Commander of Xu Shandong Corps

In the middle and early period of the liberation war, the war was concentrated in the vast area north of the Yangtze River. The main warring areas between the two sides can be roughly divided into five battlefields: northwest, central plains, east China, northeast China and north China. As a result, our army gradually formed five military region systems and five field armies respectively (there used to be Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei field army in North China battlefield).

It should be pointed out that in the early days and early days of the war of liberation, the enemy was still strong and we were weak. At this time, in all strategic areas, our army as a whole is in the defensive stage.

That is, the enemy's attack, we constantly consume and destroy the enemy's effective strength through mobile defense and large-scale mobile warfare, and finally realize the strategic counterattack and strategic Armageddon through the accumulation of strength. What we have listed is the symbolic battle of our army from strategic defense to realizing the strategic counterattack on five battlefields: Yang Dezhi, commander of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army.

Time:1947 August 18-20 Location: Shajiadian District, Mizhi County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province1947 At the beginning of August, the Northwest Field Army went out of western Henan to cooperate with Xie Chen's regiment, and the main force went north to besiege Yulin. Although our army has successively won the battles of Qinghuabian, Panlong and Yangmahe, and wiped out about three brigades in Hu Zongnan, the situation in the northwest battlefield is still very grim, and Xiye and the "Central Front Committee" are still surrounded by the enemy.

Yulin city was established, and the northwest field army could not attack for a long time. Deng Baoshan desperately for help. Under the headmaster's strict orders, Hu Zongnan dispatched 1 Army and eight brigades of the 229th Army to the north for assistance, and at the same time sent Zhong Song to reorganize 36 divisions to form a "quick corps" to make rapid progress near Yulin. In order not to fall into the trap of Mr. Peng's "encirclement and suppression of Dayuan", the cunning Zhong Song abandoned the main road, but bypassed the desert and approached Yulin in a roundabout way, eventually forcing the Northwest Field Army to retreat. At this time, our army was oppressed to the desert in the north, the Yellow River in the east, the Wuding River in the west and the narrow area of the enemy in the south, with little room for manoeuvre.

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The enemy camp is arrogant. Hu Zongnan ordered Zhong Song's entire 36th division to go south from Yulin immediately, and then ordered Liu Kan to lead the main force north in an attempt to "decisive battle" with me in the West Field.

If the north and south enemies meet, the battle behind will be more difficult. And Mr. Peng is determined to use the time difference between the two enemies to concentrate on destroying the entire North Road 36th Division.

Shajiadian, the only road that the Northwest Field Army must pass through in Zhong Song, concentrated the 1st, 2nd, Teaching Brigade and New 4th Brigade, and the battle started on August 1947.

On 20th 17, except for Zhong Song who fled by night with a few enemies in disguise, the entire 36th Division and its two brigades with more than 6,000 people were all wiped out.

The victory of Shajiadian campaign fundamentally reversed the war situation in the northwest, and from then on, the northwest field army turned into a strategic counterattack, so it was a "turning point war."

The enemy camp is arrogant. Hu Zongnan ordered Zhong Song's entire 36th division to go south from Yulin immediately, and then ordered Liu Kan to lead the main force north in an attempt to "decisive battle" with me in the West Field.

If the north and south enemies meet, the battle behind will be more difficult. And Mr. Peng is determined to use the time difference between the two enemies to concentrate on destroying the entire North Road 36th Division.

Shajiadian, the only road that the Northwest Field Army must pass through in Zhong Song, concentrated the 1st, 2nd, Teaching Brigade and New 4th Brigade, and the battle started on August 1947.

On 20th 17, except for Zhong Song who fled by night with a few enemies in disguise, the entire 36th Division and its two brigades with more than 6,000 people were all wiped out. The victory of Shajiadian campaign fundamentally reversed the war situation in the northwest, and from then on, the northwest field army turned into a strategic counterattack, so it was a "turning point war." At the celebration meeting on August 23, Chairman Mao said happily: Shajiadian played really well, which is of decisive significance to the northwest war situation. The most difficult period has passed. In our Hunan dialect, after this battle, it will be over!

