What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Among the founding generals, 80% of the generals have not received formal military education, and most of them have accumulated combat experience in actual combat and become a generation of famous generals. Like the ten marshals that everyone is familiar with, there are three who have not attended military schools, Mr. He, Mr. Chen, and Luo Shuai, especially Mr. He, who has basically not studied in a regular school, and belongs to the self-taught, natural handsome. Although Mr. Chen and Luo Shuai did not go to military academy, they did go to college. Among the ten founding generals, only General Chen Geng, Luo Ruiqing, Xu Guangda, Xiao Jinguang, and Zhang Yunyi had received military education. Everyone else is fighting and learning.
However, even among the marshals and generals, there were two generals and one marshal who had not attended military schools, but during the liberation war, they brought out the most capable units of our army.
Luo Shuai
Speaking of the period of the Liberation War, among the five major field armies of our army, the one with the best combat results and the greatest contribution to the liberation war was definitely the Third Field Army and the Fourth Field Army. The Fourth Field Army was jointly commanded by Lin Zong and Luo Shuai, and as you may know, Lin always graduated from the Huangpu Fourth Phase and received formal military education. Although Luo Shuai had never studied at a military academy, he was a college graduate, and he had always been in charge of life in the army, and it was Lin Zong who was making suggestions and suggestions for military affairs. One of these two has been to a military school, one has not, so one general and one marshal, and those who have not attended military school do not refer to them.
The Third Field Army was a mighty division during the Liberation War, and this unit was jointly commanded by Commander Su Yu and General Chen. Commander Su is also the most capable general of our army, and throughout his life experience, the highest diploma is to graduate from the Second Normal School of Hunan Province, participate in the revolution under the influence of Marxism in school, and is a general who has not attended military school and has become an excellent commander of our army. In 1916, Mr. Chen studied at the Chengdu Jiazhong Industrial School, and then went to France to work and study, but he did not study at a military school, so he was also a marshal who grew up in the war.
Third Field Army
Although the first general (commander Su) and the first marshal (Mr. Chen) did not go to military school, they also had outstanding performance during the Liberation War. It should be known that in the early days of the Liberation War, the Shandong Field Army led by General Chen fought against the Nationalist army in the Shandong territory, while the Central China Field Army led by Commander Su fought against the enemy in northern Jiangsu and achieved brilliant results in seven battles and seven victories in central Jiangsu.
However, in March 1947, the head decided to merge the two field armies into the East China Field Army, the commander was Chen Laozong, and the deputy commander was Su Yu, so it was also called Chen Su's army. The most capable unit during the Liberation War was also officially born, because in the future, the performance of the East China Field Army became the mighty division that commanded the most famous battles, achieved the most fruitful battles, and had the largest organization during the Liberation War.
One General (Commander Su) One Marshal (General Chen)
In April 1947, Chiang Kai-shek successively concentrated 24 integrated divisions and 60 brigades of about 450,000 people to launch a key attack on the Liberated Areas of Shandong. In the face of the enemy's menacing force, the two commanders calmly and calmly, coped with the enemy, avoided its sharp edge, concentrated their superior forces in the movement, and broke through each one. Campaigns were fought in the cities of Mengyin, Xintai and Laiwu, especially in the Battle of Laiwu, where a record of annihilating an entire corps was achieved.
In May of the same year, the East China Field Army launched the Battle of Menglianggu, which Chen Praised as the first rank of general in the Million Army. And this first level refers to the reorganized 74th Division, the first of the five aces of the Nationalist Army. Therefore, the greatest success of this battle was the total annihilation of the elite reorganized 74th Division of the Nationalist Army with more than 32,000 people, and the victory in this battle was completely crushed, and the enemy's key attack on the Liberated Area of Shandong was completely shattered.
In the War of Liberation, there was no victory, and the East China Field Army still made new achievements, and fought with the Nationalist army in the Southwest Lu Campaign, the Battle of Eastern Henan, and the liberation of Jinan, Shandong. The Battle of Jinan was also the first large city to be liberated during the Liberation War, and it also accumulated valuable experience for the subsequent seizure of large cities by major field armies. However, the greatest achievement of the East China Field Army was the command of the Battle of Huaihai, which was also the most important of the three major battles during the Liberation War. 600,000 against 800,000, the two sides fought fiercely for more than 50 days, the East China Field Army annihilated the strongest fighting force huang Baitao corps, as well as Du Yuming's group, made a major contribution to the victory of this battle.
After the end of the Huaihai Campaign, the most important of the three campaigns, the East China Field Army was reorganized into the Third Field Army, which launched the Battle of Crossing the River shortly after, liberating important cities such as Shanghai and Nanjing, and soon afterwards marched into the southeast, making a major contribution to the victory of the Liberation War.
Looking at the history of the Third Field Army, during the Liberation War, it commanded many classic battles in which less won more, such as the well-known Battle of Laiwu, the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Eastern Henan, and the Battle of Huaihai, each of which was a classic, and the Third Field Army was also a field army that annihilated the most enemies during the Liberation War, and it was also the unit that was the most capable of fighting. It may be difficult for everyone to imagine that such a mighty division is actually an ace unit brought out by two generals (Su Yu) and a marshal (General Chen) who have not attended military school. It is simply unbelievable, and it also proves the high military talent of these two men and the strength of their ability to bring soldiers.