The order that Mr. Chen received about Liu Hai was to order Liu Hai to take the Eighth Division south to Fujian, and cooperate with Ye Fei of the Sanye Tenth Corps to attack Fuzhou, that is, the Battle of Fuzhou! The reason for the transfer of Liuhai to participate in the war was that after the battle of crossing the Yangtze River, the PLA liberated Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan and vast areas such as southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, western Zhejiang, northeastern Jiangxi, and northern Fujian. Liu Hai, who participated in the battles of Shanghai and Nanjing, did not follow the troops to the south quickly for various reasons, and the defeated Kuomintang army fortified the 6th, 22nd, 8th, and 12th corps in Fuzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, and the border areas of Fujian and Guangdong, in an attempt to prevent the People's Liberation Army from advancing to central and southern Fujian and shield Taiwan. In order to quickly liberate the whole country, the Central Military Commission ordered the Third Field Army to send effective troops to quickly march into Fujian and complete the task of liberating the southeastern mainland of China. Accordingly, the Third Field Army ordered the 10th Corps in the Suzhou area to march into Fujian and completely annihilate the remnants of the enemy in Fujian. Ye Fei, commander of the corps, and Wei Guoqing, political commissar of the corps, determined the general operational policy of taking Fuzhou first and liberating Zhangzhang and Xiamen later.

However, Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian Province, located in the lower reaches of the Minjiang River, adjacent to the important military port of Mawei, the Minjiang River runs through the southern part of the city, and there are large and small Beiling and Guling as barriers in the north and east. Zhu Shaoliang, director of the Kuomintang Fuzhou Pacification Office, and Li Yannian, commander of the 6th Corps, led about 60,000 men from 13 divisions of five armies to garrison the Fuzhou area. Chiang Kai-shek, president of the Kuomintang, went to Fuzhou to arrange additional fortifications, adjust troops, and strengthen defenses. Originally, it was planned to call in Zhoushan's planes to help in the war, but one night later, I received the news that Zhoushan Airport had been scrapped by communist artillery fire! Chiang Kai-shek, who was already on fire, couldn't understand that the communist army's artillery could hit Zhoushan Island, so in a fit of anger, he ordered Li Yannian to defend Fuzhou for half a year to protect Taiwan! Li Yannian felt that this was too, Tang Enbo's hundreds of thousands of troops couldn't hold Shanghai, so his 60,000 remnants of his army would be defeated and defend Fuzhou for half a year, but he didn't dare to say anything, he just asked for a lot of naval support, the first was to help the war, and the second was to ensure his retreat at sea! When Ye Fei was formulating the battle plan, he also discovered that the most important step in the Battle of Fuzhou was the blockade of the Minjiang River!

If the blockade of the Minjiang River is unfavorable, then the Kuomintang army can not only escape by sea, but also get reinforcements from the sea. This is not in keeping with the central strategy of liberating the whole of China! In order to achieve the operational goal, the blockade of the Minjiang River has become extremely important, but the artillery of the three fields has not yet come to integrate, and it is quite okay to strike at fixed targets on land and cooperate with offensive operations. In view of these reasons, Ye Fei sent a telegram requesting heavy firearms support so that he could quickly complete the Fujian campaign and completely annihilate this Kuomintang army.

After the decision of the meeting, Liu Hai in Shanghai became the first choice, especially Liu Hai's record in the war with the British on the Yangtze River, which made people very assured of his ability to hit water targets. Even the British were spanked with urine, not to mention the Kuomintang! Therefore, the Military Commission ordered the Eighth Division to quickly drive to Fuzhou to participate in the Battle of Fuzhou! However, Mr. Lin of the Northeast Bureau, who heard about this incident, specially sent a telegram to the Central Committee, expounding on the shortcomings in the use of our army's artillery fire, and suggesting that Liu Hai be given corresponding independence, only in this way can Liu Hai's artillery power be brought into play! Therefore, the order on the appointment does not indicate that Liu Hai should obey Ye Fei's command, or Chen Zong, who is directly under the jurisdiction of East China.

Liu Hai's first thought of this order was obedience, so he immediately ordered the whole division to prepare for battle and prepare to fight! After the preparations, the artillery and various supplies of the whole division began to get on the train and prepare to go south! Liu Hai sat in a carriage with his men, thinking about the battle while drinking, but he didn't expect an explosion to suddenly come from outside, and then the train derailed, fortunately, the terrain was gentle, the train driver was experienced, and it didn't cause much damage, but the cannon materials were scattered, and the people on the car were stunned, and more than a dozen were injured, and the ghost cannon was also broken arm! When Liu Hai and the others came down to take a look, they found that a section of railroad track in front of them had been blown off! "Report it quickly, all personnel will be on fire, protect the supplies, and if there are unknown people close to the train, they can be killed!" Liu Hai immediately ordered. This is obviously the enemy making trouble, what shocked Liu Hai was that the other party obviously learned his accurate marching time and prepared an attack on the way, so this matter can only be an explanation, there are still ghosts in the East China Military Region!

