Since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, Li Xiaofeng has adapted to the routine of being woken up by an emergency call in the middle of the night for a meeting. After the pen, fun, and pavilion www.biquge.info casually threw a rest technique to Angelina, who was also woken up, Li Xiaofeng drove the car to the Military Commission.

It wasn't just him who was woken up, but Sverdlov also walked into the conference room with a sleepy face. As far as the committee members are concerned, I am afraid that if the civil war in China is not over, I am afraid that there will be no way to sleep well.

The reason why this time alarmed all the troops in Moscow. The reason for this is naturally that there have been major changes on the battlefield in China. A small tail of the First Corps of the People's Party Army's northward march was exposed--the 74th Division was left alone!

The three brigades of the 74th Division were stationed in the area of Dawenkou Town, Fangcun, and Dongzhuang. Among them, the 51st Brigade is stationed in Dawenkou, the 57th Brigade is stationed in Fangcun, and the 58th Brigade is stationed in Dongzhuang. The closest friendly unit to the 74th Division was the integrated 65th Division, which was stationed in Tai'an City for rest at this time, about 20 kilometers away from the 74th Division.

Looking at the map 20 kilometers is really nothing, riding a bicycle is more than an hour, and according to the semi-motorized ability of the Scraping People's Party, it is only a matter of half an hour to ride a car. This is not far from the truth. Especially considering the combat effectiveness of the 74th Army's Tianzi No. 1, let alone 20 kilometers, even if the distance is doubled, Zhang Lingfu will not take it seriously.

However, from the point of view of modern warfare, especially for the Soviet Red Army, which had experienced the test of the Great Patriotic War, a distance of 20 kilometers was already a gap. According to the dogma of the Soviet Red Army, these 20 kilometers are enough to fight a campaign-level encirclement and annihilation operation. Of course, the PLA cannot be demanded by the standards of mechanization and firepower of the Red Army, after all, the equipment of the two sides is very different. In particular, considering that the firepower of the troops in northern Jiangsu and Shandong, which had been changed from the New Fourth Army, was a little worse than that of the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Central Plains, and the distance of 20 kilometers was exactly on the border line between what could and could not be attacked. This will quite test the judgment and determination of the commanders.

Triandafilov and Ubolevich believe that this battle can be tried, and if the action is fast and the determination is great, it can be fought. Of course, they also admit that it is indeed very bold to attack the number one main force of the Kuomintang as soon as it comes up, and if this battle cannot be resolved cleanly, it will become a bowl of raw rice.

Ubolevich said: "The risk is relatively high, and I doubt that the commanders of the T Communist Party have such determination. ”

There are many people who have similar views to Ubolevich, basically the army. The overwhelming majority of the people in the committee believed that the commanders of the T Communist Party probably did not have the determination to dare to attack the 74th Division as soon as they came up, after all, had they not urgently revised their battle plan and given up the planned plan of fighting the reorganized 5th Division? According to the standards of scraping the army, the combat effectiveness of the 74th Division on paper is still above the 5th Division, and even the 5th Division does not dare to fight, I'm afraid it will not dare to fight the 74th Division, right?

So Ubolevich believed that the Central China Field Army would continue to lurk and wait for a new combat opportunity, or start the campaign again to create other combat opportunities.

But Li Xiaofeng doesn't see it that way, others don't understand General Su, he still doesn't understand? General Su has never lacked courage, and if he did not fight the 5th Division before, it was completely out of consideration of the actual situation on the battlefield, believing that the conditions were indeed immature. And is this the situation of the 74th Division now? It can be said that the conditions for fighting the 74th Division are fully ripe. The sixth, seventh, and ninth columns of the Central China Field Army, the tenth (not yet at that time in history) and the second column of the Shandong People's Liberation Army lurking around Xintai have five columns of strength (the **** column can be roughly regarded as a corps-level unit, generally with three divisions, but some columns may also be relatively cold), leaving one column to block, one column as a reserve, and the other three columns to fight the 74th Division, although a little nervous, but it is not impossible to achieve. With General Su's adventurous combat style, it is entirely possible for him to do so.

So he said: "I think that the general of the T Communist Party Su Da has made up his mind to fight the 74th Division, and this battle will start soon!" ”

To be honest, this judgment made Sverdlov a little disdainful, Xiao Si thinks you Andrey. Petrovich really thinks of himself as a military strategist? Don't think you're a soldier. The chairman of the committee can just big mouth, and when the results come out, see how you make jokes.

It's just that what Sverdlov didn't expect was that a few minutes later, an urgent telegram came from the Huaxia side, it was the **** Central Army. Commissioned to the Soviet Army. The content of the telegram is also very simple -- General Su is determined to destroy the 74th Division, and now the five columns have pounced on the enemy who has been entrenched in Dawenkou for a generation!

