In his later years, General Su Yu said in an interview with a reporter: "In fact, when I fought the Battle of Laiwu and the Battle of Eastern Henan, I was still quite nervous, looking at the opponents I met on the battlefield, there were two people who should not be underestimated, one was Wang Yaowu, and the other was Hu Lian, who was even more cunning than Wang Yaowu in fighting, and he was the most difficult opponent I met!" ”
Photo of General Su Yu
The fact that General Su Yu, who had won every battle and every victory, looked at him differently showed that Hu Lian's military command ability was still possible, and Chairman Mao also had an appraisal of Hu Lian, and Chairman Mao once wrote a letter to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping to remind them of hu Lian, who was fighting against the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army at that time.
Hu Lian of the Eighteenth Army is as cunning as a fox and as brave as a tiger. It is advisable to avoid it, preserve strength, and wait for the opportunity to win.
Chairman Mao has always had a very accurate vision, and it can be seen from his appraisal of Hu Lian that Chairman Mao compared Hu Lian to a fox and a tiger, which means that Hu Lian is a person who has both a cunning side and a brave side in battle, and is a relatively difficult opponent to deal with.
Su Yu used clever tactics several times on the battlefield in Shandong to target the Nationalist reorganized 11th Division led by Hu Lian at that time, but unfortunately hu Lian escaped several times, which was also an important reason why General Su Yu called Hu Lian "the most difficult opponent".
During the Liberation War, there were five units within the enemy known as the "five main forces", namely the reorganized 74th Division led by Zhang Lingfu, the New Sixth Army led by Liao Yaoxiang, the New First Army led by Sun Liren, the 5th Army led by Du Yuming, and the reorganized 18th Army led by Hu Lian.
Zhang Lingfu's reorganized 74th Division was formerly known as the Kuomintang 74th Army, the first commander was Wang Yaowu, and later reorganized into the 74th Division, after Wang Yaowu was promoted, Zhang Lingfu and Li Tianxia competed for the position of commander of the 74th Division, and finally Zhang Lingfu won, and this unit became famous in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, all American equipment.
Arrogant and arrogant, Zhang Lingfu went deep alone, and in March 1947, he was completely annihilated by the East China Field Army commanded by Su Yu in the Battle of Menglianggu, in which Zhang Lingfu was killed.
The new Sixth Army led by Liao Yaoxiang was not weak in combat effectiveness, the entire unit was also dominated by American equipment, and this unit was also famous during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when this unit was still called the Reorganized 22nd Division, the Battle of Kunlun Pass, Liao Yaoxiang commanded the reorganized 22nd Division to fight bloodily for many days, and finally annihilated 4,000 Japanese troops, Liao Yaoxiang also became famous in this battle, and later the reorganized 22nd Division participated in the expedition to Burma, fought with the Japanese army in the Indo-Burma Theater, and did not lose a single battle.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the reorganized 22nd Division was reorganized into the New Sixth Army, which continued to be led by Liao Yaoxiang, who claimed that the New Sixth Army was "invincible under the heavens" and the "boss of the nationalist army".
In 1948, when the Liaoshen Campaign began, as the most important component of the Liaoshen Campaign, liao Yaoxiang led the New Sixth Army to urgently support Jinzhou, but the Northeast Field Army was superior in strength and took Jinzhou in a very short time, at this time the main force of the Northeast Field Army seized the fighter and directly annihilated Liao Yaoxiang's New Sixth Army on the way, and Liao Yaoxiang himself was captured alive.
Sun Liren's New First Army was also annihilated by our army in the Liaoshen Campaign; after the Northeast Field Army took Jinzhou, Sun Liren's New First Army and Liao Yaoxiang's New Sixth Army came closer together, and our army won the victory in the Black Mountain Blockade Battle, blocking the retreat of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army, and then the main force of the Northeast Field Army rushed to the battlefield and annihilated the New First Army and the New Sixth Army in one fell swoop.
Du Yuming's Fifth Army, in fact, the Fifth Army has had several commanders, the more famous ones are Du Yuming, Dai Anlan, Qiu Qingquan, after Du Yuming was promoted, the commander of the Fifth Army was taken over by Qiu Qingquan, but in the Battle of Huaihai in 1949, the Fifth Army was still under Du Yuming's direct command.
Liu Zhi's incompetence allowed our famous generals Chen Yi and Su Yu to seize the fighter plane; in the first stage of the Huaihai Campaign, our army annihilated Huang Baitao's corps, and in the second stage, it was our army that annihilated Huang Wei's corps, and it was in the third stage that this Fifth Army was annihilated by our army.
Now let me focus on Hu Lian's reorganized 18th Army, which was the most effective unit in the 18th Army until Hu Lian became the commander of the 18th Army.
The 18th Army is the unit on which Chen Cheng, the chief of staff of the Kuomintang, started his family, and is also the earliest unit in the Kuomintang's "five main forces", and many people know that Chen Cheng's military group is called the "Civil Engineering Department", which is said, the earth character is split into eleven, which represents the 11th Division, and the wooden character is split into eighteen, which represents the 18th Army.
