Information on the battle of Shijiazhuang during the liberation period?

During the Third Revolutionary Civil War, the China People's Liberation Army liberated Shijiazhuang. On November 6, 1947, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army of the People's Liberation Army was deployed in Dingxian and Xinle with the second column, the ninth independent brigade and the first local armed unit to stop the Kuomintang troops aided by Baoding. The third and fourth columns and two independent brigades from Jizhong and Jijin Military Regions surrounded Shijiazhuang on all sides, and carried out major assaults from the northeast and southwest. After capturing enemy airports and outlying strongholds, they launched a general attack on the 9th. From then on, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Liberated Area and the Shanxi-Chaji Liberated Area were completely connected. Shijiazhuang is an important strategic hub in North China, bordering the Han, Zhengtai and Shide railways. In October 1947, after the main force of the 3rd Kuomintang Army in Shijiazhuang was wiped out by the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in Qingfengdian area, the Kuomintang troops stationed in Shijiazhuang only had the 32nd Division of the 3rd Army, two security brigades in peace preservation corps and 19 surrounding counties, and the situation was isolated. In order to strengthen the garrison in Shijiazhuang, Chiang Kai-shek airlifted an independent regiment and a wild artillery battalion of Baoding "appeasement" office to Shijiazhuang on November 3 and 4. Nie Rongzhen, commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, is determined to take advantage of Shijiazhuang's empty defensive forces and unstable morale to concentrate all the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army and the troops belonging to the Hebei-Shanxi and Jizhong Military Regions to launch the battle of Shijiazhuang. The deployment of the campaign is: the third and fourth columns of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army carry out major assaults from the southwest and northeast respectively; The troops of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Brigade and the 7th, 8th Brigade and 11th Brigade of Jizhong Military Region independently attacked from the northwest and southeast. With the 2nd column of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army, the 9th independent brigade and the 3rd and 9th army divisions deployed between Dingxian and Xinle, they acted as the enemy to stop reinforcements from Baoding. Troops from the 4th Brigade and 5th and 7th Army Divisions of the Chahar Military Region attacked Pinghan Road from Beiping (now Beijing) to Baoding, focusing on destroying railway lines and cooperating with the main forces. In order to attack the defenders of Shijiazhuang more effectively, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army also released about 1, Kuomintang officers captured in the battle of Qingfengdian back to Shijiazhuang after education, so as to divide and disintegrate the enemy. In addition, the government of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Liberated Area mobilized 1, stretchers, more than 4, carts, and 1, militiamen and migrant workers to fight with the army. On the night of November 5, the attacking troops crossed the Hutuo River and marched into Shijiazhuang, and suddenly surrounded the positions of the Kuomintang troops outside Shijiazhuang. On the morning of the 7th, the 1st and 2nd independent brigades of Hebei-Shanxi Military Region captured Daguocun Airport and annihilated a battalion of defenders. On the morning of the 8th, the 4th column captured Panshan Mountain, thus clearing all the strongholds of the defenders outside Waishigou. At 4 pm on the 8th, under the cover of powerful artillery fire, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army launched a general attack on the Kuomintang defenders in Waishigou by means of tunnel blasting and forced blasting. By the morning of the 9th, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army captured all the strongholds except Beijiao and Fancun. Subsequently, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army besieged the above four strongholds with one force and continued to attack the Neichenggou with its main force. At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 1th, under the cover of heavy artillery bombardment, the siege assault troops simultaneously carried out internal and external blasting, and rushed into the inner city ditch from the collapsed trench. The 8th Brigade of the 3rd Column first succeeded in breaking through from the west, and captured Dongli Village and Southwest Barracks at 6 pm, annihilating most of the 96th Regiment of the 32nd Division of the Garrison. After the 1th Brigade of the 4th Column broke through from the east, it repelled the 94th Regiment of the 32nd Division and the tanks for 7 times in succession, consolidated the breakthrough and advanced to the east of the railway. The troops of the Hebei-Shanxi and Hebei-Central Military Regions also successively occupied the predetermined targets and entered the fighting in the city. At 11 o'clock on the evening of the 1th, after comprehensively breaking through the inner city ditch, the siege troops put the second echelon into battle in due course. By the 12th, all the enemy troops on the defensive were wiped out, and Liu Ying, commander of the 32nd Division and garrison commander of Shijiazhuang, was captured. Subsequently, the troops of Jizhong Military Region took advantage of their victory to capture the county seat of yuanshi county. In the Battle of Shijiazhuang, * * * wiped out 24, Kuomintang troops, seized 9 tanks, more than 1 guns and a large number of locomotives, cars and military supplies. This campaign not only occupied a strategic point of enemy North China, but also connected the two major areas of Shanxi, Chaji, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan, and also set a precedent for the People's Liberation Army to seize important cities, providing important experience for urban warfare later.