Chairman Mao cleverly used the empty city strategy , 4 radio scripts to scare off the enemy s 100,0

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one of the four famous works in my country, such a story was once recorded.

Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, Sima Yi, a famous general of Wei, personally led an army of 150,000 to march to Xicheng, where Zhuge Liang was stationed, after capturing Jieting.

At that time, Zhuge Liang had no generals and no elite soldiers, and among the 5,000 soldiers and horses in the city, half were people who transported grain and grass, and the other half were old, weak, sick and disabled.

When Sima Yi's 150,000 soldiers and horses arrived in Xicheng, Zhuge Liang was in a hurry and ordered the soldiers to hide all the flags, and the people in the city were not allowed to enter and exit at will, so all the city gates were opened, and 20 veterans were sent to each city gate to clean the streets in the appearance of ordinary people.

He took two children with him, while drinking, while playing the piano, Sima Yi came to the city and saw Zhuge Liang so calm, suspecting that there was fraud, so he ordered the army to retreat 40 miles, this is the famous story of the empty city plan.

However, the storyline of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is adapted from the "Five Things of Tiao Liang" written by Guo Chong, a native of the Western Jin Dynasty, and there is no record of Zhuge Liang's "empty city plan" in the official history.

In the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Ma Tan", it is only recorded: "(Ma Tan) and the Wei general Zhang He fought in the street pavilion, which was broken by He, the soldiers were scattered, Liang advanced and retreated without evidence, retired from Hanzhong, and was imprisoned." ”

The plot in "Five Things of Tiao Liang" has also been confirmed to be a fictional work of the Jin people, so it can be concluded that the story of the hollow city plan in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is apocryphal.

However, during the War of Liberation, ** really applied an "empty city strategy" to scare off Fu Zuoyi and Chiang Kai-shek's 100,000 male soldiers (coalition army) by defeating the real with fiction.

In May 1948, the CCP moved to a small village called Xibaipo in Pingshan County, Hebei Province.

Xibaipo is located on the north bank of the Hutuo River in the mountainous area of western Hebei, which is bordered by the Jizhong Plain in the east and the Taihang Mountains in the west, and is only 90 kilometers away from Shijiazhuang, an important town in North China at that time.

Moreover, the transportation here is convenient, easy to defend and difficult to attack, ** Marshal once called Pingshan County, where Xibaipo is located, "Ukraine in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region".

Therefore, Xibaipo was selected by the leaders at that time as the command center for the liberation of the whole of China and the preparation of New China"Empty City Strategy".

At the beginning of September 1948, as the PLA troops gradually approached Taiyuan, Chiang Kai-shek specifically asked Fu Zuoyi, commander-in-chief of the "Suppression Chief" in North China, for his views.

Fu Zuoyi proposed:You can send 3 4 armies to capture Shijiazhuang and threaten the area where the leader of the ** is located, so that you can not only "support" the northeast, but also support Taiyuan.

However, at that time, Chiang Kai-shek was all about the northeast and did not immediately approve his plan.

After the outbreak of the Liaoshen Campaign, after more than half a month of hard fighting, our Northeast Field Army successfully cut off the Beining Road on 1 October, leaving Jinzhou in a situation of isolation and helplessness.

On October 15, 1948, the Northeast Field Army conquered Jinzhou, and on the same day, the North China Field Army launched the Taiyuan Campaign.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was in Shenyang, finally couldn't sit still, and on October 17, he urgently flew to Beiping to discuss with Fu Zuoyi to attack Shijiazhuang"Decapitation plan".After some deliberations, Chiang Kai-shek and Fu Zuoyi reached an agreement on the issue of jointly sending troops.

On October 23, Fu Zuoyi convened a secret military meeting and announced to the participating officers what he and Chiang Kai-shek had agreed together"Heart-piercing tactics".

The so-called "heart-piercing tactics",It was Fu Zuoyi who sent two cavalry divisions, plus the 94th Army of Chiang Kai-shek's ** Army, to form the "Aid Jin Corps" led by Zheng Tingfeng, the commander of the 94th Army.

After the establishment of this "Aid Jin Corps", it will go south under the banner of "Aid Yan Xishan", and launch a sneak attack on Shijiazhuang while I am unprepared.

Fu Zuoyi thinksAt this time, the Northeast Field Army has not yet entered the customs, and the North China Field Army is beating Taiyuan, and there will be no troops in Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang is an empty city, and then he can not only "recover" Shijiazhuang, an important town in Hebei, but also take advantage of the situation to sneak attack Xibaipo, and "capture" the enemy's head in one fell swoop.

