What were the names of the three major battles our army participated in during the War of Liberation?

Three major battles in the War of Liberation

Liaoxi-Shenyang Campaign

Wei Group, the enemy of Northeast China, has 4 regiments, 14 armies and 44 divisions with 550,000 people. It is divided and surrounded by me in three unconnected areas: Changchun, Shenyang and Jinzhou. Among them, Wei, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General", led 300,000 people from 24 divisions of the Eighth Corps (Zhou Fucheng) and the Ninth Corps (Liao Yaoxiang) as a defense center group to defend the Song and Shenyang areas, ensure Shenyang and wait for opportunities to reinforce Changchun and Jinzhou; Zheng Dongguo, deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General" and commander of the First Corps, led 100,000 people in the 60 th Division of the Second Army to defend Changchun Gucheng and contain the main force of our army; Fan, deputy commander-in-chief of Northeast China's "Suppression General" and director of Jinzhou Command, led 150,000 men from four divisions of the Sixth Corps to defend the Yixian-Qinhuangdao line, focusing on Jinzhou and Jinxi areas to ensure land and sea contact with the customs. The enemy tried to concentrate their forces and garrison to contain our army in the northeast and try to get through Beining Road. If the situation is unfavorable, they will retreat to the customs.

After the winter offensive in Northeast China, in order to meet the needs of "the corps is large, regular and tough", our army has reorganized around Changchun and between Changchun and Shenyang, and strengthened the construction of special forces with emphasis on artillery. By the time of Liaoshen Campaign, the Northeast Field Army had 12 infantry columns, 1 artillery columns and 17 independent divisions with more than 600,000 people, and the total strength of government agencies and local troops reached more than one million. Compared with the strength of the enemy forces in the northeast, our army has taken a considerable advantage. The Northeast Liberated Area already owns more than 98% of the land in Northeast China, more than 86% of the population and controls 95% of the railway lines.

In order to annihilate the enemy in the northeast on the spot, the Central Military Commission instructed the Northeast Field Army to ignore the enemies in Changchun and Shenyang, and mainly went south to Beining Road, first annihilated the enemy in the Shanxi-Henan section and captured Jinzhou. Jinzhou is the throat of the northeast enemy leading to the pass. Taking this strategic point will not only cut off the connection between Fu and Wei, but also facilitate our army to maneuver to the two wings and encircle the Wei Group in the northeast, forming a trend of "closing the door and beating dogs", and also induce the enemy of Shenyang to lend aid, thus creating conditions for playing mobile warfare. Therefore. Taking Jinzhou is the key to the whole campaign. As long as we capture Jinzhou, we will have the initiative in the war. At first, however, Lin Biao didn't want to fight with the main force of the Northeast Field Army south of Beining Road. Later, he didn't dare to concentrate his superior forces to attack and annihilate the enemy in Jinzhou, and even wanted to go back to Changchun, showing Lin Biao's right conservatism.

In order to cooperate with the northeast battlefield, the Central Military Commission also instructed the Second and Third Corps of the North China Military Region to launch the Chasui Campaign to contain Fu Group and make it too busy to look east.

According to the instructions of the Central Military Commission, the Northeast Field Army decided on September 10 to deploy its operations to the south of Beining Road, with six columns and four divisions to deal with Jinzhou Fan Group, three columns to the west of Shenyang and two columns to deal with the enemy of Shenyang to prevent the enemy of Changchun from breaking through. The first Corps commanded 12 column and six independent divisions to surround the enemy in Changchun.

