Li Yinqiao recalled*** commented on Su Yu: If you don't say it, you really don't have a chance
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Although Hunan occupies only 210,000 square kilometers of the country's total area, it has become the birthplace of revolution in modern China. With the success of the Xinhai Revolution, a young man in Huitong County, Hunan Province began to emerge.
He is the founding general of the People's Republic of China - Su Yu. He made such a contribution to the Republic that *** privately praised him. According to Li Yinqiao, the guard next to ***, revealed to *** in his later years, if he didn't say ***'s evaluation of Su Yu, then no one would ever know about these evaluations.
So, what contributions did Su Yu make to the revolution? **How do you evaluate Su Yu? Let me reveal it to you slowly.
Su Yu, in 1925 in Hunan No. 2 Normal School study, deeply influenced by communist books, on August 1, 1927, Su Yu's unit participated in the Nanchang Uprising, and then transferred to Jiangxi and Guangdong, and successfully joined the army in Jinggangshan.
In 1930, Su Yu followed the troops of *** and *** to Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong, and participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation. Su Yu's growth, in addition to his own intelligence and studiousness, has also been taught by *** and others.
He himself once said: "I followed Comrade *** and Comrade ** to learn to fight, and this truth I learned benefited me for life. ”
In 1934, the Red Army's fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation failed, and the main forces of the Red Army began a major strategic shift. Among them, the Red Seventh Army to which Su Yu belonged was transferred to Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, responsible for containing the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" forces and gaining time for the strategic transfer of the main force of the Red Army.
After a heroic struggle, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army succeeded in turning the corner from danger to safety, but the Kuomintang reactionaries' "purge" action did not stop. At this time, on July 7, 1937, the Japanese invaders suddenly attacked the Chinese troops stationed at Lugou Bridge and launched a full-scale war of aggression against China.
In August of the same year, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party formed an anti-Japanese national united front, and the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began, jointly resisting foreign aggression.
In the face of the military action of the Kuomintang reactionaries, our party resolutely resisted, actively prepared to deal with the "sweeping" and "encirclement and suppression" of the Japanese puppet army, and made preparations for a long-term struggle.
On January 6, 1941, the Kuomintang reactionaries created the Southern Anhui Incident that shocked the whole country, causing serious losses to the New Fourth Army and part of the Jiangnan troops, and only 2,000 people survived.
On January 11 of the same year, more than 300 Japanese puppet leaders occupied Huangqiao and swept southward, making the situation of our party even more difficult. In the face of this situation, I instructed Central China and the Soviet-Central Region to rebuild the New Fourth Army structure, set up the Soviet-Chinese Theater, and set up the First Division Headquarters with 24 people led by Su Yu, and made Su Yu the commander of the Soviet-Central Military Region and concurrently the political commissar, with full authority to command the military operations of the Soviet-Central Military Region.
After the Japanese army swept and captured Huangqiao for the first time, it frightened Li Changjiang, the Kuomintang of Taizhou, to defect to the enemy, causing the number of puppet troops in the central Soviet Union to soar to 37,000.
On January 18, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army urgently appointed Su Yu to take immediate action to crusade against the traitor Li Changjiang. After receiving the order, Su Yu quickly mobilized his first division and went straight to Taizhou at dusk of the same day, and won successive battles, capturing Jiangyan and other four areas in one fell swoop.
On the 20th, he launched a general attack on Taizhou City, successfully annihilating more than 3,000 enemy troops and achieving a major victory. However, the traitor Li Changjiang saw that the general trend had gone, and in only three days, his life would be lost, so he urged his cronies to pack up and flee the city over the wall overnight.
The victory in this battle made *** overjoyed, and he personally called *** to ask him to widely publicize the news of this victory. However, the Japanese invaders still did not give up, and when Su Yu rebelled, they gathered the strength of three brigades and launched a second sweep in the Soviet-central region.
Xinghua fell, the Kuomintang party headquarters in the central Soviet Union was forced to move out and flee for their lives, and Han Deqin, the defender of the city, was defeated and fled.
Although the Japanese generals were complacent about their victory, believing that their "sweep" had solved the New Fourth Army, this was not the case. The disappearance of the New Fourth Army did not stem from the sweep of the Japanese army, but for another reason.
