In the early morning of October 27, 1945, General Su knew that Huang Baitao had reached the point of exhaustion, but Qiu Qingquan's rapid arrival added variables to the battlefield. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and at this time the Central China Field Army as a whole was not easy, the pressure on all sides was very great, considering that the risks outweighed the benefits, General Su still decided to withdraw from the battlefield, and later he recalled: "When our army disengaged from the enemy, Huang Baitao was still frightened and did not dare to move. After the two enemies of Qiu and Ou were attacked back by us, they did not dare to advance again. However, our army jumped out at once and entered a predetermined position to rest and recuperate under the condition that the enemy was approaching from multiple sources. By the time the enemy found out the location of our troops, our troops had already rested for a week. ”

In other words, Huang Baitao escaped by luck. At that time, after confirming that there was no PLA around, Huang Baitao breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the whole army to immediately move closer to the integrated 5th Division, which showed that he was greatly frightened.

The only thing that caused some trouble to the retreating Central China Field Army was Qiu Qingquan, when General Su gave the Central Army. The commission sent such a telegram: "I had calmly left the battlefield, but I was forced to cover the battle because of the rush to transport the wounded; Due to the lack of stretchers and five combat experience, all the enemy planes ran out when strafing. In addition to the 5,000 wounded in the southern transportation who were received by Henan, Anhui and Suzhou, the 5,000 wounded in the northern transportation had no choice but to use various columns and field commanders to carry themselves on their own. The troops were already very tired, and they had to take care of the prisoners, carry the wounded, carry the guns, and play cover, which was quite disorderly. The Qiu bandits took the opportunity to chase after us, causing certain casualties to our army. ”

Qiu Qingquan finally saved a little face for his principal, but compared to the overall battle situation, this little face is simply not worth mentioning.

After the end of this vicious battle, General Su completely annihilated the enemy's two integrated divisions, a fast column, three security regiments, and a regular regiment at the cost of more than 33,000 casualties, accumulating more than 100,000 people. Among them, the 74th Division, one of the five main forces, was completely annihilated, which can be described as a brilliant achievement.

More importantly, because General Su fought very beautifully here, he also brought a reorganized division and a newly organized brigade in the direction of Xuzhou, as well as Huang Baitao's reorganized 25th Division in the eastern direction of Henan to Shandong, which greatly reduced the pressure on the battlefield in the Central Plains. Liu Deng's Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Field Army took advantage of the gap when the reorganized 25th Division was taken away, successfully drilled through the enemy's gap, annihilated the reorganized 63rd Division of the Third Corps, and liberated Puyang again, allowing Ou Zhen, the commander of the Third Corps who commanded the battle in Puyang, to flee in a hurry. If you count the previous Zhengtai Battle, in just half a month, nearly 200,000 people were annihilated, which is an unprecedented fiasco!

In order to stabilize people's minds and boost morale, the Ministry of National Defense did not mention the annihilated 74th Division, 63rd Division, 65th Division and other troops at all, but only seized on the fact that Huang Baitao was not completely annihilated to make a big fuss and publicize the so-called Tai'an victory. Jiang also specially awarded Huang Baitao the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun after the war. In contrast, Qiu Qingquan, who was transferred back and forth throughout the campaign, and fought the hardest, became a guilty person. In fact, throughout the campaign, the Ministry of Defense continued to have people around Chiang to slander Qiu Qingquan, and those two letters are very telling. As a result, Qiu Qingquan did not receive an invitation at all at the Zhujie meeting of Tai'an's great victory.

However, Huang Baitao was still righteous, and when he accepted the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal, he said: In this battle, he just fulfilled the duties of a soldier, and what really changed the direction of the battle was Qiu Qingquan's timely arrival. However, it is useless to say it, the old man is angry, and the matter is very serious. directly caused Qiu Qingquan to pick his son in a fit of anger and said that he was sick and went back to his hometown to recuperate.

