In August 1947, during the Liberation War, in the face of the pursuit of hundreds of thousands of people by Chiang Kai-shek's army, at a critical juncture, our great leader skillfully used the empty city plan, and the enemy immediately gave up the pursuit after seeing it. Why did the great leader of the mainland fall into a situation of being encircled and suppressed? What kind of clever trick did he use to make tens of thousands of enemy soldiers choose to abandon the pursuit? The content of this issue will take you into history and take a look at the amazing tactics of the great leaders of the mainland in the war!
The Double Tenth Agreement was torn up, and a civil war broke out in full swing
In 1945, when China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression finally ended, Japan and we returned to our old nest in disgrace after signing the post-war agreement, and the faces of the Chinese people were finally filled with joy after victory, but when they looked at the depressed scenery everywhere in the country, they could not avoid a pang of sadness.
But the external enemy is gone, the next internal enemy will certainly not stop, the two parties have different ideas, without a common enemy, their contradictions will naturally not be diluted, on the contrary, it will be more serious, this is something that the great leader of the mainland has long anticipated, looking at the distant scenery, his heart silently makes future arrangements.
Naturally, the people do not want war to continue in the country, and the destruction of the lives of the war is the pain of their lives; our party has always advocated putting the people first and serving the people wholeheartedly, and naturally chooses to follow the wishes of the broad masses of the people and shake hands with Chiang Kai-shek and make peace.
But Chiang Kai-shek has never been a fuel-saving lamp, and looking at the domestic and international situation in front of him, he is not good at directly attacking our party on the surface, but in his heart he slowly calculates a feast at the Hongmen Gate.
In August 1945, three telegrams were sent to Yan'an in succession, and reached the hands of the great leader of the mainland, and the purpose of the statement was very clear, hoping that the great leader of the mainland would meet with Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing and jointly discuss the situation he would face next.
After dealing with Chiang Kai-shek for so long, how could the great leaders of the mainland not know what kind of virtue Chiang Kai-shek was, and if he could think of peace in China, he would not have issued the policy of "foreign countries must first be at home" when the Japanese came in at the beginning.
In response to his provocation, our Party members were silent. If Chiang Kai-shek takes the opportunity to repent and let him die because of this, it will be a great loss for our party, but if he does not go, with Chiang Kai-shek's nature, he may not take the opportunity to provoke a civil war.
After thinking about it for a long time, for the sake of the beautiful vision of peace between the mainland and the people, the great leader of the mainland finally decided to risk his life and personally go to Chongqing to negotiate.
Sure enough, Chiang Kai-shek at the negotiating table was as shameless as ever, and during the forty-three days of negotiations, he made many unreasonable demands, all in order to take advantage of the opportunity, but for the sake of peace, our Party still chose to back down to it, and on October 10, 1945, with the signing of the Double Tenth Agreement, the Two Sides finally reluctantly reached an agreement to stop all civil war.
But this is after all a painkiller that cures the symptoms but not the root causes, the internal problems have not been solved, the root cause of the differences between the two sides has not been found, the war between the two sides will start again sooner or later, and now is just a time to go, but this time will not be too long.
Chiang Kai-shek himself did not want to sign a contract, he was just delaying time, and when he was ready, he naturally would not take that piece of contract seriously.
A year later, the days of calm finally passed, and on June 26, 1946, Chiang Kai-shek, as our Party had expected, chose to tear up the treaty and send troops to attack the Liberated Areas.
Our party soldiers withdrew from Yan'an, and Chiang's army followed close behind
The great leaders who returned from the Chongqing negotiations had already guessed today's scene, and had already anticipated that their strategic base would certainly become Chiang Kai-shek's primary strategy for provoking a civil war, so Yan'an's army must be moved out to other places, and if Chiang Kai-shek really jumped the wall, it would also be able to kill them, and our side could also make preparations and strategic arrangements at the first time.
However, the great decision of "enticing the enemy to go deep and withdrawing from Yan'an at the right time" was not recognized by the people at that time, and in addition to the soldiers, even many leading cadres did not understand the deep meaning behind this regulation, and shouted the slogan of "swearing to die to defend Yan'an" for this purpose.
