In the previous issue, Liu Deng's army broke through the enemy's Yellow River defense line in one fell swoop and forcibly crossed the Yellow River into the southwest region of Lu. At this time, there was only the Northwest Army in southwest Lu
Liu Ruming
The two broken reorganization divisions of the ministry as well
The 70th Division of the Central Army was integrated
In the face of Liu Deng's army of more than 100,000 people, they were naturally trembling and shrinking in various strongholds.
The situation after Liu Deng's army crossed the Yellow River
After Liu Deng's army successfully crossed the river, the general deployment of the Nationalist army was as follows: Cao Fulin led the main force of the reorganized 55th Division in Yuncheng, and Liu Ruming led the reorganized 68th Division and the 181st Brigade of the 55th Division
Heze
Chen Yiding led the reorganized 70th Division to garrison
Golden Township
, 139 Brigade stationed
Single county
140 Brigades stationed
Jiaxiang
neighborhood.
From the map, garrison
Yuncheng
Cao Fulin
Reorganized 55th Division
The position is particularly prominent, and if our army wants to encircle and annihilate the enemy army in the southwest of Lu, there is no doubt that the reorganized 55th Division is the best to fight.
Liu Deng
Analysis of the strength of the reorganized 55th Division is the weakest, so it is ready to eat in one bite, although there are also 4 brigades in the hands of Heze Liu Ruming, but this department is the old department of the 29th Army of the Northwest Army, with poor equipment, although the defensive ability is OK, the troops
Weak field ability,
He did not dare to rescue the reorganized 55th Division of Yuncheng.
At the same time,
Gu Zhutong
After knowing that Liu Deng's army had actually crossed the Yellow River in one night, he was also greatly shocked, and in his panic, he urgently ordered the reorganized 32nd and 66th Divisions in northern Henan and the 58th and 64th divisions in the Yuwan-Suzhou region to go to southwest Lu. Gu Zhutong knew that Liu Deng's army must not be allowed to break through the Longhai Line, otherwise the People's Liberation Army could directly threaten the Nationalist government
The capital is Nanjing
finish.
Although the Kuomintang army took advantage of the railway and mechanization, its vanguard support forces had reached the area of Shan County, Cao County, and Dingtao in southwest Lu. However, Liu and Deng concluded from their long-term combat experience that every time the large units of the Kuomintang army moved,
It's often chaotic,
It took several days to assemble the troops. Therefore, when the enemy army was assembled and chaotic, he simply ate the vanguard troops reinforced by the enemy in Dingtao and Cao County.
thereupon
Liu, Deng
Make the following deployment: Command
Yang Yong
The main force of the 1st Column attacked Yuncheng with all its might
Cao Fulin
Integrated 55th Division;
Chen Zai said
2 columns attacked Cao County;
Wang Near the Mountain
6 columns attacked Dingtao;
Chen Xilian
The 3rd Column was on standby in the southeast of Cao County as the general reserve of the battlefield. The Jinji-Hebei Luyu Independent 1st and 2nd Brigades were responsible for containing the reorganized 70th Division in the Area of Juye east of Jiaxiang.
Liu Deng's army was deployed in combat
The first battle was Yuncheng and Dingtao, and the weak enemy troops on the periphery were annihilated
On the night of July 3, the outskirts of Yuncheng were pitch black,
The 1st Column attacking force had quietly advanced towards the outskirts of Yuncheng. In the city, there were still lights everywhere, and the reorganized 55th Division stationed in the city was still building bunker fortifications day and night, and they knew very well in their hearts that the first target of Liu Deng's army was definitely the 55th Division.
With Yang Yong's order, the 1st Column 20th Brigade first launched an attack, fiercely fighting until midnight on the same day to first capture Nanguan, one of the four passes on the outskirts of Yuncheng, and then on the night of July 4, the last of the four passes. By 6 July, the 1st Column had cleared all enemy forces out the periphery. Cao Fulin, commander of the reorganized 55th Division, led his troops to decide to continue to resist, and there were 55 divisions and two brigades in the city, each with two infantry regiments, counting more than 10,000 people, plus the security regiment and the fleeing local return regiment, with a total strength of about 15,000 people.
