After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek's ambitions were fully revealed, but although he had prepared for a long time and seized the opportunity when the flames had just subsided, chiang kai-shek's army had difficulty winning since the beginning of the War of Liberation and often ended up in a defeated situation.
Of the three major battles recorded in history, our army had won two battles at this time, and the final Battle of Pingjin was fought on November 29, 1948.
Fortified everywhere
In early December, when Zhangjiakou was engaged in fierce fighting, the enemy immediately discovered that a powerful column of the People's Liberation Army was advancing west through Baodi, which was judged to be pointing to Tianjin and Tanggu.
Fu Zuoyi immediately ordered that Ping, Jin, and Tang be divided into three defensive zones. The Tanggu defensive area was commanded by Hou Jingru and Duan Tan, commander of the 17th Army, as deputy commander.
In order to facilitate mutual support, Fu Zuoyi merged Tianjin and Tanggu into Jintang District, with Hou Jingru as commander and Chen Changjie as deputy commander.
Fu Zuoyi
The Tangzhan defensive area was equipped with the 92nd Army, the 87th Army, and the 3rd Brigade of The Traffic Police. At that time, the 87th Army and the 3rd Traffic Police Brigade were still in Tangshan, the 92nd Army had been transferred to the west, and only one 318th Division was actually controlled in Tanggu.
After Fu Zuoyi issued the defensive order, Chen Changjie held a military conference in Tianjin attended by military commanders, division commanders, and chiefs of staff. Liu Yunhan, commander of the 86th Army, and Lin Weili, commander of the 62nd Army, were present.
After Chen Changjie explained the main points of the defense, everyone looked at the defense plan and the plan of the fortifications and facilities, and did not put forward any different opinions, but only worried that five regular divisions would serve as the defense of the urban areas of twenty-five miles from the north to the south and about ten miles from the east to the west, and that they would not only be equipped in depth, but also control the mobile forces, and would be fortified everywhere and weak everywhere.
War broke out
Through the process of alternating flowers and frost winds, the heroic team has won the glorious century.
Every commander and fighter in the trenches from the pingjin front headquarters to the forward positions saw this reality very clearly when they raised the full of fine wine to their lips:
The liberation of the entire Pingsui line has dashed the hopes of the enemy in Beiping to flee west, but it has increased the funnel of the enemy fleeing south from the sea.
To this end, the Higher Military Commission sent a telegram to the Northeast Field Army, demanding that they must immediately conquer Tanggu and Tianjin, cut off the enemy's road to escape to the east, and turn Peiping into another isolated island without help on all sides.
However, the front-line headquarters at this time was silent, and no one wanted to break this silence.
Each person operates in his own unique way. Lin Biao sat quietly, and Luo and Liu were quietly busy.
This silence has been going on for an hour.
However, the indication is that the house is still very lively, and there has even been a rather fierce debate.
A few stools around the long table were arranged irregularly, and the newspapers and ashtrays on the table were scattered. Also, the wisps of light smoke that floated in the house...
Lin Biao and others
Lin Biao was afraid of smoke and annoyed with smoke. He fanned his hand in front of his eyes, only once. One smoke ring after another was shattered, but there were too many smoke rings in the house. He simply ignored it and let it dissipate naturally.
Luo Ronghuan turned over the first few pages of paper, still reading carefully. Liu Yalou put the brush on the ink cartridge and gently took out a document from the hard shell clip.
Lin Biao's brain turned for a moment and stared at the two red arrows on the map, slowly moving between Tianjin and Huanggu, still not speaking.
Some people say that when you come to the waterfall where silver beads splash, you feel an unusual emptiness and silence.
At this moment, is the silence in this chief's residence in the headquarters of the Pingjin front also this atmosphere?
The front headquarters became more silent.
The heavy task of breaking through the general offensive was entrusted to the artillery regiment.
On the eve of the battle, the artillery regiment was filled with a serious and warm atmosphere.
Commanders at all levels carry staff officers, assistants, and officers of the organs to the forward positions. The regimental commander led the scouts to inspect the enemy's positions on the positions.
The battle begins!
Three companies on avant-garde duty fired shells at enemy bunkers ahead. Nearly a hundred warheads flew in the wind towards the bunkers.
The enemy's brick-filled bunkers were completely destroyed.