Just when Qiu Qingquan claimed to be loyal to the party-state framed by traitors and sighed for a long time, Xuzhou Xingyuan held a warm (or tragic) celebration of victory, and also announced "accurate" statistics on the results of the battle, boasting that more than 200,000 bandits had been killed or wounded, more than 10,000 bandits were captured alive, and 300 million rounds of guns and ammunition of various kinds were seized. Of course, only the Ministry of Defense in Nanjing knows how bad the real situation is.

However, the party-state elites at that time were not particularly nervous, because although they had lost nearly 100,000 people in Shandong, the reorganized troops in the Jianghuai region would soon be able to fill the vacancies, and the next battle would not be impossible to fight. It was even judged that the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army had lost the ability to continue fighting for at least half a year.

It is a pity that the reality is quite a slap in the face, only a month later, the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army jointly launched the Jinan Campaign again, and within only 10 days, they annihilated the integrated 96th Army (under the jurisdiction of the 2nd and 84th Divisions and an independent brigade) and the 73rd Division led by Wang Yaowu, director of the Jinan Appeasement Office, with a total of about 110,000 people including 3 integrated divisions, 9 regular brigades, 5 security brigades, and special forces, so that Jinan, which had just been "recovered" by the People's Party for just over a month, changed hands again.

Then only a month and a half later, just as the Lunar New Year was approaching, General Su Dayou used the classic siege tactics to make a good start in the eastern Henan battlefield, first recovering Kaifeng, attracting Ou Shounian to come to the rescue, and annihilated three integrated divisions, an integrated brigade and several security regiments after the first battle. That is to say, in less than half a year, the People's Party lost nearly 400,000 troops in eastern Henan and Shandong, and the situation on the battlefield was completely changed.

This is only the results of the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army (later merged into the East China Field Army), in the northern Henan and south-central Hebei generation, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army also won successive victories, and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army began to fight on the outside line, spreading the war to northern Hubei, luring a large number of living forces of the People's Party Army to accompany them in circles. As of May 1946, nearly 300,000 Kuomintang troops had been wiped out on this battlefield. That is to say, just one year after the Liberation War began, Jiang lost nearly a million troops, and at this time, Lin Shuai's troops in the northeast also completed the integration, and hundreds of thousands of troops began to pour into the Guannei and began a strategic counteroffensive.

Of course, these are all later words, so I won't mention them for the time being. At the end of October 1945, because of the successive victories in the Chinese War, the Soviet Union was also in a very good mood. Before, when nearly 30 integrated divisions of the Kuomintang army poured into Shandong and Hebei in one fell swoop, the Soviet side was very worried, and the difference between the strength of the enemy and us was still quite obvious.

But I didn't expect the T Communist Party to be so powerful, and in a month, it killed nearly 200,000 Kuomintang troops, and according to such efficiency, Jiang's 30 reorganization divisions could not hold out for a year. And at least judging from the current situation, the all-out offensive of the Scraping People's Party is already weak, and most of North China and the northern liberated areas of Shandong have been saved, and the situation is not bad!

So the government. The situation in China was immediately fundamentally changed, and he believed that Li Xiaofeng's previous judgment was correct, and that the revolution in China was indeed promising. However, it was not all good news for the Soviet Union at that time, and in Turkey and Yugoslavia, the Red Army was in trouble.

Let's start with Turkey, which has finally recovered from a series of fiascos in September, after receiving a large amount of US aid, and although it will not launch a counterattack, it will not be in a complete passivity like the previous three months. Although the Red Army surrounded Istanbul, the attack on the new Roman city was not ideal, the resistance of the Turks was very fierce, and the Red Army did not intend to blow the city into ruins like Berlin, so the attack was naturally frustrated. And this gave the Turks time to fully mobilize for war, and more and more Turks joined the army, and in three months Turkey mobilized about half a million people to join the army, and this mobilization continued, if the Soviet Union failed to achieve the objectives of the campaign for a long time, I am afraid that it will be dragged into a protracted war. At least Vasilevsky has made it clear to the army. Reinforcements were needed.

