Why did the enemy choose Ye Xiang to attack and let Chen Su go, Jiang Shi: Chen Su is like a fish, fleeting
When the tragic Anhui Incident occurred, the New Fourth Army actually had two main forces, one in southern Anhui and one in Jiangnan. The two teams were commanded by Ye Ting, Xiang Ying, and Chen Yi and Su Yu.
However, when the Nationalist army chose to target the target, it only chose Ye Ting and the two in southern Anhui, and spared the main force in Jiangnan led by Chen Yisuyu.
The Battle of the Yellow Bridge was on the horizon
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek also went through some careful consideration when choosing the target, including the assessment of the combat ability and command style of our generals, and this assessment will inevitably take into account their previous combat situation. Coincidentally, chen Yi and Su Yu, two generals, had just fought a battle with the Nationalist army not long ago, that is, the Battle of Huangqiao. And it was this battle that made the Nationalist army lose confidence in targeting them.
In 1940, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was still in progress. But Chiang was ready to start a new war. He secretly gathered the troops of the Third and Fifth Theaters and the Rusu Theater to advance toward the New Fourth Army in North China. This time, the commander of the Nationalist army was Han Deloitte, and he probably couldn't have imagined that this fifteen-and-seven-thousand battle would bring him such a big blow.
Under the instructions of the central authorities, the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army led the main force north across the Yangtze River and arrived in northern Jiangsu in early July. Soon after that, the New Fourth Army's Northern Jiangsu Headquarters was formed, and Chen Yi and Su Yu, two generals, served as the chief and deputy commanders of this command, and arrived in the Huangqiao area with more than 7,000 people.
In August, the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army also reached the Huaihai area, coordinated with the North and South of the New Fourth Army, and prepared for battle.
At that time, Han Deloitte was still very confident, boasting that he had many people on his side, so he wanted to first concentrate his forces to knock down the Yellow Bridge where the New Fourth Army was stationed, and then attack the Eighth Route Army in the north. But soon after the fight began, he felt that things were out of control.
The two generals Chen and Su, under the condition that this battle was inevitable, adopted the tactic of enticing the enemy to go deeper and dividing the enemy's final breakdown, and sent a part of the troops to block the enemy in the front, and then let the main force surround the enemy from the flank and rear. Soon after the start of the war, our army annihilated a local brigade. During the battle, Li Shouwei, the commander of the 89th Army, fled in a hurry after being defeated, and actually fell into the water in a panic and drowned. The 89th Army under his leadership soon surrendered all its weapons.
Under such a battle situation, the troops led by Li Mingyang and Li Changjiang gave full play to the tradition of "friendly troops who are shipwrecked like mountains" and have been waiting to reap the benefits of the fishermen, but soon they found that they had become the turtles in the clouds and had to retreat quickly.
In the Battle of Huangqiao, our army annihilated a total of more than 11,000 people on the other side and captured more than 3,800 people, and won a complete victory.
At the post-war report meeting, General Su Yu made a funny and wonderful summary report, and when he talked about the wonderful points, the crowd could not help but laugh or applaud. The record of his report was recorded in military history and became one of the documents in which he commanded the Battle of Huangqiao.
And it is precisely this kind of record that makes the enemy have to think more when he moves.
Survivors of a tragic event
In fact, the incident in southern Anhui was not without warning, the Kuomintang government had long looked at us unfavorably, even in the War of Resistance Against Japan, they all wanted to put cold guns from behind to attack us, and the defeat of the Battle of Huangqiao stimulated them even more.
And such a sudden incident, the chairman has actually given a reminder. When the Kuomintang troops began to move, Chen and Su had already made preparations, and they had rushed across the Yangtze River north with the main force of Jiangnan, and the enemy had no time to react at all, so he could only seize the troops of Ye Ting and Xiang Ying who were still nearby.
Jiang probably expected such a situation, and he had said before: "Ye and Xiang are like turtles in an urn, and their hands are coming, while Chen and Su are like fish on the seashore, fleeting."' To put it bluntly, it was knowing that Chen Yisuyu's two tactics were flexible and difficult to control, so he simply found a soft persimmon to pinch, so he topped Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, who led the main force in southern Anhui.
Also in 1940, after our army had already made concessions many times and met the unreasonable demands of the nationalist army, the nationalist army still secretly began to dispatch troops to besiege the New Fourth Army. In January 1941, Kuomintang troops surrounded the New Fourth Army in Maolin, Anhui. In a situation where the enemy was outnumbered, the New Fourth Army made the greatest resistance they could make, and fought fiercely for seven days and seven nights.
However, with the enemy troops all around and the difficulty of replenishing weapons, ammunition and daily necessities, the New Fourth Army finally fell into a situation of running out of ammunition and food. Except for about two thousand people who fought desperately to break through the siege, most of the others died heroically or were captured. In this incident, the military commander Ye Ting went to negotiate with the Kuomintang and was detained by them; Yuan Guoping, director of the political department, was killed; deputy commander Xiang Ying and chief of staff Zhou Zikun were killed by traitors in the process of breaking through.
And the incident is not completely over. On January 17, the Nationalist army also slandered the New Fourth Army for rebellion, canceled the new Fourth Army's name, and threatened to send Ye Ting to a military court. In the end, almost all of the original southern Red Army guerrillas, except for the troops of Chen Yi and Su Yu, were destroyed.
And it was these two "fish that slipped through the net" that re-raised the banner of the New Fourth Army and fought again on the anti-Japanese battlefield.
A flag that never falls
In late January 1941, the New Fourth Army was re-established, with Chen Yi as acting commander and Su Yu as commander of the First Division. This time, the New Fourth Army was reorganized into a large force of more than 96,000 people, and the area of activity was redivided. This time, Su Yu was responsible for fighting the Japanese army in the Soviet central area.
On August 13, the Japanese army launched a new "sweep" to retaliate against our army, and Su Yu resolutely responded to the battle and commanded the local soldiers and civilians to block the Japanese army. This time, the two armies fought for more than a month—forty-two days—annihilating more than 1,300 enemy troops. After that, he also commanded a battle for key points that lasted for eight months and protected the base area.
Three years later, he launched the Spring Offensive, recovering large areas of territory, organizing the Battle of Cheqiao, destroying more than fifty Japanese forts, and launching the Battle of Nankan in June, annihilating more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops.
In 1945, the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had already sounded, and General Su Yu unified the command of the three units in southern Jiangsu, eastern Zhejiang, and western Zhejiang, and later served as the deputy commander and commander of the field theater, commanding the Gaoyou Campaign and the Xuhai Campaign, and opening up the two liberated areas of central China and Shandong.
During the Liberation War, the New Fourth Army was also integrated into the people's liberation army, and General Su Yu was still fighting bravely at this time, annihilating many enemies. And the two fish that Jiang had "let go" at that time gave him a heavy blow at this time.