Information on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Shijiazhuang.

As early as the beginning of 1947, in order to stick to the strategic position of Shijiazhuang, the Kuomintang army constantly strengthened its fortifications, dug trenches outside the city and erected barbed wire. At the same time, in order to isolate the enemy of Shijiazhuang and then attack Shijiazhuang, our army also made a series of pre-war preparations. From April 8 to April 12, Zhengding and Luancheng were liberated and nearly 100 bunkers outside Shimen (now Shijiazhuang) were swept away. On September 8, the enemy troops on the defensive in Shimen took advantage of the battle of clearing the north of our army and cooperated with the puppet troops to grab autumn from the periphery of Shijiazhuang. Once occupied Zhengding and Luancheng, it was repelled by the troops and militia of the Eighth Brigade and the Eleventh Division in Jizhong, and captured Liucun and Zhaocun in the east of Shijiazhuang, Dongbao and Koucun in the east of Yuanshi County, and regained Luancheng again.

After a period of time, our army did not launch a key attack on the Kuomintang Third Army, which stubbornly defended Shimen with strong fortifications. Instead, in June 5438+10/mid-October, the campaign to protect the north was launched, and the enemy bunkers between Baoding and Xu Shui on the Pinghan line were cleared at one stroke, and the siege of Xu Shui continued. This disrupted the strategic defense of the Kuomintang army in Hebei, forcing the Nanjing government to dispatch the 16th Army of the Kuomintang in Hebei and the 95th Division of the Beining Line to Xu Shui, Rongcheng and other places, and also dispatched the enemy of Shijiazhuang, Luo Lirong, to the north in an attempt to attack our army in Baoding. On June 6th, Luo Lirong left Shijiazhuang with his head. This situation reached the headquarters of the field army, which we are going to transfer to Luxi, by radio waves. Our army immediately made up its mind to annihilate Luo Lirong, and ordered all the 4th, 2nd and 3rd verticals to reach Fangshunqiao in a little more than one day and night, and circuitously surrounded the Luo Lirong army in the north in order to annihilate it. At the same time, the second and third squadrons were ordered to stop the enemy in the north and prevent the enemy in the north from approaching the south.

10 6 19 in the morning, our army's main force went south to Fangshunqiao, the designated place, and began to encircle the enemy's third army in a roundabout way. At this time, our army carried forward the indomitable spirit of taking one as ten and blocking the enemy with ten in the north. 10 year 10 20th, the 3rd Army of Luo Lirong was surrounded by our army in Qingfengdian. After two days and nights of fierce fighting, by 22nd, more than 65,438+03,000 soldiers under the enemy commander Luo Lirong were killed and captured. At this point, Luo Lirong has been completely destroyed. The victory of the battle of Qingfengdian made Shimen's defensive forces empty and became a frightened bird. 165438+1At the beginning of October, our army quickly went south and surrounded the enemy at Shimen. 165438+1October 6th, the battle began. Our seven independent brigades and eight independent brigades captured the strongholds of Donggangtou, East Triangle, Yuancun and Fancun on the periphery of Shijiazhuang in one fell swoop, and annihilated 94 regiments and more than 2,200 people of the enemy Li Puppet Army. Then, with the active support of the broad masses, our army destroyed the strong fortifications around the enemy's Shimen, conquered Shimen, and wiped out more than 20 thousand puppet troops, including the 32 nd Division of the Third Army. June 1947+065438+ 10/2 Shijiazhuang declared liberation. The liberation of Shijiazhuang dealt a heavy blow to the remaining enemies and greatly boosted the fighting morale of our army in various battlefields. The enemy in North China was forced to retreat to the Ping Jin-Baoding triangle, connecting Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan two liberated areas. This made further preparations for the victory of the Peiping-Tianjin campaign and the liberation of the whole country.