There are reasons for our army's victory and the enemy's defeat in Liaoshen Campaign. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, the supreme commanders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, regarded Jinzhou as the key move almost at the same time. However, Chiang Kai-shek and his northeast generals disagreed, so they wavered and delayed moving the fighters first.
Chiang Kai-shek later made a fatal strategic mistake, that is, regardless of the actual situation of the strength growth of the Northeast People's Liberation Army at that time, he stubbornly launched a decisive battle with the People's Liberation Army, and eventually hundreds of thousands of elite divisions were wiped out in the Northeast. Our troops, including local troops, are almost twice as strong, while the equipment of the Northeast Field Army is the strongest among the four field armies and the North China Military Region. If the Kuomintang troops retreat to the pass quickly, they may be able to postpone the fate of being wiped out by our army.
In contrast, the strategy and tactics of China People's Liberation Army are relatively successful. Mao Zedong believes that it is the best policy to attack Jinzhou first and block the way for Kuomintang troops to escape from the Commissioner's Office. Lin Biao thinks it is difficult to attack Jinzhou, so we should attack Changchun first. However, Changchun was difficult to attack after the trial attack, and agreed to attack Jinzhou first. After Jinzhou was broken, the Kuomintang troops were locked up in the northeast and fell into a helpless situation, and they could not escape on land.
When the commander of the Northeast Field Army attacked Changchun, he stepped up his political offensive and made the Kuomintang army take the initiative to rebel and surrender, taking Changchun without bloodshed and avoiding casualties.
In Montenegro, our army 10 column successfully blocked the enemy's ninth corps. After the enemy retreated, he quickly dispatched several times the enemy's troops to surround the enemy and launched a general campaign in western Liaoning. In specific operations, our army also adopted the tactics of encirclement, division and annihilation, boldly infiltrated and interspersed, and annihilated the enemy's 654.38+10,000 troops. The new army and the new sixth army, among the "five main forces" of the Kuomintang reactionaries, were also wiped out in this battle. Later, although the Northeast Field Army disrupted the organizational system and marched into Shenyang, Shenyang was finally liberated because our army had a clear goal. During the Liaoshen Campaign, 470,000 people in the main force of the Northeast Kuomintang were wiped out by our army or actively uprising and forced to surrender, and our army suffered less than 70,000 casualties.
The victory of Liaoshen Campaign developed Marxist military theory and Mao Zedong's military thought unprecedentedly, and also provided a good opportunity for our army to enter the customs to organize the Pingjin Campaign.
After this war, the total strength of the national army dropped to 2.9 million, and the total strength of the PLA rose to 3 million. The positive and negative positions of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have been reversed. Mao Zedong said confidently: "In this way, the war process we had expected has been greatly shortened." "Now it seems that as long as there is another year or so from now, it is possible to fundamentally overthrow the reactionary Kuomintang government."