Continuing to talk about Huang Baitao, this army scraper with a very irregular background is even more unusual in that he is not addicted to tobacco and alcohol, second, he is not corrupt and accumulates money, and third, he is also very good at punishing corruption in the army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Fourth, there is also the title of a master tactician in the army, who knows how to make good use of people and dares to promote promising young people, and is quite popular among staff and grassroots officers. What's even more strange is that he is also very good at mingling with ordinary soldiers, participating in tactical training with soldiers in peacetime, and even creating a record of assault by the commander of the corps in the People's Party Army during the war. Moreover, he not only paid attention to military training, but also did not relax in the slightest on military discipline, and from time to time paid out of his own pocket to support the cultural and educational undertakings of the station, so whether it was in Shanghai, Yangzhou in Fireworks and Willow Lane, or in the dilapidated Dabie Mountains, the reorganized 25th Division could live in harmony with the local residents, which was quite rare in the People's Party army!

Let's put it this way, Huang Baitao can be regarded as a saint in the scraping army in terms of personal ethics. The only mistake he made in his life was probably following the wrong person.

In fact, if Jiang is really useful, the commander of the Third Corps should not let Ou Zhen be the commander at this time, Ou Zhen is not as good as Huang Baitao in addition to his qualifications, but he is inferior in other aspects, let Ou Zhen manage Huang Baitao and Hu Lian, the two powerful generals, it really feels a bit like letting a sheep lead a lion.

According to Chiang's operational deployment, the Third Corps will attack in the direction of Puyang from the Kaifeng and Heze lines, with the task of recapturing eastern Henan. On the west side of the 3rd Corps were the 4th and 5th Corps. The Fifth Corps was in the center, and the Fourth Corps was located on the westernmost side. The main force of the Fifth Corps is the New First Army, and the commander of the Corps is naturally Sun Liren, whose corps is located in Zhengzhou, and has jurisdiction over the New First Army, the 60th Division, the 85th Division, the 16th Division, and the 52nd Division. The commander of the Fourth Corps is Zheng Dongguo, and the deputy commander and commander of the New Sixth Army is Liao Yaoxiang, and the corps is stationed in Luoyang, and its subordinate units also include the 93rd Division, the 3rd Division, the 15th Division, and the 27th Division.

The task of the Fourth Corps and the Fifth Corps was also to march northward together, recover the entire northern Henan, and enter the southern Shanxi and southern Hebei regions one after another. According to Jiang's combat intentions, it was to eliminate the main force of the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan field armies headed by Liu Deng in one fell swoop.

The situation is very grim, yes, the situation is indeed grim for the T Communist Party, although it has received a lot of Soviet aid since 1943, and has accumulated a certain amount of combat experience in the large corps in the major counteroffensive at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, but on the whole, there is still a certain gap between the PLA and the main force of the scraping army, and it is now in the stage where new equipment needs to be familiar and new tactics need to be run-in. At this stage, the risk of engaging in a head-on confrontation with the enemy is still relatively large.

Moreover, from a geographical point of view, although most of North China and Shandong have been liberated, these two territories are still relatively narrow, and more than 1 million troops are training in these two small bathtubs, and the space for maneuvering is relatively small, and the requirements for commanders and fighters to grasp the ability of fighters are quite high. If it doesn't sound good, a slight mistake will cause a big accident.

Therefore, according to Taizu's original idea, on the one hand, it is necessary to make great strides and retreat to find fighters to annihilate the enemy's vital force in the movement war, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to actively punch out its fists, advance to Central China and the Jianghuai region, and make trouble in the enemy's territory. Even Taizu had the idea of a surprise soldier to directly cross the Yangtze River and turn the Jianghuai region upside down. To put it bluntly, this is to distract Jiang someone's attention with strange soldiers, for him who is fighting for every inch of land, he must not watch the **** wreak havoc under his nose, and he must mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress, so that the enemy's main force will be transferred from Shandong and Hebei, and the pressure will inevitably be much less.

