Chapter 159: The Battle of Zhangjiakou (3)

After receiving these information, Jin immediately sent a company of infantry to attack and advance towards Ci'er Mountain, and ordered the occupation of the mountain to serve as a guard on the western and southern sides. Then he led his troops into Zhangjiakou City, and saw that the doors of the shops were closed, the market was as quiet as a dead city, and not a single citizen on the street could not see it. In order to occupy the whole city and prevent accidents, so as to welcome the whole army into the city, Jin Te sent 10 medium tanks to blockade the main streets and intersections in the city. and sent a battalion of infantry to occupy the commanding heights and serve as a guard in the city. In addition, four small tanks and one car were dispatched to inspect and contact. Defend the entire city.

Then drive to the outside of Xiping Gate to welcome Dong Qiwu and the whole army into the city.

At this time, the businessmen and citizens in the city still had the idea that the national army was a regular army of the country, and they felt fresh about the ten-wheeled American trucks, the 1O5 American-made ** guns, and the medium and small Japanese tanks. On the street, a crowd welcoming the Nationalist army appeared, holding a small flag temporarily pasted with red and green paper, following behind the jeep driven by Jin, and walking out of Xipingmen to welcome the Nationalist army into the city. Dong Qiwu saw this grand scene from afar, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy, so he hurriedly stepped forward, shook hands with the welcomers one by one, greeted each other, and praised each other, and then led the army into the city.

Such a grand march process was skipped by all historical materials, and the protagonist Dong Qiwu only wrote one or two sentences in his memoirs to summarize the whole process. Of course, he was understandably remorseful and subject to heavy regulations and strict publication censorship.

Although the People's Liberation Army (PLA) took the initiative to withdraw, small units still appeared from time to time in the surrounding vicinity not far from Zhangjiakou. Dong Qiwu was afraid that he would be attacked by the People's Liberation Army at night, so he ordered the 1O1 Division to serve as the city defense of Zhangjiakou City, and appointed Guo Jingyun as the commander of the city defense. The new 31st Division was assembled in the vicinity of Xiabao, and the 11th Division was temporarily concentrated in two key areas in the vicinity of Shangbao. He assembled his mechanized troops in a square not far from the military headquarters on Mingde North Street, and specially instructed Jin Shuke: "Your troops should be vigilant at all times and be prepared for battle to guard against night attacks by the People's Liberation Army." Although the 101st Division served as the city defense and sent a guard outpost unit, all the units were prepared for the night with their guns and guns in order to prevent them from meeting each other. The city was heavily guarded that night, and no one was active in the streets, except for the officers on duty and some messengers who delivered official documents. At about one o'clock in the night, the 1st Regiment of the Heavy Infantry Automobile suddenly caught fire, and the nearby troops thought that the PLA had set the fire as an internal response, and they became nervous with each other and prepared to respond immediately. Although the fire was quickly extinguished, it caused a false alarm.

On October 12, Fu Zuoyi called. On the one hand, the troops were commended; On the one hand, Sun Lanfeng commanded the cavalry to march to Chongli, Baochang and Kangbao in northern Chabei to capture the county seat; On the one hand, he ordered Commander Lu Yinglin to lead the 32nd Division and the 17th Division to march to Xuanhua, Xiahuayuan and other places. At the same time, Dong Qiwu was ordered to quickly clean up the periphery, restore order in the city, and calm the people's hearts. Dong immediately ordered Guo Jingyun, commander of the 1O1 Division, to lead a part of the division, and the mechanized unit sent a company of 1O5 heavy artillery and a platoon of medium tanks (four) under the direct command of the division commander to attack the PLA defending in Zuowei Town. After the attack was launched, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) saw that heavy artillery and tanks were cooperating with the attack, but did not make a strong counterattack, but only engaged in some covering battles, and then moved to the direction of Wei County, Chanan. The fighting began at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 12 p.m., and there was no further fighting near Zhangshi.

After the Fu army occupied Zhangjiakou, it immediately sent cavalry to pursue the retreating troops of the North China Military Region, and pursued them all the way to the edge of the Sanggan River.

