Commander Zhou of the Kuomintang Air Force, who was sitting next to Lao Chiang, immediately stood up and said to Lao Chiang: "Chairman, with the current transportation capacity of our Air Force, even if all transport planes are dispatched, it will not be able to effectively guarantee the supply of materials for so many teams on the Xu Beng battlefield.
How much food and food you have to eat and drink a day, how much ammunition and other supplies you have to consume in a day, and just how many air force transport supplies can be carried by the transport planes received from the Japanese and the planes donated by the Yankees, at best, they can temporarily save the emergency, and help those teams that break through are still about the same, but they can't afford to be the main force of transportation.
Lao Jiang listened to Commander Zhou's words and didn't speak, he knew best how many families the air force had, he really couldn't transport many things, and it was really unreliable to let the air force bear the supply and transportation of the more than 500,000 troops in the battle of Xu Beng, and he still had to find a way from the railway line and the highway line.
Lao Jiang waved to the standing air force commander and motioned him to sit down, looked at the senior generals below, and said to General Bai: "Chief Bai, I think that if you want to insert back the five field corps on the Xu Beng battlefield, you must recapture Suxian or Guzhen, you and the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense will quickly formulate a battle plan, and ask Deputy Commander Du in Xuzhou to immediately implement it and recapture the two places of Suxian and Guzhen, if Suxian is difficult to capture, then do your best to recapture Guzhen and restore the traffic on Jinpu Road."
General Bai immediately stood up and said: "The direction of the chairman, I will do it immediately" Let's not talk about how Lao Jiang figured out how to recapture Suxian and Guzhen, let's come back and talk about the 12th Corps of Commander Huang who crossed the Jinpu Road and advanced west towards Yongcheng, the 120,000 horses of the Corps rushed towards Yongcheng under the opening of the tank armored regiment, and almost did not encounter decent resistance along the way, even if there was a small force volleying on the way, it was quickly defeated by the team that had an absolute advantage in both quantity and quality, so the march speed of the 12th Corps was very fast, It took only about five days to reach the Shuangdui area, which was only thirty or forty miles away from Yongcheng, where Commander Huang received a telegram from Nanjing, in which he demanded that Commander Huang immediately lead the 12th Corps to the east and move closer to the two Li Corps, and immediately withdraw to the south.
Commander Huang wondered, seeing that he had marched for five days and five nights, and was about to catch up with the lone team in the direction of Yongcheng, according to the news reported by the scout brothers who were sent out, the party had not yet reacted to his tracks, and the lone communist division was still hovering between Yongcheng and Xiao County, if he turned around and headed southeast at this moment, wouldn't it be to give up this great opportunity to annihilate the large army that was about to be reached, and his 12th Corps had spent five days working hard to come here At this time, the communications officer ran over with a telegram and reported to Commander Huang: "Commander, Xuzhou Commander Du is in an emergency."
As soon as Commander Huang heard that it was Chief Du from Xuzhou, he hurriedly shouted to the communications officer, "Hurry up."
The communications officer hurriedly read: "Commander Huang of the 12th Corps personally examined: According to information from Su County, the Zhou Wu Department has captured Su County this afternoon, and all the 28th Divisions have been surrounded and annihilated, and the whereabouts of Commander Cheng and others are unknown.
In view of the importance of the location of Su County, the Xuzhou General Command ordered the 12 Corps to immediately march eastward, and immediately launched a siege on the enemy in Su County after joining up with the two Li Corps in the Huaibei area west of Su County, retaking Su County, and ensuring the smooth flow of the Jinpu Road railway line."
Commander Huang was shocked when he heard that Su County had been captured by Zhou Wu, and that the 28th Division he left behind had been wiped out, and hurriedly searched on the map, when he found the location and distance between Huaibei and Xiao County and Yongcheng, he suddenly turned his head and said to Chief of Staff Ye beside him: "We have caught the tail, and we are really unwilling to go back like this, and we came out this time, and we lost a reorganized 28th Division in Su County in vain, and turned around and went back to attack Su County, I have a plan, taking advantage of the fact that this team is now in front of us and the troop supplies can still support a few days, we will not retreat to the east for the time being, and immediately quickly deploy the corps troops here in Shuangduiji, surround the communist division in front, and annihilate them first and then retreat to the east, so that we can not only avenge the encirclement and annihilation of the 28th Division in Suxian County by the Zhou Wu Division, but also deter the East China troops on the opposite side, wouldn't it be a matter of killing two birds with one stone.
