At the end of the campaign in eastern Henan, Su Yu also had the idea of conveniently annihilating most of the Yellow River. As the enemy corps on the southern line is close at hand, it is impossible for Huang to be annihilated. In addition to concentrating the existing forces to storm the Yellow River and leave the battlefield smoothly, he also ordered Xu Tan (Xu and Tan Zhenlin) Corps not to take part in the battle to encircle the Yellow River Corps, but to seize Yanzhou nearby, thus annihilating more than 36,000 enemies. This move made Chairman Mao very happy. Therefore, Chairman Mao envisaged that Xu Tan's regiment would take Jinan after two weeks' rest and let Qiu and Huang help Jinan urgently. In this way, Hua wiped out the first part of Qiu and Huang in the movement and took Xuzhou conveniently. This is an extremely idealistic idea. Chairman Mao sent two telegrams to Su Yu for advice. In the face of Chairman Mao's telegram, Su Yu thought and thought. In order to better answer Chairman Mao's questions, he decided to hold a meeting in Gao Qian. Before the meeting, Su Yu sent the full text of Chairman Mao's telegram to all the participants, asking them to make full preparations.
Attending the meeting were not only leaders of South China University such as Chen Shiju, Tang Liang, Zhong Qiguang and Zhang zhen, but also the main leaders of each column.
Su Yu listened to everyone's speech quietly, seriously and very carefully. Their speeches are all about how to actively implement the spirit of Chairman Mao's telegram. Su Yu's thinking is broad, even far from what Chairman Mao thought. Fortunately, Chairman Mao only asked for advice. In Su Yu's view, there is no great difficulty in concentrating forces and liberating Jinan. What he thought was to annihilate Chiang Kai-shek's nearly one million main forces in the Huai-Hai battlefield in the Central Plains, the so-called "Armageddon". He has been thinking about this problem for a long time. As early as the Soviet campaign, he thought that there must be several decisive battles between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to decide the outcome. He believes that as a commander, he can take part in such a major battle, which can be regarded as the lucky one of the revolution.
He didn't expect that this Armageddon was coming, and he and his troops would become the protagonists of this Armageddon. In other words, after he made a written pledge to fulfill a military order in Chengnanzhuang, he went on to fight the battle of eastern Henan. The situation developed rapidly, forcing him to put the idea of Armageddon on the agenda. Therefore, what he is considering now is to turn the decision of the Central Military Commission and Chairman Mao to conquer Jinan into a concrete and thorough operational plan to "attack economic difficulties", thus opening the prelude to the decisive battle with Chiang Kai-shek's million-strong army in Huaihai, Central Plains, in order to achieve the purpose of annihilating the main force of the Kuomintang army north of the Yangtze River.
Seeing that everyone is talking about it, he said: "At present, it is very difficult to make a unit of Xu Tan's regiment attack Jinan. To say the least, I'm afraid the troops themselves have difficulties. After the battles in Weixian and Yanzhou, there were heavy casualties. They invaded the east and killed the west, galloping in many battlefields in Shandong and Henan, and it was impossible to fight continuously. In this case, if we attack Jinan again, it will inevitably force the enemy to help the north.
In this way, Yanzhou may still be recaptured by the enemy, and the newly established Yanzhou people's political power will be lost. With the existing forces of Xu and Tan, it is difficult to give consideration to both attacking the economy and helping the poor. If Xu Tan is fully committed to Jinan, his troops can be used, but after a long time, the enemy of the southern line can still help the north. For example, if Qiu Qingquan and Liu Ruming's Corps help the North, then Xu Tan's Corps will feel powerless if they are all used to help the North.
These words aroused the strong interest of the generals, who rushed to supplement Su Yu's plan of "attacking the needy". By sunrise, the complete answer to Chairman Mao's inquiry had flown to the Central Military Commission, demanding that Chairman Mao and the leaders of the Military Commission make a decision.
Soon, the telegram from the Central Military Commission came, allowing them to rest for a month, and at the same time "attacking the economy" and "assisting", demanding that specific operational plans be drawn up quickly.
Before the Gao Qian meeting finalized the operational deployment of Jinan Campaign, Su Yu had a special talk with Zhang zhen.
"Commander Su, what do you mean by taking' attacking the classics' and' attacking aid' as two links and considering them in the overall situation of the operation?" Zhang zhen strikes first.
"What do you say?"
