千里跃进大别山之前,部队曾数次渡过黄河南下,每次打到黄泛区就回去了。1947年6月,薛进礼在一纵十九旅61团任号目,随大部队渡黄河越过陇海线之后没有折返,而是继续南下趟过黄泛区,过沙河、洪河、汝河,一直过淮河,到五里店向罗山南走,牵动敌人几个师打游击,往深山跑,有半个月的时间。牵制任务完成后,向东南行进,走到新县五座楼,算到根据地了。 Thousands of miles before leaping into the Dabie Mountains, the troops had crossed the Yellow River several times south, each time you hit the Yellow River area to go back. In June 1947, Xue Jinli served as head of an army of nineteen brigades and sixty-six regiments. After crossing the Yellow River over the Longhai Line with large units, he did not turn around but went southward across the Huanghe River and across the Shahe, Honghe and Ruhe areas Over the Huaihe River, to the Wulidian shop to the south of Luoshan, affecting several of the enemy division to play guerrilla warfare, to the mountains to run, there are two weeks time. After the task of containment was completed, march to the southeast and went to the fifth block of Xinxian County to count the base areas.