In the War of Liberation, the People's Liberation Army wiped out 8 million Kuomintang troops in three years with 1.2 million people, and in the three-year Liberation War, although the Kuomintang army was well-equipped and had three armies, the navy, land and air force, but it was repeatedly defeated, and was beaten by the People's Liberation Army to lose its armor, especially in the three major battles, the People's Liberation Army eliminated about 1.8 million Kuomintang troops
The People's Liberation Army fought many classic battles, such as the Battle of Menglianggu of the East China Field Army, which eliminated the integrated 74th Division, one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang army.
There are also seven victories in the seven battles between the Soviet Union and China commanded by Su Yu, and the battles in eastern Henan are all wonderful.
Dongye went to the south of the Yangtze River three times and Linjiang four times, and in just one or two years, Dongye grew from 100,000 people to a million army.
The Northwest Field Army also successively launched the Xifu Campaign and the Yichuan Campaign, gaining a foothold in the Northwest Region.
The Central Plains Field Army successively conquered several cities in the Central Plains, and then carried out a strategic leap of thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains.
The North China Military Region also conquered Shijiazhuang, and the North China First Corps commanded by Xu Shuai also annihilated 100,000 enemies in the Jinzhong area.
In the three-year war of liberation, the Kuomintang army was almost defeated by the enemy. The Kuomintang army, whether it was a major offensive or a decisive battle, ended in failure.
However, our army did not fight well in the early days of the Liberation War.
In the six months that began in May 1946, the PLA basically ran into walls everywhere on the battlefield across the country, and lost its base areas everywhere.
For example, in the Northeast Battlefield, at the beginning of the war, our army easily occupied Siping City, but then the PLA successfully suffered in a small Siping.
After our army conquered Siping, the Kuomintang army concentrated the ace troops of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army and our army in a brutal battle in Siping. Our People's Liberation Army concentrated the main force of 80,000 people to hold Siping.
The two ace armies of the Kuomintang army, taking advantage of the fierce artillery fire and air superiority, carried out a three-dimensional attack on Siping City.
Although the People's Liberation Army inflicted heavy casualties on the Kuomintang army, the most important position on the periphery of Siping, Tazishan, was lost, and the Kuomintang reinforcements on the periphery of Siping continued to reinforce Siping City.
Due to the change in the situation and the major changes in the situation between the enemy and us, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was forced to begin to withdraw from Siping, and the battle to defend Siping, which lasted for several months, was declared a failure.
Immediately after the loss of Shanhaiguan and Changchun, our army was forced to retreat to the Heilongjiang region on all fronts. He was even preparing to fight guerrilla warfare with the Kuomintang army in Heilongjiang.
The two provinces of Liaoji and Jilin were basically lost, the North Manchurian army had retreated to the north of the Songhua River, and the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army had lost its offensive capability in a short period of time.
The South Manchurian army has been compressed in two remote and barren ravines, and is facing the fate of complete annihilation at any time.
In June 1946, the Kuomintang army concentrated 300,000 people to launch a surprise attack on our Central Plains Military Region, encircling more than 60,000 people of the Central Plains Military Region in the Xuanhuadian area of northern Hubei, in an attempt to eliminate our Central Plains Military Region in one fell swoop.
More than 60,000 soldiers of our army were forced to move in three ways, and it can be said that there were many difficulties and dangers along the way, and the 300,000 troops of the Kuomintang army were in hot pursuit.
Although the 60,000-strong army of the People's Liberation Army annihilated 10,000 Kuomintang troops, less than 10,000 people remained in the People's Liberation Army who jumped out of the encirclement. The hard-built base was also lost.
However, a large number of backbones still successfully arrived in Yan'an and northern Jiangsu and western Hubei.
What's worse is that in September 1946, the 74th Division of the Kuomintang army Zhang Lingfu occupied Huaiyin, the capital of the Jiangsu and Anhui Liberated Areas, and occupied the Huai'an area on the 22nd. For a while, Zhang Lingfu was crazy to the extreme.
In the early days of the War of Liberation, the Jin-Cha-Ji and Jin-Sui Military Regions led by ** and ** did not go very well.
In September 1946, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and the Jinsui Military Region jointly launched the Jining and Datong Campaigns, which were the main forces of more than 100,000 troops, and our army's goal was to liberate Datong, but Fu Zuoyi suddenly joined the campaign, Fu Zuoyi besieged Wei to save Zhao, and our army Datong did not conquer and lost Zhangjiakou.
Subsequently, the entire Rehe and large areas of eastern Hebei, including Chengde, were lost. The link between the northeast and north China of our army was cut off by the Kuomintang troops. Rehe and Chahar provinces were basically lost, and traffic inside and outside the customs was completely cut off.
In the early days of the Liberation War, only the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region fought quite well, and successively wiped out nearly 100,000 Kuomintang troops in a series of battles in Shangdang, Handan, and JuluHowever, later, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army made a thousand-mile leap into the Dabie Mountains, and the main force left the liberated areas and plunged directly into the Dabie Mountains area, where it engaged in life-and-death battles with the Kuomintang army, and although it gained a foothold in the Dabie Mountains, less than 60,000 of the 100,000 troops from the south of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region remained. The situation is also very critical.
Although the Northwest Field Army won several small victories, it did not fundamentally get rid of the military oppression of Hu Zongnan's clique, and on the whole the enemy was still strong and we were weak.
In the first year of the Liberation War, the Central Plains Military Region of the People's Liberation Army was almost broken up, and all the liberated areas of the Soviet Union and Central China were lost, and all the liberated areas of the Henan-Anhui Soviet Union were lost; The liberated areas of central Shandong were all lost.
Yan'an, an important revolutionary holy place of our army, was also lost, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was also forced to withdraw to the Heilongjiang region, North China and Northeast China were completely blocked by the Kuomintang army, and in the early days of the Liberation War, the PLA faced an extremely unfavorable military situation. All the liberated areas in Northeast China, North China, East China, Central Plains, and Northwest China were sharply compressed under the fierce attack of the Kuomintang troops. And the loss is big.
However, in the second year, there was a major change in the situation, and the Northeast Field Army went to the south of the Yangtze River three times and protected the Linjiang River three times, opening up the situation in the northeast in one game, and the East Field Army moved from defensive operations to strategic offensives. The fighting Kuomintang troops were forced to engage in defensive operations.
The East China Field Army wiped out the 74th Division of the Kuomintang in one fell swoop in the Battle of Menglianggu, and the later Battle of Eastern Henan was even more thrilling to eliminate more than 90,000 Kuomintang troops, and launched the Southwest Lu Campaign with the Central Plains Field Army, which annihilated a large number of living forces of the Kuomintang army.
The situation of the enemy and the enemy changed dramatically, and the East China Field Army began to destroy the Kuomintang army in a systematic manner.
After the merger of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the North China First Corps annihilated the 100,000-strong Kuomintang army in one month in Shanxi and Jinzhong. Linfen Yuncheng was liberated by the People's Liberation Army one after another.
The Yichuan Campaign launched by the Northwest Field Army reversed the Northwest War in one fell swoop.
The Central Plains Field Army was also significantly replenished in the later Huaihai Campaign, with its strength jumping from less than 60,000 to 280,000.