The list of high-quality authors reveals the truth about the failure of the Dabie Mountain Battle: Su Yucheng is a scapegoat and covers up the responsibility of the high-level!The Nanchang Uprising was an important action of the Communist Party of China in the early days, and it was also the beginning of the fate of *** and Su Yu. In this era of the first journey, ** served as the chief of staff of the staff of the former enemy committee of the rebel army, while Su Yu shouldered the duties of the squad leader of the guard squad, protecting *** and others. Despite the far difference in rank, the uprising became a lifelong bond between the two generals.
The defeat of the Nanchang uprising did not hinder the pace of ***'s pursuit of a military career. Instead, he embarked on a study journey at the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union, where he received deep training in military theory and practice. In the summer of 1930, he returned from his studies and worked in Shanghai for two years, doing his best to deal with military affairs. This experience laid a solid foundation for his later military career in the **Soviet district.
In January 1932, he was sent to the Soviet District as the principal and political commissar of the Military and Political School, and became one of the key leaders of the military forces in the revolutionary base areas. At the same time, Su Yu, who had served as chief of staff in the Red Fourth Army, was also transferred to the school and served as the captain of the cadet team.
In the preparatory stage of the Huaihai Campaign, Nakano and Huaye received orders to form a general front committee. On December 17, 1932, the General Front Committee held the first plenary meeting at the Huaye General Headquarters, and the generals and commanders gathered together. At this important moment, ** and Su Yu intersected again, fully prepared for the upcoming Huaihai Campaign. This encounter is no longer a brief encounter between the schools, but a deeper cooperation in the face of shared tasks and responsibilities.
At the end of August 1947, Liu Deng, who was deep in the Dabie Mountains, marched south. While marching at high speed, they bravely launched a counterattack in the face of the pursuing Kuomintang troops. However, at this critical moment, **keenly aware of the increase in ** behind him, an unusual sense of tension welled up in his heart, as if there was a serious problem in the rear.
At this critical moment, ** unexpectedly showed another side of his gentle personality. He chose to stay in the rear, and together with Wang Bingzhang, the commander of the 11th Column, and Zhang Lin, the political commissar, he sent an urgent telegram to the Huaye Chen Tang Corps. This move shows ***'s foresight and sensitive insight into the battle situation, and plays a key role in the stability of the entire battle situation. This also once again proves the solid foundation of cooperation and tacit cooperation between him and Su Yu and other generals.
In the emergency telegram, the words of ** were unusually tough, and some of the reprimands even crossed the line. On the one hand, this reflects his grim understanding of the situation on the front line in Dabie Mountain, and on the other hand, it also shows that he can act decisively in the face of emergencies. In this urgent telegram, he not only bluntly criticized the problems existing in the Chen and Tang Corps, but also directly pointed at Chen Shiyu and Tang Liang in the Huaye leadership, and emphatically pointed out their mistakes in the operational policy.
** has always been known for his mild-mannered character, so this sudden tough rhetoric is jaw-dropping. However, this also shows his extreme anxiety about the situation on the Dabie Mountain front and his strong reaction to strategic decisions. Liu Deng's army was in crisis at that time, and his urgent rebuke was his keen insight into military reality and a response to the predicament he was about to face.
** and Deng Gong after seeking the advice of the soldiers and repeatedly discussing, decided to obey **'s arrangement and resolutely advanced into Dabie Mountain. Prior to this, Deng Gong had made sufficient preparations for difficulties and clearly pointed out the three situations he might face.
The reality is tougher than expected. First of all, it was a thousand miles away from southwest Lu to Dabie Mountain, and the troops were tired and needed to carry out large-scale migration, and they were facing a huge physical and mental test. At the same time, the speed requirement was fast in case the enemy pursued, adding additional pressure to the soldiers.
The natural environment along the way is very harsh, especially the Yellow Flood Area, which is nicknamed the "Death Zone" by the soldiers. The area is vast and treacherous, full of silt and traps, and every step requires careful traversal. In such an environment, many fighters did not disappear because of enemy fire, but disappeared without a trace in the encirclement and interception of nature.
The difficulty of this battle was not only the threat of the enemy, but also the fact that it was a battle without rear support. For a long time, our Party has relied on the Party's mass line, mobilizing the local masses to provide troops and food when it arrives at a certain place, and this is considered to be the key to victory. However, after Liu Deng arrived in Dabie Mountain, he was faced with an extremely grim reality: mass work could not be carried out.
First of all, the land reform methods of the past were difficult to implement, because the local tyrants may have hidden among the common people, who were suspicious and no longer trusted the troops. Even if the money was distributed to the people, they chose to return it to the landlords, because they believed that Liu Deng's army would evacuate sooner or later, and they would need to spend the rest of their lives deep in the mountains.
