I. Plotting to Destroy the Fifth Army 1948 In May, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De came to Hua Ye Command in Puyang, Henan Province to study future strategic actions, and reached an understanding with Chen Yi, commander of Hua Ye, and Su Yu, deputy commander, and made the annihilation of the fifth army of the National Army the primary task in the future. The reorganization of the Fifth Army has always been the sworn enemies of the Hua Ye Outer Corps and the Hua Ye Outer Corps. In any battle, the fifth army has always acted as the main force and quickly came to participate in the war. The fifth army is not only large in number and well equipped, but also one or two grades better than other countries' armies in quantity and quality. Its combat effectiveness is as strong as that of the whole 74th Division, and its scale is much larger than that of the whole 74th Normal University. Hua Ye fought him many times, but he couldn't. Therefore, if the Fifth Army is not destroyed, it will be difficult for the China Field Corps to launch any battles in the future. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De assigned the task, followed by the mobilization of the whole army, and the slogan "Destroy the whole Fifth Army and capture Qiu Qingquan alive" immediately resounded through the sky. Zhu De will return to Xibaipo, Hebei. Before he left, he also explicitly instructed Comrade Chen Yi not to take part in this movement. According to the original arrangement, he went to the Central Plains Military Region and the Central Plains Field Army as the first deputy commander and the first deputy political commissar, and served as the second secretary of the Central Plains Bureau. Su Yu officially represented Comrade Chen Yi in all his posts in East China. At this time, however, Comrade Su Yu suddenly felt a heavy burden on his shoulders. Although Hua Ye's campaign command has always been mainly undertaken by him alone, Comrade Chen Yi has undertaken the work of army mobilization, propaganda, personnel, behind enemy lines, logistics, communication and cooperation with local authorities. So I can concentrate on the planning of the campaign plan and operational command, and now it's all up to me. When he was in Chengnanzhuang, Hebei Province in April, Comrade Su Yu suggested to President Mao Zedong that Hua Ye could not live without Chen Yi, but Mao Zedong still let Chen Yi go to Nakano. I think the Central Plains Military Region has just been established, and it really needs to strengthen leadership. What worries Comrade Su Yu most is that in 1 month, the Central Military Commission ordered him to lead the 1st, 4th, 6th and 6th columns to form the 1st Corps of the Southeast Field Army (note: this task was cancelled after), bypassing western Henan and western Hubei, secretly crossing the river in Yichang and Shashi, and making a detour and causing great disturbance in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, southern Anhui, southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. At that time, in order to prepare for a detour to the south, Su Yu led the First Corps to rest in Puyang, Henan, and waited for the opportunity. In the meantime, fearing that it would be inconvenient for heavy equipment to take the mountain road and affect the Long March, it was specially ordered to change half of the artillery units and engineers from Luxi to Shandong Corps. Now the scale of Terry is not as good as before, and he has become a layman. In the future, we will attack the elite troops like Qiu Corps and tackle key problems. The lack of artillery will hinder the victory of Hua Ye's exterior corps. Su Yu again remembered the annihilation of the Fifth Corps of the Kuomintang Army last December. Although the Corps headquarters and the entire third division were wiped out in the first stage, the entire twentieth division held in Queshan in the second stage could not be captured in time due to insufficient artillery fire. At this time, the three reorganization divisions of the national army who came back from Dabie Mountain came again and had to give up their upcoming prey. With this in mind, Su Yu studied under the special warfare team member Chen Ruiting, who is now in the hinterland of Shandong Province. Can the Third Artillery Corps of Shandong Corps be transferred back? Chen said that the Shandong Corps is now preparing for a major counterattack in the middle section of the Jin-Pu Railway, and is preparing to attack Xintai, Tai 'an and Yanzhou, which also need artillery. If the artillery fire is insufficient, it will be difficult to attack the city. It will take at least ten days to come back from a long journey, which not only delayed the counter-offensive in Shandong Province, but also affected morale. Su Yu felt very reasonable, so he had to give up when the cannon came back. After some strategizing, Su Yu decided to transfer the Tang Chenbing Regiment (Hua Ye Third Corps) which had just finished the battle of western Anhui back to Jianye. Let the third corps go north and attract the Qiu Corps stationed in southwest Shandong to go south, so that our first corps can cross the Yellow River south. After crossing the river, my regiment marched north and south with Tang Chen's regiment, surrounded Qiu Qingquan Corps from eastern Henan to southwestern Shandong, and annihilated it. At the same time, the Subei Corps was ordered to attack and counterattack the eastern section of Longhai Road; Let the Shandong Corps attack the middle section of Jinpu Road, cooperate with the Hua Ye perimeter corps in southwest Shandong, and find out the whole Fifth Army; Liu Deng nakano's army, please stop Hu Lian, Zhang Ke and other main forces from going north to Henan. When Su Yu reported the battle plan to the Central Military Commission, he was supported by the Central Military Commission. In addition to establishing the Third Corps in Hua Ye and commanding the Shandong Corps in Hua Ye, the main task of Shandong Corps is to attack the city strongholds along the middle section of Jinpu Road. Shandong Corps has been under the direct command of the Central Military Commission since September. 