This news is too shocking, a certain immortal said that Su Da will fight, and people will really fight, look at people's understanding of Huaxia, this is far beyond the level of China Tong, right? Sverdlov's eyes were going to pop out anyway.

But then again, when General Su made up his mind to this campaign, he was really a little apprehensive. Originally, it was going to fight an ordinary reorganization division to test the water, but who would have thought that the 74th Division would run out by itself, and if it didn't fight it, the entire campaign attempt would be in vain, and the previous military deployments would all be in vain, and it would even mess up the entire situation in Shandong. But if you want to say that the 74th Division is fighting, this is after all the number one trump card in the Scraping People's Army, and the performance in the War of Resistance is obvious to all.

So General Su at that time also wanted to vomit badly, Nima, why did you crane the tail of the 74th Division if you didn't play the striker well, this is playing me, right? However, soon, General Su clearly realized that the 74th Division must be fought now, because the fighters do not wait for people, and although the three columns and eight columns in the east are now very successful in luring the enemy, they are not really pigs' heads by scraping the Kuomintang army, and soon this diorama will be exposed, once they find out that the third and eighth columns are not the main force of the Central China Field Army, will they continue to chase them stupidly? At the very least, one or two reorganized divisions will be sent back to central Shandong, and then the pressure will be even greater. It is necessary to take advantage of the fact that the Second Corps of the People's Party has not yet reacted to make a quick move in order to gain this time difference. Therefore, General Su immediately made up his mind and ordered the second, sixth, seventh, and ninth columns to immediately march to Dawenkou Town between the Dawen River and the Daqing River to encircle and annihilate the 74th Division.

So what is the strength of the 74th Division now? To put it simply, the division has nearly 40,000 people, under the jurisdiction of 3 brigades and 9 regiments, and is equipped with a total of 12 105-mm howitzers, 54 75-mm mountain guns, 36 37-mm anti-aircraft guns, 144 81-mm mortars, 162 60-mm mortars, 54 rocket launchers, 81 flamethrowers, and 162 heavy machine guns. In addition, there are 1,620 7.62 mm 1918A2 light machine guns, 3,600 9 mm American-made M1 Thomson submachine guns and Canadian Stein carbines, and 7,200 7.62 mm M1903A1 Springfield rifles. In addition, the officers were equipped with 9-mm Browning M1911A1 pistols and radiographs, and the company was equipped with a total of about 300 motor vehicles and more than 1,300 mules and horses.

To be honest, this is actually a strengthened version of the infantry army, and it is a standard three-division and nine-regiment configuration of the full-fledged infantry army. I have to say that Jiang is really not ordinarily good to his descendants.

In order to fight this 74th Division, General Su also gave up, and invested three columns and nine divisions as the main attack force in one go, leaving another column and three divisions to garrison southern Tai'an to block reinforcements. As for the 10th Column, which had just been formed, it was used as a general reserve.

So what are these columns under General Su? It should be said that the strength is still much worse than the 74th Division of Tianzi No. 1. On average, the Shandong Field Army and the Central China Field Army had three infantry divisions in one column, each with about 8,000 to 9,000 people, and one column was about 24,000 to 27,000 people. Each infantry division has three infantry regiments, and the whole division has 54 76-mm Soviet-made or 75-mm Japanese mountain guns, 54 37-mm infantry guns, 72 82-mm mortars, 108 60-mm mortars, more than 100 rocket launchers and grenadiers, 108 heavy machine guns, more than 600 light machine guns, and more than 5,000 rifles. Other than that, there are basically no cars, and there are very few mules and horses.

It can be said that from the point of view of firepower, the column of the T Communist Party is still a lot worse than the elite 74th Division, but General Su's side is not completely without advantages, first, the elite 74th Division of the scraping army has that kind of awesome and shining configuration, and the other scraping troops are a little worse, and the overall level is uneven, even if it is the integrated division of the central lineage, I am afraid that it is on par with the column on the **** side. Second, although the 74th Division is powerful, it is only an integrated division after all, and General Su has invested in three columns, and the firepower superiority of the three columns is twice that of the 74th Division. Third, General Su was fighting on the inner line, so he could receive a steady stream of support from the liberated areas of Shandong, and basically did not have to worry about logistics and the wounded, and he could also get support from Dalian by sea from Yantai and Dongying, so it can be said that he did not have to worry about ammunition or other materials at all. The 74th Division is different, according to General Su's deployment, the PLA will cut off the railway road from Qufu to Tai'an as soon as it comes up, and this is the most important supply route of the First Corps of the Scraping Army, without supplies, 74 is less and less ammunition in the siege, and how long his firepower can last is a question.

