In November 1948, Liu Yalou hosted a banquet for a group of special guests at the Dongye Command, who were the most senior generals captured in the Liaoshen Campaign. The purpose of this "Zhao'an" meal is to let these generals see the sincerity of the **, and take this opportunity to teach them tactical knowledge, hoping that they can join the ** and jointly contribute to the cause of liberation.
While they may not be as good as they are tactically, they have always stood up to their beliefs and principles, so their victory is worthy of their name.
Liao Yaoxiang was very dissatisfied with the result of the fiasco, he threw Liu Yalou's toast on the ground, slapped the table and roared loudly: "Your **'s tactics are completely ignored, our army has not yet set up a formation, you start to attack, you don't talk about martial arts!"
The result doesn't count this time, and I ask for another fight! Liao Yaoxiang's words were full of disbelief. So, for what reason was this famous anti-Japanese general captured?
General Liao Yaoxiang was brave and fearless in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and with his outstanding leadership ability, he was promoted from a battalion commander to a division commander with nearly 100,000 troops in just three years.
He was hailed as a brave and warlike general, and his heroic deeds are still remembered today. In 1936, he graduated with honors from the Saint-Hill Military Academy in France, laying a solid foundation for his later military career.
In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident opened the prelude to the Japanese invasion of China, and Liao Yaoxiang, who had just been promoted to battalion commander, successfully ambushed a large number of Japanese invaders with his bravery and resourcefulness, and was promoted to the chief of staff of the second brigade within three months.
In November of the same year, the Japanese invaders were heavily equipped with ** and pressed towards the city of Nanjing step by step, and the defense of Nanjing officially began. During this period, Liao Yaoxiang led the team to stick to important areas such as Xiaolingwei and the first line of Purple Mountain.
In order to realize their ambitions, the Japanese decided to deal with this stubborn opponent first, and mobilized the 11th Division Group, which was equipped with advanced equipment and heavy equipment, to carry out an all-round fierce attack on Liao Yaoxiang.
Under the suppression of heavy **, the position was lost again and again, but Liao Yaoxiang was not discouraged and resolutely hit the enemy in the back, but the Japanese relied on the sturdy "iron armor" equipment and gradually gained the upper hand on the battlefield.
Liao Yaoxiang foresaw that a frontal confrontation with the Japanese army would cause a huge **, and after careful consideration, he led his troops to retreat to the top of the mountain, preparing to counterattack at the last moment. However, what was unexpected was that the Japanese army actually released a large amount of toxic gas into the squadron's position.
Unwilling to be captured, Liao Yaoxiang and several cronies rolled off the cliff, however, the accusation of "abandoning the city and fleeing" remained on him forever.
He awoke from a coma and found himself scarred, but thankfully managed to escape from the clutches of the Japanese invaders. Gazing at the smoke-filled city of Nanjing, Liao Yaoxiang felt deeply guilty that it was he who failed to protect Nanjing and let the innocent people suffer from the purgatory-like torture of the Japanese invaders.
The failure of the defense of Nanjing made Liao Yaoxiang full of hatred for the Japanese invaders, and he secretly vowed to drive these invaders out of the land of China. From that moment on, the Battle of Nanjing became a turning point in Liao Yaoxiang's military career.
A year after the Battle of Kunlun, the new 22nd Division led by General Liao Yaoxiang engaged in fierce battles with the Japanese invaders. They used a peculiar sneak attack tactic to attack the enemy from behind, successfully driving the invaders of Wutang and Liutang out of the situation.
At the same time, they also occupied several reconnaissance commanding heights such as Chunhu Mountain and Ma'anshan, effectively cutting off the retreat route of the Japanese invaders in Kunlun Mountain. However, on the very next day, the artillery reinforcements of the Japanese invaders arrived, and their heavy hardcover ** firepower was too strong, and after several days of fierce fighting, the position captured by General Liao Yaoxiang fell into the hands of the enemy again.
Unwilling to admit defeat, Liao Yaoxiang led the whole division to launch a counterattack in the night, and after two hours of fierce fighting, successfully eliminated the enemy and recaptured the position. The 1st and 200th Divisions of Honor, as the main force of frontal resistance, have been fighting fiercely in Kunlun Pass for days, and they are so heavy that they are no longer able to fight.
However, Liao Yaoxiang did not give up, he took the initiative to take over the important task of leading the whole division to attack Kunlun Pass, and assured Commander Du: "I will definitely lead the soldiers to plant the flag on the pass, and I will not return." ”
The smoke of war filled the sky over the battlefield, and enemy bombers swept wildly. At this critical moment, Liao Yaoxiang was in the air-raid shelter to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and the surrounding danger was overflowing, and it could come at any time.
The commander of the guard company was anxious and shouted loudly: "Shizuo, it is dangerous here, please go back to the cave first." The enemy situation will be investigated later. However, Liao Yaoxiang did not give up this rare opportunity.
