** Breaking through the Yangtze River defense line, Chiang Kai-shek's villa lunch break was interrupted.
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In late April 1949, spring was in full swing. Chiang Kai-shek had just finished dealing with the urgent military affairs at hand and was enjoying an afternoon at the Myokodai Villa.
Suddenly, the door was violently pushed open, and his henchman Yu Jishi appeared in front of him in a panic. Seeing the nervousness on Yu Jishi's face, Chiang Kai-shek's heart couldn't help but tighten. "There was an urgent telegram from the front, and we, our last line of defense, did not hold the Communists.
Now the Communist Party has been, has ......"Yu Jishi's roar revealed despair, and the news made Chiang Kai-shek fall into an ice cave. His strategy is completely contrary to the PLA's style of play, why did they move so quickly?
Chiang Kai-shek angrily slapped the table and scolded Tang Enbo, but now everything was to no avail. He couldn't figure it out, the Yangtze River defense line he designed stretched for thousands of miles, and it was called"Moat"How did the Communist Party break through this line of defense?
* What impact will a breach of defense have on the situation?
Chiang Kai-shek used political means to "go into the wilderness", but in fact, he was clever and misunderstood. After the defeat in the three major battles, he made the Americans extremely dissatisfied. In order to maintain his position and prominence in importance, he pretended to leave Nanjing and returned to his hometown in Fenghua, where he was replaced by Li Zongren.
However, this was just Chiang Kai-shek's strategy to delay the army, he had already established contacts and prestige among the people, and the little Li Zongren did not pose a threat to him. This operation was only to give an explanation to the Americans and at the same time contain Li Zongren.
This is Chiang Kai-shek's consistent style of "fighting outside must first secure the inside", the internal contradiction is his struggle for power, and the external contradiction is the struggle with the People's Liberation Army led by the first party. However, he thinks that he has American aid ordnance in his hands, and there are many generals in charge, ** is just a group of "mud legs", it is impossible to become the climate, even if they win a few battles, it is a fluke.
After the failure of the Peiping peace talks, Li Zongren and Chiang Kai-shek misjudged the time of the first day's action, believing that the other side needed about half a year of planning. So, he plans to unify the government and the opposition during this time, and then teach ** a lesson.
Therefore, he arranged a defensive force that stretched for thousands of miles, but transferred all the heavy troops to Shanghai, the financial center, believing that this was his "hometown" and that he must protect his lifeblood first.
He secretly converted Shanghai's financial ** into foreign exchange, exchanged it for gold, silver, jewelry and other physical goods, and transferred it to Taiwan. This operation was kept very secret, and no one knew about his plans.
However, he ignored the power of the people and the hearts of the people, which ultimately led to his defeat.
Chiang Kai-shek, in order to secure his political position and deter Li Zongren, transferred heavy troops to Shanghai, leaving the Yangtze River defense line empty. However, Li Zongren was unable to mobilize those personal troops who were only the head of Chiang's horses, resulting in a hole in the defensive line.
The People's Liberation Army seized the opportunity to deal a heavy blow to Chiang Kai-shek and made many Kuomintang ** surrender. In the cheers and shouts of the people, the People's Liberation Army 10,000 ships in parallel, occupied the river north of the Yangtze River, and finally crossed the Jiangyin fortress on the south bank.
Chiang Kai-shek had imagined that the defenders of the Jiangyin fortress would put up a desperate resistance to buy him time, but the brothers Tang Bingyu and Tang Binglin led the senior Kuomintang generals to defect to the Communists and invited nearby Kuomintang generals to surrender as well.
This move made the Jiangyin fortress easily occupied by the People's Liberation Army, and the senior generals also raised the banner of rebellion and shelled the Kuomintang troops with Chiang's American military equipment and artillery, resulting in the fall of the Jiangyin fortress.
At a meeting of senior generals in Hangzhou, everyone was helpless, and Chiang himself was in Hangzhou, hoping to turn the situation around. After the failure of the peace talks in Beiping, the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River from Jiangxi and Jiangsu, forming an encirclement of the Yangtze River.
This caused the cities south of the Yangtze River to fall into a panic, and many Kuomintang ** dignitaries began to pack up their things and prepare to escape, but they were temporarily relieved to hear that Chiang was going to hold a meeting in Hangzhou, thinking that Chiang would make a surprise move.
However, they didn't expect that Jiang himself was panicked at this critical moment.
Chiang Kai-shek's defense line suffered an uprising in the fortress of Jiangyin, which was not only given to the opponent in vain, but also lost many high-ranking generals, which made Chiang Kai-shek extremely anxious. The loss of the Jiangyin fortress is equivalent to a wide opening of the door, and the PLA can directly go south, cut off the aid route from Beijing and Shanghai, and even go straight to Huanglong.
