The commander immediately handed over this issue to the commanders of the East China People's Liberation Army below, and asked them to speak their minds freely and discuss and discuss As soon as the commander's voice fell, there was a shouting in the ground, and the commanders of those divisions of the East China Field Army spoke freely, expressing their opinions, and it was very lively and harmonious, while the commander smiled and watched them discuss, and after everyone discussed for a while, the commander nodded and said to everyone: "Comrades, okay, it's good that we have such an atmosphere, now I will listen to your opinions, who will say it first, ah."
The commander's eyes looked around the venue and asked everyone.
Zhou Wu raised his hand, and the commander hurriedly smiled and said to everyone: "Okay, comrades, now let's listen to Comrade Zhou Wu's thoughts, if you have any different opinions, you can put them forward." ” Zhou Wu stood up, looked at the leaders of the many fraternal troops below, and said to them: "I think that the current situation, Commander Hu has explained in detail just now, and he said it very objectively, it is true that we Huaye now have two choices, either to attack Xuzhou in the south, advance to the Yangtze River in Nanjing, and directly take Lao Jiang's nest, and the other is to cross the river to the north, capture Shanxi, Hebei, and join the Northeast Field Army in Kwantung, first liberate the entire north, and then attack Xuzhou from north to south to threaten Nanjing.
I just thought about it carefully, I think it's better to face south, why, the old Jiang in the hands of the ace army and the Central Army are now concentrated in the Huaihai area, if we can near Xuzhou, all these elites of the old Jiang can be wiped out or crippled, then the Kuomintang will have almost no troops to fight against our PLA, by that time, our East China Field Army, plus the Northwest Field Army, as well as the Northeast Field Army, and the Central Plains Field Army in the Dabie Mountain area of the Central Plains combined, Therefore, I think that the chairman's proposal that the living forces that should give priority to the destruction of the enemy should be the main thing, and that the gains and losses of one city and one place should not be confined to one city, and that the Kuomintang army did not even have the men and horses to at least maintain the battle line and defense, so no matter how strong the fortifications and natural hazards such as the Yangtze River were, it would be useless. ” Commander Li heard Zhou Wu say this, and took the lead and applauded, and the rest of the comrades also applauded, and the commander took over the conversation and said to everyone: "Comrades, Comrade Zhou Wu said well, as long as we knock out the old Jiang's belongings, and in the area north of the Yangtze River, then we are not far from the goal of liberating the whole of China, if we let these old Chiang's ace elites run to the south bank of the Yangtze River, then it will be much more difficult for us to cross the river, and Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms suffered the loss of the Yangtze River.
Of course, we have to avoid these factors that are unfavorable to us, and although the strategic location of Hebei and Shanxi is also very important, it has always been our old base and liberated area, and almost the entire Hebei is the base and guerrilla area of our Eighth Route Army, where the mass foundation is solid, and our Northeast Field Army in the northeast will also achieve victory, so the central government will naturally consider the affairs of North China, and our East China Field Army will still attack Xuzhou in the south and advance to northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu.
Fighting with the elite of Lao Chiang on the vast plains around the Huaihai region, what do the comrades think" Most of the army commanders below agreed to attack Xuzhou in the south, Xuzhou has always been a strategic location, and by capturing Xuzhou, you can obtain the hub of the Longhai Line and the Jinpu Line Railway, so that you can control the transportation arteries of southern Lunan, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan, and gain the opportunity to fight.
However, some comrades were worried that the Huaihai front line was full of Lao Chiang's ace elite troops, and they were numerous and had advanced weapons and equipment, and that most of the areas around Xuzhou were plains, which was extremely conducive to the mobility of those Kuomintang ace mechanized troops, and that the East China Field Army was inferior to the enemy in terms of both numbers and equipment.
Commander Li listened to the words of these comrades, nodded and said: "Yes, what you have said is very reasonable, our current total strength is indeed not as much as the enemy, but we have always won more with less, so step by step, the chairman said, it doesn't matter if the total strength does not form an advantage, as long as we can form a local superiority, although the enemy's total strength is more than ours, but they are all distributed on such a long front as Lianyungang in the east and Shangqiu in Henan in the west, from the map, this is simply one" "The formation of the long snake formation", we only need to find the seven inches of this formation, we can break through their defense line, and then concentrate the superior forces to surround one of the troops and destroy it" The meeting was very lively, and finally the commander decided to immediately implement the plan to capture Xuzhou, and reported to the central government, waiting for the central government's reply, the commander said to Zhou Wu and them: "At this time, I think you all have to act immediately, quickly assemble to the front line of southern Lunan and eastern Henan, and take advantage of the favorable situation that the enemy in Xuzhou has not yet been fully deployed in place, and quickly attack and capture Xuzhou."
