After the founding of New China, the whole army conferred the title of general for the first time, and there were more than 1,000 people who received the title at that time, and many of them were well-known military strategists, and it can be said that they were generals who had experienced a hundred battles and fought many victorious battles. In fact, there is no such thing as "God of War" in the army, and the most is only the title of the victorious general, and only laymen will call the God of War.
So from a layman's point of view, among these founding generals of New China, who is recognized as the god of war? Many people think that it is Su Yu, ** and Mr. Lin, but Mr. Lin's voice is the highest, and his military talent has also been verified.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mr. Lin was the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the victory of Pingxingguan made him famous, but due to an accidental injury, his Anti-Japanese War career ended.
Mr. Lin also fought a few particularly classic battles in the Northeast Battlefield, such as the Battle of Western Liao, which was written into military textbooks by the West Point Military Academy, which contained a very subtle command art and wiped out the Kuomintang's 100,000-strong army, so Mr. Lin is the kind of military command, a blockbuster. However, Mr. Lin has suffered a lot of defeats, during the Red Army period and when he first came to the Northeast Battlefield, compared with *** and Su Yu, Mr. Lin's defeats were more, coupled with the later crash, he completely lost his relationship with the God of War.
**Marshal can be called a victorious general, in 1947 he lasted two months in the battle of northern Henan, the Kuomintang army of more than 40,000 people were annihilated, and at that time, various places in southern Henan jointly sent a plaque with the word "victorious general", which was recognized by the people.
Not only that, but the evaluation of *** is also very high, saying that *** is a dragon, like the four crossings of Chishui during the Long March and the advance to Dabie Mountain during the Liberation War, these classic battles have *** credit, he is very strong in terms of execution ability, and can clearly know the strategic intentions and thoughts.
In fact, even earlier in the old army of the Sichuan Army, he was called the god of the army without anesthetics when he did eye surgery, and it can be seen from here that ** is very in line with people's definition of the god of war, but *** himself does not think so. Whenever someone calls *** General Chang Sheng, he will be very humble and say: "Su Yu can be regarded as a General Chang Sheng!" ”
Because in the opinion of ***, only Su Yu is in line with the title of Chang Sheng, Su Yu has a relatively low starting point compared with Mr. Lin, and he has not participated in the Long March, which is a typical rising star. Even *** has a very high evaluation of Su Yu, and in a conversation with Montgomery, he said: "Among my comrades-in-arms, Su Yu is the best at fighting!" From here, it can be seen that Su Yu has compared everyone else. Even Mr. Lin once said: "Su Yu always fights fairy battles!" ”
During the three years of guerrilla warfare, the outbreak of the full-scale War of Resistance Against Japan, and the subsequent War of Liberation, Su Yu grew up in such a difficult environment. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Su Yu was only the division commander in the New Fourth Army, and then he finally attracted the attention of the first class by virtue of his victories again and again.
On September 27, 1949, before the founding of New China, the People's ** published an article entitled "Interview of the Representatives of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, General Su Yu", which can publicly declare Su Yu as a victorious general, which shows that Su Yu is the recognized god of war. Of course, he deserves this title.
During the War of Liberation, Su Yu led the North China Field Army to achieve a record that many generals could not compare, and it can be said that Su Yu was a very good military commander. Although he was wrongly criticized due to the Lushan Conference in the later period, the spirit of the old general who was dedicated to the country and the people did not change because of the wrong criticism, and he still supported the party very much.