Don't look at Huang Baitao's troubles along the way, but his speed is really not slow, he completed the assembly on October 19, and arrived in Feicheng on the afternoon of the 21st, which is not fast. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info at this time can be said to be a very exciting node, the enemy and us gathered 10 armies south of Tai'an nearly 400,000 troops, it was already inextricably fought, at this time suddenly there was another Huang Baitao, it can be said that a drop of water fell into the boiling oil pot, can it not be fried?

Therefore, General Su also had to re-examine the layout of the battle situation. At this time, the 74th Division had suffered heavy losses, three regiments were completely annihilated, and two regiments were severely damaged, and only four regiments were still stubbornly resisting in an extremely narrow area. The most conservative estimate is that this ace army will be annihilated in two days at most.

However, the situation on the battlefield at this time was that General Su's main force surrounded the 74th Division, and the 65th and 83rd Divisions to the north of this encirclement, the 5th Division to the west, the Ou Shounian Corps to the south, and the 25th Division of Huang Baitao to the northwest were encircling them. What's more, whether it is Tang Enbo in the north or Wang Jingjiu in the east, they still have the spare strength to increase their troops on the battlefield, and the situation really cannot be said to be optimistic.

However, in this not optimistic situation, General Su made an astonishing decision, drawing a column from the three columns besieging the 74th Division, and attacking north with the 10th Column, which had previously served as a reserve, to encircle and annihilate the 65th Division or the 83rd Division in the north. In other words, General Su did not intend to accept it at this time, but took the initiative to attack and prepare to expand the results. To be honest, it was a bold decision. Because the enemy in the north is very strong, not only the 65th and 83rd Divisions, which are well preserved, but also the 7th Army, the 48th Division, and the 57th Division near Jinan. In this way, with the strength of the second, sixth, and tenth columns, can the enemy's three integrated divisions be eaten?

To be honest, it will definitely not be eaten, but General Su believes that it will not take long to annihilate the 74th Division, at most it will be a matter of more than ten hours, once the 74th Division is annihilated, the Ninth Column and the Seventh Column will be liberated, and it is completely possible to stop Huang Baitao and Ou Shounian. As for not being able to use three columns to encircle and annihilate the three integrated divisions, General Su didn't want to do so, what he wanted to do was to use two columns to eat the integrated 65th Division, and the other column to block the integrated 83rd Division and another integrated division of the People's Party Army that might go south for reinforcements.

Through the fighting in the past few days, General Su has basically counted the combat effectiveness of the Scraping People's Party Army, and a reorganized division of the Scraping Army is probably equivalent to the combat effectiveness of a division and regiment of the Japanese army, and this has to be the descendant of the central government, and as for the miscellaneous reorganized division, I am afraid that it is only equivalent to the brigade and regiment strengthened by the Japanese army. In the previous period, at the end of the war against Japan, the New Fourth Army under the command of General Su had already had the combat experience of annihilating the Japanese army brigades and regiments in a structured manner, and he was already well aware of this level of operation. Moreover, the previous battles also showed that it was a bit wasteful to fight the 74th Division and put three columns, and this small battlefield could not accommodate so many troops, so it was better to let them act actively than to make some troops stupid.

On the night of the 21st, General Su adjusted his deployment, and General Wang Bicheng's sixth column was pulled out of the battlefield and suddenly went north, inserted from the junction of the integrated 65th Division and the integrated 83rd Division, and conquered 13 villages in a row in one night, initially cutting off the contact between the enemy, and then the second column also turned to the offensive, while the 10th column entangled Li Tianxia's integrated 83rd Division, and a new encirclement and annihilation battle began!

At this time, Huang Baitao was heading in the direction of Tai'an, but he didn't know that at 11 o'clock that night, the pretentious Zhang Lingfu had been killed by PLA in Dawenkou Town, and the reorganized 74th Division was almost annihilated in addition to a few three-legged cats. Also killed were Cai Renjie, deputy division commander, and Lu Xing, commander of the 58th Brigade, while Wei Zhenyue, chief of staff of the 74th Division, Li Yunliang, deputy chief of staff, Chen Chuanjun, commander of the 51st Brigade, and Chen Shuyun, commander of the 57th Brigade, were captured. The 74th Division, which had nearly 40,000 men, disappeared in this way.

