However, in the third stage of the Huaihai Campaign, Duji Tuan was already under the siege of Hua Ye. As the commander-in-chief of the First Army, Du did not choose the aboveboard road and surrendered to our People's Army to save 300,000 lives. Instead, he did not hesitate to bet 300,000 lives, stood on the opposite side of the people, became enemies with the people, and died together with the Chiang family dynasty. As a result, many fresh lives were buried in his hands in vain.
It can be said that Du, as the commander-in-chief of the group, bears the main responsibility for this war. Therefore, after the Huaihai Campaign, Du was listed as the number one war criminal in the Kuomintang and reformed.
But little known is that, compared with Du's stubbornness, there is actually such an extremely firm anti-communist figure in Du Tuantuan. He is the general of the Second Corps-Qiu Qingquan.
It is precisely because of Qiu Qingquan's resolute refusal to surrender and his attitude of blessing Du that Du not only failed to lead his troops in the right direction of surrendering to the People's Army, but sank deeper and deeper into the wrong quagmire, which eventually led to the complete annihilation of the army, and he himself became a war criminal spurned by the people.
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1948 65438+In February, the Huaihai Campaign entered the third stage. On February 4th of that year, in 65438, 300,000 troops of Du Group were besieged by Hua Ye in the area of Chenguanzhuang. Although Du Group is trapped in Chen Guanzhuang at this time, it does not mean that Du has no possibility to break through.
First of all, in order to surround Du Group, Su Yu transferred three columns from the downtown, which made the defense of the downtown group and Liu Ruming Corps too weak, leaving only columns, two brigades of Jianghuai Military Region and Bohai Column 1 division in the downtown group.
Secondly, the two regiments, Liu and Li, who were entrenched in Bengbu, fought bravely in the north under the bid of the two chariot battalions led by them, and the pressure on the southern line suddenly doubled. Jiang Weiguo, who once led the army in the downtown area, almost destroyed the defense line set by the Southern League of Hua Ye, leaving only the last line of defense that was barely broken by the enemy at Wang Bicheng's insistence.
At the same time, the situation of double pile group surrounded by Nakano is not optimistic, while the pressure of blocking aid in Hua Ye South Group is enormous. At this time, there were only1.2000 people in nakano, while there were1.2000 people in Huang Wei Corps trapped in the double pile group. We should know that the Huang Wei Corps is a corps reorganized by the 18 th Army, one of the "five main forces" of the Kuomintang, and its combat effectiveness is very strong. It is not easy for Nakano to surround the Huang Wei Corps with equal forces.
It happened that at this time, Hu Lian, as cunning as a fox and as fierce as a tiger, parachuted into Duiji again. Hu Lian is the military leader of the18th Army, and his arrival has undoubtedly brought new hope to the stevie hoang Army. Moreover, after Hu Lian's airborne double-stack, by adjusting the defensive strategy, the general attack originally initiated by Nakano was frustrated step by step.
It can be said that under the strategic situation of both sides, if Du Group concentrates all its strength, chooses a breakthrough point and makes desperate efforts to break through, it is unknown whether China can completely and firmly trap Du Group in Chenguanzhuang.
But even so, Du failed to grasp the fleeting fighters on the battlefield in time. When he and the three military chiefs, Sun and Qiu Qingquan, agreed on the plan of going south to break through, the whole army was preparing to break through in a big way that night, and Du suddenly canceled the plan of action of breaking through, resulting in the annihilation of Sun Corps who broke through alone.
Du suddenly canceled the breakthrough action plan, mainly because Qiu Qingquan temporarily changed his mind. The reason for Qiu Qingquan's change of heart is that he believes that according to his previous experience in fighting with the Communist Army, if a general is surrounded by the People's Liberation Army, the siege period will only be around 10~20 days, which is generally not too long. In this time unit, if the PLA cannot annihilate its opponents, it will automatically withdraw from the encirclement.
But with the passage of time, gradually, Qiu Qingquan finally woke up, and he began to understand that Hua Ye would not give up until he reached his goal this time.
Just after Du Group ruined Sun Corps in vain, Qiu Qingquan finally recognized the situation, so he made up his mind to concentrate all his strength and continue to break south along Sun's previous breakthrough.
Unfortunately, the direction of breaking through to the south is precisely the defense zone of Song Dynasty. Song is brave and good at fighting, and his military theory is brilliant. He is a rare "Confucian general" in our army. Besides, he is good at defense. Therefore, when Qiu Qingquan led the army south, he was beaten back by Song.
