Datong, the headquarters of the 36th Army.

All kinds of news from the front line kept coming back from the columns on the front line.

After reading the telegram that the 6th Column had just sent back, Zhang Yunfei said with joy on his face: "Comrades! The little devil has abandoned Huludao City and retreated in the direction of Jinzhou. ”

Hearing this, several high-ranking members of the 36th Group Army, everyone was a little surprised, but they didn't expect that before their troops could attack, they just came to the city with their troops, and the little devil ran away.

"Commander-in-Chief! The little devil was completely scared away by us! ”

After speaking, Comrade Zuo Qingquan, chief of the General Staff, burst out laughing.

The little devil was indeed scared away by everyone, the 36th Group Army had a total of four columns, the army pressed the border, the little devil was only a few thousand people in Huludao City, and there was no strong fortification, the little devil was immediately frightened and abandoned the city and fled.

Hearing this, everyone also laughed.

After Zhang Yunfei finished laughing, he said with a straight face: "Comrades, the little devil's army in Huludao must have fled to Jinzhou, and the next thing we want to fight is Jinzhou." ”

"Commander-in-Chief! Jinzhou is a tough bone to gnaw! According to our investigation, the little devils have built a large number of strong fortifications in Jinzhou and its surroundings, and the little devils have a heavy garrison in Jinzhou. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yunfei nodded, Jinzhou is difficult to fight, and Zhang Yunfei also thought of it.

Beining Road is the most important land passage connecting inside and outside the Guan, and Jinzhou is the throat of this traffic artery. The city is surrounded by mountains, and is surrounded by Xiaoling River and Daughter River in the south, and the terrain is dangerous.

The little devil relies on the highlands such as Fortress Mountain, Shuangshanzi West Mountain, Hanwangdian South Mountain, Bauhinia Mountain, and Liangma Mountain. With reinforced concrete fortifications as the backbone, it forms an independent stronghold in the form of several support points, as a peripheral position.

Relying on the Xiaoling River, the Daughter River and the city wall to form the main position; The core base of the inner city is composed of tall buildings in the city, such as Jiaotong University, Japanese pseudo-shrine, China Textile Company, and the old city. For Gongwei Jinzhou.

Jinzhou is difficult to fight. But it must be hit.

If the 36th Group Army wanted to enter the northeast on a large scale, it must first recover Jinzhou, and only control Jinzhou. A large number of troops of the 36th Group Army were able to continuously enter the northeast from the throat of Jinzhou.

"Comrades, the next battle of Jinzhou will be very difficult to fight, we must be mentally prepared, but we must also have confidence and firmly believe that our troops can successfully recover Jinzhou."

Zhang Yunfei began to cheer everyone up. Boost everyone's confidence.

Hearing this, everyone secretly thought in their hearts, Jinzhou must be taken, even if the little devil has built an iron wall in Jinzhou and has a million troops, Jinzhou must be recovered and the little devil will be eliminated.

Zhang Yunfei looked around at everyone. Seeing that everyone's confidence was still very high, Zhang Yunfei immediately said: "Send a report to the 6th, 8th, 9th, and 10th columns, ordering them to speed up their advance and be sure to enter the designated position on the outskirts of Jinzhou before dawn tomorrow." ”

"Yes! Commander-in-Chief, I personally conveyed orders to these four columns. ”

General Staff Zuo Qingquan. Immediately responded loudly.

"In addition, order the 1st Column, 2nd Column, and 7th Column, which have completed the assembly, to assemble in Qinhuangdao and pay close attention to repairing the Beining Railway."

Zhang Yunfei added another order.

After the 36th Army recovered Qinhuangdao, it controlled part of the Beining Railway, but the railway between Qinhuangdao and Jinzhou had been damaged a lot and could not be opened to traffic.

Now that the 36th Group Army has recovered Huludao City, the section of the Beining Railway between Huludao City and Qinhuangdao will all be controlled by the 36th Group Army.

As long as the railway between Qinhuangdao and Huludao is repaired in time, then a large number of materials and troops of the 36th Group Army can be quickly transported to Huludao by rail, and Huludao is very close to Jinzhou.

Zhang Yunfei's order was immediately conveyed, and the columns that received the order immediately took action.

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Early the next morning.

The 6th, 8th, 9th, and 10th columns, a total of four columns, have quietly entered the designated position on the outskirts of Jinzhou.

The mechanized infantry regiments, tank regiments, infantry regiments, and even cavalry regiments and artillery regiments all entered the designated positions, and last night, the soldiers were busy all night, and it was not until dawn that everyone was ready.

Now, quite a few fighters are seizing the time to rest.

In this Jinzhou campaign, the General Staff of the 36th Group Army has drawn up a detailed battle plan, and the entire battle is divided into two stages.

In the first stage, the outlying strongholds of Jinzhou were cleared.

This morning, the perimeter operation will begin, with the 6th and 8th columns forming the North Group to capture the synthetic fuel plant in the northwest of Jinzhou City, the Black Mountain Division, the regimental management area, and the water distribution pool and Liangma Mountain in the north of the city.

