On June 2 1 day, the Central Plains Bureau requested the central authorities to implement the major breakthrough plan at the end of the month. The Central Committee replied on the 23rd that it agreed to break through immediately, the sooner the better, and there was no worries. Survival first, victory first. On 24th, the Central Plains Military Region ordered the troops to secretly assemble in the defense zone from 26th, so as to break through the Pinghan Line blocked by the Kuomintang army on 29th as scheduled and smoothly implement the strategic shift before the Kuomintang army launched a general attack on us. In this way, the national liberation war began with the breakthrough of the Central Plains.
On June 24, the first brigade of column A accepted the eastward mission, confused the enemy and covered the main force to break through to the west. That night, Brigadier General Pi Dingjun arranged for one or two regiments to move eastward, southeast and northeast, posing as a decisive battle with the enemy to attract the enemy. On the 26th, Kuomintang troops attacked us violently, and a brigade stubbornly blocked us in Xiji, Splashing Mountains and Rivers, Zique Garden and other places. After more than ten hours of fierce fighting, a few troops remained in the forefront, and most of them moved to the south of Baique Garden. Withdraw the forward troops on 28th, put them behind the enemy, and break through to the south. Then it suddenly moved eastward to the east of Xiaojieling, and successfully passed the blockade of Huangchuan and Macheng highways operated by the Kuomintang for half a year. Faced with this situation, the Kuomintang urgently ordered the seventy-two troops attacking our main force to turn around and pursue from the east, and deployed forty-eight troops in Yuexi, Shucheng and Buried Hill, and transferred two divisions from Fuyang and Anqing to Shangcheng and Jinzhai, forming a pocket shape, in an attempt to annihilate a brigade at the eastern foot of Dabie Mountain.
A group of athletes, regardless of difficulties and obstacles, are not afraid of fatigue, and bravely and tactfully deal with the enemies who are blocked before and chased after. July 1 day captured Songziguan, the traffic throat of Henan, Hubei and Anhui. /kloc-arrived at Dahuaping, Huoshan on 0/0, and fought fiercely for two hours to rob the steep Qingfeng Ridge. After arriving at Mozitan, he repelled a regiment of the 48 th Army, crossed the Aohe natural barrier and jumped out of the encirclement. On July 13, three columns marched side by side. 15, they captured Guanting Town on the road from Lu 'an to Hefei, and arrived at Wushan Temple, not far from Huainan Road, with the assistance of Huainan underground party. 18, they safely passed through Dingyuan area and arrived at Chihe Town near Jinpu Railway, the last blockade line of the Kuomintang. 19 defeated the enemy forces in Mingguang, Guandian and Chuxian and fought our way out. 5,000 people from the whole brigade crossed Jinpu Road from Shimen Mountain and joined forces with Huainan Brigade in the northeast of Third Street and west of Xuyi. At this point, a brigade lasted 24 days, traveled 2000 miles, fought dozens of times, and successfully entered the Jiangsu-Anhui liberated area.
More than 15 thousand people broke through the north road and left Xuanhuadian area on the evening of June 26, heading northwest. On the 29th, from Liulin and Lijiazhai, they broke through the first blockade of the Kuomintang army and quickly crossed the Pinghan Railway. I went to Jiangxi Store and Zhujia Store on July 1 day. When Chiang Kai-shek learned this, he quickly ordered Herry Liu to pursue it with all his might. Herry Liu dispatched seven armies, including the Tenth Army and the Sixty-sixth Army, to Tianhekou in the northwest and southwest of the mall in an attempt to panic in our army there. But our army jumped out of the encirclement and marched west. The Kuomintang military camp has not yet been formed, and the North Road Breakthrough Force has crossed the Tianhekou and entered the area north of Zaoyang.
After the Kuomintang emptied its air again, it deployed fifteen or forty-one armies to pursue it, and dispatched twelve planes to scout and fire, blocking the Tanghe ferry, in an attempt to cooperate with the ten armies to panic in our army in the Moss area between northern Hubei and Henan merchants before July 7. Our army broke the ambush and interception of the tenth army on the North Road. Regardless of fatigue, they marched 100 miles a day, crossed the moss in front of the enemy, seized the ferry of Chengjiahe and Guotan, flew over Tanghe and Baihe, crossed the southwest plain of Henan, and inserted into the southern foot of Funiu Mountain. On July 12, the whole army successfully entered the scheduled areas such as Neixiang, Zhechuan and Jingziguan.
