The Battle of Eastern Henan broke out on June 1948 and ended in two stages on July 6. This campaign is the first campaign launched by the Central Military Commission after Su Yu's "three columns will cross the river for a while and hit Jiangbei for a while" was adopted. This battle to win both battles is one of the most complicated, intense and arduous battles that Su Yu has experienced, one of the three most intense battles in Su Yu's commanding career (the other is the battle of northern Jiangsu and the battle of Huaihai), and one of the most enemy-wiped battles in the liberation war in the past two years. Read the battle of eastern Henan, never stop at the battle itself. Prior to this, the battle of the Central Plains was basically a long tug-of-war. The battle of eastern Henan has a profound impact on the whole body, completely changing the strategic situation of the southern line war situation, with great strategic significance and great strategic influence. In this campaign, in addition to the troops that cooperated with the battle strategically, there were about 200,000 troops directly involved in the war and about 250,000 troops in the * * * army. Both warring parties put in as many troops as possible. In particular, it attracted almost all the mobile forces of the Central Plains of the * * * Army to the battlefield in eastern Henan, including the Qiu Qingquan Corps, the Corps and the Yellow Corps with the strongest fighting capacity, which caused great emptiness to the two wings of the Central Plains. In this grand strategic situation, not only the battle of eastern Henan won a great victory, but also the two wings of the Central Plains created rare fighters, which directly gave birth to three other battles. The first is that Liu Deng took advantage of the enemy's aid to the north in the southern section of Pinghan Road, especially Hu Lian's aid to the north 18 army went to the battlefield in eastern Henan, and the enemy 15 Sui Jun was isolated, so he decided to concentrate his sixth column and Tongbai and Shaanxi, which belong to the Central Plains Military Region. The campaign lasted 14 days, and captured Xiangyang, Fancheng and other cities in one fell swoop, killing more than 20,000 people, and capturing more than 7,000 people such as commander Kang Ze and deputy commander Guo Xunqi in the occupied area. Second, Xu and Tan Zhenlin of Hua Ye Shandong Corps launched the Yanzhou Campaign when the 25th Division was reorganized by the enemy and rushed to the battlefield in eastern Henan. It turned out that the 25th Division of Huang's reorganization was liberated from Xuzhou to the north of Yanzhou. However, it was found that "the main force of Shandong Corps moved southward, and the Shousui Corps, which was besieged by the West Line Corps of East China Field Army in Sui County and Qi County in eastern Henan, was in urgent need of help, so it reorganized the 25th Division and transported it to Shangqiu to reinforce the battlefield in eastern Henan". In view of the isolation of Yanzhou army, Shandong Corps is determined to capture Yanzhou. In this campaign, Shandong Corps * * * used 45 regiments to attack the city for rescue. The activity started on July 1 day and ended on July 13. Coupled with the pursuit of Jinan to help the enemy, a * * * wiped out more than 38 thousand people. Third, Wei Guoqing and Chen Pixian Department of Hua Ye Subei Corps took advantage of the situation to conquer the strongholds of Zhifang Street, Ahu and Chengtou in Xin 'an Zhenhai section of Longhai Road. After taking control of this section of the railway, the Subei Corps then conquered Lianshui, Zhongxing, Suqian and other important towns in the central area of Huaihe River, annihilated nearly 10,000 enemies and isolated the enemies of Huaiyin and Huai 'an. This has created better conditions for the future Huaihai regional war. This is also the biggest battle since the establishment of Subei Corps. As for the strategic significance of the campaign in eastern Henan, Shuaike thinks that the strategic positioning given by military history and war history seems to be somewhat insufficient. Some say that the battle of eastern Henan is the turning point of the whole liberation war; Some said that without the Eastern Henan Campaign, there would be no subsequent Jinan Campaign and Huaihai Campaign. Some people say that after the Battle of Eastern Henan, the * * * army can no longer launch a strategic attack on me, or even dare not launch a strategic attack at all ... These views are quite reasonable after refining. After the Battle of Eastern Henan, * * * commented that in this Battle of Eastern Henan, "the * * * * army showed three characteristics: it dared to concentrate its main forces to carry out large-scale battles; Dare to attack big strongholds; Dare to stubbornly stick to the main points of the battlefield and compete repeatedly. " After the Battle of Donghua Wild, * * * said excitedly when meeting with Chen Ruiting, commander of the special forces column: "The war of liberation is like climbing a mountain. Now that we have passed the depression of the mountain, the most difficult climbing stage has passed. " This sentence of * * * is undoubtedly very vivid, and he has given a very high position to the battle of eastern Henan in disguise. -Now that the hardest stage has passed, it is usually more magnificent, usually more brilliant ... (Shuaike's reading: insist on originality, adhere to objectivity and fairness. 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