In the Battle of Lunan in 1947, Su Yu commanded the East China Field Army to annihilate the Ma Liwu Department of the 26th Division of the Nationalist Army, as well as the first rapid column of the Nationalist Army, and captured 24 Kuomintang tanks, including 18 American tanks and 6 Japanese tanks, and only 6 could be used in the final repair.
Tanks captured in the Battle of Lunan
On March 3, 1947, the East China Tank Team was officially established, and at the meeting, Chen Ruiting, commander of the Huaye Special Column, appointed Wang Chongguo as the leader of the tank team and Zhao yi as the instructor.
When the time came to September 1948, Zhao Yi and the East China Tank Team accepted the order to participate in the Jinan Campaign and led the tank brigade to the Jinan Battlefield.
September 22, 1948, the sixth day of the Battle of Jinan. At this time, he was trapped in the city of Jinan
Wang Yaowu
How did I not expect that my carefully constructed Jinan city defense system,
It was so vulnerable.
The outer positions of Jinan have all been lost, and the last troop stationed in the commercial port area the day before -
7 companies of the 74th Division
All of them were annihilated by Hua Ye, and Wang Yaowu gathered all the remaining troops in the city of Jinan in a vain attempt to make a final stubborn resistance.
Wang Yaowu's only way at this time was to keep moving
Chiang Kai-shek
Distress. Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Nanjing, also always paid close attention to the war situation in Jinan, while supervising
Xuzhou Crackdown
Liu Zhi hurried to reinforce Jinan, while comforting Wang Yaowu and insisting on waiting for help.
Reinforcement of Jinan
Qiu Qingquan Corps, Li Mi Corps
I have already set off from Xuzhou, but the forward speed is unusually slow, I only walk dozens of miles a day, basically kicking a foot to take a step forward, and I am afraid that when I get to Jinan, I am afraid that I will have to
When three Thursdays come together
Went.
Because these two corps actually did not want to rescue Jinan, afraid of being rescued by HuaYe again.
Battle of Eastern Henan
The shadow is estimated that Qiu Qingquan is still lingering.
At 9:00 a.m. on September 22, at the repeated urging of Chiang Kai-shek, The Commander-in-Chief of Xuzhou was suppressed
Liu Zhi
With the Deputy Commander of the Kuomintang Air Force
Wang Shuming
He flew to the skies over Jinan and used a wireless phone to cheer Wang Yaowu up.
Liu Zhi first appeased Wang Yaowu:
"Reinforcements are progressing rapidly, it will take less than a few days to reach Jinan, you must hold your position, what materials you need, you can airdrop at any time."
Then Wang Shuming said:
"If the Air Force is needed to cooperate, he will definitely assist him."
When Wang Yaowu heard this, he immediately said: "The outside of Jinan has been completely occupied by the communist army, surrounded by communist troops, and I hope that the air force can concentrate its efforts on bombing the village houses outside the city to slow down the communist offensive." ”
Xu Shiyou dispatched a large killing weapon
Wang Yaowu believed that Huaye had been attacking for 6 days and did not believe that Huaye could continue to attack the city. Unexpectedly, Xu Shiyou continued to let his troops attack the outer city of Jinan for an hour after capturing the commercial port.
Jinan has two inner and outer walls, the outer city wall is 8 meters high and 10 meters thick. At this time, Wang Yaowu's deployment in the outer city was mainly the special service brigade that had just withdrawn into the city, the first and second brigades of the 6th Bao'an Brigade and the 213th Brigade, as well as the 77th Brigade of the reorganized 73rd Division.
The inner city was the 15th, 19th, and 57th brigades with strong combat effectiveness, and it could be seen from the deployment that Wang Yaowu did not want to stick to the outer city. Because the people deployed in the outer cities are not the main forces, their task is to delay time.
Regardless of this, Xu Shiyou gave the order to the commanders of the columns below to attack the outer city of Jinan as soon as possible, and for this reason he also sent a large killing weapon——
Tank unit of the Huaye Special Forces Column.
