"I'm not a prisoner, I'm an underground party member of the East China Field Army, and I have urgent matters to report to the head of the PLA" Lao Lu reacted at this time, and hurriedly shouted to the fat man.
When the fat man heard him say that he was an underground party comrade, he didn't believe it, so he immediately asked the staff officers around him to call the field army and political work department above to verify, and asked them to help immediately check whether we were undercover in the enemy's newly formed 18th Army Soon, the staff officer quickly ran over and whispered a few words to the fat man, and when the fat man heard it, he hurriedly nodded again and again, and said to the old man: "What are you doing in the Eighteenth Army, when did you go to the Eighteenth Army, where are you from, and what is your real name?"
Of course, Lao Lu skillfully reported them one by one, and when the fat man heard it, he sure enough, all of them were on the right number, so he hurriedly laughed and said to Lao Lu: "I'm sorry, Comrade Lao Lu, this is not in wartime, we have to be careful, don't you say, we have to understand each other."
Lao Lu hurriedly nodded and said to him: "Senior Commander Liu, you are right, this shows that you are very vigilant, I have a big matter to discuss with you this time." ” "Oh, then you say it quickly, what is the big thing" The fat man was very curious, what was the big deal when the underground party comrades lurking in the Eighteenth Army came here at this time "The Eighteenth Army is going to revolt and send me to contact you, do you say this matter is a big deal," Lao Lu said.
"Ah, there will be no mistake with such things, the new Eighteenth Army fought with us to the death two days ago, why did you suddenly remember that you were going to revolt, could it be that the enemy made a conspiracy" The fat man's first reaction when he heard this situation was impossible, this change was too fast, the new Eighteenth Army was the Central Army under Lao Jiang, and the stones in the pit were generally smelly and hard, they wanted to revolt, how could this be possible "I think it's reliable, the chief of staff of the Eighteenth Army, Lao Lu, I know him very well, he was locked up for many days last time by a sentence from the second son, I talked to him in prison, and found that he is unlikely to concoct such a plan for an uprising in order to dig out my latent personnel, judging from the current situation of the Eighteenth Army, I think there is also this possibility, according to my years of lurking in the Kuomintang army, last time a brigade of the Eighteenth Army was eaten by Commander Liu's team, and Commander Wen asked Xuzhou for help unsuccessfully, This time Xuzhou actually asked him to send the main force of the 18th Army to rescue the Kuomintang Youth Division besieged by our team in Lao Zhuzhuang, which can make Commander Wen trouble, so he decided to think about the future of himself and his more than 20,000 brothers, so he sent me to contact the team through Chief of Staff Lu.
Lao Lu told the fat man the ins and outs of the whole thing one by one.
The fat man listened to this, then he believed it a little, and hurriedly sent a telegram to Zhou Wu, who had already attacked Taierzhuang City, and reported to Zhou Wu that the Eighteenth Army was going to revolt in this Jiawang area, and after Zhou Wu received the news, he contacted the headquarters of the East China Field Army and was told that the matter of the uprising of the Jiawang garrison was handled by Zhou Wu with full authority, and from the information he knew, the eighteenth army was very likely to revolt before the formation, because at present, they had no third way to go, and obeyed the orders of Commander Du of Xuzhou, If you come to rescue the young division near Lao Zhuzhuang, the fat man's division is waiting for him to come from the net, and there are two columns of the East China Field Army waiting around, if the 18th Army dares to come, it will definitely die, and if you don't listen to the orders of Xuzhou, it will be disobeying the military order and delaying the fighter plane, which is also not good, so if the commander of the 18th Army wants to keep his team, there is only one way to revolt before the battle.
At the same time, Zhou Wu also learned a top-secret news, that is, our own comrades of the 58th Army's Commander Zhang, who had just been transferred to the Jiawang area, had been lurking in the enemy for more than 20 years and were directly under the leadership of the central government, and we had already sent someone to contact him, preparing to launch an uprising immediately after the 58th Army took over the Jiawang area, so that if the 18th Army could also revolt on the battlefield, then the two major gateways to the northwest of Xuzhou would be open to our East China Field Army.
We will be able to quickly move south in the east and west directions of Xuzhou, cut off the westward advance of the Yellow Corps in the east, seize Suxian County, the key place on the Jinpu Road in the west, and cut off the northward march of the Liangli Corps and the Xiaohuang Corps, so that our East China Field Army will have the initiative on the Huaihai battlefield, and although it is still smaller in numbers than the Kuomintang troops, our PLA still has an advantage in the Xuzhou area.
