In the memoirs of General Su Yu, he sighed more than once that the most difficult period of his life was in the Red Army, when Su Yu was despised by others, pointed at his nose and scolded his mother by the political commissar, and the most important thing was that he had to obey the blind command of others and almost lost his life.
So, who dared to scold Su Yu during the Red Army period?Who almost killed Su Yu?
In the autumn of 1933, the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression War began, and Chiang Kai-shek commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, with the air force and artillery, intending to ** all the Red Army base areas. In the face of such a formidable opponent, we advocate avoiding its edge, focusing on guerrilla warfare, and adopting the strategy and policy of the enemy advancing and retreating, the enemy retreating and chasing me, the enemy stationed in our harassment, and the enemy tired and fighting.
However, the strategy of ** was not recognized at first, and among those who opposed it, the most famous were some Soviet students represented by Wang Ming, who had studied in the Soviet Union and believed in left-leaning dogmatism.
He believed that the tactics of the Soviet Union were also applicable to China, and that it was necessary to live and die with the base areas and fight with Chiang Kai-shek.
Not only that, but strategically, they are diametrically opposed to the "rural encirclement of the city" advocated by the Red Army, and they promote the "urban centrism", organize armed uprisings in the cities, and dispatch the Red Army and the enemy's most powerful forces to be tough, which is undoubtedly fatal to the Red Army, which has a small number of troops.
This move reduced the thousand-mile Soviet area that had been painstakingly established to 300 li, which led to the Red Army being forced to take a risky move and start the strategic shift of the Long March.
In terms of organization, Wang Ming and his group of students engaged in sectarianism and opposed all those who questioned them, and many soldiers and generals were victimized by their "Great Purge" and died at the hands of their own people instead of falling under the guns of the enemy. Under the influence of these "left" dogmatism, the Party and the revolutionary cause suffered tremendous losses.
In his early years, Su Yu was also deeply affected by these left-leaning Soviet students. In 1933, Su Yu came to the Red 7th Army as Chief of Staff, and the commander of the Red 7th Army at that time was Xun Huaizhou, who was the same as Su Yu, with extremely strong military command ability, if he could participate in the War of Resistance and the War of Liberation, he would definitely be able to reach the top ten generals and even the marshal level of our party.
However, at this time, the Red 7th Army, whether it was Su Yu or Xun Huaizhou, no one said it, only the political commissar Le Shaohua had the final say.
Su Yu didn't have a good impression of Le Shaohua, and talked about his relationship with Le Shaohua in detail in his memoirs. Le Shaohua has no battlefield experience, and the reason why he can be a political commissar is because he is a student who has studied in the Soviet Union and one of the early Bolsheviks.
Although this person has a higher education, he has an extremely bad temper, and he slaps the table and scolds his mother at every turn. In the military system at that time, the political commissar was fully responsible, the chief of staff and the army commander could only obey, and the two military geniuses, Xun Huaizhou and Su Yu, could only be blindly commanded by Soviet students, and once they raised some objections, they were labeled as anti-political commissars.
Once, the Kuomintang army was unfavorable in the war and began to retreat on a large scale, Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou discussed, now is a good time to pursue, take revenge for the invasion of the base area, just as the two made a plan and prepared to transfer troops to pursue.
At this time, the political commissar appeared, and at this time he was already frightened by the Kuomintang aircraft artillery, he decided not to attack, and scolded Su Yu, who had put forward the idea of pursuit. Su Yu had no choice but to watch the fighter disappear.
Afterwards, the ** Military Commission called to ask Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou, why didn't they attack?Political Commissar Le Shaohua was dumbfounded when he heard this, and didn't dare to say anything more.
In July 1934, the Soviet students who controlled the Military Commission asked Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou to go to southern Anhui to establish a base area, and Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou could only lead troops to southern Anhui. It was not until after the fact that Su Yu realized that this group of Soviet students regarded them as "outcasts" and let them attract the attention of the Kuomintang, so that the main force of the Red Army could march to the southwest and start the Long March to Sichuan.
However, something even more outrageous came again, halfway through the journey, Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou received news again, asking them to turn around, march to Fujian, and attack Fuzhou.
In Su Yu's view, this was a mistake within a mistake, the troops were running for a long time, like headless flies without a fixed direction, and they had to fight with the main force of the 87th Division, the main force of the Kuomintang in Fuzhou City, and conquer the big city of Fuzhou, which was undoubtedly self-defeating. Su Yu counted the men, and although it was an army in terms of establishment, it actually had only three regiments of less than 4,000 troops left.
Along the way, the troops were often attacked, and the attrition was serious, and many generals died on the road, so that Su Yu's troops had fewer men and more guns, and some even carried two guns on the march.
But fortunately, Su Yu met Ye Fei, the person in charge of the Mindong base area, Ye Fei has a lot of people here and food, but he lacks ** equipment, and the two families are in one place, so as to avoid the annihilation of the whole army.
Who would have thought that after the meeting, it was finally settled down, and trouble came again, Zeng Hongyi, the "** representative" in Su Yu's army, was also a Bolshevik who returned from studying in the Soviet Union, Zeng Hongyi brought the spirit of **'s instructions, and asked Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou to lead the troops to leave eastern Fujian, go north and return to Anhui.
Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou couldn't bear it anymore, and quarreled with Zeng Hongyi, whether it was the Military Commission or Zeng Hongyi in front of him, these Soviet students didn't know how to fight at all, and they gave orders indiscriminately. The most infuriating thing is that Zeng Hongyi is still a ghost who is afraid of death, he hides far behind when he fights, and he jumps out and talks nonsense after the battle.
However, the military order was like a mountain, Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou continued to lead the troops north, and at this time there were only more than 3,000 troops left, and they joined Fang Zhimin. In an engagement, the main force of the enemy was Wang Yaowu, who had outstanding command skills and was a famous general of the Kuomintang in the later Liberation War.
After the battle, although our army fought bravely, but in the face of a strong enemy is still outnumbered, what is even more distressing is that Xun Huaizhou was shot in the abdomen, bleeding too much and hating and dying, and repeatedly chanted when sacrificing: "Go north to resist Japan!".Su Yu also broke through by luck in the rain of bullets and led the troops to gain a foothold in Anhui.
Zeng Hongyi, a timid "** representative" and a graduate of Lenin College, actually lost confidence in the revolution and broke away from the army, and the following year, Zeng Hongyi switched to the Kuomintang. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zeng Hongyi's traitor crime was discovered by the people, escorted to the Ministry of Public Security, and sentenced to death by the Beijing Municipal Military Control Commission.