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As mentioned earlier, Chen Cheng's plan of decisive battle in western Liaoning failed, and the new 5 armies fighting in Princess Tun were wiped out. Chen Cheng felt powerless and submitted his resignation to Chiang Kai-shek.

How ruthless history is. When Chen arrived in the northeast five months ago, he was full of ambition and boldly wanted to open the situation in the northeast and show his cards to Chiang Kai-shek. Who knew he was worse than Du? Everyone called Chen Cheng an idiot and even shouted the slogan "Kill Chen Cheng and thank China people". Even the Kuomintang's war history admits that the defeat in Northeast China began in Chen Cheng.

The situation in northeast China is becoming more and more critical. Chiang Kai-shek considered it for a long time and had to recall Wei. Wei, whose name is Junru, is from Hefei, Anhui. When I was young, I went to Guangzhou to join Sun Yat-sen and became a guard. Later, he participated in the Northern Expedition and the Eastern Expedition. He fought bravely and was promoted quickly. 1932, promoted to the rank of commander of the Kuomintang Army 14 Army. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the Xinkou Campaign commanded by Wei dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army and encouraged the people of China to resist Japanese aggression.

Wei has been doing nothing since the liberation war. This time, Chiang Kai-shek put him in charge of the Northeast, and he really wanted to go. On the one hand, if he can save the defeat, it will inevitably make Chiang Kai-shek rely more and more on him; On the other hand, even if he loses the election, his relationship with our party will certainly not embarrass him.

So, Wei flew to Shenyang on 1948122, and became the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Suppression General. After Wei came to power, he immediately set out to seize the relieving power and transferred the 54th Kuomintang Army in Shandong to Huludao to reinforce Jinzhou. Fan is the commander of Jinzhou command post, with four divisions (54, 93, 5 and 8) and *** 14, most of which were rebuilt after our army was destroyed in the autumn and winter campaign. The 25th Division, 79th Division, 87th Division and 9 1 Division were established in Shenyang. Together with the original troops, Wei has 4 corps, 37 divisions of 15 Army and its directly affiliated troops, with a total strength of more than 600,000, which is more than 560,000 people during the expansion of Chen Cheng's army consolidation.

A few days after Wei took office, Lin Biao planned to pay a visit to southern Liaoning to show off his old friends. After the Battle of Princess Tun, our army rested for nearly 20 days because of the cold weather. After the cold snap, Lin Biao set his sights on Liaoyang, Anshan and Yingkou in southern Liaoning, captured the city, and cut off the supply lines of Kuomintang troops at sea. 1948 65438+1October 30th, Lin Biao telegraphed the commander of the 4th and 6th longitudinal artillery, determined to start the battle in southern Liaoning and attack Liaoyang first.

The enemy troops on the defensive in Liaoyang temporarily established the 54th division of the new 5th Army (who survived the battle in Princess Tun), and there were about 1 1000 other troops and railway police in the city, including about 7,000 combatants. This division has only four field guns, six cannons and 16 mortars, and its weapons and equipment are poor, but the walls of Liaoyang are strong, and the enemy's organization defense cannot be underestimated. As the main attack, Commander Wu Kehua took the lead, made careful preparations before the war, and chose a breakthrough point. The work was done for five days.

At 7 o'clock on February 6, more than 60 guns of our artillery unit began to bombard the Koryo Gate in the northeast corner of the city, and the shells rained down on the head of the city, smashing all the enemy bunkers. After the artillery fire was ready, the commandos of the 4th longitudinal 1 1 division 3 1 regiment quickly launched a charge, and the soldier of the 5th class, party member Fan Chuili, shouted, "Who is party member? Come with me! " Rushing into the city with machine guns, I saw a group of enemies rushing back at them, sweeping the machine guns. The enemy turned around and fled, and Fan Chuili captured more than 30 people. They also seized two heavy machine guns and a 60-gun, which was recorded by the column. At this time, Liu Zong, who served as the lieutenant, also broke through the wall, and two columns and eight regiments of troops poured into Liaoyang City. The battle of Liaoyang ended in victory in only 8 hours, and the enemy was completely wiped out.

Four verticals and six verticals only rested for four days, and then they received an order from Lin Biao to seize Anshan. The 46 th column has just won the battle and its morale is high. On February 13, he arrived in Anshan and completed the siege. The enemy on the defensive in Anshan is the 25th Division of the 52nd Army (wiped out by four longitudinal armies in the battle of Xinkailing, and later reorganized), with only three mountain guns, three field guns and 34 mortars, and only more than 7,000 soldiers, including local armed forces. On February 16, our army began to clear the periphery. After more than a day's fighting, we basically eliminated the enemies in the periphery and began to approach the urban area.

/kloc-in the morning of February, 0/9, the general attack began. The shrine mountain is a hill surrounded by buildings and a tactical commanding height. 12 Division 4, 35th Regiment undertakes the main attack task, and 2 Company and 2 Class Monitor Wang Fulu takes the initiative to undertake the assault task. He led a group of people around the enemy's bunker and blew it up with explosives. It took only seven minutes to reach the top of the mountain and blew up nine bunkers. He rushed to the top of the mountain, fired with a submachine gun, and launched a political offensive against the enemy, shouting to the enemy: "I was liberated by the 52 nd Army, and the PLA gave preferential treatment to prisoners!" 16 The enemy was captured by him. After 17 hours of fighting, our army conquered Anshan and annihilated more than 25 divisions and other troops on the defensive *** 13000.

After the liberation of Anshan, the Fourth Longitudinal Army entered Yingkou non-stop. Yingkou garrison division 58 temporarily lost its fighting spirit. Under the strong offensive of our army, Wang Jiashan, the deputy commander of the enemy, contacted our army to secretly rebel. On February 26th, Wang Jiashan arrested the deputy commander and commander of the 52nd Army, and led his troops to declare an uprising, and Yingkou was peacefully liberated.

When Wei Gang arrived, distress and emergency telegrams from all over the country flew to Shenyang like snowflakes. Liaoyang, Anshan and Yingkou fell one after another, and the temporary 26th division of Faku abandoned the city to break through, which was intercepted and eliminated by our third vertical and third division in Tongjiangkou area. Wei didn't expect that the situation in the northeast had deteriorated to such a degree that it was worse than he had expected. At this time, a telegram from Chiang Kai-shek surprised and angered Wei!