Looking at the revolutionary struggle in our country, there is one general whose battles are extremely outstanding: he is General Su Yu. No general commands the battle, and does not want the more soldiers in his hands to be as good as possible. General Su Yu is just the opposite, he is best at winning more with less, surprise, the Battle of Huaihai is a battle of the gods of General Su Yu. General Su Yu fought countless hard battles in his lifetime, and in one battle, the commander even sent guards to the battlefield, which annihilated about 90,000 people in a regiment of the Kuomintang army. This is the Battle of Eastern Henan, what kind of situation can this war be so popular? Today, I will tell you about the beginning and end of the Battle of Eastern Henan.
Su Yu
The beginning of the war
In the second half of 1947, Liu Deng's army approached Dabie Mountain, and the nail had been deeply inserted into Chiang Kai-shek's heart. Chiang Kai-shek certainly would not allow the tiger to fall asleep next to the pillow, so he sent a large Kuomintang army to the Dabie Mountain area to encircle and suppress the People's Liberation Army, but the People's Liberation Army was no longer the Red Army before the War of Resistance Against Japan, and at this time the People's Liberation Army had been tempered by the War of Resistance Against Japan, and its grasp of tactics was already very skillful.
Chiang Kai-shek certainly did not stop there, so in early May 1948 he sent 13 integrated divisions with a total of 30 brigades to defend the western Henan region and many important towns in Henan, such as Kaifeng and Shangqiu. In addition, he arranged 12 integrated divisions plus 4 rapid columns to serve as support missions in an attempt to quickly find the main force of the People's Liberation Army and fight it.
In the face of this situation, the CPC Central Committee naturally did not sit still, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, who was then the people's liberation army in the Chinese, came to Puyang to inspect the army and the terrain, and after a few days of observation, he thought that our corps on the western front could learn about strategy and tactics and use the method of "fishing" to fish out the reorganized 5th Army.
Of course, there must still be a strategic deployment. The Central Military Commission first transferred Chen Yi to the Central Plains to strengthen the political and consciousness of the army; General Su Yu was transferred to the commander to command the entire army of the East China Field Army to fight. After observation, General Su Yu believed that the strength of the defenders in the Kaifeng area was relatively weak, and at this time the 3rd column and the 8th column of our army were near Kaifeng, and if we suddenly attacked Kaifeng at this time, the enemy would certainly be in a hurry. Therefore, on June 15, General Su Yu set a strategic intention to first open the seal and then annihilate other enemy troops, and after this strategic intention was reported to the Central Military Commission, the Central Military Commission also agreed.
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Fighting breaks out
As soon as the battle broke out, the People's Liberation Army seized the favorable terrain with lightning speed and conquered Kaifeng, the capital of Henan, at this time the Battle of Eastern Henan had been fought for nearly half a month. Kaifeng had already been captured, and Su Yu's original plan was to attack the number one enemy, Qiu Qingquan Corps, but General Su Yu did not do so, but turned around and let the Huaye 1st, 4th, and 6th Columns, which were in charge of the blockade task, turn to attack, and let them fight the Most Passive District Shounian Corps in the Kuomintang army to counterattack Kaifeng.
We all know that Chiang Kai-shek pays attention to nepotism, the district Shounian is a Cantonese miscellaneous army, naturally can not get Chiang Kai-shek's weight, he himself is also extremely limited loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek, the newly formed district Shounian Corps under the jurisdiction of the reorganized 75th Division, the 72nd Division, and the newly organized 21st Brigade, these people only want to preserve their own strength, so the result of this mentality to fight is that he is incompetent, the soldiers also do not want to fight, he himself did not want to go to the head with Qiu Qingquan, simply "messed up" on the road, the action is very slow. In the blink of an eye, they were 40 kilometers away from Qiu Qingquan's corps.
It was these forty kilometers that allowed General Su Yu to find the weakness of the Kuomintang army, and the opportunity for the annihilation war that General Su Yu had been waiting for finally appeared. On June 27, the Ou ShouNian Corps was surrounded by the People's Liberation Army in the area of Longwangdian. This is the first time since the outbreak of the civil war that the Platsu army has completely surrounded a fully formed corps field unit. The Kuomintang army had just lost a major military town, and in the blink of an eye, a large army group was about to be eaten, and Chiang Kai-shek was also very helpless at this time.
Surrounded by an enemy whose strength and firepower were stronger than his own on such a dangerous plain, then the force that was surrounded had basically no chance of winning, and no matter how much he prayed, ou Shounian would be powerless. The fierce battle was until noon on July 1, when the District Shounian Regiment was about to be completely annihilated, and the People's Liberation Army was immediately ready to clean up the battlefield.
