Our army has frequent offensives in the northeast
In March 1947, the arduous operation of "going south of the Yangtze River three times and protecting the Linjiang River four times" finally came to an end, and our army survived the most difficult confrontation stage in the northeast battlefield and began to turn to a counteroffensive. In May, the summer offensive began, which lasted 50 days, killing and wounding more than 82,000 Kuomintang troops; in the subsequent autumn and winter operations, they successively annihilated 79,000 and 150,000 enemy troops; by February 1948, when the fighting stopped for a while, the Kuomintang troops had been divided and surrounded in three isolated areas centered on Shenyang, Changchun, and Jinzhou, and could not move easily.
Chen Cheng stills
There were no reinforcements in the northeast battlefield
Chen Cheng, chief of staff of the Kuomintang Army, who was in command in the northeast, saw that the general situation was irreversible, so he secretly instructed his wife Tan Xiang to take the "lady line" and find the "godmother" Song Meiling to intercede, asking her to intercede with Chiang Kai-shek and ask to be transferred out of the northeast on the grounds that she was ill. On January 17, Wei Lihuang, a famous anti-Japanese general and former commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, was appointed deputy director of the Northeast Xingyuan and commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression of Bandits", responsible for cleaning up the mess left by Chen Cheng.
Of course, Wei Lihuang is not a fool, he knows that with the current defeat of these remnants, he will not be able to stand the northeast at all, so at the beginning of his tenure, he negotiated with Chiang Kai-shek on the conditions, and he must increase troops to the northeast to save the crisis, and Chiang Kai-shek also agreed. However, after Wei Lihuang took office, he was eager to see through, but he never got the reinforcements he expected, and seeing that his morale was getting lower and his territory was shrinking day by day, he could only desperately send a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek for help, but every time he was like a mud cow into the sea, until the end of the Liaoshen Campaign in November, the entire northeast was liberated.
Fu Zuoyi stills
North China's "general suppression" was reluctant to come, and Xuzhou's "general suppression" did not dare to move
It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek at this time really couldn't send a large number of reinforcements to the north. North China, which is the closest to the northeast, had 397,000 troops at this time, but the commander-in-chief Fu Zuoyi was born in the Jin Sui Army and did not listen to the greetings at all, not to mention that Fu Qi's elite 35th Army had just been hit hard a few months ago, more than half of the officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and the army commander was also killed, so it was too late to make up for the losses, so he was naturally reluctant to draw troops north.
Xuzhou, which has the strongest troops, also has nearly 600,000 troops, but its opponent, the East China Field Army of the People's Liberation Army, has also grown to more than 400,000 people, and the quality and equipment of the troops are the best in the Guannai troops. As the northern barrier of the capital Nanjing, Xuzhou's "suppression of the general" is backed by the defense line of the Huai River and the Yangtze River, and it does not dare to move lightly at all.
The Kuomintang army suffered repeated defeats in major battlefields
Mr. Hu himself is difficult to protect in the south, and the "suppression of the president" in central China sits on the mountain and watches the tiger fight
The southern part of Hu Zong in Guanzhong was originally the reserve of the Kuomintang army, but from the spring of 1948, the department also began to fall into a bitter battle, the just ended Wazi Street battle, the 29th Army commander Liu Kan, the 90th Division commander Yan Ming and other senior officers were killed, and the troops also lost nearly 30,000 people, Chiang Kai-shek pessimistically wrote in his diary: "This loss, the main force of Shaanxi has lost almost more than one-third, and it has been very difficult to maintain the stronghold of Guanzhong and Yan'an." ”
In addition to these major military groups, there is also some strength in Central China, with more than 300,000 troops, and the situation is relatively stable. However, Bai Chongxi, the commander-in-chief of the "Suppression Chief", was born in the Gui family, and he had a constant relationship with Chiang Kai-shek from the time of the Northern Expedition. Chiang Kai-shek suffered losses in the northeast, and he was too late to be happy, so how could he draw troops to reinforce them, not to mention that the five provinces in central China were also attacked in many places, and there were wars in northern Anhui, eastern Hubei, and northern Hubei, and Henan had lost most of it, and it also needed troops to deal with it.
Wei Lihuang, the new commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression Chief".
By the end of June 1948, although the total strength of the Kuomintang army was still 3.65 million, most of them had just been rebuilt after being annihilated, and many of them were even unarmed recruits, and only 1.74 million Kuomintang troops could actually be deployed on the front line.