The situation before the battle of Laiyang

In March 1947, the Nationalist Army launched a focused attack on the Shandong liberated area, the PLA has been in a passive situation in the Shandong battlefield, especially after the division of forces in July, the Huayu was defeated in successive battles, and in the Battles of Nanma and Linqu, which decided the survival of the Shandong liberated area, the Huayu suffered a heavy setback, and in August, it completely lost the base area of Yimeng Mountain, and in the unprecedented series of losses, the Huayu lost more than 50,000 soldiers and generals, and entered into the the most difficult and darkest period of hardship. The Kuomintang aimed directly at Jiaodong. At the beginning of the War of Liberation, Shandong, the largest liberated area in the country, supplied most of its personnel and materials through the sea transportation from Yantai to the Northeast. The Jiaodong Peninsula was the most important springboard connecting Guan'an and Guan'an, and it was also the last base area of Huano, where hospitals, wounded, arsenals, and rear organs (more than 50,000 people of wounded and logistic organs) were all concentrated in Jiaodong. Therefore, the National Army set three strategic objectives, namely, to occupy the political base of Yan'an, the military base of Yimengshan, and the transportation and supply base of Jiaodong (with Yantai as the ultimate goal). After the National Army accomplished the first two goals, the PLA's pressure in Jiaodong is imaginable.

Jiaodong Peninsula is located in the southeast end of the continental shelf of North China, north of the Bohai Sea, east and south of the Yellow Sea, and Liaodong Peninsula across the sea, each other into a horns of the situation, in the Changshan Islands north and south of the stars, the formation of the Beijing-Tianjin and the Bohai Sea of the natural barriers; East and the Korean Peninsula are far away from each other to become a mountain corner of the majestic stand on the Yellow Sea Straits. The territory is densely populated, rich in material resources, when the country's four major gold mines Jiaodong Peninsula accounted for three. Here have Yantai, Weihai, Qingdao and other good port and many dangerous mountainous areas, developed transportation, Jiaoji Railway to Jinan, Beijing, Shijiazhuang and other parts of North China, and from the sea into the north of China's important gateway to the highway, airports, wharves and so on at that time than also very developed, strategic position is extremely important, and has always been a place where soldiers must contend.

Jiaodong is the ancient homeland of Qi, a long history, cultural development, trade and commerce. During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, it was known as "Lai Zi State". In 690 B.C., Qi incorporated Jiaodong into its own territory, and Duke Huan of Qi was able to dominate the Seven Heroes. In 285 B.C., Yan's general Le Yi led an army to invade more than 70 cities, and six years later, in 279 B.C., Tian Dan recovered Qi's lost territories by turning defeat into victory with the "Fire Ox Formation", an unprecedented battle in Jiaodong's history, which created a brilliant page in the history of warfare. In 219 B.C., after Qin Shi Huang destroyed Qi, he set up the Jiaodong County and made an eastward tour to Chengshantou, the easternmost part of Jiaodong Peninsula. In 210 B.C., Xu Fu led a huge flotilla of more than 3,000 people on an eastward journey to Japan, becoming the earliest voyager in ancient times. In 204 B.C., Han Xin arrayed himself in Weichui, defeated the allied forces of Qi and Chu, and took advantage of the victory to occupy the state of Qi, which became a paradigm in the history of warfare in which victory was won by many against few and by surprise. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, in 179 B.C., the states of Jiaodong and Jiaoxi were separated, and in 104 B.C., they were merged into the state of Jiaodong. Han, Sui, Tang, Yuan four dynasties tens of thousands of naval expedition to Goryeo and Japan, are to Jiaodong as the departure area and supply base. Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, led his army to fight against the Japanese and won many battles in Jiaodong, which pacified the Japanese invasion along the coast. Because of its strategic importance, successive dynasties have used troops in Jiaodong. In recent times, the Sino-Japanese War and the German-Japanese War, which had a profound impact on Chinese history, took place here.