At that time, our party did not have many troops in Shijiazhuang, and in order to win the war of liberation, even the guard regiment was sent to Taiyuan to participate in the siege of the city.

As a result, Xibaipo has only one guard company and a few local armed defenses, adding up to less than 1,000 people.

At this time, the main force of our North China Field Army was far away in Pingsui, and even if it rushed back day and night, it would take four days to arrive.

On the contrary, it is only 280 kilometers from Beiping to Shijiazhuang, and Baoding is only 130 kilometers from Shijiazhuang, and if the Kuomintang army sends a mobile force, it can reach Shijiazhuang in a few hours at the earliest, and even if the Kuomintang troops advance slowly without dividing their troops, it will only take three days at most to reach Shijiazhuang.

In other words, our army needs to use less than 1,000 people to resist the 100,000-strong Kuomintang army for more than three days before waiting for the arrival of the main force.

However, what Fu Zuoyi would not have expected was that his self-righteous plan was announced in public on the day it was announced in public, and it was learned by our party's underground workers and reported to ***.

On October 23, Liu Shiping, director of the interview department of "Yishi Bao", found that the headquarters of the "General Suppression" in North China suddenly began martial law for some reason, and after 10 o'clock in the morning, martial law was lifted, and many Kuomintang people in North China came out of it.

Among these people, some were overjoyed, some were sad, and among the generals who participated in the meeting, the commander of the 12th Cavalry Brigade was Eyou.

Liu Jianlong, commander of the Third Battalion of the Military Police, and Du Changcheng, head of the East China Special Station of the Secret Bureau, were Liu Shiping's fellow countrymen and friends of wine and meat, and they had a very close relationship.

Liu Shiping remembered that as soon as Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Beiping on 17 October, he held a closed-door meeting with Fu Zuoyi, and the abnormal behavior of the Kuomintang officers today was probably related to that meeting.

Liu Shiping's real identity is a member of the underground party of the North China Bureau, under the jurisdiction of the Professional Youth Branch of the School Committee of the Ministry of Urban Industry, and the direct leader is called Li Bingquan.

Liu Shiping's main task was to take advantage of his position as the director of the interview department of Yishi Bao to make friends with the upper echelons of the Kuomintang and deliver important information to our party.

After a few glasses of wine, E Yousan completely forgot the principle of secrecy and happily announced:"Since the loss of Jinzhou, the chairman of the committee is very unhappy, so let the old man go to the Communist Party's nest tomorrow, this time the brothers are going to show their skills! Cheers! ”

E Yousan's words shocked Liu Shiping, knowing that this was important information, so he kept persuading E Yousan and others to drink, and set out the approximate time and place of their departure.

On the morning of the second day, Liu Shiping, with the identity of the director of the interview department, infiltrated Xizhimen Station, secretly wrote down important information such as the army number of Shijiazhuang, and rushed to the "Pingming**" interview department, found the director of the department, Li Bingquan, and made an urgent report to him about the news, and Li Bingquan reported the news to the person in charge of the underground party in Beiping: Cui Yueli.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the 24th, Cui Yueli transmitted this information about the life and death of *** to the Urban Engineering Department of the North China Bureau in Bodong, Hebei Province through an underground radio station. The comrades of the Ministry of Urban Industry urgently reported the matter to the North China Military Region and ***

Because of the importance of the matter, our party finally determined the authenticity of this information after repeatedly confirming it through secret channels.

On the evening of October 25, the ** Military Commission received an urgent telegram from the Ministry of Urban Industry: Chiang Kai-shek pre-mobilized 10 tens of thousands of troops from Beiping and Taiyuan to raid western Hebei.

At the critical juncture, ** showed his wisdom as a revolutionary leader in the face of danger, and at the same time sent a telegram ordering Huaye to dispatch some troops to return to the defense urgently, ** asked Hu Qiaomu to write a radio script according to the enemy situation.

After polishing it, it was officially broadcast to the outside world through Xinhua News Agency:

At a time when our People's Liberation Army (PLA) was winning great victories in various battlefields across the country, Chiang Kai-shek and Fu Zuoyi wanted to raid Shijiazhuang at this time and destroy the lives and property of the people.

According to the information available to our side, Chiang Kai-shek and Fu Zuoyi decided to dispatch three divisions of the 94th Army and two divisions of the New Second Army to attack Shijiazhuang in the direction of Baoding.

Chiang Kai-shek's 94th Army, located near Zhuoxian and Dingxing, had been dispatched, equipped with cars and explosives, and was ready to carry out sabotage, but this frivolous move of the enemy was doomed to failure.

