Of course, these men have different personalities. For these reasons, there are some differences in the methods of commanding operations and their respective results, but it is impossible to determine the command level of these senior generals only by these differences. These characters have their own merits in the art of directing war and their contributions to war.
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The characteristics of Peng's commanding operations are fearless, brave and tenacious, good at flexible command, avoiding reality and being empty, and winning more with less. This has a lot to do with Peng's honest and frank personality and impatience.
This character tends to cause ups and downs at the end of the campaign. For example, in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, after the second campaign won a great victory, the third campaign crossed the 38th parallel and attacked south, resulting in a long front, unfavorable supplies and insufficient offensive capability. For these reasons, the volunteers suffered great losses in the fourth and fifth battles.
The Volunteer Army 180 Division was almost completely annihilated, which happened in the fifth battle. According to later information, this is directly related to the blind optimism and wrong decision of the central government. However, Peng, as the highest commander in the front line, has an unshirkable responsibility for not accurately judging the situation or fighting according to facts.
2. Lin Biao's commanding operation is characterized by careful calculation, exquisite, resourceful and flexible, and good at summing up, but it also has the disadvantage of being too cautious. Lin Biao rarely goes directly to the front to direct operations, but his knowledge of the battlefield and troops is very accurate. During his whole stay in Northeast China, he stayed in Shuangcheng, a small and unremarkable city south of Harbin.
Strategic decisive battle Liaoning-Shenyang campaign attacked Jinzhou before going to the front line for inspection. In the process of commanding operations in Northeast China, Lin Biao often commands directly to the division level, and his fighters are very accurate. This is why so many powerful generals in the four fields admire Lin Biao. However, Lin Biao's cautious personality is likely to lead to the loss of fighters and the slow progress of the campaign.
For example, before the Liaoshen Campaign attacked Jinzhou, Lin Biao saw that the Huludao Kuomintang's eastward corps had added four divisions. He has a famous saying that "I only prepared one table of rice, but two tables of guests came", which means that he couldn't stop the attack of the enemy's eastward moving corps and wanted to get cold feet.
3. Liu Bocheng's commanding operation is characterized by good obedience, gentle personality, accurate command and excellent fighter control. Liu Bocheng's obedience spirit is good, which can be seen from his leap into Dabie Mountain. The strategic advantage of the decision of "Leaping a Thousand Miles to Dabie Mountain" is not easy to verify now, but it is a catastrophe for Liu's troops, but Liu Bocheng resolutely carries it out.
Liu Bocheng's character may be the main reason why some Second Field Army generals are unwilling to fight directly under them. One of the most obvious manifestations is the famous CPC party member Chen Geng who was awarded the rank of general in 1955. Chen Geng, nominally a member of the Second Field Army, actually fought for a short time under the direct command of Liu Bocheng. Only the "Shangdang Campaign" in 45 years and the "Crossing the River Campaign" in 49 years were held twice. After Shangdang Campaign, Chen Geng went directly to western Henan and became a famous "Xie Chenjun".
After the Battle of Crossing the River, it has been fighting independently in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan, and has not entered the southwest from Hunan with the main force of the Second Field Army of Liu Bocheng. But Chen Geng's troops have always been the strongest in Liu Bocheng's second field army. At the beginning of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, his four columns had four brigades.
As the military commander of the strategic command, Liu Bocheng was not asked by the central authorities to be the secretary of the General Front Committee in the Huaihai Campaign, but arranged for Deng Xiaoping to hold this position. After liberation, Liu Bocheng did not continue to hold important military posts, but went to do military education, which also showed that Liu's character did have a weak side.
4. Su Yu's operational command style is similar to that of Lin Biao in some respects, except that Su Yu may be bolder and more strategic. In other words, Su Yu may be better than Lin Biao in some aspects.
This can be seen from the era of 1947, when the enemy was strong and we were weak. He dared to go deep into the tiger's den and cut off such a strong enemy as the 74th Division of the Kuomintang Guard and annihilate it in the enemy jungle.
Moreover, in the middle of 1948, Su Yu, as the deputy commander of the East China Field Army, put forward a genius proposal to the Central Committee to launch the Huaihai Campaign. This phenomenon is also rare in Lin Biao. Su Yu also has some similarities with Lin Biao in personal character, that is, he dares to disobey orders.
The first of Su Yu's two fisticuffs was at the beginning of 1948. He rebelled against the central command and crossed the river with no less than three columns and 100,000 people, and developed from the base area to the south of the Yangtze River. If Su Yu carries out this order,
Perhaps it is another disastrous "jumping thousands of miles to Dabie Mountain" operation. However, Su Yu did not implement it, but explained the situation to the Central Committee many times. Finally, the Central Committee agreed with Su Yu.
The second disobedience was before the Huaihai Campaign. The Central Committee wanted to transfer Chen Yi to the Second Field Army as the deputy commander, and Su Yu, who was young and strong, took over as the powerful commander and political commissar of the Third Field Army. The reason for Su Yu's disobedience this time is not modesty, but because many senior generals in Sanye have the same qualifications as Su Yu, even higher than Su Yu.