The enemy camp is arrogant. Hu Zongnan ordered Zhong Song's entire 36th division to go south from Yulin immediately, and then ordered Liu Kan to lead the main force north in an attempt to "decisive battle" with me in the West Field.

If the north and south enemies meet, the battle behind will be more difficult. And Mr. Peng is determined to use the time difference between the two enemies to concentrate on destroying the entire North Road 36th Division. Shajiadian, the only road that the Northwest Field Army must pass through in Zhong Song, concentrated the 1st, 2nd, Teaching Brigade and New 4th Brigade, and the battle started on August 1947.

On 20th 17, except for Zhong Song who fled by night with a few enemies in disguise, the entire 36th Division and its two brigades with more than 6,000 people were all wiped out. The victory of Shajiadian campaign fundamentally reversed the war situation in the northwest, and from then on, the northwest field army turned into a strategic counterattack, so it was a "turning point war." At the celebration meeting on August 23, Chairman Mao said happily: Shajiadian played really well, which is of decisive significance to the northwest war situation. The most difficult period has passed. In our Hunan dialect, after this battle, it will be over!

North China Battlefield: The Battle of Qingfengdian

Time:1947 65438+1October 10 Location: Qingfengdian area in the south of Baoding, Hebei. Before 1947 10, after all, our army in North China was in a passive state and failed to fight well for several consecutive battles. Shijiazhuang, Baoding and Beiping have always been controlled by the enemy, and the liberated areas in North China cannot be connected.

More crucially, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei field army has not completely destroyed an enemy, and the morale of the troops has been greatly affected.

At the beginning of 1947 10, the headmaster flew to Beiping to hang out and ordered Luo Lirong, commander of the 3rd Army stationed in Shijiazhuang, to lead a regiment of the 7th and 22nd Divisions of the 6th Army to leave Shimen secretly and go north to Baoding in an attempt to attack the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei field army in Xu Shui, north of Baoding.

Of course, this is also the result of Luo Lirong's suggestion behind the scenes. He doesn't want to stay in Shijiazhuang, an isolated city.

1947 10 17 at dusk, when the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei field army was marching westward, it suddenly learned the information that the Third Army was heading north. According to Commander Nie's orders, Yang Dezhi, commander of the field army, mobilized the superior forces of more than 40,000 people from six brigades, and intercepted them at the speed of urgent marching, and finally surrounded Luo Lirong and his men in the Qingfengdian area.

After two days and nights of fierce fighting, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army wiped out more than 3,000 enemy troops in Luo Lirong, including1/kloc-0,000 prisoners. The evaluation of the war history shows that it played a key role in reversing the war situation in North China and paving the way for the liberation of Shijiazhuang. In fact, it also created a prerequisite for the CPC Central Committee to enter Xibaipo to command the national war situation.

Northeast Battlefield: Battle of Tun Princess

Time:1948 65438+1October 4-7 Location: Princess Tun District, Xinmin County, Liaoning Province. 1947 65438+In mid-February, the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces concentrated nine field columns and launched a winter offensive in a vast area. Among them, Deng Hua 7 captured the important town of Zhangwu on 22nd, annihilated an entire division of more than 9,000 people, and then, with the cooperation of brothers, attacked the Faku again, completely shaking the enemy of Shenyang.

Chen Cheng judged that our army was tired. From 1 948 65438+1October1,assemble 15 divisions, and send out from Shenyang, Tieling and Xinmin to reinforce Faku in an attempt to fight against Dongye in the field.

"Dong Zong" made a decisive decision, and as soon as he turned around, he killed a comeback: five columns were used to contain the other two enemy lines, and four columns were concentrated to pursue the enemy on the left, forming a new Fifth Army.

On June 4th, 65438 10, our army completed the encirclement and suppression of the New Fifth Army and completely surrounded the enemy near Princess Tun. After three days and nights of fierce fighting, on October 7th, 65438/KLOC-0, more than 20,000 people from two divisions of the New Fifth Army were annihilated, and Lieutenant General Chen Linda was captured, creating a glorious example of our army annihilating the enemy for the first time in Northeast China.