The party, government, and military leaders in North China have already begun to mobilize the people and will resolutely and thoroughly annihilate any bandit army that dares to invade our liberated areas.

On October 26, ** wrote a radio script titled "Chiefs of North China Call on the People along the Baoshi Line to Prepare to Fight the Invasion of the Bandits", which was broadcast through Xinhua News Agency.

In this broadcast,Not only did he "give a detailed introduction" to the number of the invading enemy, the purpose of the operation, who commanded him, and the position he had reached, but he also clearly told the other side that the residents of the liberated areas were ready for battle, and if the enemy dared to come, he would guarantee that he would not return.

On October 26, Zheng Tingfeng, commander of the 94th Army, had just arrived in Baoding, and he originally planned to order the troops to launch an attack on the liberated areas the next day. ”

This broadcast script successfully caused a rift between Zheng Tingfeng, Liu Chunfang, commander of the newly formed Fourth Cavalry Division, and E Yousan, commander of the 12th Cavalry Brigade.

They had been heading for Shijiazhuang as planned, but stopped on the road because of the telegram and began to complain to each other.

Zheng Tingfeng accused E Yousan, Liu Chunfang and others of not obeying his command, deliberately delaying, causing the cavalry to move too slowly and missing a good opportunity to annihilate the enemy.

E Yousan and Liu Chunfang said that Zheng Tingfeng's command was incompetent, and while the two sides were arguing with each other, Zheng Tingfeng received a top-secret information: The Seventh Column of the North China Field Army had crossed Baoding from Dawangdian in Mancheng overnight to fortify near the Hutuo River.

Zheng Tingfeng was even more reluctant to move forward after knowing this, so he urgently sent a telegram to Fu Zuoyi, saying: ** has been prepared, and the field army has good combat strength, if our army continues to advance, it may be difficult to be the enemy, please send reinforcements to support.

After Liu Chunfang learned about this, she also sent a telegram to Fu Zuoyi** Prepared, please carefully consider our army's attack plan.

Fu Zuoyi has been "disturbed" by the broadcast script, and is in a fidgeting moment, after receiving the telegram from Zheng Tingfeng and Liu Chunfang, he has doubts about this attack plan, so he convened his staff Wang Rujun and others to a meeting to discuss, whether to "withdraw the army or send reinforcements".

If he wants to advance, Fu Zuoyi must dispatch a large number of troops to urgently reinforce the front line, and if he wants to withdraw his troops, it will be tantamount to declaring Fu Zuoyi's "heart-piercing tactics" completely bankrupt.

Wang Rujun saw that Fu Zuoyi was hesitant, so he spoke:

Although the actions of our army have been discovered by the enemy, and the enemy army has been prepared, but now Shijiazhuang is still an empty city, without any field army troops, this comment by Xinhua News Agency may just be an empty city plan to scare us.

Even if the main force of the Huaye Seventh Column is stubbornly defended by the Hutuo River, there is no need to worry, because the Seventh Column is a newly formed army, and its combat effectiveness cannot be too strong, while our army has aircraft, heavy artillery and other heavy equipment.

The fortifications temporarily constructed by the 7th column could not stop a round of bombardment by our artillery units, not to mention that at this time our army had already crossed the Tang River, and the forward troops had even reached Anguo, and they would soon reach the vicinity of Shijiazhuang, and if our army retreated at this time, it would definitely become a joke, so our army should immediately reinforce the front-line troops.

Wang Rujun's "high theory" made him firm in his determination to reinforce, so he urgently sent his trump card force, the 35th Army, south to support Zheng Tingfeng's department, and at the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also sent the 16th Army of the ** Army and the 142nd Division of the 92nd Army to cooperate with the 39th Army.

Zheng Tingfeng received a call back from Fu Zuoyi, and his confidence increased greatly after knowing that there would be reinforcements coming.

So on October 28, the troops were ordered to set off from Baoding, and under the cover of 10 aircraft, they attacked Shijiazhuang by 4 routes.

As a result, in the process of marching, the troops were constantly blocked by the military and civilians in the liberated areas, and after paying a heavy price of hundreds of people, they finally "advanced" forward for twenty or thirty miles.

On October 29, ** received the news that the enemy army had begun to move south again, and also received the news that Fu Zuoyi had transferred the main force stationed near Beiping out of Baoding, and it was very likely that he would march towards our liberated area.

Although the 3rd and 4th Columns of Huaye had approached the Baoshi Line, and the 7th Column had exchanged fire with the enemy, the strength of the troops was still insufficient.

Therefore, ** decided to use the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and called ** and Liu Yalou, who had just eliminated Liao Yaoxiang's corps, and asked them to send troops to eastern Hebei and make a posture of attacking Beiping.

