There is no doubt that Su Yu, who ranked first among the top ten founding generals, is such a person.
After the liberation of Shanghai, Su Yu and his wife Chu Qing were walking in the street. Su Yu, who has always been uninterested in "foreign toys", suddenly pointed to a coffee shop on the corner and said, "This coffee shop is very good."
Hearing this, ChuQing exulted, pleasantly surprised. Why did old Xiaomi suddenly have such an emotional appeal? He asked him why.
Su Yu went on to say, "If you put a few machine guns in this coffee shop, you can block the whole street."
In his eyes, coffee shops can also act as bunkers. Leading troops to fight is so persistent that people have to be impressed.
Su Yu looked at the quiet and peaceful street in front of her and couldn't help thinking of herself when she was studying.
1925, Su Yu, 18 years old, still studying in Changde Second Normal University, Hunan Province. If it is in peacetime, being a teacher is undoubtedly his best choice.
But born in troubled times, I am like duckweed. After two years, the wheel of fate wrapped around Su Yu and went in another direction.
1in the spring of 927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai, and the military and police in Changde also launched the "event of respecting Japan" to kill people.
Changde Second Normal College was soon surrounded by military police. Under the crisis, Su Yu and his classmates escaped from the campus through the sewer, fled to Changsha by train overnight, and then transferred to Wuhan.
In Wuhan, Su Yu joined the teaching brigade of the 24th Division of the National Revolutionary Army1KLOC-0/Army led by Ye Ting and served as the monitor of the students. From then on, he joined the army.
In August of that year 1 day, 19-year-old Su Yu participated in the Nanchang Uprising and served as the guard squad leader of the General Command of the Rebel Army.
At present, when she was still in college, Su Yu had already contributed her blood and strength to the future of the motherland. He's not old enough to be ambitious. That's probably what he said.
It is worth mentioning that after the Nanchang Uprising, Su Yu was able to meet his Bole-Zhu De.
After the reorganization of the troops, Su Lian was promoted to two levels and was directly appointed as the company instructor, becoming one of only seven infantry company commanders.
In hindsight, Zhu De appreciated Su Yu mainly because of their similar temperament:
They all belong to the kind where the road is simple, and if something happens, it will be a blockbuster. Never fight for power and profit. I'm tired of the so-called "power game".
This can be seen from Zhu De's willingness to be a green leaf and Su Yu's resignation three times after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Birds of a feather flock together. That's it.
After the failure of Nanchang Uprising, Su Yu moved with the troops.
1927 10 17, Wuping, Fujian, when the Su Yu protection brigade retreated, a bullet passed through the temporal bone of his right ear.
Su Yu grabbed his bleeding right ear and tried to keep up with the team. Finally, he was rescued by his comrades.
This is the first time he was injured after joining the army. The pain of the wound not only didn't make Su Yu feel timid, but sharpened his extraordinary courage.
A year later, he joined the Xiangxi Uprising and went to Jinggangshan.
At the Battle of Old Seven Xiling, Su Yu launched an attack when the enemy was tired and lax. After defeating the enemy, he only took three men to pursue the victory, and finally captured more than 100 enemies, equivalent to an average of 25 prisoners.
After this campaign, Su Yu was called "young tactician" by Zhu De.
1930 In late February, when Su Yu led his troops into Gannan, there was a fierce battle with the Kuomintang Army Tang Yunshan Independent Brigade 15.
In the battle, a shell exploded beside him, and Su Yu immediately fainted.
He was taken to the rear hospital for emergency treatment, and a sharp shrapnel had been deeply embedded in his skull. Regrettably, the conditions in the rear hospital are poor, and shrapnel cannot be taken out, so it can only be simply bandaged.
Since then, Su Yu has had a headache, and every time the war is tight, he has a splitting headache.
Many years later, in the Huai Hai Campaign, Su Yu stayed up for seven days and seven nights. Finally, he had to wear brain tonic to relieve his headache and direct the operation. The high blood pressure and Meniere's disease that have plagued him for half his life are also due to this shrapnel.
Mrs. Chu Qing recalled fondly:
"Headache and dizziness caused by shrapnel in the head have been tormenting Allen for decades and brought him great pain. Usually the pain is unbearable, so he uses a cold water punch or wears a brain tonic on his head to relieve the pain. We looked at his painful appearance, both anxious and helpless. "
Who knows, the sequela left by this serious injury also made Su Yu lose the opportunity to command the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea 20 years later.
