On October 25, 1948, the main force of 100,000 troops of liao yaoxiang of the Northeast Nationalist Army attempted to withdraw from the northeast, and Dongye's first priority was to encircle and annihilate this large force. At this time, an inconspicuous battle took place in western Liaoning, and only one platoon of fighters was thrown into the Eastern Field, and the number was only 25, which was not a great battle. But it was precisely this humble war that directly led to the rapid rout of the 100,000 troops of the 9th Corps, the main force of the Northeast Nationalist Army.
If the battle is not carefully explained, no one may believe that 25 people can play such a big role. Of course, the 25 men could not annihilate the Ace Corps, but their raid caused a chain reaction, causing the 9 Corps to panic and embark on the road of no return. The strength of the 9 corps is strong, even if our army clearly occupies a superiority in strength in the northeast, it is not easy to annihilate the opponent. Higashino noji issued an order that the columns should act separately and have full autonomy, with a simple purpose: to detect the whereabouts of the Liao corps as early as possible, engage the enemy, and the other troops quickly converged to form a siege. This method of warfare is very correct, if everything waits until Noji approves it and then acts in a unified manner, with the degree of mechanization of the 9 Corps, it may have been out of danger.
Ren Bingquan, commander of the 2nd Platoon of the 3rd Battalion, 21st Regiment, 7th Division, Dongye, learned from the villagers that there were many cars of the Nationalist army driving in during the day, and the soldiers were carrying machines with antennas. Ren immediately judged that the Hu family shack might be a division or regimental headquarters of the enemy, so he arranged for 25 fighters to lurk outside the shack and attack at night. After nightfall, a truck full of officers drove past the entrance of the village, and the second platoon of fighters immediately strafed fiercely with machine guns and rushed forward to surround the truck. The Battle of the Hu Family Shacks began.
The enemy did not expect that there were Dongye troops here, and it was impossible to judge the strength of our army for a while when they heard gunshots at night. 25 fighters shelled the enemy's central garrison with mortars captured on trucks. At this time, there was no one else in the house, it was the commander of the 9th Corps, Liao Yaoxiang, and his corps headquarters!
Although we had few soldiers, the sound of machine guns and cannons was infinitely amplified at night, and Liao Yaoxiang panicked and ordered to quickly transfer the corps headquarters to avoid the "main force of the communist army"! After the 25 soldiers rushed into the house, they found out from the documents on the table that this was the 9th Corps Headquarters, and realized that they had really caught a big fish. It was obviously impossible to capture Liao Yaoxiang with these 25 guns, and Ren Bingquan decided to sacrifice himself, use the sound of guns and fire to attract the attention of large troops, and encircle the Liao corps. After the decision, Ren Bingquan asked a soldier to quickly rush out of the Hu family shack to report the news, and he led the remaining 2 platoons of soldiers to fight to the death, and finally all died in the Hu family shack.
After the battle, the position of the enemy corps was completely exposed, and more than 200,000 main troops in Dongye quickly surrounded the Liao corps, while the enemy was still terrified at this time, in order to buy time to use a clear telegram to ask the troops of the nationalist army to transfer to Shenyang, further completely exposing the position of the troops and the route of travel, which soon caused the consequences of being surrounded and annihilated.