In "Bright Sword", Chu Yunfei once scolded the 74th Legion, he said: "The 74th Legion, 55,000 people, only collapsed in three days, it is just a group of pigs, and we can't get rid of it for three days!" This sentence makes a lot of sense, but the person who said it was Wang Yaowu, the former commander of the 74th Army. Lao Wang was not referring to the 74th Legion, nor the entire 74th Legion, he was referring to Li Xianzhou's troops in the battle of Laiwu. In the Battle of Laiwu in February 1947, Li Xianzhou led three divisions of the 73rd Division, three divisions of the 46th Division, and the 12th Division and the new 36th Division, all of which were wiped out within three days. More than 10,000 were killed and wounded, more than 45,000 were taken prisoner, and more than 56,000 were killed in total.
This is not a weak force, the 73rd Army is an American mechanical army of Lao Chiang, and it is a serious army. The merged 46th Division was the main force; Although the new 36th Regiment was reorganized from the puppet army, its combat capability was not weak. In three days, more than 50,000 people were annihilated, dealing a heavy blow to the Kuomintang army.
This incident is very funny, Ou Zhen falsely reported the results of the battle on the southern front, saying that he had annihilated the sixteen brigades of Huaye in Linyi, Lao Jiang and Chen Cheng believed this, and ordered Wang Yaowu to march to the south with his troops. Although Wang Yaowu knew that the result of the battle on the southern front was fake, and thought that Huaye's main forces could go north to destroy Li Xianzhou, Lao Jiang still ordered them to go further south.
It was a multi-regional team that faced the bitter cold weather in the mountains in February, and because the command changed so quickly, the whole team was in a spin in place, and the morale was extremely low. After Huaye's main forces were transferred to the north, in order to eliminate Li Xianzhou's side, each column concentrated its forces and had a great advantage in the local area.
The 6th Column played an important role in this campaign, and its first.
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The 7th and 18th Divisions all gave full play to their talents and launched an attack on the area around Kouzhen and Qingshi Bridge. Although he failed to take Kouzhen in a short time, this move also made Li Xianzhou's troops have to withdraw first to prepare for the next battle.
In this battle, the 18th Division relied on its flexible use of terrain and accurate artillery fire to carry out fierce attacks on the enemy, thus winning a great victory. The division threw all its forces into battle in a pre-arranged pocket position, and finally captured a large number of enemy troops, which greatly dampened the enemy's fighting spirit.
After this battle, Li Xianzhou's side was completely chaotic, the command system was completely disintegrated, and the army was also beaten to pieces, and finally surrounded and eliminated by Huaye's large army. As a result, the Sixth Column was provided with sufficient materials and personnel, which laid good conditions for future operations.
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