen Geng and quickly mobilizing troops to force Chen Geng's main force to fight a decisive battle, which was realizing the intention of his superiors. Thinking of this, Dong Zhao changed his panic to excitement and immediately made arrangements: ordered the 167th Brigade and the 27th Brigade to abandon Fushan to return to Guanque with all their strength, and Huang Zhengcheng of the 1st Brigade led the whole brigade (missing 2 regiments) to the east to aid. The 78th, 67th, 31st, 34th, 47th, and 49th brigades quickly reinforced guanque.
Dong Zhao knew that the 2nd Regiment was Hu Zongnan's "treasure", and quickly reported the encirclement of the 2nd Regiment to Hu Zongnan, who was really angry and ordered Dong Zhao to do everything possible to relieve the siege of the 2nd Regiment.
Chen Geng overheard about the enemy's rescue deployment through the radio, and had already arranged for his troops to occupy favorable terrain to block and assist the enemy.
Huang Zhengcheng's troops were stubbornly blocked by our 10th Brigade at shangchen village and Wangcun, west of Guanque Village, and Huang Zhengcheng did everything in his power, using all the US weapons, and there were planes sent by Dong Zhao to assist in the battle, and he failed to break through our army's positions for 8 consecutive times, so angry that Dong Zhao scolded him for straw bags in the radio.
Chen Geng was happy to hear this on the radio, it was really a big straw bag training small straw bag, a pair of straw bags!
After Huang Zhengcheng was scolded, the commander of the First Brigade of the Tangtang Brigade had a flushed face, but he had nowhere to vent, so he had to launch another attack, laying down a heart, determined to fight to the end, to show Dong Zhao, and also to show his resentment, and also arrogantly said that after lifting the siege of the 2 regiments, he would have to drive back to Linfen City with a military parade, otherwise, he would not be able to see Dong Zhao's face.
The so-called desire is very full, and the reality is very bone. After a day of fighting, the soldiers wanted to eat, Huang Zhengcheng also felt that his waist was weak and it was difficult to support, and in the evening, Huang Zhengcheng ordered the troops to enter Chenyan Village and fight again tomorrow.
In light of this change in the enemy's situation, Chen Geng instructed Zhou Xihan to make preparations for encircling Huang Zhengcheng and strive to resolve the battle before dawn tomorrow, and also instructed Li Chengfang to resolve the battle of Guanque as soon as possible.
Chenyan Village is not far from Linfen, the base camp of the enemy group army, and there are strong walled walls, which can be held firmly by risk. Huang Zhengcheng thought that it was very safe here, and our army did not dare to fight him, so after pulling the troops here that night, the enemy finished eating, fell down and slept, without the slightest guard.
Where did the enemy know that at the same time as they were stationed in Chenyan Village, Huo Gang and Tian Fang of the 29th Regiment of our 10th Brigade led two battalions to take advantage of the darkness and confusion of the enemy's troops to mix into Chenyan Village at the same time as the enemy.
This is called stepping on the iron shoes and finding nowhere, and it takes no effort at all!
Huo Gang and Tian Fang led their troops to a courtyard, and when they saw the enemy lying on the ground in all directions and throwing their guns all over the ground, they immediately handed over more than 200 guns and used the enemy's men to capture Liu Yushu, the leader of the enemy's 1st regiment, alive. After the political work of Wu Xiaomin, the political commissar of the 29th Regiment, Liu Yushu ordered the 1st Regiment of the "First Brigade of the World" to surrender all their weapons and surrender.
Without a single shot, one regiment of the enemy was gone.
Huang Zhengcheng originally wanted to rely on his superior weapons and equipment to occupy the advantageous geographical location of Chen Yan Village and deal with Chen Geng, but now that he knew that the communist army had entered the village, Liu Yushu's 1 regiment had surrendered its weapons, and Huang Zhengcheng knew that street fighting was a good play for the communist army, and his american weapons could not play a role, in this case, he understood that the original oath of "using the military parade to drive back to Linfen City" would definitely not be fulfilled, and whether he could return to Linfen City was also unknown, so he had to ask Dong Zhao for help.