1947. At that time, the affiliation between Hua Ye Command and Shandong Corps did not stop. Hua Ye headquarters has been in contact with it, and it has provided logistics supply and manpower supplement for the peripheral corps. Some time ago, Su Yu also gave half of Tezong's artillery to Shandong Corps, so as to liberate wei county and other solid garrison positions and carry out counter-offensive operations in Jiaodong and Luzhong. Now, the Shandong Corps is officially under the command of Su Yu, acting commander of Hua Ye. In terms of organization, Shandong Corps has only one commander, Xu, and no deputy commander. It is necessary to add a deputy commander, which can not only strengthen the military command work in Shandong, but also strengthen the ties between the internal and external corps. Who will be sent? Ye Fei is the deputy commander of a corps. He was the first commander of the battle of Laiwu. Su Yuxian is the supreme head of Hua Ye, and the Corps is actually replaced by Ye Fei. He can't leave. Wang Bicheng's sixth column was the first result of Meng Lianggu's campaign, and the fourth column, Tao Yong, was eligible. But they used to be the troops of the New Fourth Army, which was different from the Shandong Corps, mainly the Eighth Route Army. Ah! This hill, said yes, everyone denied it; Say no, I'm afraid I'll never jump out! Next, I turned my attention to several column commanders of the Third Army Corps, and my impressions of He, He and Song came to my mind. Gradually, Su Yu knew fairly well and asked the front committee to hold a meeting and decide when it was convenient. Chen Shiju led the third and eighth columns * * * two columns from south Henan to northeast. When Wang Jianan, commander of the Eighth Longitudinal Army, passed through Xuchang, he attacked Xuchang with a column. In just one day, the 2 nd1brigade of the defending national army was wiped out. Chen Tang Corps moved on. Sure enough, after hearing the news, Qiu Corps stationed in southwest Shandong led his troops south to stop the attack. In southwest Shandong, only Liu Ruming's four appeasement areas were stationed alone. On June 1 day, Su Yu led the First Corps of Hua Ye to cross the Yellow River to the south and enter Heze area in southwest Shandong. Liu Ruming urged the troops to shrink to the central stronghold and report to the Ministry of National Defense. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Qiu Bingtuan to lead his troops to Huiyuan, and at the same time ordered the national armies in Shandong, Xuzhou and other places to transfer southwest Shandong to fight to the death with the * * * army. Hua Ye No.1 Corps tried to surround one of Liu Ruming's troops in Heze, but the national army came in and Qiu Corps came back. The first-line national army has reached ten integrated divisions (armies), while the PLA has only four columns, half of which are special columns. Together with the Guangdong-Guangxi column just transferred from Bohai (only a few thousand people), the overall strength is only half that of the national army. It is difficult to besiege the army of any country! So, Su Yu ordered the Shandong Corps to send a column into southwest Shandong to fight with the peripheral corps. However, Xu and Tan's telegraphic reply is that they are now fighting in the middle section of Jinpu and the periphery of Yanzhou, and the tasks of each column are tense and it is difficult to mobilize at the moment. Su Yu thought-this is no time. The monk still doesn't know the priorities. Fighting the fifth army is the order of the military commission. You can't afford to delay You can take Yanzhou in the future! In southwest Shandong, although the national army was dominant, Su Yu still tried to panic in the whole 75th Division under the Qiu Corps. As soon as the whole seventy-five division saw the * * * army approaching, it immediately moved closer to the whole fifth division, and it was difficult to realize the panic-stricken division of the seventy-five division. Second, the battle of Kaifeng, Su Yu and the third corps Chen Shiju, plan to let the third corps feint Kaifeng, attract reinforcements, and get some reinforcements in the movement, solicit the opinions of Chen Shiju. Chen Shiju replied by telegram, agreeing with this idea, and said that it is difficult to carry out the enemy annihilation campaign in the narrow area of southwestern Shandong, and other areas can be chosen to annihilate the enemy. And said, don't take fixed targets as combat targets. These views are exactly what Su Yu considered. With the support of Comrade Chen Shiju, as the third of his drafts, the plan of "attacking the five armies