After the war of liberation began, Yantai and the Soviet-controlled Dalian shipping exchanges are frequent, the PLA's arsenal in the northeast of the manufacture of artillery shells, explosives, guns and medicine, cloth and other materials, a steady stream of sea transport Yantai, and then transported by land to the Huayu troops and the Jili-Lu-Yu liberation zone to support the war of liberation within the country, the Huayu procurement of arms and ammunition from North Korea is also from Dalian transit Jiaodong Peninsula, Jiaodong has become an important transportation hub; secondly, Jiaodong has become a major transportation hub. Secondly, Jiaodong is an old revolutionary area established during the war of resistance, with a good mass base and revolutionary tradition, Jiaodong's children in the war of resistance and liberation war in the army of nearly 500,000 young adults (sacrificed more than 80,000 people, disabled 200,000 to 300,000), in the spring of 1949, the army went south, accounting for the total population of Jiaodong, more than 2.6 million of the total population of 1/3 of the young adults in support of the front, leaving the old, weak, women and children at home to work on the farm, the front of the Jiaodong civilian laborers The songs and tears of the militia in support of Jiaodong have been recounted by the world. The East China Field Army and the Northeast Field Army have four or five armies made up of Jiaodong soldiers (in addition to supplementing more than 10 basic regiments of the Chinese field armies), and the "Weixian regiment", "Jinan first regiment", "Jinan second regiment "Weixian Regiment", "Jinan First Regiment", "Jinan Second Regiment", "Tashan Heroic Regiment", "Baidaishan Heroic Regiment" and other famous heroes inside and outside of the army, and at that time, more than 100,000 militiamen in Jiaodong composed of local armed forces is the main source of reserves for the Huayu, and Jiaodong, as an old base, stored a large number of military supplies. A large number of military supplies were stored. Among them, there were 9 arsenals with 7,000 workers, producing about 50 mortars, more than 300 Japanese-style catapults, 300 light machine guns and rifles, 300,000 rounds of rifle bullets, and nearly 100,000 artillery shells per month. There were more than 700 workers in the Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory, which produced a certain number of medicines and equipment every month; there were more than 1,000 workers in the Quilt Factory, which could make 130,000 sets of cotton uniforms and 290,000 pairs of cloth shoes, and there were more than 4,000 medics and nurses in the rear hospitals and field hospitals to take care of tens of thousands of wounded soldiers. There were also tens of thousands of rear organizations and schools. Jiaodong is the People's Liberation Army in East China's general rear, at that time is also the seat of the East China Bureau of China * * * Chen Yi Suyu said in a telegram, "Jiaodong is now the only remaining source of soldiers, arms, medicine, electricity and all kinds of munitions and equipment supply, such as Jiaodong was destroyed so far after the impact of the war supply to the great". In early August in view of the critical situation, in accordance with the requirements of the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, the Chinese field divided into two corps:

Western Corps, also known as the outer corps, to the south-west of Lu and the Yu, Anhui and Jiangsu border areas, with the Liu Deng army jumped into the Dabie Mountains to carry out the task of external combat, under the jurisdiction of:

East China Field Army, the 1st Column (under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd divisions), Commander and Political Commissar Ye Fei;

3rd Column (under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd divisions), Commanding General and Political Commissar Ye Fei;

3rd Column (7th, 8th, 9th Divisions), Commander He Yixian, Political Commissar Ding Qiusheng;

4th Column (10th, 11th, 12th Divisions), Commander Tao Yong, Political Commissar Wang Jiezhong;

6th Column (16th, 17th, 18th Divisions), Commander Wang Bicheng, Political Commissar Jiang Weiqing;

8th Column (22nd Division, 23rd and 24th Divisions), Commander Wang Jian'an, Political Commissar Xiang Ming;

10th Column (28th and 29th Divisions), Commander Song Shilun, Political Commissar Jing Xiaocun;

Special Forces Column, Commander Chen Ruiting, Political Commissar Zhang Fan;

plus the 11th Column of the Jin-Hei-Lu-Yu (JH-Lu-Yu) Corps, which had been placed under the command of the East China Field Army (EKA). The Western Corps was under the direct command of Chen Yi and Su Yu, and did not organize a corps structure with the appointment of a corps commander, and was therefore commonly known as the Chen Su Army.

The East Corps, also known as the Inner Line Counter Corps, was under the command of:

2nd Column (governing the 4th, 5th, and 6th Divisions), Commander and Political Commissar Wei Guoqing;

7th Column (governing the 19th, 20th, and 21st Divisions), Commander Chengjun, Political Commissar Zhao Qimin;

9th Column (governing the 25th, 26th, and 27th Divisions), Commander Nie Fengzhi, Political Commissar Liu Haotian;

The 13th Column (composed of troops from the Jiaodong Military Region, which was not formally established until August 17, with the 37th, 38th, and 39th Divisions under its jurisdiction), with Zhou Zhijian, commander, and political commissar Lin Hao, a political commissar of the Jiaodong Military Region (soon to be replaced by Liao Haiguang).