On the same day, ** wrote the third broadcast script, and in this broadcast script, ** pointed out:

The 20,000 troops sent by Fu Zuoyi arrived yesterday (October 28) near Fangshun Bridge in the south of Baoding, and among the 20,000 people, there were only two divisions of the 94th Army, and the remaining one division was deployed by him on the front line of Zhuoxian and Dingxing.

The troops of Liu Chunfang and E Yousan followed behind Zheng Tingfeng, and the masses of the people in the counties on both sides of our Baoshi line were ready for battle and were ready to cooperate with our regular army to annihilate the invading enemy in one fell swoop.

On October 31, ** saw that Fu Zuoyi still did not give up the idea of sending troops to invade Shijiazhuang, so he wrote the fourth radio script.

In this broadcast, ** said:

When the Kuomintang generals were cornered by our army, Bai Chongxi and Fu Zuoyi were selected by US imperialism and became the treasures of the Kuomintang, while Chiang Kai-shek had become a soulless zombie and had to reuse Bai Chongxi and Fu Zuoyi under the instructions of US imperialism.

During the two weeks that Chiang Kai-shek lived in Beiping, he personally sent away Fan Hanjie, Zheng Dongguo, and Liao Yaoxiang's three-way army, he was not like Xiang Yu, he did not have the shame of seeing Jiangdong's father, and slipped back to Nanjing yesterday (October 30), at the same time, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to get some new tricks to stimulate the morale of the army and the people in order to survive, so he came up with such a "clever plan" to sneak attack Shijiazhuang.

Chiang Kai-shek initially wanted Fu Zuoyi to attack Jinan, but Fu Zuoyi did not agree, so he let him attack Shijiazhuang, and Fu Zuoyi agreed, but asked the two families to send troops together.

The troops they sent were also very "brave", and they walked from Baoding to Wangdu in a week, and the commander of this force, Zheng Tingfeng, felt that it was not enough, and asked Beiping to send reinforcements, and the matter of sending reinforcements was a partnership between Chiang and Fu, Fu Zuoyi sent out the 35th Army, and Chiang Kai-shek sent the 16th Army, and went south together.

Here's a question: Do they want Beiping or not?Now Beiping is so empty, there is only one Youth Army 2O 8th Division there. Tongzhou is also empty, and the eastern section of Pingsui is only a few soldiers. In short, the entire northern front of Chiang Kai-shek, the entire Fu Zuoyi system, will be finished in only a few months, but they are still there dreaming of Shijiazhuang!

At this time, the Liaoshen Campaign was almost over, and Beiping had fallen into the encirclement of our army, but the net had not yet been closed.

Therefore, military strategists with a little strategic vision will not put the main force on such a stupid thing as attacking Shijiazhuang.

**The fourth broadcast script made Zheng Tingfeng completely lose his mind to go south, especially on the evening of November 1, after hearing the news broadcast by Xinhua News Agency that "Liao Yaoxiang's army was completely wiped out, and he regarded Zheng Tingjian as if his brother was captured", he was even more frightened, so he hurriedly sent a report to Fu Zuoyi: ".The mother was seriously ill, and Wangjun was allowed to resign.

He even did it, if Fu Zuoyi didn't agree with his plan to slip away.

At the same time, after Liu Chunfang heard the broadcast of the Xinhua News Agency, he also sent a telegram to Fu Zuoyi, saying that because there are many mines, the defense is tight."Please reconsider the attack

The telegram of the two made Fu Zuoyi feel very distressed, because if he hastily withdrew his troops, it would make him look very shameless.

Coincidentally, at this time, his secretary sent an urgent telegram, saying that the ** first column had returned to Hebei, the forward had passed the Bauhinia Pass, and the northeast ** had also left the customs and arrived near Yutian.

Although this telegram was not good news, it still made Fu Zuoyi breathe a sigh of relief, so he urgently sent a telegram to Zheng Tingfeng and Liu Chunfang to ask them to withdraw to Fangshun Bridge."Assist in defense

In this way, the hundreds of thousands of troops of Fu Zuoyi and Chiang Kai-shek, before they arrived in Shijiazhuang, were scared away by the "empty city plan" through 4 telegrams.

Sun Tzu said: "Therefore, the victory of the good fighter is also without wisdom and fame, and there is no bravery, so his victory is not bad." ”

A person who is really good at war does not have a reputation for wisdom and does not have the exploits of Megatron, but he makes himself invincible through various schemes when he fights.

He has hardly touched a gun in his life, and he has rarely personally participated in battle, but he is recognized as a talented conductor.

Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, who can compare with it?