The 74th Division was wiped out, which made General Su also breathe a sigh of relief, and in this battle, more than 30,000 enemies were annihilated, and a large amount of materials and weapons and equipment were captured, especially the more than 100 ten-wheeled trucks, which were enough to make the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army faster. Of course, what made General Su even happier was that the Fourth Column, which had been dealing with the enemy in eastern Henan for a generation, was about to return to the battlefield, and he could let go of the next step of the operation. That night, he ordered the Seventh Column and the Eighth Column to leave the battlefield, with the two main divisions of the Seventh Column going to the mountains west of Tai'an to set up blocking positions, and the other division temporarily transferred to the Sixth Column for use to eliminate the reorganized 65th Division. The Eighth Column went south in the starry night to set up positions in the area of Surabaya and wait for the Shounian Corps.

Looking back at the reorganized 65th Division, the division was originally a miscellaneous card, and its combat effectiveness was a cut below that of the 74th Division (only three brigades and six regiments), and it had suffered certain losses in trying to relieve the 74th Division, and the troops were relatively tired. After the division of the Sixth Column was completed, the division almost completely retreated back to Tai'an City, relying on the city wall and other city fortifications to confront the Sixth Column and the Tenth Column. Li Zhen, the commander of the division, felt that the PLA on the opposite side was very powerful, and it was impossible to bargain in the field battle, so he simply shrank up and blocked the city gate of Tai'an and prepared to hold it to the end.

And this decision made one person angry, that is, Zhang Huaiyuan, the 7th chariot company of the People's Party. Zhang Huaiyuan's 7th Tank Company was not assigned to the integrated 65th Division (miscellaneous cards did not have this treatment), this tank company was assigned to Zhang Lingfu, but it was stationed in Tai'an before. Now Li Zhenzi is trapped in the dead place, and he has to block the city gate, which is equivalent to making all the chariots (tanks) useless (can't get out).

However, for Zhang Huaiyuan, the worse is still to come, Li Zhen, a turtle-like scraping officer who has basically no experience in using armored troops, does not know the principle of centralized use of armored troops, not only blocked the city gate, but also ordered the seventh chariot company to be dismantled and used, and also transported the tank to the city wall with great effort to be used as a fixed fire point.

In fact, this is not Li Zhen's invention and creation, as early as a few months ago in the battle of Shangdang, Yan Laoxi's troops drove tanks to the city wall, but the outcome of that time was very bad, the tanks at the head of the city were quickly blown up by PLA firepower, which was equivalent to giving away the head in vain.

Unexpectedly, Li Zhen did not learn the lesson of the last time at all and repeated this feat again. As the saying goes: a smart person will never fall twice in the same place. Of course, Li Zhen can also say that a smart person will never dare to walk because of a fall. It's just that General Wang Bicheng is afraid that he will comment: An ignorant and fearless person will never dare to fall in the second place because he fell for the first time.

Therefore, under the strict order of Division Commander Li, in order to prove that the brothers of the chariot unit are also revolutionary soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice, Zhang Huaiyuan insisted on transporting the tank to the city wall with the help of the engineer unit, but the city wall of Tai'an is relatively narrow, and the tank basically cannot move when it goes up.

At the beginning, in the face of the reconnaissance attack of the Sixth Column, these tanks also played a certain role, and the tankers turned on the headlights to illuminate the snow in front of the position, and then the guns and artillery were fired in unison, and soon the "Tu Eighth Road" was sent back. It's just that after the Sixth and Tenth Columns launch a general attack, this trick will not work.

Putting aside the situation of the reorganization of the 65th Division for the time being, Jiang someone, who had been anxiously waiting for the situation on the battlefield in Shandong in Nanjing, could not sit still, and in order to understand the actual situation and to supervise the battle, Jiang took a special plane to Xuzhou. After arriving in Xuzhou, Jiang immediately convened a meeting of senior generals. Because at this time, the news of the annihilation of the 74th Division had already come back, and according to the report of the pilots of the Scraping Air Force, there was no longer gunfire in the encirclement, and a large number of PLAs were cleaning the battlefield.