Plus the assigned 1st Column Independent Division and 4th Column 10th Division. Xu Shiyou as corps commander, Tan Zhenlin and corps political commissar, *** 4 columns, 14 divisions, 50 regiments (including 10 independent regiments of various military divisions) about 150,000 people, the task is to adhere to the Shandong inner combat. East China Bureau organs under the leadership of Rao Shushi, Lai Yu, Zhang Yunyi, Zeng Shan with Xu Shiyou commanded 9 columns of the advance into the Jiaodong, assembled to the Pingdu Zhaoyuan between the Guojiadian Xia Dian area with the former Jiaodong Military Region troops echoed on August 4, 2 columns, 7 columns, 1 column of the independent division and 4 columns of the 10 divisions (* * * 22 regiments) by the Ruzhong area to Zhucheng assembly and rest!

After the main force of the Huano withdrew from the Luzhong area, the National Army immediately opened the railroad line from Jinan to Qingdao (Jiaoji line), occupied Jiaoxian on August 5, Kemi on the 15th, and Changyi on the 21st, completing the encirclement of the Jiaodong Peninsula. Chiang Kai-shek believed that the PLA had lost the momentum in Shandong and was eager to end the war in Shandong. On August 18, he flew to Qingdao to deploy the "September Offensive"! In order to accomplish the "Commander-in-Chief's third objective - to cut off the international lines of communication of the **** Army", the KMT decided to "take Jiaodong as the target of the battle" and organized the "Jiaodong Corps:

Li Mi's 8th Army's 42nd, 103rd, and 166th Divisions (integrated into divisions in September)

Wang Lingyun's 9th Division's 9th and 76th Brigades

Huang Baitao's 25th Division's 40th and 108th Brigades

Chen Jincheng's 45th Division's 211th and 212th Brigades

Chen Jincheng's 45th Division's 211th and 212th Brigades

Wang Jincheng's 45th Division's 211th and 212th Brigades

Chen Jincheng's 45th Division's 212th Brigades, 212 Brigade

The 8th, 36th, and 198th Divisions of Que Hanqian's 54th Army (integrated into divisions in November)

The 131st, 156th, and 159th Brigades of Huang Guoliang's 64th Integrated Division

and the reconstructed 57th Brigade of the 74th Integrated Division, Du Ding, the 12th Regiment of Heavy Artillery, the 2nd and 15th Regiments of Engineers, the Armored Artillery Battalion, the Battalion of Battle Vehicles, the 17th Military Police Regiment, and the 4 Security Columns***. *6 integrated divisions (armies) 16 integrated brigades (divisions) 51 regiments about 150,000 people, by the Army Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fan Hanjie and Corps Commander． With the cooperation of the First and Second Fleet of the Navy and the 27th Squadron of the 5th Brigade of the Air Force, they adopted the so-called "conical advance, sectional attack, and seek the main force of the bandits at the tip of the Jiaodong Peninsula to be annihilated" as their policy, and strived to end the war in Jiaodong within one month, annihilate the main force of the inner line of the Huayu, cut off the sea connection between Shandong and the Northeast, and destroy the military-industrial construction in the Mainland, and destroy the military-industrial construction of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the Mainland. The company's strategy is to destroy the PLA's strategic rear so that it can draw troops as soon as possible to support the other battlefields.

