On May 11th, the head of the US consultant team, Ba Dawei, personally led 9 US advisors and interpreter to visit Shen and meet Wei Lihuang. In addition to the secret negotiations between Ba and Wei, they publicly announced that the main purpose of the consultant group's visit to Shengyang was:
(1) To inspect the facilities and capacity of the airport;
(2) Find a warehouse and prepare to transport 10 divisions of American equipment, scheduled to arrive in March and April 1949;
(3) Inspecting the new 1st Army, 3rd Army, 6th Army, 207th Division, and other American equipment units, preparing to replace the overage light and heavy weapons.
After the inspection, Wei Lihuang said to Zheng Tingji," There will be a way once the equipment of ten divisions arrive." Wei Lihuang had a good relationship with the Americans through the expeditionary force and his visit to the United States. He asked the head of the American consultant, Ba Dawei, to transport these materials directly to the northeast and not through Nanjing.
Ba Dawei had long hated the logistics department of the Nanking government because everything that was shipped in was embezzled and sold or used for other purposes. He had specially gone to the northeast to do some research. After looking at the airport warehouse and other situations, he decided to ship it directly to Yingkou in the northeast. When Jiang Jieshi heard about this, he was furious. If the United States and Wei were directly linked, how bad would it be if he was separated? That would not only turn the northeast into an independent country. It would also damage his power as the president. With his interference and quarrels, the Americans finally failed to transport weapons to the Northeast.
At this time, when he saw that the various generals in Northeast China, from Commander-in-Chief Wei Lihuang down to the commanders of the corps, the defense, and the army commanders, did not agree with his plan, he decided to move Fan Hanjie's Ji-Ren-Liao Border Command from Qinghuangdao to Jinzhou. Jiang Yaofan was ready to break through the Shenjin line, and Shandong transferred the 9th Army Huang Shu Department and the 54th Army Que Hanqian Department from Huludao to the command of Fan.
At the beginning of June, Jiang asked Fan Hanjie to step up preparations to open the Shenjin line. At this time, Wei Lihuang advocated consolidating the defense of Shenyang, Jinxi and Huludao. In this regard, there were several disputes between Jiang and Wei. In July, Wei Lihuang was summoned to Nanjing to meet Jiang to solve this problem. Jiang then agreed to change the Ji-ReLiao Border Command to Jinzhou Command Center of Northeast "Suppression General", and Fan Yi would still be the deputy commander-in-chief of Northeast "Suppression General" and the director of Jinzhou Command Center. Wei Lihuang advocated that the command post should be set up in Huludao, while Jiang advocated that it should be set up in Jinzhou. He asked Fan to move to Huludao as a defender. Fan also listened to Jiang's instructions and ignored Wei's opinions. According to Fan Hanjie, people familiar with the inside story of the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing said that Jiang had originally planned to let Liao Yaoxiang bring the main force of Shenyang to Jinzhou, giving Liao full authority over the Northeast National Army. Later, seeing that Liao was restrained by Wei Lihuang and could not carry out Jiang's orders, he planned to use Fan Hanjie to break through the Shenjin line, withdraw the main force of Northeast China, and hand over power to Fan.
When Jiang took command of the battle, he did not analyze objective conditions such as the enemy's situation, the comparison of forces, morale, and combat effectiveness. He only acted according to his subjective wishes, as long as the generals listened to his orders. In order to withdraw the main force of the northeast to Jinzhou, Jiang then tried his best to find generals in the northeast who could carry out his orders. At first, he was interested in Liao Yaoxiang, and later he was interested in Fan Hanjie, while Wei Lihuang was suspended on one side. As a result, among the generals of the Northeast, each had their own personal interests and ulterior motives. Each had a part of their strength, and all of them had to directly listen to Jiang Jieshi's orders. No one could unify their command. The focus of the conflict between Jiang and Wei was still the problem of opening the Shen Jin line and withdrawing the main force to Jinzhou.
On July 20, Wei Lihuang was summoned to Nanjing. When Jiang took over, he decided to change the headquarters of the Ji-ReLiao Border Region into the Jinzhou Command Center of the Northeast "Suppression General". Fan Hanjie was the deputy commander of the Northeast "Suppression General" and the director of the Jinzhou Command Center. At first, Wei Lihuang planned to move the command center to Huludao, but Jiang Jieshi insisted on setting it in Jinzhou. Fan Hanjie listened to Jiang Jieshi's words and finally set the command center in Jinzhou and personally stationed it in Jinzhou. Thus, there was a contradiction between Wei Lihuang and Fan Hanjie. In June and July, Jiang then made the strategic intention of defending the city. In his warrant to Fan Hanjie, he said,"The strategic requirement of the northeast is to stick to the current situation so that we can't lose a city or a soldier, which is beneficial to the battle inside the pass.”Later, at the meeting at the president's residence, Jiang Jieshi officially decided: In the northeast war, they were temporarily on the defensive, Changchun was still firmly defended, and Beining Road was temporarily blocked.
Jiang Jieshi had always been insistent on his plan to retreat south. He had his own reasons for doing so. First, Jiang Jieshi began to believe that he had a certain degree of confidence in seizing the northeast. Therefore, he used the New 1st Army and the New 6th Army of the five main forces in the northeast and sent seven armies to seize the northeast. He was determined to seize the northeast. In the end, in just two years, the Northeast National Army was surrounded and divided, and their faces were very ugly. If the retreat was successful and Jinzhou was held, the Northeast would still be intact.
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