General Su Yu has always been a low-key and humble person, and he never goes out of his way to mention his exploits in a certain battle, but there are always exceptions to everything. When a director of Nanjing Film Studio planned to publish a book about the Huaihai Campaign, he went to interview Su Yu, and Su Yu made it clear in this interview"The Huaihai Campaign was commanded by me."。As soon as Su Yu said this, before he could speak again, the secretary quietly pulled his sleeve behind him and told him not to say it, but Su Yu was unmoved. Is this Su Yu bragging?What is the reason for the secretary's careful reminder?
01 Su Yu's important role.
Was the Huaihai Campaign commanded by Su Yu?Strictly speaking, it was he who commanded, and he did not command. Why?It is because of such a major battle, not one person can fully assume the heavy responsibility of command, but Su Yu is indeed an important commander of the Huaihai Campaign.
The occurrence and success of the Huaihai Campaign were inseparable from Su Yu's strategic concept. Initially, according to the actual situation of his own troops, Su Yu proposed the "Little Huaihai" battle plan to the **, but after layers of research and judgment, he finally put forward the "Big Huaihai" plan on the basis of the "Little Huaihai", which was the real "Huaihai Campaign" later.
It can be said that without Su Yu's original proposal, the Huaihai Battle might not have started at the right time. In the early planning process of the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu can be said to have made great contributions.
After the battle really began, Su Yu became an important commander. Because the whole battle was based on his proposal, and the main force of the battle was also the East China Field Army led by Su Yu. At this time, the top leader of the East China Field Army was **, but at that time, ** was sitting in the middle field with Liu and Deng, and the actual supreme commander of the East China Field Army was Su Yu.
The East China Field Army commanded by Su Yu was well equipped and strong, and in the entire campaign, most of the tasks of attacking fortifications were handed over to them. In this battle, the East China Field Army successively annihilated 4 corps, and the results far exceeded that of the Central Plains Field Army. Su Yu's genius-like command was vividly displayed in this battle.
It can be said that without Su Yu, the Huaihai Campaign could also be won, but it may not be able to achieve such amazing results, after this battle, even the chairman has praised many times that "Su Yu is the first merit of the Huaihai Campaign".
The chairman's praise is the greatest affirmation of Su Yu, and the statement of "first merit" also fully affirms Su Yu's important role in this campaign. In this case, when Su Yu said the sentence "The Huaihai Battle was commanded by me", why did the secretary pull his sleeves and remind him not to say it?
02Why can't you say it?
Why the secretary didn't want Su Yu to say it publicly like this, mainly because another person had said something similar, and this person was more powerful than Su Yu, that is, Deng Gong.
On many occasions, Deng Gong made similar speeches, that is, he commanded the Huaihai Campaign. Both people said that they commanded the same battle, did someone say that they were wrong?In fact, neither leader was wrong.
During the Huaihai Campaign, it was decided to set up a special command structure, that is, the "General Front Committee", and the General Front Committee established this time was different from the past.
Because the main participants in the Huaihai Campaign were the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army, the five members of the General Front Committee were also divided into two groups, one was the first group and Deng Gong, who sat in the Central Plains Field Army;The other group is Su Yuhe *** sitting in the headquarters of the East China Field Army.
Such an arrangement, of course, came from the chairman's instructions, and a major battle of such a large scale that would determine the fortunes of the two armies could not be completed by one or two leaders. 5 people are divided into two groups, and they can show their abilities and creativity.
During the campaign, Deng Gong was responsible for decision-making at the headquarters of the Central Plains Field Army, and played a huge role in the decision-making and coordination of the entire campaign. And Su Yu is the de facto supreme leader of the East China Field Army, leading the East China Field Army to annihilate 440,000 ** in one fell swoop with his unbridled command art.
The five-member General Front Committee was the commander-in-chief of the Huaihai Campaign, so no one of the leaders said that he commanded the Huaihai Campaign, but this statement could not be considered wrong. And the reason why Su Yu's secretary quietly pulled his sleeves to remind him to be cautious was not because Su Yu was unashamed to brag, but because he wanted to remind him to pay attention to the impact.
After all, Deng Gong is above Su Yu regardless of qualifications or position, and Deng Gong has also made it clear that he commanded the Huaihai Campaign before, and now Su Yu is suspected of contradicting this, which is obviously disrespectful to Deng Gong.
The secretary's idea is undoubtedly to protect Su Yu, but Su Yu is obviously not a person who cares about such details, otherwise he would not have had a bad career in his later years and repeatedly hit a wall in the political field.
03 A generation of war gods.
Deng Gong and Su Yu, who played a role in their respective fields of expertise, and finally led our army to win such a great victory in such an important battle, they were not fighting alone, they were both commanders of this battle.
Of course, this is all the credit and honor on the surface, and behind this victory, there is also the chairman's strategic planning and military wisdom, and it is precisely his decision-making and guidance that has contributed to the cooperation of the two major field armies to annihilate the enemy and win this great war related to the country's fortune.
In addition, although the two major field armies jointly won the battle, in the course of the battle, the two sides were actually under their own command, and when there was a need to cooperate in the battle, the commanders of the two sides would negotiate. So, this battle is really involved in the command of both sides.
As far as Su Yu is concerned, he has been a humble person all his life, and when it comes to commanding the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu only left a few words in the interview, and in his own book, this battle is never mentioned.
Su Yu is such a person who doesn't care about personal merit and position, he can be called the "God of War", in addition to his excellent command ability, it is not unrelated to his personal open-mindedness.
At the time of the 1955 award, there were rumors that Su Yu had resigned from the rank of marshal, but there is no clear evidence to prove it. However, what is certain is that during the war, he successively resigned from his posts as commander of the Central China Military Region and commander of the East China Field Army.
Although he is not in the position of the commander, Su Yu exercises the power of the commander as a deputy, and he also had the opportunity to become the commander of the field army, but it is precisely because he needs your character that he did not accept it in the end. Therefore, such a humble person will definitely not be untrustworthy, and it is not his own credit that is forced on him.