Taizu thought that this task was best carried out by General Su, after all, General Su was born in the Jianghuai region, and he was very familiar with that area, and this General Su was the most astute and dared to seize opportunities. Taizu's plan was as follows: General Su led two or three main columns of the Central China Field Army to the south, interspersed with the areas of Yichang and Shashi in Hubei, and after crossing the river in the Honghu area, he first circled around Hunan and Jiangxi provinces for half a year to a year, circled along the way, and attacked the border of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi in several stages by leaping forward, so that the enemy would be completely in a position of passive coping, and he would be unable to guard against it and be exhausted from running for his life.

Taizu felt that in this way, the main force of the People's Party army besieging Shandong and northern Jiangsu would have to be transferred at least a large part of it, and when it passed through Henan, Hubei and other places along the way, it would be possible to transfer part of the main force of the People's Party besieging Liu Deng's field army, and then the space on the battlefield would be larger and there would be fewer people, so it would be convenient to give full play to the advantages of PLA movement warfare.

This is a battle plan that is very in line with Taizu's style, and once it was proposed, it received many responses, not only the Central Army. The committee adopted it, and even Chen Shuai, commander and political commissar of the Shandong Field Army, excitedly summed it up in one sentence: "Change Jiangnan into the Central Plains, and change the Central Plains into North China." He even said: "Ten columns can be prevented from crossing the Yangtze River this year, and the war will be ended the year after next." ”

It stands to reason that if the top and bottom agreed, this plan should be passed, but there is one person who disagrees, that is, General Su who was named by Taizu. General Su did not think that this plan would necessarily fail to succeed, but that the cost of doing so would probably be quite large.

Having fought guerrilla warfare with the New Fourth Army for nearly 10 years and has been fighting in mobile warfare, he knows very well that the cost of fighting on the outside line out of the base area is astonishing. General Su believed that this plan would cause heavy casualties to the troops. Taking the Red Army's anti-Japanese advance team in 1934 as an example, the unit set out from Ruijin and advanced to the enemy's ruled area, covering a distance of more than 2,500 kilometers, and there were several small guerrilla areas along the way, but because of the long journey, it had to constantly maneuver with the enemy's pursuers along the way, and the battles were very frequent, and it was very difficult to replenish troops, supply materials, and especially the placement and treatment of the wounded. And now Taizu's requirements are even higher, and if he has to go around the area for a long time, it is difficult to say whether he can persist for a year and a half or a half.

General Su believed that if Taizu's plan was to be carried out, the attrition might be as high as 5 to 100,000, and if he fought in areas with base support, such as northern Jiangsu, Shandong, and eastern Henan, more enemies could be eliminated with a reduction of 5 to 100,000 troops, and the troops could be better replenished and rested.

General Su believed that there were three advantages to continuing to fight in the Henan-Anhui-Soviet region: First, the Central Plains region was vast, with three main railway lines and some large cities, all of which the enemy needed to assign heavy troops to guard, so the enemy seemed to have a lot of troops, but he was carrying a large burden. Because the task of defending the key points is heavy, the enemy's mobile forces are actually insufficient. If our army actively acts in this area, it will certainly be able to mobilize the enemy and create fighters for our army to annihilate the enemy in the movement.

Second, the flat terrain and well-developed communications in the Huanghuai region of the Central Plains are certainly convenient for the enemy to support each other, but they are also conducive to our army's extensive mobile operations, especially when the railways and highways are destroyed by our army, and the enemy's mobility capability has been greatly restricted. Our army can give full play to its strong ability to march on foot, quickly concentrate its forces, and attack the enemy from all directions, so as to achieve a quick victory in the campaign.

Finally, the Huanghuai District of the Central Plains has a relatively good mass base, and is backed by Hebei, so it can receive supplies from the Northeast and the Soviet Union and receive a large number of manpower support, especially to better ensure the placement and treatment of the wounded and sick.

General Su also believed: "In order to fight a large-scale war of annihilation in the vast Central Plains battlefield, our army must form a powerful field corps. In a campaign, our army must have a sufficient number of troops to undertake the task of assault, and also a considerable number of troops to undertake the task of blocking and reinforcing and containing it. At this time, the transfer of two or three columns from the Central Plains battlefield may not necessarily be able to transfer away three or four of the enemy's main divisions, after all, the enemy still retains a considerable number of reserves in Central China, South China, and Jiangnan. In this way, it is a outnumbered attack, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Senior General Su believes that at the present stage, we should fully rely on the liberated areas and first fight one or two large-scale wars of annihilation in the Central Plains and destroy four to five of the enemy's reorganized divisions before we can be able to carry out operations on the outside line. At that time, the enemy will inevitably replenish the troops that have been destroyed, and it will also inevitably draw troops from Central China, South China, and Jiangnan to the north, which will plunge these areas into emptiness, and it is more appropriate to turn them upside down at this time.

Speaking of which, I have to say that the biggest difference between Taizu and Jiang in this regard is that Taizu at this time is quite good at accepting the reasonable suggestions of the front-line leaders, as long as it is reasonable for the central government, and will never engage in remote control interference in the command of the campaign, but comprehensively let go, fully trust the judgment of the generals and personal ability.

Jiang is more than a step behind in this regard, the level of fighting is very average, and he especially likes to meddle in front-line affairs, and when he makes a decision, he tastes both ends of the snake and rat, and he is not good at going to the front line to understand the actual situation, but through telegraphs and warrants, he commands remotely, and finally loses the battle and says that it is not the president's decision that is problematic, but the implementation of the generals below.

Isn't there such a popular joke among the generals of the scraping army, when the telephone line of the Ministry of Defense is broken, the plane cannot take off, the top level can neither make phone calls nor airdrop oracles, and when the war is almost won.

For some of the brave generals who scrape the army, the biggest enemy may not be the T Communist Party, but the Ministry of Defense and the Presidential Palace, without their remote control and blind command, things are much simpler. To put it bluntly, the problem with the People's Party is that people who have decision-making power do not have self-knowledge, and they cannot listen to it and act as good as a stream, and if they are selfish, how can they be undefeated?

The situation on the side of the T Communist Party was completely different, and General Su's words were indeed not in line with Taizu's intentions, but after thinking about it and personally communicating with General Su, Taizu accepted General Su's suggestion and postponed the external battle. First concentrate troops to fight a big battle in southern Lunan and eastern Henan, and try to eliminate as much as possible a part of the main force of the People's Party army. But the military. The committee also issued a military order to General Su: "For as little as four months and as many as eight months, this corps, together with the other three columns, will aim to annihilate 56 to 112 regular brigades of the Fifth Army and other units in the north and south areas of the Bianxu Line......

The so-called Fifth Army naturally refers to the Fifth Army, as mentioned earlier, the Fifth Army is a trump card unit, and in the 1947 annual performance evaluation conducted by the People's Party, the New Sixth Army was the first outside the Guan, and the Fifth Army was the first in the Guannai. Compared with the two armies, the Fifth Army ranks first in the country.

This shows how difficult this Fifth Army is to deal with. The committee went so far as to demand that General Su annihilate at least five or six brigades of the Fifth Army within eight months, which is tantamount to saying that the main force of the Fifth Army will be wiped out, and this difficulty is still very high.

So does Su Da have this confidence? If you want to say that you are full of confidence, it is nonsense and unrealistic, the Fifth Army is not so easy to fight, and it was only in the three decisive battles in the later stage of the Liberation War that the Fifth Army was killed in history. But now it's only 1945, and even General Su probably doesn't dare to pat his chest and say that he can eat the Fifth Army. Of course, it is not completely unconfident, I have said before that General Su's combat style is unrestrained, and he dares to fight battles that others dare not fight, and even once he was a little too unrestrained, and suffered certain losses because he was impatient in the selection of fighters, so others did not dare to fight the idea of the Fifth Army, but General Su really dared.

And the fighters also appeared very quickly. As mentioned earlier, Wang Jingjiu led the Second Corps led by the Fifth Army out of Xuzhou to Zaozhuang and Linyi, swept northern Jiangsu and threatened southern Lunan, according to Jiang's campaign intention, it was to cooperate with Tang Enbo's first corps to recover Jinan and wait for an opportunity to take Qingdao.

