Chairman Jiang's side also took great pains to employ people, and after some deliberation, the director of the Zhengzhou Pacification Office was still handed over to Liu Zhi, the pig-headed general, who was not good at fighting but was obedient, and for Jiang someone, obedient children had milk to eat. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Of course, Jiang also knew that with Liu Zhi's military ability, he would definitely not be able to command such a big scene, so above the Zhengzhou Pacification Office, there was the Nationalist Government's North China Expedition, and Gu Zhutong was the director. And this North China Xingyuan has two appeasement offices, one is the Zhengzhou appeasement office above, and the other is the Taiyuan appeasement office, and the director of the Taiyuan appeasement office is Yan Laoxi.

This is to deal with the direction of the Central Plains, and in the other key direction Jianghuai and Shandong, another Xuzhou Xingyuan has been set up, and the director is Chen Cheng. There are two appeasement offices under Xuzhou Xingyuan, one is the Jinan Appeasement Office, with Wang Yaowu as the director, and the second is the Xuzhou Appeasement Office, with Xue Yue as the director.

In the northwest, Xi'an Xingyuan was set up, with Zhang Zhizhong as the director, and Hu Zongnan as the director of the Xi'an Pacification Office.

Wuhan Xingyuan was established in central China, with Bai Chongxi as the director, and two appeasement districts of Wuhan and Changsha under its jurisdiction.

At first glance, the shelves are still well built, but what the final effect will be, I'm afraid it is very doubtful.

The People's Party is fighting hard, and it is impossible for the **** side to be idle, so how did the preparation work on the **** side be carried out? I have to say that the **** side is also exquisite, first solve political problems, and then logically carry out military issues.

To put it bluntly, the so-called political issue is the question of the specific thinking of the future war of liberation, whether to attack against attack or to defend instead of attacking, and this specific question of thinking has been solved in the previous Seventh National Congress. Considering that the strength of the People's Party still has the upper hand on the whole, it is inappropriate to play against each other for every inch of land. The central government headed by Taizu believes that in the next one to two years, the main task of PLA is still to annihilate the enemy's living forces as much as possible, regardless of the gains or losses of one city or one pool. The big cities in North China and Shandong can completely abandon and rely on the rural areas to launch a large-scale movement warfare, annihilate a large number of the enemy's vital forces in the movement warfare, and strive to completely reverse the balance of forces between the enemy and us within one to two years, and then launch an all-out counterattack to liberate the whole of China.

In accordance with the decision made at this meeting, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to abandon Yan'an and the big cities of Beiping, Tianjin, Jinan, and Qingdao, and let the enemy garrison these points with a large number of vital forces, so that it would be very difficult for the enemy to draw out a large number of mobile forces to engage in field battles with our army, and to mobilize and annihilate the enemy in the form of mobile warfare in the field battles.

In response to this policy, the liberated areas of the **** side were divided into several areas, northern Shaanxi was handed over to General Peng Da and He Shuai, northern Jinzhong was handed over to Xu Shuai, northern Hebei and parts of central Hebei were handed over to Nie Shuai, and southern Hebei and northern Henan were handed over to Liu Shuai and Comrade Taizong. Shandong and Jianghuai were handed over to Chen Shuai and General Su. As for Lin Shuai, he continued to stay in the Northeast, one was to thoroughly accept the Northeast and build the Northeast into a large rear, and the other was also actively training troops and preparing to enter the customs around 1946.

This distribution method is similar to history, the difference is that **** does not need to run forward to receive the Northeast, the Northeast that has been controlled by the Soviet Red Army can be completely handed over to the ****, Lin Shuai went to the Northeast to do more work is recovery and development, he does not need to take away all the elite of the ****, which makes the troops in North China, Shandong and Jianghuai much stronger than the same period in history, and can deal with the army more calmly.

October 1945. The combat preparations of both sides were basically in place, and a full-scale civil war broke out. At that time, the Jinan Appeasement Office, which was stationed in Shangqiu, eastern Henan (because Jinan was still in the hands of the ****, Wang Yaowu could only be in the first place) directly penetrated Tai'an and Jinan with the first corps.

The commander of the First Corps is an old acquaintance Tang Ranran, don't look at his performance in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War, but Jiang still trusts him very much, and the First Corps under his command is also quite powerful, including the reorganization of the 74th, 83rd, 65th, 57th, 48th Divisions and the 7th Army.

