In 1953, Mr. Chen accompanied *** to return to Beijing from Shanghai. The train crossed the land of East China, passing through Xuzhou and other places on the Huaihai battlefield. Many years later, ** once again set foot on this land that will play a decisive role in China's future, full of pride.
At this time, he recalled General Su Yu, who commanded the Huaihai operation, and praised him in public as an outstanding general and handsome talent.
I'm not Liu Bang, and Su Yu isn't Fan Xu! "Want to know why the chairman's mood flipped? Why do you compare General Su Yu with Fan Xu?
Although the relationship between Mao Runzhi and Marshal Su Yu is deep, retrospectively, the starting point of this friendship is not far away. Mao Runzhi really realized Marshal Su Yu's talent on the battlefield of the seven battles and seven victories between the Soviet Union and China, and his outstanding performance in the Huaihai Campaign established his position in Mao Runzhi's heart.
However, before this, Marshal Su Yu, a young talent who was about the same age as Marshal **, had never left a deep impression in Mao Run's heart. However, during this period, Marshal Su Yu's talent was fully tempered, and he accumulated rich experience in commanding large corps operations in the subsequent Liberation War.
As a well-known military commander in New China, Marshal Su Yu's command ability was not the most outstanding, but it was also extremely outstanding. Compared with Marshal Whampoa's professional background, Marshal Su Yu constantly summed up his combat strategy through actual combat.
Su Yu, who was enthusiastic back then, joined the revolution and became the guard squad leader who protected Ye Ting in Ye Ting's teaching team. In the course of the Nanchang Uprising, Mr. Lin, who was not yet in his prime, met Su Yu, who were both grassroots cadres at that time and could only obey the command of the bosses.
After the uprising, Su Yu followed Mr. Zhu to Jinggangshan and became a member of the Red Fourth Army. After the Red Army traveled to southern Jiangxi and western Fujian, Su Yu gradually emerged in the Red Army by virtue of his actual combat skills and methods.
At the end of 1930, Su Yu was appointed commander of the Red 12th Army and became a senior general of the Red Army. Although General Su's achievements are very outstanding, he is still not favored by ***.
This was because Su Yu's light was not dazzling enough at that time, and was overshadowed by the two elites of the Red Army, Mr. Lin and Wu Zhonghao. Wu Zhonghao was appointed as the commander of the Red 20th Army in 1929, commanding an army.
In 1930, Mr. Lin succeeded Mr. Zhu and served as the commander of the Red Fourth Army, the main force of the Red Army. With these two precedents, any other sparkling gemstone would look dull.
Although General Su Yu was slightly inferior at this stage, his rise was undoubtedly the best among the young generals of the Red Army, and in time he would certainly be able to stand out in front of the chairman.
However, the real reason why General Su Yu failed to be appreciated despite his victory in a hundred battles is actually related to his revolutionary experience. During the Long March, General Su Yuda, as a member of the anti-Japanese advance force in the north, was sent to Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui regions to carry out guerrilla warfare.
This unit effectively contained the reactionary movement of the Kuomintang army in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui, and provided effective assistance for the Long March, the main force of the Red Army. In the long three years, the troops of more than 4,000 people fought with hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, faced annihilation many times, and suffered major setbacks.
Such a painful revolutionary experience is not an honor for any general. This undoubtedly delayed General Su Yuda's promotion in the Red Army units, but it also gave him time to understand and digest theories such as guerrilla warfare.
Through the summary of these battles, General Su quickly found a set of combat methods suitable for himself, which laid the foundation for him to later become a famous general of the founding of the country.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Su Yu's troops were reorganized into the Second Detachment and Fourth Regiment of the New Fourth Army, and Su himself became the deputy commander of the detachment. A few years passed, and Su Yu only became the deputy commander of the detachment.
Although it is a deputy brigade-level position, neither the ** in his hands nor the soldiers and horses under his hands have not improved much compared with those in the Soviet area. Because the New Fourth Army was located in the Jiangnan area, the scale of the battle against the Japanese army was always maintained to a small extent.
