In 1955, nearly 1,400 people were awarded the ranks of major general, lieutenant general, admiral, general, marshal and so on. That is to say, after liberation, the number of founding generals reached more than fourteen hundred. Among these more than a thousand founding generals, on the battlefield of liberation, there were very few founding generals who were able to make chiang kai-shek, the supreme commander of the enemy generals, very afraid. You must know that there are many founding generals who make the soldiers of the Nationalist army afraid, and there are only three people who make Chiang Kai-shek very afraid.
The first is the founding general Han Xianchu, who was definitely one of the most popular generals among the many generals and lieutenant generals as a general who charged into the battlefield during the Liberation War. In the battle to liberate the northeast battlefield, the third column led by Han Xianchu was a whirlwind column that made the senior generals of the Nationalist army very afraid. Du Yuming, commander of the Northeast Security Command, Chen Cheng, the highest commander of the Northeast, and Wei Lihuang, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Bandits, were successively praised by three major generals.
You must know that during the Liberation War, the founding general who could win the praise of the above three nationalist generals was probably Han Xianchu. In the subsequent southward pursuit and annihilation operation, Han Xianchu led a wooden sailing ship to defeat Xue Yue, the god of war of the Nationalist army, and successfully liberated Hainan Island. This made Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Taiwan, restless, and he was very afraid of Han Xianchu's 40th Army smuggling into Taiwān. In this way, old Jiang's last place to live was gone.
It is precisely for this reason that in 1957, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the superiors let Han Xianchu sit in Fuzhou, the closest to Chiang Kai-shek, in order to deter Chiang Kai-shek. Tell him that Han Xianchu, who liberated Hainan Island, has returned, and asked him not to act rashly, maybe one day he will hit, your old nest.
The general Zhonghan Xianchu made Chiang Kai-shek very afraid, and among the ten founding generals, there was also a general who made Chiang Kai-shek very afraid, and he was the commander of the first general, Su. Why was Commander Su able to make Chiang Kai-shek so afraid? I am afraid that this must also start from the combat area during the Liberation War.
It should be known that in the early days of liberation, the troops led by Commander Su were operating in the central Soviet region. This place was relatively close to Nanjing, the center of Chiang Kai-shek's rule, so as soon as the civil war broke out, Chiang Kai-shek set his sights on our army units in the central Soviet Union. He also sent the nationalist general Li Mo'an as the commander-in-chief to lead an army of 120,000 to attack the people's army in central Jiangsu. Since the troops led by Commander Su were only more than 30,000 people, the operational order issued by the superiors was to withdraw from the Soviet Union to preserve strength.
However, General Su decided to stay in the Soviet Union and compete with the enemy, and as a result, he achieved brilliant results in the early liberation period. Angry, Chiang Kai-shek directly removed Li Mo'an from his post, and old Chiang, in order to pull out a sharp sword hanging over his head, once again dispatched a large army to encircle and suppress it. However, at this time, Commander Su stopped playing with him, took the initiative to withdraw from Central Jiangsu, and went north to Shandong to meet with the Shandong Field Army led by General Chen Lao, and soon after the two field armies were reorganized into the East China Field Army, with Chen Lao as commander and General Su as deputy commander.
In the future War of Liberation, the East China Field Army led by General Su became the most troublesome unit for Chiang Kai-shek. It should be known that the targets annihilated by the East China Field Army on the battlefield of liberation were Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops and Chiang Kai-shek's concubine generals. At the same time, the East China Field Army led by Commander Su has also been active in the East China region, which is closer to Nanjing, the center of Chiang Kai-shek's rule. Coupled with the successive victories of General Su on the battlefield, this made Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Nanjing, also deeply uneasy, even if one day Commander Su led his troops to Nanjing. However, after the victory of the three major battles, General Su really commanded the East China Field Army to fight across the Yangtze River and directly approached Chiang Kai-shek's old lair, Nanjing, allowing Chiang Kai-shek to flee back to his hometown in Xikou, Zhejiang Province, overnight.
Among the founding generals, it was Han Xianchu who made Chiang Kai-shek afraid, and among the founding generals, it was Commander Su who made Chiang Kai-shek afraid, and among the founding marshals, it was definitely Lin Zong who made Chiang Kai-shek afraid. You must know that these three generals are all founding generals who fought fiercely and had strong combat ability on the battlefield of liberation. What is interesting is that Lin Zong is still a student trained by Chiang Kai-shek. It was this former student of Chiang Kai-shek who later became one of the generals of our army whom Chiang Kai-shek feared the most. Because Lin Zong won successive victories in the northeast battlefield, Chiang Kai-shek said that Lin Biāo was really too powerful, and he was simply the devil of war. It can also be seen from this sentence that Chiang Kai-shek, the former principal, was very afraid of this student.