After studying the history of Chinese wars, British Marshal Montgomery not only lamented Chairman Mao's proficiency in the art of war, but also marveled at the gathering of capable men and men under Chairman Mao, which was difficult to win or not.
Peng Dehuai, Su Yu, Ye Jianying, Zhu De... The names of these founding fathers are familiar to us, but there are some whose names, although not often mentioned, have also made great contributions to the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the "invisible general" Han Liancheng is such a person.
In the past, more than 50,000 troops could not kill a road, but the commander broke through alone, and the old boss did not understand this matter for 26 years.
On June 13, 1946, a telegram was sent from Nanjing to Chen Cheng, and the four big words of "quick battle and quick decision" were particularly dazzling; according to the idea of the Nanjing one, with superior troop strength and sophisticated equipment, the Kuomintang army had the opportunity to advance rapidly and eliminate most of the living forces of our party.
When the enemy attacks, we will retreat, and all the large and small towns and cities we have occupied before will be let go, and I will give you what you want, and this is the strategy of our Party at that time.
In mid-December 1946, the outpost battle of our party's counterattack was officially launched, and the main forces of the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army successfully met, launching the Subei Campaign with a thunderous momentum, annihilating more than 20,000 enemy troops, and the division commander Dai Zhiqi was defeated and committed suicide.
In January of the following year, the two major units took advantage of the situation to launch the Lunan Campaign, annihilating more than 50,000 enemy troops, and the victories in the two battles completely made Nanjing confused the strength of our party.
The main forces of the two operations, the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army, were formally merged, and the East China Field Army Huaye was born.
Two consecutive heavy blows slammed Nanjing's head. Serious illnesses must also be treated with fierce medicine, and the so-called "Battle of Lunan" strategy in Nanjing was born.
After withdrawing Xue Yue, who had lost two consecutive battles, his confidant General Chen Cheng personally went to Xuzhou to supervise the battle, and the Nanjing side tried to gain an advantage in the Shandong battlefield, "clarifying the situation in Lunan in 15 days", which was a promise made by the Nanjing side, although in the end it all became a bubble.
Chen Cheng first took Linyi, Shandong as the center, and sent Ou Zhenbing to command the southern front assault group, Wang Yaowu as the northern front assault group, and the Li Xianzhou group on the other side as an auxiliary.
The two groups in the north and the south, which had absolute superiority in troops, marched at the same time, and even HuaYe's way of asking for help was intercepted by Wang Jingjiu's group.
The battlefield situation is changing rapidly, Huaye's current situation is not optimistic, and the Battle of Laiwu and Han Liancheng will play a crucial role in the next major war.
The superiority of troops did not venture forward, and Chen Cheng adopted the most stable and steady way. The most common method of fighting with less and more is to concentrate the forces to annihilate each one, and it is this tactic that Su Yu is best at.
In order to deal with Su Yu, Chen Cheng ordered the whole army to travel six kilometers a day, advance slowly, and each army must install an elite soldier, so that it was like a huge turtle marching on the land of Lunan.
Su Yu's tactic of luring the enemy to go deeper and breaking them one by one has failed, Huaye is in the pocket surrounded by the nationalist army, and if he does not break through again, there will only be a way to go head-on, which is undoubtedly the most unfavorable to our army.
After calm analysis, Su Yu targeted the Li Xianzhou Group.
The three armies of the Li Xianzhou Group happened to be in the trend of going deep alone, which was an excellent breakthrough for Hua Ye.
Chen Yi and Su Yu immediately made a decision, ordering the whole army to immediately go north and pretend to be defeated, but in fact the troops pointed directly at Laiwu Li Xianzhou.
On February 20, 1947, the Battle of Laiwu was officially launched.
Our army's direct target of Laiwu was not able to conceal it from all the generals of the nationalist army, and Wang Yaowu of the Northern Front Group had already realized that Laiwu was Huaye's real target when he pushed north.