In order to disperse the enemy, the North Road Army divided its troops in Nanshigang, Neixiang, on July 1 1. Li Xiannian and Zheng Weisan led the Central Plains Bureau, the troops directly under the Military Region, the 13th Brigade, the 15th Brigade and the 45th Regiment as the left, and marched to Nanhuatang. Wang Zhen led the 359th Brigade and the cadre brigade to the right, and arrived at Yangshan and Zhashui via Jingziguan. The troops marched in the torrential rain for several days in a row, and it was even more difficult to fight the enemy's pursuers. 13, a fierce battle was launched with the enemy in Xichuan City and Maden Line. 14, left-wing troops entered Meijiapu, north of Yunxian County, regardless of the shooting and bombing of enemy planes. The troops on the right were blocked by the enemy and could not enter Jingziguan. They also crossed the Danjiang River and bypassed the west. In this way, the Kuomintang reactionaries' dream of destroying our army east of Danjiang was once again shattered.
The Kuomintang reactionaries annihilated my heart and never died. Herry Liu also sent seven divisions to Jingziguan and Yunxian, and dreamed that our army was panicking in Baisangguan on the south bank of Taohe River. Before the enemy arrived at the designated place, I had entered the Hubei-Shaanxi border region. Zhao Xitian, commander of the tenth enemy army, pushed on Baoyu Stone Ridge and Nanhuatang, trying to cooperate with the First Division of the Northern First Army to squeeze me into the valley near Baoyu Stone Ridge and destroy me.
On July 15, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China called the Central Plains Bureau and pointed out that Hu Zongnan was blocked by Qiang Bing and it was difficult to pass northward. It is the glorious task of our Central Plains Army to contain a large number of enemy troops and create base areas behind enemy lines. Therefore, our Central Plains armies should fight flexibly in the five provinces of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Sichuan and Shaanxi to contain a large number of Kuomintang troops and cooperate with our main forces in North China and Central China.
The right-wing forces that forced the Danjiang River to go west blocked the 53rd Division and the 1st Division in Baoyuling and Yuhuang Mountain. After two days and one night of fierce fighting, they defeated two enemy divisions. After dealing with my enemies several times in Zhulinguan and Goutouping, I fought in Changgoukou for three days and three nights. On the 25th, it broke through the blockade from Yangshan to Manchuan Pass and entered Zhen 'an and Zhashui areas. In the Battle of Goutouping, Yan Longbin, deputy head of the 7 19 regiment, was seriously injured and died without medicine. On August 2, the right-wing army liberated Zhen 'an and Yungai Temple, and divided its forces in Zhen 'an and Tussah in three ways according to the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Plains Bureau to carry out guerrilla warfare and create base areas. But the enemy was afraid that I would stand here and threaten Xi and Hanzhong, so he mobilized twenty regiments to surround me constantly, putting me in a very difficult position. With the approval of the CPC Central Committee, our army found the way to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
At the beginning of August, the soldiers on the right were divided into two ways. /kloc-After repelling two pursuers in Huayang on 0/5, they marched forward, crossed Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway, Weihe Plain, Longhai Railway and Xilan Highway, and returned to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region with the help of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region troops on 29. On September 12, Yang Huanmin, political commissar of the 13th brigade, and Bo Wanke, deputy brigade commander, also led the 39th regiment into the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
On July 17, when the left-wing troops arrived at Nanhuatang, the first division of Hu Zongnan elite troops had blocked the commanding heights of Yuhuangding and the important pass near Nanhuatang, and the stern chase department came at me again. The situation is extremely dangerous. The leading comrades of the Central Plains Bureau made a decisive decision: resolutely seize enemy positions and open the road to Shaanxi! The 37th Regiment of the 13th Brigade was ordered to attack the main position of Yuhuangding, the 38th Regiment attacked from the right, the 39th Regiment covered on the left, and the 45th Regiment followed closely. After a night of fierce fighting and repeated charges for five or six times, they finally broke the blockade of the strong enemy and tore a passage to ensure that the whole army entered southern Shaanxi. In this battle, Li Jinshan, battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 37th Regiment, and many other comrades gave their precious lives.
On the morning of July 20th, the left-wing troops successfully crossed the Hubei-Shaanxi border. The Kuomintang reactionaries sent 20 troops to intercept in Zhaojiachuan and Liangjiafen. Our 45th and 37th regiments fought fiercely with the enemy for more than ten hours, and the enemy swooped down 17 times with six times my strength. I have always adhered to the Qianpoling position and defended the safe passage of the whole army. In this battle, more than 400 people were killed or injured, and Wang, the head of my 45th regiment, died heroically.
In late July, the left-wing troops survived the extreme fatigue of long-distance marching operations and joined forces with Gongdefang, a guerrilla group in southern Shaanxi led by our party, in Longjuzhai (now Danfeng County). On August 3rd, the troops of Henan Military Region broke through the enemy125th division and local teams many times along the way, successfully entered the Funiu Mountain area and joined forces with the main forces in Lushi area. The whole army in Beilu successfully realized the strategic transfer task.
According to the instructions of the Central Committee, the Central Plains Bureau decided to launch guerrilla warfare in Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi areas with the North Road Army as the main force; Create base areas. On August 3, the Central Plains Bureau issued an order to divide the area north of Hanshui into four military sub-zones, and to divide our troops entering this area into four military sub-zones. As a result, various units launched strategies on the spot, launched guerrilla warfare and created base areas.
At the same time, in order to support the struggle of the Central Plains breakout troops on the exterior lines, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region mainly attacked the Kaifeng-Xuzhou section of Longhai Road, forcing most of the enemy troops pursuing our army to move eastward. The military struggle in the border region of Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi began to turn into confrontation. According to the instructions of the Central Plains Bureau on opening up the base areas, all divisions actively attacked the enemy's hometown to protect the armed forces, destroyed the reactionary regime, and mobilized the masses to resist donations, taxes and poverty, which laid the foundation for the establishment of the base areas. At the end of August, the Central Committee approved Wen Jianwu as the commander of the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi Military Region, and Feng Wang as the political commissar and party secretary of the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi Military Region.
The activities of our army in the border areas of Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi have seriously threatened the strategic locations of the Kuomintang, xi and Luoyang, and made the reactionaries extremely uneasy. Gu Xiping, director of the political training department of the enemy's first war zone, once said: Li Xiannian's attempt to occupy southern Shaanxi, control Guanzhong and respond to northern Shaanxi has made rapid progress and posed a great threat. The national army is expected to attack northern Shaanxi in two weeks and has been destroyed. In September, the Kuomintang concentrated more than 50,000 people from eight divisions and eleven peace preservation corps, and launched a crackdown on me. Party committees and military regions in Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi actively fought against the Qing Dynasty, launched more than 20 major campaigns, killed and wounded more than 500 people below the captured enemy leader 1500, and seized more than 60,000 pieces of light and heavy weapons 1000 and bullets, which effectively dealt a blow to the enemy. Four specialized agencies, 14 county governments and 2 10 township governments have been established in the whole region, and more than 4,000 local armed forces have been developed. During this period, the main force of the 15 th Brigade also entered Shaanxi from northwest Hubei to be built.
In winter in Qinling Mountains, the mountains are covered with ice and snow, and the ground is freezing cold. 1 1 in late October, the Kuomintang mobilized 10 divisions and 17 peace preservation corps to clean me up in an all-round way, set up strongholds in major areas, built forts, emigrated to the countryside, burned houses and robbed grain, closed the market town trade, created no man's land, and destroyed my living conditions. In this grim situation, the troops have encountered great difficulties in dressing, eating, accommodation and activities. 1In mid-February, in order to disperse the enemy and defeat the enemy's plan to clear up, the Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi Military Region mobilized 5,000 main troops to form a field column and turned to the outside line to attack eastward, preparing to open up a new situation in Funiu Mountain area. 1947 1 month 16, the field column entered the hinterland of Funiu Mountain, and fought Sang Ping in the first battle, defeating two peacekeeping corps; Fight again and liberate Yichuan and Miao Zi towns. At the beginning of February, he arrived in the west of Lushan, attacked many times and defeated the Henan provincial security team. But three divisions of the Kuomintang army followed me and surrounded me with local teams. At this time, the field column continued to March and fight, experiencing hardships and exhaustion. With the consent of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Plains Bureau, under the protection of Taiyue troops, they crossed the Yellow River to Jincheng to rest on the 20th. At the beginning of February, the troops who insisted on fighting on two fronts also formed a column and moved to Lushi and Luoning areas. On March 19, he was ordered to join forces with the main force in the north. The remaining 1000 people formed the southern Shaanxi working Committee and the southern Shaanxi headquarters. Under the leadership of commander Gong, secretary and political commissar Liu Geng and deputy secretary Wang Li, they persisted in arduous guerrilla struggle until Chen Geng's troops went south in autumn.