With a telescope in hand, he was engrossed in observing the dynamics of the enemy forces. Suddenly, a bomb fell on the air-raid shelter, and the guard company commander was blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, and the air-raid shelter collapsed instantly, burying Liao Yaoxiang in the soil.
But even so, he did not stop observing the enemy situation and was still meticulous.
After an hour and a half of hard fighting, General Liao Yaoxiang finally discovered the enemy's artillery position. Regardless of his own exhaustion and embarrassment, he immediately ordered the New 22nd Army to concentrate its firepower on the attack and deploy heavy machine guns at the commanding heights to suppress the enemy's fire points.
He then instructed most of his men to flank him from both sides, while he himself led the assault squad straight into the enemy's core position. After five days of fierce fighting, Liao Yaoxiang successfully defeated Nakamura Masao, and the Battle of Kunlun came to an end, achieving a major victory.
This battle made Liao Yaoxiang famous in the first battle and attracted widespread attention.
After receiving the news, Chairman Chiang greatly praised Liao Yaoxiang's performance: "He graduated from the French military academy of Saint-Hill and was resourceful on the battlefield. However, the legendary general was captured by the enemy soon after.
Liao Yaoxiang was a tricky opponent on the battlefield in Northeast China during the Liberation War. His troops had the latest American weapons and equipment, and most of the senior generals in the army had studied in the United States, and they used only one regiment to break through the defense line of the three columns of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army in the Battle of Siping, causing our generals to retreat again and again, and it was not until they resumed their positions at the Songhua River.
In 1948, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to get more military aid from the United States, decided to fight a beautiful counterattack in the northeast theater to prove that it was wise to invest in the Kuomintang.
Therefore, he sent Liao Yaoxiang to Jinzhou"Preemption"。However, Wei Lihuang believed that Liao Yaoxiang's corps was not strong enough to resist the powerful Dongye, and thought that it would be more advantageous to return to Shenyang to defend the city.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, who was bent on obtaining equipment, did not listen to Wei Lihuang's advice and insisted that Liao Yaoxiang send troops.
Although Liao Yaoxiang served as the commander of the Corps, he did not have the authority to decide on the Corps' operational strategy. Chiang Kai-shek, Du Yuming, and Wei Lihuang each had their own ideas, and after five days of internal discussions, they finally decided to adopt Du Yuming's plan and try to seize Jinzhou.
If successful, Jinzhou and Huludao will serve as land and sea retreat routes, connecting with North China, and the situation may turn around. But if you fail, you can escape directly by sea.
Chiang Kai-shek, who had always been shrewd, personally sent the elite troops into danger.
During the battle, our commander discovered the traces of Liao Yaoxiang's corps, but he did not know the plan of **. In order to seize this opportunity, he decisively dispatched nine columns to attack in an all-out manner, hoping to annihilate Liao Yaoxiang's corps in one fell swoop.
However, Liao Yaoxiang also smelled danger, and he ordered all his troops to retreat. In order to prevent him from escaping, the commander of our army ordered the whole army to search for Liao Yaoxiang with all their efforts to ensure that he could not escape the pursuit of our army.
The chaos of the war made us lose our battle plan, and we could only chase the enemy to fight, and rush to ** when there was a gunshot. The structure of our army has been in disarray, and even General Liao Yaoxiang has nowhere to escape.
In the process of searching for Liao Yaoxiang, the 3rd Battalion of the 21st Regiment of the 3rd Column in the Northeast found many anomalies. When they were in the hut of the Hu family, they noticed that there were many young men carrying miniature short guns on the mountain, and they also pulled up many wires in the village.
In order to find out more, they decided to send condolences to the local people.
The 3rd Battalion realized that they had found an important target, so the 2nd Platoon of the 8th Company organized a search operation. On the Great River Beach, they found a fleet of well-armed American howitzers, which was undoubtedly an important find.
The second platoon squad began to attack the enemy directly, but unfortunately died. However, they succeeded in identifying Liao Yaoxiang's central location and successfully arrested Liao Yaoxiang in disguise at the checkpoint.
Surprisingly, his experience was very dramatic.
The captured ** senior generals not only included Liao Yaoxiang, but also Zhou Fucheng and others. At the banquet, Liao Yaoxiang was very dissatisfied with the performance of the Eastern Field Army, and loudly complained that they did not understand tactics, did not speak martial arts, and did not win martial arts.
Hearing these words, Liu Yalou just shook his head and said softly: "It's not that we don't understand tactics, it's just that you can't understand our tactics." This victory has proven it to you. ”
Hearing these words, Liao Yaoxiang felt very embarrassed, and he looked at the others with a depressed face. However, Liu Yalou did not continue to argue, but smiled, turned around and walked to the room, and invited another ** general.