Commander Huang was really unwilling to withdraw like this, and while the team in front of him was still wandering there, he decided to take a risk for a while and defeat the communist division Chief of Staff Ye was more cautious, as soon as he heard this risky plan of Chief Huang, he hurriedly shook his head and said to him: "I think this plan is too risky, or according to the orders of the chairman and Commander Du, it is safe to quickly meet the two Li Corps in the east. ” Commander Huang was very unhappy when he heard that the chief of staff did not agree with his plan to annihilate the enemy; he was born as a teacher at the Military Academy and was quite familiar with various military theories; he believed that if East China on the opposite side wanted to lure his corps to come and eat him, it would have to have hundreds of thousands of troops assembled in the surrounding areas to surround the enemy, and it would have to have three times the enemy's strength.
Now there are a lot of Zhou Wubu people in Suxian County, so that even if there are a large number of troops waiting for their corps to pass around the direction of Yongcheng, it will only be more than 100,000 horses, and the combat troops of their 12th Corps are more than 100,000, under the jurisdiction of four armies, plus an independent division, and a tank armored regiment, both in terms of quantity and quality, are much higher than those in East China, especially the mobility of their own corps, in the plain area of this Xu Beng battlefield, under the necessary special circumstances, It can reach a marching speed of 60 kilometers a day, this place is only 60 kilometers away from that Su County and Xiao County, if his corps really encounters the encirclement of East China on the opposite side, he believes that his corps is absolutely capable of rushing out, and now he wants to give up encircling and annihilating the lone team on the opposite side, to be honest, Commander Huang can't do it, especially after he learned that the integrated 28th Division in the direction of Suxian was surrounded and annihilated by Zhou Wu, Commander Huang felt in his heart that he had to find the opposite side to pull back a game, otherwise even if he could retreat with his whole body, After that, he couldn't raise his head in the military circles, and besides, the reorganized 28th Division was one of Chief Chen's starting teams, so how could he explain to Chief Chen in the future.
Commander Huang thought about it, and decided to fight, he ignored the dissuasion of Chief of Staff Ye, suppressed the telegram sent by Chief Du, and ordered the corps to immediately spread out in the area of Shuangduiji, divide into three main directions and march to Gaozhuang east of Yongcheng, intercept the team there, immediately encircle and launch an attack on the spot to destroy this team, after succeeding, except for the 85th Army left to cover the eastward advance of the corps, the rest of the armies and independent divisions and tank armored regiments immediately joined up with the two Li Corps in Huaibei to capture Suxian captured by the Zhou Wu Division, Open up the Jinpu Road railway line.
Commander Huang set a two-day attack time for the 14th Army, which was the main attack of the communist division, and ordered that the 14th Army must completely encircle and destroy the opposing team within two days, and after two days, no matter what happens, immediately retreat, and the whole corps quickly turned around and marched eastward.
Commander Huang's style of play is to completely take advantage of the way to play, before the fight starts, he prepared a way for himself to retreat, he wanted to rely on his rapid mobility ability to attack successfully, immediately turn around and retreat, so that the two-legged walking team could not chase him, this tactic was carried forward by an American general in the Korean battlefield in Northeast Asia a few years later, and it was also called the "magnetic tactic", this tactic made the volunteer army at that time suffer a lot.
But Commander Huang's tactic is good, and it is quite advanced, but you have to look at the team that implements this tactic, and who the opponent on the opposite side is, just when Commander Huang is confidently deploying the team near Gaozhuang in the east of Yongcheng, in Magou Village, which is twenty kilometers northwest of Shuangduiji, the heads of the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army are holding a meeting, and Commander Li and Commander Liu are analyzing the situation on the Huaihai battlefield for the minds of the PLA units below, and Zhou Wu is also among them.
Listen carefully to the commander's analysis.
Commander Chen first made an opening remarks, praising the performance of Zhou Wu's troops in the battle to capture Suxian and Guzhen, and praised Zhou Wu's First Army as worthy of being a model unit of the East China Field Army.
Bursts of warm applause broke out at the venue, and Commander Li waved his hand to everyone: "Zhou Wu's troops have fought well, but our other PLA teams can't lag behind. t1706231537: