In September 1948, the Kuomintang Xuzhou "Suppression General" Headquarters was established, and the Fifth Army was expanded into the Second Corps, with Qiu Qingquan as acting commander and Xiong Xiaosan as the commander of the Fifth Army.
(Qiu Qingquan)
The Fiveth Army had three main divisions under its command: the Forty-fifth Division, the Forty-sixth Division, and the 200th Division. Among them, the Forty-sixth Division was a miscellaneous division that had just been reorganized not long ago, the Forty-fifth Division was a relatively old unit, and the 200 Division was a unit created by Du Yuming himself.
On November 6, 1948, the Battle of Huaihai officially began, and the death knell of the Fifth Army will also ring.
The Battle of Huaihai was fought most hard, and the most tragic were Sun Zhuang and Deng Jialou. Attacking Sun Zhuang was the Forty-fifth Division of the Fifth Army, known as the "King of Kings".
(Du Yuming)
Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan climbed Mount Yuan and Mount Lin Tong respectively to personally supervise the battle. The officers and men of the Fifth Army rushed forward like a gray tide, but they were blocked again and again by the magical wall of fire composed of rifles, machine guns, grenades, and mortars. This tug-of-war lasted more than a dozen rounds, with heavy casualties on both sides. The People's Liberation Army, which insisted on sun zhuang, was already an unorganized unit, with staff officers, officers, guards, messengers, cooks, light and seriously injured... All of them were on the battlefield, and the regimental commander Xing Yongsheng and the political commissar Long Feihu both took up their bayonet rifles and became ordinary soldiers.
The brutal and fierce bloody battle lasted from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the Forty-fifth Division of the Fifth Army spent thousands of shells and suffered nearly a thousand casualties before it barely captured Sun Zhuang.
"What kind of troops are these, aren't they flesh and blood?" Du Yuming was shocked, he felt that even the bloody battle of Kunlun Pass that year had not fought so hard and so fiercely.
On January 10, 1949, the East China Field Army launched a final attack on Du Yuming's group, which had been besieged in Chen Guanzhuang for more than 40 days.
(Nationalist Army)
In the early hours of the morning, Qiu Qingquan sent his aide-de-camp and guards to find Xiong Xiaosan, commander of the Fifth Army, and found that Xiong Xiaosan had secretly made up and escaped from the encirclement. Qiu Qingquan scolded after learning of Xiong Xiaosan's whereabouts, but he had no choice, because at that time, the three corps had already made a pot of porridge. After Xiong Xiaosan escaped from the battle, Qiu Qingquan appointed Guo Jiqian, commander of the 45th Division of his starting force, as deputy commander and acting commander of the Fifth Army, and continued to command the stubborn resistance of the Fifth Army. Subsequently, Qiu Qingquan broke through with Du Yuming and others.
Guo Jiqian called Cui Xianwen, commander of the Forty-fifth Division, to ask about the situation, and the Forty-fifth Division resisted the Platon Army all day, xiong Xiaosan did not ask about the situation of the division, and was very happy to hear the deputy commander call to ask about the situation.
Guo Jiqian said: The Seventy-fourth Army, and several other armies have been breaking through for more than a day, but they have not been prominent, and it seems that there is no way to highlight them.
Choi Hyun Man asked: What then? Let's think of a way. Guo Jiqian said: Don't fight, hand over the troops. It means to make Cui Xianwen surrender to the People's Liberation Army. Cui Xianwen was a little hesitant, afraid that Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan would ask for guilt, and felt that it was a little difficult to do so.
Guo Jiqian said: Mr. Du and Mr. Qiu have run away, and they are still afraid of something.
(Surrender)
Therefore, Cui Xianwen summoned the regimental commanders and the artillery battalion commanders to explain the situation and sent people to contact the first column of Huaye in front of him to surrender. The Platon Agreed to their surrender, and early in the morning of the 10th, the Forty-fifth Division surrendered its weapons at the location designated by the PLA.
The remnants of this so-called elite division, including more than 3,000 division commanders and deputy division commanders, were forced to surrender to us. Once upon a time, Cui Xianwen, the commander of the enemy division who was arrogant and arrogant, swept away the former prestige, was hungry, and could not care about many faces, and the first thing after surrendering was to reach out to us for steamed bread to eat.