Su Yu, the founding general of the People's Republic of China, made outstanding achievements in battle during the Liberation War, and his main battles included the Battle of Gaoyou, the Battle of Xu (Zhou) Hai (Zhou) section of the Longhai Line, the Battle of Suzhong, the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Jinan, the Battle of Huaihai, the Battle of Crossing the River, and the Battle of Shanghai. Especially in the Battle of Huaihai, he commanded 17 columns of the East China Field Army, annihilated 440,000 Kuomintang troops at the cost of more than 130,000 casualties, and the chairman's evaluation of him was: "In the Battle of Huaihai, Su Yu made the first contribution."
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Su Yu was the commander of a division of the New Fourth Army, commanding a few thousand troops, which is known to everyone. Then, before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, how many people and horses there were in the troops he commanded, I am afraid that many people do not know. Next, let's take a look.
At the time of the Nanchang Uprising, Su Yu was a squad leader of the Teaching Brigade of the Twenty-fourth Division of the Eleventh Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the commander of the division was General Ye Ting. Before the Nanchang Uprising, the General Headquarters of the Rebel Army was formed, with Ye Ting as the commander-in-chief, and a group of veterans were drawn from the Teaching Brigade of the Twenty-fourth Division to form the Guard Of the General Headquarters of the Uprising, and Su Yu was one of the personnel who was transferred to serve as a guard and served as the head of the guard squad.
After the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, Su Yu followed the rebel troops south to Guangdong, and later sent zhu de with the troops, leaving behind to block the enemy, and in January 1928, he accompanied Zhu Dechen Yi to Jinggangshan, where he was still a squad leader. During the Jinggangshan period, he began to show his military talents, and was successively promoted to battalion commander, regiment commander, division commander, chief of staff of the Red Fourth Army, chief of staff of the Red Eleventh Army, chief of staff of the Red Seventh Army, and chief of staff of the Red Tenth Army.
In January 1935, the Red Tenth Army was surrounded by enemies at HuaiyuShan, the commander of the regiment, Fang Zhimin, was arrested, and Su Yu and Liu Ying, director of the political department of the corps, led more than 800 people to break through and returned to the Gansu district of Fujian, Zhejiang and Gansu. In February 1935, Su Yu was appointed commander of the Advancing Division in the Western Zhejiang Guerrilla Zone, with only more than 400 troops. In August it grew to nearly 1,000 people. After the Long March of the main force of the Red Army, Su Yu remained in the border areas of Zhejiang and Fujian to fight guerrillas, and when he was reorganized into the New Fourth Army, although he was appointed deputy commander of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army, his troops were only reorganized into the third battalion of the fourth regiment of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army. At that time, the second detachment of the New Fourth Army was only more than 1,800 people in total, so it is conceivable that before the outbreak of the War of Resistance, there were as many troops as su Yu commanded, and at most three or four hundred people.