It was not going well on the Turkish side, and the Yugoslav side was in trouble. Although the Soviet Red Army has basically achieved its goal of expelling the Yugoslav People's Army from Kosovo, this does not mean that Tito will surrender softly, on the contrary, Tito has also called on the Yugoslav people to enter a state of emergency and is also expanding its armaments. Not only to prepare for war, Tito also sent a large number of guerrillas to Kosovo to harass the CIS peacekeeping forces, although they did not cause too many casualties, but you know, guerrilla warfare is the most annoying.

In order to solve these two thorny problems, the political . The Governance Bureau held a plenary meeting. At the meeting, Sverdlov said: "It is necessary to increase the number of troops, to intensify efforts, and to force Turkey and Yugoslavia to submit as soon as possible." ”

There is nothing wrong with this proposal in principle, but there is much controversy about how many troops should be increased and to what extent. Because according to Sverdlov's intentions, the intensity of the increase in troops will be aimed at the destruction of Turkey and Yugoslavia, which is too great. At least Li Xiaofeng doesn't support this.

Li Xiaofeng believes that it is not realistic to swallow Turkey, and the intensity of this hatred is too great, so that those extreme YSL terrorists will target the Soviet Union and constantly make trouble with the Soviet Union. Although the Soviet Union was not too afraid of such small troubles, it was quite annoying to have too many small troubles, wasn't it? Not to mention the fact that the only enemy of the USSR was the United States, and now is the most urgent time to catch up with the United States, and too much energy cannot be expended on irrelevant issues.

As for Yugoslavia, Li Xiaofeng always believed that it was a communist. Problems within the industrialist camp, although Tito is sometimes quite blind, but after all, he can still be regarded as his own person, and even his own people have to be eradicated quickly, which is really a bit too much. And with Tito's urine, it's not easy to shoot him to death. How long did this thing deal with the Nazis in World War II? Now that he has been trained into an old fritter, where can he be killed all at once.

Li Xiaofeng thought that Tito still had to fight while talking, and slowly exert pressure, and not push him too quickly, if he was forced too hard, wouldn't it be worth the loss to drive him to the side of the Americans?

So Li Xiaofeng's suggestion is: "The Turkish direction can increase troops, but a timetable must be set, and after taking control of the Black Sea straits, it is necessary to stop more in-depth large-scale military operations." Fostering local anti-Turkish forces is the first priority. The Red Army had to withdraw to the country in a planned way. We cannot turn this local war into a full-scale war, our economic situation is not optimistic, and we cannot afford to waste time and money on Turkey during this precious recovery period...... As for Yugoslavia, from the very beginning our aim was to maintain peace in Kosovo, so military operations cannot go beyond this line, and once the line is crossed, the form of the war will change radically and will turn into an imperialist war of aggression. Comrades, our intention was not to annex Yugoslavia, which would have a bad effect, but our task was only to get Tito to abandon the extremely unequal and bloody national policy, and not to fight like a robber and occupy the neighbor's own land! ”

Sverdlov naturally didn't like this tone, for he could only realize his ambitions for a world revolution by launching an all-out fight, and it was really unpleasant for someone to be beaten like this. But what is more embarrassing is that his opinions are always not mainstream, for example, on the Yugoslav issue. There has always been an important voice in the governance of the situation -- that is, not to meet Tito's arms. After all, everyone is a system, and even if Tito's work on some issues does not satisfy the Soviet Union, from the perspective of Yugoslavia, it is understandable. Tito should not be beaten to death with a stick, he should be given a certain opportunity, and now that the military action has proved that Tito cannot be brought to his knees, it is time to change political means to negotiate a settlement of the dispute.

The loss is that Li Xiaofeng believes that it is not the time to negotiate, so this voice cannot influence politics. Otherwise, Sverdlov would have been even more embarrassed.

After a few hours of discussion, the political . In the end, the government decided to send an additional army group to Turkey in order to take Istanbul as soon as possible. As for Yugoslavia, only one or two infantry divisions will be added, and the main thing will be to control the situation in Kosovo, and it is not allowed to cross Kosovo to attack the Yugoslav People's Army. Of course, Kosovo's Red Air Force will also be strengthened, allowing the Air Force to take on more surveillance and strike missions.