1In August, 939, the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army was established, with Chen Yiren as the commander and Su Yu as the deputy commander, responsible for opening up the anti-Japanese base areas in southern Jiangsu.
At this time, after more than ten years of war baptism, Su Yu has already grown into an excellent general who can be independent.
1943, Su Yu led thousands of people to annihilate the enemy on the axle in northern Jiangsu 1000, killing and injuring more than 460 Japanese officers and men under Colonel Misawa.
You know, in that era when the gap between the enemy and our weapons and equipment was wide, the victory of Ping-Ping Pass only six years ago wiped out more than 65,438+10,000 Japanese troops, so it was a major victory to wipe out more than 460 Japanese troops.
The good news spread to Yan' an, and the discerning Mao Zedong predicted: "This man who grew up as a soldier can command 400,000 to 500,000 troops in the future."
It is worth mentioning that the total number of Japanese generals killed in the whole battlefield in China is about 40, and there are about 20 or 30 people who really died in ground battles, and Su Yu monopolizes the head of a Japanese general, which is enough to stand out from the crowd.
If War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression honed Su Yu's military talents, then Su Yu gave full play to his military talents in the subsequent war of liberation.
1June, 946, Chiang Kai-shek tore up the Double Tenth Agreement and besieged the Li Xiannian Department of the Central Plains Liberated Area with Herry Liu as the commander-in-chief, and the curtain of the decisive battle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was opened.
At the same time, Li Moan, commander of the first appeasement area of the Kuomintang, led five reorganization divisions (about 65,438+200,000 people) to attack the liberated areas in the Soviet area where Su Yu was located.
At that time, Su Yu served as deputy commander of the Central China Military Region and commander of the Central China Field Army, commanding about 30,000 troops.
Unexpectedly, before and after the Soviet campaign, it took 1.5 months, and our army wiped out 53,000 people from 6 brigades and 5 traffic police brigades of the Kuomintang army, accounting for 44% of the total troops of the Kuomintang army invading the Soviet Union.
For the reason of this victory, Mao Zedong made a concrete exposition with "concentrating superior forces and annihilating the enemy".
Just look at the title of this article, I think you probably have a certain understanding of Su Yu's tactics.
Although the overall strength lags behind our opponents, we can always concentrate our superior forces to attack the weak links of the enemy in local wars, thus breaking them one by one.
Zhu De commented on this campaign: "Su Yu destroyed more enemies than its own troops in the Soviet campaign."
Thus, Su Yu's use of force is wonderful.
If the battle between Soviet Union and China was the first battle of Su Yu's fame, then the battle of Meng Lianggu a year later will make him a god.
1in March, 947, Chiang Kai-shek launched a key attack on Shandong base areas and liberated areas. The East China Field Army led by Chen Yi and Su Yu fought hard, and the two sides fought in Meng Lianggu.
The 74th Division, which participated in this war, is the trump card of the Kuomintang army, with all-American mechanized equipment and one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang, and is known as Chiang Kai-shek's personal guard.
Before the war, Mr. Zhang made wild remarks about driving Chen Yi to the East China Sea to feed the fish.
Although the words are crazy, the tactics of the other side are extremely safe.
In response to the attack on Shandong Liberated Area, the enemy mainly aimed at getting through the Jinan-Xuzhou section of Jinpu Highway and the Yanzhou-Linyi section of Linmeng Highway.
The strength of the other side participating in the war 13 integrated divisions (armies), 34 brigades and more than 250,000 people. However, in order to avoid being divided and annihilated by Hua Ye in the attack, they adopted the policy of "close together intensively, strengthen maintenance, slowly but surely, and gradually advance".
In order to disperse the national army and divide its group attack formation, Su Yu put forward the tactics of "playing the dragon lantern" in a targeted manner, namely:
Pretending to be the main force with a small number of troops, things are interspersed and attacked everywhere to confuse the other side and induce the other side to change the formation, so as to seize the fleeting fighter and annihilate the opponent.
Because the way the troops marched was very similar to the dragon lanterns that people played in festivals, it was named.
But this time, it was obviously not a vegetarian: from late March to early May, the East China Field Army took the initiative to attack and had several contacts and battles with the enemy. Except that the main force of the enemy's 72nd Division was wiped out in Tai 'an in late April, the strategic goal of dividing the enemy has not been achieved.
