Let's talk about how the national army lost the Huaihai Campaign.
During the Huaihai Campaign, the national army reached 800,000 people before and after entering the battlefield, and the PLA Hua Ye and Nakano added up to 600,000 people.
But as we all know, the People's Liberation Army won a total victory, the national army was wiped out by 550,000 people, and the five regiments of Huang Wei, Huang Wei, Qiu Qingquan, Sun Zi were wiped out. Li Yannian, the nearest national army to the battlefield, sat tight and didn't dare to come to help.
Why is this happening? First of all, due to the disunity of the command of the national army, although there were many people, except for more than 300,000 people in Xuzhou who were under the unified command of Du, both the Yellow Corps and the Corps were annihilated respectively.
When the People's Liberation Army surrounded the Yellow Corps, the Du Corps in Xuzhou did not actively rescue it. Du even thought there was no chance of winning, so he just wanted to take the troops away.
As a result, Huang was wiped out, and the corps actively rescued was surrounded. Du has no intention of rescuing the Corps.
In other words, although the national army seems to have many people, there is no unified command and no coordinated operations. Therefore, Su Yu's PLA can panic in Huang first, then turn around to help Nakano panic in, and then turn around to panic in Du Group.
Although the number of people's liberation army under Su Yu is less than that of the national army on the battlefield, Su always seizes the opportunity to form a military advantage in some areas to encircle his opponents. In the end, the national army attacked it in three parts, and no one was spared.
So is the battle of Salhu.
Although the Ming army nominally reached120,000, claiming to be 470,000, the Qing army only had 60,000 people. However, the Qing army unified command, concentrated its forces and cooperated tacitly.
The Ming army120,000 troops were divided into four roads. Except for Juniper, which has reached 60,000 people all the way, the other three routes have 20,000 people.
It is precisely because of the scattered and uniform deployment of the Ming army that the marching pace is inconsistent, the offensive enthusiasm is different, and the advancing speed is different. In this way, the Qing army can seize the time difference between the advancing speeds of the various parts of the Ming army, form a local advantage, and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
In other words, although the Qing army was surrounded by the Ming army, the offensive of the Ming army was not unified, so the Qing army had the opportunity to attack in four ways and break them one by one. Moreover, in the face of every single Ming army, the Qing army has military advantages.
Su Yu's corps surrounded by Huang needs Nakano's cooperation to Dayuan and contain the corps, which is also surrounded by Du Group and can't be wiped out. However, when the Qing army fights with the Ming army separately, it doesn't even need to stop, just need to send a small force to find out the news.
As the main force of the Ming army, 60,000 troops were also divided and destroyed by the Qing army when crossing the river. Therefore, although the Ming army has always had an advantage in the total number of people participating in the war, it has always been at a disadvantage in the local battlefield. Not only is its morale not as good as that of the late Jin army, but its number is not as good as that of its opponents.
Tactically speaking, the command and performance of the Ming army in the battle of Salhu can only be regarded as a wave of battles, lacking effective unified command and mutual cooperation, and the priorities are not clear. The Qing army can easily insert behind the Ming army to attack. It is not surprising that the Ming army lost this style of play, but it is strange to lose.