On September 12, our army launched the Liaoshen Campaign in the northeast. By 1 October1day, the enemies in Suizhong, Shahousuo, Xingcheng and Yixian were annihilated, Tashan and Gao Qiao were occupied, and the enemy in Jinzhou-Qinhuangdao section of Beining Road was divided and isolated between Jinzhou and Jinxi, Huludao, Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan, completing the encirclement of Jinzhou and cutting off the only land passage for the enemy in Northeast China. 10.2, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Shenyang, and hastily decided to transfer seven divisions from North China and Shandong, together with four divisions from Jinxi and Huludao, to form the "Westward Corps", with eleven divisions under the command of Hou Jingru, commander of 17 Corps, and eleven divisions and three cavalry brigades in Shenyang under the command of Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the ninth Corps. Following the instructions of the Central Military Commission, the Northeast Field Army further concentrated its forces and quickly laid Jinzhou, so as to take the initiative, and decided to transfer 1 column (owing to 3 divisions) and 2 columns (owing to 5 divisions) from western Liaoning to the south to participate in the gold attack. Finally, it is determined that the deployment of attacking Jin is as follows: to attack and annihilate the enemy in Jinzhou with the main forces of columns 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 6 17 and artillery columns; The 2nd Corps commanded the 4th, 1 1 column and two independent divisions, and resolutely stopped the enemy's "eastward advance corps" in Tashan area. With 1 column (less than 3 divisions) located in Gao Qiao as the general reserve. In addition, the fifth and sixth columns (belonging to 17 division) and 10 column (belonging to 1 column 3 division) are located in the west and north of Xinmin respectively, so as to contain the enemy's "Westward Corps": 12 column goes south to Tongjiangkou area, ready to meet with reinforcements in Xinmin direction. Nine independent divisions continued to besiege Changchun under the command of 1 Corps. 14, our army launched a general attack on Jinzhou, 15 captured Jinzhou, annihilated more than 100,000 defenders (prisoners) and closed the land escape route of the enemy in Northeast China. While the reinforcements in Tashan captured Jinzhou, they launched a fierce blocking war and successfully guaranteed the operation in Jinzhou direction.

After our army conquered Jinzhou, in view of the hopeless breakthrough, the enemy troops on the defensive in Changchun were doomed to be wiped out. Under the influence of my victory in attacking Jinzhou and the powerful political offensive, Ceng Zesheng, commander of the 60th Army, led an uprising on 17, and on 19, Zheng Dongguo led the newly compiled 7th Army and other departments to surrender, and our army liberated Changchun.

After the liberation of Jinzhou and Changchun, Chiang Kai-shek insisted that Liao Yaoxiang Corps and the enemies in Jinhua and Hulu areas continue to March east and west in an attempt to recapture Jinzhou and make the main force of the 52nd Army seize Yingkou, so that the remnants of the enemy in Northeast China could escape by land or sea. At this time, Mao Zedong pointed out that the enemy's eastward advance is good for me; Agree that the Northeast Field Army should not look for brocade gourd, concentrate its main force to annihilate the enemy's Liao Yaoxiang Corps, and adopt the policy of luring the enemy to fight a big annihilation war in depth to destroy the enemy in the movement; It is required that our Northeast Army must deploy powerful corps in Yingkou and its western and northern regions to block the enemy's retreat at sea. 120, our army followed Mao Zedong's instructions in the northeast. In addition to leaving two columns in Tashan area to continue to block the enemy's "eastward corps", the main force went north from Jinzhou area to seek to annihilate the enemy's Liao Yaoxiang Corps, and retreated to Montenegro and Dahushan area with five or six columns to resolutely block the enemy's advance, so as to cover our main force's flank to the rear of Liao Yaoxiang's troops and encircle the enemy. By the 25th, the enemy's attacks in Montenegro and Dahushan were blocked, and his retreat was cut off by me. Seeing my main force approaching the two wings, Liao Yaoxiang was in danger of being surrounded and annihilated, so he retreated to Yingkou that night. His vanguard troops were stopped by my independent second division near Taian, mistakenly thinking that they were my main force, and turned around to the east in an attempt to escape back to Shenyang. On the 26th, our army launched an all-out attack and launched a large-scale panic attack on the enemy east of Dahushan, adopting the tactics of encirclement, division and annihilation. By 28th, more than ten thousand people in Liao Yaoxiang Corps 10 were annihilated, and Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the enemy corps, was captured alive.