openly, secretly taking Kaifeng, and then fighting to help the enemy" surfaced. At that time, the Third Corps had arrived in Tongxu, Suixian and other places, only one day away from Fengfeng. Immediately, Su Yu ordered Chen Tang Corps to send troops to attack Kaifeng, and stormed the capital city of Henan, which was guarded by more than 30,000 national troops. This day is June 15. At the same time, the Shandong Corps surrounded Yanzhou, attracting the main force of Xuzhou's national army to reinforce the north, so as not to join the Central Plains battlefield. After receiving the report of Su Yu's battle plan, the Central Military Commission sent a telegram to Xu Tan of Shandong Corps to attack Yanzhou and attract the eighty-third and twenty-fifth divisions of the national army to the north. This is the best way to relieve the pressure of Su and Zhang. (Note: Zhang Zhi. Chen Shiju and Tang Liang led the 3rd and 8th columns and artillery regiment to besiege Kaifeng on June17th, and quickly captured the city with strong firepower support. The whole sixty-six division of the National Army immediately counterattacked and surrounded the People's Liberation Army, which first invaded the city. With the reinforcement of Hua Ye's follow-up troops, the vanguard troops heroically suppressed the national army, consolidated the Four Chengguans, and then rushed out of the city. It took only three days, and Kaifeng City was basically captured, leaving only two strongholds, namely North China Sports Ground and Longting. On the other hand, the National Army High Command ordered Qiu Qingquan to lead the five armies and Liu Ruming troops to jointly rescue Kaifeng. When I heard that several columns of the * * * Army were stopping Qiu Corps and Liu Ruming troops from advancing to Kaifeng, the reinforcements could not advance for several kilometers a day. This is not the way. If Qiu Qingquan had arrived in Kaifeng, Liu Maoen (President of Henan Province) would have been a prisoner. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered Qu Shounian, deputy commander of the sixth appeasement area, to set up the headquarters of the Seventh Corps in Quan Min, and transferred the entire 75th Division from southwest Shandong, and the entire 72nd Division and the newly compiled 21st Brigade from Xuzhou to form the Seventh Corps. District Shounian immediately led his troops from Suixian and Qixian to bypass the sniper line of Hua Ye Outer Line Corps and rescue Kaifeng. In addition, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Sun's entire 47th Army to set out from Zhengzhou to reinforce Kaifeng. And make the Hu Lian Corps in the south of Henan advance northward quickly to solve the siege of Kaifeng. In southwest Shandong, Su Yu was advancing with a regiment, a column of Guangdong and Guangxi, and a column of special forces. While fighting against the Qiu Corps and Liu Ruming Army (the fourth appeasement area, equivalent to the Corps), they marched westward and moved closer to Kaifeng; Eleven vertical nakano marched to the Qiu Corps on the south side of Luxi, which contained Qiu Qingquan's westward advance. The Hu Lian Corps on the downtown moved northward, moving very fast. Before Nakano could stop it under the command of Liu Deng, the Hu Lian army had surpassed it. Corps stationed in Shangcai, the main force took the lead in the north. Under the command of the Song Dynasty, Hua Ye's 10th longitudinal under the command of Nakano bravely attacked Shangcai City. Sure enough, the main force of the Corps quickly returned to Shangcheng, and finally effectively delayed the rescue of Kaifeng by Hu Corps. Hu Lian Corps and the Tenth Longitudinal Corps fought fiercely in Shangcai area, with 5000 casualties. Hu Lian saw that Nakano troops also came to reinforce, so he decided to retreat to the south. Chen Tang Corps has basically captured Kaifeng City, leaving only two strongholds, Long Ting and Huabei Stadium, so it readjusted its deployment, increased artillery preparation, and sent commandos to sneak into Long Ting stronghold from the tunnel. In less than two days, Long Ting and North China Stadium were finally conquered, and more than 30,000 national and security forces were wiped out in the whole Kaifeng battlefield. On the other hand, in the direction of resistance, there are more than 10 thousand soldiers. (The results of Hua Ye's 5,000 troops in Shangcai's Hu Lian Corps are included in the Battle of Nakano Wandong). Kaifeng campaign not only destroyed a large number of enemies, but also seized a large number of military materials, including a large number of ammunition, which can support the ammunition demand of Hua Ye's large-scale campaign; In addition, 30 cannons, mainly mountain guns and wild guns, were seized. At this time, Kaifeng city is facing the oppression of many national army corps, and it is really difficult to annihilate a national army reinforcement in Kaifeng city or its suburbs. So Su Yuling withdrew the last batch of troops from Kaifeng and turned south. This day is June 26th. After the ministries of the national army from the east entered Kaifeng, Liu Ruming's fourth appeasement area troops stayed in Kaifeng, and Qiu Qingquan also left a brigade to help defend. The rest of the ministries pursued troops in Hua Ye and fought to the death to wash away the shame of defending troops before Kaifeng.

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