During the War of Liberation, the national battlefield became a special "examination room" for testing the students of the Whampoa Military Academy. Famous generals such as ** of our army, Chen Geng, Zhang Zongxun, and Song Shilun, as well as Hu Zongnan, Du Yuming, Wang Yaowu, Zhang Lingfu, and Chen Mingren of the Kuomintang army, are all from the Whampoa Military Academy.
However, while these famous Whampoa generals were fighting against each other, a person who had never attended a military school dominated the limelight, and he was Su Yu.
Although neither Su Yu nor *** have received a military school education, their military talents are outstanding. They studied warfare in actual combat, and they were not restricted by rules and regulations like the graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy, but they were improvised, fluent, and reached the highest level of "using the magic of the war with one heart."
Taking the Huaihai Campaign as an example, in November 1948, after the Liaoshen Campaign, the Kuomintang suffered heavy losses in the northeast, and Chiang Kai-shek gathered 800,000 elite troops to fight a decisive battle with the PLA in East China.
However, Huaye led by Su Yu took a fancy to Huang Baitao's corps, which is an elite army of 120,000 people, well-equipped and its strength should not be underestimated. Although Su Yu has the ability to defeat them, it will not be easy to eliminate them quickly.
Huaye successfully forced Huang Baitao's corps to retreat in Nianzhuang, but Huang Baitao chose positional warfare and used his advantage to resist stubbornly, which brought some trouble to Huaye. Faced with this situation, Su Yu personally surveyed the terrain and worked out the operational strategies of "digging fortifications and approaching operations" and "first attacking a weak enemy, and then a strong enemy".
The fighters immediately went into action, dug fortifications overnight, under which they could cover themselves, and gradually approached the enemy's positions. After two days of hard work, the distance between the two sides was greatly reduced, and Huaye launched a fierce attack.
At this time, due to the shortening of the distance, the enemy's heavy firepower could not give full play to the advantage of long-range strikes, and had to engage in close combat with our troops. As a result, they only held out for a few days before fleeing in disarray.
On November 22, Huang Baitao saw that the overall situation had been decided, and he had no hope of returning to heaven, so he finally chose to commit suicide.
Su Yu's "imminent operation" tactic in the Huaihai Campaign shone brightly, but Mr. Chen also successfully copied this strategy. If the Nakano forces can eliminate Huang Wei's corps, then there will be almost no suspense about victory in the Huaihai Campaign.
Based on Su Yu's many years of experience in warfare, his Xuzhou defenders might march southwest to join Huang Wei's corps in order to increase their strength and avoid being encircled. However, Du's plan could make the battle difficult, and the outcome could be highly uncertain.
Therefore, Su Yu sent Huaye's seven columns to the southwest of Xuzhou, closely monitoring Du Yuming, and waiting for Nakano to wipe out Huang Wei's corps. And Huang Wei's corps is the trump card in the Kuomintang army, which is powerful and has high hopes, as long as it can be kept, there is hope of turning the tables.
On November 25, Nakano caught up with Huang Wei's corps at Shuangduiji and surrounded it.
Huang Wei's corps was still fighting, trying to emulate the sticking tactics of Huang Baitao's corps, and using heavy ** to hold the position. However, Nakano launched several fierce attacks, all of which were due to the enemy's fierce firepower, and could not make a breakthrough, but caused a major **, which made ** worried.
To this end, he held an operational meeting overnight to find a solution. At this time, a staff officer suggested consulting Hua Ye's combat experience, because Hua Ye had also faced similar problems when encircling and annihilating Huang Baitao's corps.
Mr. Chen immediately took the suggestion and immediately spoke to Su Yu. **After connecting,** asked directly: "Don't answer yet, I have a question for you: How did you deal with Huang Baitao in the first place?" ”
Su Yu knew Mr. Chen and knew the difficulties he was facing as soon as he heard it, so he patiently described his tactics and experience in detail, and put forward several suggestions for encircling and annihilating Huang Wei's corps.
Mr. Chen was overjoyed when he heard this, and praised: "Urgent battle, you are still amazing!" So, Mr. Chen adopted Su Yu's tactics and redeployed, and by December 15, Huang Wei's corps collapsed, Huang Wei himself became a prisoner, and our army was victorious!
This is Su Yu's cleverness, he was not afraid of danger, and the tactics he came up with eliminated the two ace corps of the Kuomintang! Mr. Chen once spoke highly of him: "Comrade Su Yu can be regarded as a person who is excellent in both theory and practice, and his campaign command is brilliant, thanks to his long-term training in actual warfare, and the military command in East China mainly depends on him. ”
** also highly respected Su Yu's contribution in the Huaihai Campaign, and once publicly praised and said: "In the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu made the first contribution!" ”