Shortly after the victory of the War of Resistance, Du Yuming was transferred to the commander of the Northeast Security Command, the commander of the Fifth Army at this time was Qiu Qingquan, one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang Army had more than 40,000 people, and the three divisions under his command were all American equipment.
Qiu Qingquan was very arrogant and thought that he was a People's Liberation Army."
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The role of this ace force is not to cause much damage to the People's Liberation Army, but its uniform American equipment and mobility and rapidity, so that it can gallop between the two major battlefields of Huaye and Nakano without scruples.
Qiu Qingquan fought with Nakano many times in the Central Plains, and Liu Bocheng had long wanted to destroy this invincible ace force, and at this time, the battle of Huaihai sounded the death knell of the Fifth Army.
First, Huang Baitao was surrounded, and the mechanized corps was powerless
On October 16, 1948, Qiu Qingquan was officially promoted to commander of the Second Corps, and the commander of the Fifth Army was succeeded by Xiong Xiaosan.
Liu Zhi judged that the People's Liberation Army would attack Xuzhou from east to west, and was very panicked, so he immediately changed the original plan of retreating to both sides of Bengbu, and decided to transfer Qiu Qingquan's Second Corps, Li Mi's Thirteenth Corps, and Sun Yuanliang's Sixteenth Corps to Xuzhou day and night, preparing to hold Xuzhou.
On the 8th, the troops of the Third Appeasement District garrisoning the Jiawang area north of Xuzhou revolted on the battlefield under the leadership of deputy commanders Zhang Kexia and He Jifeng, and the People's Liberation Army quickly passed through the defense of the Third Appeasement Zone and directly penetrated into the Daxu family east of Xuzhou, encircling Huang Baitao's corps that was staying near Nianzhuang.
Du Yuming, deputy commander-in-chief of xuzhou's "suppression general" and commander-in-chief of the advance, urgently ordered Qiu Qingquan to lead the second corps, and Li Mi led the thirteenth corps to break the siege.
Responsible for blocking these two units were the Tenth Column and the Eleventh Column of the East China Field Army, and the People's Liberation Army built a cobweb-like fortification between Xuzhou and Nianzhuangwei, and the Kuomintang army had to pay a heavy price for every step forward.
The Nationalist army consumed thousands of shells and paid the price of thousands of casualties among officers and men, and the Fifth Army advanced only five or six kilometers, and according to this method of play, even if it could hit The Mill Ridge, the Fifth Army would be depleted.
At this time, Huang Baitao could not wait for Du Yuming, and on November 22, the People's Liberation Army captured Nianzhuangwei, Huang Baitao's corps was completely destroyed, Huang Baitao himself was killed, and the Fifth Army was still blocked on the line of Daxujia, and could not move forward.
Chiang Kai-shek's ace mechanized corps, faced with the PLA's steel defense line, remained powerless.
The collapse of Huang Baitao's corps was only the beginning of the nightmare of the Kuomintang army, and then the Central Plains Liberation Army surrounded the Huang Wei corps in the Shuangduiji area west of Su County, and in this critical situation, Du Yuming proposed to abandon Xuzhou and keep Qiu Qingquan's corps, Li Mi's corps, and Sun Yuanliang's corps.
He said to Gu Zhutong"
If you want to give up Xuzhou, you can't love war, and if you want to love war, you can't give up Xuzhou. In other words, if you want to go, you can't fight, and if you want to fight, you can't leave. If I abandon Xuzhou and come out to fight again, it is equivalent to burying the 3 corps in Xuzhou, and now I can only let Huang Wei guard and contain the enemy, I will withdraw Xuzhou's troops, through Yongcheng to Mengcheng, Woyang, Fuyang area, relying on the Huai River, and then attack the enemy to relieve the siege of Huang Wei.
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Gu Zhutong had no choice but to agree, he understood that according to this plan, it was likely to sacrifice Huang Wei's army, but being able to rescue Xuzhou's 300,000 troops was also a good strategy for losing his pawns and protecting the car, and now he could only hope that Huang Wei's ace Eighteenth Army could persist a little longer.
Second, Su Yu urgently pursued Du Yuming, and Qiu Qingquan's dazed move gave Hua Ye time
Chiang Kai-shek agreed to Du Yuming's plan to abandon Xuzhou, and the Nationalist army of 300,000 people evacuated Xuzhou in a hurry, but soon after Du Yuming left Xuzhou, Su Yu received the news, and he was surprised that if the mechanized Du Yuming troops escaped to join Huang Wei's army, it would pose a fatal threat to Liu Deng's Central Plains Field Army.
Su Yu immediately ordered huaye troops to begin to pursue the kuomintang army, and on the Huanghuai Plain, the "iron footboard" of the People's Liberation Army and the car wheels of the Kuomintang army began a life-and-death competition.
At the critical moment, Qiu Qingquan made a dizzy move.
When Qiu Qingquan's corps was fleeing Xuzhou, he received an urgent telegram that the Forty-fifth Division of the Fifth Army was fiercely attacked by the People's Liberation Army while covering the retreat of the large troops at Xiangshan Temple, and he was afraid that the backbone of the Fifth Army would be surrounded and annihilated by the People's Liberation Army, so he immediately ordered the Seventy-second Army to send 1 division to reinforce.
