Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

On the entire Siping front, the 300-mile line from east to west was under full attack.

Marshal Lin ordered his troops to attack, and the Nationalist troops on the Siping front quickly fell into a disadvantage. For more than six months, the Nationalist army had been on the offensive and the People's Liberation Army on the defensive.

They never expected that Marshal Lin would launch an attack at this time.

Seeing that the situation on the front was not good, Du Yuming had no choice but to transfer the New Sixth Army back to the front and then ordered the New Fifth Army in Tonghua to come back to support. The New Fifth Army was a new unit that Du Yuming expanded after arriving in Northeast China and was established less than a year ago.

Deng Guo had been waiting for this opportunity. The New Fifth Army had left the temporary 54th Division in Tonghua and brought the 43rd and 195th Divisions to reinforce Fushun. Just after marching about miles from Tonghua, they were ambushed by Deng Guo's pre-arranged Third and Eighth Columns.

The New Fifth Army was caught off guard.

Fortunately, the 43rd and 195th Divisions were still strong and did not collapse immediately. In particular, the 195th Division was originally the main force division under the 52nd Army and had a very strong combat capability.

Du Yuming was very nervous when he heard that the New Fifth Army was surrounded by Deng Guo.

Now Du Yuming really wondered why there were PLA troops everywhere. Du Yuming found that although he seemed to have 500,000 or 600,000 troops, there were actually not many troops that could be mobilized.

The 13th and 52nd Armies, totaling to troops, were stationed in Rehe. Another troops were stationed on the Siping front, with the remaining troops scattered across various cities in southern Liaoning. Important cities like Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, Shenyang, Tonghua, Meihekou, Benxi, Fushun, and Haicheng all had one or two divisions stationed.

There are also a division or a brigade of the National Army in those county towns.

It looked like there were nearly 60 troops, but there was no mobile force at all. The reason why the mobile force of the Nationalist Army was decreasing was because a large number of troops were stationed in cities. It seemed that they had captured so many cities, but in the end, they were of no use.

Du Yuming finally looked towards Meihekou.

He ordered the 60th Division of the 184th Army in Meihekou to abandon Meihekou and retreat to Tonghua to join the Provisional 54th Division in Tonghua.

Du Yuming has already sensed that he is in a passive position.

So prepare to withdraw troops.

Unfortunately, Chiang Kai-shek's order soon arrived, opposing Du Yuming's battle plan. Chiang Kai-shek ordered the 184th Division to defend Meihekou to the death, because although Meihekou was small, it was an important transportation route in the Northeast and must not be lost.

Chiang Kai-shek gave the order directly to the 184th Division without telling Du Yuming. Du Yuming realized the 184th Division hadn't retreated even after several hours. He was furious because Chiang Kai-shek didn't issue orders to the troops directly through him, seriously affecting his command. But Du Yuming had no other options.

Du Yuming was not one of those tough-minded generals. Normally, he would not have dared to object to Chiang Kai-shek's orders. However, Du Yuming still sent a telegram to express his opinion, hoping that Chiang Kai-shek would reconsider.

But Chiang Kai-shek persisted.

At this time, Wang Qiuyun led the 14nd, 60th, and 184th columns, totaling men, to encircle Meihekou, preventing the th Division of the th Army from withdrawing. If Marshal Lin coordinated the overall situation and Deng Guo played the tactic of besieging the enemy and attacking the reinforcements, then Wang Qiuyun directly advanced head-on.

Why is Wang Qiuyun so arrogant?

Because he went to North Manchuria to wipe out the Northeast Advance Army and captured a large number of artillery, including a large number of Japanese artillery in exchange from the Soviet army, including a large number of Japanese heavy artillery.

When Wang Qiuyun entered North Manchuria, he formed five artillery brigades directly under the column.

There are two heavy artillery brigades alone.

The column's artillery brigades had over 200 howitzers, mountain guns, heavy guns, heavy mortars, and infantry guns, not to mention anti-tank guns, flat-fire guns, light mortars, rapid-fire guns, and anti-aircraft guns. Each unit also had a large number of Japanese Zheng-style shells and small mm and mm cannons produced by its own arsenal.

In addition to the artillery brigades directly under these columns, some of the brigades below them also have their own artillery regiments.

The North Manchuria Corps is now really a big landlord.

Besides, there was only one division of troops in Meihekou, and with the local security groups, there were only more than 10,000 troops. So Wang Qiuyun arranged for three brigades of the Second Column to attack Meihekou, and then led the rest of the troops to continue south to attack Tonghua.

