Author: Lan Yan also fell into the city
In July 1947, Du Yuming, the commander of the Northeast Security Command, was once again angry with Lin Biao's "haunted, loud east and west" style of play, and was once again admitted to the hospital. In order to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible, he submitted his resignation to Chiang one after another on the grounds of medical treatment. Chiang Kai-shek could not refuse, and could only agree, and instead Chen Cheng, chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense, would be appointed as the director of the Northeast Expedition.
Chen Cheng, a person, originally had no great ambitions and only wanted to be a primary school teacher. However, due to fate, he was first recommended to go to the Baoding Military Academy, but his grades were not qualified, and he was only listed as a reserve student. Unexpectedly, the original candidate who took the first place did not want to go to military school, so he picked up a bargain and supplemented into the Baoding Military Academy, thus beginning his military career of several decades. After graduating from the Baoding Military Academy, Chen Cheng was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy as a captain instructor in the Artillery Section. Soon, the god of luck took care of him again. One night, because of insomnia, he couldn't sleep, and he took a copy of the "Three People's Principles" and read it haphazardly, which happened to be seen by Principal Jiang who checked the night, and the next day he was promoted to the rank of major artillery captain, and suddenly became President Jiang's confidant. Later, he married Tan Xiang, the daughter of Mei Ling, and from then on, the official fortunes were prosperous, and the power fell to the opposition. Chen Cheng's first thing in the northeast was not military deployment, but to rectify corruption. The first person he took to open the knife was Chen Mingren, commander of the 71st Army. He charged Chen Mingren with embezzling military grain. In fact, these military food was taken in bags to build fortifications, and naturally could not be recovered after gunfire and shelling.
Chen Mingren was naturally unable to be convinced of this "false accusation", which indirectly led to his and Cheng's potential Changsha uprising and throwing themselves into the red camp.
Along with Chen Cheng, there were also the chief and deputy commanders of the 52nd Army, the chairman of Liaoning, and the commanders of various security detachments, even Sun Liren, the commander of the New 1st Army, who was also transferred, and Zheng Dongguo, deputy commander of the Northeast Security, was emptied and replaced by Chen Cheng's confidants. Chen Cheng's wave of operations made the morale of the troops, which were already demoralized, even more scattered, and for a while people were panicked, and everyone was in danger. Lin Biao silently stared at his new opponent, Chen Cheng, to see what other moths he could make.
Lin Biao held a combat meeting to study the battle plan
Chen Cheng naively believed that Du Yuming's mistake was not to "wipe out" the democratic coalition army on the Jinzhou to Shenyang line of the Beining Road, so that the ties between Chiang Kai-shek's guan and guan outside were often cut off. He deployed Wang Tiehan's 49th Army and the 43rd Division drawn from Northern China in the Rehe area, which had just been transferred from northern Jiangsu, and ordered them to completely eliminate the Democratic Coalition Army along the Beining Road in a short period of time. In order to crack Lin Biao's tactic of "attacking the west with sound from the east", he also changed the "comprehensive defense" to "mobile defense", taking major cities as the point and road and railway as the line to create a defense system that combines points and lines.
Lin Biao saw that Chen Cheng attached so much importance to the Beining Line, and secretly laughed in his heart, and decided to take the initiative to attack the Beining Line with the main force of the Jireliao Military Region, attract the opportunity for Chen Cheng to send the main force to the west, and then dispatch six columns of Southern Manchuria and Northern Manchuria to move between Changchun and Siping to seek opportunities to annihilate the enemy.
You don't have to say, Chen Cheng's speed is still quite fast. Just after September, Chen Cheng dispatched 3 divisions to advance towards Jianchang. Huang Kecheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the Democratic Coalition Army, immediately ordered Commander Huang's eighth column and Zhan Caifang's ninth column to attack quickly and resolutely eliminate the enemy who attacked.
On the night of September 13, the Eight Columns met at Lishugou and the narrow road of the enemy's 50th Division, and the two sides exchanged fierce fire. The enemy, who was neither familiar with the terrain nor the number of men of the Democratic Coalition, soon began to break apart, and most of them were annihilated before dawn. The advancing enemy 22nd Division heard that the Provisional 50th Division had been annihilated, and was frightened to turn back and run.
"If you want to run, there are no doors!" Commander Huang marched rapidly with eight columns to cut short roads, and soon intercepted the enemy at the Yang family. YangJiazhanzi is a mountain valley, especially suitable for siege and annihilation. Huang Yongsheng personally commanded the front line, and the soldiers of the Eighth Column bravely killed the enemy, and the battle was resolved in a few hours, and most of the 22nd Division was temporarily annihilated.
