As the most important general in the Liberation War, Su Yu's growth trajectory is really low and high. At the time of the Nanchang Uprising, he was just a guard transporting ammunition. After that, in the continuous battles, he grew up rapidly, and by the time of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was already a general trusted by the leadership. Moreover, he had never attended a serious military academy, and all his abilities seemed to be natural and unbelievable.
Looking at some of Su Yu's battle examples, we can find that he has no trajectory to follow in fighting, as if he really saw what people used what methods, never the same. Su Yu fought seven battles and seven victories, and Su Yu's methods for each battle were different, so that the enemy could not feel his head. In history, the only person who could reach this height of military use seemed to be Han Xin, one of the three masters of the early Han Dynasty.
Time goes back to the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, at this time, Su Yu Ox-knife test, he fought a "fairy war", with almost 1 to 20 casualties ratio, to the world to prove the combat effectiveness of the New Fourth Army.
That was in 1944. At that time, whether it was the Japanese army or the New Fourth Army, life was not very good. The Japanese army continued to lose in the Pacific theater, a large number of elite soldiers became cannon fodder, and the Japanese army in China generally lacked training and strategic materials; and the Soviet-Chinese base area had just undergone a major sweep by the Japanese army a year ago, with serious losses in materials and living forces, and the morale of the army and the people was low; at this time, Su Yu, who was already the commander, decided to find an opportunity to fight a victorious battle, not only to hit the enemy, but also to encourage the morale of his own soldiers and people.
After some research, Su Yu locked his eyes on Cheqiao Town. It's just a small town, but its strategic position is very important. Here it is possible to communicate between central Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, as long as it is taken down, several small base areas can be connected together. Moreover, this is also the deployment junction of the Japanese north and central China dispatch troops, and the rights and responsibilities are not clear, which gives the New Fourth Army the opportunity to encircle the point to help.
The town of Cheqiao is important, and this Japanese army is also clear. In order to do a good job of defense, they built more than a dozen strongholds around the town. These strongholds echo each other, and it is not easy to take them down. Hard fighting is not Su Yu's fighting style, he always hopes to exchange the smallest price for the greatest victory. Therefore, before the battle, Su Yu made full preparations.
Through the previous routine reconnaissance, Su Yu learned that among the puppet troops in this area, there were quite a few Shandong people. So in late February 1944, he deliberately selected a number of Shandong soldiers, disguised as merchants or vagrants, and close to the enemy, waiting for the opportunity to spy on intelligence. This method really worked, and soon after, the configuration of various fire points on the outskirts of Cheqiao Town was put on Su Yu's desk. After careful analysis, he found a hidden gap between the fire points. As long as you follow this, you can avoid the fire net on the periphery and directly attack the Japanese command post inside Cheqiao Town!
After the preparations were stopped, the battle officially began. In order to win, Su Yu concentrated five main forces and militias from all over the country, forming an absolute advantage over the enemy. However, even so, Su Yu still would not attack hard, and he wanted to find a way to solve the battle in the shortest possible time by breaking through a thousand pounds.
The first move is to strike east and west. On March 3, our army carried out high-profile activities in the area of Dongtai and Sancang in the south of Cheqiao Town, successfully attracting the enemy's attention and loosening the garrison of Cheqiao Town. At 1:00 a.m. on March 5, the main attack troops of the New Fourth Army, under the cover of night, rushed to the town of Cheqiao. Because the intelligence work was in place, the New Fourth Army took only 25 minutes to silently insert itself into the center of the town and destroy the commanding heights of the Japanese army with a powerful attack. After that, the troops came to the center of the first hand to blossom, and from the inside of the town began to attack the outlying strongholds. In this way, the fortifications built by the enemy become decorations and cannot play a role at all. So that morning, the whole battle ended the battle, and the New Fourth Army officially occupied the town of Cheqiao!
However, this is only the first part of the whole campaign. Although it is easy to occupy Cheqiao Town, it is not easy to hold it. The enemy's reinforcements will surely keep coming. At that time, if there is a mistake in judgment, the whole army will be in danger.
