One of the key battles for the victory of the Huaihai Campaign, in the Battle of Zhuangwei, our army successfully defeated the Kuomintang Huang Baitao's troops. However, in the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu did not talk much about his military exploits, and even did not want to be mentioned.
In the final stage of the battle, Huang Baitao realized that there was no way out and chose to commit suicide. But when Su Yu learned about this, he suddenly fainted. Does this imply that there is some kind of special relationship between Su Yu and Huang Baitao?
The Battle of Huaihai began in 1948, a pivotal battle that would determine the fate of China, with more than a million men from both sides participating. On the land of the Central Plains, the two sides launched a fierce duel, with the sole purpose of destroying the Kuomintang army.
In Huaye, Su Yu served as acting commander, and his primary target was Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps of the Kuomintang army, which was a very hard bone. Although Huang Baitao was born in Tianjin, his ancestral home was in Guangdong, so he was classified as Cantonese, mainly because of his early years as a member of the Beiyang warlords.
After Huang Baitao defected to Chiang Kai-shek, although he did not have the background of the Whampoa Military Academy, he was recognized and appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek by virtue of his military strength and military talent.
In order to be further reused by Chiang Kai-shek, Huang Baitao continued to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, and was eventually sent to the Army University for further study and became a member of Chiang Kai-shek's descendant army. Huang Baitao lived up to Chiang Kai-shek's hard training, and he quickly rose to prominence among many lineage leaders.
Huang Baitao was promoted from the Military Commission Lieutenant General Gao Staff Member, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he wrote a ** with high military theoretical value, which was appreciated by He Yingqin and became the chief of staff of Gu Zhutong in the Third War Zone.
This made Huang Baitao satisfied with the staff work behind the scenes, and he began to yearn for the front line to personally lay out to win the war. Especially after the outbreak of the Liberation War, Huang Baitao was eager to go to the front line in person, and successfully trained the ragtag army in an orderly manner.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's expectations, Huang Baitao went from behind the scenes to the front and launched a fierce contest with Su Yu. The troops he led inflicted great losses on the Huaye Army, which caused the Huaye Army to fall into the predicament of being surrounded.
Eventually, in 1948, at a military meeting held by the top echelons of the Kuomintang, Qiu Qingquan decided that the Red Army might be the first to attack them.
Huang Baitao objected to such an idea, believing that the Red Army's target was them, and his guess proved to be correct. In order to deal with the situation of isolation and helplessness that may occur at any time, he urgently summoned his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.
On the morning of the 9th, he finally led the entire army to a village called Nian Zhuangwei, which is a characteristic village, each with a natural defensive wall more than 2 meters high.
Although Li Mi's 13th Corps was stationed here, this did not affect Huang Baitao's decision-making.
In October, Su Yu's troops had ordered Huaye's main force to go to Xin'an Town and launch an attack on Huang Baitao's corps. Perhaps due to intelligence leakage, Huang Baitao led the army to move again, thinking that he could successfully escape.
However, what he didn't expect was that the Kuomintang army had an uprising on the way, which directly put him in the encirclement of our army. At this time, Huang Baitao seemed to be unable to fly, and according to the actual situation, taking down his troops was just around the corner.
With its advantages, Huang Baitao chose a very tricky position, and it was difficult to defeat the ** in our hands. What's even more tricky is that they even use the innocent local people as a cover, which gives Su Yu a headache.
At that time, Su Yu's troops had many new recruits, and they had no systematic training and combat experience. However, Huang Baitao's troops are different, they are well-trained soldiers, their training is more systematic, and even if they lack actual combat experience, they have an advantage over us.
After several days of defeat, General Su Yu felt indescribable pain in his heart. He loved his soldiers like a son and took good care of his soldiers, but he had more than 200,000 more troops than we did.
Despite this, he persisted in not giving up and encouraged all the Red Army soldiers to fight with him to the end. However, due to a previous head injury, he developed a headache that was getting worse.
Chu Qing said that due to the tense environment of the war, his headache occurred again, and the pain was unbearable every time. However, he never complained to the chairman, but silently endured the pain.
In order to get rid of the headache, he often ran outside and washed his head with cold water to calm his mind. When he cleared his mind, he returned to fighting.
At this time, Su Yu also came up with his own winning **, although it looked a little shabby, it did not affect the use. Our army sent a number of tanks, and Huang Baitao mistakenly thought it was the arrival of Kuomintang reinforcements.
Many Kuomintang troops rejoiced and came out to greet them.
Huang Baitao's troops were wiped out in the battle with the Red Army, and he was trapped in Nian Zhuangwei, and the reinforcements were surrounded by the Red Army. In the end, Su Yu launched a general attack, leaving Huang Baitao in a desperate situation.
His letter for help went unanswered, and he was isolated.
Because of this, he did not dare to complain to the chairman. ”
** He has a high evaluation of Su Yu's military talent and strategy, especially in the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu's performance is first-class and has made the first contribution.