On this day, 77 years ago, November 6, 1948 (October 6, 1948 in the lunar calendar), the Huaihai Campaign began. A group photo was taken by leading members of the General Front Committee of the Huaihai Campaign of the Communist Party of China. From left: Su Yu, Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Tan Zhenlin In November 1948, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China decided that Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Su Yu, and Tan Zhenlin should form the General Front Committee, with Deng Xiaoping as the secretary to coordinate and command the two major field armies in East China and the Central Plains. The 16 columns of the East China Field Army, 7 columns of the Central Plains Field Army and local armed forces, totaling 600,000 people, launched the Huaihai Campaign on November 6. After the Battle of Liaoshen, in order to prevent Xuzhou's troops from repeating the mistake of Wei Lihuang's entire army and being wiped out, the Kuomintang Command decided to retract the main force of Liu Zhi's Group to both sides of the Xuzhou-Shengbu section of Jinpu Road and adopt offensive defense to prevent the People's Liberation Army from moving south. If necessary, we would abandon Xuzhou and rely on the Huaihe River to resist to ensure Nanjing and Shanghai. The Kuomintang troops centered on Xuzhou have 5 regiments with a total strength of about 800,000. On November 8, the 59th Army and 77th Army of the Kuomintang, led by He Jifeng and Zhang Kexia, deputy commanders of the Third Pacification District, held an uprising in the Taierzhuang area where the Huaihai front line was stationed. The 59th Army and 77th Army were originally under Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army. Zhang Kexia and He Jifeng are both underground members of the Communist Party of China. In order to organize the uprising, Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying gave instructions to Zhang Kexia and He Jifeng respectively. Through the work of Zhang and He, the ministry had already prepared a preparation for the uprising before the start of the Huaihai Campaign. On November 6, the battle began. In the early morning of the 8th, He Jifeng, Zhang Kexia and others announced an uprising. In the afternoon, the ministry withdrew from the defense as planned and headed for the north bank of the canal. On the 9th, the uprising troops crossed the canal north from the Taierzhuang line. On the 10th, he entered the Jiefang District of Yi County. The Zhang and He uprisings created favorable conditions for the People's Liberation Army to completely annihilate Huang Botao's Corps. On November 11, Wei Demeyer, Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and Jiang Yuntian, a representative of the Democratic Party and a representative of the Democratic Socialist Party, were in Washington to study the situation on the battlefield in China and designed a defensive plan for Jiang's army. He faced the map of China and said: "If Xuzhou falls, we will have to surrender to the southeast of China and the Taiwan and Penghu areas. According to the geographical situation, the triangle from Fuzhou to Kunming is easier to defend, so I drew a red line representing the strategic zone. However, the economic value of Sichuan Province is very high and should not be given up easily, so I drew a dotted line as a trial plan. "" At present, the U.S. Navy is still firmly guarding the Qingdao base. The purpose is to support Fu Zuoyi's garrison in the Ping-Tianjin Triangle so that it can contain the Chinese Communist army. It cannot move south in large numbers immediately. It hopes that it will be delayed for a long time so that strategic bases can be deployed to defend the southeastern half of the country." On November 22, Huang Botao, commander of the Seventh Corps of the Chiang Army, was killed by the People's Liberation Army during the Battle of Nianzhuang in the Huaihai Campaign. Huang Botao was originally born in Mei County, Guangdong Province. He was born in Tianjin in 1900. In 1918, he entered the Ninth Mixed Brigade of the Army and later entered the fifth phase of the Jiangsu Officer Education Corps. He has served successively as battalion commander, division chief of staff, deputy brigade commander, division commander, military commander, military commander, etc. During the Battle of Meng Lianggu, he served as commander of the 4th Column of the 1st Corps. The 74th Division was completely wiped out and was punished as "dismissed from office". This year, he worked hard in the battles in northern Jiangsu and eastern Henan and won Chiang Kai-shek's trust. In September, he was promoted to commander of the newly formed 7th Corps. His troops were surrounded by the People's Liberation Army in the Nianzhuang area and were completely annihilated. On November 29, just as the fighting in the Shuangduiji area was tense, more than 5000 people from the 110th Division of the 85th Army of the Kuomintang, led by division commander Liao Yunzhou, held a battlefield uprising. The 11O Division was originally the former unit of Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, and Liao Yunzhou was an underground member of the Communist Party of China. After the Huaihai Campaign began, the 12th Corps, where the 110th Division was located, was surrounded by the People's Liberation Army in the Shuangduiji area of Su County, Anhui Province on November 24. Liao Yunzhou and other underground members of the Communist Party of China decided to take advantage of the breakout to hold an uprising and informed the People's Liberation Army of the uprising plan and relevant military intelligence. On the 28th, Liao Yunzhou announced the uprising plan to the entire division. On the 29th, the 110th Division drove to the positions of the People's Liberation Army according to the route designated in advance by the People's Liberation Army, and the uprising was successful. This action disrupted Huang Wei's regiment's breakout plan and caused it to be completely wiped out. The three regiments under Du Mingming, who fled west to Xuzhou, were surrounded by 11 columns of the East China Field Army in the Qinglongji and Chenguanzhuang areas northeast of Yongcheng, and Sun Yuanliang's 16th Corps, which had broken through, were annihilated. On January 6, 1949, the East China Field Army launched a general attack on the besieged enemy in the Qinglongji and Chenguanzhuang areas. After four days of fighting, they completely wiped out the 2nd Corps and the 13th Corps, captured Du Mingming, deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou "Suppression General", and killed Qiu Qingquan, commander of the 2nd Corps. The battle ended successfully on the 10th and lasted for 65 days. It eliminated 5 regiments of the Kuomintang army and 1 troops in the pacification area, totaling 22 armies and 56 divisions (including 1 and a half divisions that revolted), totaling more than 550,000 people. In addition, the 6th and 8th Corps, which came from Nanjing, were repelled. By now, the East China and Central Plains regions north of the Yangtze River have been basically liberated. Nanjing, the center of Kuomintang rule, has been under direct threat from the People's Liberation Army, and the Kuomintang ruling clique has fallen into a state of disintegration. Soldiers of the East China Field Army of the People's Liberation Army met with He Jiyang (center) and Zhang Kexia (left) while breaking through the outer trench of Nianzhuang. The picture shows the photos and badges left behind by Huang Baitao after he died in battle. On November 30, the Kuomintang defenders in Xuzhou abandoned the south of the city and were later wiped out. The picture shows the chaotic scene when fleeing south