Although General Su Yu led the army to win many battles in this process, it did not have much impact on the overall battle situation because of the overall strength of the troops. Compared with the main force of the Eighth Route Army, which fought more and more battles, the achievements of the New Fourth Army were relatively smaller.
To a certain extent, this also leads to the fact that the generals of the New Fourth Army seem to be slightly inferior to the generals of the Eighth Route Army in terms of both combat performance and prestige.
In this process, General Su showed endless professionalism and devoted all his energies to the great cause of resisting Japan and resisting the Kuomintang reactionaries. With his outstanding military command ability, General Su was gradually promoted to important posts such as the First Division of the New Fourth Army and the commander of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region.
Under his leadership, the warriors rapidly expanded from one or two thousand to tens of thousands, forming a considerable military force. At the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Su Yu was promoted to an alternate member and began to enter the sight of ***.
And what really made him win the respect of *** was the Huaihai Battle at a critical moment in China's fate.
In 1948, tensions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were on the verge of rupture. In order to completely eliminate the Kuomintang reactionaries, our party had to draw up a decisive battle plan. The Kuomintang has long intended to wipe out our party in order to prevent future troubles.
In the plans of the Kuomintang reactionaries, the Central Plains region became the key to their decisive battle with our army. The Huaihai Campaign eventually became a decisive battle to advance the rapid demise of the Kuomintang, which was of great significance to the party and the people of the whole country.
But in reality, in the early planning of our party, there should not have been such a battle. Even if it were possible to fight a battle in the Central Plains, the scale of the battle would not be so large.
At that time, the *** led by *** pursued an external combat policy, hoping that Su Yu could lead the troops south to the Yangtze River and advance the enemy's main force, so as to reduce the pressure on the troops in other parts of our army and complete the strategy.
However, General Su Yu insisted that the team should not cross the river and rejected the *** resolution.
** could have been non-committal to Su Yu's suggestion, but out of respect for the front-line combatants, he personally listened to Su Yu's suggestions on the Central Plains battlefield operations and organized a ** special meeting.
There are two main reasons why Su Yu proposed not to go to the river for the time being. First of all, our army has invested a large number of troops in the Central Plains battlefield, accounting for a relatively high proportion of our army's total strength.
If the troops are suddenly withdrawn from the Central Plains, the enemy forces may seize this opportunity to launch a surprise attack on our troops, which will have a great impact on our troops. At the same time, if the enemy forces are not mobilized, it will be difficult to achieve the CMC's goal of relieving the pressure on the troops in the Central Plains and other liberated areas.
Second, the rash decision to go to Jiangnan was too risky. Our army has always been in a disadvantageous position in the Jiangnan region, and Jiangnan is the center of Chiang Kai-shek's clique, and the Kuomintang forces are deeply entrenched.
Whether it is the number of troops, the degree of elite, or the support of the local people, there is a significant difference with the northern liberated areas. If you risk crossing the river, you are likely to repeat the mistakes of the Western Route Army in history.
After discussion, the leaders of ** and ** agreed to General Su's request to fight a big battle in the Central Plains. However, after this meeting, General Su Yu only assured *** that within four to eight months, he would be able to annihilate more than ten brigades of the enemy, and set the main combat objective as Huang Baitao's corps.
In June 1948, the outbreak of the Eastern Henan Campaign changed the strategic pattern of the Central Plains, and the Huaihai Campaign entered the pre-war preparatory stage. In September of the same year, the Battle of Jinan was launched and achieved success, which marked the official opening of the Huaihai Campaign.
Su Yu, the acting commander of Huaye, applied to ** and prepared to encircle and annihilate the enemy's Huang Baitao and Li Yannian's corps in Huaiyin, Gaoyou and other places. At this time, the scale, location and main objectives of the Huaihai Campaign were relatively simple, which was the "Little Huaihai" proposed before the war.
At the beginning of the campaign, everyone's goal was to encircle and annihilate Huang Baitao's corps. However, the course of the battle is ever-changing, and the final result is very different from the direction originally set.
In order to contain the rest of the Kuomintang forces, Nakano also joined the battle. As a result, the scope of the battle gradually expanded, involving more and more troops, and finally evolved into a fierce decisive battle.