On 28th, the battle of western Liaoning basically ended. In order to quickly annihilate the enemies of Shenyang and Yingkou, our Northeast Army rushed to Shenyang with 1, 2, 12 columns, moved to Shen Nan with 7 or 8 columns, and moved to Yingkou with 9 columns. 1 1 month 1 day, our army broke into Shenyang city, and the enemy quickly disintegrated. On the 2nd, Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China, declared liberation! On the same day, the enemy of Yingkou was annihilated by me, except for the 25th Division led by the 52nd Army 1 10,000 people who fled from the sea. At this point, the Liaoshen campaign was all over successfully. Twelve enemy divisions in western Shanxi and Huludao fled to Tianjin and Shanghai respectively on the 9th.

The Liaoshen Campaign lasted 52 days from September 12 to1February 2, and * * * wiped out 470,000 men from 36 divisions and liberated the whole Northeast. Since then, the Northeast Field Army has become a powerful strategic reserve force, which is of great strategic significance to the smooth progress of the Pingjin campaign and the acceleration of national liberation.

In accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission, all war zones cooperated with the Eastern Field Army to launch offensives before and after the Liaoshen Campaign, and wiped out a large number of enemies.

The 2nd and 3rd Corps of the North China Military Region, with the cooperation of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Suiyuan Joint Defense Military Region, carried out the Chasui Campaign from September 7th to1/month15th, liberated the vast areas in eastern Suiyuan and northern Chabei, occupied Baotou, surrounded Guisui, annihilated more than 21,000 enemy troops, and forced Fu to adjust his troops back and forth on Pingsui Road, not daring to reinforce.

From September 16 to 24, the East China Field Army launched the Jinan campaign to attack the economic difficulties, annihilated more than 10,000 defenders 10, and captured the commander of the second appeasement area, Wang. The victory of the battle of Jinan initiated our army's capture of the enemy's fortified and heavily guarded big cities, which severely dealt a blow to the confidence of the Kuomintang army in sticking to big cities and shook the interior of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary army. As the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out in his congratulatory message, the battle of Jinan was "one of the most serious blows to the enemy in the development of revolutionary war for more than two years". Then, our army recovered Linyi, Yantai and other places, and basically liberated the whole territory of Shandong except Qingdao.

From August 8th to13rd,1October 5th to18th,1/month15th to 28th, the Northwest Field Army successively carried out the Battle of Hecheng, the Battle of Bailey and the winter offensive, destroying more than 60,000 enemy troops in Hu Zongnan. 1From October 20th to 24th, the Central Plains Field Army launched the Zhengzhou Campaign, which prevented the enemy from deploying troops to reinforce the Northeast.

During this period, the victories of Liaoshen Campaign and other campaigns made fundamental changes in the national military situation. Our army now has advantages not only in quality but also in quantity. The enemy's total strength dropped to about 2.9 million, while our army increased to more than 3 million. This greatly shortened the course of the war we expected, and Mao Zedong estimated that it would take another year or so to fundamentally overthrow the reactionary Kuomintang government.

Beiping-Tianjin campaign

1948 1 1 At the beginning of the month, after the victory of Liaoshen Campaign, the enemy's "general suppression" Fu Tuan in North China became a frightened bird in the face of the threat of our joint attack in Northeast China and North China. Due to the contradiction between the United States, Chiang Kai-shek and Fu, it is still uncertain whether the enemy troops in North China will withdraw or defend, or whether they will flee south or west. Fu mistakenly estimated that it would take at least three months for the Northeast Field Army to enter the customs, so he made up his mind to escape immediately and adopted the policy of temporarily defending Peiping, Tianjin and Haikou, expanding his troops and waiting to see the situation change. On the basis of this policy, Fu reduced Chiang Kai-shek's and Fu's four regiments to about 550,000 troops, with Peiping and Tianjin as the center, starting from Tangshan in the east and Zhangjiakou in the west, in a long snake array of more than 500 kilometers. Its own troops were deployed in Pingsui Road from Pingping to Zhangjiakou, and Chiang Kai-shek's troops were deployed in Beiping and its east. If necessary, they can leave Chiang Kai-shek's army and flee to the west on their own.

