Su Yu was the founding general of our country and made great achievements for the development of New China. General Su Yu is known more for commanding the Central Plains People's Liberation Army and the East China Liberation Army and the elite troops of the Kuomintang to win the Huaihai Campaign, but before the War of Liberation, Su Yu led the New Fourth Army during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to show extraordinary command ability.
After the Xi'an Incident in 1937, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to agree to the establishment of an anti-Japanese national united front, and the original Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. In the same year, the Eighth Route Army won a victory in the northern Pingxingguan, and China's anti-Japanese battlefield ushered in a new situation In 1938, Yan'an ** believed that although the Jiangnan region had been occupied by the Japanese invaders at that time, the Japanese had no way to divide sufficient troops to garrison, and the Kuomintang troops had just retreated, and the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people in the region was high, which was a good time for us to carry out the revolutionary base area.
In accordance with the instructions of **, the New Fourth Army sent Su Yu to lead the advance detachment of the New Fourth Army to advance behind enemy lines in southern Jiangsu, looking for an opportunity to strike at the enemy and establish a new revolutionary base area. At that time, the Jiangsu region had just fallen, in order to avoid the Japanese invaders, many local people left their homes, and the advance army led by Su Yu saw a piece of broken walls, and saw that the unknown army could not avoid it, and it was not easy to establish a revolutionary base area.
This was a contest between hunters and foxes, and the emperor lived up to his wishes, and after a period of waiting, the advance troops of the New Fourth Army finally got the opportunity to fight the Japanese. Su Yu set up an ambush circle in Weigang, south of Zhenjiang, and when the Japanese convoy drove into Weigang, the officers and men of the New Fourth Army concentrated their superior forces together and fought the Japanese in less than half an hour, and won the first battle, which inspired the confidence of the anti-Japanese army and people. In this battle, Su Yu's smart and chic style of using troops was revealed.
After entering 1940, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on the Chinese battlefield entered a stalemate. The stagnation of the Japanese army's advance on the Chinese battlefield showed that its strategic goal of attempting to emulate Germany in a blitzkrieg and conquer China was completely bankrupt. The pressure on the New Fourth Army in the south was relieved to a certain extent, but it was followed by an unforgettable blow. In the past few years since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was waged, more and more people have come to realize that the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are revolutionary contingents and contingents that sincerely and sincerely strive for the interests of the people, and have won the enthusiastic support of the broad masses of the people, and the work of opening up and developing the revolutionary base areas has been in full swing, but this has also aroused strong uneasiness on the part of the Kuomintang.
In 1941, the New Fourth Army led more than 9,000 troops to the north according to the orders of the Kuomintang Military Department, but they never imagined that what was waiting for them at this time was not the Japanese invaders who hated the country, but their allies. On January 6, more than 9,000 people of the New Fourth Army were suddenly encircled and suppressed by nearly 80,000 people in Gu Zhutong's theater.
After the Southern Anhui Incident, the strength of the New Fourth Army was much worse than before, and the Kuomintang was confident that this time it had completely crippled the main force of the New Fourth Army, and that the New Fourth Army would never be able to regain its former strength. The Southern Anhui Incident dealt a huge blow to the New Fourth Army, but it did not completely extinguish the flame of revolution. After several years of recuperation, the New Fourth Army once again radiated new vitality. Although there was a deep blood feud, the New Fourth Army still focused its main energy on resisting the Japanese invaders in the face of national disasters.
On March 5, 1944, the 1st Division of the New Fourth Army and the troops of the Soviet-Chinese Military Region concentrated 8 regiments to launch the Cheqiao Campaign. The battle lasted until March 13, under the leadership of Su Yu, the New Fourth Army annihilated 465 Japanese troops and 483 puppet troops, conquered Cheqiao Town and 12 enemy strongholds, and won nearly 1,000 puppet troops anyway. This battle reversed the situation of the War of Resistance in Northern Jiangsu and opened up a new situation in the War of Resistance in Central China. It dampened the vigor of the Japanese puppet army, eliminated the arrogance of the capitulation faction Kuomintang diehards, boosted the anti-Japanese fighting spirit and confidence in victory of the people in northern Jiangsu, enhanced the prestige of the anti-Japanese army led by the Communist Party, and wrote a glorious page in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
When the *** in Yan'an learned about this battle, he spoke highly of Su Yu: Su Yu is capable, I think it will not be a problem to command four or five hundred thousand people to fight a campaign in the future!