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Hua Ye surrounded Chen Guanzhuang, Du Group's breakthrough plan failed, the morale of the troops fell to a very low level, and the Kuomintang army was in chaos.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek's heart was like a pot of boiling hot water. Now, instead of insisting on ordering Du to rescue the Corps, he quickly gave the order to break through.
Chiang Kai-shek suddenly changed his mind, not because his military accomplishment suddenly improved, but because the Hoang Wei Corps had been annihilated by Nakano. Just as Qiu Qingquan led the army south in an attempt to break through, Su Yu, commander-in-chief of Hua Ye, thought twice and drew three columns from his command to March toward Nakano.
In the case of insufficient troops, Su Yu pulled out three columns to support nakano. It can be said that this is both necessary and brilliant.
The battlefield situation at that time was that the troops blocked by Hua Ye South Group were seriously inadequate, and the troops commanded by Jiang Weiguo almost broke through Wang Bicheng's defense line; However, because Nakano was equal to the besieged stevie hoang Corps, and stevie hoang was basically a mechanized unit, Hu Lian's sudden airborne made stevie hoang Corps' combat effectiveness re-integrated. Therefore, Nakano was repeatedly frustrated when he launched a general attack on the stevie hoang Legion.
In this case, Su Yu had to adopt the strategy of overall defense and local attack against Du Group with limited forces. In order to make Nakano adowa stevie hoang Corps as soon as possible, after stevie hoang Corps was annihilated, Nakano strengthened the defense line of South Hua Ye Corps to resist the threat of Li Yannian and Liu Ruming Corps going north. Out of this strategic intention, Su Yu therefore pushed and set aside three columns for Nakano.
Facts have proved that under the complicated situation, General Su Yu's strategic vision is very accurate. Stevie hoang corps was adowa nakano, southern Li Yannian and Liu Ruming corps see the situation is not good, turn around and run. At this time, in the Huaihai battlefield, only Du's group was left to fight alone.
While Du Group is sticking to Chen Guanzhuang, the situation of the national liberation war is undergoing profound changes. First of all, the Liaoshen Campaign won a decisive victory. Due to the victory of Liaoshen Campaign and other battlefields, the national military situation has taken a new turn. The total strength of the People's Liberation Army rose from more than 6,543,800 +0.2 million at the beginning of the war to 3 million, from inferiority to superiority; The total strength of the Kuomintang army dropped from 4.3 million to 2.9 million, from superiority to inferiority.
Secondly, with the liberation of Northeast China, the Kuomintang Fu Corps, which straddles the front line of Beijing and Tianjin, has become the first obstacle to be eliminated by our army. At that time, Tanggu Corps, Tianjin Corps and Beijing Fu Corps, with a total strength of more than 500,000 people, were at loggerheads at the Beijing-Tianjin front.
Although Fu, the commander of the "suppression general" in North China, has more than 500,000 troops, Jiang's troops are distributed in Suiyuan, Beiping, Tianjin and other places. Only 200,000 really belong to Fu, and the rest are the clique of the Central Army. The cracks in the Kuomintang army just gave our army a glimpse.
Of course, as the commander-in-chief of the "suppression general" in North China, Fu is well aware of his own situation. There were three roads before him at that time. The first way is to take Tianjin and escape by sea. The second way is to escape from Suiyuan to the west; Third, retreat to the south by land and meet Du Yu Ming. None of these three roads is what Fu wants.
As a born Fu, he knew the difference between Chiang Kai-shek's treatment of the Central Military Group and local miscellaneous armies. Therefore, it is not easy to become the "king of North China" from a general of a miscellaneous army. This one-sided "vassal" status is too tempting. How could Fu give up the hard-won throne of "King of North China"?
However, the precipitous situation before him made him make a choice. When he fled to Suiyuan in the west, he was worried that it would be difficult for him to survive alone. Joining Du in the south can solve the siege of Du Group, concentrate on getting into a ball, and can be ruled by the People's Liberation Army in the future, but for a long time, its foundation is in Suiyuan area, and if it is withdrawn in the south, its main force is likely to be annexed by Chiang Kai-shek; It's a long way to go to sea. Although it's a posterior approach, Chen Changjie is Chiang Kai-shek's clique after all.
Fu Si thought about it and never made up his mind. Therefore, at this time, any military action of our army will stimulate Fu's sensitive nerves. How to seize Fu and ensure the annihilation of Du Corps has become a difficult problem to test our army.
