During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Gu Zhutong invited Su Yu to dinner, but Su Yu did not drink alcohol, nor did he eat those mountain treasures and seafood, Gu Zhutong persuaded for half a day, Su Yu said, do you want to make a plate of fried peppers?
The fried peppers were indeed under the rice, and Su Yu ate a large bowl of rice.
Greasy middle-aged Gu Zhutong looked at this small, polite, taciturn soldier who was only 38 years old and still "murderous" and could not find anything to say, so he could only pat himself on the back and say: "General Su, I heard that you are very good at fighting..."
Su Yu had just eaten enough, patted his clothes, sat down and said, "It's all rumors, you don't listen to the wind is the rain, that's Chairman Mao's good teaching, our soldiers fought bravely, I'm just an executor in the middle..."
During the War of Liberation, he was the closest to Chiang Kai-shek's core ruling area, and his main force confronted the Kuomintang army across the Yangtze River, when Chiang Kai-shek sharpened his knife and wanted to attack Li Xiannian's Liberated Area of the Central Plains, Su Yu let out a threat: "If Jiang attacks Li, Su will attack Chiang."
The micro-exercise master was not convinced, and had to attack the Liberated Areas of the Central Plains.
Therefore, Su Yu began the divine operation of the seven battles and seven victories in Suzhong.
My hometown is Taixing, where Su Yu used to command the battle, this is the "old revolutionary area" of the New Fourth Army and Huaye, ordinary people have several grandparents whose relatives are the New Fourth Army, traffic officers, underground party... Huangqiao, Xuanbao, Taixing County, Rugao, Nantong, these places are the places where I grew up and experienced, to tell the truth, looking at this terrain you can't imagine Su Yu's feinted attacks, ambushes, detours, and enveloping "riot operations"... Because we are here in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River impacting the plains, a horse and a flat river, there is no terrain undulating at all, it is difficult to understand how Su Yu at that time "detoured and interspersed" under the eyes of the Kuomintang and "surprise attacked".
The opponent of the Suyu Suzhong Campaign was Li Mo'an of the Huangpu Phase I, a powerful general of the Kuomintang, known as "Wen You He Zhi Han, Wu You Hu Zongnan, and Wen You Wu Li Mo An".
Li Mo'an, a person who knew too much about the Communist Party, listened to lectures by teachers when he was studying in Changsha, and when he was studying in Huangpu, Xu Xiangqian, Zuo Quan, and Chen Geng were all his classmates, and he even joined the Communist Party... In 1926, he served as a party representative of the 60th Regiment of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, headed by Ye Jianying.
Before the war, Li Mo'an actually studied Su Yu for a long time, and did not study anything famous, which is not to blame him, during the War of Resistance, the Japanese army set up a special research group in Nanjing to find out the operational laws and characteristics of Su Yu... Until the surrender of Japan, it was not studied, and this person was a real "impermanent force".
But Li Mo'an was not afraid, because Su Yu only had two divisions and two columns, and the strength of the troops was only 30,000 people, and he could command five divisions, two brigades, two police corps, with a strength of 120,000 people, his own strength was crushed, the weapons were excellent, 120,000 to 30,000, "the advantage is in me"!
His colleague Li Tianxia, commander of the reorganized Eighty-third Division, even shouted: "One of my regiments can do something with the communist army!"
Su Yu fought Xuanbao and Taixing in the first battle, and fought two regiments of the reorganized Eighty-third Division, and attacked six regiments head-on, one regiment swept the outskirts of Xuanbao, and three regiments besieged Taixing... After the First World War, Li Tianxia's two regiments and a brigade-affiliated mountain artillery battalion were destroyed.
Li Tianxia's reorganized Eighty-third Division was a Burmese Expeditionary Force unit, all-American armament and equipment, and its combat effectiveness was very strong. Why did Su Yu choose such a strong enemy in the first battle? His consideration was that the stronger the other side, the more arrogant it was, and Xuanbao and Taixing were both "salient units" of the Kuomintang army, isolated outside the entire defensive line, and each sent only one regiment to defend... Therefore, concentrating superior forces to make a rapid assault is to fight the "elite."
