On March 4, 1947, Hu Zongnan was appointed as the director of the Xi'an Pacification Office, before that, because he was in Zhengzhou, he cooperated with Yan Xishan to flank my Taiyue column, and as a result, the first brigade under his command was wiped out, and the 48th brigade suffered great losses, Hu Zongnan could not get over the face, after taking office in Xi'an this time, Hu Zongnan vowed to find the field, on March 11, Hu Zongnan held a military meeting in Luochuan, and discussed a pincer offensive, with Liu Kan's integrated 29th Army and Dong Zhao's integrated first army as the left and right two corps, Launch a surprise attack on Yan'an.
In order to cope with Hu Zongnan's offensive, the Northwest Field Corps, which was formed by our army with the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Field Group, was only 2 at the beginning of its formation60,000 people, the two sides are not equal in military strength at all, and in order to avoid losses in frontal contact with the enemy, our army is determined to abandon Yan'an. In this way, Hu Zongnan occupied Yan'an almost bloodlessly, and in order to boast of his military exploits, Hu Zongnan specially ordered the reorganization of the first brigade of the first division as the first force to enter Yan'an.
After Hu Zongnan recovered Yan'an, he racked his brains to think about how to fabricate news of a victory, and for this reason Hu Zongnan specially instructed the Operations Staff Office to fabricate a good news that "50,000 enemies had been captured." Hu Zongnan was also awarded the Order of Yunlu of the Second Class, and some reporters from Shanghai, Nanjing, and Beiping also rushed to report on the victory.
In order to fill the façade and look like some, Hu Zongnan just repaired more than 2,000 tombs of fallen soldiers, and also caught strong men everywhere to pretend to be prisoners, in order to deal with the interrogation of those reporters, Hu Zongnan also sent special personnel from his own troops to pretend to be prisoners, and made up a statement in advance, so as not to show his feet during the interrogation.
But even so, it is difficult for Hu Zongnan's arrangements to be exhaustive, and these reporters have basically seen through Hu Zongnan's disguise, but they didn't say it to their faces.
At that time, in order to revitalize the prestige of our army, the Northwest Field Army used a part of its forces to lure Liu Kan to lead the reorganized 29th Army to the north in the direction of Ansai, and the main force waited for an opportunity to ambush Qinghuatou in the southeast of Yan'an, intending to ambush the Kuomintang army all the way to reinforcements.
At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the flank, the Kuomintang army reorganized the 31st Brigade out of Qinghuatou, just into our army's ambush circle, after a fierce battle, the 31st Brigade and its 29th Regiment more than 2,900 people were completely annihilated, and achieved the first victory since the evacuation of Yan'an.
After the first battle of Qinghuatou, the main force of our army immediately withdrew to the area near Panlong and Qinghuatou to rest, and the main force of the enemy who was led by our army by the nose was reorganized into the first army and the 29th army, after the air was exhausted, the main force withdrew to the Panlong area to rest, because of the clues found in our army along the way, so it was realized that the main force of the Northwest Field Army was near the Panlong area, so the army went south, trying to gather and annihilate our army and the Panlong and Qinghuatou areas.
To this end, the Northwest Field Army lured the main force of the Kuomintang Army to attack in the northwest direction of Panlong with a main force, and the main force waited for an opportunity to move to the vicinity of the Yangma River to ambush, and the 135th Brigade of the integrated 15th Division, which was defending Wayaobao, went south to respond to the Yangma River, and encountered an ambush by our army, and the 135th Brigade of more than 4,700 people were annihilated, and the brigade commander Mai Zongyu was also captured On April 14, the news reached Yan'an, and Hu Zongnan immediately ordered someone to hide and not report it, but due to the low morale of the troops, Hu Zongnan was afraid that a little news would leak and was learned by the press corps, I didn't have any good fruit to eat, so I found an excuse and sent the press corps away, but fortunately, it was more timely, otherwise the battle report of the Panlong Battle on May 5 would have been transmitted, and Hu Zongnan would have no face at that time.