Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Many of the northern regions were dominated by local warlords, many of whom were unwilling to fight. Now that the situation in North China favored the People's Liberation Army, they were turning against the PLA one by one. This was not only the case in North China, but also in Northeast China.

The Northeast People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen Campaign, and the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army chose to revolt under the leadership of Zeng Zesheng.

Of course, this was beneficial to the PLA, but it was only beneficial. With or without them, the PLA's advance would not stop. Whether in Northeast China or North China, troops had already been mobilized, preparing to launch the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign.

During this time, Wei Hongjun first held a meeting with the political cadres of each unit, reiterating the importance of discipline. He instructed them to immediately convey the message of the North China Bureau upon returning to their units, stating that all units involved in the Pingjin Campaign needed to undergo training. He then went to Fangshan to participate in the training of the cadre corps that were taking over Peking and Tianjin. Although each cadre corps had its own training cadres, even Zhao Zhensheng and Zhou Bin had come to Fangshan to prepare for the takeover of Peking.

But Wei Hongjun still stayed here for half a month.

Not only did he supervise them, but he also directly participated in their training. This was because Wei Hongjun had ample experience in urban takeovers and urban management. This time, the city takeover cadre group numbered tens of thousands, most of whom were recent graduates, with some even having not yet graduated from university.

They have knowledge, ideals and vitality, but what they lack is experience.

So Wei Hongjun detailed his experience taking over cities like Xuanhua, Zhangjiakou, Jining, and Datong, as well as his experience managing Zhangjiakou when he was director of the Military Control Commission. Of course, another important task was to provide disciplinary training to these work group cadres.

After entering the city, it wasn't just the troops who had to abide by discipline; the cadres themselves were also required to do so. Of course, the troops and the cadres taking over had different disciplinary requirements and objectives. The troops were primarily concerned that they might act recklessly and damage the image of the PLA.

But taking over cadres is different.

Wei Hongjun was concerned that the takeover officers were primarily unarmed students. Although Peking and Tianjin had been liberated, spies were everywhere. Those agents didn't dare attack the troops, so they targeted the takeover officers. Historically, the assassination of takeover officers was common.

Therefore, many of the disciplines for cadres who were taken over were to ensure their safety, forcing them not to go out except at their workplaces to avoid being assassinated by spies.

About two weeks later, Wei Hongjun, leading the cadre group that had taken over Tianjin, arrived in Langfang from Fangshan. There, they met with the Public Security Column, which was undergoing its final training. Yu Ping, Kuang Fuzhao, and others were conducting the final round of training for the Column.

Wei Hongjun continued to train the Public Security Column and the cadre corps here, waiting for the liberation of Tianjin.

While Wei Hongjun was preparing to take over the city, Yang Quanwu led 12 troops from the 13st Corps, the 14th Corps, the 40th Column, the th Column, and the th Column to launch the Battle of Tianjin.

This is a battle to establish authority.

Yang Quanwu also knew.

So he committed his best resources. The First and Fifth Corps, the elite units of the North China Field Army, concentrated over 1000 artillery pieces of various types. Li Jue constructed numerous defensive positions outside Tianjin, including numerous bunkers, both visible and hidden, and dug trenches to thwart the PLA advance. Unfortunately, they were useless. Faced with the bombardment of thousands of artillery pieces, the so-called forts, bunkers, and defensive works were bombed to pieces.

Li Jue was frightened by the PLA's artillery fire. The troops stationed outside the city suffered heavy casualties, so he had no choice but to withdraw them back into the city. After Yang Quanwu cleared the outer positions, he surrounded Tianjin.

The national army troops in Tianjin were worried.

The PLA's artillery fire was too intense, and the PLA troops were too powerful. Many Nationalist generals, veterans of many battles, were pessimistic about Tianjin's future. Nationalist morale was extremely low.

After Yang Quanwu made all preparations, at 1947 pm on June 6, 3, Yang Quanwu commanded his troops to officially attack Tianjin.

1947年6月3日晚，解放军进攻天津四个小时之后，东北军53军116师选择起义。

It accelerated the victory of the Battle of Tianjin.

