On May 12, 1949, the Third Field Army launched a liberation operation against Shanghai.
Shanghai was one of the only large cities in China at that time, with a population of 6 million, was a famous international financial center in the Far East, in order not to destroy the reception of the city, before the attack, the superiors stressed that it was not allowed to use heavy fire weapons, so as not to cause irreparable damage, and later the soldiers described the liberation of Shanghai, in fact, "the porcelain shop to fight the tiger", and want to beat the tiger to death, but also can not destroy the porcelain, this difficulty is still too big.
But the enemy will not abide by any rules, shell after shell is fired one after another, our army has suffered a lot of casualties, some soldiers openly complained: whether it is the capitalist's building that is important, or the lives of the soldiers are important, but even if there are more complaints, the fight must continue to fight, because after the collapse of the Kuomintang army's Yangtze River defense line, all the remnants of the Kuomintang army in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou have gathered in this place in Shanghai, a total of 8 armies, 25 divisions and 200,000 people.
On May 12, the 29th Army of the Third Field Army launched an attack on Yuepu, although it was inconspicuous, it was a necessary place for our army to march into Wusongkou, and it was learned through reconnaissance that it was the 123rd Army of the Kuomintang Army that defended Yuepu, and against such miscellaneous cards, the 29th Army naturally did not matter, and the main offensive task fell to the 260th Regiment of the 87th Division of the 29th Army, which was an old unit of Sanye during the period of the Central Soviet Military Region and was good at offensive operations, and the commander of the army, Hu Bingyun, had great confidence in this regiment.
However, as soon as the battle began, the situation was not as easy as expected, the 260 regiment suffered a lot of casualties, even the 261 regiment that invested in the assist was also very heavy, through a platoon leader of the enemy army captured on the battlefield, it was learned that the Kuomintang army defending Yuepu was not the 123rd Army, but the 52nd Army, known as the "six main forces".
The 52nd Army is a subordinate unit of the Kuomintang army, its first commander is Guan Linzheng, who graduated from the huangpu first term, and the 2nd Division and the 25th Division are the most famous of the subordinate units, of which the 25th Division is the unit of the 52nd Army, Guan Linzheng is the first division commander, the department once had the title of "Thousand Mile Colt Division", during the Liberation War, it was completely annihilated by our army in the Battle of Xinkailing, and later rebuilt, and the 2nd Division itself is also a unit established by the 25th Division, with good combat strength.
Because the department itself is the central military department of the Kuomintang Army, it is not inferior to the five main forces in terms of equipment or the quality of soldiers, and later as one of the first 6 armies of the Kuomintang army to go to the northeast, it was once very arrogant, but under the blows of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, it was gradually defeated and retreated, and during the Liaoshen Campaign, the 52nd Army, as the main force of the Liao Corps, did not go south to aid Jinzhou, but was responsible for seizing Yingkou, and in the First Battle of Yingkou, the 2nd Division of the 52nd Army, The 25th Division was annihilated by 14,800 men, but more than 10,000 people still escaped from the northeast, and this battle also became a battle in the life of Liu Yuzhang, the commander of the 52nd Army, who called himself the "Dunkirk Retreat on the Northeast Battlefield".
Chiang Kai-shek was very happy that the 52nd Army could escape from the northeast, and ordered that the provisional 14th Division, which originally belonged to the New Sixth Army, should also be assigned to the 52nd Army, which was later changed to the 296th Division, and the 52nd Army thus became the main force of the Kuomintang Army, the only unit that had not been completely annihilated in the three major battles, and had been preserved.
Although the 260 regiment attacked bravely, but under the hard resistance of the 52nd Army suffered heavy casualties, when the commander Hu Bingyun called the 260 regiment, the regiment only had 120 people left, although it finally took Yuepu, but the 260 regiment finally fought only 64 people, more importantly, the 29th Army in the face of the 52nd Army, in the next 4 days of attack, more than 4,000 casualties, Hu Bingyun had to ask Ye Fei, requesting reinforcements to come, taking into account the actual situation, Ye Fei also transferred the 28th Army together. And from the 33rd Army drew 99 divisions to help.
However, the result was that although the 29th Army annihilated 12,600 enemy troops, it also suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and the attacking Sanye troops suffered no small casualties, and more crucially, after paying the cost of more than 10,000 casualties, the 52nd Army actually jumped out of the encirclement circle of our army and became the only unit of the Kuomintang army to withdraw from the whole structure , almost unable to lift their heads.