Meanwhile, the United States, in order to make the Shandong Peninsula its military base, not only instructed the U.S. Army in Qingdao to constantly threaten the PLA in the name of maneuvers, but also violated the hinterland of the liberated area of Jiaodong, Mouping County, Langnankou and Xiaoli Island, from the sea with naval and air forces on August 28 and clashed with the PLA by force, and on September 24 held a live amphibious landing maneuver in the Gulf of Jiaozhou, threatening the Yantai, Weihai and other Harbor. In late August, the National Army along the eastern section of the Jiaoji Railway from Weixian to Jiaoxian area assembled, the curtain of the Jiao Dong war opened, fighting both sides in the scale of the battle, the deployment of troops and the number of aspects of the history of Jiao Dong are unprecedented! Adopted a head-to-head, intensive flat push "comb nao tactics", with the whole 45 Division and the whole 64 Division, a part of Changyi, Gaomi, Jiaoxian, Zhucheng line for the 2nd echelon, with the whole 8 Division, 9 Division, 25 Division, 54 Division, 64 Division, the bulk of the 1st echelon of three approaching to the hinterland of the Jiaodong. The Air Force began bombing the PLA headquarters at Laiyang and Pingdu on September 3, and on September 4, 5, and 8, it bombed Yantai, Longkou, and Weihai, the outlets to the sea, consecutively! Wherever the National Army went, there was a sea of blood, a sea of ruins, a sea of desolation. In particular, the Homecoming Corps killed many people, the means of cruelty, is unheard of, many villages were killed into no man's village. (The liberated areas of Shandong had practiced the arbitrary "Red Terror overriding White Terror" to suppress the Kuomintang and landlords, and the land reform review that began in March 1947 was even more obviously leftist and intensified, with the middle peasants listed as the target of the crackdown, and the "Farmers' Associations counted, and the Party stood aside", killing people indiscriminately. "The farmers' associations were all in charge, and the Party stood on the sidelines", and the indiscriminate beating and killing formed a blood feud. Therefore, after the National Army came back, the landlords organized more brutal teams of home-returning groups to clean up the countryside in all directions, and the middle-aged peasants and rich peasants who had been beaten and killed in the past were eager to take revenge and joined in, and brutally besieged and annihilated the cadres and militiamen of the districts and townships who had been too late to retreat.) The People's Liberation Army (PLA) had to clear the countryside, and the liberated areas and Party organizations suffered great damage! Fan Hanjie shouted "drive the **** army to the East China Sea to drink seawater", "in a month to wipe out the Jiaodong area **** army".

In Jiaodong, the People's Liberation Army and the enemy against the total **** 2, 7, 9 columns and by the Jiaodong Military Region troops of the newly established 13 columns and about 8 regiments of local armed forces, of which 2, 7, 9 columns suffered a serious blow to the battle of Nanma, Linqu, greatly wounded, the troops are seriously short of personnel, and the loss of most of the old cadres, Tan Zhenlin in the telegram to Chen Yi, said: "Our troops have been wounded, 7, 9 columns, the troops have been wounded, 7, 9, 9 columns, the troops have been wounded, the troops have been wounded. wounded, 7, 9 columns are so, 10 division is even worse, the independent division only 4,000 people, can not find the main force to fight, not to mention the war of attrition". It is difficult to recover the combat power (in which the backbone of the Eastern Corps, as Xu Shiyou's starting force of the 9 column of each regiment's loss of more than 800 people, the total loss of more than 8,000 people, the 2 column casualties of six or seven thousand people). 9 column of the first main force of the 73rd regiment (the first regiment of the later Jinan) only Nanma a battle down, the regiment downsized into six companies (of which only four companies can fight, two companies are the division organs of the miscellaneous personnel). At that time, the political department of the Chinese field in zhucheng 2 vertical 6 division 18 regiment 7 company survey, before the war, the company 131 people, of which 59 party members; after the war, the company only 39 people left, of which 22 party members. Coupled with the difficult combat environment, life is very difficult. Jiaodong District Party Committee had to mobilize 2 batches of *** 180,000 people to join the army, supplementing the main force at all levels and local troops, recruits fighting and cohesion gap is very large, in the face of the Nationalist strong attack, the troops in general mood, the ideology is quite chaotic, on the ability to keep Jiaodong skeptical attitude. 19 August, the East China Bureau, that is, the instructions to let the rear organs, schools, factories and hospitals to Dalian transfer. Therefore, in the face of the Kuomintang's attack by the 13th column and other local armed forces to play blocking, the defense of Jiaodong can only rely on the blocking for time to wait for the national army to reveal the cracks in the camera counter-attack. On September 6, the 25th Division from the south, the 9th Division from the west into Pingdu, the 8th Division into the north of Pingdu Changyi with the battle. Fighting until the 7th, the 9th Division occupied Pingdu. On the 9th, the 2nd and 7th columns launched an attack on Zhucheng, besieging the 156th Brigade of the 64th Division, suffering heavy casualties and failing on the 11th, failing to curb the National Army's advance into the Jiaodong hinterland. After the war, 2 column, 7 column mood is low, Tan Zhenlin even moved to leave behind the Jiaodong 9 column and 13 column, south to the idea of the Yuwan Su, after the Central Military Commission by strict orders to dispel the concept ("see the Central Military Commission of the Central Committee of the *** on the two, seven columns are not appropriate to leave the coast of the instructions"). 13th, the whole 8 division accounted for the Yecheng County. The 54th Division of the whole on the 15th into the occupation of Lingshan, on the 16th, the 54th Division 198 Brigade with the 25th Division 40 Brigade to the center of the city of Jiaodong, the East China Bureau and the East China Wild East Corps organs of the seat of the Laiyang launched an attack, after the periphery of the fierce battle, on the 18th, the 25th Division of the whole to occupy the Laiyang, on the 18th, the 9 columns of the Zhaoyuan near the border of the Dao Tou on the enemy the whole of the 8th Division counterattacks, failed to reach the goal, the Nationalist army on the 21st to occupy Zhaoyuan, the Kuomintang Navy began to To Yantai, Longkou shelling ......... So far, the national army has occupied the occupation of Jiao County, Gaomi, Pingdu, Changyi, Yecheng, Lingshan, Zhaoyuan, Zhucheng, Laiyang and other 15 counties, an average of one city per day! The PLA could almost be described as "crushed at the touch of a button", and the Shandong leadership also pointed out at a meeting in Jiaodong that "Jiaodong might fall" and that "it would take three or four months to change the situation with a camera". The government of Shandong also pointed out that "Jiaodong may fall" and "the situation should be changed in three or four months", and requested the authorities and armed forces to "not leave the district, not leave the county" and "adhere to the guerrilla," and "people do not leave the district, guns do not leave the people". In the situation, Fan Hanjie personally went to Laiyang to congratulate, in the city temple feast, that "Jiaodong victory" moment has come.