In the early morning of June 6th, the 4th Division of the 53rd Corps of the Northeastern Army also revolted. The 130rd Corps, currently the most powerful unit in Tianjin after the 53th Corps, revolted within ten hours, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy defenders. PLA troops penetrated Tianjin from the 13rd Corps' positions, cutting off the Nationalist forces there and then proceeding to eliminate the Nationalist forces within the city.

At a little after eight o'clock in the morning on June 6, the Battle of Tianjin had only been going on for 4 hours, and more than 17 PLA ​​troops had already poured into Tianjin.

The First Corps was the elite force Yang Quanwu had been cultivating since the Anti-Japanese War, while the Fifth Corps was the elite force of the Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Military Region. After entering Tianjin, the two armies, with brigade-level units as their core, began to divide and encircle the Nationalist forces, ultimately annihilating them. The uprising of the 53rd Army had left the entire Tianjin defense line in tatters, making it impossible to resist the PLA's encirclement and suppression.

Shi Jue saw that Tianjin was doomed.

He immediately led his own 13th Army to evacuate Tianjin by sea, leaving the 94th and 87th Armies behind. The 13th Army's decision to retreat infuriated the 94th and 87th Armies. The 94th and 87th Armies were both elite troops of the Central Army, so why would the 13th Army flee first? As a result, chaos ensued in Tianjin, and the 94th and 87th Armies also abandoned their positions and rushed to the docks, attempting to evacuate Tianjin.

By this time, the PLA troops entering Tianjin weren't engaged in combat, but rather in capturing deserters. Of course, the 13th Army was the fastest to flee, so the 4th Division was the first to escape. However, the 4th Division was the only one that escaped quickly; the other units were largely held back. Even the 13th Division of the 89th Army was held back, with only one wolf regiment escaping.

By noon on June 1947, 6, less than 4 hours later, the North China Liberation Army had secured all vital areas of Tianjin. All that remained was to encircle and suppress the Nationalist troops at the docks. This battle was made easier because the 24th, 13th, and 94th Armies were all intertwined and completely unsure of what to do in the confined area. Units surrendered in large numbers, one after another.

By around 6 p.m. on June 4, the Kuomintang troops that had fled to the Tanggu Wharf had been completely eliminated.

From the moment Yang Quanwu attacked Tianjin, it took him 28 hours to completely control the city. Including the disposal of peripheral troops, Yang Quanwu's Tianjin campaign took less than five days. Tianjin was a truly large city and the beginning of the Pingjin Campaign.

The capture of Tianjin caused a sensation across the country.

Slows down all enemy units.

Previously, the People's Liberation Army had mostly relied on mobile warfare, primarily sieging cities and attacking reinforcements, or besieging the enemy and attacking their reinforcements. However, the capture of Tianjin was a true siege. Furthermore, Tianjin had four armies within its walls, including elite units like the 13th and 53rd Armies.

However, the troops of the four armies were defeated by the North China Field Army in less than five days.

This is to tell the Nationalist army that it is useless for more than 100,000 troops to hide in the city.

After Tianjin was captured, many hesitant local Kuomintang troops immediately chose to surrender. In particular, those troops negotiating with the People's Liberation Army immediately gave up some unrealistic demands.

On June 1947, 6, Fu Zuoyi, Deng Baoshan, and Chen Changjie in Suixi accepted the conditions of Yan'an and announced an uprising. Originally, Fu Zuoyi and his men wanted to bargain with Yan'an to get the best conditions for the uprising. But when the news of the fall of Tianjin came, and the PLA easily solved Tianjin, Fu Zuoyi and his men were stunned. Or rather, they were frightened. Although he thought that the PLA was very powerful now, he did not expect it to be so powerful. Fu Zuoyi immediately understood that the current North China Field Army was much stronger than when it fought against him. But it was less than a year, and the combat effectiveness of the North China PLA had increased so much. Fu Zuoyi no longer dared to bargain with Yan'an and immediately agreed to Yan'an's conditions.

After the uprising of Fu Zuoyi, Deng Baoshan and Chen Changjie, the entire Suixi and northern Shanxi areas fell completely into the hands of the People's Liberation Army.

The troops led by Fu Zuoyi, Deng Baoshan, and Chen Changjie were reorganized by the People's Liberation Army and became the Sixth Column of the Jinsui Field Army. Together with the current Second and Third Columns of the Jinsui Field Army, they were reorganized into the Jinsui Corps.