Wang Yaowu immediately ordered Tian Junjian, who was pursuing Huaye's forces, to reinforce Laiwu and return to the 73rd Army.
But in the end, Tian Junjian fell into the ambush of our army, which also started from the command system of the nationalist army.
Tian Junjian was the commander of the 77th Division, and the 77th Division was subordinate to Han Jun's 73rd Army, and Han Jun's immediate superior was Li Xianzhou.
Wang Yaowu crossed Li Xianzhou and Han Jun directly from Jinan to give Orders to Tian Junjian, which was the most taboo double-headed command on the battlefield.
Tian Junjian received orders to only support Laiwu, but Laiwu did not know anything about Tian Junjian's actions, and a unit that only cared about rushing to the road and did not respond just became the breakthrough point of our army.
On the other hand, the Battle of Laiwu had already begun, and when Tian Junjian, who was under siege, contacted Laiwu Li Xianzhou for support, Li Xianzhou was already unable to take care of himself.
After intercepting tian junjian's rush to help from the 77th Division, no nationalist troops could quickly support Li Xianzhou.
But for Hua Ye, as long as Li Xianzhou stuck to Laiwu, if he wanted to capture it in a short time, he would have to pay a heavy price.
Su Yu did not devote all his forces to besieging Laiwu City, but instead sent heavy troops to attack Tusikou, which was 28 kilometers away from Laiwu City.
To the west, you can enter Mount Taishan, to the east you can enter Boshan Mountain, to the north you can enter Zhangqiu, and the mouth of Tusi is the throat of Jiaoji Road into Luzhong.
Cao Zhenduo, who insisted on sticking to the mouth of Tusi, immediately asked Laiwu City for support, but Li Xianzhou in Laiwu City was already unable to protect himself, and where to take care of Cao Zhenduo.
Unable to wait for support, the connection with Laiwu City was cut off, and Cao Zhenduo, who was fighting alone, did not give up resistance and ordered his soldiers to stick to Tusikou, a warrior feat that may have harmed Li Xianzhou and achieved Han Liancheng today.
Losing contact with Tusikou, Li Xianzhou still believed that Tusikou was still in Cao Zhenduo's hands, and as long as he led a large army to break through and meet Cao Zhenduo, Su Yu's encirclement would not be self-defeating.
At this moment, Wang Yaowu sent a letter from Jinan abandoning Laiwu and breaking through quickly strengthened Li Xianzhou's determination to retreat.
The breakthrough of the large army should be immediate action and delay, and Li Xianzhou and his generals also thought the same, but Han Liancheng insisted that "the breakthrough cannot be carried out hastily, and if you want to be fast, you can't reach it." ”
Han Liancheng also persuaded Li Xianzhou with the fact that the 46th Division was already fighting with Huaye's troops and immediately breaking through the feared army's turbulent mood.
Han Liancheng, who was deeply trusted by the Nationalist army, successfully delayed the retreat of the Li Xianzhou clique, and Han Liancheng spread the news that the Li Xianzhou clique was about to break through to Su Yu, and our army immediately laid a net of heaven and earth outside the city, waiting for Li Xianzhou to enter.
On February 23, Li Xianzhou led a large army from laiwu headquarters to the army assembly area, but at this moment, Han Liancheng suddenly stopped leaving.
Han Liancheng's reason was to inform a regimental commander surnamed Xia to retreat, and although Li Xianzhou thought that the retreat of the large army should not be stopped, he was somewhat touched by Han Liancheng's righteous spirit, and only said to Han Liancheng to go back quickly, just like this, Li Xianzhou, who was parked in the same place, looked at Han Liancheng who was far away, but never waited for him to return.
As the minutes and seconds passed, Li Xianzhou, who could no longer wait, ordered his troops to immediately pull out.
Tusikou was the only way for Li Xianzhou's clique to retreat, and Tusikou had long been ambushed by our army layer by layer, and after Li Xianzhou opened his ranks, Su Yu, who had received intelligence, immediately ordered the occupation of Laiwu City, so that Li Xianzhou had no way to retreat at all, and fifty thousand troops were like rootless weeds floating between Tusikou and Laiwu City.
