Tao Yong received the telegram and read it. The order said: The 4th and 8th verticals were under the command of the 4th verticals commander Tao and the political commissar Guo, and the main force first attacked the enemy in Pixian County and Guanhu Lake, and then attacked Xutangji and Canal Station. The main force should be divided from east to west along the banks of yi river from Matou to Jiji section, from Guanhu, south of Jiji and north of Maoerwo to encircle the canal station and cannon car area to defend against the enemy. After success, the resistance forces will be deployed on both sides of the canal and east of Guanhu, artillery cars and Yaowan along the river. The Ministry should first concentrate its main force and artillery to attack and annihilate the enemy troops on the defensive at Canal Station, so as to make a quick decision, control the position, try to block the aid time and ensure that the main force encircles and annihilates the enemy's 7th Corps. When Tao Yong saw this, he gave the battle orders to all divisions: 10 Division: 1. Surround the enemy of Chahe with one force. After the success, continue to push in the direction of Jiakou, and find out the enemy's situation and terrain on the front line of Tanshang Town. The main force crossed the river from Toudaohe and Erdaohe Ferry to the south of Pixian County, and captured Xutangji. The other is to build fortifications along the east bank of the canal from the mouth of the house to the beach to stop the enemies who may help the east. And crossed the canal with a force, reconnaissance and warning in the direction of Nianzhuangwei and Cao Baji. 12 division: A regiment (guard battalion with column) crossed the river from Longfengya Ferry to capture Pixian County. After success, the guard camp was used to guard Guanhu, and the main force went straight to the Canal Station, and the elite troops cut off the connection between the Canal Station and the iron bridge. After attacking and destroying the enemy on the defensive at this point, we will control the railway bridge on the west side of the station with one force, mainly to surround the enemy of the big elm tree. 1 1 division: First, cross the river from Tanglou with one unit, capture the front lines of Xiaohuangjia and Bailongbu, and then closely monitor the enemy of Guanhu with one unit. And take the opportunity to annihilate the enemy troops in Guanhu with the main attack. One of them crossed the river to the east of Guanhu and went south to Shanger Erlang Temple, cutting off the connection between the cannon car and the Canal Station to ensure the safety of the left wing of 12 Division. Then the whole division attacked from south to west along the railway, and cooperated with the 12 division to encircle the enemy of the big elm tree. After receiving the order, the divisions set out on June 6 165438+ and went into battle. The Huaihai Campaign kicked off. On the 700-mile Longhai Line from Haizhou in the east to Shangqiu in the west, the East China Field Army launched a powerful offensive against Xuzhou Herry Liu Group.
Tao Yong led his troops to kill the enemy in three ways. 1 10 year 10 7, 10 division's 28th regiment invaded Jiakouwei, 12 division's 35th regiment captured Qiu county and defended the enemy from the east. In August, the left wing 1 1 division approached Guanhu from three sides; The 35th Regiment of Zhonglu 12 Division was forced to wade into the river to the east of Pixian under enemy fire, annihilated a reinforced company of the 9th Army along the east side of the city, and then moved to Lianyan to annihilate a company of the 9th Army. On the right, 10 division attacked Tanshang town, and one division was attacked by crossing the river to the west of Pixian county. 14 In the evening, just as night fell, the battle to attack Daxing Village began. The artillery approached and fired as scheduled, and the shells roared and flew to the enemy line. In an instant, the earth shook in Daxing village, smoke billowed, and gunfire drowned everything. The artillery fire destroyed the enemy's fortress and main fortifications and suppressed the enemy's firepower. The 30 th Regiment and 5 th Company Blasting Group quickly jumped out of the trench, bravely rushed to kill, inserted into the enemy line and opened the breakthrough. Supported by deep artillery fire, the enemy concentrated a large number of troops to fight back desperately at the breakthrough. The soldiers fought tenaciously and fought to the death with cluster grenades. Fighting from dusk to midnight, repeatedly defeated the enemy, consolidated and expanded the breakthrough, and ensured that the main force was put into battle in time. At dawn on June 5438+05, the battle was over. Daxing village was captured by 10 division, and the 467th regiment of the enemy's 64th army was wiped out. On 19, the headquarters of the Yellow Corps was attacked in Nianzhuangxu, most of the enemy troops on the defensive were wiped out, and the remaining troops fled into Youjiahu. Su Yu personally called and asked the pottery department to conquer Youjia Lake at all costs.
