In what year was Shangrao liberated?

In the early morning of April 21, 1949, after the Chinese People's Liberation Army crossed the river, the Third, Fourth and Fifth Corps of the Second Field Army tried to cut off the connection between Tang Enbo Group and Bai Chongxi Group on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line and liberate the old revolutionary base area in northeastern Jiangxi. , with a front of nearly 400 miles, targeting Shexian, Shangrao, and Guixi, pursuing southward on multiple routes. Among them, the 13th, 14th, and 15th armies of the fourth corps and the 16th and 17th armies of the fifth corps entered the northeastern region of Jiangxi. On April 24, Chen Geng, commander of the Fourth Corps, ordered the 13th Army to form the right column and the 15th Army to form the left column to quickly move along Zhaotan Street in Zhide County (now Dongzhi County), Anhui Province, to Qigong Town, Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province. Liberate the Shangrao area and pursue and annihilate the 68th Army, 46th Army and other units of the National Government. The right column, with the 37th Division of the 13th Army as the vanguard, advanced toward Yiyang along Shimen Street and Chenying; the left column, with the 45th Division of the 15th Army as the vanguard, advanced toward Shangrao along Zhaotan Street, Leping County, and Biwan. On the 26th, the 16th Army and the 17th Army of the Fifth Corps were ordered to advance toward Quzhou along the lines of Jingdezhen, Dexing, Yushan, and Jiangshan to intercept the enemies fleeing westward in Zhejiang. On April 25, the 37th Division of the 13th Army of the Second Field and Fourth Corps occupied Shimen Street in Poyang County, defeated the 61st Division of the National Government Army, captured one of its units, and surrendered 6 light machine guns, 1 heavy machine gun, 2 mortars, and 2 submachine guns. weapons, 25 rifles, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. On April 28, the leading troops of the People's Liberation Army crossed the Le'an River from Lijiadu in Raobu, Poyang County, and entered Shizhen Street. They disarmed the Wannian County security team, covered the transition of the large force, and seized the favorable terrain south of Shizhen Street to intercept The main force of the 68th Army of the Nationalist Government, which fled south, annihilated more than 400 of its people, and the country was liberated for thousands of years on that day. On April 29, the 49th Division of the 17th Army of the 5th Corps liberated Jingdezhen; on the same day, the 45th Division of the 15th Corps of the 4th Corps liberated Leping; the 110th Regiment of the 37th Division of the 13th Corps of the 4th Corps liberated Poyang while chasing and annihilating the fleeing enemies. Xu Cheng, head of the Jiangxi Security Regiment Lead his troops to surrender. In the area south of Leping, the Nationalist Government's 68th Army and part of the 46th Army were encircled and annihilated, and more than 4,000 officers and soldiers including Zhang Xunting, commander of the 119th Division of the 68th Army, Yan Shangyuan, commander of the 143rd Division, and Wu Bingjian, commander of the 174th Division of the 46th Army, were captured. On April 30, the 142nd and 143rd Regiments of the 48th Division of the 16th Army of the Fifth Corps of the People's Liberation Army arrived in Wuyuan via Jingdezhen. They fought fiercely with the Second Security Regiment of Anhui Province and the 212th Division of the 96th Army in Beimen Mountain and Xishan outside the county. The enemy suffered more than 600 casualties. More than 2,400 officers and soldiers of the 141st Division including Colonel Fang Jiao, Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Du Xiangqi, and Colonel Li Ren were captured. More than 100 light and heavy machine guns, 4 radio stations and a batch of other military supplies were seized. Wuyuan was successfully liberated on May 1. The Second Battalion of the Anhui-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Detachment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Wuyuan County Independent Brigade, which had long persisted in fighting behind enemy lines, joined forces with the Second Field Force that liberated Wuyuan County. Also approaching the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line from the Zhejiang border are the 138th and 141st regiments of the 46th division of the 16th Army of the Fifth Corps. On May 3, the 43rd Division of the 15th Army liberated Dexing and joined forces with the Rao (Shangrao) Kai (Kaihua) De (Dexing) Yu (Yushan) Brigade that persisted in fighting behind enemy lines. On the same day, the 33rd Division of the 13th Army entered Yiyang from Leping and annihilated the first section of the 68th Army in the Shaojiafan and Chengjiaqiao areas. Part of the 45th Division of the 15th Army arrived in Geyuan. On the same day, the 45th Division of the 15th Army liberated Shangrao City and Shangrao County. The "Lion" troops and the traffic police force of the Nationalist Government in Rao abandoned the city and fled. All six squadrons of the Nationalist Government's Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Road Protection Command Post who had just taken a military vehicle from Hangzhou to Shangrao Railway Station were captured. On the same day, the 38th Division of the 13th Army liberated Yiyang, and the 41st Division of the 14th Army liberated Yugan. On May 4, the 45th Division of the 15th Army liberated Hengfeng, and immediately liberated Hekou Town and Guangfeng in Qianshan County. The Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi columns of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which had been fighting behind enemy lines for a long time, joined forces with the 110th Regiment of the 37th Division of the 13th Army at the floating bridge head outside the Xiaonan Gate of Guixi County (now Guixi City) on that day. On the same day, the 49th Division of the 17th Army entered Yushan. The 181st Division of the 55th Army of the National Government, the First Division of the 96th Army, the 10th Engineer Regiment and the First Section of the Traffic Police Corps