In September 1948, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting of the Politburo in Xibaipo. At this meeting, the generals of the Northeast Field Army looked serious. After confirming that they would fight the Kuomintang reactionaries to a strategic decisive battle, and the direction was set to be under the control of our army, everyone's opinions were divided.
"Close the Dog" vs. Siege Points to Fight the Dogs
In Chairman Mao's judgment , East Ye should go south to Beining Line, first hit Jinzhou , , and Lin Biao and others tend to from north to south to fight the points to Fight the points, successively took Changchun, Shenyang and Jinzhou.
Central of the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting of the Politburo in Xibaipo
"Close the door and fight the dog" is a kind of annihilation tactic created by Chairman Mao. During the implementation of this tactic, can completely close the enemy on the established battlefield, and wipe out the enemy by compressing the battlefield space step by step.
Take the Liaoshen battlefield as an example. If this tactic is used, the main force in the East Field Army needs to go south to the Beining Line, first eliminate the defending enemy in Jinzhou and control Jinzhou. Because this city is the "land throat" that connects the inner and outer gates of the pass. Once Jinzhou is captured, the enemies in the Liaoshen region will be "unable to escape".
Chairman Mao is a military master
surround the point to attack aid is also a common strategy used by the older generation of revolutionaries such as Chairman Mao. When implementing it, needs to surround the enemy with secondary forces and will definitely reinforce cities or key points. After attracting the aid foe, concentrate troops to annihilate the aid foe. also takes the Liaoshen battlefield as an example. If you want to surround and attack aid, the secondary troops in the East Field Army need to surround and attack Changchun, attract enemies from Shenyang and even Jinzhou to help, and weaken the national army defending Shenyang and Jinzhou. Defeat one by one from north to south.
Liaoshen Battle Scene Restore
From the results, "Close the Dog" and Clover the Dogs and Clover can both achieve the liberation of the entire Northeast region, , but if you analyze it carefully, there are actually big differences between the two. "Close the door and beat the dog" can directly eliminate all the Kuomintang reactionary troops guarded by the Northeast. prevents the enemy from moving south into the pass, causing the burden on the enemy to be increased in other strategic areas.
. Although is relatively safe to attack , it will delay the process of Northeast liberation. If the enemy is at a disadvantage, there is a high probability that it will enter the level and continue to rush and resist stubbornly.
People's Liberation Army Charges and Sieges
From the strategic interests of the entire army, it is obvious that "closing the door and beating the dog" is more appropriate. After decided to implement the "close the door and fight the dog", Chairman Mao sent a telegram on September 7, which clearly stated:
"must annihilate the enemy from Jinzhou to Tangshan in September and October or a little more time, and conquer the points of Jinzhou, Yuguan and Tangshan."
"Close the door and fight the dog". After the magic brush
reaches strategic unification, needs to learn more about the enemy's situation. After repeated investigations, our army noticed that the enemy was distributed very densely on the Jinyu section of the Beining Line and the scale of the troops should not be underestimated. This means that the upcoming Jincheng battle may be a fierce battle.
enemy troops before and after the Liaoshen Campaign
But the so-called "arrows on the string, they have to be fired", after repeated deliberation and consideration, the People's Liberation Army units of Northeastern region decided that should use 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 11 columns, , and 4 Independent Divisions as the main combat units, and attack the enemies guarding Jinzhou and surrounding towns with all their strength. During the process, they should first encircle and annihilate the enemies on major isolated strongholds in Yixian and Jinzhou-Changli in the Beining Line to disperse the attention of the enemies in the main city of Jinzhou.
takes advantage of the enemy's panic and then launches an attack on Jinxi, Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan or Chengde . In addition, the enemies in Changchun and Shenyang also need to be vigilant. The command center assembles the remaining 1, 2, 13 columns and 12 columns and 9 independent divisions, and they will deal with the enemies in Shenyang and Changchun respectively.
The National Army on the Liaoshen battlefield has been clearly deployed, and the soldiers are waiting for the command center to issue specific combat instructions. On September 12, 1948, the warheads of received instructions for action. Chairman Mao’s room was flashing, and the topographic map of the Liaoshen region was spread out on the table. He was waiting for the good news to make targeted subsequent deployments.