Hu Zongnan
Guanque and Chenyan called for help at the same time, and the other brigades were blocked, so Dong Zhao had to tear down the east wall to supplement the western wall, and ordered the 27th Brigade and 167th Brigade, which were closer to Chenyan Village, to relieve the siege of the 2nd Regiment and then go to the rescue of Huang Zhengcheng's troops.
At this time, Li Chengfang's 11th Brigade helped the enemy's 27th Brigade and 167th Brigade: Our 11th Brigade had completely annihilated the enemy, and Wang Yawu, the commander of the enemy's 2nd Regiment, was killed in the west of the village.
The enemy's 27th Brigade and 167th Brigade did not need to go to Guanque and directly returned to Chen Yan's aid.
Chen Geng learned of this situation through the telephone, and on the one hand ordered Chen Kang's troops to attack the enemy's 27th Brigade and 167th Brigade from behind, and on the other hand informed Zhou Xihan that the enemy reinforcements were approaching Chenyan and demanded that our 10th Brigade must resolve the battle of Chenyan before dawn, otherwise it would fall into passivity.
Chen Geng also heard Luo Lie ask Huang Zhengcheng on the radio, "Why don't those Mr. Jiang use them?" When Huang Zhengcheng replied, "Several Mr. Jiang are in a courtyard and cannot be used," Chen Geng judged that the "Mr. Jiang" mentioned by the enemy was several "mountain cannons"!
At 4:00 a.m. on the 24th, our 10th Brigade launched a general offensive against the enemy at Chen Yan. The 29th Regiment of our 10th Brigade adopted tactics such as mountain artillery approaching and bombarding, and using the darkness of night to directly pound the enemy's cave, destroyed the brigade headquarters of the "First Brigade under Heaven" in one fell swoop, annihilated its direct subordinate units, and captured the enemy's lieutenant general Huang Zhengcheng alive.
On the morning of the 24th, the Battle of Linfu was completed. This campaign completely annihilated the enemy's "First Brigade under Heaven," killed and wounded more than 5,000 Kuomintang troops, and captured a large number of US weapons and military materials.
When Chairman Mao learned that Chen Geng had annihilated the "First Brigade under Heaven," he picked up a pen and criticized the telegram:
Chen Geng is a great general and can stand alone in the future.
Subsequently, the whole army was informed:
In the southern Jin dynasty, our army only had three main brigades and one local brigade, and the enemy's strength was four or five times that of ours, and our army was still able to annihilate the enemy in brigades. This fact has once again proved that as long as the superior forces are concentrated to resolutely annihilate the enemy all the way and are both flexible and brave in command, the enemy's offensive can be broken.
When the news of the total annihilation of the "First Brigade under Heaven" came, Dong Zhao couldn't believe his ears, and he sat on the couch and was paralyzed.
When the news reached Xi'an, Hu Zongnan was like a mourning concubine, and his face did not exist. He couldn't figure out why he was always defeated at the hands of Chen Geng? When will we get out of the vicious circle of "repeated defeats and repeated defeats"?
In July 1945, Chairman Mao had a wonderful "cave pair" with Huang Yanpei, who visited Yan'an, and in response to Huang Yanpei's proposal on how to get out of the "historical cycle rate", Chairman Mao said: "We have found a new way, we can jump out of this cycle rate." This new path is democracy. ”
How to get out of the "historical cycle rate" and Chairman Mao have found a "new road," but how can we get out of the vicious circle of "repeated defeats and repeated defeats"? Hu Zongnan had no way, and his principal, Chiang Kai-shek, had no solution. In the end, both men fled to the island of Taiwan with regrets.
Is this the gap between being human? How can the gap between people be so big?!
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