fled to Yushan, where they were surrounded by three regiments of the People's Liberation Army and more than 700 people were wiped out. On May 5, Yushan was liberated. On the same day, the 44th Division of the 15th Army liberated Yongping, Qianshan County, and captured more than 1,500 officers and soldiers from the National Government Traffic Police Corps and Qianshan County Police Security Team. On the same day, the People's Liberation Army annihilated the 427th and 428th Regiments of the 143rd Division of the 68th Army of the National Government in the Yiyang Painting Area, captured more than 1,500 officers and soldiers below the regiment commander, and seized 5 mortars, 15 60-guns, 56 light machine guns, and 200 rifles. Multiple branches. More than 7,000 officers and soldiers including Wang Zhensheng, deputy commander of the 68th Army of the National Government, Du Yunzhong, chief of staff, and Ge Kaixiang, commander of the 81st Division, were forced to surrender to the People's Liberation Army in the Hengfeng, Yiyang, and Guixi areas. At this point, the entire territory of Shangrao was liberated. Since Shangrao is a place where the Kuomintang army has been entrenched for a long time, the Shangrao Concentration Camp where communists and revolutionary masses were detained was built here. Its defensive positions and fortifications are very strong, many of which are made of reinforced concrete. Therefore, our army originally thought that at that time The Kuomintang troops often fought stubbornly and were prepared for a tough battle in advance and made arrangements for it. That is, once the vanguard troops liberating Shangrao engage in fierce battles with the enemy, the Fifth Corps will immediately go to reinforce and annihilate the stubborn enemy. However, the majestic People's Liberation Army had already frightened the enemy, and the process of liberating Shangrao went very smoothly. On May 3, 1949, the 15th Army of the Fourth Corps, led by Commander Qin Jiwei and Political Commissar Gu Jingsheng, captured Dexing City and advanced on the victory. They approached the city and successfully surrounded the three important towns of Hengfeng, Shangrao and Guangfeng.

The enemy's 68th Army, which fled here, defended hastily. After being surrounded by our 15th Army, it became a frightened bird. In the early morning of the 3rd, Qin Jiwei issued a general offensive order to the besieging troops: "In order to completely annihilate the enemy, not let a single enemy escape, we must rush, attack and fight fiercely to annihilate the enemy on the spot!" In fact, the morale of the Kuomintang army had already been weakened. Most of the enemies stationed here have withdrawn, leaving only a few people to guard it. After the enemy's 68th Army collapsed and fled here, the defenders thought they had the "main force" and felt a little relieved, but they were suddenly surrounded by the People's Liberation Army pursuing them. The troops of the 68th Army were in disarray first. The enemies who had stayed in the city were so frightened when they saw the "main force" that they were even more frightened to death. When our army's siege artillery fired, the enemy was in chaos and fled without even firing their guns. In the evening, our army intercepted a military train on the railway line in Guomen Village and captured more than 1,000 Shangrao defenders who were trying to escape. The People's Liberation Army entered the city overnight and Shangrao City was declared liberated. The 46th Division of the 16th Army of the Fifth Corps, which was originally scheduled for reinforcements, arrived at Shangrao Railway Station from Jiangshan in the early morning and has been on standby. Everyone sat scattered on the platform and on the rails, not daring to close their eyes, waiting with great nervousness for the reconnaissance company to return. Report the news of the vanguard troops attacking the city. A few hours later, they received good news: the enemy troops in Shangrao had fled, and the leading troops encountered little resistance. After the liberation of Shangrao, the Northeastern Jiangxi District Party Committee, the Northeastern Jiangxi Administrative Office, and the Northeastern Jiangxi Military Region under the jurisdiction of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China took over the northeastern Jiangxi region. The Party Committee of Northeastern Jiangxi District, the Administrative Office of Northeastern Jiangxi, and the Northeastern Jiangxi Military Region have jurisdiction over four prefectural committees, four commissioner's offices, three military divisions, and one garrison area in Shangrao, Guixi, Fuliang, and Poyang respectively. The Northeastern Jiangxi Administrative Office is located in Shangrao and has jurisdiction over 22 counties, 3 cities, Jingdezhen, Shangrao, and Poyang, and 438 towns. The region has a total area of ??42,349 square kilometers and a population of 2.34 million. On May 3, 1949, the 45th Division of the Second Field and Fourth Corps liberated Guangping Town, Shangrao County. On the same day, according to the decision of the Northeastern Jiangxi District Committee of the Communist Party of China, Shangrao City was established based on the original Guangping Town and was directly under the jurisdiction of Shangrao Prefecture. On the 9th, the Shangrao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shangrao Municipal People's Government announced their establishment, officially announcing that Shangrao has ushered in people's power where the people are the masters of the country. On the 11th, the Shangrao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China with Jin Feng as secretary and the Shangrao Municipal People's Government with Du Enxun as mayor officially started work. On the 13th, the Shangrao City Military Control Commission was established. On the 20th, the Municipal Military Control Commission and the municipal government began to take over the administrative, military, transportation, economic, cultural and educational institutions of the original Guangping Town. By June 7, the replacement work was basically completed and the people's government fully exercised its powers.