On June 25th, a column of the South Road Breakthrough Force "Missing One Brigade" set out from Guangshanpo Banhe and other places and assembled at Xuanhua Store in the west. On the 28th, it joined the main force of the 15 brigade led by Wang Haishan. When he arrived at Yangpingkou, he was stopped by the Kuomintang Army Division 185. I got rid of the enemy, bypassed the Wangjiadian in the north of the garden and crossed the Pinghan Railway. Before our army approached the railway, three divisions of the Kuomintang army blocked and intercepted it with fierce fire, and dispatched planes and armored vehicles to participate in the war, cutting our army into two parts. After a fierce battle day and night, our army repelled the enemy who blocked the road. On July 1 day, I crossed the blockade of Pinghan Road. On the 8th, I went to Portsmouth to meet another department of the 15 brigade.
When our army entered the east bank of Xianghe in July 1 1 day and night, it was extremely difficult to cross the river because there were few ships and many people. With the cooperation of the plane, two divisions of the seventy-five Kuomintang Army came to intercept the attack in two ways, and the main force of our South Road fought fiercely with it when crossing the river. As a result of the fighting, most of the main force of our South Road crossed the Xianghe River, but about 3,000 people from the 15th Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, the 1st Brigade, the 8th Regiment and the 6th Regiment acted as the enemy to stop chasing and cover the main force crossing the river on the east bank. Unable to cross the river between Scylla and Charybdis, they turned to the north and entered the Funiu Mountain area. At the beginning of August, he joined forces with the Huanglin Ministry in Luonan and joined the sequence of the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi Military Region.
After crossing the river, the main force of South Road defeated the sniper of the 1st18th Division of Kuomintang Army in the southwest of Yicheng on July 13. On 2 1 day, he reached Cangyugou, west of Shihua Street in Gucheng, and broke through the interception of a regiment of 185 Division, killing 300 people. On August 13, we ambushed the pursuers in Guanmu River, Fangxian County, annihilated a battalion, and then scattered around Wudang Mountain. On the 27th, he successfully joined forces with more than 6,000 people from the Central Hubei Military Region who had entered Wudang Mountain in Shangkan District of Fangxian County. Later, in Shiziyan, * * * established the Northwest Hubei Party Committee and the Northwest Hubei Military Region with Wang Shusheng as the commander and political commissar according to the instructions of the Central Plains Bureau, and divided it into four military regions, and assigned subordinate troops to these four military regions respectively to start creating base areas.
After the establishment of base areas in the Northwest Hubei Military Region, the Kuomintang adjusted its deployment and launched a new round of siege. Three BGF brigades are located in Fangxian, Baokang, Junxian, Gucheng, Jingmen and Yuan 'an, and two BGF divisions are stationed in Yichang, Badong, Xingshan, Zhushan and Zhuxi respectively, forming a situation of encirclement. First, disperse troops around Fangxian to chase and block, and compress troops from northwest to southeast. Later, relying on Laohekou and He Zi Highway, they cleared me from north to south. I also changed the deployment and ordered the Seventh Regiment and the First and Fourth Divisions to be active on exterior lines and cooperate with the struggle on interior lines. Each division has some mobile units to crack down on local reactionary forces, cover the armed forces below the county level, disperse and mobilize the masses, establish political power and organize peasant armed forces. In order to mobilize and disperse the enemy, with the second regiment of Jianghan Military Region as the backbone, the areas along the banks of Gucheng, Nanzhang and Baokang Nanhe were designated to form the Fifth Army Division. At the same time, according to the instructions of the Central Plains Bureau, Li Renlin led more than 500 people back to the east bank of Xianghe to carry out guerrilla warfare, so that the 15th Brigade troops crossed the Hanshui River and returned to Jianyan in southern Shaanxi. After the ministries actively launched the anti-clearing struggle, they fought six major battles in two months, wiped out nearly 500 enemy officers and soldiers, captured Xingshan City, and seized a batch of important materials such as grain, cloth and medicine. The whole region has established 1 1 county governments, more than 20 district governments and more than 50 township governments. The base area has begun to take shape.