During this period, it was natural that the 74th Army would take the lead in the north and the Fifth Army would dominate in the south. In accordance with the Army. At the outset, the committee instructed that preparations were made to concentrate the main forces of the Shandong Field Army and the Central China Field Army to fight a battle of annihilation in the Zaozhuang (Taierzhuang) area, east of Weishan Lake and west of Linyi, in an effort to eliminate the Fifth Army. Among them, the Shandong Field Army was mainly responsible for blocking reinforcements, while the Central China Field Army was responsible for eating bones.

In accordance with this instruction, Chen Shuai's Shandong Field Army first continued to retreat in the direction of Jinan with great fanfare, leading the main force of Tang Enbo's First Corps to the northeast of Shandong, while part of the main force secretly lurked south in the Nishan Mountains east of Zou Cheng and Qufu.

At the same time, General Su built a strong position near Zaozhuang to attract the Fifth Army to attack, and once the Fifth Army took the bait, the main force attacked with all the main forces of the Shandong People's Liberation Army to encircle and annihilate the Fifth Army.

This plan cannot be said to be very clever, but it is also in line with the principle of concentrating forces to fight a war of annihilation, and with the strength of the main forces of the Shandong People's Liberation Army and the Central China People's Liberation Army, they do have the strength to take advantage of the fire, and they can at least give it a try.

However, just as the plan was about to be implemented, two changes occurred on the battlefield, the first of which was that the Kuomintang was collecting intelligence from all sides based on radio decipherment, arresting lone PLA soldiers, and sending spies to infiltrate the liberated areas. Gradually, the Kuomintang discovered that the T Communist Party was trying to annihilate the Fifth Army. So Chen Cheng and Xue Yue, who were sitting in Xuzhou, had an anti-fishing idea and formulated a plan to use the Fifth Army as bait to attract the main force of the T Communist Party, and then concentrate the main forces of the First Corps and the Second Corps to encircle and annihilate the Central China Field Army. And the implementation began.

The specific strategy was that the farthest target of the First Corps was only to Jinan, and after recovering Jinan, it would no longer advance north, but wait for an opportunity to move south. At the same time, the Fifth Army temporarily stood out as a decoy, and once the Central China Field Army took the bait, the other units of the Second Corps first swarmed up and dragged the Central China Field Army, and then the main force of the First Corps quickly moved south to encircle and eliminate the Central China Field Army on the spot.

In other words, if Chen Shuai and Su Da will continue to carry out the previous battle plan, I am afraid that they will fall into the ditch 100 percent. And at this critical moment, General Su made a decision to change the situation of the battle - not to fight the Fifth Army!

Later, Senior General Su recalled: "I repeatedly considered that although there were certain conditions for the reorganization of the Fifth Division to seek and destroy the enemy, there were many unfavorable factors, mainly because the main force of our army had not yet been concentrated, the reinforcements were insufficient, the terrain was not necessarily favorable, and the battlefield was too narrow. Moreover, the Fifth Division was one of the five main forces of Chiang's army, and its combat quality and equipment were relatively strong, and the use of artillery firepower and infantry artillery coordination were relatively good. If I fight him, Jiang Jun will definitely come to the aid with all his might. At that time, it would be difficult for our army to annihilate it quickly. Moreover, in order to annihilate the Fifth Army, the assault group needed at least four or five columns, and it was difficult to hold back a large number of enemy reinforcements with one or two columns when there was no danger to defend in the plains. If our assault group fails to solve the Fifth Army within three to five days, and enemy reinforcements arrive, our army may be in a position to be passive. At the same time, the key points in northern Jiangsu are under the control of the enemy, and our combat area is relatively narrow, which is not convenient for large corps operations; based on the above considerations, I believe that the time is not ripe to search for and annihilate the Fifth Army, and if it is not done well, it will also create an unfavorable situation for ourselves. ”

Based on this consideration, General Su gave up the plan to find and annihilate the Fifth Army in Zaozhuang, but reformulated a plan to retreat and abandon southwest Lu in a big step, lure the Second Corps of the Scraping People's Party to attack in the direction of Qingdao, and instead seek an opportunity to annihilate a certain integrated division of the enemy's First Corps in the mountainous areas of central Shandong.