The great significance of this campaign lies in: from then on, the enemy troops in Northeast China never dared to confront Dongye head-on, only stayed in large and medium-sized cities, that is to say, they lost the courage to fight against Dongye in the field, paving the way for the Liaoshen campaign, so it was called the turning point war.

Time: 65438+May to June 0948 Location: Kaifeng, Suixian and other eastern Henan areas.

This campaign was carried out by the main force of the East China Field Army advancing into the exterior line with the cooperation of the whole army of Nakano. After all, the three main columns of Nakano were extremely tired and weak after they were transferred out of Dabie Mountain, and they could only serve as secondary combat missions, but the battlefield center was in the Central Plains.

There were many introductions before the election. Su Yu led Hua Ye's six vertical lines and Nakano's one vertical line, first conquering Kaifeng, and then successively searching for and annihilating Shounian Corps and Yellow Corps. In the battle, more than 90 thousand people were wiped out by the whole army, which completely shattered the enemy's defense system in the Central Plains.

Time: 65438+May to June 0948 Location: Kaifeng, Suixian and other eastern Henan areas. This campaign was carried out by the main force of the East China Field Army advancing into the exterior line with the cooperation of the whole army of Nakano. After all, the three main columns of Nakano were extremely tired and weak after they were transferred out of Dabie Mountain, and they could only serve as secondary combat missions, but the battlefield center was in the Central Plains.

There were many introductions before the election. Su Yu led Hua Ye's six vertical lines and Nakano's one vertical line, first conquering Kaifeng, and then successively searching for and annihilating Shounian Corps and Yellow Corps. In the battle, more than 90 thousand people were wiped out by the whole army, which completely shattered the enemy's defense system in the Central Plains.

The significance of the campaign in eastern Henan lies in that the enemy of the Central Plains never dared to come out alone with one or two integrated divisions, and even several mobile regiments of integrated divisions (or armies) dared not give assistance easily, thus making the enemy on the battlefield in the Central Plains completely passive and becoming a turning point in the Central Plains.

Called the turning point war, our army took the initiative in the battlefield of the Central Plains, forcing the enemy to cancel the Zhengzhou headquarters of General Lu, and set up the Xuzhou suppression headquarters in June, making arrangements to abandon almost all the important towns in the Central Plains and shrink Xuzhou.

In this regard, Chairman Mao still commented that "we have passed the depression of the mountain and the most difficult climbing stage has passed". After the Battle of Eastern Henan, the recovered Central Plains Field Army began to take the initiative to find enemy fighters and capture large and medium-sized cities, such as the liberation of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng.

Time:1948 September 16-24 Location: Dayuan Battlefield in Lunan, Jinan, Shandong. To explain, although our army has won many major battles in East China before, including the battles in northern Jiangsu, southern Shandong, Menglianggu, Laiwu and Jiaodong. They are all in the stage of the enemy's all-round attack and key attack, and the overall situation is still that the enemy is strong and we are weak.

However, the battle of Jinan was different. It was the first time that our army took the initiative to seek a decisive battle with the enemy on the battlefield in East China: to liberate Jinan and hit the enemy hard on the battlefield of aiding Africa, the war situation changed fundamentally.

At the same time, for the first time, Hua Ye put in more field troops than the enemy, about 320,000 to 280,000 people. Finally, after eight days of fierce fighting, Hua Ye conquered Jinan, wiped out 1 100000 people under the command of Wang, and connected East China and North China Liberated Areas.

However, Du, the enemy of Xuzhou, led three regiments 1.7 million people, but he didn't really dare to come to help, indicating that the morale of the enemy in East China had collapsed and he didn't dare to confront our army again. This is the turning point.

The battle of Jinan also marked that our East China Army turned into a strategic counterattack in an all-round way and began to fight hard against the fortified central cities, which also became the prelude to the Huaihai Campaign.