Chiang Kai-shek walked back and forth in front of his henchmen, and in addition to Yu Jishi, there were also Li Zongren, He Yingqin, and Tang Enbo, all of whom were proud generals under Chiang Kai-shek.
However, at this time, the Jiangyin fortress had been broken by the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army, and the People's Liberation Army was like a bamboo, directly breaking through the fortress and marching to the whole line. After the defeat of the Jiangyin fortress, it was immediately followed by Ogi Port, Chiang Kai-shek had already received a telegram from Ogi Port, and Zhang Shixi urgently sent news that Ogi Port was also defeated.
The defeat of Ogi Port marked the complete control of the Jiangyin fortress by the PLA. Although the Kuomintang troops came to the rescue, it was too late. When they marched to Xuancheng, Anhui, they found that the troops in Xuancheng had given up resistance, and even welcomed the Communists into it with joy like the Jiangyin fortress.
This series of defeats made Chiang Kai-shek and others almost collapse. How did the Communist Party get these ** generals to surrender so easily? Chiang Kai-shek could not understand that the army he led was a high-level general oppression of low-level generals, and low-level generals oppressed low-level soldiers, a well-hierarched and hierarchical army, and even the phenomenon of ** military salary, starvation of soldiers and even freezing to death on the battlefield.
However, the Kuomintang military and government also engaged in arms smuggling, dumping and selling arms aided by the United States, completely ignoring the life and death of the low-level soldiers. How can such a corrupt army, even if it is well-equipped and well-trained, fight?
Therefore, surrendering without a fight is enough to prove that the Kuomintang is unpopular.
Faced with the advance of the People's Liberation Army, the Kuomintang army was forced to retreat to the line from Wuhu to Hangzhou after the loss of Anhui. However, the pursuit of the PLA was relentless, and the Kuomintang army collapsed as a result.
Despite Chiang Kai-shek's numerous urgent telegrams hoping for good news from the front, the best news was simply that there was no surrender. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek's descendants retreated from Poyang Lake to Jiujiang, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
But how can he really rest assured in the face of the PLA's offensive rolling like the waves of the Yangtze River? This is the final moment of life and death, and Chiang Kai-shek pinned his hopes on his henchmen to show their powers.
Eventually, at the suggestion of Tang Enbo, they notified the remaining elite troops to move to the Songhu area of Shanghai. Because Shanghai was the place where all Chiang Kai-shek's net worth and life were, he had already prepared and planned to exchange a lot of gold, silver and jewelry for Taiwan and send them to Taiwan, so Shanghai could not be lost again!
Tang Enbo never expected that the People's Liberation Army was marching at a surprisingly fast pace, and they had already prepared an ambush on the way to Shanghai-Nanjing. By the time the elite troops arrived in Shanghai, they were already surrounded by the Communist-led People's Liberation Army.
Under these circumstances, Chiang Kai-shek was very anxious, and he had completely distrusted his descendants. These so-called"Elite"The troops either fled in the desert or surrendered without a fight.
After thinking about it repeatedly, Chiang Kai-shek thought that the person who should be most responsible was the commander of the Jiangyin fortress - Dai Rongguang. If it weren't for Dai Rongguang's opening of the door to welcome the Communists, and if it weren't for the loss of this important checkpoint, the Communists would never have cut off the Shanghai-Nanjing line so quickly, resulting in the encirclement of his descendants.
So, if you want to blame him, blame him! The other generals were relieved to hear that Chiang Kai-shek did not blame themselves. But who promoted Dai Rongguang? Retrospectively, it turned out to be Chiang Kai-shek himself!
Dai Rongguang was able to become the commander of the Jiangyin Fortress, not because his original position was high enough, but because he knew how to use his connections and boast. He pushed himself to the top by manipulating the personnel list and exaggerating his abilities and strategies in his comments.
This shows the loopholes of Chiang Kai-shek's ** and feudal selection system, which made the phenomenon of cronyism very common. Dai Rongguang's command ability and strategic skills were average, but he learned the bad habits of cronyism within the Kuomintang and promoted people related to him, including Tang Bingyu and Tang Binglin, who launched the Jiangyin Uprising.
The real identities of Tang Bingyu and Tang Binglin are actually the underground party, and they provided important information for our party in the war of liberation. By penetrating into the enemy's army, they gained Dai Rongguang's trust and submitted information in a timely manner, so that our party successfully entered the Jiangyin fortress.
