132 division took part in the Liaoshen Campaign and the Heping Gold Campaign. According to Chairman Mao's great call of "carrying out the revolution to the end", the whole division 12000 people set off from Tianjin on April 26th, 1949, and moved south as part of the Fourth Field Army. When Mao Hefa passed his hometown on his way south, he called on his mother. The villagers said: "After you joined the Red Army, her old man hid in the mountains more than ten years ago to escape the persecution of the Kuomintang reactionaries." General Mao, led by villagers, found his mother in the mountains. My mother lives in a shed with white hair. After waiting for my son 17 years, my eyes have gone blind. The mother touched her son from head to foot and hugged him tightly. General Mao couldn't stay long, so he arranged his mother and led his troops south. At that time, 132 Division didn't have a car, and pursued the enemy on two legs (only some enemy trucks were seized in Conghua, Guangzhou). On July 1 day, the troops crossed the river from Xiaochikou, Jiujiang, and immediately participated in the "high pursuit war" to pursue the main force of Bai Chongxi. March for 900 miles day and night on the 6th, successfully completing the pursuit mission. After entering Gannan, it coincided with the rainy season, sometimes it rained cats and dogs, and sometimes it was exposed to the hot sun. Many soldiers have dysentery and malaria, and the incidence rate of some companies is as high as 80%. Jiangxi is an old revolutionary base area. The people were brutally persecuted by the Kuomintang reactionaries and were destitute. Military supplies are sometimes unavailable. The soldiers were weak with only a few broad beans for cooking. Some soldiers fell on the side of the road while walking and never got up again. Even so, the troops are disciplined. The mountain is full of pomelos planted by ordinary people, and there are more than 10 thousand people in the team. No one picks them without authorization. Some companies ran out of food, asked their superiors to pick some grapefruit to satisfy their hunger, and put some silver dollars under the tree as compensation when they left. Wherever we go, the troops strictly implement the "four noes": the courtyard is not clean, the water tank is not satisfied, things are not returned, and damage is not compensated. The common people said, "The Red Army of that year came back." On September 9th, 132 division passed through Ji 'an, Ganzhou and Xinfeng, and went straight into Jiulian Mountain bordering Guangdong. Jiulian Mountain Range is about 1500m above sea level, and stretches for hundreds of miles, spanning nine counties in Jiangxi, Guangdong and Jiangxi from northeast to southwest. The mountains are covered with clouds and forests. In addition to carrying personal equipment, soldiers also carry gun racks and heavy machine guns on their shoulders. In some places, there are no paths, so engineers use shovels and pickaxes to split the mountain and open the way. If you are not careful, people will fall into the abyss. Yu Hanmou Group, which occupied Guangdong, dispatched a large number of planes to bomb, so the troops rested during the day and marched at night. The soldiers connected their feet with bandages and groped forward step by step with sticks. Some soldiers put phosphorescent leaves on their backpacks and let the soldiers behind them watch the phosphorescence go away. Every day, soldiers, mules and horses fall off the cliff.
1 949 65438+1October1,on the way to March, the troops sent a good news: "China people * * * and the country have been established, pass it on!" "Chairman Mao has boarded Tiananmen Square!" The commanders and men of the whole division stepped up their pace and crossed the sinister Jiulian Mountain in ten days to reach Lianping County, Guangdong Province. The Kuomintang government in Guangzhou has become a frightened bird. Li Zongren made a hasty decision to move the "Central Government" from Nanjing to Guangzhou for less than half a year to Chongqing, and the defenders withdrew to Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island, which caused great damage to Guangzhou.
The frontal enemies of the 132 Division are the Kuomintang 107 Division and the 36th Division, which are located between Liangkou, Mibu, Wenquan, Conghua First Line and Conghua-Zengcheng Highway to the south of Xinfeng respectively. 132 division sent 396 regiments to annihilate the enemy of Liangkou and Mibu; The 395th regiment detoured through Gutian, Xitou, Daxukou and Jintou to Yuntai Mountain between Conghua and Liangkou, cutting off the enemy's retreat to Guangzhou; The 394th Regiment is a mobile unit.
The officers and men trudged south. Cooks in various companies prepare meals, put them in baskets and put them on the side of the road. When the officers and men passed by, they ate with porcelain cups and ate while walking. 1949 10 6 13 at dawn, when the 396 regiment arrived at Liangkou, the enemy troops on the defensive had fled in the direction of Conghua several hours ago. The 396th Regiment immediately pursued, wiped out a battalion near Shuidi Village, and then ran from the highway to Guangzhou along Guangguang. At 2 1 on June 2nd, the 395th Regiment arrived at the east side of Yuntai Mountain, and the Yoshiko Yura mouth and Mibu of the 36th Regiment of the enemy 107 Division retreated towards Guangzhou and arrived at the north of Yuntai Mountain. The enemy tried to seize the commanding heights of Yuntai Mountain and cover the main force's southward withdrawal. Our army should also control this commanding height to prevent the enemy from withdrawing to Guangzhou, and the two sides launched a fierce struggle. Because it is a mountain encounter at night, the battle is very cruel. This battle of our army shattered the enemy's attempt to flee south and paved the way for the liberation of Guangzhou by large troops.
As the vanguard of the division, the 396th Regiment invaded Taihe Tsai (now Taihe Town) in the northern suburb of Guangzhou on the afternoon of 14. Suddenly, it heard a loud noise. Before the Kuomintang army fled, it blew up Haizhu Bridge, and the material warehouses of Shijing, Shipai and Shahe also exploded one after another! The whole regiment was extremely indignant. Before the arrival of the follow-up troops, while reporting, they launched a multi-channel storm from Shahe to Huanghuagang to the city center. Together with the neighboring troops, they quickly captured the puppet presidential palace, the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of National Defense, the provincial government and the police headquarters on the evening of 14, seized and controlled important targets such as the power plant and the Pearl River Bridge, and handed over a basically complete ancient capital of South China to the people.