Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

"Commander, the city's Secret Service is arresting people everywhere, and they're all acting like crazy. If we hold this public meeting, then..."

"Hmph. A few bugs in the Secret Service, so what can they do? I'm not sending people to take down the Secret Service because we once worked together. If they come and influence our uprising, I will send people to take down the Peking Secret Service. From now on, the 92nd Army and the 95th Independent Division will start sending people to guard along the way. Old Huang, you will contact the Communist representatives on my behalf and tell them our ideas. We ask that the Communists rest for a day or two after two days of fierce attack and wait for our news."

"it is good."

Luo Qirong has been in charge of contacting Hou Jingru.

After Hou Jingru put forward his idea, Wei Hongjun immediately communicated it to Yang Quanwu. Yang Quanwu understood Hou Jingru's intention, so his troops took turns to advance and fiercely attacked the Kuomintang troops' positions on the outer wall of Peking.

The PLA troops are now fighting positional warfare well.

The main thing is that the weapons and equipment are much better.

After two days, most of the Kuomintang positions on the outer city wall had been controlled by the People's Liberation Army, and the Kuomintang troops in the outer positions suffered staggering casualties.

However, after two days of fighting, Yang Quanwu stopped the attack.

After the PLA stopped the attack, Hou Jingru immediately called the generals of these troops and asked the generals of the 16th Army, the 31st Army and the reorganized 42nd Division to come as soon as possible to redeploy the troops.

Hou Jingru was very bold.

After everyone comes over, I'll confront them directly. Tell them I'm going to revolt, and ask them if they agree or not. If they agree, then revolt with me. If they don't agree, then get on a plane and leave.

There was an uproar.

The officers of the 16th Army were all Whampoa Military Academy members, and they all opposed the uprising. The 31st Army was very active, including its commander, Liao Kang. The commander of the 31nd Division opposed the reorganization, but the brigade commanders supported it.

Hou Jingru didn't care about that.

Let those who are unwilling leave immediately.

The generals then realized that Hou Jingru was going to take tough action. Hou Jingru's meaning was simple: if you don't join me in the uprising, then the army will be leaderless. Hou Jingru didn't say anything to them. Anyway, since they had come here, Hou Jingru had no intention of letting them return to the army.

On June 1947, 6, Hou Jingru forcibly sent away a group of generals by plane.

Then declare an uprising.

In the name of the commander-in-chief of the 17th Corps and the commander-in-chief of the defense of Peking, he demanded that all units lay down their arms and join him in the uprising. Soon after, the 92nd Army declared an uprising, the 95th Independent Division declared an uprising, the 31st Army declared an uprising, and the reorganized 42nd Division declared an uprising. The 16th Division was a direct line of the Central Army and originally did not want to revolt. However, all the generals and officers above it were dismissed by Hou Jingru.

As a result, they couldn't do anything.

The lower-level officers and soldiers also didn't want to fight. The previous few days of fighting with the People's Liberation Army, whose powerful artillery and offensive capabilities had left a deep impression on the officers and soldiers of the 16th Army. It was precisely because the Central Committee and the North China Bureau hoped to completely retake Peking that Yang Quanwu was somewhat cautious in his use of artillery. Otherwise, the extended artillery fire could have completely eliminated the Nationalist positions behind the outer city walls.

The 16th Army was leaderless and could only be forced to revolt.

As for the other troops, they were all ragtag units. They were essentially local forces, and they were incapable of resisting Hou Jingru's orders. After Hou Jingru declared his uprising, the 92nd Army and the Independent 95th Division had already taken control of key areas within the inner city. After the 31st Army and the Reorganized 42nd Division revolted together, they began to flee with the People's Liberation Army.

PLA troops have begun to enter Peking.

On June 1947, 6, all Nationalist troops within Peking evacuated the city and entered Liangxiang, Huailai, and Zhuozhou. The 23th Corps was disbanded, and all units except the 17nd Army were disbanded at the corps level. Each division was designated an independent division of the North China Field Army and reorganized.

At this point, the Pingjin Campaign organized by the North China Field Army officially ended.

Counting from the time the Central Committee submitted the list of members of the General Front Committee for the Peiping-Tianjin Campaign through the North China Bureau, it has been 62 days. If we count from the time the General Front Committee was formally formed, it has been 47 days. If we count from the time the troops officially began their attack on Tianjin, it has been 20 days.