At 6 o'clock in the evening of October 10, he drafted a telegram to the Military Commission, determined to withdraw from Zhangjiakou, and the Central Military Commission replied the next day, on October 11, clearly indicating that the Military Commission attaches great importance to Zhangjiakou and is resolutely unwilling to give up the idea, please read the call carefully: "Nie Liu: Fu stubborn has traveled all the way to attack, and he must be lightly armed, and it is difficult to carry more grain and grass ammunition when he is a lone army, and the main road in Pingsui is not open, and it is very difficult to chase and send it. I Zhang Yuan has two regiments of troops, don't defend the whole city, choose the key points to stick to the data points, especially the strong independent house, it is completely possible to hold on for a few days, clamp down on the Fu army, concentrate the two main forces of Zhang (Shouxun) and Chen (Zhengxiang), annihilate Fu Yan in the field battle, and eliminate his four or five regiments, the reverse must retreat, if Zhang Yuan has been lost, that is, stick to the data points in the south of the city (such as Ningyuan Fort, Left Guard), you can still repel Fu Yan, please decide.

The "Military Commission" strongly expressed the desire to defend Zhangjiakou. However, Nie and others were no longer able to do so, which made the Military Commission strongly dissatisfied with this.

The defeat of Jining and the defeat of Zhangjiakou made the Military Commission's dissatisfaction with Nie reach the limit, so in July 47, at the National Land Conference, Liu Shaoqi severely criticized the leaders of Jinchaji, and Nie Rongzhen was too unpopular. In September 1947, Liu Shaoqi simply let his confidant Peng Zhen go to Jinchaji to guide the work as a member of the Politburo, and seized Nie's power in disguise. After the loss of Zhangjiakou, the Jin-Cha-Ji base area was cut through it and cut into several pieces, causing an extremely unfavorable situation and an extremely significant impact, causing the Jin-Cha-Ji military situation to be very passive and fall into a difficult situation for most of the year.

The national army took control of the initiative, opened up the entire line of Pingsui Road, and cut off the northeast, north China, and northwest communications. And with Zhangjiakou as a base, it launched a large-scale attack on the hinterland of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Liberated Area. After Chiang captured Zhangjiakou, he happily convened the National Congress.

On September 15, 1947, under the instructions of the Party Central Committee, Li Ming transferred troops from the north to help the People's Liberation Army recapture the important land of Zhangjiakou. I don't know what a ** annoyance is waiting for me behind。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 Where is Zhangjiakou, Zhangjiakou is the garrison of Li Ming's Northern Army, how many years has the Northern Army been operating here,,,,, it's just that the war in Europe is tense and all the troops have been transferred。。。。。 Li Ming heard that Zhangjiakou was lost to Fu Zuoyi to occupy.

Li Ming ordered the First Army of the Northern Army to be stationed in Kulen, under the jurisdiction of the tank division, artillery division, heavy artillery division, and infantry division。。。。。。。。。。。。

The troops of the Northern Army are all mechanized infantry regiments, automobile regiments, motorcycle regiments, infantry divisions, mortar brigades, tens of thousands of troops drove over, the Kuomintang troops soon discovered this well-equipped army, Fu Zuoyi was also surprised, didn't the communist army retreat?

Zhou Baozhong looked at it with a telescope, now the enemy situation in the city is unknown, Zhou Baozhong can only let the troops camp on the periphery, Commander Zhou sent 2 scouts to go, the scouts disguised as civilians and mixed into the city, the situation of the national army sentry post under the city gate, the configuration of weapons, how many national troops there are in the watchtower, what heavy machine guns, and firepower points have all been written down, what to see is not entering the city? Don't get out of here, look at you again, I didn't look at the chief, I don't see you as a good bird, look at the eyes, the chief don't be like him, I don't have any knowledge from the countryside and the countryside, the first time I went into the city to see these things is very fresh, okay, let's go, the scout is called Xiao Liuzi, he used to be the sixth bandit in the mountains, so he was called Xiao Liuzi, and then the Northern Army came over, and the Japanese power was not good, and Xiao Liuzi took refuge in Li Ming's Northern Army troops。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