Zhou Wu immediately ordered the fat man to prepare to accept the uprising of the Eighteenth Army, and at the same time ordered him to immediately besiege the young division in the encirclement to the west2, completely eliminate the Kuomintang army that was still resisting, so that the commander of the Eighteenth Army completely lost his illusions and immediately held an uprising on the battlefield Zhou Wu knew that as long as the young division that was besieged near Lao Zhuzhuang was finished, the Eighteenth Army would completely lose the room to sway and watch, and the uprising would be a logical thing, so this time the Eighteenth Army should successfully revolt and succeed, I had to rely on the fat man's first division to add another handful of firewood, rush to Lao Zhuzhuang, and work together with Huang Shuisheng and Lao Chen, who were besieging the youth division, to completely wipe out all the young divisions After receiving this telegram from Zhou Wu, the fat man immediately asked Comrade Lao Lu to go back and told the Commander Wen of the Eighteenth Army and the Chief of Staff of Lao Lu that our People's Liberation Army welcomes their uprising, but the time is best in these few days, the sooner the better Lao Lu immediately rushed back and told Lao Lu the fat man's reply, when Lao Lu told Commander Wen this reply, sure enough, the Commander Wen hesitated a little and said to Lao Lu: "Don't worry, wait and see, the young division on Lao Zhuzhuang's side is still resisting, and it is not too late to wait for two days to see if the situation is decided."
Lao Lu hesitated again when he saw Commander Wen, knowing that he was still waiting, afraid that he would poke out the big basket if he couldn't see the situation, but Lao Lu hated him very much, he was afraid of the wolf and the tiger, the fighter plane was fleeting, and the timing of this uprising was also very important, if you waited for the People's Liberation Army team to completely clean up the young division, then the value of your uprising would be different, your 18th Army has now become a thing in people's pockets, you can take it whenever you want, You say that there is still a fart for revolting at this time, what is the difference between this and surrender Lao Lu was anxious, and shouted to Commander Wen at the top of his voice: "Junzuo, last time, it was because of your hesitation that Brigade Commander Lu was wiped out, and now you are hesitant again, do you want all the more than 20,000 brothers of our Eighteenth Army to die here, is it worth it to do this, don't hesitate any longer, the opportunity must not be lost, the time will not come again, it is best to declare an uprising now, and when the people have eliminated all the young divisions, and then come back to deal with us, it will be too late."
Lao Lu's roar finally pulled the hesitant Commander Wen over, he gritted his teeth and decided: "Okay, if you don't do it, today Lao Tzu will go out and revolt."
Commander Wen gave an order, and the team of the Eighteenth Army had marched to less than three or four miles away from Xie Zhuang at this moment, and they unloaded the Kuomintang army emblem on the spot in the open space before Xie Zhuang, and according to the requirements of the liaison officer sent by the fat man, they put a white towel on their left arm, and passed through the PLA position here in Xie Zhuang in turn, and came to Li Zhuang north of the tiger's mouth to accept the fat man's adaptation.
The fat man originally wanted to take the main force to Lao Zhuzhuang to encircle and annihilate the youth division, but when he heard that the Eighteenth Army also announced an uprising on the spot, he immediately stayed to meet the team of the Eighteenth Army, and at the same time sent the main force led by a capable brigade commander under his command to rush to Lao Zhuzhuang to participate in the battle of encircling and annihilating the youth division.
Sure enough, when Commander Wen and Chief of Staff Lao Lu came to the fat man with the officers of the 18th Army, the fat man received a telegram from the front team, saying that the youth division had all been annihilated, and they were currently cleaning up the battlefield, according to preliminary statistics, the youth division had more than 10,000 horses, except for more than 5,000 horses who were annihilated, the rest were alive, and the division commander and horsemen were all captured, and none of them escaped the encirclement, and they really ended up being wiped out When the communication soldier read the telegram to the fat man, Commander Wen and the others heard it clearly, and they secretly rejoiced in their hearts: "Fortunately, I listened to Lao Lu's words and revolted in time, otherwise it would be our turn to be destroyed next, the young division was completely to blame, no wonder others, who made you look up at people on weekdays, you deserve to be destroyed" The fat man sent a telegram to Zhou Wu to report the news of the uprising of the Eighteenth Army, Zhou Wu heard it, he was very happy, and immediately reported to Commander Li, the commander instructed Zhou Wu to reorganize the Eighteenth Army as a column under Zhou Wu on the spot, the original establishment of the Eighteenth Army remained unchanged, and the specific issues such as the number were decided after the battle, and at the same time the commander ordered Zhou Wu to bring his own headquarters and the Eighteenth Army team that had just revolted, and quickly inserted it into Xinyi, east of Xuzhou, and cut off the way of the Yellow Corps that was approaching Xuzhou on the Longhai Line.
The Yellow Corps was held back for more than five days, creating conditions for a large army to rush to encircle the Yellow Corps After Zhou Wu received this order from the commander, he looked at the map and gasped, Xinyi is more than 100 kilometers away from Taierzhuang here, according to the intelligence from the front, the vanguard of the Yellow Corps has already crossed Pi County on the Longhai Line, and its main force is only less than thirty or forty miles away from Pi County, with the speed of their full mechanized maneuver, thirty or forty miles can be reached in a while, and they want to block their way before the main force of the Yellow Corps arrives at Xuzhou City, It seems that the only way to do this is to send a strong combat force to the area west of Pixian to block the way of the Yellow Corps t1706231537: