The central military and the frontline commanders could reach an agreement on how to fight the enemy in the northeast for a long time.
At that time, Wei Lihuang, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast National Party's "Suppression Chief", followed Jiang Jieshi's intention and led his 550,000-strong army to defend Changchun with two armies of 100,000 people. Eight armies of about 300,000 people were stationed in Shenyang and its surrounding strongholds. 14 divisions of about 150,000 people would guard the front line from Yi County to Shanhaiguan. The main force would be concentrated in Jinzhou and Jinxi to ensure the connection between the inside and outside of Shanhaiguan. Jiang Jieshi and Wei Lihuang's strategic plan was to use heavy troops to defend the three strongholds of Changchun, Shenyang, and Jinzhou, so as to hold back our Northeast Field Army and delay their entry into the pass.
The Central Military Administration and the Central Government believed that: With my 1 million men, no matter how the Northeast Wei Li Huang Group defends, they are already under my control. Their fate of being wiped out is destined. However, for the strategic interests of our army, it would be best to seal off the enemy forces and annihilate them on the spot in the northeast. For this reason, the Northeast Field Army should first attack the Beining Line, capture Jinzhou, seal off the enemy's land access road, and then wipe out the enemy in the northeast. ** They repeatedly emphasized that as long as they conquered Jinzhou first, our army would firmly grasp the initiative in the northeast battlefield. The destruction of Wei Lihuang Group was only a matter of time.
However, as the secretary of the Northeast Bureau, the commander of the Northeast Field Army and the political commissar, he had other ideas. He believed that Changchun was isolated in the hinterland of our Jiefang District and was in a difficult situation. It was the weakness of the northeast battlefield. It was more likely to win than Jinzhou. Moreover, attacking Changchun could attract the enemy from Shengyang to help, creating an opportunity for mobile warfare. And attacking Jinzhou was not only difficult to conquer, but it was also difficult to supply hundreds of thousands of troops to the small area of southern Liao. Therefore, he proposed to the central military and government that the "fundamental opinion on the war" was to attack Changchun.
The central military and government attached great importance to the opinions of the government and repeatedly considered them. ** He believed that the enemy in Changchun was isolated and easy to attack. However, the enemy is trying to use Changchun to contain our army and cover the enemy in Shenyang and Jinzhou to improve their defense.
If our army attacks Changchun first, it will be exactly what the enemy wants. At the same time, when our army attacks Changchun, the enemy in Mukden can advance to help Changchun, and when they retreat, they can join forces with the enemy in Jinzhou to retreat into the pass or escape by sea. From a strategic point of view, attacking Changchun was obviously the worst option.
In times of war, the Tang army had always respected the opinions of the frontline commanders. When his correct ideas were not understood by the frontline commanders, as long as the situation was not particularly urgent, he would always wait patiently and not rush to give orders. Therefore, the central military and government and the Tang Dynasty agreed to the plan of the Tang Dynasty to attack Changchun first, but at the same time, they stated that it was not particularly disadvantageous to go south, or there were insurmountable difficulties.
In the middle of May 1948, the Tang army tried to attack Changchun with two columns and seven independent divisions, and found that the enemy was much stronger than originally estimated. Therefore, the Tang sent a message to the central government: They decided to change the attack on Changchun to a "long siege" and go all out to fight on the Beining line in the south.
After receiving the telegram, he said,"Since we are not confident in attacking Changchun, we can and should stop this plan and change it to the plan to fight south earlier.”
Then, the central government and the government sent a message saying,""We should use our main forces on the Beining Line and ignore the enemy forces in Changchun and Mukden. He was also prepared to annihilate the enemy who might come to help from Chang and Shen during the attack on Jinzhou. We must focus our attention on Jinzhou and try to capture it as quickly as possible. Even if you fail to achieve all your goals, as long as you conquer Jinzhou, you will have the initiative and it will be a great victory.”
On September 12th, the Battle of Liaoshen started from Shanhaiguan on Beining Road to Tangshan Road. Our army quickly cut off the connection between Jinzhou and Jinxi, and removed all the strongholds in this section. At the same time, the armies from the south had surrounded Jin Zhou.
Jinzhou was the throat of the northeast that led to the pass. If the People's Liberation Army occupied Jinzhou, they would be able to realize the strategic plan of sealing off Jiang's army in the northeast and annihilating them one by one. If Jiang's army could hold Jinzhou, they would be able to control the Liaoxi Corridor and form a strategic alliance with Fu Zuoyi's group in North China. Once they lost, the hundreds of thousands of elite troops in Northeast China would face extinction.
Therefore, when Jiang Jieshi saw that the People's Liberation Army was going straight for his throat, he quickly decided to add four new divisions to form the "Eastern Army Corps" and Liao Yaoxiang to form the Western Army Corps to help Jinzhou defend the enemy.
Jiang's reinforcement plan was within the expectations of the Tang army.
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