War is about to ignite in the western Liaoning region. This is the East General EngineAutumn offensiveThe main battlefield of the first stage.
At the beginning of September of that year, Chiang Kai-shek was not worried about the situation in the northeastern theater. He may have believed too much in Chief of Staff Chen's ability, and ran to Lushan to escape the summer.
In the days of Lushan's pastime, he, who always liked to abuse the generals in front of the battle in his diary, did not write the amazing quotations of Jiang, but uncharacteristically praised the beautiful scenery of Lushan.
After getting up at 2 o'clock last night to pray, I enjoyed the night view on the balcony, the moonlight was clear, the wind was clear, and the scene of no voices was heard anywhere else, which was the happiest situation in life.
In Shenyang City, Chen Cheng's desk already had two Northeast Battlefield combat cases.
The first set of plans is to transfer troops from the Guannai to cooperate with the Northeast ** to take the initiative.
The second plan is to shorten the defense line, defend Bac Ninh and Yingkou, and protect the life passage.
Chen Cheng, who hoped to make a big difference in the Northeast Battlefield, naturally chose the first plan.
It's just that Chen Cheng took the initiativeMoisture is great, he chose the place of the first battle to connect the traffic inside and outside the KansaiWestern Liaoning region.
In the western part of Liaoning, there are two lines of communication.
One starts from Beiping and runs through to the capital of Liaoning ProvinceShenyangIt is what we often refer to as the Bac Ninh Railway.
The Beining Line runs through the Liaoning West Corridor, from Beijing in the west to Shenyang in the east, with a total length of more than 800 kilometers, along which there are Tianjin, Tanggu, Changli, Qinhuangdao, Shanhaiguan, Jinxi, Jinzhou and other important towns, which is an important land passage connecting inside and outside the Guan. ）
Another railway line,From Chengde to Jinzhou, it is called Jincheng Railway. This railway line is still an important coal transportation route today and has important economic value.
Jinzhou to the north through Yi County to the west to Chaoyang, through Beipiao, Kazuo, Jianping, Lingyuan, Pingquan to Chengde).
If these two railways are broken, the Northeast will be a real desperate place.
In the war history materials of ** and our army, these two railways are two groups of nouns that cannot be avoided. Among them, it is located in the western corridor of LiaoningBac Ninh Railway, which is a high-frequency word.
Since the rise of the war in Northeast China, the proper nouns to call this railway include "the only passage of life", "important supply route", "only land transportation" and so on.
At the time of the summer offensive launched by the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army,Jicha ReliaoThe troops went all the way to the east and launched a large-scale road-breaking campaignSeize Lingyuan, cut off the Jincheng Railway, and from time to time threaten the Bac Ninh Railway.
Therefore, Chen Cheng formulated"Ensure Bac Ninh, open up Jincheng, maintain the middle and long, and protect Haikou".The basic idea.
Is Chen Cheng's combat concept good?Everyone knows the importance of the Beining Railway and Haikou in the Northeast Battlefield, but the question is whether Chen Cheng can really do it
Regarding how to save the war situation in the Northeast, Chen Cheng has an extremely subtle evaluation in his memoirs:
It's called the theory of inferiority.
These six-character mantras are obviously not in line with Chen Cheng's state when he first arrived in the Northeast.
At that time, Chen Chengcheng was full of heart, and he wanted to let the soldiers in the Northeast see what kind of wine bags and rice bags they were.
He wants to show everyone what a real masterful operation is.
He wanted to prove to everyone how wise Chiang Kai-shek was in sending him to the Northeast.
When Chen Cheng's plan for the first battle in western Liaoning took shape, the eighth and ninth columns of our army in western Liaoning had just been formed, and the main forces of the two columns were still thereLingyuan, Qian'anRegional training.
The combat effectiveness of these two field columns was not strong. At least in the Northeast Battlefield at that time, it belonged to a field column that did not enter the stream.
Therefore, Chen Cheng also despised these two columns extremely lightly.
A year ago, the Jireliao battlefield, after a few fights, the liberated area was directly penetrated, and the troops had no choice but to retreat northGuerrilla warfareCombat.
