On December 12, 1948, Nakano and Huaye of our army fought in concert and launched a general offensive against the elite 12th Corps of the Kuomintang. By the afternoon, most of the Kuomintang troops were surrounded and annihilated by our army. The commander of this battle, Huang Wei, became a prisoner of our army, while the commander of the 11th Division, Hu Lian, fled. Subsequently, after a month of fighting, the Battle of Huaihai ended in the victory of our army. The military operations of Nakano and Huaye this time meant the collapse of the reorganized 11th Division, which was known as the five ace divisions of the Kuomintang. Amazingly, this Kuomintang ace unit had evaded Su Yu's two sieges, but was trapped in the siege of Liu Bocheng's Skinny Dog Array in the Battle of Huaihai.
So what's the problem? Why did Su Yu successfully encircle and annihilate twice? Where is the subtlety of Liu Shuai's tactics? New friends trouble point a little attention and praise, your support is our biggest motivation?
Twice dodged Su Yu's siege
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In fact, according to relevant historical records, the reorganized 11th Division commanded by the Kuomintang Hu Lian fought bravely against our army during the Red Army period, so from then on it began to boast that other units in Haikou were afraid of our army, while the reorganized 11th Division was not afraid at all. The 11th Division fought against General Su Yu twice in the War of Liberation during the Battle of Subei, and the other was the Battle of Nanma.
Figure | interconnected
The fact that he escaped Su Yu's encirclement twice cannot be said to be tactically clever, but only because he was using the Kuomintang to harbor a ghost fetus at that time. At the end of 1946, the Kuomintang army carried out a large-scale invasion of Shandong and the liberated areas in central China. At that time, the Kuomintang troops participating in the war were the reorganized 69th Division, as well as the troops of the reorganized 11th Division, and they were divided into four roads at that time. The operational intention of these two integrated divisions was to cut off the connection between the two liberated areas in Shandong and central China.
Since both units were of the Kuomintang lineage, they were both given high hopes by Chiang Kai-shek. However, Dai Zhiqi, commander of the 69th Division, had a strong sense of meritorious service in this operation, so he blindly acted rashly regardless of the actual situation.
Figure | the Battle of Subei
All this Hu Lian saw in his eyes, but he did not say it because he planned to let Dai Zhiqi's troops contain The firepower of Zhongsu Yu in the front, while he himself seized the opportunity to obtain the results of the war. As a result, it was precisely because they had a ghost fetus that Su Yu seized the opportunity, and he ordered 24 regiments of our army to surround the 69th Division, which instantly overwhelmed Dai Zhiqi. Because he had ventured in advance, the specific battle plan, including how to cooperate with friendly forces, was not well thought out. The 69th Division instantly entered a desperate situation, and there was no way back at all.
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He could only passively wait for the reinforcements to come here, but Hu Lian was happy to see all this. Therefore, when marching, the troops were ordered to guard against our army and ensure that their own interests were not damaged. Especially when the 69th Division was facing the situation of being surrounded and annihilated, it required the 9 regiments it had to be tightened together in order to be ready for combat at any time.
Picture | Su Yu
After the 69th Division sent a signal of rescue to Hu Lian's 11th Division, it immediately entered the state of combat. At this time, it was the Ninth Column of our army that was engaged in the battle with Hu Lian, and after a day of fighting, Hu Lian ordered the troops to build fortifications immediately. Although he had greedy and cheap selfish intentions, Dai Zhiqi was very important to Chiang Kai-shek after all, and he did not dare to ignore it easily.
At this time, our army's understanding of the situation did not seem to be very accurate, and when the Ninth Vertical Superior reported it, It was Hu Lian's troops that had been defeated and retreated. So Su Yu immediately ordered a column to encircle it, and then the first column sent a brigade to cut a short road to encircle it. It turned out that hu lian's plan had been caught, and they had not only built strong fortifications here, but at the same time, the troops responsible for the encirclement of our army were surrounded by the enemy. Ye Fei was also very angry in the face of this situation, because the situation of the troops was very dangerous. Fortunately, however, the troops in charge of the encirclement accidentally found that Hu Lian was set up at Cao Jiaji's headquarters, so they attacked it.
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In the face of the sudden blow of our army, Hu Lian thought that the main force of our army was coming, so he ordered the troops to retreat. Fortunately, Hu Lian retreated in a relatively timely manner and was able to quickly jump out of the encirclement of our army. Therefore, after Su Yu commanded the troops to annihilate the 69th Division, he found that Hu Lian had already run. This was the first time that Hu Lian had run. In the Battle of Nanma in July 1947, four columns of our army led by Chen Yi and Su Yu planned to encircle Hu Lian's reorganized 11th Division here.
At that time, General Su Yu planned to use the three-to-one superiority here to turn the Battle of Nanma into the Second Battle of Menglianggu. However, Hu Lian was not an idle person, facing Su Yu's superior troops. He ordered his troops to take advantage of the terrain of Nanma and build a bunker that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The alphabet bunker is a large bunker, with several small bunkers, so that it can offset the firepower superiority of our army. Sure enough, when Hua Ye attacked for the first time, the small bunker played a great role. Subsequently, our army sent a large number of artillerymen, and the Kuomintang army in the small bunker ran to the bunker.
