The Second Field Army was formed by the merger of the Central Plains Field Army and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army.
During the more than three years of the Liberation War, this force encountered numerous powerful enemies, but they were all defeated one by one. Among them, the Kuomintang Huang Wei Corps is a hard walnut, and the two armies met on the Huaihe battlefield, which can be described as "meeting on a narrow road, and the brave wins".
In November 1948, after Huang Baitao's corps was besieged by the East China Field Army commanded by Su Yu, Huang Wei's corps set out from Henan to relieve the siege. Chief Liu Deng decided to launch an attack on Huang Wei's corps, not only to stop them, but also to completely eliminate them.
Under Liu Deng's skillful deployment, Huaye's troops successfully lured the Huang Wei Corps, the ace corps of the Kuomintang army, to Shuangdui and surrounded it. Although Huang Wei's corps has full American-style equipment and well-trained individual combat, the 18th Army under his command is one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang, and has fought with the East China Field Army many times, but although the 7 columns in the middle field have a slight advantage in strength, the gap in equipment is too large.
Huang Wei's corps had tanks, various heavy howitzers and other large-caliber artillery, while Nakano lost a lot of artillery when he moved to Dabie Mountain. In this case, Huaye sent troops to reinforcements, and formed three assault groups, with *** as the commander-in-chief of the West Group, commanding three columns consisting of the 3rd Column, the 1st Column, and the 13th Column of the East China Field Army.
Despite besieging an army of 120,000, it was not easy to eat them in one bite.
The 1st Column was one of the earliest field columns formed by our army, and General Yang Dezhi served as the first commander. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the 1st Column originally planned to be transferred to the Northeast, but due to changes in the situation, it finally stayed in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
At the end of 1946, the 1st Vertical returned to the establishment, Yang Dezhi remained as the political commissar of Jinchaji, and the political commissar Su Zhenhua led the troops south to return to the establishment. A few months later, the 1st Column merged with Yang Yong's 7th Column to form the new 1st Column, which followed Liu Deng in a series of important battles, including the Northern Henan Campaign, the Southwest Lu Campaign, and the thousand-mile leap into the Dabie Mountains.
In the battle to advance into the Dabie Mountain, the performance of the 1st Column was particularly outstanding, taking the lead in annihilating more than 10,000 enemies.
Commander Yang Yong is good at military command, and although political commissar Su Zhenhua is in charge of internal affairs, he also has a firm determination in making decisions in tough battles. In the battle to encircle and annihilate Huang Wei's corps, the first column paid a huge price, and the political commissar asked Yang Yong if he needed to let the troops rest.
Yang Yong felt sorry for his subordinates and said that he would discuss with the political commissar Su. Su Zhenhua took the ** and said firmly: "As long as there is one person in the column, we will never retreat, even if we beat up the column, we must complete the task." ”
Political Commissar Su's determination was extremely strong, and he was supported and encouraged by Political Commissar Deng. From a military point of view, this decision was made by Yang Yong as a military commander, but in fact it was the joint determination of Yang Yong and Su Zhenhua.
During the days and nights of the 23rd when encircling and annihilating Huang Wei's corps, political commissar Su Zhenhua actively carried out battlefield agitation work, focusing on political struggle and disintegration of the enemy, prompting many Kuomintang soldiers to defect.
In this battle, 1 column eliminated a total of 1More than 60,000 people have achieved remarkable results. In February 1949, after the establishment of the Fifth Corps, Yang Yong served as the commander and Su Zhenhua served as the political commissar, and began to launch the battle of crossing the river and advancing to the southwest.