Just at this moment, Huang Baitao's corps suddenly came! This hostility surprised Su Yu, he definitely would not come to support Ou Shou Nian at this time, what was the reason?
Kuomintang army
It turned out that the addition of Huang Baitao's corps to the battlefield in eastern Henan was a completely oolong incident, which was caused by Chiang Kai-shek's micro-manipulation. As early as after huaye's main force had all crossed the Yellow River, all the people and horses of the Kuomintang army also began to assemble in Henan. As a result, Yanzhou, an important town on the Jinpu Line, where only one reorganized 12th Division was stationed, was instantly isolated. At this time, the garrisons of Xuzhou and Jinan did not have the energy and strength to reinforce Yanzhou, so Xu Shiyou's army swept away the Kuomintang strongholds on the outskirts of Yanzhou and prepared for the siege without any worries.
This Yanzhou can not be lost, if it is lost, Jinan will inevitably be precarious. Chiang Kai-shek saw this, and he moved all of Huang Baitao's reorganized 25th Division from Qiu Qingquan's corps out to rescue Yanzhou. Later, Chiang Kai-shek formed the Ou Shou Nian Corps to fill the gap caused by Huang Baitao's integrated 25th Division.
At this time, some people have to ask, why is Chiang Kai-shek so tired and panicked that he has to tear down the eastern wall to make up for the western wall? The reason is this, the difference in strength between the Kuomintang troops is relatively large, the reorganized 72nd Division is a miscellaneous army in the miscellaneous cards, his personnel are mainly grasped Zhuang Ding, basically have no combat effectiveness, and do not want to fight, the reorganized 25th Division is different, this is the trump card in the trump card, then it must be allowed to reinforce Yanzhou.
Huang Baitao marched in the direction of Yanzhou, and on the way Chiang Kai-shek made another mistake in micro-fucking, and he felt that the District Shounian Regiment could be rescued, so he assigned the Third Rapid Column and the Second Column of the Traffic Police to Huang Baitao, and after forming a corps, turned around and marched rapidly in the direction in which Ou Shounian was surrounded, to pull Ou Shounian out of the center of the battlefield.
Chiang Kai-shek believed that the battlefield in eastern Henan was a relatively important war, and he could not watch a large-scale rout occur in the central plains battlefield. And Huang Baitao was also very energetic at this time, after breaking through the strong resistance of the PLA soldiers,
Soldiers on the battlefield
On July 1st, I went directly to the Dragon King Store, which was trapped in the district life, and there was only ten miles of the Diqiu Store.
This really refreshed our view of the Kuomintang army, because in the past, the Kuomintang army basically failed to fight due to the failure of the combat speed, so why did Huang Baitao work so hard this time? That was because Huang Baitao's slow reinforcements in the Battle of Menglianggu a year ago led to a major defeat of the Kuomintang troops inside, so Huang Baitao decided to perform well in front of Chiang Kai-shek this time.
It has to be said that Chiang Kai-shek's micro-exercises sometimes have some effect, and the return gun of Huang Baitao's corps caught General Su Yu off guard and could only change the strategic deployment again. At this time, the Ou Shounian Corps was still resisting, Huang Baitao was close at hand, and the troops of the three corps such as the "Flying General" Sun Yuanliang were approaching the battlefield in eastern Henan, and it was unknown whether the Central Plains Field Army could block these three corps.
At this time, according to the previous idea of "fighting if you can win, and running if you can't win," now you must be going back to the Liberated Areas to recuperate. But Su Yu felt that Ou Shou Nian's fat meat was too big at this time and did not want to spit it out, so he wanted to eat Ou Shou Nian, and he wanted to cook for Qiu Qingquan and Huang Baitao together, so that the three of them could eat together.
This is a pot of rice that is difficult to swallow, just like the chaff that is difficult for our ordinary people to swallow. It is easy for people to lose their last sanity in times of great joy and sorrow. Ou Shounian was overjoyed to hear the reinforcements' artillery in the encirclement, and organized his troops to start counterattacking with all their might. All the troops left the strong underground fortifications, the weakness of the Kuomintang army's lack of field combat ability was infinitely magnified, huaye troops began to counterattack after suppressing the struggle of the trapped beasts, and Ou Shounian's troops were eventually completely annihilated, and Ou Shounian was finally taken prisoner.
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When Ou Shounian claimed to be an old friend of General Su Yu when he was arrested, Su Yu did not give up and warmly received him, and Ou Shou Nian saw Su Yu and criticized him for committing a taboo against the soldiers because he had too much appetite. Su Yu was not angry, and after listening to his opinion, he thought that Ou Shounian was right, but this was no longer the time to solve the problem by retreating, so Su Yu asked the soldiers to take Ou Shounian down and began to think about how to deal with Huang Baitao.