In this stage, Fan Hanjie thoroughly eat through our army tactics, learn from Li Xianzhou, Zhang Lingfu in Laiwu, Mengliangtsu protruding adventurous lessons, will be formed into a square formation of troops, dense as one, and strictly prohibited from adventurous! This kind of "velvet candy" type of attack, formed a "hit the head and tail move, hit the tail first move, hit the head and tail move" posture, so that the PLA simply do not have the opportunity to counterattack (several blocking and counterattacks because of the battle of Nanling battle too much loss of combat power and did not achieve the purpose), into an extremely difficult situation The PLA had no chance to counterattack (several blocking and counterattacks also failed to achieve their objectives because of the excessive loss of combat power in the Battle of Nanling), and fell into an extremely difficult situation. Jiaodong was surrounded by the sea on three sides, which was like the tip of a bull's horn, and the further east one went, the narrower the area became. Due to the step-by-step "advance" of the Nationalist Army, only a narrow area of less than 70 kilometers from east to west and less than 40 kilometers from north to south was left in the base area of Jiaodong, and the sound of the Nationalist Army's artillery could be heard, so there was no room for manoeuvre. The East China Bureau and the Jiaodong Military Region organs, troops, the sick and wounded, the masses retreating with the army and a large amount of military supplies were gathered here, becoming more and more crowded, and the situation was terrible and critical. In this situation, the mood of the troops fluctuated, "counter-attack, counter-attack, counter-attack to Jiaodong", "go to the sea to feed the fish" and other remarks, that Jiaodong will appear "the second Anhui Incident", the PLA began to raid and bury the troops, the PLA began to bury the troops. The People's Liberation Army began raiding and burying arsenal machinery and equipment and military supplies, evacuating the families of the troops and the wounded, and many of the leading organs of the districts and counties, troops and their families have been transferred to Dalian.

The situation worsened, the East China Bureau according to the situation of the eastern front corps to the Central Military Commission, decided to transfer, stay 13 column 39 divisions in conjunction with the military subdistricts of the four independent regiments and other local armed forces to continue to adhere to the Jiaodong, the 9 column, the 13 column of the main force to give up the Jiaodong, to cover the East China Bureau and the hospital outward breakout, and finally chose to protrude from the whole of the 9 divisions, 8 divisions of the combination of the Xiantian, the Daotou area. the evening of September 21st. Troops began to split into two actions, in the northeast of Pingdu Dazhe Mountain near the head of the road, the whole 8 Division and 9 Division almost surrounded the 9 vertical and East China Bureau, the situation was extremely critical, success or failure on a line, Xu Shiyou personally led the 9 vertical desperately breakout "not afraid of death, charge with me, charge out is the victory," clouds, only to rout the whole 9 Division a, and finally 9 vertical! The 26th Division finally started a bloody battle with the enemy at Ge Gate to stop the whole 9 divisions, the East China Bureau and the troops withdrew more than 180 miles in a day and night to get out of danger, which can be described as a loss of armor. 13 columns were also transferred to Yecheng County behind the enemy from the enemy's junction. Then, the troops turned to the enemy behind the Dazhe Mountain area, 13 column stayed in the Dazhe Mountain to continue guerrilla persistence, 9 column continued to the southwest, 2 column, 7 column from the Zhucheng Wulianshan area quickly north to meet, October 1 in the northwest of Gao Mi Zhu Yang and the 9 column, the eastern front corps was also formally established.

