Deputy Commander Liu immediately rushed back to the garrison of the 51st Army, and immediately convened a meeting of the officers above the regimental level under his command, and when those officers arrived, Deputy Commander Liu said to them: "Brothers, you are all old brothers who have followed me for many years, and I am here today, I will not beat around the bush with everyone, and now everyone knows the situation in the Shanghai battlefield, you can tell me, can we win this battle?"
As soon as Deputy Commander Liu said this, the officers below shouted: "The Central Army and Commander Tang have all run away, how can we, the miscellaneous army teams left, be able to fight like wolves and tigers Now that even Wusongkou and Pudong have been occupied, and traces have also been found in Zhejiang in the south, we have been surrounded, how can we win and run out." ” When Deputy Commander Liu saw that the officers below were talking like this, he felt that the time had come, so he hurriedly said to them: "Brothers, I have a way now, I don't know if you are willing to follow me."
When the officers below heard this, they hurriedly blinked their eyes and asked Deputy Commander Liu: "The commander has a way, of course we are willing to follow." ” "Okay, then I'll make it clear, I plan to stop resisting, end the war in Shanghai by peaceful means, and accumulate some virtue for the people here in Shanghai, everyone is Chinese, why bother to work for Lao Jiang who has already gone to Taiwan?
Deputy Commander Liu finally told his subordinates his true intentions.
As soon as they heard this, the officers below were talking again, but most of the officers still said that they followed Deputy Commander Liu on this path, they were miscellaneous army officers, and they had been relying on the columbies of Lao Jiang and the Central Army.
Even a man like Commander Hu can serve as a commander in the communist army, so there will definitely be no problem for us to surrender like this.
Most of the officers below expressed their willingness to revolt, and only a few officers were still hesitant to settle the accounts they had committed against the Communists in the past At this time, the officers of the 51st Army, who were still hesitating and swaying from side to side, were given a stop, and everyone expressed their willingness to hold a battlefield uprising, while Deputy Commander Liu made a decision on the spot: It is better to act sooner rather than later than late on such a thing as a battlefield uprising, and to act at midnight tonight.
At midnight, the brothers of the 51st Army who were still dozing in the forward trenches were woken up by an emergency assembly call, they quickly opened their sleepy eyes, assembled, and the leading officers announced to them the battlefield uprising order of the 51st Army Headquarters, when the officers read that for the sake of the lives and property of the citizens of Shanghai, the 51st Army decided to accept the battlefield uprising conditions of the East China Field Army, lay down their arms on the spot, evacuate the forward positions, stop resisting, and wait for the reorganization, those ordinary soldiers dropped their guns one after another, cheered loudly, great, no longer have to fight desperately, you can have a chance to go home.
The news of the uprising of the 51st Army on the Jiangwan front soon spread to the rest of the Kuomintang troops, and most of them chose to act in the same way as the 51st Army, and responded to the uprising of the 51st Army.
Zhou Wu was very happy to receive this situation, and hurriedly called Commander Li in Suzhou to ask for instructions on what to do next Commander Li instructed Zhou Wu: "Take over the positions of the insurrectionary Kuomintang troops, properly settle the insurrectionary troops, and deal thunderous blows to those Kuomintang troops in the Dachang area who still want to resist stubbornly, so as to set an example, and never be polite to them."
Zhou Wu immediately dispatched Ge Sanmin's second division and Xiao Zheng's third division, plus the column of Chen Guofu, who was temporarily under the command of Zhou Wu, to storm the Kuomintang 43rd Army in the Dachang area with the strength of one column and two main divisions, and demanded that Ge Sanmin and them must fight quickly and completely wipe out those Kuomintang troops who were still resisting stubbornly Although the Kuomintang 43rd Army has good combat effectiveness, and there are reinforced concrete pillbox fortifications to cover, but where is the opponent of these troops under Zhou Wu who are good at attacking fortifications, there are many people, coupled with fierce firepower and strong morale, Ge Sanmin They attacked for half a day, and occupied most of the position, and the rest of the Kuomintang troops hid in a few corners of Dachang Town, with no reinforcements in front and no way to retreat, and the officers within the 43rd Army quarreled and divided into two factions, and the faction headed by Commander Liang advocated stubborn resistance to the end.
The faction headed by the chief of staff believes that resistance is useless, and that if the fight continues, it will only increase unnecessary casualties, and that it is better to lay down their arms on the spot and surrender, so as to save the lives of the remaining brothers.
