During the war years, Su Yu won the admiration of the whole army with his excellent wisdom and accurate battlefield judgment, and his legendary deeds also made fans fall in love with him.
Su Yu's tactics are like a wild one, and even his own people are difficult to make the next move. Once, ** in a battle, was "by" Su Yu's tactics "around" dizzy, only to see Su Yu lead the main force all the way to the north to attack, but suddenly ordered to erect a pontoon bridge in the west, which made *** puzzled, and immediately called Su Yu to ask if there was a mistake.
So, why did Su Yu make such an unexpected move on the battlefield? What was the final outcome of this battle? Was Su Yu negligent, or did it happen on purpose?
In the early days of the Liberation War, Su Yu served as a commander in the East China Battlefield to face the Kuomintang army many times. With the merger of the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army, the cooperation between the Central China Field Army and Su Yu has become closer, and the coordinated operations of our army have become more efficient.
Under their command, our army repeatedly defeated the Kuomintang army in battles, and at most once even annihilated more than 200,000 enemy troops. However, despite the many victories of our army, the sharpness of the Kuomintang army was not crushed.
Their large number of troops and superior position made it impossible for this loss to affect the entire outcome of the battle. Therefore, after the offensive was frustrated, the Kuomintang army quickly formulated a new offensive plan and mobilized 29 integrated brigades with a total number of more than 240,000 to form two assault groups in the north and south to launch a flanking attack on our army.
When Chiang Kai-shek inspected the Kuomintang army, he had already foreseen the characteristics of our army's ability to flexibly intersperse and concentrate superior forces. In order to deal with this strategy, Chen Cheng, under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, carefully planned and executed the battle plan.
They closely coordinated the first army of the descendant line with the stronger local miscellaneous army, with the first army and the stronger miscellaneous army in the center, and the miscellaneous army scattered on the left and right sides to strengthen the ties with each other and form a stable core.
In terms of marching strategy, Chen Cheng drew on his previous experience, abandoned the tactic of dividing troops and advancing rashly, and proposed"Concentrate your forces, fight steadily, go hand in hand, and avoid prominence"new tactics.
Such a strategy can effectively prevent our troops from penetrating and achieve the goal of each breakdown.
Chen Cheng was very satisfied with the strategic deployment of the Kuomintang troops after they were assembled. He was in command in Xuzhou at the time, and confidently shouted to ** and Su Yu and said his thoughts.
In the face of the Kuomintang army's large army pressure, although the East China Field Army has more than 100,000 troops, it does not have an advantage in terms of equipment and numbers. Faced with such a situation, ** and Su Yu urgently need to solve the problem of how to solve Chen Cheng's promotion plan.
To this end, the two men held several military meetings to discuss and deduce the next operational deployment. In the plan, they intend to follow the successful tactics of previous operations, start from the enemy's weak points, directly attack the enemy's vital points, tear open the encirclement, and achieve a breakthrough.
After in-depth analysis, Su Yu found that Huang Baitao's 25th and 65th divisions were the weakest link in the enemy's defense line and were easy to annihilate, so they decided to use this as a breakthrough.
In the next few days, Su Yu commanded the troops to carry out a major attack on Huang Baitao. However, Chen Cheng was not completely unaware of Su Yu's plans. After he saw Su Yu attacking Huang Baitao with all his might, he immediately ordered the whole army to march together, and all parties were close together, and it was not allowed to rush to send troops, so that our army had no way to start.
Chen Cheng couldn't hold out, and the army didn't disperse for a moment, which put ** and Su Yu in a predicament. They need to come up with new strategies to deal with the situation. Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, just when ** and Su Yu were racking their brains to find the answer, they received a telegram from ***, in which *** provided them with new ideas.
With the approval of ***, ** and Su Yu were relieved. They had planned to hold on to Linyi in case the enemy invaded, but they were always a little worried. However, it was agreed that they could "abandon Linyi", which gave them a new strategy.
After a few days of observation, it was found that the Kuomintang assault group on the northern front was a little more aggressive than that on the southern front, and they were alone in the depths and had been harassing the rear of our army.
Therefore, it is much less difficult to think that it is possible to break through from the northern front.
*Group photo with Su Yu and comrades-in-arms. After listening to **'s plan, Su Yu was amazed by **'s strategy of "giving up the south to the north", and he immediately began to carry out pre-war deduction according to **'s ideas.
The Kuomintang assault group had 3 armies and a total of 9 divisions, which were commanded by Li Xianzhou, but due to many internal contradictions and disunity from top to bottom, Su Yu decided to move all the main forces north and win with one blow.