However, Su Yu was calm and relaxed. Before the war, he had already anticipated several routes for Japanese reinforcements, and had already let the militia plant mines in those places. Since the town of Cheqiao had been taken, the troops were able to lay ambushes on these routes. In this way, as long as the enemy dares to come, what awaits them is bound to be defeat.
At 3 p.m. that day, the first enemy reinforcements rushed in, only to be caught off guard by roadside mines and the ambushed New Fourth Army, and retreated after dropping a dozen bodies.
Soon after, the second batch of Japanese reinforcements also appeared in the field of vision of the New Fourth Army. These Japanese puppet soldiers were riding in cars, galloping on the highway on their toes, and they did not expect at all that they had fallen into the encirclement of the 6th Company. The 6th Company is a famous brigade in the Soviet Union, with strong combat effectiveness and dare to fight and fight. These Japanese troops met them, and the results could be imagined. As a result, as soon as the Japanese army entered the ambush circle, it was divided and surrounded by the army, and finally only a few people broke through.
After taking out two groups of reinforcements, the enemy suddenly became quiet. This kind of dead silence before the great war often contains conspiracies. So Su Yu quickly sent investigators again to understand the situation.
Soon after, the scouts' intelligence was sent back: the commander of this Japanese army was a Big Sasaki named Yamazawa. This man was grumpy and arrogant. After losing two consecutive battles, he did not accept defeat, but was recruiting more Japanese troops, preparing to wipe out the New Fourth Army in Cheqiao Town. However, due to the complexity of the powers and responsibilities here, the troops were still assembling at this time. Now, the Japanese puppet army that had been assembled and Yamazawa himself were resting in the Hanzhuang area at this time, and the garrison was lax.
Su Yu looked at the intelligence and calculated that he was going to bring a dream to the enemy, a nightmare full of weight.
After nightfall, the First Regiment of the New Fourth Army, the Special Agent Battalion of the Third Military Subdistrict, and a battalion of the Taizhou Independent Regiment joined hands and quietly touched the outskirts of Hanzhuang. With the sound of several grenade explosions, the New Fourth Army rushed into the enemy camp and began to harvest the invaders' heads with large knives! This move was really unexpected, and the enemy's machine guns had already become the spoils of our army before they could fire.
While clearing the battlefield, the New Fourth Army captured a wounded Japanese officer and several sneaky soldiers. After some interrogation, Su Yu received two important pieces of information: the wounded officer was yamazawa, the commander of the Japanese army. Moreover, there is still a road that the Japanese army has not rushed over, but it is already on the road, and it is estimated that it will arrive early tomorrow morning.
In view of this situation, Su Yu quickly made adjustments and equipped the reinforcement troops with a lot of sharpshooters.
In the early morning, sure enough, a row of troop carriers appeared on the horizon. At this point, the role of sharpshooters began to appear, and they specialized in car drivers and officers. So within a few rounds, the enemy retreated.
After that, the units of the New Fourth Army took advantage of the victory to pursue and successively recovered more than ten strongholds such as Jingkou and Caodian. The anti-Japanese situation in central Jiangsu has suddenly undergone a great improvement.
On March 13, the campaign officially ended. According to statistics, this battle destroyed 50 enemy bunkers, eliminated 465 Japanese troops, 483 puppet troops, and captured 24 Japanese troops, including Yamazawa, and captured a lot of materials, and even 2 92 guns. But correspondingly, 53 martyrs of the New Fourth Army also fell.
The Battle of Cheqiao, the opening battle of the New Fourth Army's counteroffensive in central China, also marked the beginning of the New Fourth Army's strategic counteroffensive. The impact of this battle was extremely great, not only liberating the area east of Huai'an, Baoying and other places, about two hundred miles, but also connecting the base areas of central Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu, Huainan, and Huaibei. Su Yu also fought a battle and once again proved his combat ability.