After four stowaways by two armies, the commander of the 15th Corps planned to continue small-scale stowaways to Hainan Island. Han Xianchu, then commander of the Fortieth Army, thought it impossible, and he suggested launching a large-scale landing operation in advance for many reasons, the most important of which was the direction of the wind.
A massive landing must be launched before Gu Yu can be launched. The Fortieth Army was well prepared and everything was ready. However, the Forty-third Army was not ready, and the commander of the army, Li Zuopeng, always made preparations step by step and according to the instructions of his superiors. If they had landed aggressively in advance, they would not have had as many ships.
In the end, Han Xianchu persuaded Deng Hua, commander of the 15th Corps, to make a large-scale landing on April 16, and ten thousand ships were dispatched. Han Xianchu led the main force of the Fortieth Army to set off, but what about the Forty-third Army? Because he was not ready, the military commander Li Zuopeng did not go, and he postponed it to the second echelon.
Li Zuopeng did not go, and the main force of the Forty-third Army naturally had to be placed in the second echelon. However, the two armies jointly liberated Hainan Island, and the Fortieth Army could not be left to fight alone. Long Shujin, the deputy commander of the Forty-third Army, took the initiative to ask for help, took two regiments of nearly 7,000 men, and landed with Han Xianchu in a large-scale landing.
That is to say, when it came time for a large-scale landing operation, the commanders of the two armies, Han Xianchu, went, and Li Zuopeng did not go for the time being. Originally, the two armies should have gone hand in hand, but Li Zuopeng did not go, and although he disrupted the plan, he objectively achieved two people.
One of the natural ones was Han Xianchu. In the preliminary preparations for the liberation of Hainan Island and the smuggling operation, Han Xianchu was already much ahead of Li Zuopeng, and now he has landed on a large scale, especially after landing on Hainan Island, one is a military commander and the other is a deputy commander.
Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing. An important lesson of the defeat in the Battle of Kinmen was that the troops who landed on the island lacked a unified and effective command, and as a result, they fought separately and were broken by the enemy. In war, unified command is very important. To achieve unified command, levels cannot be equalized.
Just imagine, if Li Zuopeng and Han Xianchu landed on the island together, and both were military commanders, who would command whom? There must be another dispute. Li Zuopeng did not come, and Han Xianchu was the supreme commander of the troops landing on the island, and eventually became the greatest hero in the liberation of Hainan Island, and is still remembered and praised by the chinese people.
The other was Long Shujin, the deputy commander of the Forty-third Army. If the commander does not come, the deputy commander will pick up the girder. In fact, Long Shujin had always been the ace general of the Forty-third Army, and when he was the commander of the division, the 128th Division was the first-class division.
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After landing on the island, there was a life-and-death battle, Long Shujin commanded the troops to surround the Kuomintang, and Xue Yue mobilized almost all of his mobile forces to surround and annihilate Long Shujin in an attempt to eat Long Shujin in one fell swoop. Han Xianchu's side was in a hurry to march to encircle Xue Yue's army again.
If the strategic objectives can be achieved, the liberation of Hainan Island will be completely accomplished in one battle. The key to this battle, first, Han Xianchu did not come fast enough, this is absolutely no problem, Han Xianchu is a famous whirlwind commander, the second is whether Long Shujin can block Xue Yue's attack, and finally prove that Long Shujin blocked.
Long Shujin and Han Xianchu fought side by side and also became the great heroes of the liberation of Hainan Island. Soon, Long Shujin was promoted to commander of the Forty-third Army, and although he was only a founding major general, he later, like Han Xianchu, also served as the commander of the Grand Military Region and the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of China's largest province.