Higashino ordered the Eighth Column to block the airport, and the Eighth Column asked for instructions on which airport to blockade, and an oolong allowed the enemy to transport five more battalions of troops to the airport
The first battle of the Liaoshen Campaign was the capture of Jinzhou, and Dongye participated in the battle.
The 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, and 9th Columns, as well as the 6th Column and 17th Division, were attacking the outskirts of Jinzhou, and Dongye ordered the 8th Column to blockade Jinzhou Airport.
The orders of the Higashino headquarters were not rigorous enough, which adversely affected the execution of the orders. First, the telegram did not clearly explain which airport to blockade, and at that time there were two airports outside Jinzhou, one of which could be used and the other could not; In addition, the usable airfield is in the west, which is closer to the Ninth Column, so it is more appropriate to send the Ninth Column to occupy it, while if the Eighth Column is dispatched, the troops will have to take a long detour.
Jinzhou battle map.
However, the Eighth Column had a greater problem in carrying out the order, and Huang Huxian, chief of staff of the Eighth Column, sent a telegram to the headquarters: "Which airport will be blocked?" Huang Huxian served as the chief of the operations section of the General Headquarters of the Fourth Front Army during the Red Army period, and he naturally knew that since the higher authorities ordered the blockade of the airport, of course, it was to block the usable airport, and there was no need to send another telegram asking for instructions. After receiving the call, the Dongye headquarters sent three telegrams to the Eighth Column, first, is it necessary to block the unusable East Airport? 2. According to the previous order, immediately send a division to advance to the northwest corner of Jinzhou City, occupy the high ground, and control the airfield with artillery fire. (The third letter was detained by *** and not issued).
The Kuomintang army took advantage of this time period to transport five battalions of troops to Jinzhou, and at this time, the enemy was defending our attack, and the battle had entered a white-hot level, and the impact of the enemy's sudden investment of so many fresh troops on our army's offensive could be imagined. Because of the importance of the matter, General Manager Dong ordered the Ninth Column to quickly block the airport and severely criticized the Eighth Column, and at the same time reported the matter to the ** Military Commission.
On January 1948, ** called Higashino and praised the Ninth Column for controlling the airport and "destroying five planes". At the same time, he criticized the Eighth Column for delaying the fighters, and pointed out: "When a large corps fights, military orders must be tightened. ”
alarmed the supreme commander, and the disaster of the Eighth Column this time was not small.
The Eighth Column urgently convened the Standing Committee and decided to send a telegram of criticism to the regiment, so that the party committees of the regiment could immediately discuss and express their positions, and demanded that all departments resolutely fight the next battle.
The first red flag of Jinzhou's siege.
The small Purple Mountain position of the 68th Regiment of the 23rd Division of the Eighth Column was lost due to the paralysis and carelessness of the commander, and Duan Suquan, who had made mistakes before, did not dare to report to the Dongzong immediately, but gave a death order for the 68th Regiment to recapture, wishful thinking and wishful thinking to report to his superiors after recapturing the position
The Little Bauhinia Mountain in the east of Jinzhou City is a commanding height next to the railway and highway leading to Shenyang, which restricts the throat of the People's Liberation Army in the east to attack Jinzhou, and the enemy uses a company to defend here, so the high ground of Little Bauhinia Mountain is a place where the enemy and us must fight.
Because the location is very important and the stakes are very high, the Dongye Eighth Column, which is responsible for the task of attacking the east of the city, decided that the 68th Regiment will carry out the task of capturing Little Bauhinia Mountain.
The 68th Regiment is the only Red Regiment among the nine infantry regiments in the Eight Columns, and the regiment has a long history and outstanding military achievements. Tracing back, her predecessor was the Red Ninth Army Corps, which was famous during the Red Army period and was headed by Luo Binghui, a famous general of our army, during the Long March, she has been serving as a rearguard task for the Red Army, and was known as the "strategic cavalry", after the first and fourth front armies met, the Red Ninth Army was incorporated into the Fourth Front Army and renamed the Red 32nd Army, and after the second and fourth front armies met the division, the commander-in-chief of the Red Second Front Army took the Red 32nd Army out of Zhang Guotao's hands on the grounds that the headquarters needed to have troops familiar with the road to guide the way, and incorporated it into the Second Front Army. At the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the department was reorganized into the 718th Regiment of the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division, followed by the 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment of the Yan'an Police, and was transferred to the 68th Regiment of the 23rd Division of the Eighth Column at this time.
