The Southwest Campaign was the grand finale of the War of Liberation, and our army won a complete victory.
This battle was even easier than the battle of crossing the river: the chairman and *** expected a four-month decisive battle, which would end in only 57 days;500,000 of our army destroyed 930,000 enemy troops through the Great Detour and Great Outflanking Regiment;Of the only 10 remaining corps of the enemy, 8 of them revolted in just 19 days and joined our camp.
Liberation of the Great Southwest].
However, this seemingly overwhelming battle actually carries great risks.
This risk does not come from the enemy's stubborn resistance, but from the fact that the enemy's few remaining main forces are "going up with 36 strategies" and smearing oil on the soles of their feet, thus raising tigers for trouble, and failing to achieve the goal of "eliminating all evils."
As a matter of fact, there was a rare "understanding person" in the enemy camp, and he almost poured out the heat, so that the chairman's wish that "it is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining courage and not to become famous and learn from the overlord" was frustrated in the southwest. This person once proposed a whimsical idea to President Jiang, and if it was adopted that year, the consequences would indeed be serious.
Who is this "understanding person"?What is his idea?
[The People's Liberation Army marched into the southwest, and children along the way laid flowers to welcome].
This rare person in the enemy camp who understands is Song Xilian.
The name Song Xilian, although not the most dazzling group in modern military history, is also a relatively famous general. Song Xilian is one of President Jiang's most proud Whampoa students, but he has not become popular in his life, but has a tangled relationship with Chen Geng, a famous general and founding general of our army.
Song Xilian and Chen Geng are both from Xiangxiang, HunanThe two first met in 1913 on the way to the examination room of Yucai Middle School, when Chen Geng was weak and was studying at Yuexiang Middle SchoolSong Xilian is only 16 years old and attends Changjun Middle School.
Song Xilian and his eldest brother Chen Geng hit it off at first sight, and they hated seeing each other late. Coincidentally, two people were assigned to the same exam table during the exam. Coincidentally, 6 days later, the two were admitted to the same school again.
As hot-blooded young people in the land of Sanxiang, Song Xilian and Chen Geng entered the martial arts school founded by Cheng Qian, a veteran of the Hunan Army, and met to apply for the Huangpu examination, and stood out among more than 2,000 candidates and became a pair of "good brothers" in the Huangpu Military Academy.
Zhou Gong, then director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, also praised 17-year-old Song Xilian.
Half a year after enrollment, Song Xilian and Chen Geng participated in the battle to pacify Chen Jiongming, and were both promoted to company commanders after the war. In the Second Eastern Crusade, the "eldest brother" Chen Geng also saved President Jiang's life and was transferred to the staff officer. Under Chen Geng's introduction, Song Xilian, who actively demanded progress, also followed in the footsteps of the "big brother" and joined the organization.
However, the defeat of the Great Revolution completely changed Song Xilian's fate
Seeing that the "eldest brother" Chen Geng was "obsessed" and was getting farther and farther away from Principal Jiang, Song Xilian, who was introverted and loyal to the principal, chose another path and was sent to study at the Chiba Army Infantry School in Japan after the Northern Expedition.
When Song Xilian returned to China, it was May 1930, and at this time, the "eldest brother" Chen Geng was serving as the head of the intelligence section in Shanghai. Song Xilian participated in the Central Plains War as a staff officer of the lieutenant colonel of the 1st Division. After the war, he was promoted to deputy regiment commander and regiment commander, and in the winter of 1931, he served as the commander of the 1st Division and the 2nd Brigade.
In August 1933, Song Xilian was promoted to the commander of the 36th Division and was stationed in Fuzhou, Jiangxi. On June 18, 1935, Song Xilian was ordered to shoot Qu Qiubai, an idol of his youth, in Zhongshan Park in Fuzhou.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Song Xilian participated in the Battle of Songhu and was promoted to the commander of the 78th Army for his merits.
In 1938, Song Xilian served as the commander of the honorary division and the commander of the 71st Army, and participated in the Battle of Lanfeng and the guerrilla war in Dabie Mountain. Subsequently, he successively served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the 34th Group Army and the commander-in-chief of the 11th Group Army, and inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army in the Nujiang Huitong Bridge Blocking Battle and the Longling Offensive Battle.
In November 1934, Song Xilian was transferred to the director of the Ninth Branch of the Dihua Military Academy, the chief of staff of the Northwest Xingyuan, and the acting director of the Northwest Xingyuan. During the Liberation War, Song Xilian served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Suppression Commander" in Central China and the commander of the 14th Corps.
Liu Deng marched to the southwest].
As the War of Liberation entered its third year, the situation between us and the enemy had begun to reverse.
President Jiang and Nanjing's decision-making body played a good deck of cards to a pulp. The absolute military and economic superiority that originally occupied the country has become less obvious, and the absolute military superiority in the northeast region has disappeared.
At this time, our army began to "collectivize" and unite with strong forces, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo and Jinsui base areas were merged into one, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu base areas were merged into one, the Northeast Military Region and the North China Military Region were strategically coordinated, and Su Yu's Huaye and Liu Deng Zhongye worked closely together.