Secondly, in the face of the all-round encirclement and annihilation of Chiang's army, Liu Deng's army lacked logistical supplies, and it was the cold winter season, the soldiers were frequently starving and freezing, and the warriors fought bloodily in the mountains and forests. This is a life-and-death struggle with no way to go to heaven and no way to go to the ground, and it is hard to imagine how Liu Deng's army persevered.
Soldiers who witnessed this thousand-mile leap into the Dabie Mountains recalled that this was the most difficult experience, even more difficult than the original 25,000-mile Long March. In this arduous struggle, they not only experienced physical pain, but also a spiritual test.
A thrilling number was ruthlessly unfolded in front of people, and when Liu Deng's army was ready to set off, it had 124 more than 10,000 soldiers, and after leaving Dabie Mountain, only 5860,000 people survived. The numbers are tragic, and what is even more tragic is that most of the fighters died in a brutal struggle with the natural environment.
This tragic result has raised questions about this operation: why did Liu Deng's army leap thousands of miles just to come to Dabie Mountain, where supplies were scarce and the people's foundation was weakIs it really worth losing so many fighters?
In this failure, the distribution of responsibilities became complex and severe. Su Yu silently carried the black cauldron, while *** angrily reprimanded Chen Tang, causing a bigger turmoil. ** Furious at Huaye's dereliction of duty in aiding Liu Deng, however, he did not send a message to accuse Chen Sutan, but seized on the issue of Song Shilun's ten vertical retreats to the north of the Yellow River to blame. ** He did not make a clear statement on this, but he gave verbal education and encouragement in the Ten Columns, and was unwilling to blindly beat and scold his children, even if they made mistakes again.
Su Yu already had a plan in his heart. He chose to suppress the telegram, did not explain to Liu Deng, but silently assumed the responsibility for the failure of the command.
**Through a series of telegrams, he constantly urged ** and Su Yu to command in southwest Lu, in fact, he was urging Su Yu, hoping that he would be able to reverse the situation in Dabie Mountain. On August 30, **'s telegram made it clear that Liu Deng's situation in Dabie Mountain was very dangerous, and asked Chen Tang to take the initiative to annihilate the enemy, and Su Yu and others immediately crossed the river to cooperate with Liu Deng.
For Su Yu, the strategic hurdles have been cleared, and he has a clear understanding of the next stage of the task. Therefore, at the end of August, Su Yu led the Sixth Column and the Special Column to the southwest of Lu and Huaye.
The 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, Guangzong and Wang Bingzhang's 11th Column were assembled, forming a powerful concentration of military strength.
On August 30, 1947, ** and Su Yu issued an operational order for the East China Field Army. In order to lure the reorganized 57th Division into being fooled, Chen Su adopted ingenious tactics and instructed the 1st and 3rd columns to deliberately show the appearance of "fleeing north" and induce the enemy to pursue them northward, while the 4th and 8th columns and the 11th column of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan followed to the north. At the same time, the organs of the East China Field Army, the 6th and 10th columns, and the special forces column advanced rapidly to the south.
For the next nearly a week, the troops of all sides got up early and worked tirelessly to carry out the plan. The Kuomintang army mobilized superior forces and pursued closely. Since the enemy misjudged that our troops were in trouble, they boldly pursued it, completely unaware that it was a trap set specifically for them.
It was only after the end of the war that the captured generals of the enemy's reorganized 57th Division suddenly realized this.
On 7 September, under the guidance of the 1st and 3rd Columns, the enemy's 57th Division and the 5th and 84th Divisions were separated by more than 20 kilometers. The eight columns of the Huaye Field Line Corps achieved the tactical deployment of concentrated forces around the enemy, so that the enemy's reorganized 57th Division has become a turtle in an urn.
In the face of this favorable situation, ** and Su Yu did not hesitate, fearless in the face of danger, and ordered all troops to launch an attack and carry out a flank attack from the north and south. After a long and fierce battle, our troops successfully surrounded the enemy in the area of Shatuji and continued to shrink the encirclement. At 18 o'clock on September 8, our army launched the last wave of attacks, successfully capturing more than 7,500 people under Duan Linmao, the commander of the 57th Division, and killing and wounding more than 2,000 people.
On September 9, ** and Su Yu reported their victory to the Military Commission, and the CCP sent a telegram to congratulate the Western Corps, emphasizing that the "annihilation of all the 57th Divisions" in this battle was of great significance to the development trend of the entire southern front.
The Battle of Shatuji was a tough battle waged by the Western Corps of the East China Field Army against the Kuomintang army by actively adjusting and dispersing the enemy and concentrating relatively superior forces in a passive and unfavorable situation. This victory not only caused a large number of casualties and deterred the enemy in the war, but more importantly, changed the tide of the war and regained the initiative again.
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