The battle was fought to such a point, and they were also instructed to fight guerrillas, which was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the soldiers of Jireliao.
Later, ** still felt sorry for this group of fighters. For the survival of the Jireliao troops, even a piece of territory was divided for them, and the Jireliao Liberated Area was also expandedJicha ReliaoLiberated Areas,Cheng ZihuaCommander of the Military District.
Since the beginning of the summer offensive, this unit, which has been dormant for more than a year, fromLinxi, JidongThe attack cut off the Bac Ninh railway, and finally expanded the scope of activities in the liberated area to the Lingyuan area. (Find the previous ** material).
The Jicha Reliao army was officially reorganizedAfter the two field columns, the fighters all thought about the shame of the snow.
The Autumn Offensive Operational Plan of the East General Headquarters was also issued to all columns in September, and Cheng Zihua's Eighth and Ninth Columns were to undertake the first phase of the offensive task.
The two columns needed to raid the Bac Ninh railway section and launch a large-scale road-breaking campaign on this vital corridor connecting North China and Northeast China.
However, before Cheng Zihua's two columns could make a move, Chen Cheng took the lead.
September 6. Chen Cheng dispatched93rd Division of the 22nd ArmyThe 50th Division under the jurisdiction of the Qinhu Port Commandrespectively fromJinzhou, SuizhongThe direction stretched out and pounced on the Jincheng Railway.
The two forces of the enemy and ours, one side wants to expand from the Jincheng Railway to the Bac Ninh Railway. One side wants to advance from the Bac Ninh Railway to the Jincheng Railway.
Chen Cheng's good show to expand the safe space on the flanks of the Bac Ninh Railway only used two temporary editors to appear, which is enough to see how much Chen Cheng looks down on the Eighth and Ninth Columns in western Liaoning.
Since the rise of the war in the northeast, this is the first time that two provisional divisions have emerged as offensive tactics.
Cheng Zihua, commander of the Jichareliao Military Region, received reconnaissance information and ordered the Eighth and Ninth Columns to immediately set off from the spot to prevent the advance to the Jincheng Railway.
The two troops, which are still resting, need to travel 350 kilometers along the mountain road.
September 8th. Huang Yongsheng led the Eighth Column (with the configuration of the 1st Division) from Lingyuan and Tianyi. On the 10th, Zhan Caifang led the Ninth Column (owed to the 27th Division) to set off from Qian'an.
Four days later, the two columns arrived one after the otherJianchang, SuizhongRegion.
Coincidentally, during these four days, the ** that was ordered to reach out was not positive. enemyTemporary 22nd DivisionTemporary 50th Divisionrespectively inNew desk side doorswithPear tree ditch gateDangling.
The two temporary divisions are separated by 30 kilometers, and they tacitly dig the fortifications in tacit understanding with the turtle shrinkage tactics that you don't move, and I don't move.
Huang Yongsheng decided toEight verticalsFirst of all, to the Lishu ditch gate areaThe enemy temporarily 50 divisionsLaunched an attack, the 1st Division was aloneNew desk side doorsRegional feintsTemporary 22nd DivisionThe 25th and 26th divisions of the 9th Column carried out a road-breaking campaign in the Suizhong area and cooperated with the 8th Column's offensive operations.
Huang Yongsheng expects the total attack timeSeptember 14 at 17 p.m.
What Huang Yongsheng didn't expect was that the two turtle shells ran too fast and the troops arrivedPear tree ditch gate, for the time being, the 50th Division slipped away.
AgainThree ditches, for the time being, the 50th Division slipped again. Hundreds of miles turn in, back and forth.
14th. Two troops are there againPear tree ditch gateencountered, the temporary 50th Division decisively withdrew from the battlefield and fled to Suizhong.
The first battle of the Eighth Column did not have great gains.
Huang Yongsheng is alive againNew desk side doorsFeints of independent divisions were minimizedFeint intensity, his own rash main force to attack the 22nd Division.
However, this sortie is the same result. At the same time that the Provisional 55th Division was attacked, the Temporary 22nd Division retreated sharply to the Yang family's staff and resolutely slipped away.
Huang Yongsheng, who ran back and forth for eight verticals, and didn't catch anything, held back a fire in his heart.