Sure enough, Li Tianxia did not react at all, the two regiments were eaten, Su Yu did not love to fight, and fled when the enemy reinforcements arrived... This battle annihilated more than 3,000 enemy troops, and captured Zhong Xiongfei, the commander of the 57th Regiment of the 19th Brigade, who was a fellow hunan native of Su Yu and an admirer of the self-proclaimed "Blitzkrieg"... As a result, he was "blitzkrieg", and when zhong Xiongfei was captured, he also scolded and grinned that the Communist Party "did not talk about martial arts", but would only engage in "human sea tactics", and had the ability to fight one regiment after another, swinging open to fight again, that is called fairness (Huang Wei was possessed).
In the second battle, Li Mo'an believed that although Xuantai had lost two regiments in battle, Su Yu's losses would not be small, and he was ready to fight quickly and send two brigades of Wang Tiehan's reorganized Forty-ninth Division to attack Rugao, one brigade to attack Taixing, and Li Tianxia's reorganized Eighty-third Division to advance towards Hai'an, attacking on three sides... "encircling and annihilating" Su Yu's main force.
The abacus was playing well, but Wang Tiehan was on the road of "two detours" to encircle Rugao, and suddenly he was broken, and they said that they had "encountered the main force of Su Yu"... Li Mo'an was greatly surprised, wasn't Su Yu's main force still attacking Xuanbao just now? Xuanbao was one hundred and fifty miles from Rugao, how could Su Yu's main force suddenly appear in Rugao? Isn't this "quantum mechanics"?
In fact, when the Battle of Xuantai was still in progress, Su Yu had already considered that Li Mo'an was rushing to attack Rugao, so he sent Huaye's First Division to march all night, arrived at Rugao before dawn, cut off the retreat of the reorganized Forty-ninth Division, attacked the Seventy-ninth Brigade, and the Seventh Column encircled the southeast of Rugao... This wave is "I prejudged your prejudgment."
Wang Tiehan complained to Li Mo'an, who was completely confused about the situation, because Wang Tiehan said that no matter which direction he moved, "there were Su Yu's troops everywhere"... Wherever he moved his troops, he was beaten, because the frequency of the radios of the Forty-ninth Division had been completely mastered by Su Yu... The place where Wang Tiehan was attacked was called "Ghost Head Street", and the famous general of the Northeast Army who led his troops to resist the Japanese army during the "918" incident was immediately confused by Su Yu, as if he really encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and more than 10,000 people of the reorganized Forty-ninth Division were annihilated.
Su Yu again withdrew from the battle before enemy reinforcements arrived.
In the third battle, Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff, Chen Cheng, came, and the "little chairman" personally came to the battlefield to help Li Mo'an and prepare to attack Hai'an, the strategic hub of the Soviet Union and China.
At the moment of the great enemy, Su Yu could not decide alone whether to fight or withdraw, and he had to meet with the comrades of the Central China Bureau and the Central China Military Region to decide, but the Central China Bureau was in Huai'an, and the distance from Hai'an was one hundred and eighty kilometers in a straight line... Su Yu first rode a motorcycle, drove from Yancheng to Huduo Town, and then ran forward on the field path with a dense water network, got a bicycle in the middle, rode to the scattered rack, and finally hired a rickshaw, pulled to the big river, the bridge was broken, and then took a boat, sat until it was impossible to drive the boat, and then ran forward... Overnight, I ran from Hai'an to Huai'an, held a meeting, and decided to fight! The next day, Su Yu returned to the Hai'an front to command the battle, what is the name of "Flying General"?