The Central Committee appointed Xu Guangda as commander of the Jinsui Corps, Deng Baoshan as deputy commander, Gan Siqi, director of the Jinsui Military Region's Political Department, as political commissar, Chen Changjie as commander of the Sixth Column, and Wang Shitai as deputy political commissar and political commissar of the Jinsui Corps. The cavalry column, previously part of the Jinsui Field Army, was transferred to the Suiyuan Military Region and became a subordinate unit of the Suiyuan Military Region. General He was transferred back to the Central Committee to oversee logistics for the entire Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region.

Chapter 713 Central Relocation

"Great, great! Tianjin has been taken. It took less than five days, less than thirty hours from the start of the siege. This is history. The North China Field Army fought well, and Yang Quanwu fought well."

The news of the capture of Tianjin reached Yan'an.

all happy.

This is really good and exciting news.

The Nationalist troops in Hebei Province retreated to Beijing and Tianjin. Now that Tianjin has been taken, only Beijing remains.

"Old Mao, not only is the Pingjin Campaign going smoothly, but the Northeast battlefield is also going very smoothly. Comrades Yang Dezhi and Deng Guo led their troops to attack from the north and south, encircling Liao Yaoxiang's corps of over 60 men in a narrow area in western Liaoning. The uprising of the th Army of the Yunnan Army has also torn open the Shenyang defense line."

Although they were carried out at the same time, the Taiyuan Campaign was obviously inferior to the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign.

It’s not that Taiyuan is not important.

The main difference was the enemies they faced. The Battle of Pingjin and the Liaoshen Campaign primarily targeted elite Nationalist troops, the Central Army. While there were some local warlord troops, they were also highly effective. In contrast, the enemy in the Battle of Taiyuan was Yan Xishan's Shanxi Army.

The combat effectiveness of the Jin army was generally poor.

Although Yan Xishan built numerous defensive fortifications around Taiyuan and reorganized Japanese troops, the Central Committee still considered the Shanxi Army too lowly. Even the reorganized Japanese troops, judging by the Battle of Datong, showed only mediocre combat effectiveness. Consequently, the Central Committee's primary focus was on the Northeast and the Tianjin-Beijing region.

"Yes. I originally considered using a year to liberate Northeast China and North China, but the current situation doesn't require a year. Before August, the Battle of Pingjin and the Liaoshen Campaign can be completely concluded.

The chairman was also very surprised.

The Liberation War went unexpectedly smoothly.

One year after the outbreak of the Liberation War, the People's Liberation Army had gained such an advantage. After taking over Northeast China and North China, the Northeast Field Army and the North China Field Army's million-strong troops could move south.

"During this Pingjin Campaign, a large number of Nationalist troops will revolt. When Tianjin was captured, the 53rd Army of the Northeastern Army revolted. If a large number of Nationalist troops revolt in Peking again, the number of Nationalist troops that will revolt will be quite large. How should this be handled?

The Commander-in-Chief said, "Judging from the Battle of Tianjin, apart from the 53rd Army, which revolted entirely, many other Nationalist troops revolted in brigades and regiments, and quite a few surrendered in groups. During the Battle of Tianjin, over troops revolted or surrendered. If Hou Jingru had succeeded in his uprising, the number of troops revolting or surrendering in Peking would have been no less than . In total, the number of troops revolting or surrendering in the Battle of Pingjin would have been no less than . With so many Nationalist troops, it would be difficult for us to reorganize them all into military district units."

We still need to assign these rebel troops designations. Old Mao, I'm thinking of giving the North China Field Army two additional corps designations. This will make it easier to place these rebel troops.

“They should be properly accommodated.”

The Chairman thought for a moment and said, "But we can't form corps entirely with rebellious and surrendered Nationalist troops. We still need to mix them with our own troops. It's okay to add two corps to the North China Field Army."

Although there had been uprisings by the Nationalist Army before, the scale was limited.

The Battle of Pingjin was different.

If all goes well, there will be more than 200,000 troops who will revolt or surrender. So many troops cannot be simply dismissed. The best way is to keep them with the People's Liberation Army for reorganization and control.

"Chairman, if Hou Jingru's uprising succeeds, what should we do with him?"