The specific siege deployment is as follows: the 10th column of the Song Shilun of the Western Group attacked from Yongzhenmen and Pulimen west of the outer city of Jinan; the 13th column of Zhou Zhijian attacked from Yongsuimen in the southwest direction.
Yuan Yelie's Bohai column of the Eastern Clique attacked from Yongjingmen in the northeast, and Nie Fengzhi's 9th Column attacked from Yonggumen in the east.
The Huaye 3rd Column and the LuzhongNan Column were reserves. And the big killer sent by Xu Shiyou is
One of Zhao
Lead the team
Huaye Tank Team
, the genus has
American-made M3A3 tank
4 vehicles, the 9th column of Huaye, participated in the battle to attack Yonggumen.
In this operation, one of Zhao's tank units was assigned to the 9th Column 25th Division, and the task was to open a siege passage for the infantry of the division, and after the infantry broke into the city, they would cover the infantry for street battles.
Step and tan coordinate to defeat the enemy army
At 4 p.m. on September 22, as the cannons of the positions outside the city sounded, the battle to attack the outer city of Jinan began, and the fire covered it. The tank team hiding in the rear also set off, and quickly advanced towards the Yonggu Gate.
Not long after One of Zhao's convoy drove out, a Kuomintang plane suddenly appeared in the sky, firing a strafing at our tanks, and the bombs also roared down. Fortunately, the enemy pilot's technology was not bad, and 4 tanks escaped the disaster.
Although there was a little accident when he went out, but the problem was not big, Zhao Yi commanded the convoy to move forward quickly, but the more he walked, the more wrong it was, and he couldn't hear the guns at all. Zhao Yi got out of the car and looked, it was bad, he had gone the wrong way.
At this moment, the convoy received a radio call from Liu Jinghai, commander of the 25th Division, who asked Zhao what was going on, and the troops were about to launch a strong attack, and the shadow of the tank could not be seen.
Zhao Yi immediately turned the front of the car, and finally arrived near the Yonggu Gate at 7 p.m., and the roaring motor sound of the tank was like a king entering the field, which immediately became the focus of attention of the entire battlefield.
The soldiers saw our own tanks coming, clapped their hands in the trenches, and shouted:
"Our tanks are coming, our tanks are coming."
Zhao yi then commanded the tanks to drive to the enemy position outside the city gate to assist the 25th Division in removing the fire point outside the city.
Wang Yaowu was deployed outside the Yonggu Gate by the 6th Security Brigade, and when he saw our tanks coming, he also made a fuss.
Since the tanks of our army were all captured on the battlefield, the livery was still the same as that of the nationalist army. So the officers and men of the 6th Security Brigade mistakenly thought that their tanks were coming and shouted:
"Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong, the communist position is over there."
While shouting and giving the tanks a direction, our tanks had already aimed their cannons at the enemy's bunkers, and a shell flew over, and the enemy's machine guns were finally dudded, and then the infantry of the 25th Division immediately followed up, followed behind the tanks, and little by little removed the fire point outside the Yonggu Gate.
Under the cover of tanks, the 25th Division launched a charge against the opening in the city wall, and finally successfully broke into the city at about 8 p.m., but after the tanks entered the city, due to the narrow streets in the city and too many craters, it was difficult to advance, and had to withdraw from the battlefield.
At the same time, the 10th Column, the 13th Column, and the Bohai Column had also broken into the city and engaged in fierce street battles with the Kuomintang army outside Jinan.
Finally, at noon on the 23rd, all the enemy troops in the outer city were eliminated.
After the war, according to Xu Zhenzhong, commander of the captured 6th Security Brigade, "We were unprepared for your tanks that day, the position was in chaos, the army was shaken, and we did not listen to the command at all." ”
epilogue
In this operation, Hua Ye used tanks to fight in coordination with infantry and artillery, and won the first battle. In this battle to attack YongguMen, the tank unit destroyed 8 forts outside the city and more than 20 firepower points. This offensive operation played a key role.