In 1949, the Battle of Shanghai was in full swing, and Ye Fei, commander of the 10th Corps who participated in the Shanghai Campaign, received an order to lead his troops to liberate Fujian ahead of schedule.
Fujian was originally planned to be liberated in 1950, but the reason for this was that the higher authorities considered that the PLA occupied Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, and needed to consolidate for a period of time, and then march on Fujian, Liangguang, and the great southwest. Because the situation developed faster than expected, Shanghai and Zhejiang were progressing smoothly, so the superiors decided to liberate all of China ahead of schedule.
At the end of May 1949, after the liberation of Shanghai, the 10th Corps took a short rest and directly prepared for entering Fujian. The superiors considered that the soldiers who fled to Fujian were all defeated and decided to only transfer the 28th Army and the 29th Army to Fujian to fight, Ye Fei knew the situation in Fujian very well, believed that the 2 armies were difficult to fight, asked 3 armies to enter Fujian to fight, and finally decided that the 10th Corps and 3 corps would work together in Fujian.
Under the command of Ye Fei, the Battle of Fuzhou and the Battle of Xiamen were carried out, and most of Fujian was liberated.
After the liberation of Xiamen, due to the large number of people in southern Fujian and the small number of land, the problem of the supply of troops was not easy to solve, and Ye Fei demanded that the problem of eating be solved, and that the Logistics Department ensure the food supply of the troops and urban residents, and mobilize grain from other troops to support Xiamen. There was a lot of local and military work, and Ye Fei grasped the overall work, and at this time the troops were ready to launch the Kinmen Campaign.
For the operation of the Battle of Kinmen, it was carried out by the Twenty-eighth Army, and the battle plan was also formulated by the 28th Army. At that time, neither the military commander nor the political commissar was in the army, only the deputy commander and the director of the political department, and they formulated a good combat plan and reported it to Ye Fei.
Judging from the deployment of the enemy's troops, although the enemy has a corps in Kinmen, it only has a strength of more than 20,000 people, and its morale and combat effectiveness are not as good as the PLA, which is overwhelming all the way.
There was also a piece of information in front of Ye Fei, and Hu Lian requested to withdraw to Taiwan, but Chiang Kai-shek's telegram asking Hu Lian to carry out reinforcements to Kinmen according to the order was not obtained. To this end, Ye Fei believed that Hu Lian might withdraw or be reinforced, and that hu Lian would not arrive in front of the Golden Gate, liberate the big and small Kinmen as soon as possible, and approve the combat mission of the 28th Army after consideration.
At this time, Hu Lian's troops had already begun to land, and when several regiments of the 28th Army landed in combat, he came to a counter-encirclement to cut off the rear road of the landing troops. Because of the shortage of ships, the follow-up 4 regiments could not cross the sea and could not be reinforced. The troops on the island fought bitterly for three days and three nights, and our army completely lost contact with the troops on the island, and the attack failed, and the whole army was shaken.
As the commander of the corps, Ye Fei demanded to take the initiative to take responsibility and found the commander of Sanye, Chen Yi, to request punishment. Chen Yi said: Now is not to punish anyone, but to accept the lessons learned.
Although he was not punished and his ideological baggage was very heavy, he had to actively prepare to attack the Golden Gate again. Unfortunately, the situation changed, the Korean War broke out, and the volunteer army entered the Korean War. The main force was sent to the front, and Ye Fei's task was to suppress the bandits with all his might.
Until 1958, when his superiors were ready to launch the Golden Gate Artillery War, he became the commander-in-chief of the front line, which was also a regret.