Qiu Qingquan's subordinates dissuaded him one after another, but he was still stubborn, and at this time, Du Yuming received a "hand message" airdroped by Chiang Kai-shek, who asked all the corps to advance to Yongcheng and cooperate with Li Yannian's corps to attack north and south to relieve the siege of Huang Wei's corps.
After Reading the Oracle, Du Yuming only felt that his hands and feet were cold, and Chiang Kai-shek's temporary change of mind would not only destroy the Huang Wei Corps, but also bury the 3 Corps in his hands now.
Du Yuming thought about it, and could only hold a meeting to discuss with the commanders of the various corps, of course, he was reluctant to carry out such an order, but Qiu Qingquan resolutely advocated attacking, he believed that he had the Ace Unit of the Fifth Army, and Sun Yuanliang also advocated obedience to Chiang Kai-shek's orders.
At this point, Du Yuming had no choice but to decide to take cover on three sides, attack on the one hand, and advance with a tactical attack of leaping forward one after another.
That night, Qiu Qingquan sent a division to Xiangshan Temple to reinforce the Forty-fifth Division, and after a night of fierce fighting, he finally rescued it.
Although Qiu Qingquan rescued the Forty-fifth Division, it was delayed for two precious days, and Chiang Kai-shek's temporary change of mind deprived Du Yuming of the only chance to escape, and HuaYe's army used these two days to catch up with Du Yuming, Qiu Qingquan, and all 200,000 troops reached the line of Wang Yinhe, and built a dense bag-shaped defensive position on the front side of the east and west more than 50 miles wide.
Immediately afterward, the first, fourth, and twelfth columns, as well as more than 100,000 troops of the Luzhong South Column, also rushed to the front line of the Honghe River to complete the encirclement of Du Yuming's group, making them turtles in an urn.
Su Yu's hanging heart finally fell, and the end of the Fifth Army came.
Third, Qiu Qingquan was insane, and the Fifth Army was completely destroyed
On December 4, 1948, Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan decided to attack south with two divisions of the Fifth Army as the vanguard in an attempt to kill a bloody road.
However, the attack of the Fifth Army could not shake the PLA's defense line, and at this time, due to Du Yuming, Qiu Qingquan's corps headquarters was exposed to the PLA's artillery fire, so he had to hastily relocate the forward headquarters and the corps headquarters to Chen Guanzhuang.
On December 6, Du Yuming called an emergency meeting of the commanders of the corps in Chen Guanzhuang and decided to break through that night, but Qiu Qingquan objected, saying"
Fighting against the communists, as long as they hold on for a week, there will be a way, the communists will automatically retreat, and their siege will never exceed half a month.
Du Yuming had no choice but to abandon the decision to break through.
Sun Yuanliang insisted on breaking through with the Sixteenth Corps, and as a result, the commander of the Corps, Sun Yuanliang, fled to Hankou alone, and the entire army fell into the soup pot like a snowball and soon dissipated, while the Fifth Army had completely lost its fighting spirit and was in a panic in the encirclement.
Many officers secretly prepared plainclothes to prepare for escape, and in order to improve morale, Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan won the hearts and minds of the people by way of promotion.
In order to save Du Yuming's army, Chiang Kai-shek sent the air force to drop poison gas bombs to delay the PLA's attack, but the poison gas bombs did not explode at all.
On January 9, 1949, the People's Liberation Army began an all-out attack, Du Yuming, Qiu Qingquan's Chen Guanzhuang was the first target of the PLA attack, under the fierce attack of the PLA, Du Yuming and others hurriedly left Chen Guanzhuang and fled to Chen Zhuang, where the Fifth Army headquarters was located.
Seeing that the encirclement circle was getting smaller and smaller, Qiu Qingquan anxiously urged Du Yuming to quickly order a breakthrough, and some generals and staff members echoed each other, but Du Yuming still did not take a stance.
Xiong Xiaosan, commander of the Fifth Army, sneaked out alone in the dark, and Cui Xianwen, commander of the Forty-fifth Division, saw that there were no reinforcements and that the breakthrough was unsuccessful, and directly surrendered to the People's Liberation Army with his troops.
Qiu Qingquan heard that Cui Xianwen had surrendered, and hurriedly organized more than 5,000 remnants of the Seventy-first Army to form a defensive line on the west bank of the Lulou River, but the People's Liberation Army soon crossed the Lulou River and directly inserted itself into Qiu Qingquan's headquarters.
At this time, Qiu Qingquan saw that the troops could not be grasped, so he said to the officers of the various departments, "I have given up command", and asked the units to break through on their own, after which Qiu Qingquan and Du Yuming separated, and fled north with the most trusted special agent battalion, hoping to take advantage of the chaos to break out first.
But by this time he was already insane, shouting "The communists are coming!" while running, only to be shot by the machine guns of the People's Liberation Army and immediately fell to the ground and died.
The fifth army, the main force of the brilliant ace, was completely destroyed.