In the East Street of Yaowangmiao, 11th Street of Yangliuqing Town, there is a courtyard house with blue bricks and gray tiles, which is the Tianjin Front Headquarters of the Pingjin Campaign. When Tianjin was liberated in 1949, the commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army fought wits and courage with the Kuomintang reactionaries, smashed one conspiracy after another of the reactionaries, and won the victory of liberating Tianjin.
In December 1948, the Tianjin Underground Armed Force, Jinnan Detachment, led by the Communist Party of China, led the vanguard of the 70th Regiment of the 8th Column and 24th Division of the Northeast Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to seize Yangliuqing Town. On December 19, the People's Liberation Army fought fiercely with the Kuomintang defenders in Yangliuqing Town for a day and night, defeated a regiment of the Fifth Brigade of the Kuomintang Army, captured more than 500 enemies, and the remnants of the enemy fled back to Tianjin. On December 20, 1948, Yangliuqing Town ushered in the liberation.
Immediately, the Northeast Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army established the "Tianjin Front Command Headquarters of the Pingjin Campaign" at Daijiaqianpu on Yaowangmiao East Street in Yangliuqing Town, under the full command of Liu Yalou, chief of staff of the Northeast Field Army, to liberate Tianjin.
At this time, Chen Changjie, who was cowering in Tianjin, was unwilling to accept the fate of defeat, and repeatedly sent enemy agents to reconnoiter the location of the Tianjin front command in the Pingjin Campaign, in a vain attempt to send planes to blow up the command post. Under the guise of negotiations, the enemy sent a delegation of businessmen disguised as hostile to find out. The Northeast Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army has long mastered the enemy's conspiracy. On that day, when the enemy representatives and his party came to Yang Liuqing in a jeep with white flags, Chief of Staff Liu Yalou planned to let the secretary inform them. Commander Liu is on his way, please wait, about half an hour before you can arrive. When it was almost half an hour, Chief of Staff Liu Yalou put on his military uniform and was equipped with a short gun. I went out through the aisle door of the headquarters, got into a jeep and drove in the direction of the Ziya River, went around in a circle, and then returned to the headquarters by car. After Chief of Staff Liu Yalou got out of the car, he entered the door in the dust, just like the deputies apologized and said: "Oh, the road is too far, how can I not arrive in time." Later, the spies went back and passed on the wrong message to Chen Changjie. Chen Changjie mistakenly believed that the PLA headquarters was in the area of Yixing Mansion in Tianjin, and the main direction of attack was to be set in the north of Tianjin, so he put his main force 151st Division. Transferred from the center of the city to the north of the city. In fact, Chief of Staff Liu Yalou came to attack the east and west, and diverted the tiger from the mountain.
But the enemy was too cunning, and finally found out the news that our army headquarters was in Yangliuqing, so Chen Changjie sent planes to bomb Yangliuqing.
There was no danger, and the enemy's planes bombed the Tianjin Front Headquarters of the Pingjin Campaign twice, both of which failed. As the wheel of history moves forward, the rule of the Kuomintang reactionaries will inevitably perish, and their aviation pilots have long known that the general trend has passed, and they have long been absent-minded.
At the same time that the Kuomintang reactionaries bombed Yang Liuqing, the Northeast Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army formulated the operational policy of "advancing from east to west, blocking and cutting off, first dividing and then encircling and annihilating." Subsequently, the People's Liberation Army cleared the outlying strongholds of Tianjin, tightened the encirclement, and formed a posture of "catching turtles in urns" against the enemy.
On January 14, 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched a general offensive on Tianjin, and Tianjin ushered in the liberation on January 15.