In winter, the struggle situation deteriorated sharply. The Kuomintang army, with five reorganization divisions several times our strength, adopted tactical means such as converging attack, repeated mopping-up, divide-and-conquer, positional warfare, shuttle warfare and surprise attack. Launching a crazy clean-up for me, trying to cut off the connection between our districts and gradually squeezing me out of the original activity area. Our troops were divided into several parts to deal with the enemy. Due to continuous marching operations, ammunition is scarce, the supply of food, shoes, socks and clothing is difficult, the wounded and sick have nowhere to be placed, the number of non-combatants is increasing, the activity area is shrinking, and the combat effectiveness of the troops is seriously reduced. 1 1 month, he was forced to quit the first division. /kloc-at the end of 0/2, after losing the battle in Zhongba, Fangxian County and Kangjiashan, Baojiang County, he successively quit the 2nd, 3rd and 5th Divisions. In the end, there are only four areas left in Beijing, which can accommodate a small number of troops for guerrilla warfare. The Kuomintang troops continued to compress me in an attempt to annihilate me in the area of Jingdang Yuan. Troops in the Northwest Hubei Military Region are facing a severe test.
1February, 947, the district party Committee and the military region held an emergency meeting in Laoguanwo, Yuan 'an. It was decided that Luo Houfu would lead 800 people to stay where they were and stick to the struggle, and the main force would be transferred to peripheral operations.
From/kloc-0 to September 22, 946, he crossed the Xianghe River eastward, annihilated the three armies of Zhongxiang and Jingshan, defeated the two security squadrons of jingshan county, the enemy who came to intercept, joined Peng Youde and Li, and persisted in the struggle north of Jingshan. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/0, they occupied Duobao Bay, an important town along the Xiangjiang River. Then, he got rid of the siege of the Kuomintang Army 199 Brigade and the new 15 Division and 14 peace preservation corps in Henan and Hubei provinces, and went to Xinyang, Tongbai and other places to join more than 200 guerrillas from Sininghuai, Niu Desheng, Jaco and other departments who insisted on fighting to form a guerrilla detachment in Henan and Hubei. This unit annihilated two security squadrons with the county, then captured Qiongjiawan, defeated a battalion of the Kuomintang army, and moved to Yingshan, Anlu and Jingshan in December, annihilating a company and a security squadron of the 72 nd military camp. 1In February, 947, Kuomintang troops attacked us from east, west and north. Li Renlin led his troops to the north bank of the Yangtze River, outwitted Hao Xue Town, and seized 170 enemy guns. 1 20th, crossed the Yangtze River, entered Hunan, turned to western Hubei, and moved in the border area of Hunan and Hubei.
After the Laoguanwo meeting, Zhang Caiqian led more than 1,200 people from two brigades and four regiments to cross the Yangtze River from Yidu Gubei on February 14th and enter Changyang and Badong. On March 3rd, he joined forces with Li Renlin in Hongyuping, Wufeng County. Later, under the direction of the Central Plains Bureau, these two units formed the Jiangnan guerrilla column of the People's Liberation Army, with Zhang as commander and political commissar, Li as deputy commander and political commissar, and the troops were reorganized into one or four detachments. At this time, two brigades of the sixty-six divisions reorganized by the Kuomintang army have chased Jiangnan, and the other four reorganized brigades have surrounded us from the east and south. I will advance to Longshan and Yongshun in Hunan in two ways, and then go to Sangzhi and Dayong to publicize the masses and look for opportunities to annihilate the enemy. At the beginning of April, our two armies met again in the north of Yuanling, and then moved to Lixian and Shimen, threatening Changde, an important town in northern Hunan. The Kuomintang Hunan authorities were shocked and rushed out 33 brigades to stop it. On April 6, I broke the attack of the 33rd Brigade and 4th Company head-on in the north of Lixian County, and wiped out more than 200 people below the enemy battalion commander. The enemy dare not do it again. I advanced to the south of Changyang and Wufeng through Yidu. On 26th, Hunan Security Corps stopped me after passing through Mogangguan in Shimen North. With the tactics of pounding, rushing and chasing, more than 800 enemies were wiped out and a large number of munitions were seized. Since then, the two regiments and six security brigades of the Kuomintang army, which are in hot pursuit, have never dared to approach me easily again.
