In the Huaihai Campaign, the Zhonghua and Nakano armies annihilated more than 550,000 enemies, completely eliminating the elite main force of the Kuomintang army north of the Yangtze River. On November 16, 1948, the "General Front Committee of the Huaihai Campaign" was established, and Deng Gong served as the secretary of the General Front Committee. Why did you have to designate Deng Gong as the secretary of the General Front Committee?It's a topic worth a**.
The five-member group of the General Front Committee is "star-studded", Liu Shuai and Mr. Chen are the commanders of the Central Plains Field Army and the East China Field Army respectivelySu Yu is a generation of "God of War", Deng Gong is the political commissar of Nakano, and General ** serves as the deputy political commissar of Huaye, and his qualifications are at the level of the founding general. Judging from the first impression, it seems that Su Yu, Mr. Chen, and Liu Shuai are all more suitable than Political Commissar Deng, who is in charge of political work. However, a closer analysis of the situation reveals that this is not the case.
According to the pre-war situation, Huaye had 16 columns participating in the battle, with more than 400,000 troops involved, and was the main force in this campaign. However, the situation of the East China Field Army was rather special, and Mr. Chen, who was nominally the commander and political commissar, had actually been transferred to work in the Central Field Army to assist Liu Shuai in military command. He held the position of first deputy commander of the Central Plains Field Army.
Therefore, although Mr. Chen was able to command the Huaye troops, he was not in the Huaye Division, and Su Yu ** was in his position in Huaye, so Chen Shuai was not the best commander of the campaign. At the beginning of the Huaihai Campaign, it was a concept directly put forward by President Su. So, is it appropriate for Su Yulai to serve as the secretary of the General Front Committee?In fact, there are not many people in our army who can compete with Su Yuyi, and the same was true during the Huaihai Campaign.
He and *** are the five people in the General Front Committee who know the most about military affairs and are the most good at fighting, but Su Yu's position (Huaye Acting Commander and Acting Political Commissar) is relatively low, and his own personality is very humble, and he sent a telegram to *** hoping that the leader of Nakano will serve as the secretary of the General Front Committee and unify the command of the two troops. In this way, the main person in charge of Huaye is not suitable for the post of secretary.
** was not given enough attention at the time, he only served as the deputy political commissar of the field army, in comparison, Su Yuhe ** held a higher position. As a result, the likelihood of the number three being appointed is also lower. On the other hand, Liu Shuai and Deng Political Commissar are of equal status, and they are both qualified to serve as the secretary of the General Front Committee. However, at that time, a special situation arose, political commissar Deng and Mr. Chen commanded the four main columns of the Central Plains Field Army, which were geographically close to the battlefield and on the front line of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng.
The second and sixth columns of Nakano were led by Liu Shuai to fight in western Henan, and they were not with Deng and Chen at this time. **It is necessary to choose a candidate who can coordinate the overall situation, obviously Deng Gong's actual situation is more suitable than that of Master Liu. In addition, in the Huaihai Campaign, the situation of our army was in a situation where we won more with less, and we needed a commander with a resolute character, decisive decision-making, and comprehensive consideration of things.
Deng Gong himself had strong military talents and a firm character, and he had rich experience in political work and logistics organization, so he was obviously a very suitable candidate. In addition, there is another hidden factor: Deng Gong's military position is the same level as Liu Shuai, but his party position is higher, and he was the secretary of the Central Plains Bureau of the Communist Party of China at that time, while Liu Shuai was only a member of the Central Plains Bureau. Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, it is reasonable to select Deng Gong to preside over the overall situation and serve as the secretary of the General Front Committee of the Huaihai Campaign.
Of course, from the point of view of pure military command, the most crucial role in the Huaihai Campaign was undoubtedly General Su Yu, whose exploits were the most outstanding in terms of military conception, operational deployment, and actual execution.