The | bunker
Subsequently, the counterattack was effectively organized, and the result was to slow down HuaYe's march at once. However, Hu Lian is well aware that the characteristic of our army is that it is strong in learning, and although this method of warfare is very strong, it is sooner or later for our army to crack it.
Therefore, he once again fell into fear, so he asked the Kuomintang Xuzhou Command for support. But on the other hand, he did an incredible act, that is, he began to burn incense and ask God for blessings. However, these days are the rainy season in Shandong, so many of the weapons of our army Huaye have lost their effect in an instant because they were wet. For our army's offensive strength, it is a great loss. A few days later, the Nationalists sent reinforcements from two integrated divisions to Nanma. Seeing this, Su Yu could only order his troops to retreat. It was precisely because Hu Lian escaped from Su Yu's encirclement twice and was praised by Chiang Kai-shek as the nemesis of our army. In fact, this was said at the beginning, Hu Lian was actually passively beaten these two times, but he escaped by chance.
Destroy the skinny dog array with Liu Shuai
Although Hu Lian escaped twice, he never had such good luck when he met Liu Shuai. Liu Shuai and Su Yu's way of annihilating the enemy is very different, and he is good at using various opportunities to entangle with the enemy. Since Liu Deng's army approached Dabie Mountain, Hu Lian's reorganized 11th Division moved to the Central Plains and began to play games with Liu Deng's army. Because Liu Shuai had experienced hundreds of battles, he already knew Hu Lian's trajectory very well. Therefore, he knew that since Hu Lian was good at escaping, he simply let him run enough. At the beginning of 1948, General Chen Geng joined forces with Hua Ye to take Luoyang in one fell swoop.
Picture | Liu Bocheng
He also captured a beloved general of Chiang Kai-shek, who knew the news and urgently dispatched the reorganized 11th Division to rescue Luoyang.
After Liu Shuai saw this situation, he said that Hu Lian's troops must have been very tired after they came here after a long-distance raid. Therefore, he first ordered the troops attacking Nanyang not to attack for the time being, and then ordered the troops to ambush Hu Lian between Nanyang and Zhumadian. Although he didn't know that Liu Shuai had already set up an ambush here, he was still very cautious. The vanguard troops were sent to test first, but Liu Shuai soon saw his plan and planned to spare Hu Lian's vanguard troops first. However, Hu Lian still did not act, so he had to order the troops to retreat first. In the later battles, Nakano and Hu Lian's troops met in Kaifeng, but they fought very hard. Liu Shuai knew that Hu Lian was not an ordinary capture, but he also quickly figured out his combat characteristics.
When the Battle of Huaihai began, Hu Lian's 18th Army became an important component of the battlefield. At that time, the Kuomintang planned to integrate several major forces with Hu Lian's 18th Army and turn it into the 12th Corps. At first, Hu Lian still felt that he could become a commander with confidence, but because Bai Chongxi obstructed him, Huang Wei became the commander of the corps, and Hu Lian became a deputy.
Figure | Huang Wei
As a result, he could not accept this reality, and chose to use the family as an excuse to leave. As a result, he left, and the situation took a terrible change. On the battlefield of Xuzhou, Huang Baitao's army fell into a siege. Du Yuming's troops were never able to rescue him. In an emergency, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to use a dead horse as a living horse doctor to let Huang Wei rescue Huang Baitao's army.
The Huang Wei Corps was originally a highly mechanized elite army, and if it could quickly reach Xuzhou, it would inevitably make Hua Ye fall into the belly and back of the enemy. However, he still did not know enough about the situation on the battlefield, and the places where his troops had to pass through, such as Henan and Anhui, belonged to many rivers. This means that the mobility of mechanized troops will be greatly limited, and coupled with the continuous attacks of our army, the troops will not be able to reach the designated locations for combat in time. When Huang Wei's army came to the Mengcheng area, it was blocked by two columns of Nakano. Originally, he should have avoided entanglement with our army, but should have rescued Huang Baitao's corps as soon as possible. However, he chose to fight with the two columns of Nakano, and as a result, he was surrounded by the strength of Liu Shuai's seven columns. What was even more difficult at this time was that Huang Baitao's corps had already been surrounded and annihilated by our army. At this time, Liu Shuai was planning how to surround and annihilate the 12th Corps, but Nakano's current situation was not very good. Because since the battle advanced into the Dabie Mountains, the troops have not rested for a year, so the troops are very tired.
Although Nakano and the Nationalist 12th Corps were on a par with each other, trying to eat this enemy was like a skinny dog eating a behemoth. It is precisely because of this reality that Liu Shuai will call this style of play a skinny dog formation, but the current situation is that the 12 corps must be eaten. Fortunately, the headquarters of our army ordered Hua Ye to drag Du Yuming's troops, and the collapse of the 12th Corps had already become an inevitable reality at this time. The funny thing at this time is that Chiang Kai-shek is still ordering his troops to become Wen Tianxiang. But after all, the general trend had gone, and the Nationalist reorganized 11th Division was fully reimbursed in the Huaihai Campaign.