After the order was issued, the 68th Regiment immediately made deployments, the 2nd Battalion was responsible for clearing the peripheral auxiliary positions of the position, the deputy regiment commander Han Feng personally led the 3rd Battalion as the main attack, and the 1st Battalion was the reserve. Under the cover of artillery fire, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions launched a fierce attack on the Little Bauhinia Mountain, and due to their full preparation and strong organization, the 3rd Battalion captured the Little Bauhinia Mountain in only two hours, annihilating more than 120 defenders.
It is precisely because of the smooth attack and the fact that the 68th Regiment has won successive battles, not to mention that as an old army, there are more or less complacent.
After occupying the position, everyone from Han Feng to the soldiers was still immersed in the joy of victory, and did not immediately build fortifications and adjust their deployment to prevent the enemy from counterattacking. Instead, it was hastily decided to leave a company of the 3rd Battalion and 8th Company to guard the position, and then Han Feng and the 8th Company Commander Yu Peiran went down the mountain to eat.
At this time, although the 8th company still preserved the establishment of the company, because it had just experienced a tragic battle, it was very large, and there were only twenty or thirty soldiers left in a company. There are only about 20 people who really defend in the position.
At that time, the defense of Jinzhou was Fan Hanjie, deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Northeast Suppression and director of the Jinzhou command post, who was born in the first phase of Huangpu and the grandson-in-law of Lin Zexu, a national hero at the end of the year, and was very famous in the Kuomintang army at that time. Of course, he knew the strategic value of Little Bauhinia Mountain in the east of Jinzhou City, so after learning that this key point had been conquered by our army, he jumped like thunder and hurriedly sent troops to ** Little Zijin Mountain. It happened that the enemy's provisional 54th Division was transshipment on a nearby railway line, and Fan Hanjie immediately issued an order to the provisional 54th Division: to recapture the Little Purple Mountain at any cost.
At this time, the soldiers of the 8th Company were very tired after a day of fighting, and they were lucky and paralyzed to underestimate the enemy, so they did not find the enemy attacking at night, and the Little Bauhinia Mountain was captured by the enemy under surprise.
On the one hand, Duan Suquan, the commander of the 8th Column, was severely criticized by the Military Commission and the Dongye Headquarters because of the blockade of the airport, and the ideological pressure was too great, and on the other hand, he was somewhat lucky and wanted to organize the troops to quickly recapture the position, so he did not dare to immediately report the loss of the Little Bauhinia Mountain to the head of the East Field, but planned to report to the chief after the Little Bauhinia Mountain was recaptured. Liu Yalou, the short-tempered chief of staff of Dongye and known as the "God of Thunder", learned the news of the loss of the position of the Little Purple Mountain by intercepting the enemy's radio intelligence.
At that time, in order to boost the morale of the extremely low morale, the Kuomintang army desperately advocated the so-called "Little Purple Mountain Victory". This incident has had a negative impact on our Jinzhou offensive battle.
Liu Yalou didn't believe that our army would lose its position at first, so he specially called Duan Suquan, the commander of the 8th column, and asked him what was going on? Duan Suquan didn't dare to hide it, so he had to report that the position had indeed been lost.
Liu Yalou was very angry when he learned that the 8th column was lost and deliberately did not report it, and couldn't help but scold **: "You guys are eating grass,..."I am going to go to the Eighth Column to deal with this matter in person. **, who has always been known for his calmness, also said: "When a large corps fights, military orders must be strict, and this time the commander will not be able to run away from the first responsibility."
Dongye political commissar *** stopped Liu Yalou, he was worried that Liu Yalou might deal with it too aggressively under his anger, so he said to Lin and Liu, let's go, and then, ** took some personnel to ride to the command post of the Eighth Column.
When he came to the Eighth Column, he first talked to several main responsible persons of the Eighth Column, then listened to the report of the Party Committee of the Column, and then attended the Party Committee of the Eighth Column. At the party committee, ** said: "Accept the lesson, unite, work together, and fight a good battle." ”
**Marshal. ** I talked with Qiu Huizuo, secretary of the party committee and political commissar of the column, about three points: 1. Comrade Duan Suquan is a good comrade, but he has a little less combat experience; Second, a person's leadership, command, and organizational level cannot be improved in one or two days, but have a process of gradual accumulation; 3. What now? The only thing is to bring into play the role of collective leadership, and Zhang Tianyun and Huang Huxian's level of operational command is still acceptable, and as long as they play the role of collective leadership, they will be able to accomplish their current combat tasks.
