#桅杆笔谈 ##三野战将#
Author: Mast
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Because of its special political and military environment, good industrial base, unique geographical location and abundant material resources, Northeast China became the focus of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Since August 1945, our army has sent 108,000 troops and more than 20,000 cadres out of the customs. Little known thing, the chairman has ordered Ye Fei to lead his troops into the northeast several times. But later, why didn't Ye Fei go to the Northeast? Today, let's talk about it.
(1) Hu Fu Chen Yi fought a "telegraph war" for Ye Fei
Most of the generals of our army, including many high-ranking generals, are from peasant backgrounds, and their education level is generally not high, and even fewer have attended regular military academies. However, there is one point, many of the generals who participated in the Long March to northern Shaanxi have studied at Kang Da.
Ye Fei's situation is slightly different. Although he did not go to a military school or study at Kang University, he studied in middle school, was educated, and had better academic performance in the "War University" than many generals. After learning and tempering in battle, Ye Fei's ability to lead troops and command has reached a relatively high level, and he can lead troops and command.
The style of a unit directly reflects the ability of a general to lead troops. In March 1939, Ye Fei was ordered by the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army (Commander Chen Yi) to lead two regiments of the advance column to reinforce Bantaji. After receiving the order, Ye Fei led his troops to set off immediately, more than 100 kilometers away, all the way to the forced march, through the Japanese occupation area is fighting and walking, 2 days to rush to the vicinity of Bantaji, as soon as they arrived at the battlefield, immediately launched a battle, and won the battle. The good work style of the advance column left a deep impression on Luo Binghui, commander of the Fifth Detachment, and Hu Fu, who was in charge of the work of the Central China Bureau.
After the end of the defense of Bantaji, Hu Fu and Luo Binghui proposed to leave Ye Fei and the advance column behind and return to the Jiangbei Command of the New Fourth Army. In this regard, Chen Yi resolutely disagreed, but Hu Fu still wanted to leave Ye Fei and the advance column. The two sides disputed, and Hu Fu sent a telegram to the headquarters. At the same time, Chen Yi and the military department also telegraphed the headquarters and asked Ye Fei's department to return to the building. In order to "fight" for Ye Fei and advance into the column, the two sides fought a "telegraph war" for about one month. In the end, the chairman called Hu Fu on May 4 to "hope to order Ye Feibu to return to northern Jiangsu", and the matter was settled.
Before leaving, Luo Binghui said to Ye Fei with infinite regret: "No way, you can go back." However, the wounded and sick were all left behind for me, and a group of grassroots cadres were drawn to me. Luo Binghui joined the army at the age of 16 and served as the commander of the Red Ninth Army, and his military literacy is very high. The fact that he can value Ye Fei and his troops so much shows the military and political quality of this unit and the supervisor.
【General Luo Binghui】
(2) The attack on Meng Lianggu was under the unified command of Ye Fei
The battle that best reflects Ye Fei's command ability is the aforementioned battle of Guocun. In the Subei Campaign, the first joint operation of the two field armies of Central China and Shandong, Ye Fei commanded the 1st column to fight for a game at a critical juncture, reversing the defeat on the battlefield in one fell swoop and making great contributions to the victory of the campaign. Since then, Ye Fei has often taken charge of himself and commanded two or more columns to conduct joint operations.
In the initial arrangement of the Menglianggu Campaign, the 1st Column was extremely tired because of the previous continuous battles, and as a campaign reserve, there was no specific task. Originally, it was the 8th Column that was tasked with the task of interspersing and dividing the enemy's reorganized 74th Division from the reorganized 25th Division and cutting out the reorganized 74th Division. This task is very difficult, and the 8th Column has rarely served as a penetrating task before. After careful consideration, the leaders of Chen and Su decided before the battle that the 1st Column would be responsible for interspersing.