However, in order to attack to the north with all its might, it is first necessary to stabilize the enemy on the southern front. If Chen Cheng discovers that our army is moving northward on a large scale, it is very likely that the troops on the southern front will speed up their pursuit, and our army may be attacked from both sides and face the danger of annihilation.
Therefore, after weighing it, Su Yu decided to create an illusion for the enemy on the southern front and stabilize Chen Cheng.
In order to achieve his goal, Li Xianzhou formulated two major combat strategies. The first is to let the soldiers build three lines of defense in the south of Linyi, covering the entire city. Under the command of Su Yu, three fortifications quickly appeared outside Linyi City, and red flags fluttered everywhere.
After Chen Cheng saw it, he mistakenly thought that our army would live and die with Linyi. Second, Chen Shiyu commanded more than 20,000 people to stay in Linyi in order to delay the enemy army on the southern front and buy time for the main force to attack north.
After receiving the order, Chen Shiyu built a large number of fortifications inside and outside the city, as if he was going to fight a decisive battle with the enemy. After Chen Cheng saw it, he couldn't tell how many people there were in the city for a while.
On the eve of the war, Su Yu drew up a detailed replenishment plan to create the illusion that our army would fight a decisive battle with the enemy on the southern front. He assigned a local armed force to openly collect grain and forage in the rear, and erected a pontoon bridge over the Yellow River, claiming that he would launch an attack on Yanzhou.
After the pre-war deployment was completed, Chen Cheng really hit the plan, he showed joy when communicating with his subordinates, and repeatedly said that ** and Su Yu's military ability was not high, and Linyi would be where they failed.
However, Chen Cheng did not expect that Su Yu had quietly moved the main force north, pointing his sword at Li Xianzhou's group.
General Su Yu's strategy not only succeeded in confusing Chen Cheng, but also made Chairman *** fall into thought, although he knew that ** and Su Yu would not risk fighting with the enemy on the southern front, but seeing them erect pontoon bridges in the west and strengthen defenses, Chairman ** was still a little worried.
He immediately sent a telegram to ** and Su Yu, reminding them that from the entire strategic point of view, if their goal was to solve the southern front, it could be a little early, which could affect the enemy's deployment.
Chen Cheng commanded the troops on the southern front to approach Linyi, and Chen Shiyu pretended to be defeated and retreated, creating the illusion that our army was vulnerable. Chen Cheng rejoiced at this, thinking that he had achieved a preliminary victory, and reported exaggerated results, claiming that 16 brigades and 7 columns of our army had been eliminated, accounting for two-thirds of the total strength.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was also carried away by the victory, ordered Li Xianzhou's group to intercept ** and Su Yu, who were preparing to build a pontoon bridge to "retreat westward" from the north. But this order caused Li Xianzhou to fall into the encirclement of our army.
Although Li Xianzhou had 7 divisions in his hands, his combat ability was not outstanding. After our army fought with Li Xianzhou's group in Laiwu, Li Xianzhou put out a "long snake" formation, and the problem with this formation was that it only looked at the immediate and ignored the weakness of the rear.
Seeing this formation, Su Yu's heart blossomed, because he saw Li Xianzhou's tactical loopholes. In order to break Li Xianzhou's tactics, Su Yu arranged Ye Fei's first column in front of the formation to resist the fierce attack of Li Xianzhou's 7 divisions.
Ye Fei, with his spirit of not being afraid of hardships and danger, successfully stopped the advance of Li Xianzhou Group.
In order to speed up the journey, the Sixth Column marched more than 400 miles in just six days, rushed to the rear of Li Xianzhou's group, and successfully cut off Li Xianzhou's retreat.
The first vertical and the sixth vertical combined forces, and the front and rear flanking attacks surrounded Li Xianzhou in Laiwu. More than 60,000 Kuomintang troops tried to break through, but found that the main force of our army had been pressed, and at this time Chen Cheng had not yet seen through the strategy of ** and Su Yu, thinking that Li Xianzhou had only encountered some local troops of our army, which did not attract attention and refused to come to help.
In the Battle of Laiwu, our army successfully broke through the defense line of Li Xianzhou's group in just over a dozen hours. The warriors of Huaye rushed down the mountain like tigers, rushing into the enemy army from all directions, and after this battle, our army successfully annihilated 5More than 60,000 enemy troops.
Except for Han Jun who led more than 5,000 people to escape, Li Xianzhou and other generals were captured by our army.
The artillery units of the East China Field Army successfully attacked the Kuomintang army, causing it to fall into a panic. Chiang Kai-shek was in disbelief that the Kuomintang army had suffered such a heavy defeat in the original situation.
However, the facts are in front of us and cannot be denied. Under the precise planning of Chen Su's army and ***, Chiang Kai-shek's defeat was already doomed.