On 7 July, Yang Yong issued a general offensive order, and the various units of the 1st Column launched an offensive against the defenders in the city. The 1st Brigade, which was the main attacker, cleverly used the method of building trenches to approach the huge bunkers under the city walls, then buried explosives to blow up the bunkers, used the bricks of the bunkers to fill the moats and pad the outer side of the city foundation, build a gentle slope, and then send commandos to rush into the city.
On the morning of 8 July, under the fierce attack of the 1st Column, our army successfully surrounded and annihilated the enemy's integrated 55th Division, completely annihilated the headquarters of the enemy's 55th Division and two whole brigades, totaling more than 15,000 people.
On the afternoon of July 4, while the 1st Column was still attacking the reorganized 55th Division, Wang Jinshan's 6th Column also marched south to reach the outskirts of Dingtao, and at dawn on July 5, the 16th And 18th Brigade of the 1st Column suddenly surrounded Dingtao City, completing the encirclement of the enemy 153rd Brigade inside Dingtao City. Li Desheng led the 17th Brigade to the north of the city, ready to block at any time
of enemy forces.
Siege of Dingtao
On 8 July the enemy 153rd Brigade sent two brigades to make a tentative counterattack both were repulsed, also at Heze
Surely I didn't dare to come to the rescue,
After all, he was a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it was difficult to protect himself
So only one battalion was sent for symbolic support, and after encountering Li Desheng's 17th Brigade, he turned around and ran.
At 19:00 on July 10, 10 July, the 153rd Brigade of Dingtao launched a general offensive. The 16th and 18th Brigades attacked from the east and north respectively. The 17th Brigade served as a reserve on the periphery, while waiting for an opportunity to encircle and annihilate the enemy troops who broke out of the city. The operation to attack Dingtao was quite smooth, annihilating more than 4,000 people of the 153rd Brigade.
In the second world war, six battalions were gathered, and our army boldly interspersed with divisions, and Wang Jingjiu was at a loss
After annihilating the enemy on the outskirts of Heze, Liu Ruming shrank all his troops in Heze City to avoid battle
The main forces of the four reorganized divisions dispatched, under the leadership of commander-in-chief Wang Jingjiu, had also arrived in southwest Lu. The specific deployment of Wang Jingjiu's group army is as follows: the reorganized 70th Division is stationed in the Liuyingji area, the reorganized 32nd Division is in Dushanji, the main force of the reorganized 66th Division is in Yangshanji, and Wang Jingjiu leads the 58th Division to the 199th Brigade of the 66th Division in Jinxiang. The Kuomintang army formed a long snake formation between Juye and Jinxiang.
Although Wang Jingjiu's army had 4 reorganized divisions, the number was comparable to that of Liu Deng's army. However, the internal problems are indeed complicated, first of all, whether Wang Jingjiu can unify command is a problem, at that time many people under his command looked down on him, and secondly, the reorganized 32nd and 66th divisions were transferred from northern Henan, and they had never cooperated with the reorganized 66th and 58th divisions before, and the radio codebooks of each unit were difficult to unify, so they could only rely on Wang Jingjiu to command the divisions by telephone.
Interspersed with the division of the enemy's integrated 70th, 66th, and 32nd divisions
On the evening of July 12, Liu Deng ordered all the troops to divide the enemy first, and then encircle and annihilate. After the 32nd Division of the Dushan Set realized that it had been divided, it decided to move closer to the Reorganized 70 Division at the Dushan Set. On the way, he was blocked by Yang Yong's 1st column, and suffered heavy losses, but eventually led his troops to join the 70th Division.
Although it was a successful joint army, the six battalions were only a small village after all, and supply was a big problem, and it was definitely a matter of waiting to die. Therefore, Chen Yiding and Tang Yongliang, commanders of the reorganized 70th and 32nd divisions, decided to break through in the direction of Jining. On the evening of the 14th, the enemy army began to break through, but under the heavy siege of Liu Deng's army, most of them were annihilated, of which the commander of the 70th Division, Chen Yiding, was captured, but tang Yongliang, the commander of the 32nd Division, was able to escape. In this battle, our army annihilated about 20,000 enemy troops in six battalions.
