1949 (thirty-eight years of the Republic of China) In August, during the third revolutionary civil war, the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army launched an offensive campaign against the Kuomintang troops in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, is located in the lower reaches of Minjiang River, in the middle of Fuzhou Plain, bordering Minjiang River in the south and Mawei Military Port in the east, surrounded by mountains, with steep terrain. There are steep Gushan Mountain, Lianhua Mountain, Bijia Mountain and Huding Mountain winding in the east and north, and Minjiang River and its tributary Wulong River are surrounded in the west and south.
After the Battle of Crossing the River, the People's Liberation Army quickly liberated Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, southern Anhui, western Zhejiang and northeastern Jiangxi. The Second Field Army and the Seventh Corps of the Third Field Army, one each, pursued the victory and annihilated the fleeing enemy. With the cooperation of the guerrillas belonging to the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi border column, most of northern Fujian and parts of northeastern Fujian were liberated in May and June. With the Kuomintang troops losing ground, Chiang Kai-shek led the remnants to retreat to Taiwan Province Province in an attempt to use Taiwan Province Province as a base for counter-offensive, trying to keep Fujian, Guangdong and southwest provinces, control the southeast coastal islands and defend Taiwan Province Province as a springboard for counter-offensive.
Zhu Shaoliang, director of the Fuzhou appeasement office of the Kuomintang Army, and Li Yannian, commander of the Sixth Corps, commanded about 60,000 men from five armies 13 divisions to defend Fuzhou. Zhu and Li's headquarters were relocated to Fuzhou by the remnants who fled south, with incomplete organizational system, insufficient troops and low morale, and they have been in a state of panic.
With the support of the People's Guerrilla Column of the Second Field Army in Northern Fujian, Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi and the masses, they all arrived in Youxi, Nanping (29 army), Gutian (3 1 Army) and Jian 'ou (Corps Department and 28th Army) before the end of the month.
In order to win the battle, the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, the cadres who went south with the troops and the local party and government organs formed the headquarters of the northern Fujian branch, which was responsible for mobilizing people's strength, raising and transporting materials such as grain and grass, and assisting the People's Liberation Army in its war support work. Guerrillas in eastern Fujian and central Fujian actively cooperated with the reconnaissance detachment of the People's Liberation Army and went deep into Lianjiang, Mawei, Yongtai, Fuqing and other places to survey the terrain and roads, monitor the movements of Kuomintang troops and provide reliable information for campaigns and combat operations.
The campaign plan was originally scheduled to enter the war zone on August 8, and the battle began on 15. On August 4, the Kuomintang army was found to have signs of contraction and was ready for battle. With the approval of the Third Field Army, an early attack began at 1 1.
The 87th Division advanced from Yongtai to Shanggan and arrived at Yidu Street and Pass on 16. While liberating Fuzhou, the 29th Army and the 84th Division began to pursue, intercept and panic in the Kuomintang troops crossing the river in Jiang Nanan, Wulong. The 84th Division 17 pursued the remnants of the 96th Army from Tanghong to Pukou at 9: 00 and arrived near Nanyu at 22: 00, capturing more than 500 people. 18 continue to chase Yongtai. On the 20th, the 250th Regiment crossed the Shuangfeng Mountain in the northwest of Taikou at a speed three times that of the enemy, intercepting deserters 1200 people. 2 1 day, 25 1 regiment marched continuously for 36 hours and surrounded the Kuomintang troops fleeing to the northwest ocean area of Yongtai. Then the 250th and 252nd regiments arrived. After the siege, more than 1000 people led by Huang, deputy commander of the 96th Kuomintang Army, were forced to lay down their weapons. At this point, except for Yu Zhaolong, commander of the 96th Army, who fled to Zhangzhou and Xiamen, all the remaining 4,000 Kuomintang troops were annihilated.
29 army learned that the Kuomintang Army 17 crossed the river from Beixia to Shangganling in the morning, and ordered the 85th Division to intercept it in Dong Zhang, Lu Hong, workshops and other places to prevent it from fleeing south. Make the 87th Division attack from the estuary to the north; The main force of the 86th Division moved from Changle to the west, and Guangdong, Qinghai and Puling cooperated with the 87th Division to panic and flee the enemy. /kloc-in the morning of 0/7, the 87th Division attacked Shangganling along the highway with 259th Regiment, and with 260th Regiment as the main force, it interspersed with green nursery from the east, cutting off the way for Kuomintang troops to flee eastward. 16, the two regiments fought fiercely for 2 hours, killing 1000 people. At 2400 hours, the occupied land was still dry and the deserters had fled to the southeast of Dayi. 18, 254th Regiment of 85th Division, which was responsible for intercepting the workshop area, surrounded the Kuomintang troops fleeing eastward in Jinchishan, Huangjingling and Taoyangshan areas 13 mu. After the political collapse, more than 4,700 people, including Fuzhou Suibu, 6th Corps, 25th Army and 50th Independent Division, were forced to surrender on 18. On the same day, the 86th Division searched and annihilated more than 500 deserters in the south of Qingpuling. On the 20th, the 87th Division forced the Kuomintang Army 1 Battalion to surrender near Wu Ziyan, east of Guankou. The 86th Division successively searched and annihilated the remnant Kuomintang troops 1000 people on both sides of Yutian and Chiyu. More than 2 16 deputy division commander of the Kuomintang army led 100 people to surrender on Changle crane. On the 22nd, the 1st Division of 85th Division and the 2nd Division of 87th Division surrounded the Kuomintang troops fleeing from Chupo to the south near Tuotian and Cuoyangkeng in the northwest of Yidu Street. That night, one of the deserters fled to the west, and 1 1,000 people were wiped out. On the 23rd, more than 400 Kuomintang troops fleeing westward were wiped out, and Chen, commander of the 25th Army, fled in disguise.
The campaign started on August 1 1 and ended on August 23rd, lasting 13 days. With the cooperation of local organizations and guerrillas in China, the People's Liberation Army annihilated 39,400 Kuomintang troops, including 30 160 prisoners, 2,050 wounded and 3 160 defectors. He Tongtang, Chen Tengxiang, Geng, chief of staff of the Sixth Corps, Huang, deputy commander of the 25th Army and the 96th Army, were captured and killed or injured 1700 people, liberating Fujian provincial capitals Fuzhou and Ningde, Luoyuan, Lianjiang, Changle, Fuqing, Yongtai and Linsen.