Judging from the national situation, it is most beneficial for our army to leave Fu Group in North China and annihilate it on the spot. Therefore, the Central Military Commission decided to take advantage of the fact that the enemy had not yet decided to escape, and dispatched the North China Field Army to enter the customs ahead of schedule. The second and third corps of the North China Military Region and the local armed forces launched the Peiping-Tianjin campaign to annihilate the North China Fu Group. The enemy is a frightened bird. Whether we can catch the enemy and prevent it from fleeing south or west is the key to campaign guidance. Therefore, the Central Military Commission decided to retreat to Suiyuan and attack Taiyuan slowly, and agreed to negotiate with Fu to paralyze the enemy. At the same time, the main force of the North China Field Army entered the customs secretly and quickly at the end of 1 1. With the cooperation of our army in North China, we first adopted the policy of seizing the western front, stabilizing the eastern front, encircling the enemy on the western front without fighting, and not encircling the enemy on the eastern front, thus completing the encirclement of the enemy from west to east.

In order to achieve the above objectives, the Central Military Commission instructed the Northeast Advance Corps and the Second and Third Corps of North China to act in a unified manner in Pingzhang section. First, quickly surround Zhangjiakou, attract the enemy from the east to reinforce the west, cut off the Pingzhang section, and then divide the enemy surrounded by Ping Jin-Zhangzhou area.

According to the unified deployment of the Central Military Commission, the 3rd Corps of North China began to surround the enemy in Zhangjiakou on 1 1 29th. In order to continue to flee to the west, Fu urged the 35th Army to lead three divisions to reinforce Zhangjiakou, and to reinforce Xuanhua with 3 10 division in Huailai area, and to transfer Huailai to the west with 269 division in Changping area. In order to seize the enemy on the western front, the Central Military Commission ordered the Second Corps of North China to hurry down to the garden on December 2, and the Northeast Advance Corps advanced to Nankou and Huailai to cut off Pingsui Road and surround the enemy of wireless respectively. Because the Northeast Advance Corps 1 1 column annihilated a division of Miyun garrison on1February 5, Fu thought that our Northeast Field Army had entered the customs and misjudged that our army was going to attack Peiping, so he hurriedly decided to quickly transfer the 35th Army to Peiping, and 104 and1in Huailai and Nankou areas. 10 1 The army withdrew from Zhuoxian to Fengtai and Mentougou. This contraction of the enemy is very beneficial for our army to keep the enemy on the battlefield. 1On February 6th, the enemy's 35th Army (two divisions) broke through the encirclement of Zhangjiakou and fled eastward. On the 8 th, I was surrounded by the 2 nd Corps of North China in the new security zone. 10, 1 1 day, the 4th column of Northeast Field Army, with the cooperation of 1 1 column, successively wiped out the main forces of the enemy 16 army and 104 army in the areas of Kangzhuang and Huailai. At this point, the main force of Fu troops was surrounded by our army in Zhangjiakou and Xin 'an respectively, and the road for the enemy to escape westward was cut off. At this time, the main force of the Northeast Field Army has crossed the Great Wall into Jidong, and has not yet completed the encirclement of the main points of Ping Jin Pond. Therefore, "the only or main thing is to be afraid that the enemy will escape from the sea." In order not to make the enemy's decision-making out of control and complete the encirclement of all points in Ping Jin pond as soon as possible, Mao Zedong issued instructions on the operational policy of Ping Jin campaign in time on1February/1day, so that the western ministries could "encircle without fighting" the enemies of Zhangjiakou and Xin 'an in two weeks, and the main force of the Northeast Field Army was not afraid of attrition, hunger and cold, and cut off Tianjin at the same time at the fastest speed. At the same time, I was instructed to "not make the final annihilation arrangement within two weeks" in order to stabilize the enemy and make it difficult for him to make up his mind to cross the sea; And make our Shandong army control a section of the Yellow River north of Jinan, and make preparations on Ji Jiao Road to prevent the enemy Jinan from fleeing to Qingdao. In accordance with the instructions of Chairman Mao Zedong, the Northeast Field Army surrounded the enemies of Gutian and Tanggu with columns 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 and 12, and with columns 1 1 and Jizhong Military Region 3, 5, 6 and 10. By1February 2 1 day, the main force of the Northeast Field Army had completed the strategic encirclement of the enemy in Ping Jin pond ahead of schedule, blocking the road of Ping Jin's enemy fleeing south from the sea. At this point, Fu Group has been "completely surrounded" by our army.