From 2 to the next month, good news came from the various warheads of : the
11 column captured Changli and its areas west of; the
4, 6 and 8 columns completely cut off the contact between the enemies in Jinzhou and Tangshan by encircling and annihilation of the enemies in Xingcheng and other places;
Then the 4th column and the 9th column met, stepped directly between Yixian and Jincheng, and successfully surrounded Yixian;
and then the 4th column continued to act, annihilated part of the enemy in the northeast of Xingcheng, successfully blocking the connection between Xingcheng and Jinxi;
and then the 4th column continued to act, annihilated part of the enemy in the northeast of Xingcheng, and successfully blocked the connection between Xingcheng and Jinxi;
7 Column interspersed from Siping , and jointly captured Tashan, Gaoqiao and Xihaikou with the 4th Column...
Chairman Mao had excellent military command capabilities
and so on On October 1, after the 5th Division of the 2nd Column jointly won Yixian , the entire Liaoxi Corridor except Jinzhou and Jinxi, the other town strongholds were conquered. The enemy of the two Jinjin was isolated and had no help, and the situation was very critical.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Nanjing, could no longer sit still. He flew to Shenyang by plane and decided to command the battle himself. Under his deployment, the Kuomintang army in the Northeast region was divided into two groups, and attacked from both east and west directions, targeting Zhangwu and Tashan, and attempted to cut off our army's supply line and rescue the enemy in Jinzhou.
National Army on the Liaoshen battlefield
After Chairman Mao learned of the enemy's movements, he telegrammed Dongye:
"You should take advantage of the current critical opportunity when the enemy in Changchun has not been dispatched and the enemy in Shenyang dare not support Jin alone. Concentrate the main force and quickly capture Jinzhou. This plan should not be changed."
Dongye, in accordance with Chairman Mao's instructions, weighed the pros and cons, and drew two columns from Changchun and Shenyang to participate in the battle, and at the same time, redeployed the remaining troops in Changchun and Shenyang.
Tongye conducted a dispatch of troops
On October 9, Tongye launched an attack on the outer positions of Jincheng. On 4, troops were at the city and launched a general attack on Jincheng. Among them, the vanguard squad of the assault company of the 61st Regiment of the 7th Column took the lead in climbing the city wall of Jincheng. In less than two hours, it was the first to break into the enemy's core position, directly cutting off the enemy's defense system.
This column with a relatively thin foundation has created a good start for the Jincheng victory (for details, please refer to the article "The 7th Column has a thin foundation, but has a good commander, and the limelight once overshadowed the "Three Tigers" under General Lin's command").
0000 enemies in the battle to conquer Jinzhou, after the battle of
After 231 hours of fierce fighting in , our army successfully captured Jincheng. has killed more than 100,000 enemies in total. At this point, the basic situation of "closing the door and fighting the dog" has been stable. On October 17, Changchun 4 Changchun Kuomintang defenders commander Zeng Zesheng led his troops to declare an uprising, and Changchun was liberated 12 days later.
The loss of Jincheng and the liberation of Changchun made the morale of the Kuomintang reactionary army in the Northeast depressed. We took this opportunity to launch the second and third stages of war. ate Liao Yaoxiang's corps in the second stage of Liaoxi Battle and captured Shenyang in the third stage. to On November 2, under the tactical guidance of "closing the door and beating the dog", was completely liberated.
PLA soldiers on the battlefield
Okamura Yasuji, evaluated the great man
Liaoshen Battle is a classic unprecedented scale annihilation war during the War of Liberation. The "Close the Dog" tactic used by at that time was even more rated as "a stroke of magic" by later strategic researchers. It is worth mentioning that after Okamura Yasuji After learning about the entire process of the Liaoshen Campaign, this World War II war criminal who was secretly hired as a military adviser by the Kuomintang reactionary military authorities at that time, couldn't help but sigh:
"(This battle) is not a talented person, but cannot do it!"
war criminal Okamura Yasuji
The victory of the Liaoshen Campaign is remarkable, so is there any lessons worth summarizing and learning from this battle? Actually, there are. During the battle, Chairman Mao suggested that should be better for Yingkou before the enemy to avoid any enemy breaking out of Yingkou.
But this suggestion was not implemented at that time, which led to 's enemy having 1 military headquarters, 1 division headquarters and 3 regiments could not escape from Yingkou by boat. This part of the enemy belongs to the 52nd Army of the Kuomintang reactionary faction.
Liaoshen Battle Pictorial
Although they received attention from Chiang Kai-shek for escaping from the Northeast, after the Crossing the River Battle ended, the remnants of the 52nd Army had to follow Chiang Kai-shek, who had already been in a premature situation, to flee to Taiwan Province. Many years after that, when I went home, I became a delusion, leaving only a strand of homesickness to look away from the water.