Brother Liu, you look at the streets of the national army everywhere, how can we investigate! What's the point??? You are still poor in this regard, look at my handle, Lao Liu walked on the street and carefully observed the street changes, wandered around the entrance of the national army headquarters, there were many Japanese puppet troops, a large number of arms and weapons, trucks, motorcycles, and the soldiers were still moving boxes to work, two people quickly left here and lived in a hotel, Lao Liu used a pencil to divide the enemy's city gates, city walls, fire points, and heavy weapons, and the situation of the enemy army in the city was roughly recorded on paper, but after waking up in the morning, a lot of puppet military police came outside, It turned out that the owner of the store reported to the spy yesterday, saying that two strangers had come here, and soon this information aroused the idea of Fu Zuoyi, the commander of the urban defense of the Kuomintang Party。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

Lao Liu, Xiao Liuzi knew at this time that the enemy was coming to arrest people, eighty percent was the hotel owner informant, Lao Liu took out a pistol to shoot directly at the puppet army outside, both sides fired, the puppet army fell a few, the sixth son said that Brother Liu went quickly, two people threw 3 ** to the front door, ran out of the back door not far away, the puppet army chased over and then there was a bloody battle, Lao Liu was shot in the arm, the brave Lao Liu killed a bloody road, even a person got out of a car, and soon rushed towards the city gate, the national army behind began to chase, and the sixth son began to throw ** The national army fell behind, the car quickly arrived at the city gate, the puppet army fell several people after taking a few **, and the puppet army who blew up Meng had not yet reacted, and Brother Liu had already driven out。。。。。。。。。

The car stopped halfway through, Brother Liu was covered in blood, the sixth son turned out to be behind the wheel and drove, thinking that he must be fighting Brother Liu, the car soon arrived at the position of the Northern Army, Commander Zhou Baozhong heard that the soldier was injured, and he came by car very seriously, and saw Brother Liu bleeding, many soldiers were sad。。。。。。

Commander, I have completed the task, don't say it, hold on, Commander Zhou said to send a report to Chief Li, after receiving it, Chief Li ordered the transport plane stationed in Mobei to send Brother Liu back to the hospital for treatment, about 10 minutes The plane came, and the soldiers lifted Brother Liu onto the plane and the plane quickly left people's sight。。。。。。。 Thankfully, Brother Li was finally saved...

That is, on the third day of Brother Liu's departure, the Northern Revolutionary Army under the command of Commander Zhou, 2 tank regiments opened the road frontally, 6 regiments of infantry assisted, 1500 heavy artillery, and after a wave of fire, the troops opened fire on the national army troops stationed in the position, this army did not have many heavy weapons, and the position was the opponent of the Northern Army with that heavy machine gun, this is not Lao Jiang's German armor division, the teaching brigade is so powerful, the elite Fifth Army, known as the elite of the national army, did not participate in China's invasion of Burma that year, that is, the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and did not see the powerful, In the last 200 divisions, the Fifth Army was defeated by the Japanese, and the commander of the Fifth Army, Du Yiming, also retreated to India.

Under the strong offensive of the Northern Army, the National Army lost its left and right positions in less than 3 hours, the city gate was lost in 20 minutes, Fu Zuoyi began to pack up his things and escape, with his escape, the troops broke up, this thing spread in the ranks like an infectious disease, the soldiers were unwilling to fight, the commander ran away, the Northern Army was very open and brought into the city, the tanks drove in, and a large number of troops of the National Army surrendered and laid down their arms。。。。。。。。。 This battle was won by the Northern Army.

Li Ming sent a newspaper to commend Commander Zhou Baozhong, and the major soldiers, you played the military prestige of the soldiers, the national prestige, and the news of the victory reached Chairman Mao in Yan'an, and the Party Central Committee was very happy.

Li Ming, who was far away in Berlin, sent a telegram to the Northern Army to commend all the officers and men, and each commander was promoted by one rank。。。。。。。。。 The soldiers all read the command of the Party Central Committee and led the soldiers to the light, and Li Ming's prestige in the entire northern army also improved a lot。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。