In front of the communist army, behind it was also the communist army, desperate Li Xianzhou watched the fifty thousand troops being crushed like cutting rice, and the defeat of the soldiers was like a mountain.
Wang Yaowu watched his elite troops being exhausted on the aircraft, and could not help but lament, "The Battle of Laiwu, heavy losses, a hundred years of lessons, unforgettable." ”
At the Battle of Laiwu, Huaye exchanged more than 8,000 casualties for more than 56,000 Nationalist troops, seizing the initiative in the Shandong battlefield, Chen Chenggui's plan to completely eat Huaye was completely foiled, and the situation on the Shandong battlefield was reversed in an instant.
Wang Yaowu, who was questioned by the Nanjing side, had no place to vent, and could only vent his anger on the captured Li Xianzhou.
"More than 50,000 people will be wiped out in three days, and Lao Tzu will let 50,000 pigs be arrested by the communists, and they will not be able to catch them in three days!" This phrase became a classic and has been reproduced by countless film works.
Then again, where did Han Liancheng, who went to look for Commander Xia, go.
Just after Li Xian was captured and more than 50,000 people were annihilated, Han Liancheng returned to Nanjing alone, first finding Bai Chongxi, and after being comforted by Bai Chongxi, he went to see Chiang Kai-shek.
How dare the defeated general find Bai Chongxi to see Chiang Kai-shek again?
At that time, the cost of Han Lian was the confidant of Bai Chongxi of the Gui clan, while on the side of the old Chiang Kai-shek, Han Liancheng was the eyeliner inserted into the interior of the Gui clan, and the importance that Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek attached to Han Chongxi could be imagined.
In this way, Han Liancheng, the great hero of the Battle of Laiwu in Huaye, successfully returned to the nationalist troops, and was also hyped up by Nanjing as a great hero who "broke through alone." When Li Xianzhou, who was far away at the War Criminals Management Center, heard this news, he was even more incomprehensible, and more than 50,000 troops could not kill a way, and how Han Liancheng single-handedly broke through from Shandong to Nanjing.
Li Xianzhou did not expect that in fact, Han Liancheng, like him, was also caught by our army in the process of "breaking through."
The campaign to encircle and suppress Tusikou was nearing its end, and the general Nie Fengzhi led his soldiers to carry out the final interception and encirclement and suppression, and for Nie Fengzhi, the battle was no longer carried out by this time with the intention of gaining great merit.
However, Nie Fengzhi found a nationalist officer curled up in a corner in a dark basement, seeing that this person's rank should not be low, and Nie Fengzhi, who was overjoyed, immediately reported and prepared to start interrogation.
However, not long after a phone call, Huaye commander-in-chief Chen Yi's phone called directly to Nie Fengzhi, who thought that nie Fengzhi was going to be rewarded with a scolding and received an order to release the general of the Nationalist army.
The general of the nationalist army that Nie Fengzhi captured was Han Liancheng, who had "failed to break through.".
26 years after the Battle of Laiwu, Li Xianzhou had performed well after being captured and had regained his freedom, while Han Liancheng had become the deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region.
After 26 years, the two finally met in Beijing, looking at the old boss of the past, Han Liancheng personally told Li Xianzhou the truth about the breakthrough at that time, and Li Xianzhou suddenly realized, like a dream.
The victory of the Battle of Laiwu had a decisive impact on the Battlefield of Shandong, and the wit of Han in the Battle of Laiwu has become a classic that has been passed down to this day.
From command to intelligence to morale, the victory of the Battle of Laiwu is also inevitable, and the defeat of the people's hearts and minds and the command of the chaotic nationalist army is also inevitable.
Looking back on this battle today, while lamenting that victory was not easy to come by, we should also cherish the peace of the moment and strive unremittingly for it.