Tao Yong received orders, immediately to the division task, requirements that night to fight, don't allow any enemy to escape. As night fell, Tao Yong came to the 29th regiment as the main task and mobilized himself. At 8 o'clock in the evening, the attack began and the fighting continued until dawn the next day. The 29th Regiment captured two regimental forts on the Hubei side of Youjia, clearing the way for the general attack. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Tao Yong ordered the 34th Regiment of 10 Division,1Division and 12 Division to attack. At this time, Su Yu sent four tanks to Tao Yong for help. Tao Yong asked infantry, artillery and tank soldiers to work together. Suddenly the cannon roared and the tank advanced majestically. Hundreds of infantry followed the tanks and rushed to the enemy lines. After three hours of fierce fighting, they captured Youjia Lake and captured Liu, the commander of the sixty-four army. On the 22nd, the Yellow Army was wiped out and won the first stage of the Huaihai Campaign. Tao Bu won the victory of annihilating 20,000 enemy troops with 5000 casualties. After the first stage of the battle, the enemy situation in Huaihai battlefield formed three pieces: the Central Plains Field Army besieged the Huangwei Corps with two piles; Li Yannian and Liu Ruming Corps in Bengbu attempted to assist stevie hoang Corps in the north; Xuzhou's "suppression general" attempted to lead troops south to reinforce stevie hoang Corps. According to the general front Committee's intention of isolating and annihilating stevie hoang, Su Yu ordered Tao Yong to command the 4th column, 1 1 column, 12 column and Bohai column to form the East Road Resistance Group, and control the positions of Shuikou, Erchenji and Guandi Temple in the southeast of Xuzhou to prevent the enemy of Xuzhou from aiding the south. After Tao Yong was ordered, in order to give his brothers a rest, he first ordered the 10 division of this column to go to Chulan and the camp for defensive operations. At noon, the 10 division arrived, and the 96th division of the enemy's 70th army, under the cover of eight tanks, stormed Chulan and the camp, and was stubbornly blocked by the 10 division, and did not dare to cross the line. Seeing that there was no hope for south aid, the enemy of Xuzhou ordered Du, deputy commander-in-chief of the "suppression general", to lead the 2nd, 13 and 16 Corps to abandon Xuzhou and go south to reinforce the Corps. Su Yu ordered Tao Yong to command 1 1 column, the 4th column, 12 column and Bohai column in a unified way, from Pantang Town, Chulan and Chaoyangji, and to attack in the direction of Xiaoxian and Yonggeng via the south of Xuzhou, in pursuit of the enemy of Xuzhou.
Tao Yong was ordered to organize four columns quickly, adopting the tactics of combining multi-channel and multi-layer stern chase with parallel interception and circuitous interception, and making a fierce chase to the west. He put forward the battle slogan of "bravely pursuing, fighting continuously, and taking Du alive". I chased 100 miles on the first day. In the pursuit, manager Tao seized the American jeep. Tao Yong, political commissar Guo Huare and chief of staff Mei Jiasheng are in the same car. Wherever the car goes, Tao Yong's voice goes: "Come on, comrades, don't let the enemy breathe, come on!" The enemy was desperate and panicked, and the enemy fleeing along the road was defeated by the pottery department. Tao Yong commanded the troops to catch up with an fleeing enemy and ordered them to immediately insert into the enemy lines, so that they could not attend to each other from beginning to end, became a mess, and then annihilated one by one. In the pursuit, more than a dozen enemies were wiped out in succession, adding up to 30 thousand to 40 thousand people. On February 4, 65438, Tao Zong and his brothers besieged three groups of 300,000 people of Du Group in an area less than 20 miles northeast of Yongcheng. From 65438+February 6, according to the tactics of siege on three sides put forward by the General Front Committee, Du Group was attacked in turn. Coupled with the freezing weather, he carried out a powerful job of disintegrating the enemy. The enemy's heart is unstable. No matter in the early morning, at night, or in the cold night, there are always 322 or groups of enemies running to the PLA positions to defect. 65438+February 65438+May, there was exciting news that the Central Plains Field Army and the East China Field Army annihilated the Stevie Hoang Corps. In order to stabilize the Fu Group in North China, the Central Military Commission ordered all columns in the Huaihai front to adopt the policy of encircling Du without fighting. Hua Ye made arrangements to closely surround Du Tuan with eight columns and take turns to rest on the battlefield, and prepare to rest in Xiayi, Yongcheng and Tanxikou with seven columns.
1949 65438+1On October 7th, the troops and their brothers launched a general attack on Du Group. At dawn of 65438+1October 10, the 35th Regiment of the Column 12 Division took the lead in advancing to Chen Guanzhuang, the residence of Du Tuan. At this time, the phone of each division and regiment rang and announced the good news to Tao Yong. In the afternoon, 1 1 Chen Maohui, the political department of the division, called and said that their division had caught a prisoner named Gao Wenming in Zhanglaozhuang. He claimed to be the quartermaster of 13 Corps, but he couldn't name several directors of 13 Corps. Chen Maohui told Tao Yong that Gao Wenming was well dressed, wearing a Parker pen and an imported waterproof swimming watch.
Hearing these words, I couldn't help but be surprised. Du hasn't caught this person yet. Is it him? Aside Guo Huare took the phone and asked Chen Maohui to send this "Gao Wenming" to the column headquarters immediately. Guo Huaruo and Du, classmates of Whampoa Military Academy, were taken to the column headquarters, and the "Gao Wenming" problem was solved. Two hours later, the Gao Wenming was captured. Guo Huaruo greeted him with a smile and said, "Aren't you Du? When did it change its name to high civilization? " Tao Yong got it. He stepped forward and handed Du a cigarette. He smiled and said, "Please sit down, please sit down. You two are old classmates. Let's catch up! " Du knew he couldn't hide it. He took the cigarette and looked embarrassed. Facing his classmates and opponents, he didn't know what to say for a while and hung his head and smoked.
During the 65-day Huaihai Campaign, General Tao wiped out 72,863 enemy troops, including 580 18 captured enemy troops and 0/6 captured major generals, teachers and senior officers. There were only 20,000 Taozong people before the war, and it increased to more than 50,000 after the war.