The other three companies, which were responsible for suppressing enemy fire, pressed the enemy artillery with a dense network of fire from the beginning, and a single shell hit the platform of the West Station and hit the overpass. The building of the Fujian Flour Company collapsed in the light of the fire, and the enemy's painstakingly operated artillery positions near the oil chemical plant were also destroyed by the explosion of the shells...
The infantry rushed up the path swept by the sound of artillery.
The commander of the infantry took the hand of the commander of the artillery regiment and said, "Your artillery is really god, the shells will turn!" ”
The first victory.
The infantry regiment sent the artillery regiment a pennant with four big words written on it: "Pioneer of the Way.".
Meet the river to build a bridge
The duty of the moat was to defend the city, and the PLA soldiers who were attacking the city at this time were stopped by its 3-meter-deep water.
Without bridges, the troops could not cross the river. Tianjin Battle is calling for the bridge! But where is the bridge?
Camp of tank troops. A tanker said:
"Isn't driving a tank into the river and putting a board on top of a tank a very convenient and sturdy bridge?"
No one responded, and the suggestion came too suddenly. But after a brief silence, someone finally questioned:
"After driving the tank into the river, how did the tanker come out?" 3 meters deep water! ”
No one answered, no one wanted to answer, and no one could answer.
The tank troops were silent, and no one mentioned the idea of a "tank bridge", and the price was too frightening.
However, the problem of siege and crossing the river has still not been solved, but the problem of siege and crossing the river must be solved.
In fact, silence is not necessarily depression, and silence sometimes breeds greater cohesion and explosiveness.
finally...... Again in the tank troops. First a squad leader and a few soldiers, then several squad leaders and many soldiers, and then it was not clear who was the squad leader and who was the fighter, and they rushed to the division headquarters and to the column.
"Without a bridge, how can the troops cross the moat?" How to liberate Tianjin? We've already figured it out, build a bridge with tanks! "There were so many tank soldiers coming that the columns and the small courtyards of the division headquarters were fully packed.
It's a strong collective.
The eye sockets of many infantrymen were wet, the orbits of many superiors were wet, and the orbits of many villagers were wet. Of course, the tank soldiers' eyes were also wet.
The superiors of the column studied it repeatedly and agreed to the request of the tank soldiers, approving them to build bridges with tanks.
The troops were silent again. This silence, like the last time, was also short-lived, but it was exactly the same as the atmosphere of the last time, and it contained more capacity.
The sound of gunfire and artillery on the battlefield is still incessant, and it often disrupts people's normal planning and operation, and the so-called battlefield is like this.
It was too late to even a minute of exercise, and the battle to cross the river began.
Tanks are ready to go.
Before launching, the superiors of the troops solemnly said to each tanker:
"Tanks, be sure to drive to the bottom of the river." Man, must climb out alive! ”
No one answered, everyone just nodded.
Then tank bridges were built, and tankers climbed out of them.
But......
Why do several tanks never move? What about tankers?
There are faint blisters on the surface of the water.
They could not come out, and lay quietly in the moat of Tianjin, without a cemetery or leaving their names.
Infantry drove past the "tank bridge" in droves. Many of them already know the story of building a "tank bridge". This tragic story spread throughout the Pingjin front, and people really wanted to cry when they looked at the river.
The tide is gone
Chen Changjie was trembling. Every inch of ground beneath his feet seemed to be tearing. His eyes sank into darkness, the boundless earth was trembling violently, and he was about to be engulfed in darkness.
He couldn't bear the annoying rushes.
Chen Changjie
"The Northwest territories outside the city have been destroyed!" "The stronghold outside the West Gate has been captured!" "The main position of the city defense bunker near the ash pile was lost!" ”
Chiang Kai-shek's army was defeated and retreated one after another, and all important places were taken by the People's Liberation Army, especially the loss of the defense bunkers in The Gray Pile City, which was too fatal! Obviously, this is no longer a soldier coming to the city, but a large army pressing down on the city. Victory has undoubtedly become a delusion, and even a full retreat has almost become a luxury.
Chen Changjie panicked.
At this time, the SOLDIERs of the People's Liberation Army stood in the front position and could clearly see the enemy's bunker without using telescopes.
Chen Changjie stood up, clenched his fist above his head, and said, "Send me someone to the ash pile to check it out!" ”
It was a foggy early morning, and there were no hidden stars flickering silently in the sky.