Some comrades may feel that their heads are a bit big, and they always say that the reorganization division of the scraping army is what kind of division is it? Let's start from the beginning, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, both sides of the Scrape Communist Party have a huge number of troops, such as the scraping army up and down plus a piece of claimed more than 8 million, **** also has 1.2 million regular troops and 2.2 million local troops and guerrillas. According to the peace agreement reached between the two sides, which soon became ineffective, these forces needed to be completely reprogrammed and a large part of them eliminated.

After the reorganization of the scraping army, the total number has dropped from 6 million (this is a real number, not the claim) to 4.3 million to 4.7 million, and there are still more than 100 armies and more than 300 divisions (**** has also carried out a large number of reductions, so that some military regions have been reduced too seriously, and as a result, the combat effectiveness in the early stage of the liberation war has dropped quite sharply).

The reorganization plan of the Kuomintang is as follows: The original theater will be reorganized into a pacification office, and it will be in charge of the party, government, finance, and literature, operational command, and military management in the region. Below them were the appeasement zones, the integrated armies, and the corps, which replaced the original group army establishment. The integrated army is equivalent to the original group army, and there are a number of integrated divisions under it. The integrated division is not an ordinary division, its status is the same level as the original army, and the integrated brigade is under the jurisdiction of the integrated division, but the number of integrated brigades under the jurisdiction of each integrated division is not uniform. Most of the integrated divisions of Chiang's Central Army had three integrated brigades, while most of the other miscellaneous divisions had only two integrated brigades. The integrated brigade is equivalent to the original division, but the integrated brigade generally has only two regiments, one regiment less than the original division, but the regimental establishment is more substantial.

In the traditional three-three system, a division has three regiments, and two regiments can still retain one regiment as a reserve when two regiments are put into battle, while the integrated brigade has only two regiments, and there is no guarantee that sufficient troops will be invested in combat and sufficient reserves will be retained at the same time. In this regard, Yang Botao, commander of the 18th Army, the main force of the civil engineering department, specifically said in his memoirs: "After the reorganization of the 11th Division was downsized, it was rushed to the battlefield, and there was no talk of restoring the wartime establishment at all. It is extremely difficult to deploy tactically in this way. If our brigade has only two regiments, it is equivalent to two logs joined together, and it cannot stand upright, but it must have three logs to stand firmly upright......"

The main reason why Jiang was so enthusiastic and promoted this reorganization despite the opposition of his generals was to try to take the opportunity to weaken the non-descendant troops. If you think about it, Jiang's descendants have all been reorganized, what reason do you miscellaneous cards have not to reorganize?

After this toss-up, the local forces did suffer a lot of losses, and they were no longer able to argue with the central government, which also led to their dare not openly violate the will of Jiang in the war of liberation. But at the same time, Jiang's descendants were inevitably affected, and their combat effectiveness declined. Moreover, this reorganization was not actually completed, it could only be regarded as half-done, and the troops north of the Yellow River and Jiaoji Road actually started a full-scale civil war before they had time to reorganize. As a result, integrated divisions, integrated brigades, and unintegrated armies and divisions appeared at the same time in the scraping army, which again brought major problems to coordinated operations.

For example, the Seventh Army just mentioned, this Seventh Army has not been reorganized, in fact, it is at the same level as the integrated division in front of him. And it must be explained that this Seventh Army is not a central lineage, in fact, this Seventh Army is the main force of the Gui line of Jiang's sworn enemies Li and Bai. The history of the Seventh Army is quite long, can be traced back to the period of the Great Revolution, the Seventh Army and the Fourth Army and the Eighth Army as the main force of the Northern Expedition, in Hunan and Hubei eliminated more than 100,000 main forces of Sun Chuanfang, the Seventh Army is known as the "Steel Army" because of its outstanding military achievements, and the "Iron Army" of the Fourth Army can be described as a moment of brightness. Of course, after that, this steel army has been following the steps of Li and Bai, experiencing warlord melee, the War of Resistance and the War of Liberation, and finally being annihilated by the Second Field and the Fourth Field and the southwest region.

