Brief introduction of lunan campaign

1 946 After the Battle of Northern Jiangsu in mid-February, it was reported that the 26th Division of the Kuomintang Army and1Fast Column (adapted from the 80th Brigade, equipped with medium tanks, howitzers and automobiles) which attacked Linyi, the capital of Shandong Liberated Area, were annihilated in Northern Jiangsu. Its left wing reorganized 5 1 division in Zaozhuang and Qicun areas; The right wing reorganized the 59th Division and the 77th Division in the area north of Taierzhuang.

At the end of the campaign in northern Jiangsu, the Central Military Commission instructed that the next step should be to concentrate on annihilating the enemy in southern Shandong and retake Zaozhuang and Taierzhuang with cameras, hoping to fight a greater annihilation war than that in northern Jiangsu. Accordingly, Chen Yi, commander of the New Fourth Army, commander and political commissar of the Shandong Field Army, and Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, led the main forces of the two field armies to move rapidly from northern Jiangsu to southern Shandong, and decided to form a right column with the 10 regiments of the 8th, 9th, 10 divisions and the 4th division and the * *12 regiments of the Central Shandong Military Region. The left column consists of 1 column and 1 division *** 15 regiment. At first, it surrounded the isolated and prominent BGF 26 Division and the 1 Express Column, and then expanded to Yixian and Zaozhuang. At the same time, Tan Zhenlin, political commissar of the Central China Field Army, commanded the second and ninth columns, the sixth and seventh divisions, and 24 regiments, including the 13 brigade, to stop the Kuomintang troops from going north from Yancheng and Lianshui in northern Jiangsu. The troops of the Lunan Military Region went deep behind enemy lines to carry out guerrilla activities and harassed Kuomintang troops. The Central Military Commission said in the "Instructions on Campaign Deployment to Comrade Chen Yi and Su Yu": "The Battle of Lunan is related to the overall situation. Even if all the cities in northern Jiangsu are lost, there is no way to recover them ... It seems appropriate to fight the 26th Division and 3rd Brigade in the first battle."

The participating troops secretly entered the assembly area on June 1 947+1October1day as scheduled to mobilize and prepare for the battle. On the evening of the 2nd, it suddenly attacked the 26th Division and 1 Fast Column. On the morning of the 3 rd, the siege and division were completed, and the positions were occupied in the direction of Yixian and Zaozhuang, ready to block. On the 3 rd, an all-out attack was launched day and night, annihilating most of the headquarters of the 26 th division of Majiazhuang, making the division lose its command; Adowa's 44th Brigade stationed in Prince Edward Twitchell Hall Jr; Eliminate most of the 169 brigades that broke through the border village. On the 4th, 10, 1 Fast Column and the rest of the reorganized 26th Division broke through to Yixian by tanks. It is raining and snowing, the road is muddy, and the action is very difficult. The left and right columns seized the favorable opportunity, pursued, detoured and blocked the enemy, and broke in in many ways, compressing the fleeing enemy in the low-lying silt area of Tangxi Lake (also known as Leaking Juice Lake, Leaking Huze Lake and Leaking Lake) north of Lanling, and then destroying its tanks and armored vehicles by means of explosives, grenades and fire. 1 fast column and other departments race against time, and personnel, vehicles and artillery are in chaos. By the time of the fierce battle in 15, except for 7 tanks that fled to Yixian, the 26th Division and 1 Express Column were basically wiped out. The Kuomintang troops that came to aid in Yixian and Zaozhuang were repelled. The 59th and 77th BGF divisions, located south of the 26th BGF division, heard the news and hastily retreated from Taierzhuang and the area south of the Canal.

On the evening of the 9th, the right column launched an attack on Yixian County, first clearing the periphery, and 10 attacked the city at night. 1 1 fought day and night until dawn, annihilating and reorganizing the 1st Brigade of 5 1 Division, the 98th Regiment and the 28th Regiment of 52nd Division. At the same time, the left column attacked in the direction of Zaozhuang, and even the strongholds such as Guo Liji and Qicun in the periphery of Zaozhuang wiped out the reorganized 5 1 division 1 3 brigade (owed1regiment), and then launched a house-to-house campaign against Zaozhuang City with the cooperation of the 8 divisions of the right column. By the afternoon of the 20th, 56438 will be reorganized. During the campaign, Shandong Liberated Area organized more than 600,000 former migrant workers, more than 65,438 vehicles +0.5 million vehicles and more than 6,000 stretchers, which effectively guaranteed the troops' operations. The campaign lasted 19 days, with more than 8,000 casualties in Shandong Field Army and East China Field Army, and captured more than 53,000 fighter planes, 24 tanks, more than 200 guns and 474 cars of Kuomintang Army. It was the first time that the PLA annihilated two reorganization divisions and 1 express column of Kuomintang Army in East China, which defeated the plan of the Kuomintang Army to attack Linyi and achieved.

Attached drawings: 1947, 65438+ 10, Chen Yi and others led the Lunan campaign, and * * * annihilated two enemy reorganization divisions and one fast column, with more than 50,000 people. Chen Yi (getting on the tank) and Zhang (front tank and right tank) took photos with the soldiers in front of the captured tanks. It has set a new record (53,530) for our army to wipe out the enemy in one battle since the liberation war.

It has set a record for our army to wipe out 35,000 enemies in one operation since the Liberation War.

It has set a record for our army to annihilate two whole divisions in one operation since the liberation war.