Evacuation is necessary, Chiang Kai-shek's time bomb may explode at any time, and if the main force of our army is destroyed, then the war in the future will be difficult. In order to establish the ideological work of these people, the party organization gathered all the military and the people together and held a mobilization meeting of ten thousand people, so that they could understand the deep meaning behind the party organization.
At that time, our Marshal Peng made a passionate speech entitled "We will be able to win the battle", where the most simple and convincing language was written, and the straightforward words were transmitted in the hearts of the military and the people, and a wave of faith was slowly gathered, so that everyone present was moved.
In his speech, Marshal Peng mentioned the reasons for our party's temporary withdrawal from Yan'an, saying that our party did not want to abandon Yan'an, but to leave Yan'an temporarily, let alone give up the fruits of victory that we had worked so hard to build.
Speaking of this, the great leader of the mainland also immediately made an explanation: Under the current circumstances, we are extremely unfavorable to Chiang Kai-shek's army, Yan'an is our base area, the fruit of victory that we have painstakingly created, we will never give it up, at this time evacuate Yan'an, let Chiang Kai-shek attack with all his might, this ostensibly seems to be his victory, but from the perspective of subsequent development, he is equivalent to losing everything, after all, the city is dead, people are alive, as long as our main force is in one day, there will be a day confrontation with Chiang Kai-shek's army. Until he was driven out of the Liberated Zone.
For those soldiers who were depressed, the great leader of the mainland did not blame them in any way, but encouraged them, saying: "Stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, and if there are people who lose their land, then everyone will exist, and if they lose people, they will lose everyone and everywhere!" ”
Although these words did not make everyone happy, fortunately, the resistance to the evacuation of Chang'an was not so great, and after making preparations, the Yan'an army was finally about to begin to withdraw, who knows, Chiang Kai-shek tore up the treaty so quickly, just as the great leader of the mainland expected, the first thing he did when he entered the liberated area was to go straight to Yan'an, watching the army approach step by step, and the speed of organizing the withdrawal of the large army could only be accelerated.
On March 11, 1947, chiang's army planes had flown over Yan'an and began to bomb it, and his 250,000 northwestern army was also rushing to this side, at this time, the great leader of the mainland had done a good job of organizational work with Premier Zhou, the Yan'an army and civilians were withdrawing in an orderly manner, and there was no panic at all in the face of the approaching of Chiang's army, and they had already embarked on a journey to northern Shaanxi.
When Hu Zongnan, known as the "King of the Northwest", led his 250,000 soldiers into Yan'an, he was already faced with a scene of people going to the empty building, completely dumbfounded, and there was no one in front of him, not even a chicken. But for Hu Zongnan, this did not seem to be a big deal; he used the excellent weapons in his hands and the convenience of transportation, arrogantly believing that he would be able to catch up with our party, which was the main tool of cattle and horses at that time, and also put down a bold statement to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that he would be able to recover within three days, and even asked for credit and said "The great victory of Shaanxi" to save him all worries.
I don't know whether to say that Hu Zongnan is stupid or that he is arrogant, and it is such an arrogant report that really made Chiang Kai-shek put down his guard and began to focus on other battles, freeing up a lot of time for the mainland to transfer troops, and also laying the bitter fruit for his subsequent defeat in the war.
The wonderful "empty city plan" does not cost a single soldier to stop the pursuit of the army
Hu Zongnan's army was indeed formidable, the army was approaching us step by step, and it seemed that it was about to follow closely; our party had only 20,000 people at that time, and it was impossible to confront it head-on.
At that time, Hu Zongnan was happily gathering troops and preparing for the soldiers to pursue, but he did not expect that a note was sent to his eyes.
"We have cleaned the house, Yan'an will leave it for you to stay for a while, and it won't be long before we will definitely get it back!"
This is really a murderous curse, you talk about you, just go, or have to tell the people who occupy your territory that we have already anticipated everything today, and everything today is left to them by people's initiative, but it is not a desert to flee, this is not to see them so useless, so pitiful, leave some place for them to live a reason.
He really angered Hu Zongnan and immediately ordered everyone to find our party's troops and let him kill them quickly, but these hundreds of thousands of troops searched around Yan'an for three months without finding a single trace. Hu Zongnan, who was in a hurry, immediately summoned Liu Jie and asked him to lead his troops to continue the search.