Of course, there are many unfavorable factors, first, the 65th Division of the Scraping Army is only 20 kilometers away from the 74th Division in Tai'an, and the main force of the First Corps is gathered near Jinan, and it also has five integrated divisions, deducting the strength of the defense along the railway and in large cities and with the Shandong People's Liberation Army, Tang Enbo can at least send out one or two integrated divisions to rescue the 74th Division, and the pressure on the reinforcements will be quite great. Not only is the Jinan and Tai'an lines risky, but also Wang Jingjiu's corps in the east, once they see through the tricks of the three verticals and eight columns, they can also send one or two integrated divisions to turn back and rescue the 74th Division, which is very likely to include the Fifth Division, which is as difficult as the 74th Division. With the strength of the Ten Columns, can you withstand it?

In addition, it must also be noted that the Scraping People's Party still has spare strength in eastern Henan and northern Jiangsu, and when the battle situation is really urgent, Jiang will inevitably draw troops from these two directions to reinforce Shandong, so this battle is quite difficult to fight, once the 74th Division cannot be quickly eliminated, and when the Scraping Kuomintang army gathers heavy troops to surround it, and even the Central China Field Army may be surrounded in the Yimeng Mountains as a whole, and the consequences are unimaginable.

Therefore, Su Yu clearly pointed out in the instructions given to the column: "The most important thing in this operation is a quick victory, and whether or not the 74th Division can be annihilated within three to five days is the key point of success or failure in the battle." All columns should carry forward the spirit of fighting to the death without fear of death and hardship, and destroy the enemy's 74th Division as quickly as possible! ”

THE CENTRAL CHINA FIELD ARMY PLANNED AND DID SO, AND IT REALLY RAN FASTER THAN A COLUMN, AND THE FASTEST MOVEMENT BELONGED TO THE SECOND COLUMN LED BY GENERAL LUO BINGHUI. As mentioned earlier, this second column was subordinate to Chen Shuai's Shandong Field Army, but it was temporarily allocated to General Su for use due to the needs of the campaign. And General Luo BH has always had the title of Flying General, please note that General Luo, the Flying General, is a real fight, not the kind of fast escape of Sun Yuanliang. Under the influence of General Luo, the second column was also the fastest running existence in the PLA in Shandong and northern Jiangsu, and after a rapid march, the second column penetrated directly between Dawenkou Town and Tai'an, completely cutting off the connection between the 74th Division and the 65th Division.

This step is so crisp and decisive that people have to applaud General Luo's neatness. Speaking of General Luo BH, he is also a strong general, if he hadn't died of illness, he would at least be a general who couldn't run away after the founding of the country. General Luo BH was still quite prestigious in Shandong at that time, and the Battle of Zaozhuang in 1946 was fought beautifully, annihilating nearly 30,000 troops in one fell swoop, and forcing more than 4,000 people to land. It's a pity that General Luo BH suddenly died of cerebral congestion and failed to show his skills in the later war of liberation. And when it comes to General Luo BH, it is impossible not to mention Zhang Lingfu, there are rumors in later generations that General Luo BH was dug up by Zhang Mou after his death and whipped his body, this is a false rumor, and it is Zhang Lingfu's bitter master Li Tianxia who really did this atrocity, and it was the 83rd Division that did this bad thing.

Of course, this is not to say how good Zhang is, in fact, this is also the difference between fifty steps and one hundred steps from Li Tianxia. It is not an exaggeration to say that his hands were stained with the blood of the people. Of course, later this General Zhang was annihilated by Li Tianxia in Meng Lianggu, which can be regarded as evil retribution.

In addition, it can also be mentioned that this Li Tianxia is bad to the bone, after Meng Lianggu killed Zhang Lingfu, after the loss of Pingtan Island at the end of the Liberation War, this person insisted that he retreated on Li Yannian's order, and as a result, Li Yannian, who was completely irresponsible, was sentenced to 12 years in prison (Jiang Dingwen and Liu Zhi served one year of prison but became depressed), which directly led to Li Yannian's later life was very miserable. It is said that after Li Yannian was released, he lived in the suburbs of Taipei, because he had no military position and no income, his life was extremely difficult, he could only eat steamed buns dipped in chili water every day to satisfy his hunger, and even had to ask the old ministry for money for cigarettes, and he died in extreme poverty until November 17, 1974.

It stands to reason that with Li Yannian's qualifications and his exploits in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (this was born in the first phase of Huangpu, and became the third Li of Shandong with Li Yutang and Li Xianzhou, and participated in the battles of Taierzhuang, Kunlun Pass, and counterattack Yichang in the War of Resistance against Japan.

In 1956, Li Tianxia was invited by her friend Pan to serve as a consultant to the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, specializing in teaching "Qimen Dunjia" and "hypnosis" (feelings are also the way of qigong masters).