Although Jiang didn't want to believe that the elite 74th Division was finished in just five days, he had to bow his head in the face of the facts. At this time, it was meaningless to talk about rescuing the 74th Division, and whether he could use the precious time won by the 74th Division to surround the main force of the Central China Field Army was what he was most concerned about.

In the face of the sudden old man, in fact, the generals of Xuzhou also had a little headache, because this battle was too ugly, and the 74th Division was eaten whole just now, which was simply a blow to the head, so when facing Jiang someone, all the generals of the scraping army, including Chen Cheng, first kept saying: "I didn't expect PLA to act so quickly!" Then he said: "Although our 74th Division was outnumbered and unfortunately the whole army was martyred, it also inflicted heavy casualties on PLA and annihilated more than 100,000 enemies. PLA who has suffered heavy losses will inevitably be unable to fight again, so they can only flee in all directions! ”

Although there is a lot of water in this statement, it also represents the voice of the generals of the Scraping Army, who basically believe that the Central China Field Army will inevitably suffer great losses in the 74th Division, and will inevitably lose the ability to continue fighting, so they can only retreat or flee. In other words, their judgment of the battlefield situation at this time was wrong, and the battle plan for the next stage drawn up was naturally divorced from reality.

According to Chen Cheng's suggestion, Xue Yue and Du Yuming came up with a multi-channel action plan to pursue PLA, and were ready to boldly invest troops to expand the search area and pursue PLA with all their might.

At first, Jiang was satisfied with this plan, and after admonishing Chen Cheng and other generals, he flew back to Nanjing on the same day. It's just that Jiang got off the plane on the front foot, and received an urgent telegram from Wang Yaowu on the back foot - the reorganized 65th Division was surrounded, and Tai'an was in danger!

Immediately, Jiang broke out, because the actual situation and the prediction on paper are fundamentally different, and the previous plan to suppress bandits is still useless. He immediately ordered Chen Cheng, Xue Yue, and Du Yuming to immediately come to the Nanjing Ministry of National Defense to hold a meeting to discuss the next step of the battle strategy.

The meeting was held in the evening of the same day, and at the beginning of the meeting, Hou Teng, director of the Second Department (Intelligence) of the Ministry of National Defense, reported on the battle situation and judgment: "The enemy will contain our army with a strong force of one or two divisions, and the main force has the intention of encircling and annihilating the reorganized 65th Division." ”

It should be said that this report is in line with the actual situation, but it is an erroneous estimate of General Su's strength, and he believes that General Su only has four columns at hand, while the actual situation is that General Su has seven columns. It is believed that the 65th, 83rd, 25th, 48th, 5th, 75th, and 70th integrated divisions, plus the new 21st Brigade, the traffic police, and the 1st Rapid Column, a total of about 9 integrated divisions, have a multiplied advantage. As long as the reorganized 65th Division continues to hold on and attract the attention of General Su, it will be able to fight a war of annihilation in one fell swoop. Moreover, considering that the reorganized 65th Division and the reorganized 83rd Division are very close to each other and can support each other, it should not be a problem to hold on.

Jiang was quite satisfied with this plan, but just advised: "We must wipe out all pla!" ”

Later, according to the usual practice, Jiang began to sum up the lessons and boost morale: "Many people at home and abroad think that the army generals are corrupt and incompetent, and this is purely a communist. As a result of the propaganda of the party, it is better to stop slander than self-study, and I hope that all generals will take the lead in setting an example, be particularly honest and serious, and handle managers and hygiene well. The generals of our army should be resolute and resolute, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and if they unfortunately fail, they should be honored on the spot to 'become benevolent'. Being captured is the most shameful thing, and it is better to die than to be humiliated in life. ”

Of course, here Jiang also specifically proposed to sum up more lessons and lessons, and hoped that all the generals could put forward good opinions or suggestions to him. It's just that almost no one takes Lao Jiang's words as true, and most of the generals' opinions are empty words that are divorced from reality, for example, Xu Peigen, the director of education of the Army University, talked about the theory that encirclement is better than breaking through, and at that time, the senior communist spy Guo Rugui ridiculed in his diary: "PLA does not have a fixed front, it is to fight if you win, and if you can't win, you will leave, they will not accept the attack, and there is no ghost to go, what do you break through?" When they win the battle, they always concentrate their forces on the weak points of the scraping army and attack them sharply, and the battle is over before you can gain a foothold, so what can you break through? ”