The main point of this plan was that the main force of the Second Corps of the People's Party Army, led by the Fifth Army, would be directed to the direction of Qingdao to prevent them from making trouble in central Shandong. The second important point lies in the fact that the main force of the Central China Field Army must be well concealed and cannot be discovered by either the enemy's First Corps or the enemy's Second Corps. Third, Chen Shuai's Shandong Corps had to be like a magnet to attract the attention of Tang Enbo's troops. If these three points can be achieved, it is indeed possible to encircle and annihilate the lone troops of Tang Enbo's First Corps in central Shandong.

Soon, General Su reported a new battle plan to the Central Army. Commission, and the army. After careful consideration, the committee quickly agreed to General Su's battle plan, and said: "Judging from your feedback, the conditions for fighting the Fifth Army are indeed not ripe, and considering that a considerable part of the column has just completed its reorganization and its combat effectiveness is doubtful, it is correct to destroy the larger target first...... Not only did the committee fully agree to General Su's plan, but also delegated all the power to make decisions: "Considering that it is difficult to capture the fighters, you don't need to ask the central authorities for instructions on everything, seize every favorable opportunity to act quickly, and fight one or two wars of annihilation as soon as possible." ”

As a result, the situation on the battlefield completely changed, and the third and eighth columns of the Central China People's Liberation Army retreated in stride in the direction of Linyi, luring the Second Corps to pursue in the northeast direction. As mentioned earlier, the Scraping People's Party also made an anti-fishing plan, and according to this plan, the reorganization of the Fifth Division will be used as a bait to rush forward, so Qiu Qingquan immediately pounced with his main force, of course, the Scraping People's Party did not dare to really let the reorganization of the Fifth Division really become a lone army, otherwise once the Fifth Division has a mistake, who will explain to the old man? Therefore, Wang Jingjiu also dispatched other troops to hang behind the butt of the Fifth Division, and chased them all the way to the northeast.

I have to say that the third and eighth columns are really acting schools, and the fanfare retreat really fooled the scraping army, thinking that this is really the main force of the Central China Field Army. Wang Jingjiu, who was undoubtedly deceitful, chased these two columns all the way and ran away. Of course, they also had gains, on October 17, Qiu Qingquan "recovered" Linyi, in the words of Lao Jiang: "This is a good start to the suppression of bandits in Shandong!" ”

Not only did Qiu Qingquan gain something, but Tang Ran in the north also gained even more, and Chen Shuai's Shandong Field Army also retreated in great strides and gave Jining Bai to Tang Ran Ran. Of course, with the urine of the soup run run will never say that these victories are in vain, in his mouth this is an unprecedented brilliant victory, anyway, in the record he reported to the Ministry of Defense, a total of more than 100,000 people were wiped out, and it was a heavy loss. Encouraged by the "great victory", the 1st Corps went all the way north, and after a little effort, regained Tai'an again.

And at this time, the second key node on the battlefield has arrived. According to Chen Cheng and Xue Yue's previous plan, by this time, the **** should have bitten the poisonous bait of the reorganized Fifth Division, and at this time, it was the turn of the main force of the First Corps to quickly go south and happily eat meat together.

But the situation at this time is not like that at all, the main force of the Second Corps has already run to the south of Juxian, but **** has no intention of taking the bait, but continues to escape with one mind, that is to say, there is no fish caught in the south at all. The first corps in the north was very embarrassed, according to the original plan, Tang ran ran the most capable of the reorganized 74th Division in the back, before all the way to the front of the Gui Department of the Seventh Army, the result of all the way "victory" is a lot, but it has nothing to do with the scraping army lineage, most of the results were won by the Seventh Army. And this made the 74th Division and Zhang Lingfu very unhappy.

Zhang Lingfu felt that he was one of the five main forces of the army, because he rushed to the front to slash and kill to enjoy applause and cheers, but now it is good, this way except eating sand is not beneficial at all, this goods are dissatisfied and unhappy. Even the military seat was emotional, and naturally the 74th Division was also complaining, and in desperation, Tang Enbo could only order the division to stay in place near Dawenkou Town to rest and stand by.

At the same time, after the capture of Tai'an, Tang Enbo's main force continued to move north into Jinan, and between this stop, the distance between the 74th Division and the main force of the First Corps was further widened, forming a small gap, and this gap was soon discovered by General Su...... (To be continued.) )