Sverdlov was naturally not satisfied with this result, but there was nothing he could do. And the other party, Tito, also felt embarrassed by this result, of course, he was not looking forward to the Soviet Union's increase in troops, he was not so brain-dead, with the strength of the Yugoslav People's Army, it was really going to be an all-out battle, and the frontal battle was definitely not the opponent of the Soviet Red Army, and he could only use guerrilla tactics to maneuver. Although the Yugoslav People's Army had rich experience in guerrilla warfare, this did not mean that Tito was willing to go out and fight the Soviet Union.

Tito was a very practical person, and the reason why he went against the Soviet Union was that the Soviet Union hindered Yugoslavia's international interests and even touched Yugoslavia's core interests. Tito's idea was to let the Russians retreat in the face of difficulties, and to fight with the Russians partially, but to start a full-scale war was to die.

Tito did not want to die, he wanted to deal a certain blow to the Soviet Union and let them know Yugoslavia's determination to preserve Kosovo. Then the problem is resolved through negotiation. And now, the Russians have neither started a full-scale fight, but they have not said that they are ready to leave, which will keep the armed conflict between the two sides going on. This can be said to be the worst result, long-term attrition, of course, the Soviet Union will be very uncomfortable, but Yugoslavia will not be comfortable, now is the time to rebuild the homeland and resume production, such a dozen, what is Yugoslavia talking about recovery and development?

Moreover, if this conflict is indefinitely protracted, it is very likely that it will really lead to Kosovo's independence, and if the Soviet Union really recognizes Kosovo's independence as soon as it is annoyed, this trouble will continue for a longer time, or it will be a bloody conflict for dozens or hundreds of years. Naturally, this is not what Tito wanted to see.

But what made Tito very difficult was that at this time, the initiative of war or peace was no longer in his hands, so let him take the initiative to sue for peace and surrender to the Russians? There is only one outcome, which is the recognition of the so-called autonomy of the Kosovo Albanians. He understands this routine too well, today is autonomy, tomorrow is independence, and Tito will never agree to this. What's more, Kosovo's autonomy may cause a chain reaction, the Albanians want autonomy, the Croats want autonomy or not, and after the Croats are self-governing, will the Serbs and Muslims follow suit. Everyone is self-governing, Yugoslavia is still playing!

So Tito really has a headache, whether he fights or not, none of the results are favorable to him, and he is really entangled at this time.

And when Tito was most entangled, the spoilers jumped out again, and the Americans condemned the Soviet Union's barbaric aggression against Yugoslavia and Turkey, and on the other hand, called on peace-loving and freedom-loving people all over the world to support Yugoslavia and Turkey in fighting to the end.

Of course, it would be normal for the Americans to say nothing if they just said this, but please note that the Americans then said: "Tito is a good friend of the American people, and the American people will always stand by Tito's side!" We believe that Tito will become a bridgehead in southern Europe against the brutal expansion of the Soviet Union! ”

Well, the meaning of the latter remarks is completely different, from a diplomatic point of view, this seems to be the suspicion that the United States and Yugoslavia wear the same pants, and it is completely suspicious that Tito has fully surrendered to the United States and is ready to act as a lackey of the United States to block the Soviet Union. For the Soviet Union, this absolutely needed to be taken seriously, and if it was a little more domineering, it could beat Tito with a stick without saying a word.

So now there is a key question, did Tito really take his refuge in the Americans? The answer, of course, is no, that Tito could not completely surrender to either the Soviet Union or the United States, and if he wanted to guarantee the independence of Naslavia, this principle had to be leveled.

Since Tito has not completely defected to the United States, then the United States' remarks are Chiguo's sowing discord. If Tito doesn't want to fall into the pit, then he'd better get rid of it quickly. But puzzlingly, Tito didn't do that? Why? (To be continued.) )