After the outbreak of a full-scale civil war, the reorganization work continued, and with the exception of the unreorganized armies and divisions that had not been reorganized into reorganized divisions and integrated brigades, the original group armies were all reorganized into reorganized armies (corps). In this process, Jiang interspersed the officers of the direct and non-direct units with each other, so as to achieve the goal of annexing and transforming the miscellaneous army. However, because the reorganization was so unscientific and did not meet the actual operational needs at all, the generals were generally opposed by both descendants and non-descendants. A considerable number of units just dragged on and did not change, and even if they were forced to reorganize, they would change their names, and their establishment would not be changed at all.

For example, the Fifth Army, one of the famous **** five main forces, should be changed to the 5th Division, but it was delayed from 1945 to 1947, and finally changed its name, and its subordinate integrated brigade still has three regiments. The same is true of the integrated 74th Division, whose integrated brigade still has three regiments.

In the end, Lao Chiang's reorganization plan was not completely implemented, and in 1948, these so-called integrated divisions and integrated brigades were all cancelled and completely reorganized back to the original army and division, which was tantamount to returning to the original place after a big circle.

Speaking of the Xuzhou Appeasement Office, when Wang Yaowu and Tang Enbo started to act, Xue Yue was not idle, and mobilized the Second Corps to launch a comprehensive attack on the northern Jiangsu region. And this second corps includes the 5th Army, the integrated 72nd Division, the integrated 75th Division, the integrated 85th Division, and the integrated 88th Division.

Obviously, the two routes in the north and south were to sweep Shandong and northern Jiangsu from the reorganized 74th Division and the unreorganized 5th Army with the reorganized 74th Division and the unreorganized 5th Army as the core, respectively, in preparation to wipe out the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army headed by General Su and Chen Shuai in one fell swoop.

Continuing to talk about this Second Corps, according to the general idea, the commander of this corps should be Du Yuming who can't run away, right? Hehe, it's really not, this second corps is also called Wang Jingjiu's corps, and the commander is Wang Jingjiu. What about Du Yuming? At this time, Du Yuming was appointed by Jiang as the chief of general staff of Xuzhou Xingyuan, what kind of work did he do? He was responsible for formulating the overall operational plan for attacking Shandong and northern Jiangsu. Probably in Jiang's opinion, with Du Yuming, the tiger general, taking the overall plan, and then handing it over to the trump card headed by the 74th Division and the Fifth Army for implementation, the suppression of bandits will inevitably be nine out of ten.

I have to say that Jiang made a mistake again, because the seniority and mountains in the scraping army are too complicated, for example, with Wang Jingjiu's qualifications, Qiu Qingquan can't be suppressed, Wang Jingjiu is the first phase of Huangpu and Qiu Qingquan is the second phase of Huangpu, the junior brother should let a little senior brother, but Qiu Qingquan's record is much more beautiful than Wang Jingjiu, and what kind of unit is the Fifth Army? It can be said that it is the trump card of the trump card, what did Lao Chiang say about this Fifth Army -- there is no Fifth Army to suppress bandits, and we are afraid that we will not be able to hold a meeting here. Back then, Gu Zhutong wanted to disassemble the Fifth Army and use it, how did Lao Jiang approve the words - if there was a loss, only the commander asked. Frightened, Gu Zhutong immediately dispelled that thought.

What's more, Qiu Qingquan has always been a maverick, known as Qiu Maniac. Wang Jingjiu felt that he really couldn't command this Fifth Army and Qiu Maniac. Naturally, we have to retreat. It can be said that Wang Jingjiu was forced to take office by someone Jiang.

This is in the direction of Shandong and northern Jiangsu, and the momentum of scraping the army in the direction of Henan and Hebei is even more terrifying, the first to appear is the famous 18th Army of the Civil Engineering Department, of course, there is no 18th Army at this time, but the 11th Division, which has three brigades of 11, 18 and 118, which is Chen Cheng's descendant. And now it is Hu Lian who commands the integrated 11th Division.

Speaking of this, Hu Lian is also a Chen Shimei. This is a native of Shaanxi, his family is so poor that he studied in a private school and primary school when he was a child, and after graduating from primary school, he married Wu Xiuwa because of an arranged marriage. Later, he thought that he would join the army when he was mighty, first as a clerk in Feng Ziming's brigade, and later applied for the Whampoa Military Academy, and only then did he change the name of Hu Junru to Hu Lian. Back then, in order to help him apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, Wu Xiuwa sold the dowry jewelry when she got married and the young seedlings that were about to mature to make up enough travel expenses for Hu Lian. During the Central Plains War, Hu Lian became the battalion commander and met his sister, who also belonged to the commander of the 14th Regiment of the 18th Army, so he abandoned his original partner Wu Xiuwa.