Not only that, on April 27th, the enemy 1 1 division entered Baishanguan, on 28th, the reorganized 74th division entered Mengyin, the 83rd division occupied Shuanghouji, the 65th division occupied Duozhuang, the 28th division occupied Taoshu and the 7th army occupied Heyang.
Hua Ye is under siege, and the situation is extremely grim.
Faced with such a situation, Su took it by surprise: he ordered the main force not to break through to the north, but to reorganize the 1 1 division headquarters to break through to the west where the national army was stronger.
This tactical decision of reverse thinking directly reversed the final battle.
Su Yu didn't choose soft persimmon to pinch, but the move of playing hardball was unexpected. The reorganization 1 1 division just occupied Xintai, but it was caught off guard by Hua Ye and almost completely annihilated.
At the same time, Su Yu ordered two columns to break into southern Shandong, as an Indiana Jones lurking behind enemy lines.
Please pay attention to this strange soldier, because they will be heroes in the battle of Meng Lianggu.
Fighters appeared in May.
Because it lasted for two months, Hua Ye has not fought a large-scale war of annihilation. Because of the mountainous and steep terrain in central Shandong, it is not conducive to large corps and mechanized movement. Su Yu simply ordered his troops to leave the plain and drill into the mountains.
Then, he ordered his six main columns to line up for the national army from Meng Lianggu to Juxian.
As Hua Ye's main force moved eastward, Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng made a wrong judgment and mistakenly thought that Hua Ye was "exhausted in offensive". Chiang Kai-shek therefore ordered the 74th Division and the 83rd Division to advance rapidly and occupy Duozhuang and Tanbu.
The reason why we dare not move is that the enemy forces are concentrated and cannot attack alone. Chiang Kai-shek's move undoubtedly led to the split of the national army formation, which is exactly what Su Yu hoped.
On May 10, Su Yu ordered six columns in Hua Ye to retreat, further luring the 74th Division northward. 1 1 On this day, insatiable and aggressive Zhang ordered the seventy-fourth division to advance to the south, and war was imminent.
At this point, Su Yu played the last trick:
He ordered the 6th Battalion, which had been lurking in southern Shandong, to March at a speed of 120km per day, and occupied Duozhuang, the important town, on May12, cutting off the retreat of the 74th Division.
At this point, the encirclement of the 74th Division was completely formed.
As expected, the 74th Division was completely annihilated, and the division commander Zhang was killed. Su Yu is also famous for "taking the head of a general among millions of troops".
General Su Yu, who took refuge in Chiang Kai-shek's Okamura Ningji, once had a regiment in Nanking to discuss Su Yu's operational characteristics and laws. They finally came to the conclusion:
"This person often do sth unconventional or unorthodox in battle, surprise. He often bites you in unexpected places and unexpected times, and there is no rule to be found. "
Letting the enemy have a headache at this point also shows Su Yu's ability.
If the battle of Meng Lianggu is regarded as the highlight of Su Yu's commanding career, then in the plan of "crossing the river" one year later, Chairman Mao, who is "stiff" in Su Yu, showed his foresight as a strategist.
1948 At the beginning of the year, Mao Zedong asked Su Yu to lead three columns to cross the river to the south. Su Yu spent 40 days thinking and planning carefully. Finally, he sent a telegram to the Central Committee and dared to make a statement.
He knew in his heart that the direct purpose of crossing the river was to mobilize the enemy to follow our army, thus alleviating Liu Deng's pressure in Dabie Mountain.
Crossing the river in advance can certainly mobilize some enemies, but at that time, the four main forces of the enemy could not be mobilized, and Chiang Kai-shek would not transfer them to fight guerrilla warfare with us in Jiangnan. However, if these four main forces cannot be mobilized in the Central Plains battlefield, it will be impossible to reduce the enemy's pressure on Liu Deng in the Dabie Mountains.
More importantly, these three columns crossing the river are one of the main forces of our army, which undoubtedly weakens our army's strength in the battlefield of the Central Plains, so we must not be anxious.
Mao and Sue are at loggerheads over whether to cross the river. Finally, Chairman Mao decided to cross the river as planned.
At this point, Su Yu's outspoken character was revealed again.