Fan Hanjie with the whole 9 divisions, 64 divisions in two ways tailing the PLA, the remaining three integrated divisions continue to the Jiaodong hinterland. Whole 8 Division on September 26th K Longkou, 27th occupied Huangxian, 30th occupied Penglai, and swept towards Wendeng area; whole 54 Division and 25 Division in tandem on September 26th occupied Qixia, 30th surprise attack captured Fushan, October 1st captured the final goal of Yantai! Completed a month to solve the problem of the strategic objective, completely cut off the Northeast People's Liberation Army and Shandong People's Liberation Army sea channel, Yantai as the People's Liberation Army and the Northeast strategic materials transit hub, the National Army captured a huge, 25 divisions and even each person to wear a captured leather jacket! The national government sent Deng Wenyi, Director of National Information, to Yantai to invite the U.S. Army to organize a grand naval and military parade on the Double Ten Day to celebrate the great victory! Then, the National Army took the 8th Division to defend Yantai, and the 25th Division continued its eastward advance to capture Muping on October 4, and on October 7, the 40th Brigade of the 25th Division occupied Rongcheng by sea, and on October 13, a regiment of the 108th Brigade of the 25th Division occupied Weihai by sea! So far, the Jiaodong liberated area basically all fell! The whole 25 divisions in the Jiaodong war when it is the first, reputation! October 16, Chiang Kai-shek that the situation has been determined to fly to Qingdao, 18 to Yantai, to adjust the deployment of the preparation of other troops.

On the surface looks like the national army results, occupy a dozen counties, but the force itself is not enough and split the handle maneuvering force is greatly reduced, in order to save the Jiaodong Peninsula's critical mobilization of the national army back to the division, the People's Liberation Army to take advantage of the opportunity to recuperate in 2 columns, 7 columns and 9 columns immediately after the division focused on its flanks and back to launch an offensive, by the inner line of combat into an inner line in the outer line of combat, on October 2, the initiation of the Jiaohe! The battle of Jiaohe was launched on October 2, in the area of Fanjiaji, the whole 64 divisions in a prominent position in the tail launched a siege, although the fight into a standoff, but the whole 9 divisions, the whole 45 divisions and other parts of the Department of the back to the 10th evacuation of the battle, to a certain extent, easing the situation of JiaoDong. early in November, the whole 9 divisions, the whole 25 divisions will soon be transferred to other battlefields and began to movement, in order to delay their reinforcement of the battlefield of the Central Plains, the Eastern Corps to grasp the deployment of the 9th column in the 6th to the west of Zhu Yang, encountered with the whole 9 divisions, and started a campaign. And the whole 9 division encountered, started the Jiao high pursuit, 2 vertical, 7 vertical to join the interception, in the whole 64 divisions, the whole 8 divisions to support the whole 9 division withdrew to Qingdao on the 13th, the battle although again into a war of attrition but disrupted the enemy's original deployment, delayed the whole 9 division and the whole 25 divisions of the transfer of his.

Late November, the whole 25 divisions by Yantai, the whole 9 divisions divisional headquarters rate 9 brigades from Chengyang shipping Shanghai and turn into the Dabie Mountain battlefield so that the Jiaodong national **** power ratio qualitative change. The national army to end the focus of the attack into the focus of the defense! The PLA quickly swept through the vast countryside in the interior of Jiaodong, thus linking the three major areas of Jiaodong, Bohai and Luzhongnan. The national army in addition to the whole 8 divisions to occupy the north coast of Yantai, Fushan, Penglai, Longkou, Weihai and other various outlets to the sea, in the south coast to the 64th Division, 9th Division 76th Brigade and 74th Division 57th Brigade, 54th Division 198th Brigade and so on concentrated in Qingdao, Jimo, Lingshan line, the 54th Division's main force in Haiyang and the PLA confrontation outside the interior of the Jiaodong Peninsula, only the Laiyang was under the control of the national army, Laiyang is in the hinterland of the Jiaodong, with the Laiyang is in the hinterland of Jiaodong, with Qingdao and Yantai heavily fortified as each other's horns, is the last nail in the coffin that prevents the Jiaodong base area from being linked together, and is also the key stronghold that the Kuomintang army relies on to hold the PLA in check. The Nationalist Army so deployed with the obvious intention of controlling the seaport, mastering the hinterland, with the maneuvering force to seek **** the main force of the army decisive battle.