Of course, Hu Lian is still very good at fighting, and his performance in the Anti-Japanese War is quite good. On the whole, Hu Lian doesn't attach much importance to false fame, but attaches great importance to practical gain, as long as things are beneficial to him, then he is not afraid of violating discipline, such as expanding the army privately, fabricating reimbursements, and catching strong men to supplement the shortage, he has done all these things. Moreover, Hu Lian usually spends money quite "boldly", and every once in a while he takes turns to go to the troops below to have dinner and discuss with the officers of the regiment, ask them about their living conditions, and will take out his business card on the spot to write a certain amount of money, and then the quartermaster will pay the full amount. Even if a subordinate with a strong style makes a mistake, he will not ask questions, and he will not give in to an officer who shows cowardice, even if he is a fellow countryman.

And Hu Lian is a person who is a communist. The Party and the Communist Party. Industrialism is a visceral hatred, and in 1946 a US colonel asked Hu Lian about the Communist Party. He replied: "The poisonous snake claws the hand, and the strong man breaks the wrist." The Americans asked if they could keep their wrists if they had done otherwise. Hu Lian replied very categorically: "There is no cure!" In September 1948, after Hu Lian heard the content of the PLA "August 1 Declaration" announcement on the punishment of war criminals in Nanyang, he said to Yang Botao: "Communist. If the party succeeds, there will be no more of our lives! And when he broke through the double stack, he simply asked for a lot of sleeping pills, and he was prepared to become a benevolent if he was unsuccessful.

At this time, Hu Lian's integrated 11th Division belonged to the Third Corps commanded by Ou Zhen, and under this corps, there were also integrated 20th Division, 25th Division, 64th Division, and 53rd Division. It should be said that the combat effectiveness of this corps is still relatively strong, because in addition to the trump card of the 11th Division, there is also a rather hard and hard 25th Division.

Don't look at the reorganized 25th Division, it does not belong to the five trump cards, nor even belongs to the central lineage, but its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated, the three reorganized brigades under the reorganized 25th Division are the 40th Brigade developed from the 1st Division of the Tax Police Corps of the People's Party, the 108th Brigade developed by Yu Xuezhong of the former Northeast Army, and the 148th Brigade developed by Fan Shaozeng of the Sichuan Army.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, because the original 25th Army was obedient and more able to fight, this army was fully equipped with Japanese equipment, although compared with the previous shotgun and artillery, but compared with the Central Army's American weapons, it was obviously a grade worse. During the whole training, the department made up a self-deprecating slip: "People are American, we are ghosts; People have ten wheels of cards, and we are old and broken cars. ”

Strictly speaking, the reorganized 25th Division at this time was actually not a three-brigade establishment but a two-brigade establishment, and these two brigades were the 40th and 108th brigades, as for the 148th Brigade, because it had not completed the reorganization, it was left in Jiangxi at this time to continue the reorganization, and when attacking northern Henan, the reorganized 25th Division was actually only two brigades capable of fighting.

However, we must not underestimate this reorganized 25th Division, which was born in a platter and composed of two brigades (divisions) in history, and once ranked among the top three in the Guannai army in the evaluation of the achievements of the People's Party, second only to the Fifth Army and the Eighteenth Army among the five main forces. Especially after the 74th Army was defeated and sunk in the sand, this unit repeatedly played the leading role in the battlefields of Shandong, northern Jiangsu, and eastern Henan.

Why is this integrated 25th Division so difficult to deal with? Then we must talk about the commander of this force, Huang Baitao. Because Huang Baitao is too peculiar in the *** army, why do you say that? Because most of the commanders of the People's Party military system are from Baoding, Huangpu and local Wutang systems that have participated in the Great Revolution, such as Zheng Dongguo, Du Yuming, and Qiu Qingquan all emerged in the Northern Expedition, but what was Huang Baitao doing at that time? This person was mixed in the hostile camp of the Northern Expedition and belonged to the object of the revolution.

Let's put it this way, Huang Baitao is not from Zhejiang, not from Huangpu, and he is also a hostile defector, and this resume is very CP with the same integrated 25th Division as his platter...... (To be continued.) )