At that time, while Du Tuan was besieged by Hua Ye in Chenguanzhuang, the Northeast Field Army secretly entered the customs after Liaoshen Campaign, and Yang Chengwu Corps quickly surrounded Zhangjiakou, cutting off Fu Xi's escape route. If Fu's regiment wants to escape again, it can only go to Pingjin by sea or meet Du in the south.
Obviously, once Fu fled from the sea, I am afraid that the naval strength of the People's Liberation Army at that time could only look at the ocean and sigh, watching Fu escape. At this time, Nakano had completed the task of annihilating stevie hoang Corps, and Su Yu took advantage of Hua Ye's absolute superiority in the battle of Chenguanzhuang. Chen Guanzhuang immediately set up a double encirclement, with six or seven floors in the deepest part and five floors in the shallowest part. That is to say, Hua Ye didn't want to adowa du group at this time.
But the problem is, if Hua Ye destroyed Du Group at this time, it would mean that the People's Liberation Army cut off Fu's southward withdrawal route at the same time, and Fu, who was terrified, was likely to flee southward by sea via Tianjin and camp along the Yangtze River with other remnants of Kuomintang troops in an attempt to co-manage the Yangtze River with the People's Liberation Army, which caused great difficulties in the later crossing battle.
In view of this, the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission explicitly instructed to suspend the attack on Du Group.
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In fact, from1February 4, 948, when Duji Tuan was besieged, to the central government's order to suspend the attack decision, Duji Tuan was besieged for 13 days. In these 13 days, the enemy's situation is deteriorating. In Memoirs of Su Yu War, General Su Yu recalled:
That is to say, under the heavy siege of Hua Ye, the position of Chen Guanzhuang controlled by Chiang Kai-shek is shrinking, and even the air-dropped materials that could have saved lives are finally too few because Chiang Kai-shek's territory is compressed, so it is impossible to obtain air-dropped materials, and even many materials fall on the position of Hua Ye.
In this case, the Kuomintang army began to collapse, and Chiang Kai-shek soldiers had to live on bark because they had no food, so Chiang Kai-shek began to fall into collective collapse.
At the same time, the president issued "Persuade Du to Surrender", which clearly conveyed the spiritual instructions of giving preferential treatment to surrender and resisting adowa, but Du immediately destroyed it after reading this letter. Soon, Chen Yi sent another letter of surrender. After reading this letter, Du hesitated whether to invest. So he circulated the letter to Li Mi. He didn't say anything, and then the letter reached Qiu Qingquan.
Du did this in order to find out whether his generals would surrender. After all, at this point in the war, if they don't surrender, they will only die.
However, what Du didn't expect was that after reading the letter, Qiu Qingquan immediately tore it to pieces and shouted loudly: "Surrender * * *, what is the backbone?" Obviously, Qiu Qingquan's move is to go shopping with the PLA.
At this point, Du realized that surrender was impossible, because under Du's command, Sun Corps was completely annihilated, and the Corps was incomplete, while the powerful Qiu Qingquan Corps was relatively complete. If Qiu Qingquan refused to surrender, Du could not successfully lead the whole group to surrender.
Qiu Qingquan, the "strength faction", refused to surrender when he died, because of his foolish loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek and his broken mind.
After Chen Guanzhuang was impenetrable by Hua Ye, he watched the activity position of the whole Chiang Kai-shek army shrink backwards, but Qiu Qingquan drank and danced every day, and often said to himself alone in his room: "I am 48 years old, I have seen enough, played enough, and enjoyed everything, even if I die."
In the long-term confrontation with Du, Su Yu gradually realized that Du could not surrender, and at this time, the central government also had the intention to suspend the attack. Chiang Kai-shek was hungry and collapsed collectively, but Qiu Qingquan regarded the lives of hundreds of thousands of people as dirt, and his words and deeds were full of the attitude of going shopping with the people's army to the end.
At this point, in the face of such stubborn reactionaries, Su Yu finally gave up any hope of winning. So far, he just lost this good opportunity because he was angry.
So, Su Yu ordered another 20 days! In this way, it not only created conditions for the Pingjin campaign, but also killed the morale of Du Group in the constant siege. At the same time, it can also cut off the enemy's route for providing foodstuff, making it impossible for Chiang Kai-shek to continue fighting.
Sure enough, under the wise command of Su Yu, Chiang Kai-shek was too hungry to move, and even the bullets and medicines were gone. The enemy can only watch helplessly as our soldiers push the trenches deeper into them. 1949 65438+1October 6th, Hua Ye launched a general attack. In just four days, the most powerful Duji regiment was completely wiped out from the Huaihai battlefield, and our army finally won a decisive victory in the Huaihai Campaign.