One of the battles that Hu Lian really became famous for was the Battle of Shipai Fortress in 1943, which was an important part of the Battle of Western Hubei, Hu Lian led the reorganized 11th Division to skillfully deploy, and launched a scramble for the main force of the Japanese army in Shipai, and the strength of one division blocked the Japanese army for nearly a month, which gave the other Kuomintang troops time to counterattack, and finally the Western Hubei Nationalist Army won a great victory, annihilating more than 20,000 Japanese troops.
Hu Lian's photo
Hu Lian and Zhang Lingfu are good friends, but Hu Lian is not as arrogant as Zhang Lingfu, on the contrary, Hu Lian is a person with a very calm mind, and others can't see the situation, Hu Lian can always see the opportunity.
During the Liberation War, Hu Lian was still the commander of the reorganized 11th Division, and in the early stage, Hu Lian's reorganized 11th Division was mainly engaged in the battle with the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army of our army.
Many people say that Hu Lian's luck is very good, but Liu Bocheng once said: "Hu Lian is a very cunning person, when he uses soldiers, he never sees rabbits or eagles, and it is a pity to let him escape twice!" ”
Soon after, Hu Lian's reorganized 11th Division was transferred to the Shandong battlefield to fight, and at this moment Hu Lian would gradually see the strength of Su Yu.
Since ancient times, it has been difficult to find a voice, and so have the opponents! But the course of history tells Hu Lian that choosing the wrong opponent will be a painful thing, especially when you choose a famous player like Su Yu as an opponent.
Su Yu's way of using troops now seems like a miracle of a war staged at that time, in the words of Liu Bocheng: "Only Su Yu dares to fight this kind of battle, and only Su Yu can win!" ”
Many people have different definitions of famous generals, but no matter which standard you use for famous generals, Su Yu can be called a famous general, this is su Yu's strength, those who are defeated by Su Yu many enemy generals are definitely not nerds, such as Huang Wei, such as Du Yuming, such as Huang Baitao, such as Dai Ziqi, you turn over their past achievements, these Su Yu's defeated generals Each has something remarkable.
Huang Wei or Du Yuming! Which of them is not the best of the Whampoa Military Academy graduates, which one is not full of medals, but they met Su Yu, everything was reversed, you may think that Huang Wei is rigid, Huang Baitao is dogmatic, Du Yuming is too stubborn, these views are correct, but can really everyone beat them? Not necessarily, I'm afraid! But Su Yu did it, and Su Yu almost swept through their troops like a whirlwind in a way that destroyed them.
From this point of view, you will find that Hu Lian has done well enough, why do you say so? Naturally, Hu Lian had no way to defeat Su Yu, and no one who could defeat Su Yu in that era had ever appeared, but when his brothers and disciples were defeated by General Su Yu one after another, he was able to stand alone.
Hu Lian was defeated several times by Su Yu, and on two occasions General Su Yu was almost on the verge of completing the goal of annihilating Hu Yu's troops, but still let Hu Lian escape.
In the Battle of Nanma, Hu Lian's reorganized 11th Division showed great combat effectiveness, and Su Yu ordered two columns to take turns to attack the bunker positions where Hu Lian was stationed, but the onslaught did not work, and then Su Yu came up with an absolutely exquisite method of warfare, and this method of warfare was destined to leave a strong mark on military history.
How to crack the firepower of the bunker group has always been a problem for any military scientist in the world, and the zimu bunker group constructed by Hu Lian in the Battle of Nanma was once regarded as a classic by Chen Cheng, and Hu Lian once used this method to defeat the Mizuhara Division of the Japanese Army, so after the battle began, Hu Lian was full of confidence in his defensive position.
Su Yu's strength is that one is that he is unexpected and good at grasping fleeting fighters, and the other is that Su Yu often changes his tactics suddenly according to changes in the battlefield situation, and can often achieve miraculous results.
When Cheng Jun's 7th Column and Wang Bicheng's 6th Column attack were not smooth, Su Yu changed his current tactics, and Su Yu ordered: "It is very difficult for us to attack the enemy's bunker groups from both the front and the flank, and it will cause great casualties, we can surround the enemy's bunkers all, and then the other troops march around from the outside of the encirclement, directly abandon attacking the enemy's bunkers, and focus on the enemy infantry behind the bunkers." ”
This tactical application is very powerful, in short, we surround the enemy's bunkers and do not fight first, and then the main force of our army marches along the periphery of our own encirclement, so that the enemy's bunkers will have no effect, and when the troops behind the enemy bunkers are annihilated, we will turn around and concentrate our forces to destroy the enemy bunkers.
Why is It said that Su Yu is a genius commander? This tactic was no longer something that ordinary people could come up with, and later Su Yu's tactics of concentrating on defeating the enemy's bunker groups were popularized throughout the army, and a few years later Peng Dehuai concocted the same method on the Korean battlefield, making the US military bunker completely ineffective, and MacArthur sighed for a long time.