The defeat of the Kuomintang army sounded the alarm for Su Yu and made him realize the reality that the enemy is strong and we are weak. In order to achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost, Su Yu decided to resort to guerrilla warfare.
Realizing the whereabouts of the New Fourth Army, the Japanese generals immediately ordered the 12th Mixed Brigade to launch a third sweep in the Soviet-central region.
When the Japanese army intended to occupy Yancheng, General Su Yu adhered to the guerrilla warfare principle of "the enemy advances and we retreat", "the enemy is tired and we fight", and "guerrilla attack is attacked", and successfully commanded his troops to repel the sweeping Japanese army and prevent their attempt to capture Yancheng.
However, the contradictions between friend and foe are still very tense. Therefore, in March, Su Yu ordered his troops to go to the coastal areas of Hai'an and Dongtai to establish a Soviet-Chinese anti-Japanese base area, and in April, he responded to the Third Division of the New Fourth Army and successfully eliminated the Japanese threat around the base area.
They successively conquered the Japanese strongholds in Taizhou, Laotouzhuang and other places, and eliminated a large number of the enemy's living forces. On the basis of these victories, the Soviet-Chinese base area was formally established on the 30th of the same month, and the Military Commission of the First Division was also formed.
Later, the Japanese learned that the third sweep that had previously captured Yancheng had failed, and they again attempted to make a comeback. This news was captured by our party's intelligence network and reported**.
As soon as the news was received, the New Fourth Army Military Region immediately reported to the first.
The 1st and 3rd Divisions issued orders requiring them to conduct counter-sweeping operations to protect Yancheng. Su Yu reacted immediately, directing his army to attack the Japanese and stop their attempts to occupy Yancheng, forcing them back to Huangqiao.
The Japanese army suffered successive setbacks, and the Japanese invaders, outraged in the headquarters, decided to send a force of 17,000 men to carry out a summer sweep, targeting Yancheng, which had won successive battles, and planned to directly attack the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army.
The Japanese army was menacing, the army was mighty, and the equipment was advanced, which led to the loss of Yancheng, and the military headquarters was transferred from Yancheng under the protection of the 3rd Division. Seeing all this, Su Yu was anxious, he quickly made a judgment and came up with a clever plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao in order to solve the crisis in front of him.
Su Yu sent one brigade to support the 3rd Division to protect the army headquarters, and the remaining two brigades launched an attack on the empty rear of the Japanese army. Within a month, Guxi, Huangqiao, and Siguan fell one after another, and the two cities of Taixing and Taizhou were also surrounded.
Realizing that the situation was not good, the Japanese army immediately transferred troops back to relieve the urgent needs of the rear. However, by the time the exhausted Japanese troops arrived at the rear, Su Yu had already withdrawn, leaving them with nothing.
This strategy of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao successfully bought time for the transfer of the military headquarters and also achieved the goal of smashing the enemy's aggression, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
The bells of history echo in our ears, and in August 1945, Japan officially announced its surrender, but this was only the beginning. On October 10 of the same year, our party and the Kuomintang signed the Double Tenth Agreement, but this was only a temporary expedient measure of Chiang Kai-shek.
He convened a meeting on November 9 and drew up a plan for an all-out war against us, even boasting that he would be able to crush our main forces within six months. Chiang Kai-shek's wolf ambition can be said to be obvious.
In June 1946, he openly tore up the Double Tenth Agreement and launched an all-out attack on our revolutionary base areas. By October 1947, Chiang Kai-shek dispatched 4 brigades to reinforce the Central Plains Battlefield, and our Liu Deng Army, as well as the three corps of Su Yu and **, were also engaged in fierce battles with them in the Central Plains Battlefield.
We will not back down, because we know that only by resolutely resisting can we defend our revolutionary cause and the interests of the people.
The strategic position of the Central Plains region has been highly valued in history, and countless generals and generals know about it. ** Investing heavy troops in the Central Plains with Chiang Kai-shek is precisely about this.
However, due to the unfavorable situation in the Central Plains for our party, Su Yu planned to launch a large-scale war of annihilation, but this move was contrary to the strategic expectations of ***. After careful consideration, Su Yu sent a telegram suggestion on January 22, 1948: By suddenly gathering and dividing the troops of the three routes, the enemy should be destroyed in the form of a war of annihilation, and two or three times in this way could change the passive situation of the Central Plains war.
**After discussing Su Yu's proposal, it was decided that on May 30, 1948, Su Yu and others would be sent north to meet *** to discuss important matters.
It was decided that Su Yu would serve as the commander and political commissar of the Huaye Theater, but **all positions would need to be transferred to Su Yu. Su Yu agreed, and he planned to annihilate 50,000 to 100,000 enemy troops in four to eight months, and made a military order.
In his first battle, he chose the Kuomintang defenders of Kaifeng City, attacked by surprise, and on June 19, with a thunderous force, he quickly cleared the scattered garrisons around him, and successfully blew open the city gate and blew up the artillery position.
Subsequently, he used the tactics of encircling the point to send reinforcements, using Kaifeng City as a bait to induce Qiu Qingquan's troops to come to the rescue.
In order to thwart the reinforcements sent by Qiu Qingquan, most of the troops were sent to the front, while a small number of troops were left behind to attack the core positions in the city. Reinforcements from outside the city were unable to approach Kaifeng City, but the defenders inside the city were destroyed by Su Yu's use of infantry and artillery tactics.
The battle eventually ended with the fall of Kaifeng, which became known as the Battle of Kaifeng. In this battle, Su Yu successfully annihilated nearly 40,000 enemy troops and completed the minimum enemy annihilation task assigned to him.
However, this is only the first step in Su Yu's plan, and his next step is to send a second reinforcement.
On June 26, 1948, Su Yu led his troops to leave Kaifeng City and deliberately give the city to Qiu Qingquan, and their next target was the Ou Shounian troops. As a local army, Ou Shounian is more willing to protect his own forces, so he will hesitate to pursue Su Yu.
At this time, Qiu Qingquan's troops also went out of the city to pursue, and the distance between the two troops reached more than 40 kilometers. Su Yu was like a wedge, cleverly inserted between the two legions, attacking the headquarters of the Ou Shou Nian troops with all his might.
Finally, on July 6, they succeeded in capturing Ou Shou Nian, which became known as the Battle of Suiqi.
Although Ou Shounian's troops were not completely annihilated, and Qiu Qingquan's troops who were blocked from reinforcement also successfully broke through, Su Yu felt a lot of pressure. What is even more worrying is that Chiang Kai-shek also ordered Huang Baitao's troops to rescue Qu Shou Nian, and Huang Baitao's troops directly attacked Su Yu's weak point after receiving the order, trying to besiege him.
Seeing the reinforcements, the remnants of Ou Shou Nian immediately moved closer to the east, trying to change the situation and disperse Su Yu's troops. At this critical juncture, the 1st and 3rd Huaye Divisions rushed over to reinforce and divided into two columns to seize a favorable position and attack Huang Baitao's troops.
At this time, Su Yu single-handedly fought against three attacks, and the situation was extremely grim. However, he did not hesitate in the face of danger and mobilized troops from the south to reinforce the troops fighting Qiu Qingquan in the western battlefield, and successfully defeated Qiu Qingquan and relieved the pressure from the west.
After seeing the obvious results, General Su Yu deployed four assault columns to continue to attack Huang Baitao's troops, successfully defusing their threat. However, the rabbit may fight back if he is in a hurry, Qiu Qingquan and Huang Baitao risked their lives to launch the last ** and actually broke through the defense line.
At the same time, Hu Lian's troops, as reinforcements, were approaching. In the end, under the influence of force majeure factors such as huge losses of combat power and exhaustion of troops, General Su Yu led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield.
This is the famous Battle of Eastern Henan, including the Battle of Kaifeng, the Battle of Suiqi and the Battle of Diqiudian. Although the Battle of Diqiudian ended in failure, the first two battles were fought very well.
General Su Yu annihilated more than 90,000 enemy troops in the Battle of Eastern Henan, which allowed our party to go through the most difficult moment of battle. Therefore, ** abandoned the plan to cross to the south and instead concentrated forces north of the Yangtze River to annihilate Chiang Kai-shek's main forces.
Su Yu's heroic performance in the Huaihai Campaign was hailed as the "first merit".
Li Yinqiao said in an interview with ** in his later years that if he didn't tell this past, no one would know the greatness of General Su Yu in the future. General Su Yu is a very rare general, and he once personally praised him as a talent, a general, and a handsome talent.
He is a true god of war, let us pay tribute to my strong General Su Yu!