He also ordered the troops, day and night, to run to the Yang family's cane, and must eat the temporary 22nd Division.
The Yang family's cane is not easy to fight in theory. This is a mining area, when the Northeast King Zhang Zuolin's brother Zhang Zuoxiang had bothered to operate, with the advantages of minerals, the Yang family stick developed into a model special economic zone in western Liaoning.
After the fall of Northeast China, the Japanese expanded the Yangjia Stick Mining Area on a large scale, built factories and fortifications, and the number of slave laborers alone was as high as more than 10,000 at its peak.
The 22nd Division, relying on the fortifications built by the Japanese back then, thought that it would not be a problem to hold on to this place. After they arrived in the Yangjiazhuzi area, they also sent a reinforcement telegram to Chen Cheng.
Chen Cheng felt that this was a good opportunity, as long as the 22nd Division could entangle the enemy, as soon as the reinforcements arrived, they would definitely be able to make dumplings.
This time, the one who was ordered to reinforce the Yang family's staff battlefield had just been transferred to the Northeast BattlefieldWang Tiehan49th Army.
This unit was once the Northeast Army under Zhang Xueliang.
It and the 53rd Army, another Northeast Army, had witnessed the sinking of the Northeast Battlefield, and will witness their own sinking in the Northeast Battlefield.
Wang Tiehan's 49th Army gave Su Yu's "Seven Battles and Seven Victories" a record of success, although it was a beautiful weapon, its combat effectiveness was not too strong.
Chen Cheng wanted to send this unit to the rescue.
A military conference held in Shenyang, Chen Cheng decided that Wang Tiehan, commander of the 49th Army, would lead the 79th Division and the 105th Division (two regiments each) to reinforce the Yang family.
As soon as Chen Cheng said this, everyone looked at each other.
Only Zheng Dongguo put forward an opinion: The original two divisions have just been hit, so why don't we send two more divisions to serve the food?
Chen Cheng listened and agreed with Zheng Dongguo's opinion. But on September 17, Chen Cheng still asked Wang Tiehan to lead the two divisions to set off in the direction of the Yang family's cane.
Regarding Chen Cheng's behavior, Zheng Dongguo said in his memoirs:
After the meeting, I don't know who poured what wind into his ears, he still ordered General Wang Tiehan, the commander of the 49th Army, to lead the army to attack the Yang family's cane defense line. ”
Anyway, Chen Cheng was very confident in letting Wang Tiehan take action.
On the battlefield of the Yang family's staff, it was surroundedTemporary 22nd DivisionIt only held out for two days, and by the evening of September 16 (the day before Wang Tiehan's departure), the 22nd Division had been scrapped.
In the end, more than 1,000 people were killed and wounded, more than 2,500 people were captured, and the rest escaped back to Suizhong.
Even so, Wang Tiehan still chose to unswervingly carry out Chen Cheng's orders and advance in the direction of the Yang family's staff.
Huang Yongsheng was not carried away by this small victory, and after learning that the 49th Army was coming again, he issued another battle order.
The 22nd Division, the 23rd Division of the Eighth Column and the 1st Division of the Du Column were ambushed in the highland of the Yang family's cane circle.
The 24th Division of the Eighth Column, as a reserve, was ready to join the battlefield at any time.
Zhan Caifang Nine Vertical 25 (Guojia Town, Old Gate) and 26 (Honey ditch, Sunjia ditchThe two divisions were fortified on the perimeter to block the enemy's rescue.
Huang Yongsheng collapsed with three divisionsWang TiehanTwo of the 49th ArmyVacancy Division, obviously has the meaning of despising Wang Tiehan.
And when this battle was about to start, a wave of clashes broke out between Huang Yongsheng, as the front-line commander and Cheng Zihua, the commander of the military region.
Cheng Zihua, the commander of the military region in the rear, felt sorry that the troops were too tired from turning in a row and wanted to let the troops rest and recuperate. And Huang Yongsheng on the front line has always wanted to seize the rare opportunity to take another ** game and breathe a bad breath for the Jireliao troops!
This encirclement and annihilation battle began. Huang Yongsheng's three divisions were ambushed on the battlefield of Yang's staff, patiently waiting for the 49th Army.