"I said,' attacking the classics' or' fighting for aid' are just two links in the battle of Jinan."
"Not bad. However, as far as the whole Jinan campaign is concerned, it is only a prelude. No matter how good the prelude is, it can't replace the climax. "
"Sue commander mean ..."
"In jiangbei against Chiang kai-shek's millions of troops. Specifically, it is to mobilize and annihilate 800,000 enemy troops in Huaihai, Central Plains! Hit Huaihai! "
Zhang zhen looked at Su Yu in surprise. Conquering the capital of Shandong and destroying hundreds of thousands of enemy troops was just a prelude. Commander Su's overture is so big. ...
Yes, after several studies and with the approval of the Central Military Commission, the battle of Jinan is scheduled for1September, 948 16, the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. When the appointed time comes, all the guns will explode and shake the earth! The wonderful prologue of Huaihai decisive battle finally played. ...
After eight days and nights of fierce fighting, Jinan was liberated, more than 100,000 enemy troops were annihilated, and the king was captured alive.
Shortly after the battle of Jinan, Su Yu knew that Du didn't really want to help Jinan, but Wang directly turned to Chiang Kai-shek for help. Chiang Kai-shek gave the order to die, and Du only sent less than one brigade to airborne Jinan. The aid plan is difficult to achieve. However, the liberation of Jinan will be smoother.
In fact, in August of 1948, when Su Yu was planning the battle of Jinan, he had repeatedly considered the future direction of Hua Ye. He believes that after the Battle of Jinan, Hua Ye should move out of the east of Xubang Line. If we return to the Central Plains, join the Central Plains Field Army, and fight in the southwest of Xuzhou, our army will be between Chiang Kai-shek Xuzhou Group and Wuhan Group, and fight the superior enemy from the beginning, and our army will be caught between Scylla and Charybdis. If the soldiers leave the east of Xubang Line and capture Huaiyin, Huai 'an, Gaoyou and Baoying first, then the Jinpu Line can be exposed, Xuzhou can be isolated, and the enemy will be forced to retreat (at least strengthen) along the Jinpu Line and the river defense. This will reduce the enemy's mobile forces, facilitate my resumption of work along the river, and create favorable conditions for future cross-river operations. In the future, the whole army of Hua Ye will enter the south of Longhai Road to fight, which will also facilitate greater support from the people in Central China and facilitate transportation.
Based on this consideration, Su Yu put forward in his request telegram to the Central Military Commission on August 23: "In two months, our army can go south along the canal and Jinpu with all its strength and capture Huaibei, Gaoyou (postal) and Baoying with one regiment, and the situation in northern Jiangsu can be greatly developed." At that time, I wanted to use this combat action to create conditions for the next battle and the army crossing the river.
In the battle of Jinan, Xuzhou aided the enemy. Before Hua Ye blocked the reinforcements, it was hesitant to go north to fight Hua Ye. Su Yu believes that this shows that the enemy is not stupid, just to avoid a large-scale war with our army under unfavorable conditions; At the same time, it also shows that the favorable conditions for our army to carry out strategic decisive battle against the enemy have gradually matured. Therefore, he further planned the battle plan in Xubang area. He imagined that when fighting south to capture Huaihe River, Gaoyou and Baoying, he also adopted the tactics of "attacking the economy and aiding", taking the Subei Corps and a column as the siege task, and placing the main force of the whole army on both sides of the canal between Suqian and the Canal Station to annihilate the enemies who might come to help Xuzhou and Haizhou lines. If the enemy does not come to reinforce or the reinforcements are blocked, the second step is to attack Haizhou and Lianyungang with three columns. The name of this campaign is "Huaihai Campaign".
At 7: 00 am on September 24th, street fighting in Jinan was still going on fiercely. Su Yu judged that the battle of Jinan was a shoo-in, and the enemy of Xuzhou would stop aiding the north, so he reported the above-mentioned battle plan to the Central Military Commission, and suggested holding the "Huaihai Campaign".
Some people say that Su Yu is ahead. In war guidance, he is often in a leading position in understanding and practice. His strategic vision, without any subjective randomness, is a realistic scientific foresight. This is the result of his continuous exploration, continuous climbing and continuous accumulation in the long-term revolutionary war, and he was able to gradually form the strategic concept of the decisive battle on the southern line, and opened the prelude to the decisive battle through the battle of Jinan.