When Su Yu adopted this tactic, Hu Lian began to know how powerful Su Yu was, and hu Lian was talking and laughing in his headquarters at that time, until someone below reported: "Su Yu's men and horses have broken through our bunker group and come straight to the rear!" Hu Lian began to tense up, he had never felt that he would be so close to extinction.
Hu Lian hurriedly organized his men and horses to block the main force of our army, and then Hu Lian did a very funny thing, he began to burn incense to sacrifice to the heavens, and led a group of generals to kneel on the ground to ask God for help.
Such a scene was really unbelievable, but it was very coincidental that soon after the heavy rain fell, the road became very muddy, the marching speed of our army slowed down, and this heavy rain delayed for two or three days, and it was in these two or three days that the reinforcements sent by Chen Cheng to support Hu Lian arrived, Su Yu ordered a retreat, and Hu Lian escaped the disaster.
Such a frightening moment made Hu Lian remember the name Su Yu, and Hu Lian later said to his old commander Chen Cheng: "In the future, when any unit of our army fights against Su Yu, we must be more careful, this person's use of soldiers makes people wonder!" ”
Soon after the Battle of Subei, Hu Lian experienced a journey from birth to death and from death to life. Many people know that in the Battle of Subei, Su Yu eventually annihilated Dai Ziqi's reorganized 69th Division, but Su Yu's goal at the beginning was not Dai Ziqi at all, and from the very beginning, Su Yu aimed the object he would eventually eat at Hu Lian.
During the Battle of Subei, Dai Ziqi's 69th Division and Hu Lian's reorganized 11th Division were basically advancing side by side, and the gap between the two divisions was very small, when Su Yu saw that the enemy's vanguard was Dai Ziqi's 69th Division, he excitedly said: "Great! Fortunately, it wasn't Hu Lian who took the lead, otherwise it would be difficult for us to find the fighter! ”
From Su Yu's words, it can be seen that although Su Yu has defeated Hu Lian, he has never despised Hu Lian!
Su Yu took the method of enticing the enemy to go deeper, pretending to be defeated one after another, inducing Dai Ziqi's 69th Division to speed up the pace of pursuit, and when Dai Ziqi crossed the peak mountain, Su Yu knew that the fighter plane was coming.
At this time, Su Yu was sure that Hu Lian would definitely rescue Dai Ziqi at all costs, so he deployed troops in advance to block Hu Lian on the only road.
This is not a killing move, Su Yu secretly set up a number of commando teams, from two wings to detour, directly looking for Hu Lian's headquarters, and when the forward post of Hu Lian's headquarters was attacked, Hu Lian woke up with a big dream, and he exclaimed: "It turns out that Su Yu's real target is me!" ”
Hu Lian hurriedly led his troops to retreat, and only then did he escape, and Su Yu's ingenious plan made Hu Lian almost captured alive by our army.
More than a year later, on the battlefield of the Huaihai Campaign, Hu Lian's main force was finally annihilated by Su Yu, and this time Hu Lian was indeed powerless to return to heaven.
When Chiang Kai-shek appointed Huang Wei as the commander of the Twelfth Corps, Hu Lian was extremely uncomfortable, and at that time Hu Lian was the deputy commander of the Twelfth Corps and the commander of the Eighteenth Army.
Hu Lian believes that his ability is far above Huang Wei, why let Huang Wei serve as the commander of the Twelfth Corps, within the Kuomintang, the distance of the faction, whether the seniority is old enough is very important, when Huang Wei was the commander of the Eighteenth Army, Hu Lian was the commander of the reorganized 11th Division, Huang Wei was his superior at that time, plus Huang Wei was more trusted by Chiang Kai-shek than Hu Lian, so Huang Wei definitely wanted to suppress Hu Lian.
Therefore, Hu Lian left Wuhan in a negative mood, and in the early stages of the Huaihai Campaign, Hu Lian did not appear on the battlefield, and when the Twelfth Corps of the Catheter Huang Wei was surrounded by the troops of Nakano and Huaye in the double pile set, Hu Lian called Chiang Kai-shek and said: "I am willing to go to the double pile set to command the battle at this time to solve the urgent need!" ”
At this time, Huang Wei also began to ask Hu Lian for advice on how to solve the current dilemma, and in this case, Chiang Kai-shek ordered someone to send Hu Lian to the Double Stack with a small plane.
At this time, the dilemma of the enemy's Twelfth Corps, let alone one Hu Lian, even ten Hu Lian is difficult to solve, and the final result is that our army successfully annihilated Huang Wei's Twelfth Corps and captured Huang Wei alive.
Photograph of General Su Yu's military uniform
Even so, I still think that Hu Lian's tactical vision is not bad, of course, his luck is good enough, but in that era, the enemies who fought against General Su Yu were all defeated, and Hu Lian was no exception!
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