In the War of Liberation, our People's Liberation Army neatly and neatly ate up the main force and heavy army group of the Kuomintang reactionary army in three decisive battles, and suffered a heavy defeat.
Of the three major decisive battles, two were fought by our army's northeastern troops.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party coincidentally sent troops to seize the northeast.
The importance of the Northeast lies in its population, land, resources, and industrial production capacity, which are second to none in the country, and the production of most of the other parts of the country has withered due to the destruction of the war, but the Northeast is relatively intact under the protection of the puppet Manchu regime. At the end of the war, the Japanese even wanted to abandon the entire population of the island and move to Tohoku.
On our side, tens of thousands of cadres were sent to the nearby troops of Tiaorehe and Jiaodong to go out of the customs on foot and enter the northeast.
The coach ** rushed to the northeast alone to find troops.
With the help of American planes, troops were quickly transferred from the southwest to the northeast from the Sino-Burmese border. It was the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army that were transferred, the famous anti-Japanese trump card, and the main force of the Japanese army in the Burma battlefield.
After our army arrived in the Northeast, it dredged up relations with the Soviet troops, took over several cities, and operated under the title of the Northeast Democratic Alliance.
However, the Soviets did not want to give any privileges to our army, which was also a believer in communism, and was diplomatically inclined to the state government. Our army received limited supplies. And ** is progressing rapidly.
The two sides soon came into contact, and there were three battles at Siping, in which our troops lost and were forced to retreat. After the Kuomintang troops occupied Siping, Changchun, Benxi, Jilin, and other cities, they were not afraid of ambushes and kept chasing after the Democratic Alliance Army, because there was a big traitor, Wang Jifang, chief of the operations section of the headquarters, with the actual situation and retreat plan of the Democratic Alliance Army. This was a big surprise to the command of our army.
By the middle of 1946, our army had retreated to the north of the Songhua River, completely abandoning the areas where the large cities in the northeast were concentrated. Here's a little story in between:
At the end of May, ** retreated to Shulan and was anxious to contact **, but the radio car was driven by Li Zuopeng, the chief of staff, and he could not be contacted for a while. ** went directly to Li Zuopeng's residence, and when he entered the room, he found that Li Zuopeng was drinking. ** Directly lifted the table, picked up a satchel and hit Li Zuopeng, and the entourage hurriedly grabbed it. ** Calm personality, don't like to show your heart. No one expected to lose his temper this time. At this time, the impatience in my heart can be seen.
At this time, the enemy's New 1st Army Sun Liren and New 6th Army Liao Yaoxiang, under the command of Du Yuming and Zheng Dongguo, had already advanced north to the second Songhuajiang area. Our army's foothold is not stable, and it has not yet let go of the masses, but it is one victory after another, and it has mastered the dilemma of our army, and it is reluctant to pursue, and its morale is strong.
Songhua River area.
But at this time, the tide of the battle suddenly changed.
Our army's South Manchurian base area took the initiative to launch the Anhai Campaign, conquered Anshan and Haicheng, and Pan Shuoduan, the 184th Division, led his troops to revolt on the battlefield. It disrupted the pursuit deployment of Du Yuming and Zheng Dongguo at once.
By the way, Pan Shuoduan's predecessors did not participate in the 55-year award of titles because they served as local officials after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and other veteran cadres who left the army.
Originally, the South Manchurian base area was small, and our army was not numerous, so it did not enter Du Yuming's eyes, but this time the whole division was gone, and Du Yuming hurriedly transferred the four divisions that were being pursued to turn back and stop the momentum of our South Manchurian army, and the pursuit stopped.
This is 4 months.
In the past four months, I have set up the Northeast Bureau headed by **. In the vast rural areas, ravines, and forests north of the Songhua River and in the western part of Jilin, which avoided the central cities occupied by the Kuomintang, cadres went to the countryside to mobilize the masses in an all-round way, leading the masses in land reform, fighting the landlords, dividing the land, and going into the mountains to suppress bandits. **The Tempest and the hero Yang Zirong are both from this period. Our army grew rapidly and expanded. Moreover, he is good at summarizing and training soldiers, and he is simply the instructor with the highest rank in my officer rank. The Northeast Democratic Alliance Army's combat strength and logistical capability have developed rapidly, and it has its own ability to develop and replenish resources and produce ordnance and materials.
At this time, if the Anhai Campaign launched by our South Manchurian base area and the uprising of General Pan Shuoduan were a turning point, it was still insufficient
At this time, ** was storming Chengde and Pingquan, opening up the connection between inside and outside the Guan. This is not bad from a military strategic point of view, but military has always been an extension of politics.
* Occupied all the large and medium-sized cities in the Northeast except Harbin, and established a political system, but did not have the ability to mobilize the masses and restore production. In the countryside and in the cities, a large number of existing old forces and old ** were used to form grass-roots political power, and this kind of transformation disappointed the common people who were looking forward to the stars and the moon under the Japanese puppet rule, and thus completely lost the support of the people.
In just four months in 1946, our army let the people in the liberated areas of Northeast China see what it means to turn the world upside down and what it means to aspire to a new China.
Ordinary people who have lost their lives and have lost their heads suddenly have ideals, dependence, and a future.
Du Yuming and his principal did not understand this, they occupied the big cities, co-opted bandits and puppet regime personnel, and were complacent, thinking that the Northeast was under control, and the mud legs had lost their position, and at this time they were ready to open up land transportation lines and capture Chengde and Pingquan, which was really a matter of course.
This is the gap in the concepts of the two sides, which can be bridged by non-military literacy.
Half of the 100,000 people who entered the northeast in the early stage of our army were cadres. Kaishen just sent a few cronies and officials to issue letters of appointment everywhere.
In October 1946, Du Yuming resumed his offensive and could no longer be complacent.
Du Yuming is ready to take the land of Nanman first, relieve the trouble, and then concentrate on the north to fight the main force. There's nothing wrong with that.
But unexpectedly, Du Yuming failed to defeat the territory of several counties in the South Manchurian District until the end, but was constantly harassed by our army in the south. This is "three times to the south of the Yangtze River, four to protect the Linjiang River", Linjiang refers to my base in South Manchuria. Eight words summarize a series of wonderful battle stories.
The elite ** was constantly eaten and consumed in the sports war, and Du Yuming began to be powerless. Next, Chen Chenglai, the love general, was replaced, and the situation in the Northeast took a sharp turn for the worse. Since then, hundreds of thousands of ** elites have been trapped in several big cities, and they have to wait for airdrops to eat, Wei Lihuang is in Shenyang, and he actually sent troops out of the city to grab food, **and**regular army?
In this way, the big turning point occurred in the conceptual gap between the two sides in the competition for the Northeast. The fact that there is no way to take the famous generals and aces and are trapped in the Northeast has destroyed the arrogance of most of the **senior officers. After that, the first generals no longer had the confidence to take the initiative to attack the liberated areas and eat up the main force of the PLA, and the ** heavy army group of hundreds of thousands of people in the customs did not dare to act rashly.