Annihilate the 70th and 32nd Divisions
Three battles of Yangshan Set, bitter battle for more than ten days, annihilated the 66th Division
At the same time that the reorganized 70th and 32nd Divisions were besieged, Chen Zaidao's 2nd Column and Chen Xilian's 3rd Column were also gathered at Yangshan
Song Ruike
The main force of the reorganized 66th Division (owed to the 199th Brigade), the division was
Chiang Kai-shek's concubine troops
, belongs to Chen Cheng
"Department of Civil Engineering"
One of the core forces. Division commander Song Ruike was also a fierce general in the Kuomintang army, and in 1944, Song Ruike, who was only 36 years old, was killed
The War of Resistance was meritorious
He became the lieutenant general of the Sixty-sixth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, belonged to the leader of the Young And Strong Faction of the National Revolutionary Army, and was deeply appreciated by Chen Cheng, which can be described as an immeasurable future.
Song Ruike (second from right)
On July 14, Chiang Kai-shek had ordered the reorganized 66th Division to break through, but
The high-ranking command officers believed that there were a large number of wounded soldiers who could not be taken away, so they wanted to stay in Yangshanji and get approval after asking their superiors for instructions. Therefore, relying on the Yangshan Set and the Yangshan Mountain on the north side, the fortifications were repaired and stubbornly resisted, waiting for reinforcements.
July 15,
The Second Column took the lead in attacking, but the fierce battle did not make much progress until the 17th. Compared with the previously annihilated reorganized 32nd and 70th divisions, this Song Ruike 66th Division was indeed several grades stronger, and several consecutive attacks of the 2nd Column were repelled, and the casualties were heavy. So it was decided to suspend the attack, and the battlefield fell into a stalemate.
General Chen Zaidao
On July 19, Wang Jingjiu was afraid of being attacked by Liu Deng's army
Surround the point to help
For fear of being captured by our army, he did not dare to attack and rescue. Chiang Kai-shek was anxious
Fly to Kaifeng in person
Commanding the Battle of Southwest Lu, he ordered Wang Jingjiu to lead the reorganized 58th Division and the 199th Brigade to rescue the 66th Division. At the same time, it was drawn from the northern Henan region
3rd and 10th Divisions, 1st Cavalry Brigade, 206th Divisions of the Youth Army
Drawn from the Shandong battlefield
Reorganized the 48th and 7th Divisions
and
Qiu Qingquan's 5th Army
Immediately go south to support the southwestern battlefield of Lu.
The situation in Southwest Lu
At the same time, the central authorities also immediately made adjustments, urgently ordering the Huaye Line Corps to cooperate with Liu Deng's army, which was
Huaye Chen Tang Corps
Kaijin Southwest Lu (under the jurisdiction of Huaye 3rd, 8th, 10th Vertical), Western Henan
Chen Xie Corps
It also cooperates with the advance to the Central Plains. Originally, it was only a small annihilation war that suddenly mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides, and the key to the battlefield was in the battlefield
Song Ruike reorganized the 66th Division
How long can it last.
The general offensive was originally planned to be launched on the 25th, but after several days of torrential rains, the total offensive time was postponed to the 27th. On the day of the general attack, the sky cleared. Our army concentrated all the mountain artillery and field artillery and finally broke through the defense line of the 66th Division. However, Song Ruike still led the direct subordinates of the division headquarters and three guard companies to make a final attempt in a courtyard in the northeast corner of Yangshanji. Under the suppression of our army's decision on the superior strength,
Finally choose to surrender
。
On the 28th, the Battle of Yangshan Ji ended, capturing more than 9,000 enemy troops and killing and wounding more than 5,000 enemy troops, so that the Battle of Southwest Lu was completed.
This is a link to the article where Liu Deng's army broke through the enemy's Yellow River defense line and entered southwest Lu:
Liu Deng's army forcibly crossed the Yellow River