It can be said that the 1st Column did not prepare in advance and hastily participated in the Battle of Menglianggu. But Ye Fei gritted his teeth and accepted the task. The campaign began on May 13, 1947. On the evening of the 15th, in order to ensure the victory of the battle, Chen Yi and Su Yu coordinated the overall situation and authorized Ye Fei to command the 1st, 4th, 6th, and 9th columns in a unified manner to launch a general attack on Meng Lianggu. In other words, the general offensive operation was under the unified command of Ye Fei. Among them, there is Xu Shiyou, the commander of the 9th column, whose qualifications are much older than Ye Fei. Authorizing Ye Fei to take unified command shows that the head of Huaye fully trusts his command ability.
When the New Fourth Army was formed, there were 10 regiments (including four detachments of pistol regiments). Of the 10 regiment commanders of that year, except for those who sacrificed and defected, when the titles were awarded in 1955, only Fu Qiutao (deputy commander of the first team and head of the 1st regiment) and Ye Fei were awarded the rank of general, and the others who participated in the award were all lieutenant generals and below, and Ye Fei was the only one who served as the commander of the corps. Fu Qiutao was originally a general, but after breaking through the Southern Anhui Incident, he gradually faded out of the military command post. This is off-topic.
Straight to the point. In that year, the Central Military Commission decided to march into the northeast as the main force of the strategic areas in the Guannai. There were three main forces that were included in the plan by the Military Commission, but did not go to the northeast in the end: the Yang (Dezhi) Su (Zhenhua) Column, the Chen Geng Column and the Ye Fei Column, of which the Yang Su Column and the Chen Geng Column belonged to the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Strategic Zone, and the Ye Fei Column belonged to the East China Strategic Zone.
【Ye Fei】
(3) The headquarters has ordered several times, why didn't Ye Fei go to the Northeast?
The above three troops were later the 1st Column, the 4th Column and the 1st Column of Huaye, all of which were the main forces of each field army. At that time, the Yang-Su column had already set off and arrived at Rehe at the end of 1945, but because the Jiang army cut off the road, it was transferred to the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region one year later. Chen Geng's column canceled the plan to march into the northeast during the preparation stage.
On November 1, 1945, in a telegram to the strategic areas personally drafted by the chairman, it was clearly stated that "the Ye Flying Column in Central China will set off for the north (northeast) after putting on cotton clothes". On the 10th, the chairman again called the East China Bureau and transferred it to Ye Fei, asking "when can Ye Fei's troops go to Jiaodong to start crossing the sea"? On the 12th, at the enlarged meeting of the Politburo, the chairman once again made it clear that "we are mobilizing 100,000 troops, Luo Ronghuan's 40,000 troops, and Ye Fei's 22,000 (going to the northeast) ......."
From the chairman's above-mentioned telegram and speech, it can be judged that Ye Fei will definitely lead his troops to the northeast.
On November 11, the column was established in Lianshui, Jiangsu, with Ye Fei as commander and Lai Chuanzhu as political commissar. After the formation of the column, it immediately went north, prepared to cross the Longhai line, reached Jiaodong through the coastal area of Shandong, crossed the sea from Longkou, and landed from Yingkou. Among the troops that the Military Commission planned to march into the northeast, only Ye Fei's column was a pure New Fourth Army unit. This is enough to show that the Military Commission recognizes Ye Fei and the troops he leads.
【Expansion into the Northeast】
Some people will say: the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army also went to the Northeast. However, Huang Kecheng's 3rd Division was renamed from the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army when the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was rebuilt after the Southern Anhui Incident. The Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army was developed on the basis of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division and the 685th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade, and it cannot be regarded as a unit of the New Fourth Army in the strict sense. When it was reorganized into the New Fourth Army, many people in this unit were reluctant, believing that the Eighth Route Army was the main force and the New Fourth Army was a partial division.
In early December, the column arrived at the coastal area of Shandong one after another, and was on standby to cross the sea. However, at this time, the situation in the northeast had changed significantly: Chiang's army captured Shanhaiguan on November 16, Jinzhou on November 26, and Bingfeng pointed directly at Yingkou and occupied Yingkou in early January 1946. As a result, all land or sea routes to the Tohoku were cut off. Therefore, the Military Commission ordered Ye Fei's column to stop marching into the northeast, stay in Shandong, join the Shandong Field Army sequence, and organize it as the 1st Column of Shanye.
[To be continued]