The two divisions were eaten one after another, and Chen Cheng was furious and ordered Wang Tiehan, commander of the 49th Army, to lead the 79th Division and the 105th Division to quickly take the Yang family. Zheng Dongguo next to him stopped him, saying that the terrain of the Yang family was unfavorable to our army and it was not appropriate to go there, but he was accused by Chen Cheng of being greedy and afraid of death, and Zheng Dongguo was so angry that he threw up his hands and left.
Sure enough, as soon as Wang Tiehan arrived at the Yang family with two divisions, he was surrounded by the eighth column and the ninth column. When Chen Cheng learned that Wang Tiehan was surrounded, he was so anxious that he urgently dispatched the 26th Division of the 49th Army, and the 60th Division, the 22nd Division, and the 18th Division each drew a regiment for emergency reinforcements. At that time, it was raining heavily, and the soldiers of the Eighth and Ninth Columns became more and more courageous in the battle, and launched fierce charges many times. Wang Tiehan soon lost his fighting spirit, and he fled with the guards first, and the foreign reinforcements collapsed. The Democratic Coalition Army fought three battles and three victories, annihilated more than 12,000 enemy troops, and completely destroyed the railway line from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan.
The new official took office with three fires, but what greeted Chen Cheng was three consecutive defeats. Chen Cheng, like a gambler who had lost his red eyes, pressed the main force of the new First Army stationed in Tieling to Jinzhou.
With a rare opportunity, Lin Biao ordered the columns of Southern Manchuria to take advantage of the void, and the three columns, which had already been anxious, took the lead and joined hands with the four columns to annihilate more than 8,000 enemies in three days, and the troops pointed directly at Kaiyuan and Tieling. Chen Cheng was so anxious that he was about to cry, and quickly asked for help from Jiang Shi, the father of Nanjing. Faced with the son-in-law's cry for help, Jiang Shi of course could not sit idly by, and immediately flew to Shenyang to take charge of the overall situation, and ordered Fu Zuoyi to dispatch 6 divisions, led by Hou Jingru, commander of the 17th Corps, to reinforce the northeast along the Beining Road. Hou Jingru was much more cunning than Wang Tiehan, and the 6 divisions advanced in tandem, step by step, and although the movement was slow, they never let our army seize the opportunity to attack. By the end of October, it finally moved to Fuxin and joined Chen Cheng.
The action went so smoothly, Hou Jingru was very proud. Not wanting him to slacken off a bit, he was caught by the Seventh Column. The Seventh Column marched 150 miles a day, attacking two regiments of the unprepared Provisional 57th Division, and then annihilating the headquarters of the 51st Division and a regiment. Hou Jingru could not continue to advance, and could only turn around to deal with the Seven Verticals. At this time, Hou Jingru was like a clumsy buffalo, and several columns of the Democratic Coalition Army followed him like a group of tigers, seizing the opportunity to bite forward.
The Eighth Column and the Ninth Column saw that Hou Jingru was entangled by the Seventh Column, and immediately joined forces to annihilate the 2,000 defenders of Chaoyang. Hou Jingru was in a hurry, personally leading two divisions to rescue Chaoyang, and in a panic, he entered the pocket array set up by the eighth column and the ninth column. In this battle, more than 6,000 enemy troops were annihilated, and the remaining enemy troops all hid in nearby towns and did not dare to come out again.
At this time, our army had already launched a counter-offensive in north China, and Fu Zuoyi urgently transferred back the troops reinforcing the northeast, and Chen Cheng's life became more and more difficult.
In early December 1947, Lin Biao ordered all the troops of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army to launch a winter offensive. In the Battle of Zhangwu, more than 8,000 enemy troops were annihilated; subsequently, in the Battle of Gongzhutun, more than 20,000 people of the New 5th Army were annihilated, and Chen Dalin, the commander of the New 5th Army, and two division commanders, none of them slipped through the net, and all of them were taken prisoner.
Officers and men of the "Eastern Union"
What is even more ridiculous is that more than 7,000 people of the 26th Division of the 49th Army guarding Xinlitun were all obediently taken prisoner after being surrounded without firing a single shot.
Under the successive blows, Chen Cheng, like Du Yuming, was so angry that the old disease recurred and he was also admitted to the hospital. The cunning Chen Cheng naturally would not be like Du Yuming, who would give Lin Biao two chances to make himself sick. On February 5, 1948, Chen Cheng, who had been in charge of the northeast for more than half a year, left Shenyang in a gray and slippery manner.
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