In November 1947, Lao Jiang, who was anxious to engage the main force of our army, sent a telegram ordering Luo Lirong's Third Army to drive from Shijiazhuang to the Baobei battlefield in an attempt to attack our army from the north and south.
Commander Yang (Dezhi), commander of the 19th Corps of the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army, who was moving westward, was ordered to quickly lead his troops to turn south and concentrate superior forces to surround and annihilate Luo Lirong.
The main force of our army in the Northern Baobei Battlefield also fired a false shot, flying troops to the south, and together with Yang Dezhi's corps, surrounded Luo Lirong's Third Army in a village area dozens of kilometers south of Qingfengdian.
The Third Army was Chiang Kai-shek's confidant, well-equipped and well-trained, and was now shouldering the dual responsibility of defending Shijiazhuang and aiding and protecting the northern battlefield. Annihilating this enemy is of great significance to alleviating the pressure on the Baobei battlefield and attacking Shijiazhuang in the next step.
However, Jiang Jun was also well aware of the strategic significance of Luo Lirong's northward journey to protect the northern battlefield, so he spared no expense to rush south to aid the Third Army, including the 3 main divisions and 19 infantry regiments of Li Wen's 34th Army.
Chen Zhengxiang's column and Zheng Weishan's column, which remained in the Baobei battlefield to contain the enemy, totaled 4 brigades and 12 infantry regiments, and immediately accepted the task of blocking li wen's southern assistance to ensure that Yang Dezhi's corps completely annihilated Luo Lirong's Third Army.
The Baobei region is flat and is the center of the North China Plain. The implementation of blockade operations on this terrain is different from the mountain bayonet valley making and other tactics, which often requires fortification everywhere, but the blockers have limited troops, cannot be fully deployed, cannot be fortified everywhere, and can only focus on fortification. Blocking enemies in plains will be more difficult than other terrains.
Therefore, Commander Yang Dezhi, who was familiar with the nature and characteristics of the obstruction war, gave Chen Zhengxiang and Zheng Weishan, two famous generals, an order to "entangle" and "resist": "Stop the enemy, drag the enemy, and make it impossible for the enemy to advance!" ”
On October 17, Li Wen knew that there was no danger in blocking the PLA in the plain area, so he commanded his troops to avoid our blockade and quickly advance south along the road.
Chen Zhengxiang and Zheng Weishan, two famous generals, immediately made a decision and ordered their troops to quickly move straight to the south, racing with the enemy's car wheels with their legs in an attempt to stop the enemy in front of the enemy.
One side struggled to dodge, the other struggled to get tangled, and both sides racked their brains to achieve their respective combat objectives, competing for the first round in a "tangled" fashion before the blades of the two sides intersected.
The two sides finally met in the Shajiadian area. Our army hastily set up a blocking position in front of the enemy army, and the enemy swarmed in, forming a confrontational situation. As a result, the detour turned into a strong attack, and the avoidance became a bloody battle.
The sixteenth army, the vanguard of the enemy, concentrated its forces and fired firepower at our blocking positions. As soon as the shelling stopped, the enemy pressed heavily under the threat of the Overseers.
Our army concentrated its forces and firepower to resist the enemy's main offensive direction, and the two sides launched a fierce battle.
When the enemy shells, our army conceals; the enemy infantry charges, and our army enters the position to resist; the enemy rushes to the position, and our army and the enemy engage in hand-to-hand combat to carry out a counter-charge.
Repeated shelling, repeated attacks, repeated counterattacks, repeated counter-charges... Our army's breakthrough against the enemy adopted the method of "hard resistance" to block the enemy in front.
Seeing that the cunning Li Wen could not attack for a long time, he ordered the main force to divide the main force into two routes: one along the railway and the road from the front facing Liu Xiangdian and Shi Gezhuang to attack our army's positions, holding back the main force of our army; the other way through the Qingmiao camp to the flank of Loess Gang.
If this move is successful, we can once again abandon our blocking troops and rush directly to the Qingfengdian to help, or we can carry out a north-south attack on our blocking troops from behind.
The main force of our army, attracted by the enemy's frontal offensive, ignored the detours on the enemy's flanks... All kinds of military information, dangers abound, and the enemy's detour and success will mean the failure of our army's blockade!
"We must not let the enemy pass, but we must stop the enemy by any means, entangle the enemy, and ensure that the main force of our army will completely annihilate Luo Lirong!"
When Zheng Weishan discovered the enemy's attempt, he immediately ordered his troops to divide their troops against the enemy: one unit quickly pounced on the roundabout enemy, intercepted the detoured enemy, and forced the enemy to turn around and engage; the other still resisted the enemy from the front, so that the enemy could not cross.
The blockade and counter-resistance warfare once again entered a "gelatinous" state, and the obstruction warfare showed a situation in which "entanglement" and "resistance" coexisted.
Our army's 4 brigades and 12 infantry regiments blocked the superior enemy of 4 divisions and 19 infantry regiments, and the weapons and equipment were even more inferior.
After many contests between the two sides, our army has faced tremendous difficulties in the blocking positions that have no danger to defend, and the positions that are not strong enough have almost been completely destroyed by enemy artillery fire, the ammunition supply is not available, and the casualties are relatively large...
If we continue to rely on positions to block the enemy, our strength will be obviously insufficient. If you are broken by the enemy, the consequences are unimaginable!
Under the powerful offensive of the enemy, Commanders Chen and Zheng were determined to strike at the strong enemy in depth, entangle the enemy with mobility, rely on multiple positions, and resist the enemy step by step.
After a short break after a fierce battle between the two sides, the Levin Clique threw all its reserves into the ranks of the attack, and attempted to break through our army's blocking defense line before the 21st in an attempt to break through the defensive line of our army at all costs at all costs, regardless of artillery shells, manpower, and at all costs.
Levin is crazy! Under the pressure of the enemy all crazy!
The roaring shells pulled the blue-gray cold light, cutting countless blood holes in the sky, and many huge iron blocks cracked in the air, shaking the earth.
Li Wen mobilized a group of veterans from various units to form a death squad.
The daredevils all took off their shirts, their faces were fierce, and their eyes showed a fierce light. Each carried a basket made of wicker filled with American Raigua-style grenades.
They roared in horror, one by one, as if possessed by ghosts. In the impact of the death squad, there are constantly people falling, and those who have not fallen are still rushing forward without dying, the speed is not reduced, the roar is not reduced...
After the fierce battle until noon, The Li Wen Group broke through the positions of the Half-Wall Dian and Shandong Battalions garrisoned by the Fifth Brigade. Successively, they broke through the positions of the Shi Gezhuang and Xiliu camps where the Eighth Brigade was stationed. Levin's reinforcements were advancing aggressively.
Our army, on the other hand, quickly shrank its strength, took a step back, and built a series of new defensive lines to resist the enemy's attack step by step.
Li Wen succeeded in one step, the old drama was repeated, and our army took another step back, repeatedly and repeatedly...
The Li Wen Clique was stubbornly entangled by the soft and hard resistance methods of our blocking troops, and advanced forward with painstaking and slow progress.
On October 21, when this blockade battle was still in the midst of a fierce struggle, and it was not clear who had already gained the upper hand, the Third Army of Luo Lirong had not yet waited for the arrival of reinforcements, and under the strong offensive of the main force of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the entire army was destroyed, the enemy 17,000 people were annihilated, and Luo Lirong was captured.
The Battle of Qingfengdian, in which tens of thousands of troops and many famous generals participated in the battle and fought fiercely for four days and three nights, came to an end, achieving a great victory in the history of the army and a masterpiece of General Yang Dezhi's encirclement and reinforcement.