President Chiang, on the other hand, did the opposite, dividing the armed forces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River into three: the Central China Suppression Headquarters, the Xuzhou Suppression Headquarters, and the defense groups in the Nanjing and Shanghai areasIn October 1948, President Jiang transferred Song Xilian in order to strengthen XuzhouAppointmentThe deputy commander-in-chief of Xuzhou's "Suppression Chief", but this time Song Xilian couldn't live or die.
Due to the "little Zhuge " Bai Chongxi picking on the battlefield, Xuzhou's "general manager" had to appoint Liu Zhi, who could not support the wall but was very reliable and obedient, and President Jiang successively equipped Liu Zhi with 6 vice presidents, namely Du Yuming and Li Yannian of the first phase of Huangpu, Sun Zhen and Han Deqin from Baoding Military Academy, and Liu Ruming and Feng Zhi'an, former generals of the Northwest Army.
Perhaps, Song Xilian has already seen that the "Battle of Xu Beng" is a castle in the air.
In fact, there is no shortage of people in the enemy camp, such as Wang Yaowu, who proposed to withdraw Jinan's 100,000 troops south to Xuzhou before the Battle of Jinan, and Bai Chongxi and Du Yuming, who proposed that the 500,000 troops of "Xuzhou Suppress the General" withdraw south to the Yangtze River before the decisive battle against Huaihai.
If President Chiang agrees to any of the above proposals, the Liberation War will be postponed.
Once Wang Yaonan's 100,000 troops retreat south to Xuzhou, the pressure on Su Yuhuaye and Zhongye will undoubtedly be much greater, and the progress of the Huaihai Campaign is really difficult to sayOnce the 500,000 elite troops in Xuzhou withdrew south of the Yangtze River, our army did not wipe out the enemy's elite troops in the area north of the Yangtze River, and the difficulty of the battle to cross the Yangtze River can be imagined, and the liberation of the "** Mansion" will not go unfired.
On the eve of the Southwest Campaign, Song Xilian also put forward a whimsical idea.
This idea is to retreat into advance, and withdraw the elite 14 Corps and other units in the Sichuan-Hunan-Hubei-Guizhou border region, as well as the corps and other units that Hu Zongnan withdrew from the Hanzhong region, with about 300,000 people from the two divisions, to Burma and other neighboring countries, so as to hold on for a long time.
Once President Jiang approves this proposal, how serious will the consequences be?
The first consequence is that our army's strategy of making a big detour will be greatly discounted, and the southwest campaign will defeat the idea of "one pot stew" for the enemy's last main force
The second consequence is that the Golden Triangle region is unbalanced, and the 1,400 people of Li Guohui, the head of a regiment, and Tan Zhong, the deputy head of the regiment, turned Southeast Asia upside down under the command of Li Mi, not to mention 300,000 people, even 50,000 people can build an "independent kingdom";
The third consequence is that this border force is a huge danger to New China, and once President Jiang initiates "** This force in the southwest to deal with it, it will definitely be a threat to New China."
[Golden Triangle remnants "ambition"].
If he fled to Burma with his troops, what troops would Song Xilian bring?
The 14th Corps under Song Xilian, commanderYesZhong Bin;The commander of the 5th Corps under Hu Zongnan was Li Wen. These two diehards are die-hard fans of President Chiang and will not surrender until they die, so they pose a great threat to our army.
The rest of the lineage army, Song Xilian can't believe it;Miscellaneous armies like the Sichuan Army, the Guangdong Army, the Northwest Army, and Song Xilian looked down on them even more, and it was these troops who were the first to revolt in the Southwest Campaign. As for the rabble that has been provisionally compiled, it is even more out of its eyes.
However, President Jiang scolded Song Xilian like he scolded Wang Yaowu back then, and Song Xilian had no choice but to return to the eastern Sichuan region to organize resistance to the attack of Liu Deng's army. ResultsFirst lost Jingmen, then defeated eastern Sichuan, led the remnants to flee to Xichang on the way, and was captured alive by our army in Shaping on the bank of the Dadu River.
[Golden Triangle Remnant].
Song Xilian, who fought dozens of battles in his life and was known as the "Eagle Dog General", was finally sent to the Gongdelin together with Du Yuming in the first phase of Huangpu, Wang Yaowu in the third phase of Huangpu and others. Fortunately, all three were pardoned in December 1959.
In his later years, Song Xilian recalled: If the 300,000 troops really withdrew to Myanmar that year, the consequences would be really unimaginable, but fortunately the principal did not adopt this suggestion, otherwise he and Hu Zongnan would become sinners through the ages because of this suggestion.
References:
1. "The Self-Statement of the Eagle Dog General Song Xilian", written by Song Xilian, China Literature and History Publishing House;
2. "The Remnants of Jiang Jun in Exile in a Foreign Country", written by Xu Jun, China Overseas Chinese Publishing Company.