The southern group, composed of the 9th column, captured Hanwang Mountain and advanced to the north bank of the Daughter River; The 10th Column in the east captured the Great and Small Bauhinia Mountains, Baiguantun, and Beidaying.

In the north of Jinzhou City, Zhang Yunfei prepared two columns, namely the 6th and 8th columns, these two columns not only to clear the enemy in the north of Jinzhou City, but also to be responsible for blocking the reinforcements of the little devils, as long as the battle started, as long as the little devils were at a disadvantage, the reinforcements of the little devils in Shenyang would come to reinforce them.

In the second stage, the general attack on the Jinzhou city wall.

When the stronghold outside Jinzhou is cleared, a large number of heavy artillery of the 36th Army will launch a fierce bombardment of Jinzhou City, clearing the way for the infantry assault. It is convenient for the assault troops to quickly break into the city and continue to develop in depth. Then the echelon will pass through the gaps in the broken city wall and enter the street battles one after another and in time.

Although a reasonable battle plan was drawn up for the Jinzhou Campaign, in order to ensure the victory of the battle and to cheer up the soldiers of the various columns on the front, Zhang Yunfei would personally go to the front line to command.

Zhang Yunfei personally went to the front line to command, which is rare, and in the past, Zhang Yunfei did not go to the front line to command in the recovery of Beijing and Tianjin, which shows how much Zhang Yunfei attached importance to the Jinzhou Campaign.

Zhang Yunfei's command post was preliminarily determined to be set up in Maoshan, northwest of Jinzhou.

Jinzhou is an important town on the line of Beining, the terrain of the urban area is high in the north and low in the south, Maoshan is the commanding height in the northwest of Jinzhou City, you can overlook Jinzhou from afar, if the weather is fine, through the telescope on the top of the mountain, you can see the battle situation in Jinzhou and its surroundings clearly.

In addition, Maoshan is far enough away from Jinzhou at a safe distance, and no matter how far the range of the little devil's heavy artillery is, it is impossible to hit here.

Early this morning, the commanders of the two columns located in the northwest of Jinzhou, Chu Tianming, commander of the 6th Column, and Sun Chuanzhi, commander of the 8th Column, rode to Laohugou Village at the foot of the mountain, and then rode up to Maoshan.

The two personally directed the soldiers to build a headquarters on the top of the mountain, and the temporary headquarters of the North Group would also be set up here.

Coming to the top of the mountain, looking at the busy soldiers, both of them nodded slightly, and then the two of them picked up the binoculars to observe Jinzhou City in the distance, and observed many little devil strongholds and fortifications outside Jinzhou City.

After a long time, Chu Tianming said with emotion: "Old grandson! This is really a good place, and the situation of the entire Jinzhou City is simply unobstructed. ”

"Yes! The commander-in-chief is really a god, he was able to choose such a good place without coming to the field to investigate. Sun Chuanzhi, the commander of the 8th Column, admired Zhang Yunfei with admiration on his face.

Just now, Sun Chuanzhi also looked at the telescope for a long time, and was very satisfied with this, and felt sincere admiration for Zhang Yunfei for choosing such a good place.

In fact, the two didn't know that Zhang Yunfei was a traverser, and Zhang Yunfei knew relatively well about the Jinzhou Battle between the Northeast Field Army and the Kuomintang Army during the Liberation War.

At that time, the command post of the People's Liberation Army was set up here, that is, on the top of Maoshan Mountain. Zhang Yunfei just borrowed from the experience of others and set up the headquarters on Maoshan.

While admiring, the two also looked at their watches, the time was already more than eight o'clock, and Commander-in-Chief Zhang should be coming soon.

In order to be able to reach here from Datong as quickly as possible, Zhang Yunfei first took a plane from Datong Airport to Qinhuangdao, and then took a plane from Qinhuangdao Airport to reach here, here, Zhang Yunfei will parachute and parachute, and the plane will return to Qinhuangdao Airport after Zhang Yunfei completes the airborne.

"Lao Chu! The Commander-in-Chief should be almost there! ”

Hearing this, Chu Tianming nodded, thinking in his heart, looking at the time, Commander-in-Chief Zhang should be about to arrive.

Sure enough, it didn't take long to see a few large transports and an AWACS aircraft, escorted by at least two squadrons of Mustang fighters, flying towards this side.

Zhang Yunfei's landline, bypassing the little devil's Jinzhou Airport, suddenly arrived here, at this time, even if the little devils found so many planes, it would be too late to take off from Jinzhou Airport.

On several large transport planes, people have already begun to parachute.

In addition, although the little devils had a certain number of planes at Jinzhou Airport, but yesterday the fighters shot down so many planes, and the number of planes at Jinzhou Airport was only limited, and they would definitely not be able to defeat the two Mustang fighter squadrons escorting the escort.

This is the main reason why Zhang Yunfei dared to carry out airborne here.

What if the little devils knew? There are so many aircraft escorting, not to mention, how do the little devils know that inside these large transport planes, Zhang Yunfei, the commander-in-chief of the 36th Group Army, is on board.

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