1948 April 18, Su Yu sent a telegram again, suggesting not to cross the river for the time being.
Seeing that Su Yu was so brave, Chairman Mao, who had always used people without doubt, interviewed him again and decided not to cross the river for the time being. After the conversation, the chairman joked, "Since you stayed in the Central Plains, you can count Qiu Qingquan and Huang Baitao under your Su Yu name."
Hearing this, Su Yu made a written pledge to fulfill a military order on the spot.
The final result proves how important Su Yu's persistence is:
In the battle of eastern Henan, our army changed the central battle situation in one fell swoop;
The battle of Jinan liberated the whole Shandong;
During the Huaihai Campaign, all the regular Kuomintang troops in the Central Plains of East China were wiped out.
After these three battles, our family was well-off, and only a million heroes crossed the river.
What we need to know is that in the War of Liberation, the elite direct main force of the Kuomintang was mainly annihilated by the East China Field Army under the command of Su Yu and the Northeast Field Army under the command of Lin Biao.
The Liaoshen Campaign of the Northeast Field Army annihilated 472,000 elite Kuomintang troops; The East China Field Army annihilated 643,000 elite Kuomintang troops in the Eastern Henan Campaign, the Jinan Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign respectively.
Su Yu commanded the East China Field Army to annihilate two and a half of Chiang Kai-shek's "five main forces" of all US military machinery and equipment, that is, the first of the "five main forces" was annihilated in the Battle of Menglianggu, the seventy-fourth division was reorganized, the fifth army was annihilated in the Huaihai Campaign, and five columns were sent to annihilate 18 Army with the Central Plains Field Army under the command of Liu Bocheng in the Huaihai Campaign.
It can be said that Su Yu made great contributions in the whole war of liberation.
No wonder on the eve of the founding of New China1September, 949, Liu Bocheng said with emotion: "Comrade Su Yu is one of the best generals of the PLA."
Su Yu has a high military capability and is known as the "God of the Army".
On September 30th, Tiananmen Square, the party and the state laid the foundation stone for the Monument to the People's Heroes.
Chairman Mao was the first person to shovel dirt. He turned and pulled Zhu De, crossed many party and government leaders, and pulled Su Yu. Together with He Long, he shoveled and raised the soil for the monument.
Su Yu's position in the president's mind can be seen.
A year later, when the Korean War broke out, Chairman Mao appointed Su Yu as the commander of the Northeast Joint Defense Army. However, Su Yu suffered from the old disease that shrapnel entered his brain many years ago, so that his eyes could only look straight ahead and could not look around. When eating, he must arrange the food in a straight line.
In the end, Peng was ordered to go to the Korean battlefield.
1955 before the rank evaluation, Mao Zedong not only awarded the title of Marshal Su Yu, but also gave him a high evaluation:
"On merit, talent and virtue, Sue was awarded the title of Marshal. In the War of Liberation, who doesn't know Su Yu in East China? "
Who knows, Su Yu finally declined the title of Marshal, preferring to be a general.
Mao Zedong dark pick your fingers and said:
"Rare Su Yu! Su Yu! I resigned three times. 1945 was given to the commander of the Central China Military Region, 1948 was given to the commander of the East China Field Army, and now it is given to the marshal. A thousand times stronger than those who want to jump off a building! "
Premier Zhou Enlai also praised:
"Su Yu commander marshal for the second time, and talent is rare. The general still has to be. "
In the end, Su Yu ranked first among the top ten generals in the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the conferment came to an end.
196 1 September, Chairman Mao received Marshal Montgomery.
Montgomery praised Chairman Mao as a wise strategist, who used his troops like gods, especially the Huaihai Campaign, which was incredible. Chairman Mao once again mentioned Su Yu:
"Among my comrades-in-arms, there is one person who can best lead troops to fight. This man is called Su Yu, who commanded the Huaihai Campaign. He is also from Hunan. "
Twenty-three years later, Su Yu died. In the central obituary, he was rated as "particularly good at commanding large corps operations." Such a high evaluation is unique among the founding generals.
General Su Yu was cremated after his death, and his family found three shrapnel from the ashes of his cremated head.
These three shrapnel have accompanied Su Yu for half a century, witnessed his growth and witnessed the responsibility of the new China. And shrapnel also confirms a sentence: veterans will never die, but will only disappear slowly.
This article is dedicated to General Su Yu.
Yiyi and Yiyi