Wu Hao raised the question of Hou Jingru.

The Chairman said, "If Hou Jingru succeeds in his uprising, his contribution will be immense. He can be given the position of Corps Commander. As for the specific reorganization of these Nationalist troops, that will be left to the North China Bureau and the General Front Committee of the Pingjin Campaign."

"After the uprisings of Fu Zuoyi, Chen Changjie, and Deng Baoshan, there were no enemy troops in the Jinsui area. Should the Jinsui Corps be incorporated into the Northwest Field Army?"

Ren Peiguo spoke.

The commander-in-chief nodded and said, "It should be incorporated into the Northwest Field Army. In this way, the Northwest Field Army will have more advantages in liberating the Northwest.

General Peng is still very capable in fighting.

When the Northwest Field Army was first formed, it consisted of only 70,000 to 80,000 troops. However, it inflicted heavy casualties on Hu Zongnan, and within a short period of time, several of his mobile forces were decimated by Peng Dehuai. Hu Zongnan's forces were more than double Peng Dehuai's, and his weaponry was far superior. However, it was Hu Zongnan who began to retreat. The Northwest Field Army's mobile warfare had driven Hu Zongnan into a state of panic, but with Hu Zongnan retreating, decisive battles became more difficult.

If the Shanxi-Suiyuan Corps were handed over to the Northwest Field Army, General Peng would have an army of about 160,000 to 170,000 people under his command.

I really don't worry about Hu Zongnan.

"Old Mao, Northeast China and North China will soon be liberated. The situation in other liberated areas has also improved a lot. Shouldn't the Military Commission unify the organization and unit numbers of the entire army?"

The commander-in-chief once again talked about the current situation.

Wu Hao nodded and said, "What the boss said makes sense. Now is the time to unify our troops."

"Yes. The Military Commission can first discuss the unified organization plan."

The chairman nodded.

Now is the time.

Ren Peiguo said, "Chairman, we are about to capture Peking. Should the Central Committee consider relocating?"

The central government had considered this issue half a year ago.

But it didn't pass at that time.

But times have changed, and the situation has changed even more. The People's Liberation Army is about to conquer Northeast China and North China. At this time, it is a bit too remote for the Central Committee to still be entrenched in Yan'an. Wu Hao said, "I think so too. Once Peking is captured, the Central Committee will move there. Even if we don't move to Peking for the time being, we should still go to North China to command the national revolution."

The commander-in-chief nodded.

He said: "The national situation is developing very quickly now. It is indeed inappropriate for the Central Committee to continue to stay in Yan'an.

"Ah."

The Chairman said, "Then the Central Committee should begin preparations. We will not enter Peking yet. Send a telegram to the North China Bureau, asking them to find a temporary headquarters for the Central Committee not far from Peking. After we capture Peking and stabilize order there, we will move into Peking. Before entering Peking, we should convene the Second Session of the Seventh Central Committee to determine the next revolutionary tasks for the entire Party."

Discussing the capital?

In fact, in the historical list of eleven candidates for the capital, the other cities were basically just runners-up. After all, judging by the current situation, Beijing's advantages are too great. Although the central government has not yet considered the capital issue, the central government's next relocation target is definitely Beijing.

"This issue should be discussed. With the development of the revolution, the current situation has changed a lot compared to when we held the Seventh Congress in Yan'an."

"agree."

Three years had passed since the Seventh National Congress was held in 1944.

The revolutionary situation across the country has changed dramatically over the past three years, and the revolutionary tasks must also shift accordingly. At the Seventh National Congress, whether sincerely or under pressure, the CCP's vision for the future of the Chinese revolution was to establish a coalition government, not to overthrow the Nationalist government. But the situation is different now. The CCP has the foundation for national revolutionary victory, and even grassroots units have begun shouting slogans like "Down with Chiang Kai-shek." Therefore, the Party's tasks must inevitably shift.

So everyone agreed to hold the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee. The Chairman continued, "The current revolutionary situation is very good. I think we need to increase our contacts with the Soviet Union."

The Chairman is no longer thinking about war.

Chairman Mao had already begun to consider what would happen after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Once the People's Republic of China was established, it would be another socialist country. However, China's revolution had always been carried out in the mountains, and China itself was an agricultural country.