A PLA soldier appeared on a mound outside the western suburbs defense line, he did not have a weapon, stood on the mound for a while, then rolled his hands into a trumpet shape and shouted to the opposite side:
"Brothers Chiang Kai-shek, I am a messenger of the People's Liberation Army, and I have brought letters to your Commander Chen, extremely important letters, which I will hand over to your commander."
The defenders looked through the lookout holes of the bunkers, overwhelmed, but neither of them fired.
The correspondent shouted again.
It took a long time for the enemy to send a man to lead the messenger away. It was defended by the 62nd Army, and the messengers were led to the military headquarters.
There was no smile on the face of Lin Weili, the commander of the 62nd Army, and it seemed that he was a person who never smiled. But it's hard to see anger, maybe he never gets angry. He is such a person: not smiling or angry, not profane and not humble, not cold or hot, not yin and yang.
Lin Weili also served as the commander of the Tianjin garrison, and he always appeared in a dual capacity.
At this moment, he stood still and looked at this ordinary but very unusual correspondent. The correspondent stands upright and salutes. Commander Lin made a gesture to invite him to sit down, and the messenger nodded his head in thanks, but did not sit down, respectfully took out the letter and handed it over.
Lin Weili
This is a letter signed by Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan to Chen Changjie, Lin Weili, and Liu Yunhan, commander of the 86th Army.
Lin Weili was a little nervous when he received the letter, and his hands couldn't help but tremble.
Lin Weili read the letter——
Generals Chen Changjie, Lin Weili, and Liu Yunhan:
We are about to start the Tianjin Campaign, Zheng Dongguo is an example, if the general imitates it, he will make great contributions to the people, and if he resists, he will only make himself suffer the scourge of killing himself. I hope that you will send representatives to negotiate before our general offensive, find the headquarters at any location, and then escort you to negotiate with us.
Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan
Looking at the letter, Lin Weili's nervousness seemed to have decreased a lot, and he seemed to be more nervous. His eyes stared for a long time at the name of "Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan" at the end of the money.
He seemed to see in a dream a light through the crack in the wall, and it was as if he saw a cold phoenix penetrating the roof.
He couldn't bear to see the autumn beckon, because when it was ripe, it would be harvested, and the scythe was terrible.
The battle begins
Early morning, January 14, 1949.
The sun is like an orange-yellow orange hanging behind the winter forest, as if it can be plucked by reaching out. However, the sun was only clear for a short time, and the thick fog soon overwhelmed everything.
The fog becomes larger and the fog thickens. Pieces of solemn clouds surged in the vast dome, coming from the green valley and wrapped around Tianjin's neck.
There was fog everywhere, and it looked like there was a bottomless abyss hidden outside the city. Man walks in the fog, as if walking in a misty dream, and the fog is wet and slippery on the face.
The weather station predicts that the fog will dissipate around 10 o'clock.
The PLA Frontline Command determined that at 10 o'clock the whole would launch a general offensive against Tianjin.
Everything was filled with anxious anticipation, longing.
At 10 o'clock, this is a moment that stirs people's hearts, a historical moment that will have an extremely important impact on the Battle of Pingjin and will be recorded in the annals of history!
The PLA had a total of 10 siege lots around the city of Tianjin. On this foggy morning, from the outside, these lots are no different from anywhere else.
Where there is fog, it is silent. Somewhere there is somehow no fog, or only a thin fog, but it is also silent. An ox cart was driven by a farmer, slowly, but without stopping, passing through the fog. The ruts left on the path were also filled with fog. And the sound of creaking wheels is also so lonely.
At the moment, the commanders in 10 lots were looking at the table. The pointer moves unhurriedly in the waiting gaze of each commander.
Chengxi: 1 column Li Tianyou, 2 column Liu Zhen;
Chengdong: Deng Hua of the 7th Column, Duan Suquan of the 8th Column;
Seongnam: Zhan Caifang, 9th Column;
There is also Zhong Wei of the reserve team...
Time, time on the Battlefield of Pingjin, time in all of China, seemed to be on the wrists of these commanders.
The morning got colder and the fog was a little more foggy, but the leaves-leaving trees and the withered wild chrysanthemums were waiting.
Everything in the world is waiting for the gunshots that bring new life and color to life.
10 o'clock at full. A telephone line extending over the frozen earth connected the 10 lots together and sent them the command post orders:
"Start attacking!"
This is not like Lin Biao's voice, it seems to be Liu Yalou. Lin Biao always did not personally issue offensive orders, and this time there was no exception.
The land of Tianjin began to tremble, and the shells were roaring, continuously. What was different from the new security guards was that the People's Liberation Army liberated the city of Tianjin and was all blasted away with artillery. The artillery of the Northeast Field Army from the Liaoshen battlefield once again showed its might here.
Witnesses divided the shelling of Tianjin into rhythms and levels, which was a quartet.
The artillery team slowly raised its head from the camouflaged green shade. In the season when all the grasses and trees on this earth have shrunk, they represent life.
The artillery unit concentrated its artillery fire for about 1 hour, destroying the fortifications on the enemy's forward positions and opening gaps in the city walls. Before the shelling stopped, the engineering unit began to clear mines, deer and barbed wire. Demolition teams, bridge teams, and commandos entered the positions.
The sound of the cannons was sparse and the fog dissipated. The artillery team stood still. A wild bird hovers in a camouflage net.
The artillery unit was divided into two parts: high-pitched bass.
The treble carried out suppressed fire, swift and fierce, and destroyed one command post, observation post and artillery position after one by one of the forward enemy. Thunder and lightning turned all this into a pile of ashes.
The bass department coordinated with tanks to attack the enemies on both sides of each breakthrough, and clusters of flames were like a storm. The path to the breakthrough is born and extended in the flames... The bridge team and the commando team began to advance, and then advanced!
This is a blocking curve. The firepower is extremely fierce and the targets are very concentrated. The enemy's 2nd echelon should be buried and not allowed to exert its power. After a fierce bombardment, the trenches in the enemy formation were like dead snakes, and the enemy's 2nd echelon was isolated on the side of the trenches.
The artillery continued to bombard, covering the bridge team. The commandos charged and entered the breakthrough.
Artillery units fired extended fire.
Chaotic clouds burst forth and rolled through the storm.
Commandos grow deeper. The follow-up troops followed.
Tanks and heavy artillery entered the city.
The red sun hung high and the fog cleared. News of the victory kept reaching the front command:
At 10:50, the 2nd Division broke through successfully;
At 11 o'clock, the 4th Division, 6th Division, 19th Division, and 21st Division successfully broke through;
At 12 o'clock, the 24th Division broke through successfully;
At 13:30, the 26th Division and the 34th Division successfully broke through.
So far, nine out of ten lots have been successful.
Lin Biao held the telephone handset in his hand and did not put it down for a long time. He was waiting for news from the tenth lot.
The breakthrough of the 22nd Division in the tenth lot failed consecutively. Liu Yalou read to Lin Biao a telegram from the front:
"The enemy stubbornly holds his position, our casualties..."
Lin Biao interrupted: "Tell Li Tianyou, I don't want casualty figures, I just want Tianjin!" Tianjin! ”
Pay homage to the enemy
Column command post.
Li Tianyou took off his hat. After some thought, he decisively issued a new order:
"Back off and choose another siege location!"
In order to move forward, people often take a few steps back, which is normal.
The 22nd Division was re-elected and broke through into the city from the newly selected lot. However, they still encountered the desperate counterattack of the enemy. The sound of "booming" cannons came one after another.
Li Tianyou felt the waves of qi roll towards him. The staff officer next to him told him that the shells had landed 10 steps away from the command post, and the shrapnel had penetrated the camouflage net above the command post.
"This cannon didn't come from a breakthrough." Feeling that Li Tianyou thought so, he immediately judged: "The shells were fired from the depths of the enemy in the city, with long-range guns." ”
"Did the enemy find our command post?" Li Tianyou was still thinking suspiciously..."Impossible! The command post of this column was set up in a mass grave, and there was a camouflage net on it, and the net was hung with dead grass and leaves, which looked no different from the cemetery from a distance. ”
Li Tianyou was still observing the enemy's movements.
The landing point of the shells was almost entirely around the nearby forward-charging tanks.
He finally understood: "The dispatch of our tanks was discovered by the enemy. ”
The tanks were advancing, charging forward with all their eyes out of sight.
Li Tianyou put on his hat and gave an order to the artillery team: "Salute the enemy!" ”
From this, the order to liberate Tianjin was initiated.
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