But the immediate thing is to ask for support, and find a way to transport these cannons and supplies to the periphery of Fuzhou as soon as possible, so as not to delay the offensive time of the Fuzhou Campaign! After the telegram was sent, the East China Military Region reacted quickly, concentrated a group of cars and troops to rush to support, and quickly restored Liuhai's marching ability! It's not a big deal, but it still affected the offensive time of the Fuzhou Campaign, so much so that Ye Fei postponed the offensive time, which made the Central Military Commission very dissatisfied, and Mr. Chen was criticized for this! The furious Mr. Chen ordered a thorough investigation of the leak!

Liu Hai, who had a false alarm, ordered to move forward at full speed, and finally rushed to the periphery of Fuzhou on the fourth day of the scheduled time! After Liu Hai saw Ye Fei, Ye Fei introduced to him the operational arrangements for the Battle of Fuzhou, Fuzhou adopted a pincer attack, first cutting off its land and sea retreat, and then destroying the encircled enemy. The deployment was: to use the 29th Army to make a long-distance detour from the right flank, wedge into the flank of the Fuzhou defenders, capture the key points of the Fuxia Highway, Honglu, Fuqing, and Changle, and cut off the enemy's escape route by land; With the 31st Army, it made a detour from the left flank, captured Danyang, Lianjiang, and Mawei, controlled the lower reaches of the Minjiang River, and cut off the enemy's escape route by sea; The 28th Army carried out a frontal assault, with two divisions advancing from the north bank of the Min River to Fuzhou, and one division advancing east along the south bank of the Min River to respond to the actions of the 29th Army and prevent the enemy from attacking from the north and south. If the defenders retreated to Mawei and Changle and fled from the small road, the 28th Army quickly occupied Fuzhou and continued to pursue eastward; If the defenders retreated south across the Minjiang River, the 29th Army resolutely blocked it, and the 28th Army and the 31st Army followed and pursued. The Third Field Army approved the above-mentioned determination of the 10th Corps, and decided to transfer the 63rd Division of the 21st Army of the 7th Corps to the command of the 31st Army to capture Ningde and Luoyuan and ensure the safety of the flanks and rear of the army, while Liu Hai followed the 31st Army to attack Danyang, Lianjiang, and Mawei in the front, and fully control the lower reaches of the Minjiang River in these three river sections, cutting off the foreign support and sea retreat of the Fujian defenders!

At this time, the gunboats and transport units of the Kuomintang Navy formed a fleet and formulated a reinforcement plan, that is, to use their maritime superiority to carry a group of troops to carry out landing operations along the Min River, in order to threaten the flank of the People's Liberation Army and break the PLA's attack plan, and the commander of this force was Colonel Luo Zhiguo of the Kuomintang. Luo Zhiguo is a British student, very proficient in naval operations, especially inland river operations and landing roundabout attacks are very attained, because Fujian is Taiwan's barrier, there is no room for mistakes, so this time Luo Zhiguo's strength is very strong, including two light destroyers, ten gunboats and four large troop carriers, such strength is not easy for the Kuomintang in the twilight! Luo Zhixiang, the commander of the Kuomintang Navy, guaranteed that he could land successfully, and gave the arrogant * a heavy slap in the face!

The reason for the rapid progress of the 31st Army is that the morale of the PLA is high and the tactical skills are proficient, and another reason is that most of the defensive forces in Fuzhou are composed of defeated and retreating remnants of the defeated generals, and their morale is low, and they have a fear of the PLA. According to the situation, Liu Hai divided his troops into three different battle groups and fortified them in the lower reaches of the Min River.

Luo Zhiguo is a very talented officer, before setting off to collect a lot of hydrological data about the Minjiang River, but also focused on the weather forecast put a lot of effort, after careful judgment, Luo Zhiguo is very confident that two days later, the Minjiang River will be foggy, he will take this opportunity, night attack on the Minjiang River, the next morning in the fog to break through the communist army's river defense, his own troop transport ship on the assault regiment ashore, as long as this assault regiment ashore, with the fastest speed to attack the periphery of Fuzhou Sanping Town! "Why do you want to attack Sanping Town, it's just a small town, it's worthless!" Luo Zhiguo's staff officer said. "That is where the greatest value of the Fuzhou battlefield lies, and the headquarters of Ye Fei of the Tenth Corps of the Communist Army is there!" Luo Zhiguo said. "How do you know?" The staff officer asked. "Hehe, I calculated it with I Ching gossip!" Luo Zhiguo said proudly, "Tell the brothers, give me all my life, if we can capture Ye Fei alive, then our credit will be great!" ”

"Tuanza!" As soon as one of the battalion commanders under the ghost artillery finished speaking, the ghost artillery kicked over, "How many times have I told you a king and eight calves, call the regiment commander, we are now the people's army, you just fucking owe a beating!" "Yes, yes, yes!" The battalion commander said embarrassedly, "That's the regiment commander, isn't your dragon arm injured, I want to go down to the river to catch a few fish to make up for you, what do you think?" "That's nice, you bunnies want to fight tooth sacrifices, don't you?" Ghost Cannon said. "No, no, no, the brothers really want to make up for you, don't worry, I'll go to the river in the morning, and when you have breakfast, this fish will be brought to the table for you!" The battalion commander said. "Go, go, let's play a few more, it's time for Lao Tzu to make up for it!" Ghost Cannon said. This battalion commander never thought that his sycophantic move would save the Eighth Division and the Battle of Fuzhou!