On may 1 day, Jiangnan guerrilla column crossed the river and returned to the north according to the instructions of the central authorities. On the 2nd, he occupied Yangxi and successfully crossed the river. On the 8th, he returned to Yuan 'an, destroyed three bunkers in Hekou Township and seized 600 enemy guns. After Piantouyan of Nanzhang County joined the Luo Houfu Department, the Central Committee telegraphed that the guerrilla column in Jiangnan was changed to the guerrilla column in the Central Plains, and Lop Nur was organized as the second detachment. On the 26th, he crossed the border between Hubei and Henan to Tongbai Mountain, killing more than 400 peacekeepers south of Biyang. On June 3rd, Pinghan Railway crossed between Queshan and Xinyang. /kloc-successfully entered the liberated area of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu on 0/0, and was ordered to be reorganized into the Central Plains Independent Brigade to cooperate with the brothers to sweep the border between Henan and Anhui. In August, as Liu Deng's army leapt thousands of miles and returned to Dabie Mountain, the guerrilla columns in the south of the Yangtze River moved to the north and south and the banks of Hanshui River. They persisted in guerrilla warfare in the far rear of the Kuomintang for eight months, adopted the methods of avoiding the strong and defeating the weak, combining large circles with small circles, and fighting while running, and used sudden attacks, disguised attacks, ambushes and other means to flexibly attack the enemy, creating new experiences in guerrilla warfare. According to incomplete statistics, they fought more than 200 battles, wiped out more than 2,000 Kuomintang troops, seized more than 2,200 pieces of various weapons, restrained 6 divisions of the Kuomintang army and 10 peace preservation corps, and effectively cooperated with the frontal battlefield operations.
At the same time, Yang Xiukun and Liu Jianting led 800 people to cross the Xianghe River eastward and enter Dahongshan and northern Hubei to fight guerrilla warfare. Liu Changyi also led more than 700 people to get rid of the enemies who were pursued and blocked from all directions. On April 28th, he crossed the Xianghe River from Zhongxiang Shipai, crossed eight counties under Kuomintang control, and entered Jinzhai, the hinterland of Dabie Mountain. Set an ambush on the cliff of the suspension bridge, destroy the enemy and seize an American radio station. In Huoshan Shuiman River and Yuexi Dagangling, we defeated the Hubei security team that followed our army. Liu's return to Dabie Mountain was a great success, and the people all said: The Red Army came back that year!
On May 22, the guerrillas led by Gui, secretary of the West Anhui Working Committee, joined forces at the Great Buddha Temple in Qianshan County. The two departments jointly held a meeting of leading cadres and decided to set up the West Anhui People's Self-Defense Force, the temporary Party Committee and the temporary headquarters. Liu served as commander and Gui as political commissar, leading the revolutionary struggle in western Anhui in a unified way. After the establishment of the People's Self-Defense Force in western Anhui, based on the border area between Qianshan and Tongcheng, it developed to western Henan, Huoshan, Taihu Lake and Huaining respectively, uprooted five strongholds of Kuomintang troops in our activity area and seized a large amount of food and materials. In July and August, he turned to the outside of the mountain, moved from the buried hill to Susong, once captured Wangjiang, and successively attacked eight Kuomintang military strongholds such as Xiangling, all of which won a total victory. In four months, the People's Self-Defense Forces in West Anhui fought more than 50 times, wiped out more than 3,500 people and seized more than 1,700 firearms. The activity area has reached nine counties, and the base area has expanded to 100 kilometers. Local guerrillas have mushroomed and become an important force to cooperate with the main forces and defend the district and township governments. 1947 At the end of August, the troops led by Yan Hongyan, deputy political commissar of Huoshan and the third column of the Second Field Army, joined forces successfully. This heroic army, which has traveled thousands of miles back to Dabie Mountain and insisted on guerrilla warfare behind the enemy lines in the Central Plains, has merged into a torrent of strategic offensive troops.