Commander Liang was so angry that he ordered the chief of staff and all the officers who advocated surrender to be imprisoned and dragged outside to be shot on the spot to deter those who dared to surrender again But Commander Liang miscalculated this time, the officers and soldiers who executed showed mercy, fired a burst of empty guns at the chief of staff, found some corpses and pretended to be these officers, deceived Commander Liang's eyes, and helped the chief of staff They escaped from the position of the 43rd Army overnight and ran to Ge Sanmin's position on the opposite side.
Zhou Wu thought that this was a good opportunity to break the morale and fighting spirit of the 43rd Army, so he asked Ge Sanmin to use these officers who ran over to shout to the remaining 43 officers and soldiers, asking them to immediately lay down their arms and surrender, otherwise the general offensive will begin, all of them will be completely wiped out, life and death will be left in your own hands, and now you will never work for the rotten Kuomintang regime, and it is still too late to lay down your arms.
When the time comes, don't blame our PLA for being unpredictable Ge Sanmin's offensive to persuade him to surrender was quite powerful, and when the Kuomintang soldiers who were still stubbornly resisting on the forward positions heard this, even the chief of staff and them ran over, and we were still fighting here stupidly, what are we trying to do, it is better to lay down our arms and surrender, we still have wives and children at home, and we can't afford to work for those high-ranking officials who have gone to Taiwan.
As a result, on the forward position of the 43rd Army, a large number of officers and soldiers surrendered to Ge Sanmin and his People's Liberation Army in batches, and soon, Commander Liang found that there was only one guard company and a few of his henchmen around him, and the rest had already run away without a trace, and some were still using loudspeakers to persuade him to surrender on the opposite side.
Seeing that the general trend has gone, and it is impossible to break through, Commander Liang shook his head helplessly and said to those henchmen around him: "It's over, everything is over, you better run for your life quickly, leave me alone, run as far as you can, remember not to forget to give me incense or something, my family will be entrusted to you to take care of." ” When the cronies of Commander Liang heard that Lao Liang was going to commit stupid suicide, they hurriedly stepped forward and hugged him and persuaded him: "Military seat, don't be stupid, let's run quickly, we will open a bloody road for you, there are still two armored vehicles in the military headquarters, let's get in the car and rush out."
Before Commander Liang could react, he was stripped of his general's uniform by his cronies, put on a set of ordinary soldiers' uniforms, stuffed into an armored car, and fled to the south at full speed.
As soon as the two armored vehicles drove out of the road, they were intercepted by a large number of PLA soldiers who were chasing after them on the side of the road, and these brothers were Ge Sanmin's men, who stopped the two armored vehicles and ordered the people inside to come out, otherwise they would open fire.
The people inside had no choice but to raise their hands and come out, and a battalion commander under Ge Sanmin found that there was a person inside who did not look like an ordinary soldier, but was wearing a soldier's uniform, and the other officers saw that he seemed to be very respectful, so they became suspicious, grabbed an adjutant and asked, "Who is he doing what?"
The adjutant still wanted to rub shoulders, but the battalion commander under Ge Sanmin immediately saw the flaw, beckoned the brothers to come forward and arrest Commander Liang, and was just about to search his body to carefully check his identity, Lao Liang spoke: "Don't toss, I am the commander of the 43rd Army, don't embarrass them." ” As soon as he heard that this guy was the commander of the 43rd Army who resisted to the end, the battalion commander under Ge Sanmin hurriedly ordered someone to report to Ge Sanmin, and Ge Sanmin, who received the news, hurried over, and asked, sure enough, it was the commander of the 43rd Army, Ge Sanmin couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and called Zhou Wu to report: "Commander, the commander of the 43rd Army was captured alive by us, and the outer positions of Shanghai have all been conquered by our army, and we can enter Shanghai City immediately." ” When Zhou Wu heard this, he was also very excited, and finally entered the city of Shanghai, but at this moment, without the order of the field army headquarters to enter the city, he must not rush into the city, so as not to harass the citizens of Shanghai and cause unnecessary trouble.
"Ge Sanmin, rest on the spot, when to enter the city, wait for the notice" Zhou Wu could only say this to Ge Sanmin.
After Commander Li learned that Zhou Wu had conquered the last stubborn resistance position on the outskirts of Shanghai City, he immediately called Zhou Wu and praised Zhou Wu's troops for their quick and decisive action, which not only won the battlefield uprising of the 51st Army of Deputy Commander Liu, but also captured the stubborn enemy positions in a very short period of time, completely solved the enemy's fortifications outside Shanghai, opened the door to enter Shanghai City, and made great contributions to the victory of this Shanghai Campaign t1706231537: