Lieutenant General Tao Yong's life can be described as legendary, known as "the army" Zhao Zilong.
Once in 1958, when Su Yu was criticized, Tao Yong helped Su Yu say good things, and left a reputation for love and righteousness to future generations, but as a generation of generals, Tao Yong ended his life by committing suicide by throwing himself into a well, which is inevitably embarrassing. The cause of his death also made Su Yu puzzled, and he didn't believe that Tao Yong, who had a bold personality, would commit suicide by throwing himself into a well, so Su Yu asked someone to inquire about Tao Yong's real cause of death many times, but until General Su Yu drove to the west, he didn't find out. However, it can be seen that the two generals helped each other when they were in trouble, and both generals were affectionate and righteous.
General Tao Yong. At the critical moment of the decisive battle of Huangqiao, seeing that the enemy was about to break through the position of the New Fourth Army, it was Tao Yong who stood up, raised his saber and led the soldiers to kill out of the position, suppressing the enemy's counter-charge, and the enemy was frightened by Tao Yong. Su Yu saw the picture of Tao Yong raising his saber to kill the enemy bravely in the telescope, and shouted: Tao Yong, a really fierce general.
General Tao Yong is a general with great personality, since the army captured a military tricycle, the general can't put it down, from not being able to drive a motorcycle to being proficient. The enemy took advantage of the opportunity of Tao Yong to lead the main force to participate in the battle of Caodian and sent Zhan Changyou's troops to attack Tao Yong's troops, and Tao Yong hurriedly led the main force back to defend when he learned about it. At this time, he made a bold decision: he led the guards to drive a motorcycle and broke into Zhan Changyou's headquarters alone.
In this way, Tao Yong drove the motorcycle into Zhan Changyou's headquarters, Tao Yong's move was unexpected by the enemy, Zhan Changyou saw Tao Yong sitting in his headquarters with Erlang's legs, so he handed Tao Yong a cigarette and said with a smile: Commander Tao has been good recently, you are more majestic than Guan Yunchang's single-handed meeting. Tao Yong ignored his greetings and said:
I heard that your troops have invaded my defense area, but I am not afraid, the combat effectiveness of our troops, do you have the confidence to win? But in the end, someone else sold you, and you don't know it.
Tao Yong during the New Fourth Army.
Zhan Changyou smiled and said: How dare I attack your department, it is a complete misunderstanding! The Japanese are afraid of the combat effectiveness of your department, as for who betrayed me, please ask Commander Tao for advice? Tao Yong said with a smile: I'm afraid that your brother has fallen for Han Deqin's plan to kill people with a knife, if my expectations are correct, now Han Deqin has occupied your defense area while your brother is sending troops. As Tao Yong expected, Han Deqin had already sent troops to occupy Zhan Changyou's territory while Zhan Changyou and the New Fourth Army were attacking each other. Zhan Changyou woke up like a dream, named the troops and shook hands with the New Fourth Army.
There was also a time when the New Fourth Army attacked the bunker of the puppet army, the puppet army held the bunker strong enough to block the attack of Tao Yong's department, Tao Yong on the one hand transferred the "machine gun company" to attack frontally, on the other hand, the use of soil attack operations blasting, Tao Yong's two tricks scared the puppet army a lot, the leader of the puppet army released a word: As long as Tao Yong comes to negotiate alone, I will surrender. Sure enough, Tao Yong once again entered the enemy's bunker without any guards, regardless of his own safety, and Tao Yong's heroic tiger courage can frighten the leader of the puppet army.
The leader of the puppet army handed over his sword to Tao Yong, saying that he was willing to surrender and never give his life to the Japanese army in the future.
In these two battles, Tao Yongyi was bold, and he surrendered without a fight in the form of "going to the meeting with a single sword", which was comparable to Zhao Zilong's guts. It embodies the bravery and outstanding military charm of General Tao Yong!
Tao Yong, Ye Fei, and Wang Bicheng are the three iron fists in Su Yu's hands, as early as when Su Yu was the commander of the first division of the New Fourth Army, these three people were the three brigade commanders under Su Yu. Later, when Su Yu served as the commander of the Central China Field Army, Tao Yong served as the commander of the 4th Column of the Huaye Army. These three people assisted Su Yu in the Soviet-Chinese inner line battle, either by surprise or by surprise and unpreparedness, and won seven victories in seven battles. Later, in the battles of Lunan Campaign, Laiwu Campaign, Menglianggu Campaign and Central Henan Campaign, these three men performed with ease under the command of Su Yu.
Before the Battle of Jinan was completed, Su Yu began to plan the Huaihai Campaign, and handed over the first attack of the Huaihai Campaign to Tao Yong, and asked Tao Yong to command the fourth column to quickly move south along the railway, attack Huang Baitao's corps by surprise, and fire the first shot of the Huaihai Campaign. After receiving the order, Tao Yong ordered more than 20,000 people to march quickly through the canal. In the process of marching, Tao Zong suddenly received a telegram from Su Yu, in which he said: The enemy withdrew to Xuzhou in advance, and Tao Yong immediately ordered the three divisions to speed up and bite the enemy.
These three divisions successfully bit the enemy, Tao Yong ordered them to drag the enemy at any cost, Tao Yong's troops adopted the tactics of big detour and outflanking in three ways, and cooperated with the main force to surround Huang Baitao's main force in the area of Nian Zhuang. According to Su Yu's unified arrangement, Tao Yong's four columns attacked Daxingzhuang, and the soldiers, under the cover of artillery fire, adopted mobile and flexible tactical cooperation: the demolition team blasted the enemy's fire point, and the blasting was successful, and the soldiers rushed violently and opened the breakthrough.
But soon the enemy concentrated a large number of artillery, infantry under the cover of tanks, the four columns occupied the position of the fierce counterattack, the soldiers withstood the enemy's fierce counterattack, with cluster grenades and the enemy to the death, the battle has been fought from dusk to midnight, defeated the enemy many times in a row, guaranteed and consolidated the breakthrough, and a large number of the enemy's living forces.
After the peripheral battle, Tao Zong and his brother troops participated in the general attack on Huang Baitao's corps, and the 4th Column was responsible for the battle of attacking Youjiahu, but in the actual process, Tao Zong paid a huge price. At the same time, Su Yu called Tao Yong and asked: Tao Yong, how many people are in your column? Tao Yong smiled and said: Commander, we have more than 1,000 people to ensure the completion of the task. Su Yu said: Come less, I can judge that your ** number is at least about 5,000 by listening to your gunshots.
Tao Yong said to Su Yu: No matter how much **, our department will definitely take Youjia Lake. Su Yu's voice came from the other end: Okay, I'll transfer 4 tanks and artillery to cooperate with you. In this way, Tao Yongbu, with the cooperation of artillery and tanks, dealt a fatal blow to the enemy.
Later, Su Yu also asked Tao Yong to command several columns to attack Du Yuming's group, and captured Du Yuming in Chenguanzhuang.
Tao Yong attaches the most importance to love and righteousness, the old superior Su Yu was criticized, and the relevant people hope that Tao Yong will stand up and expose Su Yu's so-called "crimes", Tao Yong pretended to be confused as soon as he came up, my level is limited, I don't know Su Yu's "mistakes", I only know that Su Yu is a good comrade, how can he say that he is a mistake? When those people saw that Tao Yong was so unreasonable, they asked: Old Tao, do you have to think about your political future. I saw Tao Yong pat his head and say: I'm sorry that my level is really not high, wait for me to go back and ask the staff officer to help me write it, and I will "seriously explain the problem" tomorrow.
However, the next day, Tao Yong smiled generously as soon as he spoke, and typos and sentences were running all over the place, but in fact, Tao Yong was protecting Su Yu in a way of "pretending to be confused".
For Tao Yong's matter, Tao Yong has always kept it in mind, but in his later years, Su Yu has not been able to understand how the bold Tao Yong ended his life by "throwing himself into a well". In his later years, Su Yu has been secretly investigating the real cause of Tao Yong's death, but he has never found an answer, Su Yu's friendship with Tao Yong is really rare!