The three corps in Northeast China have 600,000 people.

Cooperate with each other.

Du Yuming was beaten into a dilemma.

"Commander, telegram from the 52nd Army."

"read."

"The 52th and 25nd Divisions of the 62nd Army were completely wiped out. Troops from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region continued to pour into Rehe.

"The 25th and 62nd Divisions are gone?"

"Yes."

Du Yuming is in poor health.

I just had surgery in Beijing half a year ago.

He had been busy with the war and commanding the battles recently, and his health had been deteriorating. He was immediately distraught when he heard that both the 25th and 62nd Divisions were gone. He might not have cared about the 62nd Division, but the 25th Division was the main force of the 52nd Army, and its combat effectiveness was very strong.

Du Yuming brought so many troops into the Northeast, and this was the first time that a division-level unit was annihilated in its entirety by the People's Liberation Army.

He couldn't accept it.

"Commander, that

"Tell me everything."

"General Sun Liren said that the New First Army had just withdrawn from the Siping front to rest and regroup, and it was not appropriate to attack at the moment."

The New First Army is currently resting in Shenyang.

In order to rescue the New Fifth Army, Du Yuming gave orders to the New First Army.

He asked the New First Army to attack and rescue the besieged New Fifth Army. Now, hearing Sun Liren's words, Du Ming was furious.

Although Du Yuming disliked Sun Liren, he paid more attention to the New Sixth Army in the Northeast battlefield.

But at such a crucial moment, Sun Liren had actually gone on strike, and Du Yuming was still furious. However, Sun Liren was a member of T.V. Soong's faction, with deep ties to Britain and the United States, and he and Du Yuming were not on the same side. Sun Liren simply refused to listen to Du Yuming, and Du Yuming had no way to deal with him. Without the New First Army's rescue, the New Fifth Army would surely be annihilated by Deng Guo.

Du Yuming felt his hands begin to tremble.

After all, those were two divisions of the New Fifth Army.

A force of more than 20,000 people.

If the two divisions of the New Fifth Army were lost, the remaining division in Tonghua would also be unable to escape. The Deng Guo Corps, which had been driven out from the Liaoxi Corridor and Shenyang, would return in force.

This is very unfavorable for the Northeast National Army.

"Da da da"

"Commander, news from Hailong County."

"how's it going?"

"The 184th Division has surrendered to the enemy. Communist bandit Wang Qiuyun's forces have already occupied Hailong County, and another force has begun attacking Tonghua.

"The 184th Division surrendered to the enemy?"

Du Yuming widened his eyes.

Although the Yunnan 60th Army was a ragtag unit, it was also a semi-American-equipped unit and its combat effectiveness was still very strong. Although Du Yuming suppressed the 60th Army, it was out of concern that the Yunnan Army would not obey him, rather than truly doubting their combat effectiveness.

Now that the 184th Division had revolted, it had directly exposed the Meihekou and Tonghua areas. Du Yuming reviewed the current situation in the entire Northeast and suddenly realized that the situation in the Northeast had reached an irreversible point.

Du Yuming couldn't accept this result, and suddenly he spurted blood and fell to the ground unconscious.

"Commander, Commander."

Chapter 688: Nie Shuai's Advice

As soon as the Northeastern troops moved, just like the previous battle between the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops, the earth shook immediately.

But it's understandable.

After all, the Northeast was home to so many elite troops. From the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region, the Shandong Military Region, and the New Fourth Army, 20 main forces were drawn into the Northeast. They had been developing in the Northeast since 1944, with troops already a year earlier.

Later, he began to cultivate the base area.

The field army had expanded to nearly 60 men, and with so many local troops, the Northeast Military Region now commanded 80 men, adding to the vast quantities of Japanese weapons captured. Over the past year, the Northeast Bureau had coordinated with the Soviet Union and North Korea, trading Northeast China's grain for the vast quantities of weapons and ammunition they held.

The weapons and ammunition in the Soviet Union's possession came from the surrendered Kwantung Army, which held a large number of artillery pieces. After all, the Kwantung Army's best weapons were located along the Sino-Soviet border at the time. The weapons and ammunition in North Korea were also from Japanese troops in Korea. Furthermore, Japan had military factories in Korea, and North Korea had also received a large number of Japanese arsenals there. The Northeastern Bureau used food to exchange these weapons and ammunition for them.

Therefore, the weapons and equipment of the Northeast Field Army are currently very good.

Just look at the North Manchuria Corps.