After our army completed the division and encirclement of the enemy, it adopted the policy of hitting both ends first, then hitting the middle, and hitting Xin' an and Tanggu first. Before the launch of the new security guard, the CMC estimated that after the enemy's 35th army was annihilated, Zhangjiakou might make a breakthrough in defense, and the 3rd Corps of the North China Military Region was not dominant. In order to increase the troops around Zhangjiakou, the Central Military Commission transferred the fourth column of the Northeast Field Army to Zhangjiakou in the west and placed it under the command of the Third Corps. 1On February 20th, the Third Corps arrived near Zhangjiakou. On the 22nd, the 2nd Corps of North China Military Region conquered the new security guards and annihilated the 35th Army (two divisions) defending the enemy. On the 23rd, more than 50,000 defenders of Zhangjiakou broke through and fled, and on the 24th, they were all annihilated by the 3rd Corps of North China Military Region and the 4th Column of Northeast Field Army in the north of Zhangjiakou.

In order to unify the leadership and command of the Peiping-Tianjin Campaign, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided on January 10th, 1949 that Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan and Nie would form the General Front Committee with Lin Biao as the secretary. Due to the unfavorable terrain in Tanggu area, it is not convenient to annihilate the enemy. The Northeast Field Army suggested that our army change to Tianjin with the approval of the Central Military Commission. 1 month 14, the Northeast Field Army concentrated on 22 divisions of 1, 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th columns, and launched an attack on the enemy troops on the defensive in Tianjin, adopting the operational arrangement of east-west confrontation, middle blockade, first south and then north, and each annihilation. After 29 hours of fierce fighting, Tianjin was liberated on 15, and the defenders were completely annihilated130,000 people. Captured Chen Changjie, deputy commander of Jintang defense zone and commander of Tianjin garrison. 17, the enemy in Tanggu escaped from the sea. At this point, the enemy of Peiping was completely isolated and in a desperate situation. In addition to the Northeast Field Army 1 and 2 Corps (that is, the original Corps), our army sent the 2 nd and 3 rd Corps of North China to Peiping at the end of1February, forming a tight encirclement of the enemy in Peiping. 1 month 14, President Mao Zedong issued a "statement on the current situation" and put forward eight conditions for peace talks. On the 16th, our Beijing-Tianjin Front Command issued an ultimatum to Fu, stating: First, lay down your arms; Second, peaceful reorganization; Otherwise, "our army will attack the city with precise tactics, and don't say it without warning." In this case, Fu accepted the peaceful adaptation. Twenty-five divisions of the eight enemy troops on the defensive in Peiping were all reorganized out of the city. 1 3rd of the month1day, our army entered Beiping and Beiping declared liberation. The peaceful liberation of Peiping has far-reaching historical significance. Defending troops in Beiping is the first example of our party to implement the eight peace conditions and end the war by peaceful means, which is called "Beiping way". The Battle of Ping Jin lasted 64 days. Except for 58,000 people on the defensive in Tanggu who fled from the sea, * * * wiped out 520,000 people from 50 enemy divisions and liberated most parts of North China.

