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    A month passed in the blink of an eye. The reorganized 11th Division was resting near Zhoucun. In fact, the East China Field Army led by Chen Yi and Su Yu was also resting. The two leaders as combat commanders also made deep introspections. Although  The two battles between Nanma and Linqu turned into a war of attrition. In the briefings of each unit, they only said that it was a draw, just to maintain everyone's fighting spirit.  In fact, both in terms of casualty ratio and strategic effect, these were two defeats.  As a result, the national army has occupied the entire Jiaoji Road. The Jiaodong area, which is an important material base for the Communist Party and a resettlement place for tens of thousands of wounded, is also in danger of being occupied. What is particularly serious is that during the nearly two-month battle,  Among them, Chen Yisuyu's combat and non-combat attrition totaled 50,000 people. This was also an unprecedented loss for the East China Field Army since its establishment.

    Objectively speaking, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China¡¯s order to divide the East China Field Army in July was a misstep!

    In early August, Su Yu drafted a preliminary summary telegram on the Nanma and Linqu battles to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He analyzed the strategic and tactical deficiencies of the East China Field Army since the division of troops in July. He also emphasized that he was critical to the entire counterattack situation and future.  Excessive optimism is an important reason for these failures.  However, both Commander Chen Yi and Deputy Political Commissar Tan Zhenlin disagreed with the telegram, believing that the central government made no strategic mistakes and that the cause of the failure was errors in military deployment and tactical problems.  Because of the disagreement, Su Yu had to draft a separate short telegram and sent it to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In this telegram, he took all the responsibility for the failure and demanded punishment.

    Chen Yi was deeply disturbed and believed that it was unfair for Su Yu to bear the responsibility for the unfavorable outcome of the battle. It was necessary to sit down with Tan Zhenlin and Su Yu to discuss this issue clearly.  However, Tan Zhenlin was about to lead the Second and Seventh Columns to Jiaodong for rest and recuperation. Before leaving, he only left a letter to Su Yu, pointing out that Su Yu was often careless in military matters and lacked foresight. These battles were not fought well. He put aside the main reason.  If you are too optimistic, you will not be able to fully understand the problem, and you will not be able to convince other comrades.

    In his reply to Tan Zhenlin, Su Yu admitted that he had problems with military command and combat deployment, but he still insisted that excessive optimism was the main reason for the failure of this battle.

    In order to encourage Su Yu, Chen Yi also had a long talk with him all night long. The purpose was nothing more than one. He hoped that as leaders, we could get up from where we fell.

    On August 30, Mao Zedong sent a harsh telegram to Chen Yi and Su Yu, criticizing Chen Su's army for staying in Huimin for too long and taking no positive action for more than 20 days, causing the Kuomintang ministries to criticize Liu and Deng.  The army's pressure is too tight and there is a tendency that they will not be able to gain a foothold on the Great Wall.  At the same time, he strictly ordered his subordinates Chen Shiju and Tang Liang to actively annihilate the enemy, and asked Chen Su's main force to cross the Yellow River immediately and fully cooperate with Liu and Deng.

    This was like a wake-up call. Chen Yi and Su Yu had clearly understood the strategic intentions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Under the guidance of the overall view, they immediately made arrangements, leaving a small number of internal troops to persist in entangled with the national army.  The main force of the East China Field Army, like Liu and Deng's armies, penetrated directly into the Central Plains, disrupted the Kuomintang-controlled areas, and completed the strategic change of the war.

    On September 2, Chen Yi and Su Yu led the Sixth Column, together with the Tenth Column and the first section of the Special Forces Column, which were crossing the Yellow River from the south and north of Shandong Province at this time, crossed the Yellow River from Fanxian and Puyang areas on the north bank of the Yellow River, and marched southward.  Into the Juye and Dingtao areas in the southwest of Shandong Province, they joined the first, third, fourth and eighth columns who arrived here earlier to form the Western Front Corps of the East China Field Army.

    At this time, Liu and Deng's 120,000-strong army set out from southwestern Shandong and had already walked out of the Yellow River Flood Area on the night of August 18th. They fought against layers of fortified national troops along the way and finally crossed the Ruhe River on August 25th.  , when we entered the Dabie Mountains, there were only about 100,000 people left.  According to the strategic deployment of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, Chen Geng and Xie Fuzhi in the west led the Fourth Column, the 22nd Brigade of the Eighth Column, the Ninth Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Field Army, and the 38th Army of the Northwest Democratic Alliance Army.  About 80,000 people from 29 regiments formed the Chen-Xie Corps. On August 23, they broke through the natural dangers of the Yellow River, opened up a new battlefield from Luoyang to Shaanxi County, and waited for opportunities to establish new liberated areas.

    For the Chen Su Corps, which had just crossed the Yellow River, it immediately seized an excellent fighter opportunity. On September 7, the 57th Division, reorganized from the national army heading north from Caoxian County, surrounded the road from Heze to Juye.  In the area near Shatuji, fierce fighting continued until the morning of the 9th. With the cooperation of the 11th column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army that stayed in southwest Shandong, more than 9,000 people from the headquarters and two brigades of the National Army's reorganized 57th Division were successfully eliminated.  The East China Field Army suffered only 2,300 casualties in this campaign.

    The victory of the Battle of Shatuji finally freed the East China Field Army from the shadow of failure, and this battle also"You said you studied chariots?" Hu Congjun immediately became interested and asked.

    Mei Zhanyuan nodded.

    "Then why did you arrive in Shangqiu?" Zhang Xian also became interested.

    "That's it!" Mei Zhanyuan explained: "Although the 74th Reorganized Division was rebuilt, those of us in the chariot convoy were not asked to go back, and were later incorporated into the armored forces of the Second Young Master Chiang Kai-shek, because  The war here in Shangqiu is tense, so Shangfeng asked me to bring eight light tanks to support. I have just arrived and am about to report to Director Zhou Yan!"

    "Oh?" Hu Congjun's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately asked: "Major Mei, have you ever participated in any battles with a chariot?"

    Mei Zhanyuan shook his head and told him honestly: "I have fought a lot of battles, but I have never driven a chariot in an actual battle!"

    "Oh!" Hu Congjun was a little disappointed. He obviously wanted a chariot team with actual combat experience.  But then he shined his light again and asked Mei Zhanyuan: "Major Mei, are you interested in joining the reorganized 11th Division?"

    Mei Zhanyuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded, looking at Zhang Xian's excited look, and said at the same time: "Of course I want to follow the 11th Division. Your division is the most important one besides our reorganized 74th Division."  Good troops!¡±

    "Okay!" Hu Congjun agreed: "I will go and talk to Director Zhou right away and assign your eight chariots to our division. You will still be the captain of the chariot team!"

    "If that's the case, that would be great!" Zhang Xian also echoed, showing a smile.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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