The crossing of the river by a million heroes was the most exciting scene of the Liberation War, which took place on April 20, 1949, on the hundreds of kilometers of river from Hukou in Jiangxi Province to Jiangyin in Jiangsu Province.
With a stroke of a hand, he wrote a poem, but threw it into the wastebasket without care.
April 23, 1949, Xiangshan, western suburb of Beiping. After hearing the news of the People's Liberation Army's capture of Nanjing, ***, who commanded the battle of crossing the river here, was overjoyed. He picked up a brush and wrote a famous seven-rule poem in one go.
Soon after, his mind returned to the question of how to plan a new China, and the paper he was holding was inadvertently thrown into the wastebasket.
Seeing this scene, Tian Jiaying, the secretary of **, quickly picked up the paper, only to see that the paper read:
The People's Liberation Army occupies Nanjing.
Zhongshan is pale and yellow in wind and rain, and millions of heroes have crossed the river.
The tiger is better than the past, and the world is turned upside down and generous.
It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord.
If there is love in the sky, the sky is also old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life.
Tian Jiaying carefully put away the poems, he knew that *** thoughts were like a tide, writing poems on a whim, and then immersed in new thinking, and would not care about what happened after writing.
This song of seven laws is the last work that directly writes about war. The work records the historical situation of the liberation of Nanjing after the start of the battle of crossing the river.
The battle was planned from early February to late March 1949, originally scheduled to begin on April 15 and later postponed to April 20. The two groups in the east and west launched the river crossing operation at the same time on the night of the 21st.
The background of the battle of crossing the Yangtze River was that after the end of the three major battles, the Kuomintang army fully retreated to the south bank of the Yangtze River, trying to take advantage of the natural dangers of the Yangtze River to block the People's Liberation Army in the north of the Yangtze River and realize their attempt to "divide the river and rule".
As early as the last day of 1948, in the New Year's message "Carry the Revolution to the End" written for the Xinhua News Agency, it was pointed out that "in 1949 the Chinese People's Liberation Army will march south of the Yangtze River and will win a greater victory than in 1948." “
The Kuomintang, for its part, naturally refused to admit defeat easily. Chiang Kai-shek placed the main force of the Kuomintang army on the south bank of the Yangtze River and built a large number of fortifications, intending to resist stubbornly.
At the beginning of 1949, the PLA had turned numerically from a disadvantage over the past 20 years or so to an advantage, with a total strength of more than 3.58 million troops, including 2.18 million field troops.
On the Kuomintang side, after two and a half years of the War of Liberation and the defeat of several decisive battles, the total strength of the army has dropped to more than 1 million, of which more than 700,000 have been put into the Yangtze River defense line.
The Kuomintang army divided the more than 1,800-kilometer line between Yichang in Hubei Province and Shanghai into two major theaters and deployed 115 divisions. Among them, the 800-kilometer defense line from Shanghai to Jiangxi Hukou was defended by Tang Enbo, with 75 divisions and a total of about 450,000 people. The 1,000-kilometer line from Hukou to Yichang was defended by Bai Chongxi, with 40 divisions and about 250,000 troops.
The PLA has invested about 1 million troops in the plan for crossing the river.
2. The composition of 7 corps, 24 corps and some military regions of the 3rd and 22 major field armies is as follows:
The 3rd Field Army.
The 8 armies of the 8th and 10th Corps, plus the 3 independent brigades of the Northern Jiangsu Military Region, totaling about 350,000 people, formed the Eastern Assault Group; Clause.
The seven corps of the Seventh and Ninth Corps, with about 300,000 men, formed the Central Assault Group. These two assault groups were under the unified command of Su Yu and Zhang Zhen.
The 2nd Field Army.
The 9 armies of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Corps, plus local troops, totaled about 350,000 people, forming the Western Assault Group, which was commanded by *** and others.
The battle to cross the river was originally scheduled to start at 6 p.m. on 15 April, but because the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were in peace talks at that time, the Central Military Commission postponed the crossing in order to reach an agreement favorable to the people. The final date is set for April 20.
On the day of the 20th, the Kuomintang refused to sign the peace agreement, and the People's Liberation Army immediately launched a battle to cross the river. The Central Assault Group launched a forced crossing with the strength of four armies, and occupied Tongling and other places the next day.
On the 21st, the Military Commission and the Commander-in-Chief of the People's Liberation Army issued an order to "march to the whole country", and the battle to cross the river was launched in an all-round way.
On the evening of the 21st, the two major assault groups in the east and west respectively began to cross the river from several hundred kilometers of the river between Zhenjiang and Jiangyin and Guichi and Hukou.
There was also a small episode when the battle of crossing the river was launched, the British ** "Purple Quartz" cruising on the Yangtze River, actually fought an artillery battle with the People's Liberation Army, maybe their imperialist ambitions did not die, trying to make the last struggle. As a result, the white flag was hoisted by the artillery fire of our People's Liberation Army and obediently slipped back to Shanghai.
On the 22nd, all the troops crossing the river reached the south bank, and quickly occupied the relevant cities and important places, and on the 23rd, Nanjing was liberated.
It was in this situation of good news that the masterpiece "Seven Laws" was written.
The Battle of Crossing the Yangtze River was a major node battle in which the People's Liberation Army pursued the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek clique southward and broke through the Yangtze River after the three major battles. It took place on April 20, 1949, and ended with the liberation of Chongming Island outside the mouth of the Yangtze River by the People's Liberation Army on June 2, 42 days.
After that, the PLA's operational focus began to change from liberating the big cities first and then the surrounding areas, and in the following days, many areas were liberated, creating conditions for the next step of operations and the liberation of the whole of China.