Zhou Wu's corps, as the vanguard of the East China Field Army, was required to quickly rush to Linyi in southern Lunan on the third day after the meeting, and launch an attack on Taierzhuang, a strategic place near Xuzhou, five days later.
In order to create time and conditions for Zhou Wu to capture Taierzhuang, the commander demanded that Zhou Wu's main attacking force take Taierzhuang three days after the attack, so as to quickly press Xuzhou and force the enemy in Xuzhou to retreat westward.
After Zhou Wu received this main attack task, he felt that the responsibility on his shoulders was heavy, the commander chose his army as the vanguard, that is the incomparable trust in himself and the troops, this task even those comrades who have been following the commander did not get, what does this mean, it shows that Zhou Wu in the eyes of the commander, is a trustworthy, and can achieve his strategic intentions of the general, Zhou Wu felt a great responsibility, after the meeting, hurriedly rushed back to Jinan overnight, They asked Fat Man and Ge Sanmin to immediately hand over the city defense of Jinan to the local comrades, and the team immediately set out and rushed to Linyi in southern Lunan to assemble.
Time is very tight, and it is too late to hold any oath meeting or anything like that, so let's rush to Linyi first.
The fat man and Ge Sanmin set off first, Xiao Zheng and Huang Shuisheng followed, Zhou Wu's army after nearly two days of rapid marching, and finally arrived at Linyi City in the Lunan Mountains in the early morning of the third day, after arriving there, Zhou Wu hurriedly ordered the brothers to seize the time to rest, and in the afternoon the cadres above the regiment came to the military headquarters for a meeting to discuss the military situation.
At the military meeting in the afternoon, Zhou Wu told everyone about the tasks of his team, and the fat man heard that his team was going to fight Taierzhuang as the vanguard of the East China Field Army, and he was very happy, and said with a big mouth: "Haha, the commander is not wrong about us, Taierzhuang has always been a place where soldiers must fight, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is the northern gateway of Xuzhou City, if we can take Taierzhuang, then the troops behind will not have to work hard to capture Xuzhou, army commander, let our first division serve as the main force of the attack, our first division has experience in fighting this kind of battle." , as long as I give Zhang Ercheng's artillery to me, I promise to take Taierzhuang within one day. ” The fat man patted his chest and assured Zhou Wu, the old temper of bragging came up again, Zhou Wu looked at him and asked him: "Lao Liu, do you know how deep the enemy's fortifications are in Taierzhuang, and what dangerous terrain is around Taierzhuang, how many troops are stationed there, and how many troops are near Taierzhuang, do you know?"
Zhou Wu raised a series of questions, and when the fat man heard it, he hurriedly scratched his head and argued: "We can send scouts to understand this situation, now I don't know these situations, and when the scouts' report comes, won't it be clear?"
When Zhou Wu heard this, he hurriedly said to the fat man: "Lao Liu, you are also an old cadre, you have fought a lot of big battles, how can you still have this ideological consciousness, knowing yourself and knowing your enemy, invincible in a hundred battles is the eternal truth of war, you don't even understand the most basic situation of the enemy now, just thinking about conquering Taierzhuang in one day, isn't it too ridiculous, this is not good, you will suffer a big loss." ” The fat man was told by Zhou Wu, and then shut up, in fact, he also knew that it was impossible to conquer the strategic place of Taierzhuang, which was heavily guarded by the Kuomintang in one day, and the fortifications of Taierzhuang were different from those in Jinan, layer upon layer, both the reinforced concrete fortifications just built by the Kuomintang troops, and the bunker trenches built during the Japanese period, and there was a natural defense line in Taierzhuang, the famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal ran through it, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal turned a corner here in Taierzhuang, If we attack Taierzhuang from the north, the enemy in the south will quickly reinforce the enemy in the north, according to the information sent by the headquarters, just the day before yesterday, in the Jiawang area not far from the southwest of Taierzhuang, the enemy has added a new army there, and it seems that the enemy is also alert to the actions of our East China Field Army, so he hurriedly sent additional troops to strengthen the defense of the Taierzhuang area.
Prevent the East China Field Army from tearing a gap here in Taierzhuang and go straight to Xuzhou City. t1706231537: