When Gu succeeded Xue Yue in commanding Xuzhou and Zhengzhou, the total strength of Chiang's regular army was * * * 24 BGF divisions (or unreformed troops) and 60 BGF brigades with about 455,000 people, which was all the troops on the battlefield in Henan and Shandong.
What about the troops who went deep into the mountainous area of Luzhong to seek a decisive battle with Hua Ye? He is the 65, 438+07 reorganization division of the first corps, the second corps and the third corps in Ouzhen. Roughly speaking, it accounts for 70% of all mobile forces in ancient times, with about 330 thousand people. It should be noted that, except for the whole 74th Division and the elite division of the whole 1 1 Division, most divisions of Jiangjun have only more than 20,000 people. Commander-in-Chief Gu's only consolation is that do these three regiments count? Five main forces? The third (all 74, all 1 1, 5 army), all 25 divisions, Guangxi 7 army, and other elite trump cards, the combat effectiveness is really first-class.
The East China Field Army has just won a great victory in the battle of Laiwu, captured many weapons and reformed prisoners. During this period, the 1 1 regiment was upgraded and incorporated into the field army, so there were ten columns (nine field columns and one special forces column) on standby in Luzhong Mountain area. What's the average number of people in Hua Ye's main column? According to the telegram sent by Su Yu to Xibaipo to prepare for an adventurous action, there are actually more than 82,000 people in the second, seventh and eighth columns, with an average of more than 27,000 people in each column. Please note that these three columns are not the first-class main forces in Hua Ye, with more than 30,000 people in columns 1, 4, 6 and 9.
In other words, in the battlefield of Meng Lianggu in May/947, more than 330,000 Chiang troops attacked 270,000 Hua Ye, and the strength contrast was only 1: 1.22, with little difference. After the start of the campaign, except for the whole 74th Division surrounded by Hua Ye, Gu Neng mobilized only ten reinforcements from the BGF Division nearby, of which the whole 1 1 Division was not close to the 5th Army. What concept? Specific to the front-line combat troops, only less than 300,000 Chiang Kai-shek attacked Hua Ye's main force, and any anti-encirclement campaign and the blossoming of the center were all nonsense, because Chiang Kai-shek's total strength had no obvious advantage at all.
Is this why Gu ordered three regiments to be sent? Close together intensively, strengthen maintenance, slow and steady, and gradually advance? The reason, he knows, Chiang Kai-shek only got a slight advantage in strength to get together, and once dispersed, he would be divided by Hua Ye. However, after scouting the location of Hua Ye headquarters, Tang tried to showdown with Hua Ye with eight BGF divisions in the headquarters, regardless of the pre-war deployment of the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces and the advancing speed of the other two regiments, which was simply a seasoned road. His 200,000 people can eat Su Yu's 270,000 troops?
In particular, the decisive battle position is even worse for Chiang Kai-shek. Meng Lianggu is located in the old Yimeng mountain area, and Hua Ye has a good mass base. When maneuvering, the confidentiality is particularly strong. However, Chiang Kai-shek was not only well-equipped in mountainous areas, but also paralyzed in intelligence work. This is the old base of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong. So, Su Yu followed Xibaipo? One is not to be impatient, and the other is not to split up. As long as the main force is in hand, there is always a chance to destroy the enemy? Instructions, don't avoid the battle, but we should find that we have wiped out the enemy all the way. It turns out that this first hammer will hit the 7 th Army of Guangxi and the 48 th Division of reorganization on the enemy's right.