On the 17th, Wang Tiehan's 49th Army advanced in two directions, and the 79th and 105th Divisions advanced one after anotherJiangjiatun, Yang family sticks
On this day, the keen Wang Tiehan already felt that there was something wrong. Because according to the reconnaissance from the front, several more PLA detachments appeared around them one after another. Wang Tiehan hurriedly ordered the 105th Division to move to the Yangjia Stick area to rendezvous.
On the 19th, the two units successfully completed their rendezvous in the Yangjia Zhuzi area.
Huang Yongsheng, who was ambushed on the battlefield of Yang's staff, set the time for the general attack on the morning of September 22.
This time, he thought the problem too simply. The 49th Army belongs to the regular army, and unlike the provisional divisions, the defensive ability of the position is really amazing.
After the general offensive battle began, the 49th Army was not only able to hold the defensive line, but also desperately recaptured the outer positions that had just been lost.
In this battle of encirclement and annihilation by the Yang family's staff, Huang Yongsheng found that the troops could not gnaw the 49th Army at all.
Not only that, Chen Cheng packed another 7 regiments, and almost two divisions of troops rushed to the Yang family's staff battlefield.
Cheng Zihuaalso kept sending reports to Huang Yongsheng, ordering him to withdraw from the battlefield immediately and look for fighters again. Huang Yongsheng didn't listen.
InGuojia Town, Honey DitchThe two divisions of the Ninth Column, which were blocked on the periphery, had already exchanged fire with Chen Cheng's rescue army.
Cheng Zihua, who was unwilling to fight this battle, ordered him to retreat in **, and the two had a fierce quarrel in **, but still failed to make Huang Yongsheng decide to retreat.
On a hill next to the Yang family's cane, Huang Yongsheng, the commander of the Eighth Column, was watching the battlefield of the Yang family's cane. He looked at the soldiers who rushed to the enemy position and were counterattacked, gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, threw away the cigarettes in his hands, and reluctantly gave the order to retreat.
Almost instantly, a shell fell next to the hill where Huang Yongsheng was, and the keen Huang Yongsheng immediately judged that this was the enemy's peripheral reconnaissance and artillery bombardment, and he said rhetorically: The enemy must withdraw ???
Huang Yongsheng rushed down the mountain and ran towards the headquarters, and sent a large number of staff from the headquarters to convey orders to the front-line attacking troops, and the retreating troops immediately turned around and reorganized the attack.
At four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the 49th Army began a general rout.
But even so, the fierce 49th Army broke out of the encirclement. The 25th Division of the Ninth Column turned back from the blocking position and finally completely crushed the 49th Army.
Only Wang Tiehan led 200 people to flee back to Suizhong.
In this battle, Huang Yongsheng was killed in one battleMore than ten thousand**, famous in Liaoxi, ** praised Huang Yongsheng even more.
* Taking advantage of the opportune opportunity, the two columns went all the way south and began the road-breaking movement.
Chen Cheng, who was sitting in Shenyang, was finally shocked and ordered Liao Yaoxiang to lead two divisions south to reinforce Jinzhou.
September 26th. Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly sent a telegram to Fu Zuoyi in North China
The situation in Jinyu was critical, and it was necessary to transfer troops from the Guannai to strengthen the defense, and it was necessary to send three divisions of powerful troops to concentrate on Pingjin and consolidate North China.
Chen Cheng fought in Liaoxi for the first time and ended up in an embarrassing situation of "asking for help from both sides".
Fu Zuoyi's Temporary 3rd Army in the west, Hou Jingru's 92nd Army left the pass as scheduled, and Liao Yaoxiang's New 6th Army took on the task of guarding the Bac Ninh Railway.
The autumn offensive of the East General Assembly was still continuing, and due to the transfer of Liao Yaoxiang's two divisions, fighters appeared on both wings of the Zhongchang Railway.
Liaodong front fingerJurisdictionThree, four, two columnswill be on ** at the same timeThe eastern wing protrusionGo on the offensive.
This is a challenge to Chen Cheng.
Even though Chen Cheng has great ideals, we can only wish him a long live ideal.