The total number of people in a North Manchuria Corps is about 15. Not counting small artillery such as light mortars and Type 0 cannons, there are more than 370 other types of artillery.

After Marshal Lin decided to launch the winter offensive, it blossomed into a full-scale offensive. Within 20 days, he annihilated main Nationalist troops and over local Nationalist troops. He captured Tonghua, Meihekou, and Benxi.

Deng Guo's South Manchuria Corps took control of Benxi and began to threaten Shenyang. Wang Qiuyun led the North Manchuria Corps to successively capture Meihekou and Tonghua, while reorganizing the rebellious 184th Division and then marching directly to Fushun.

The initiative in the Siping attack and defense was completely in the hands of the Northeast People's Liberation Army.

After Du Yuming vomited blood and fell unconscious, the Nationalist troops on the Siping front were already in great chaos. Marshal Lin launched a series of attacks on the Nationalist troops on the Siping front, forcing them to retreat step by step.

Marshal Lin was ready to take advantage of this opportunity to push the Kuomintang troops directly to Shenyang.

Combined with the Jin-Cha-Ji forces' destruction of the 62nd and 25th Divisions in Rehe, the Northeastern and Jin-Cha-Ji forces combined to annihilate approximately Nationalist troops within a month. Furthermore, of these annihilated, to were truly elite Nationalist troops, equipped with American and semi-American weapons. Even the commander-in-chief couldn't help but exclaim, "Look at these American-equipped Nationalist troops! Their equipment is truly exceptional."

"Yes."

The central leaders were all quite surprised.

Although it was known that the Nationalist troops were well-equipped with American weapons, the troops' captures were still beyond expectations. Just look at the report submitted by Wei Hongjun, who led the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Third Field Army to annihilate two divisions of the 52nd Army.

Two American howitzers, 2 mountain guns, 24 82 mortars, 67 anti-tank guns, 7 small cannons (194 60 guns, 127 rapid-fire guns, 13 machine guns, 21 grenade launchers), 33 heavy machine guns, 141 light machine guns, 869 submachine guns, 647 rifles, 4728 pistols, and 436 signal guns were seized.

This only wiped out two divisions of the National Army.

But look at the number of captured artillery pieces, light and heavy machine guns, and submachine guns. With so many valuable items captured, plus the valuables captured from the annihilation of Fu Zuoyi's forces, the Third Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army, led by Wei Hongjun, now boasts superior weaponry and equipment to most Central Army units.

With so many good things, not to mention the regular troops of the Third Field Army, the weapons and equipment of the local troops of the Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Military Region also improved rapidly.

"The Nationalist troops in Northeast China, Rehe, and Hebei, if you add up the local forces like the security groups, number nearly one million. Given the current situation, this situation can be resolved within a year.

The Chairman is very confident.

The Nationalist troops in Northeast China are elite, but so are the People's Liberation Army troops there. Furthermore, the PLA has been actively managing Northeast China for some time, and now is the time to make a strong push. Chen Yun, Gao Gang, Luo Shuai, Tan Zheng, and others are actively recruiting troops in Northeast China, and there are currently seventy or eighty secondary corps waiting to reinforce the frontline troops. Once these troops arrive, the Northeastern army will truly number one million. What will the Nationalist troops in Northeast China do to stop them?

The situation in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei was even better.

To put it jokingly, the situation in Jin-Cha-Ji was not that the People's Liberation Army was too powerful, but that the National Army was really not strong enough.

Seriously speaking, the strength of the Hebei National Army is also very strong.

After all, there are 500,000 to 600,000 troops, including more than 200,000 elite troops of the Central Army and more than 100,000 troops of Sun Lianzhong, all of which have good combat effectiveness.

But the result?

Previously, Li Zhongren was indifferent in Peking, and the Central Army refused to obey Sun Lianzhong's orders. Sun Lianzhong issued orders, but the Central Army troops were slow to respond. When Chen Cheng arrived, he organized a "clean-up mission" that caused chaos in Hebei. Furthermore, Chen Cheng discriminated against Sun Lianzhong's miscellaneous troops, resulting in a very tense relationship between Chen Cheng and Sun Lianzhong's miscellaneous troops. Therefore, despite Chen Cheng's title as the "Little Chairman," his command in Hebei was not smooth.

Friendly troops are in trouble and remain as motionless as a mountain.

This is the case in Hebei.

It just so happened that they encountered a cadre like Yang Quanwu, who wasn't bound by one or two cities during the war. During the Japanese invasion of the country, Yang Quanwu even readily gave up his strongholds of Yixian and Laiyuan. The same was true now.