In mid-October 1949, under the offensive of Fourth Field under the command of Lin Biao, the 4 divisions of Bai Chongxi Group, except for the 138th Division and one regiment, successfully escaped, the remaining 247,000 people were wiped out.
After the front line battle, Lin Biao led the Fourth Field Front Command to Hengyang . During this period, there was a Soviet writer named Simonov . He was very curious about Lin Biao's evaluation of Bai Chongxi , so he interviewed this famous general of our party who had fought with Bai Chongxi many times.
Lin Biao once commented on Bai Chongxi
Bai Chongxi in Lin Biao's eyes
Lin Biao is known as "Everythy-winning general" , while Bai Chongxi is smart, person called " Little Zhuge ". After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Lin Biao and Bai Chongxi had three battles. The first time was Siping Battle . In Siping Battle , Northeast Democratic Alliance had to choose to retreat due to excessive casualties and outnumbered numbers. After the Kuomintang reactionaries took Siping , Chiang Kai-shek sent Bai Chongxi to Siping to supervise the battle.
Bai Chongxi had three matches with Lin Biao
Bai Chongxi proposed:
"We should make plans to completely destroy the local area in the military of the Northeast, otherwise there will be endless troubles."
At first, Chiang Kai-shek followed Bai Chongxi's opinion and asked Bai Chongxi to command the army to pursue the Northeast Democratic Alliance. Soon after, Korean army occupied Changchun. Bai Chongxi After observing the front line, believes that it should continue to pursue and "completely eliminate the Northeast."
However, Chiang Kai-shek was worried that Bai Chongxi's move would be too risky, so he sent a report to reject Bai Chongxi. This provided our army with the opportunity to rest and replenish. Later, with the continuous growth of the People's Liberation Army in Northeast region, Bai Chongxi once regretted: had known that it would have forced Lin Biao and the Northeast Democratic Alliance to kill Lin Biao and the Northeast Democratic Alliance.
The battle of Siping is very tragic
If The battle of Siping is a strategic ideological confrontation between Lin and Bai, then Qingshuping battle launched by in the spring of in 1949, and is a tactical showdown between Lin Biao and Bai Chongxi.
In this battle, Bai Chongxi moved his most elite army, the 7th Army, to the area around Qingshuping-Jieling. Lin Biao judged that Bai Chongxi should want to eat a part of the People's Liberation Army with this army.
, so Lin Biao called the 49th Army to pursue the troops, asked them to "really find out the situation and not blindly advance", , but because all the way, Bai Chongxi troops showed the enemy with weakness, , which led to ignoring the reconnaissance search of the surrounding mountains during the marching of the 1st Battalion of the 146th Division of the 49th Army of our army.
The soldiers were rushing to the road
Bai Chongxi took the opportunity to dispatch to troops, encircled our army in a clamp shape, dispatched a large number of tanks cannons and aircraft, caused hundreds of losses to our army's 146th Division and 147th Division , respectively.
This battle made the Kuomintang army excited and forced Lin Biao to deal with Bai Chongxi more rigorously and carefully.
In mid-October 1949, Lin Biao and Bai Chongxi led their troops to to fight again, that is, Hengbao Battle . The result of the Hengbao Battle is just as shown in the data at the beginning of the article. Lin Biao "acquit his previous shame" and Bai Chongxi suffered heavy losses.
Hengbao Battle Military Picture
After Hengbao Battle Lin Biao accepted an interview with Simonov. He commented on Bai Chongxi and said:
"I think Bai Chongxi is the most talented among the Kuomintang generals, and this sentence can be said to be not an over-reward."
In Lin Biao's view, Bai Chongxi has many years of military experience and is more clever in command than other Kuomintang generals.
It's just that because the Kuomintang reactionaries have lost all their hearts, Lin Biao admitted that Bai Chongxi's military talent is great, , but also predicted that his military talent cannot save the Kuomintang reactionaries at all.
Bai Chongxi once received high praise from Lin Biao
Chairman Mao made a promise
In fact, it was not just Lin Biao who gave Bai Chongxi high praise, Chairman Mao once also valued Bai Chongxi very much. time is pushed back to In late April, 1949, at that time, the People's Liberation Army had successfully liberated Nanjing, and the Kuomintang reactionaries were in a state of decline.
But obviously Chiang Kai-shek was not willing to give up. He hoped to use Bai Chongxi and Hu Zongnan and the army led by him to achieve counter-attack against the People's Liberation Army. At that time, Bai Chongxi's command still retained 5 corpses, with a force of about 250,000. mainly occupied Hubei and Guangxi.