Xue Yue, Yu Jishi, and Qian Dajun presided over the funeral, and ****** and Gao Kuiyuan, then commander-in-chief of the "army," Feng Qicong, commander-in-chief of the "navy," Xu Huansheng, commander-in-chief of the "air force," Lai Mingtang, commander-in-chief of the "joint service," Chen Daqing, commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Provincial Garrison, Wu Huisheng, commander-in-chief of the "military police," Tang Shouzhi, director of the General Political and War Department, and Yu Boquan, chief of staff of the "Presidential Palace," all paid salutes. In contrast, I have to say that the Scraping People's Party is really a bad guy and is more popular.

Continuing to get back to business, General Luo's second column inserted between the 74th and 64th Divisions, cut off their connection, and immediately began to build fortifications and defensive positions in preparation for the next stage of encirclement and annihilation of the 74th Division. It stands to reason that it is impossible for Zhang Lingfu not to notice such a big move, so how did this General Zhang deal with it?

Zhang Lingfu learned that the second column's action was on the night of October 17, when he was about to go to bed, and the herald brought a message from Chen Chuanjun, the commander of the 51st Brigade, saying that he had found **** activities in the north, which was not small in terms of scale, and asked Zhang Lingfu what to do.

Zhang Lingfu didn't care about this information at all, and only said: "It's just that the **** guerrillas are operating, don't care." And he went to sleep.

Since Master Shizuo ordered so, Chen Chuanjun naturally didn't care, so this night, the 74th Division could have taken advantage of the second column's unstable foothold to launch an attack to catch the second column by surprise, but this opportunity to put it on their lips was discarded by themselves.

This night, the 74th Division had a good night's sleep, which was called a refreshing one. However, all the officers and men of the Second Column were busy all night, seizing the commanding heights and rushing to repair the fortifications. So much so that Chen Chuanjun woke up the next morning and took a look only to find that something was wrong, where is this **** guerrilla, it is simply the regular army.

"What about the main force of ****? My 74th Division has never fought any battles, and the Japanese had to tremble three times when they saw us, and now the **** rushed up to death without any means, which is the best! ”

Zhang Lingfu still didn't care too much, but just ordered Chen Chuanjun's entire 51st Brigade to suppress the bandits, and he still stayed in Dawenkou Town without moving. Not only did he not move, but even another brigade under his command continued to rest in place, in Zhang Lingfu's words, waiting for the order of the military seat Tang Enbo, he was also preparing to go south to fight with the **** main force!

We all know that Zhang Lingfu doesn't have to go south, General Su is rushing with the main force, and the sixth, seventh, and ninth columns are also very close. The battle on October 18 was hardly worth mentioning, Chen Chuanjun led his 51st Brigade to carry out several attacks, but was soon beaten back by the Second Column, and it was not until dusk that Zhang Lingfu remembered to ask Chen Chuanjun about the results of this day, and when he heard that the Second Column had blocked the attack of the 51st Brigade and that there was no progress at the end of the day, he began to pay attention.

Of course, Zhang Lingfu's attention is just like that, he doesn't feel how dangerous his situation is, and he doesn't think that he has become the target of General Su. In his opinion, his 74th Division is extremely powerful, where is the **** dare to make up his mind, at that time, Zhang Lingfu was more inclined to the idea of **** in the reorganization of the 65th Division, after all, the 65th Division's poor combat effectiveness is more like a soft persimmon easy to pinch.

For Zhang Lingfu, the safety of the 65th Division has little to do with him, he expects that it is impossible for **** to eat the reorganized 65th Division in one day and one night, so it is dark now that it is better to go to bed early, and if you have enough spirits, you will go to save the 65th Division tomorrow morning.

So Zhang Lingfu and the 74th Division wasted another night, and the waste of this night was quite fatal. Because although the Second Column cut off the connection between the 74th Division and the 65th Division, it did not have the strength to surround the 74th Division, and if the 74th Division at this time took active action, it would have a way to go both west and south. And on this night, the Sixth and Seventh Columns rushed to the battlefield one after another, completely surrounding the 74th Division, which meant that Zhang Lingfu had no other choice but to defend it.

At six o'clock the next morning, Zhang Lingfu was woken up by an urgent telegram from Xue Yue and Tang Enbo, and Xue Yue told him that the **** main force was not found in the direction of the Second Corps, and it was suspected that the **** main force was still in Yimeng Mountain. And Tang Enbo told him that the reorganization of the 65th Division found that there were many enemies in the south, and at least three columns had appeared, so he could highly suspect that **** was preparing to fight a war of annihilation in the Dawen River and the Daqing River.

Although Tang Enbo did not point out who the **** target of the war of annihilation was, it was not obvious that it was lice on the bald head. So is Zhang Lingfu in a hurry at this time? To be honest, this General Zhang was not in a hurry at all, but was very happy, he laughed and said: "Originally, we had to go south to eliminate the ****, but now it's good, save this effort, they sent it to the door to find death!" (To be continued.) )