** He also encouraged everyone at the party committee of the column: "I have seen your troops, the troops are very good and promising, and I am confident that you will complete the current combat tasks." ”
He made an analysis of the problems that occurred in front of the Eighth Column:
Since the autumn operation, there have been problems in your column to carry out and control airfields, and some small battles have not been fought well, which has exposed problems in command and discipline and work style of the troops; these problems are minor problems from the perspective of the overall situation, but they are both major problems and individual problems in your column, and you have seriously dealt with these problems, showing your leadership level and ability. Is there no faith when these things happen? This is not right, but the headquarters still thinks that you are a good unit and a unit with meritorious military achievements, and the headquarters has confidence in you ,..
After the Eighth Column lost its position in the Little Purple Mountain, it immediately sent political commissar Qiu Huizuo to the 68th Regiment, and Qiu Huizuo, who was born as a red ghost, had a tough and resolute style, so that decades later, some old people in the Eighth Column still said: Qiu Huizuo has the ability, level, and ,.. styleAfter Qiu arrived at the 68th Regiment, he immediately held a meeting and announced on the spot the decision of the Party Committee of the column on the handling of the incident of the loss of Little Purple Mountain: remove Han Feng, deputy commander of the 68th Regiment, from his post, punish him to the cooking class as a gangster, and sentence Yu Peiran, the commander of the 8th Company of the 3rd Battalion, to death!
Qiu will be a lieutenant general.
The military and political commander of the 68th Regiment always remembered Qiu Hui's fierce words at that time: "This time I will kill first."'Two-legged', (battalion, company, platoon-level grassroots cadres who are not qualified to ride horses) next time something happens, they will be killed'Four-legged'(Those who ride horses refer to cadres at the regimental level and above) ......
In order to achieve the role of educating all cadres, Qiu Huizuo held a meeting of cadres at and above the company level of the 23rd Division, and executed Pei Ran on the spot.
After dealing with Yu Pei, Qiu Huizuo did not immediately return to the command post of the column, but supervised the formation in the 68th Regiment, and did not leave the 68th Regiment until the recapture of Little Bauhinia Mountain.
On October 7, Wu Kehua led the four columns to Tashan to repair the fortifications, and the famous Tashan Resistance Battle began. Before the battle officially broke out, ** could not rest assured, and sent a telegram to the fourth column in strong terms: "I only need Tashan, and a company of the eighth column will defend the small Bauhinia Mountain east of Jinzhou on the fifth day, and the enemy will attack it, and the company commander will cower and abandon his position, and he has been shot in a public trial yesterday."
Because of the loss of position, a deputy regiment commander was withdrawn, and a company commander was shot, and the whole army was shaken. In the Armageddon, there was such a move, and its role was no less than that of several of the most wonderful battlefield mobilizations.
As a commander, he must not be affectionate with his children and tolerate adultery, and this is determined by the nature of the bloody and bloody situation on the battlefield. Decisive killing, orders and prohibitions, and iron-like discipline have always been an important magic weapon for our army to defeat the enemy.
Shortly after the war, Duan Suquan left the post of commander of the Eighth Column to serve as the chief of operations at the Dongye Headquarters, and was only awarded the rank of major general in 55
Major General Duan Suquan.
It can be regarded as ill-fated, the Eighth Column participated in the later Jinzhou General Attack, and broke through the city wall among the five columns and six columns and seventeen divisions of the six columns that attacked the city, and won the penultimate place.
Soon, Dongye asked Huang Yongsheng to replace Duan Suquan as the commander of the Eighth Column (Huang had previously served as the commander of the Eighth Column, and later transferred to the commander of the Sixth Column), while Duan Suquan was transferred to the Dongye Headquarters as the chief of operations. In 55 years, Duan Suquan, a senior general who served as the political commissar of the division during the Red Army, only received the rank of major general. Duan Su Quan has always been indignant and aggrieved by this, so much so that he almost did not wear clothes with a new military rank, and died on his deathbed in a 65-style military uniform (without a military rank).
Objectively speaking, during the war years, Duan Suquan has always been loyal, brave, able to endure hardships, able to suffer losses, endure humiliation, and have fought many good battles, just as *** commented: Comrade Duan Suquan is a good comrade. However, several mistakes of his troops in the Jinzhou offensive did have a negative impact on him.
55 The award of titles is mainly based on comprehensive factors, such as seniority, military exploits, representativeness, and so on. But one thing is certain, and that is that the performance of the awardee in the key battles during the critical period will become an important "scoring item" or "losing points". Like Han Xianchu's outstanding performance in the Northeast Liberation War, the Battle of Hainan Island and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Pi Dingjun's decisiveness, resourcefulness and independent responsibility and courage in leading the lone army to break through the Central Plains will undoubtedly add points to their awards; For example, Zhang Zongxun's abnormal command in the Battle of Jining in Datong (even *** reprimanded: it is not strong when it should be strong) and Duan Suquan's mistakes in the Jinzhou offensive are naturally lost points.