The Battle of Pingjin ended successfully.

The North China Field Army mobilized more than 70 field army troops and local troops, and annihilated a total of 42 main forces and local troops in Beijing and Tianjin.

Chapter 715: Complicated Things

The Battle of Peiping-Tianjin ended successfully and the North China Liberation Army won the victory.

Wei Hongjun, Luo Qirong and Yang Quanwu held a meeting with the Kuomintang officers above the regimental level who revolted in Zhuozhou and Peiping.

Wei Hongjun made it clear that his stance on KMT officers was clear. He wouldn't force them to choose; they could come and go as they pleased. Those who wished to remain in the PLA could study at the North China Military and Political University or the North China Army University, where their future positions would be assigned based on their academic performance.

Wei Hongjun even suggested that some capable officers could become teachers at the North China Military and Political University and the North China Army University.

As for those who did not want to continue fighting in the PLA, the PLA would provide them with stipends. All officers would receive three months of stipends. If their hometowns were far away, the PLA would buy them train tickets.

As a result, more than 2000 KMT officers left the army. What puzzled Wei Hongjun the most was that Liao Kang, the commander of the 31st Army who had been actively contacting the People's Liberation Army to revolt, also chose to leave.

This was something Wei Hongjun had never expected.

The choice of the 31st Army was crucial to the complete takeover of Peking. The General Front Committee had previously discussed leaving Liao Kang with a column commander position or a position in the North China Military Region. Unexpectedly, he also wanted to leave.

But since he was leaving, Wei Hongjun didn't object.

If he left, he could still retain the position of column commander.

Moreover, the departure of these officers would be more beneficial to the reorganization of the troops. Of course, this was just the general army unit. As for the special forces of the National Army in the city, Wei Hongjun did not let them go so easily.

Wei Hongjun tried his best to persuade the special forces.

Because these special forces are very good.

Wei Hongjun adopted the approach of using all of these special arms, or technical arms, including artillery, armored troops, motor vehicle troops, engineers, military doctors, and so on.

In order to reorganize the 16 Nationalist troops who revolted and surrendered in this uprising, the North China Field Army established four columns: the 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th columns.

Among them, the 23rd Column was the former 92nd Army of the National Army.

The Wei Red Army then drew six divisions from the Nationalist Army, reduced them to brigades, and incorporated them into the First, Second, and Sixth Corps. They then drew six extra brigades from the First, Second, and Sixth Corps, and reorganized each column with two brigades and a Nationalist division, thus forming three columns.

These are the newly established 24th, 25th and 26th columns.

Finally, Wei Hongjun decided that the 26th Column would be directly under the North China Field Army Headquarters. The 23rd, 24th, and 25th Columns would be merged into the Eighth Corps. Of course, while these three columns would be merged, the merger wouldn't be completed all at once.

Because the newly incorporated national army troops need to be reorganized first.

First, divisional units were mixed, converting the KMT divisional units into brigade-level units, with three brigades forming a new column. Once these divisional units were incorporated into the column, the column further split these units. This was followed by regimental mixing, mixing regiments from these KMT divisional units with regiments from the PLA brigades.

When it reaches the brigade level, the battalions will be mixed.

In this way, these rebellious Nationalist troops were quickly mixed with the PLA troops. With the addition of political cadres, these troops became familiar with the PLA troops in a short period of time, and a situation of mutual integration was formed.

Of course, this is the overall reorganization strategy.

Wei Hongjun, the director of the Peking Military Control Commission, couldn't possibly be solely focused on this matter. Therefore, he handed over the task of organizing the Eighth Corps to Yang Quanwu. Then, Wei Hongjun entered Peking and began organizing the Peking Military Control Commission.

“How’s the takeover going?”

"The takeover of the various agencies went relatively smoothly, without any major problems."

Peking is a truly big city.

It was simply not comparable to Zhangjiakou and Datong. At that time, Peking, with its surrounding population of 200 million, was a true supercity. And this was just the beginning.

As the central government moves to Beijing in the future, Beijing will inevitably experience a major population expansion, and it is inevitable that the population will increase by 400,000 to 500,000 in a short period of time.

The large population makes management difficult.

There's a lot to consider.

Fortunately, Peking was completely taken over, and the various departments didn't have much to do. The PLA sent representatives over to take over a department, completely taking over the entire department and retaining the original staff.