The three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Ping Jin are the strategic decisive battles between our army and the enemy's main force in the strategic offensive stage. Under the correct command of the Central Military Commission and Mao Zedong, it took more than four months to wipe out 143 enemy divisions and 1.54 million local troops. So far, in the seven months of the third year of the war, * * * wiped out 2.32 million enemy troops, making all the enemy's elite troops lose, greatly accelerating the victory process of the war of liberation.

the Huaihai Campaign

After the Battle of Jinan, the enemy Xuzhou "suppression general" Herry Liu Group began to shrink its forces. By the end of 10, its four corps, four appeasement areas and 25 armies, with about 600,000 troops, were distributed on two railway lines, namely Longhai and Jinpu, with Xuzhou as the center, in an attempt to stop our troops from going south and cover Nanjing. Its deployment is: the seventh corps (yellow) is in Xin' an town; 13 Corps (Li Mi) is in the east of Xuzhou; The Second Corps (Qiu Qingquan) is in Huangkou and Dangshan areas. 16 Corps (Sun) was evacuated from Zhengzhou to Mengcheng. The ninth appeasement area (Li Yannian) is in Haizhou; The third appeasement area (Feng Zhian) is in Han Zhuang and Taierzhuang areas; The fourth appeasement area (Liu Ruming) is in Shangqiu; 1 appeasement area (Zhou Yan) is in Huaiyin. This deployment is characterized by heavy troops, easy mobility and rapid reinforcement.

On September 25, the Central Military Commission approved the proposal of the East China Field Army to carry out the Huaihai Campaign. 1October 1 1 day, Mao Zedong put forward the operational policy of Huaihai Campaign, demanding that the East China Field Army concentrate its troops as the first step, annihilate the Seventh Corps and complete the intermediate breakthrough. The second step is to annihilate the enemies of Haizhou and Lianyungang; The third step is to do it in Huaibei area. And asked the Central Plains Field Army to deploy the main force to attack the Zhengzhou-Xuzhou section of Longhai Road, and to contain the 16 Corps from being transferred eastward to cooperate with the East China Field Army. In order to annihilate the 7th rear regiment and confuse the enemy, so that it can't quickly identify the main targets of our army, Mao Zedong further instructed the East China Field Army to take more than half of its troops as containment and blocking tasks according to the characteristics of the enemy's deployment, and threatened Xuzhou from the north and south sides and the west. In this way, we can buy more time and destroy the Seventh Corps.

1mid-October, the Central Plains Field Army sent 2 troops to Jianghan and 6 troops to western Anhui, attracting Bai Chongxi's main force, the 3rd Corps (Zhang Qian) to the south, and12nd Corps (stevie hoang) to the west to cooperate with the Zhengzhou campaign. 1October 20th, four columns of the Central Plains Field Army launched the Zhengzhou Campaign. At this time, the enemy's main force 16 Corps (Sun) had retreated eastward, and more than 10,000 remnants of the enemy were wiped out. Zhengzhou and Kaifeng were liberated soon. At this time, the main force of the Central Plains Field Army has been able to maneuver on the eastern front. According to the development of the national war situation and the changes of the enemy situation in the battlefields of Central Plains and East China, 1 1 month/day, the Central Military Commission decided that Chen Yi and Deng Xiaoping would command the Central Plains Field Army and East China Field Army to carry out the Huaihai Campaign. In this way, our army can participate in the war, including fifteen infantry columns of the East China Field Army, one special warfare column, seven columns of the Central Plains Field Army, and local troops with more than 600,000 people.

After the Liaoshen Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that the enemy of Xuzhou would repeat the mistake of being wiped out by the Wei Group. In order to ensure Xuzhou, consolidate Jianghuai and cover Nanjing, on April 4th,1/kloc-0, he decided to shrink the main force of Herry Liu Group to both sides of Xubang section of Jinpu Road, in an attempt to distribute all the mobile corps on both sides of this section with Xubang section as the axis, in order to stop our army from going south by offensive defense, and to evacuate to Huainan to ensure Nanjing when necessary, and adjust the deployment according to this plan on June 6th. At the same time, the 12 Corps, which belongs to the Central China "Suppression General", was transferred to Taihe and Fuyang areas, and the camera assisted the East.

According to the plan of the Central Military Commission to annihilate the Seventh Corps first, cut off the Xubang section of Jinpu Road and isolate Xuzhou, the East China Field Army decided to surround the Seventh Corps in Xin 'an Town and Ahu area with seven columns. Taking eight columns as the delaying task, three of them marched north and south, containing and blocking 13 Corps' eastward assistance, and separating the connection between 7 Corps and 13 Corps. Shandong Corps commanded three columns to annihilate the enemy in the third appeasement area or promote its uprising. Then; Cross the canal and go straight to the east of Xuzhou to contain the enemy 13 Corps, prevent the enemy from aiding xuzhou east, and threaten Xuzhou from the northwest with two columns (under the command of the Central Plains Field Army at the beginning of the campaign). The four main columns of the Central Plains Field Army moved eastward from Suixian and Zhecheng counties, seeking to destroy the fourth appeasement area of Shangqiu enemy, then captured Su Xian, cut off the Xubang section of Jinpu Road, and completed the strategic encirclement of Xuzhou. The second and sixth columns turned to Huaihai battlefield to stop the enemy 12 Corps.

The East China Field Army launched the Huaihai Campaign on the night of the 6th as planned, and all the troops advanced to the scheduled goal. When they found that the enemy was shrinking, they immediately turned to chase. Enemy No.7 Corps was delayed to open to the west on the 7th due to the westward withdrawal of Haizhou No.44 Army, while 13 Corps left Xu Dong as planned to be transferred to Lingbi. 1 1 8, Zhang Kexia and He Jifeng, deputy commanders of the enemy's third appeasement area, led three and a half divisions to revolt. Our Shandong Corps successfully crossed the canal, crossed the defense zone and headed for the east of Xuzhou. Herry Liu found that our army was approaching Xuzhou in multiple ways and judged that I would attack Xuzhou from east to west. He was very frightened. He immediately changed the original plan of withdrawing to both sides of Xu Mu, and decided to transfer the 2nd, 13 and 16 Corps to Xuzhou on a starry night and stick to Xuzhou.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek decided to transfer Du back to Xuzhou as the deputy commander-in-chief, and set up the Sixth Corps in the ninth appeasement area in Bengbu, and changed the fourth appeasement area into the eighth Corps, acting in coordination with the Sixth Corps, and advancing to Suxian County along both sides of Jinpu Road as a garrison between Guzhen and Suxian County. On the night of the 9th, according to the change of the battlefield situation, the Central Military Commission asked the field armies in East China and Central Plains to "strive to annihilate the main enemy forces near Xuzhou, so as not to flee south", and made up their minds to annihilate Herry Liu Group, the enemy of Xuzhou. 1 1 month 10, the main force of Shandong Corps annihilated the vanguard division of the Seventh Corps, cutting off the enemy's retreat. 1 1 month 1 1 day, the East China Field Army encircled the Seventh Corps in Nianzhuang area. In order to destroy the Seventh Corps, our army adjusted its deployment. The East China Field Army attacked the 7th Corps with the 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 13 columns of Shandong Corps and most of the special longitudinal guns, and blocked the enemy of xuzhou east aid with the 7th, 10,1/columns, and approached Xuzhou from the southeast. Chen Yi immediately instructed the main force of the Central Plains Field Army and the third and eighth columns of the East China Field Army to turn into the Xu clam section. Among them, the fourth column, the third column and the second column of the East China Field Army threatened Xuzhou from the southwest, the second military region of Hebei, Shandong and Henan threatened Xuzhou from the northwest, and the third and ninth columns attacked Suxian County. The main force of the 9 th column went south to prevent the enemy's 6 th and 8 th corps from aiding the north, and 1 column was the reserve.

1 1 month 15 night, the Central Plains Field Army captured Suxian County, annihilated an enemy division, cut off the contact between the enemy Xuzhou and Bengbu, and completed the strategic encirclement of Xuzhou.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China believes that this campaign is an unprecedented battle on the southern line. The victory of this campaign not only calmed the situation north of the Yangtze River, but also basically solved the situation in the whole country. Therefore, on 16, it was decided that Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, Su Yu and Tan Zhenlin would form the general front committee of Huaihai Campaign, with Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi and Deng Xiaoping as the standing committee members and Deng Xiaoping as the secretary to co-ordinate all matters in East China, Central Plains and Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions. 1 1 month 12, our army stormed the enemy's seventh corps, captured Nianzhuang on the 20th, annihilated the seventh corps on the 22nd, and killed Gong. The enemy of xuzhou east's aid was stubbornly blocked by me, and it could only advance one or two kilometers a day. Eleven divisions of the enemy 12 Corps who came from Queshan to reinforce were blocked by the Central Plains Field Army and could only enter the vicinity of Evonne, south of Huihe River.

After the enemy's Seventh Corps was annihilated, Chiang Kai-shek decided to attack Suxian County with the second and 65438 +06 Corps in Xuzhou, the sixth and eighth Corps in Bengbu, and the 65438 +02 Corps in an attempt to get through the ties between Xu and Mu and evacuate the enemy from Xuzhou. As a result, the enemy 12 Corps continued to advance in the direction of Xuzhou. The General Front Committee decided to concentrate all the Central Plains Field Army's encirclement and suppression of the enemy 12 Corps, and the East China Field Army formed two battle groups to block the enemy in Xuzhou and Bengbu respectively, one as the reserve of the Central Plains Field Army's encirclement and suppression of the enemy 12 Corps. 1 1 on 25th, the enemy 12 corps120,000 people were surrounded by 7 columns of our Central Plains Field Army in Shuangduiji area in the southwest of Suxian County.

After the enemy 12 Corps was besieged, Chiang Kai-shek could not break through, and Xuzhou and Bengbu had no hope of reinforcements. On the one hand, he made Herry Liu go to Bengbu and ordered the Sixth and Eighth Corps to go north again. On the other hand, he made Du rate the second, 13, 16 Corps to give up Xuzhou and bypass Yongcheng south in an attempt to attack our Central Plains field army. After solving the siege of 12 Corps, * * * fled south together. Mao Zedong foresaw that the enemy would break through Xuzhou and instructed the East China Field Army to get ready. 1 1 On October 30th, about 300,000 people from Xuzhou Du Tuan fled in the direction of Yongcheng. Our East China Field Army pursued the enemy with eleven columns and surrounded the enemy in the Chenguanzhuang area in the northeast of Yongcheng on December 4th. On the 6th, 16 Corps broke through on its own and was annihilated by me. The 2nd and13rd Corps immediately turned to defense.

Our army surrounded two enemy regiments at the same time, and the enemy of Bengbu still tried to go north to rescue. The General Front Committee adopted the policy of "eating one (), holding one () and watching one (,Liu Ruming)". Six columns of the Central Plains Field Army and East China Field Army 1 column blocked the enemy's Sixth Corps, and two columns of the East China Field Army served as the general reserve. 12, our army launched a general attack on the enemy 12 corps, 15 annihilated the enemy, and captured Huang Wei alive. The aid of the enemy's Sixth Army Corps to the north was blocked. Knowing that 12 Corps had been annihilated, they fled back to Bengbu overnight.

At this point, the battle of Peiping and Tianjin has been successfully launched. In order not to make Chiang Kai-shek make a quick decision and transport the enemy of Peiping and Tianjin to the south, the Central Military Commission suspended its attack on Du Group. The whole army at the front of Huaihai took a rest on the battlefield and launched a political offensive against the enemy to prepare for the attack. 1February 17, wrote "Urging Du and others to surrender". But Du and others refused to surrender. In late December, the Northeast Field Army and the Second and Third Corps of the North China Military Region divided their troops and surrounded the Fu Group on the Pingzhang Line. 1 6, our East China Army launched a general attack on Du Group, 10 wiped out the enemy, drifted in Du, killed Qiu Qingquan, and the Huaihai War ended successfully.

The Huaihai Campaign lasted for 66 days and wiped out 550,000 people from 56 divisions of the Kuomintang in the battlefields of East China and the Central Plains, exposing the enemy's Yangtze River defense line and the ruling centers of Beijing and Shanghai directly to our army.

After the Huaihai Campaign, the enemy south of the Huaihe River fled south in panic. The 6th, 7th, 8th and13rd columns of the East China Field Army went south, liberated the vast area between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and went out to the north bank of the Yangtze River, which created conditions for the subsequent cross-river operations.