There are more than 6,000 people in three regiments of the East Hubei Independent Brigade, which is the main force to cover the breakthrough to the west. Before the main breakthrough, Zhang Tixue, political commissar of the Independent Brigade, led a battalion of six regiments to undertake the security task in Xuanhuadian area, covering the safe transfer of the headquarters of the Central Plains Military Region and its security forces. After the breakthrough of the main force, the fifth and sixth regiments of the independent brigade "lacking a battalion" also entered the Xiye River area of Yuexi County from Sigudun, Huajiahe, Zhiannan and Huanggang along the south of Yingshan. Lv Zhi and the Fourth Regiment all broke eastward at dusk on June 29th, and were stopped by the enemy of Macheng on the afternoon of 30th. After two hours of fierce fighting, they retreated to the highlands east of Lin Dian. Zhang Tixue led a battalion of six regiments to cover the evacuation of the Central Plains Military Region from Xuanhuadian and escorted the 32nd Armistice Implementation Team to Hekou Town. On the 30th, they arrived near Lin Dian via the card room, joined Lv Zhi and the 4th regiment, immediately returned to Futian River, and passed Macheng to the east of the mall blockade. At dawn on July 7, a fierce battle was launched with a large number of besieged enemies, and a battalion was annihilated, but the enemy blockade was not broken. The Ministry entered the mountainous area west of Songbu Highway from Jingfu. At night, we jumped out of the encirclement in four ways. After several days of emergency marching, the whole brigade joined forces with Xiye River.
On July 13, the Central Committee ordered the East Hubei Independent Brigade to stick to the Dabie Mountains, completely disperse its troops, and carry out guerrilla warfare in units of battalion, company and platoon, and cross the river if necessary. It also stipulated that the guerrillas left by the Second Division and the Seventh Division of the former New Fourth Army in Dabie Mountain should be under the command of the head of the independent brigade, with Zhang Tixue as the secretary, and form the unified leadership of the Party Committee. In accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee, the brigade party committee immediately stopped its eastward advance and divided its troops to fight in western Anhui, eastern Hubei and southern Henan. However, two divisions of the Seventh Army, two divisions of the Sichuan Army and two columns of security guards pursued the East Hubei Independent Brigade, and the 48 th Army, which originally pursued the first brigade of a column, was also intercepted by Yuexi. I concentrate on activities, so do the enemy, and I disperse activities, so do the enemy. Being outnumbered, the East Hubei Independent Brigade is in a very difficult situation. Faced with this situation, most of the officers and men of the independent brigade still repeatedly dealt with the enemy with arduous perseverance, which prevented the transfer of the above-mentioned Kuomintang troops. Due to frequent fighting and marching day and night, the number of troops has been greatly reduced. In the arduous bloody battle, Huang Shide, political commissar of the Sixth Regiment, Peng Chao, head of the Fifth Regiment, and He Jianhua, Commissioner of the Administrative Office of Eastern Hubei, died heroically.
1February, 947, the Central County Committee of East Hubei, with Peng Yi as its secretary, conducted more than 300 armed activities in Xixi, Tai Su and Huangguang areas. In April, the main force of the Ministry crossed the Yangtze River from Tianjia Town near Wuxue, and advanced to southern Hubei and northern Jiangxi, annihilating many armed forces in enemy areas along the way. In July and August, Wu Xue and Longping were captured in one fell swoop, and a security brigade was eliminated, and the troops grew to four or five hundred. In Huanggang and Luotian areas, Qi Shaochuan, secretary of the county party committee, commanded two pistol teams 100 people and insisted on fighting guerrilla warfare in Huanggang and Luotian areas. In western Anhui, Xiong Zuofang led an independent brigade to join the guerrillas of the Second Division and the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army, and in February 1947, he killed six distribution officers, including the enemy general commander Zhang Lingyun, near Anqing. The enemy was greatly shaken. In southern Henan, Liu Mingbang and He Yaobang, secretaries of the Central County Party Committee, led 100 armed men and insisted on guerrilla warfare in Luoshan, Lishan, Jingfu and Guangshan areas. 1In August, 947, these heroic guerrillas joined forces with the troops of Liu and Deng who jumped into the Dabie Mountains and took part in the strategic offensive of the People's Liberation War.