At this critical moment, General Su decisively formulated a new battle plan and began the most brilliant battle of his life.
The conception of the Huaihai campaign was far from the final result. In the case of the changing situation of the battle, how will General Su Yu tactfully arrange and complete his "Battle of the Gods"?
The Huaihai Campaign was mainly divided into three phases. In the first stage, the main force of Huaye will encircle Huang Baitao's Kuomintang army and Huang Baitao's corps. As Chiang Kai-shek's favorite general, Huang Baitao's troops were well-equipped and had strong combat effectiveness.
In the first battle, although no significant progress was made for several days, they continued to fight.
In order to solve the enemy in a short period of time and avoid the opportunity of other reinforced Kuomintang troops, General Su made a strategic adjustment and changed the field battle to a positional advance attack.
By building tunnels and other offensives, he shortened the distance between him and the enemy and reduced the heavy fire damage suffered by our troops. His combat skills helped our army successfully besiege the enemy in the Nianzhuang area, which eventually led to the failure of the Seventh General Army of the Kuomintang Army to break through, Huang Baitao was killed, and more than 100,000 ** troops were completely annihilated by Huaye.
In the second stage, General Su instructed Chen Shenzuo, chief of staff of Huaye, to lead a part of Huaye's troops, and cooperate with Zhongye to launch a joint encirclement and interception of Huang Wei's corps that was trying to reinforce it.
On November 25, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Huaye and Zhongye besieged the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army to the Shuangduiji area. On December 12, the two major field army units launched a general attack on Huang Wei's troops, successfully annihilating about 80,000 Huang Wei troops, and Huang Wei himself was captured alive by our army.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, Du Yuming's clique and other Kuomintang troops began to retreat. Although the retreat route of Du Yuming's group was clear, General Su still insisted on his judgment and accurately took Du Yuming's marching route.
It was precisely because of his accurate judgment that our army successfully surrounded the Du Corps and annihilated it in the Chenguanzhuang area. At the same time, Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi's corps were also wiped out under the joint attack of Huaye and Nakano.
The Huaihai Campaign, which lasted more than two months, destroyed more than 550,000 enemies, completely changed the balance of forces in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and laid the foundation for the subsequent battle of crossing the river and the nationwide strategic offensive.
The victory in this battle not only achieved great military results, but also greatly enhanced the prestige of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese People's Liberation Army led by it politically, and created favorable conditions for the eventual peaceful liberation of Chinese mainland.
General Su Yu, as the proposer and actual commander of the "Huaihai Campaign," made great contributions.
Su Yu showed excellent command and tactical use in the Huaihai Campaign, formulated a careful plan and rationally mobilized all troops to carry out the encirclement. He was able to accurately grasp the fighters, adopt effective tactics, and annihilate the Kuomintang army with a rapid offensive, demonstrating outstanding command and coordination ability.
His tactical use and command art were fully embodied in the Huaihai Campaign. The victory in the Battle of Huaihai allowed our army to complete the plan to destroy the Kuomintang army a year ahead of schedule.
** He was very satisfied with Su Yu's outstanding performance in the Huaihai Campaign, and called him the number one hero.
When Mr. *** and Mr. Chen passed through Xuzhou again, the chairman couldn't help but think of General Su and praised him again as an outstanding military leader. Mr. Chen also expressed his appreciation for his old partner, saying: "Su Yu is today's Fan Xu! ”
Mr. Chen's words were originally intended to express General Su's loyalty and bravery, just like Fan Xu. But the chairman was dissatisfied with this, and even said angrily: "I'm not Liu Bang, and he's not Fan Xu!" ”
The reason why the chairman reacted in this way was because he did not want his love to be like Fan Xu, although loyal and brave, but in the end suffered a bleak old age. Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Su was appointed chief of the general staff of the army and undertook the heavy task of developing the army.
As the founding father of the People's Republic of China, General Su Yu not only played an important role in the struggle to overthrow the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang and establish the people's political power, but also trained and selected a large number of outstanding talents in the leadership of army building and military work, and made major contributions to the building of the people's army and the modernization of national defense.