But even if they took over like this, there were more than 30,000 people in the department.

You can imagine how many staff the city would need.

"The biggest problem in Beijing right now is food."

Zhou Bin spoke.

"Beiping's food relies on being shipped in. The war has drastically reduced the amount of food entering the city, causing food prices to skyrocket. Furthermore, some unscrupulous merchants are hoarding food, making the food situation even more tense. We must resolve the food problem as soon as possible, otherwise, chaos will inevitably break out in Beiping."

Wei Hongjun nodded.

Big cities have their advantages, but they also have their difficulties.

The biggest problem is food supply.

The issue of food supply in Peking has been a major headache for the imperial court since the Yuan Dynasty. Wei Hongjun asked, "If we want to lower food prices, how much grain will we need?"

"We need at least 3000 million to 4000 million kilograms of grain within a month.

A lot of food is needed, especially since time is short.

Wei Hongjun thought for a moment and said, "Okay. I'll prepare 3000 million kilograms of food within a month."

"But there's another problem. Our troops and staff are absolutely forbidden from buying food from outside. This would easily exacerbate the food shortage in the city. Our troops and staff must find their own food.

"I see."

Wei Hongjun thought for a moment and said, "If we get the grain and our price is lower than the market price, what will happen if the merchants come to buy the grain and continue to hoard it? Those merchants are probably big businessmen and should be very wealthy. What if we let them hoard the grain?"

"There are two ways."

"Talk about it."

"One way is to issue coupons and sell grain according to the coupons.

I've calculated carefully that, based on the current situation in Peking, a daily supply of about one million jin of grain on the market is sufficient to maintain Peking's normal food supply. With the voucher system, we can gradually collect grain and continuously ensure Peking's food security.

Zhou Bin is very familiar with tickets.

When Chairman Mao led the Anyuan Coal Mine strike, Zhou Bin established a workers' consumer cooperative. Because there were so many workers, Zhou Bin was able to leverage his scale to lower prices when purchasing goods. This was essentially a large-scale wholesale operation.

Each worker is then issued a purchase certificate to ensure that hoarding does not occur.

As a result, the prices of goods sold at the workers' consumer cooperative were lower than those elsewhere, earning the workers' support. Furthermore, they made considerable profits. Zhou Bin used these profits to support the Anyuan Coal Mine Strike, providing funds for the strike.

Later, when I arrived in the Soviet area and faced the situation of insufficient supplies, I also did work in this area.

So Zhou Bin is really familiar with this thing.

"Another option is to stockpile enough food. At this stage, our troops have just taken Peking, and those speculators will be cautious and dare not make any big moves. But once the situation stabilizes, these merchants will definitely come out to cause trouble. That means hoarding goods again. Many merchants in Peking and Tianjin are engaged in this kind of speculation. They will unite to speculate on food.

When they hoard large quantities of grain, our continued, large-scale sale will inevitably bankrupt them. Not only will they go bankrupt, but the banks that are behind them will also go bankrupt. We can eliminate a large number of speculators and banks in one fell swoop."

Wei Hongjun nodded.

Now that the People's Liberation Army has just taken Beijing, those speculators may need to wait and see for a while.

After all, the People's Liberation Army holds the gun.

However, once they realized the PLA hadn't attacked them, these speculators were bound to want to make a killing. The more chaotic the political transition, the more they'd have to act.

But as soon as they are down, that's when we'll destroy them.

"I've read some articles written by Comrade Xue Muqiao. He said that the most basic guarantee of currency is material goods. Whoever controls material goods can control currency. I very much agree with this idea. We were able to maintain the stability of the border currency during the War of Resistance because we controlled the materials needed in the liberated areas. Comrade Zhou Bin, since we are going to take action, we must deal with these speculators once and for all. You can rest assured about the food problem. I will definitely transport enough food to Peking in a short time. As for how to stabilize the food prices in Peking and even crack down on these speculators, Comrade Zhou Bin is fully responsible. Comrade Zhou Bin can select the required work team from across North China. You can also go to the various universities in Peking to find the people you need.

"it is good."

Zhou Bin nodded.

Zhao Zhensheng said, "I thought Peking was better than before, but this time I found that it is really too dirty. Shouldn't we make a plan to see how to clean up the garbage in Peking?"