He first left Nakano's 11th Column to monitor the 72nd Division, and quickly moved eastward with his troops, using this method to surround Huang Baitao.
This is a wise move, even if you can't cook for Huang Baitao and Qiu Qingquan, you have to let them leave some gifts. In this way, originally came to rescue Ou Shounian, as a result, Ou Shounian himself did not give strength, Huang Baitao himself was surrounded again, for a time Huang Baitao became the brightest star on the battlefield, he personally boarded the tank, shouted "Long live the Republic of China", and its bravery made the rats like Liu Zhi and Sun Yuanliang have to be ashamed after seeing it. Huaye's troops, which had been fighting in the sweltering heat for 18 days, had been seriously reduced at this time, and Huang Baitao was still trapped in the beasts at this time, and Huaye's troops had no choice but to desperately block them.
This battle was fought on the morning of the 6th, and Hua Ye himself lost a lot of living strength, eliminating the strength of Huang Baitao's three regiments, and Huang Baitao lost the ability to fight and survived.
However, this was a battle of great changes, Chiang Kai-shek once again carried out micro-exercises, Qiu Qingquan had no way, decided to take a desperate risk, he decided to bypass the PLA's blocking positions, and surrounded all the PLA that attacked Huang Baitao, and the PLA was finally counter-encircled.
Under such circumstances, Su Yu had no choice but to withdraw his troops and move to Sui County. In the end, this pot of rice was not all eaten. Huang Baitao himself was already ready to be loyal to the party and the state, and Huang Baitao finally persevered, and he also survived.
Huang Baitao
War evaluation
In this battle, both sides believe that they have fought a big victory. So, who makes the most money in this battle?
The answer is the People's Liberation Army. There are four reasons to support my point.
First, after this battle, the situation on our southern front has completely changed. Ever since Liu Deng's army advanced thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain, the situation between the enemy and us has been a tug-of-war, and we have not been able to find a large-scale annihilation campaign, thus opening up the war situation on the southern front. The Battle of Eastern Henan just opened up this situation, this battle transferred all the mechanical power of the Kuomintang army in the Central Plains to the battlefield of Eastern Henan, and there was a great emptiness on both wings of the Central Plains, which directly led to Xu Shiyou winning a big victory in the Battle of Yanzhou and capturing this place, and the Battle of Eastern Henan prompted the emergence of other battles and opened up the situation of operations on the southern front.
Second, the Battle of Eastern Henan completely frightened the Kuomintang army. For this battle, no one in our army generally dared to fight like this. After the end of the war, almost all the generals of the People's Liberation Army said that they did not dare to fight such a fierce war, so naturally the enemy did not dare to fight such a fierce war with us, and the enemy's final evaluation of us was: dare to concentrate forces to carry out large-scale operations, dare to repeatedly compete for important strongholds, and stubbornly hold firm. The enemy has a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Plaster, and this kind of shock is simply terrible for the Kuomintang army, so the Kuomintang army has a bone-deep jealousy of the PLA, and it is precisely this jealousy that causes the Kuomintang army to have a fear of the PLA, and the Kuomintang army is completely frightened.
Third, this battle has activated our morale. In ancient warfare, morale is always the most important, although our army has always been more morale than the generals of the national army, but everyone is a person, there are always times when the mood is low, just like after the division of troops in July, our army frequently moves around, has been in a passive situation, the morale of the troops has been greatly affected. After this battle, the morale of our army was completely activated and raised to a higher level.
Liberation
Fourth, this battle has completely ripened our decisive battle. In a sense, the Battle of Eastern Henan is a replica of the Battle of Huaihai. The strength of the troops is very similar, the Battle of Eastern Henan 200,000 to fight 250,000, the Huaihai Campaign 600,000 to fight 800,000, in terms of tactics, both sides are in different areas of the position tug-of-war, which is an unimaginable war for the Kuomintang army, the tactics of encirclement and reinforcement are played to the extreme, it can be said that the Battle of Eastern Henan is to deduce the future Battle of Huaihai first, after this battle, the Kuomintang army has been unable to launch a large-scale battle against us, since then the People's Liberation Army has occupied the initiative of the battlefield.
The right path in the world is vicissitudes, and the success of the People's Liberation Army, in addition to these several large-scale battles, is also inseparable from the support of the masses of the people. Therefore, the people are always the first, and the reason why our army is called the People's Liberation Army is because we all start with the people and everything is to serve the people. Do you have any views on the Battle of Eastern Henan? You are welcome to leave your valuable comments at the bottom.