Korean Party reactionary army
At first Chairman Mao considered the Guangxi faction led by Bai Chongxi, caused certain losses and troubles to the CCP in the "April 12" Qing Communist Party, the pursuit and suppression of Jinggangshan Red Army and the "Southern Anhui Incident", but also released goodwill to our party.
During the period when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China resisted the war, Chairman Mao even gave Bai Chongxi an evaluation of "One heart for the public, not understanding for the private" .
plus The conflict between the Guangxi clan and the Kuomintang reactionary central government is obvious. Chairman Mao wanted to differentiate the Guangxi clan into . After learning that Bai Chongxi likes to lead troops to war , Chairman Mao also made a promise:
"His Guangxi troops are only 100,000. If Bai Chongxi can move towards peace and the peace talks will successfully establish a national defense force in the future, we can ask him to command 300,000 troops and make full use of his talents."
Chairman Mao once promised to give Bai Chongxi preferential treatment to
Chairman Mao even made it clear:
"After we cross the river... as long as Bai Chongxi does not attack, we will not enter Guangxi for three years, okay?"
stood at the fork in fate
but is a pity. Bai Chongxi Although he heard about Chairman Mao's words, he did not believe it at all, In addition, Bai Chongxi's attitude in the previous battle in Qingshuping also showed that he would not stand with our party. is like this, so Chairman Mao had to give up fighting for Bai Chongxi. and in the telegram of in September of the same year to Lin Biao and others pointed out:
"Bai Chongxi is the first cunning and insidious warlord in China."
Chairman Mao was reading the war report
and in this report, Chairman Mao also emphasized in great detail that eliminated Bai Chongxi's troops, and that all troops in must work together.
Under the arrangement of Chairman Mao, Chen Geng and Deng Hua need to lead their respective corps to control Shaoguan , Wengyuan areas and Guangzhou. Then Deng Hua's corps remained in Guangzhou, and Chen Geng's corps all entered Guangxi and surrounded Bai Chongxi's retreat;
Cheng Zihua's corps left one army to garrison Changde , and the other three armies made other arrangements:
"The other army has arrived outside the Anhua area, and the two main armies have gone through Yuanling and Zhijiang directly down Liuzhou . "
The soldiers on the front line
In addition, they also need three troops. After Xiangtan and Xiangxiang attack and annihilate Baoqing Huang Jie's bandit army, the two main forces of Cheng Zihua "on the front line not far away". After realizes this deployment, do not launch an offensive against Bai Chongxi's troops in Hengyang area, just closely monitor it.
Chairman Mao believes that under such an arrangement, "Bai Chongxi's tribe must retreat to Guilin quickly." After and other Bai Chongxi tribe withdrawn from Guilin, will definitely be forced to fight our army in in Guangxi.
There is no need to hold Hengyang at this time. We are in the troops of Chaling and Youxian . After Bai Chongxi fought with our army in Guangxi, the two sides went out to Zhijiang and Baoqing to strictly prevent the "white bandits" (Bai Chongxi) from breaking through from the west.
The soldiers before the battle
After our troops stationed in Zhijiang were replaced, these soldiers needed to go to Liuzhou to establish a base for defense in Liuzhou.
If our army can implement this combat deployment step by step, then The enemy's 7th Army, 46th Army, 48th Army and Lu Daoyuan 58th Army may flee in dispersion.
Chairman Mao pointed out that in order to avoid the premature dispersion of the enemy by , the troops of should not "chasing and fighting hard". can establish bases in Rongxian, Luocheng , Tianhe, Yishan, Sien and Yibei regions, and find a way to cut off the Liuzhou-Guizhou railway line.
Soldiers on the front-line battlefield
At this time, Chen Geng's corps in Guangxi can launch an offensive to occupy Guangzhou, and then "advances through Wuzhou to Binyang and Nanning area, and finally arrive in southern Guangxi." Our army's troops in Baoqing noticed that Bai Chongxi's troops began to retreat to Guilin, and immediately followed the enemy southward. Here Chairman Mao emphasized:
"After entering Guangxi, the first step is not to rush to find the main force of the White Bandits to fight, but to establish a foothold, find out the situation, contact the masses and combine my guerrilla forces in Guangxi (both in southern Guizhou and northern Guizhou). The second step is to annihilate the main force of the White Bandits."
Old photo of Chairman Mao
in Chairman Mao and In the Central Military Commission's expectation, "cannot be eliminated without the above method." Through this series of deployments and battles, Bai Chongxi's troops were indeed almost wiped out. only Bai Chongxi himself Finally , and then arrives in Taiwan Province after several twists and turns, and spent the rest of his life there.
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