In this campaign, more than 20,000 people from the 206th division of the enemy youth army and local armed forces were wiped out, including more than 20,000 people captured by Qiu, Fu, deputy chief of staff, Zhao, deputy division commander, etc.15,000, more than 4,900 people were killed or injured, and a large number of weapons, ammunition and other materials were seized. The battle of Luoyang was a beautiful battle against medium-sized cities under the strong fortification of the Kuomintang after the PLA advanced into the Central Plains. The conquest of Luoyang cut off the connection between the Central Plains National Army and the Northwest Army, and further consolidated and expanded the Henan, Shaanxi and Hubei base areas. While our army captured Luoyang, Kuomintang reinforcements and Sun's troops had crossed Dengfeng and Heishiguan to approach Luoyang. In view of the fact that our army has achieved the goal of annihilating the enemy's effective forces, in order to get rid of the encirclement of enemy reinforcements, our army voluntarily and orderly withdrew from Luoyang after handling the improvement work. On 17, all of them were transferred to Luoyang and rested in the area south of standing by.
On the morning of March 18, enemy reinforcements reorganized the troops of1division, 38th division and124th brigade into Luoyang empty city. 10 days later, all the 38th divisions were ordered to be transported to Xi 'an, and10/division also evacuated eastward on the same day to strengthen the garrison of Zhengzhou and Pinghan Road. Only 124 brigade is stationed in Luoyang city. On April 3, the main force of this brigade also arrived in Yanshi, leaving only the 37 1 regiment and a peacekeeping corps for garrison. Comrade Chen Geng decided to annihilate Luoyang on the defensive again, so he commanded the main force to besiege Luoyang on April 4th. After the enemy found out, he abandoned the east of the city and fled on the morning of the 5 th. Our army quickly pursued and surrounded the enemy in Gudong, Dong Zhang. After two hours of fighting, all the enemies were annihilated, killing and injuring more than 4600 people. Luoyang has returned to the people forever.