However, when Chiang Kai-shek found out about this, he could not control his anger at his incomprehension, and could only vent his anger at his henchmen. At this moment, someone knocked on the door of the conference room and handed Chiang Kai-shek a step.
It turned out that the elite Kuomintang troops had long since collapsed when they engaged the Communists head-on, and a deputy division commander had been killed while retreating, which made Chiang Kai-shek even more angry.
He knew that the Kuomintang was surrounded by the Communists and could not turn defeat into victory, and that the Communists had now grown into a million-strong army, and Chiang Kai-shek felt powerless and resentful in the face of the power of the people.
Faced with an unresistible situation, Chiang Kai-shek made a swift decision to divide the Kuomintang army into two and go to Shanghai. The rest of the troops marched by rail from Changzhou to Jiahang rendezvous, avoiding the Communist-occupied city and eventually arriving in Shanghai.
As for his descendants, assemble at Hangzhou first, and at the same time delay the actions of the People's Liberation Army, divert their attention, and ensure the safe retreat of Chiang Kai-shek. This is enough to show that the loss of Nanjing City is an unchangeable fact.
Although he could not return to Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek did not want the Communists to enter the city easily. He planned to sacrifice Li Zongren and use Zhejiang and Jiangxi as defensive lines to buy more time for their retreat.
Li Zongren was very angry when he learned the news, he was the leader of Nanjing, but he was called by Chiang Kai-shek, and even this situation was caused by Chiang Kai-shek.
Now at the expense of his interests, he had planned to flee to Guangzhou, but now he had made his own plans. And Chiang Kai-shek is now going all out to keep Shanghai, in fact, to defend his last fortunes.
Shanghai was still transferring his gold, silver and jewelry, and whether he could retreat with his whole body depended on whether this line of defense could withstand the attack of the People's Liberation Army. At this time, our army had already broken through all the Chang'an defense lines and successfully completed the battle of crossing the river.
This million-strong division waved with a red temperament, marching majestically towards the last checkpoint of liberating Nanjing!
Su Yu, one of the top ten generals, stared at Nanjing City with confidence, recalling his past experiences, and his and everyone's blood boiled. As long as Nanjing is liberated, it is tantamount to announcing the arrival of liberation to the whole country.
They quietly waited for the orders of their superiors, but they did not expect that the Kuomintang troops still holding on to the city of Nanjing were unwilling to surrender, and they also knew that there was no hope of fighting the Communists, so they actually attacked from behind and burned the ships of the People's Liberation Army.
The flames jumped on the wide Yangtze River, and the PLA at this moment understood that if they were to move on, they had to solve the problem of ships. However, the ships have been burned out, what about going to ** looking for new ships?
At this moment, nearby fishermen heard about the situation and immediately reached out to provide their boats. However, the Kuomintang sent the 63rd Army to attack our party's ships at that time, but the PLA discovered it in time, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.
During this period, the People's Liberation Army has been trying its best to persuade, but the 63rd Army, which has become a lone army, still resolutely resists. In the end, the PLA captured more than 200 people, including several of Chiang Kai-shek's henchmen.
Chen Zhang, the commander of the 63rd Army, who learned of this result, committed suicide by swallowing a gun in despair.
With the war situation worsening, Chiang Kai-shek tried to flee Hangzhou with his men and go to Shanghai. However, Nanjing had been occupied by our army, and when the blue sky and white sun flag was lowered, the red flag was raised in cheers, marking the end of the decadent comprador capitalism and feudalism.
After the liberation of Nanjing, our party was fully prepared for the attack on Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek's last nest. Chiang Kai-shek was the first to transfer his property and soft goods to Taiwan, leaving only Tang Enbo in Shanghai to set up a checkpoint to obstruct the Communists.
However, Tang Enbo, who had been a powerful man back then, could not resist the power of the people, and finally abandoned his armor and fled.
When Shanghai was liberated, it marked the real liberation of the whole country. Today's Kuomintang can only survive on a small island, and they can only look inland, unable to rise again.
In this regard, ** once said such a sentence: "You should seize the last courage to pursue the poor man, not to learn the overlord for the sake of false fame, if God has love, then it will also feel old, and the right way in the world is to go through vicissitudes." ”
Chiang Kai-shek's erroneous line and dark politics led to a great loss of his prestige, but we always adhered to justice and justice, and finally won the recognition and victory of the people. However, since ancient times, it has often been most difficult to uphold justice.
In the era of peace, which our ancestors exchanged for their blood and lives, we still need to stick to the right path in our hearts, maintain the party's original aspiration, adhere to the ideals of communism, inherit the legacy of our ancestors, and move forward courageously towards the ultimate ideal.