I have to say that Hu Zongnan can be regarded as finding the right person this time, Liu Jie has been carrying out activities in the shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia area all year round, dealing with our army for many years, and has a good understanding of the marching trajectory of our army.
At that time, in order to fear that the main force was too large and because it was gathered in one place, not only was it easy to be discovered but also the risk of being swept away, the troops were scattered and walked, and there were only four hundred people left around the great leader of the mainland, so it can be said that if these four hundred people were really discovered by Liu Jie's troops, there would be absolutely no room for survival.
Therefore, the soldiers who took root in Xiaohe Village were all nervous, afraid that they would not be able to protect the lives of the great leaders of the mainland. Suddenly, the sentry passed the message back, "Liu Jie's army has caught up!" ”
A word stirred up a thousand waves, the soldiers quickly packed up their things, hurriedly led the great leader of the mainland to hide in a mountain pass in the west of the village, one by one strictly guarded, all the weapons in their hands were clutched at their sides, and the war was about to break out.
Because they were afraid of being discovered by Liu Jie's army, they even put their mouths on the horses accompanying them and walked carefully, because it was nighttime, and it was raining, the weather was foggy, and the visibility of the eyes was extremely low, so we were not discovered by the enemy at the beginning, but the great leader of the mainland knew that this was not a solution, the rain would always stop, if the rain stopped, then their figures would definitely be exposed here.
Thinking of this, he immediately ordered a small team to fire in the opposite direction of their walking, in order to attract the attention of the enemy, after the order, a dense battle sounded, because only the sound could be heard and could not see the facts, the great leader of the mainland did not know what the situation was, he could only wait impatiently, just in case of accident, he also made an agreement with Premier Zhou in advance, if they were discovered, they would each take a small group of people and horses to scatter and run, as long as they could survive, even if only one person was good.
Saying that it was late and fast, just when everyone was ready to die in battle, another wave of gunfire came from the south, and later learned that it was General Wang who received the order of Marshal Peng to come to support, this burst of firepower, let us not expect, Liu Jie did not expect, directly hit a surprise, immediately sent a part of the troops to support, see the victory results are close at hand, and did not want to give up Liu Jie let the army stay and stay in place.
Later, although the position of the great leader of the mainland was discovered, it was finally a thrill, and after Liu Jie's army left, they took root in Xiaohe Village again in line with the concept that the most dangerous place was the safest place, but this was not a long-term solution, and it was only a matter of time before it was discovered. So, on August 1, the great leader of the mainland led his troops out of Xiaohe Village.
However, in the face of the encirclement and blockade of Chiang Kai-shek's army, they who should have quietly marched at night were unusual, choosing to walk in a bright and upright manner during the day and rest at night, and also specially walked to places where Chiang's army frequently entered and exited or where people were densely packed, and they were almost discovered several times.
But even so, the clues left by their march were finally discovered by Chiang's army, and they chased them along the road, and as everyone knew, this move was exactly in line with the intention of the great leader of the mainland, who originally wanted to use himself as bait to induce these people to pursue, so as to leave a longer time for other troops, and now that they found out, they could naturally carry out the next step.
When they came to the Yellow River, they saw that there was only one way out to cross the Yellow River, but the great leader of the mainland did not want to cross, he once said, "If you can't teach Hu Zongnan a lesson, he will definitely not cross the Yellow River!" ”
But what can you do without crossing the Yellow River? The enemy army was in the rear, and if it caught up, it would be too late, but the great leader of the mainland smiled mysteriously at this time, saying that he knew another way.
He led his troops toward the mountains in the northwest, directly instructed the soldiers to go up the mountain, and said not to cover up the traces, many people did not understand the behavior of the great leaders of the mainland, but it had to be said that this method was the most effective, Liu Jie's army really did not chase after the mountain, but felt that those footprints that were not covered up were deliberately made by them to confuse his vision, and they also thought that they had already crossed the river by the Yellow River.
Our troops watched Liu Jie's army coming and going on the mountain, and did not doubt where they were staying, which made everyone present deeply impressed by the wisdom of the great leader of the mainland and sighed that he expected things to be like gods.
This issue ends here, we'll see you next time!