However, it is not that no one pointed out the fundamental problems of the Scraping People's Party, for example, Sheng Jiaxing, the general of the Yunnan Army, said: "The **** army and the people are unanimous, respect the interests of the people, strict discipline, clear about the situation of our army, flexible and ingenious tactics, strong combat effectiveness, and strong spirit of sacrifice. It is necessary to imitate the first economic openness, cherish the soldiers, and be disciplined in order to improve morale; It is necessary to learn to strengthen reconnaissance, flexibly use strategy and tactics, and resolutely attack, so that officers can improve their combat effectiveness only when they charge ahead......"

It should be said that this is a piece of advice, but Jiang was furious when he saw it, saying that Sheng Jiaxing had been spiritually shared. The industrial party was captured, and angrily rebuked the secretariat: "How can such a thing be printed and distributed without study? It's just brainless and irresponsible! ”

It can be seen that Jiang doesn't really want to sum up any lessons, it's just a passing scene, so the repeated defeats of the army in the back, and the lessons and lessons have summed up a bunch of things that don't work, and if you really dare to tell the truth and dare to talk about reality, there is no market.

It's just that Jiang doesn't talk about reality and doesn't respect reality, that's his own business, and General Su won't be polite to him. Just when Jiang was busy criticizing Sheng Jiaxing, the reorganized 65th Division had been surrounded in Tai'an, and it actually proved that the so-called high walls and deep pools could not stop PLA.

The 6th and 10th columns concentrated their firepower and opened a breakthrough on the city wall in only one morning, and the tanks that were transported to the city wall before were either destroyed in the fierce artillery fire or captured by the PLA fighters who rushed up, and Zhang Huaiyuan, the commander of the tank company, did not forget to scold Li Zhen in the prisoner of war camp, which shows how angry he was.

In fact, Li Zhen did have a big problem, when he arranged the defense before, he was careless, thinking that there was a city wall and a trench outside the city to block the pla, so the defense layout in the city was very lax, but after his troops concentrated on the front line were broken through, there was a situation where the scraping army repeatedly appeared in the War of Resistance, the defense lacked elasticity and lack of depth, and the first line was strong, but once the first line collapsed, the entire defense line was finished. It can be said that the Sixth Column and the Tenth Column rushed into Tai'an by cutting melons and vegetables, and cut the 65th Division into eight pieces, Li Zhen himself found that he had really done a stupid thing (blocking the city gate) after a period of hasty resistance, and now he couldn't run away, so he had to raise his hand and surrender.

In other words, just after the Kuomintang held a military conference in Nanjing and formulated the next battle plan, the plan went bankrupt again. The integrated 65th Division, which was supposed to be used as a bait, was eaten in just one day, and without the bait of the integrated 65th Division, how could the next drama of the scraping army be sung?

Some comrades may want to say, isn't there still a reorganized 83rd Division? Hehe, you are wrong, Li Tianxia is not an ordinary chicken thief, when Zhang Lingfu and the 74th Division were destroyed, he realized that PLA was no longer what it used to be, so instead of moving closer to the integrated 65th Division in the direction of Tai'an, he took the initiative to recycle and withdraw the troops to the front line of Jinan. In other words, this goods ran away directly!

Of course, it was right to run away at this time, because if Li Tianxia didn't run, then his reorganized 83rd Division would definitely be General Su's third target, and it was precisely because he ran so fast that General Su sighed a little -- what a good piece of fat, just left, it's a pity.

At this time, General Su held seven columns, but there was no enemy around, which was as lonely as snow. The battle has just begun, and the big guy has just finished warming up, so you can't just rest, right?

Looking around, there are still four reorganization divisions in the north of Tang Enbo's department, and the hedgehogs are gathered together, which is very difficult to fight. Qiu Qingquan's reorganized 5th Division in the east is still relatively far away, and there may be no chance of rushing to the past to encircle, while the Ou Shounian Corps in the south is relatively weak, with only two reorganized divisions and one reorganized brigade, but it is also relatively far away, and the variables are too great. Soon, Huang Baitao's integrated 25th Division, the Third Fast Column and the Second Traffic Police Corps entered the sight of General Su. (To be continued.) )