Li Mo'an believed that the Central China Field Army's retreat to Hai'an was due to excessive casualties and could no longer fight, so he used the remnants of the reorganized 49th Division to go north from Rugao, and the 160th, 187th, and 148th Brigades from Jiangyan and Dabaimi to the east, supported by dozens of aircraft, in an attempt to attack Hai'an in two ways and fight a decisive battle with the Central China Field Army. As a result, they did not encounter Su Yu's main force at all, and they encountered the Seven Columns.
The Battle of Hai'an was a defensive battle, the Seventh Column fought from July 30 to August 3, with more than 3,000 troops, resisted the repeated onslaught of more than 50,000 enemies, killed and wounded more than 3,000 Kuomintang troops in four days, only suffered more than 200 casualties, fought a fifteen-to-one battle loss ratio, and the mobile and flexible attack and harassment battle, so that the enemy lost more than 10,000 shells a day... Four days later, the Seven Columns took the initiative to withdraw from the battle. During this time, Su Yu's main force was repairing.
Li Mo'an continuously occupied Rugao and Hai'an, and all the way was "unimpeded", so the soldiers divided into many roads and went to the countryside everywhere to "clear and suppress"... Unconsciously, the front line of the Kuomintang army was lengthened, and it became a "long snake array with one word."
At this time, the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the New Fourth Army and the Special Mission Regiment of the Central China Military Region, which withdrew from Huainan, were transferred to the Dongtai area of the Central Soviet Front, increasing the strength of our army in the Soviet Union to 23 regiments.
When Li Mo'an was fighting in the dark with Hai'an and the seven columns and three thousand people, Su Yu's main force of thirty thousand people was less than ten kilometers away from him...
In the fourth battle, Li Mo'an occupied a bunch of county seats, began to turn into the overall defense, and dispatched the artillery units attached to the nineteenth regiment of the newly organized Seventh Brigade to defend Hai'an to Li Fort to change defenses... As soon as the Nineteenth Regiment moved, the fighter planes came, the Battle of Fort Lee began, and before the Nineteenth Regiment could sit on Fort Lee's ass, it was suddenly besieged by Su Yu, and within two hours it was broken through the defense, and the Nineteenth Regiment was completely annihilated at dawn. The Twenty-first Regiment of the Seventh Brigade, which had been ordered to reinforce Fort Lee, was ambushed halfway and scattered by bullets fired from the cornfields on both sides of the road, and the brigade commander, Huang Boguang, fled back to Hai'an alone, and the Seventh Brigade lost more than 9,000 people.
Li Mo'an knew that he had not yet touched the "main force of Su Yu", but he had already sent a large number of plainclothes detectives to investigate and secretly visit for several days, and as a result, he did not even know that there were thirty thousand "Main Forces of Su Yu" ten kilometers away... He didn't know Suzhong at all, although it was a horse Pingchuan Great Plain, but everyone was a member of the New Fourth Army, and they were all Chen Su's people... Tian Congyun, deputy brigade commander of the Seventh Brigade, complained after being captured: "Reconnaissance is a fart, there are Communist militias everywhere, they can't tell which one is a soldier and which is a civilian, they shoot cold guns everywhere, they arrest our spies everywhere, they go to catch one, they go to two to catch a pair"... Huang Boguang, commander of the Seventh Brigade who fled back alone, complained: "The local people do not ask whether men, women, children, and children are bandit soldiers and civilians, they attack and kill the nationalist army everywhere, the nationalist army is attacked everywhere, everyone is captured, except for a few people, none of them have slipped through the net..." They do not understand what is called the "old revolutionary areas of central Jiangsu.", we are all relatives of the party here, we are all relatives of the New Fourth Army, and we are full of martial virtue, and when the Kuomintang was defeated and then defeated and hid in the southwest, they fought to the death with the Japanese puppet army in these paddy fields and ditches.
Fifth Battle: On August 21, the Kuomintang defenders of Ding Yan and Lin Zi were fiercely attacked, and the attacking side was really the "main force of Su Yu" this time, and the firepower was unprecedentedly strong... Li Mo'an decided to be incredulous, because Dingyan was the hinterland of the Kuomintang military defense area, and how did the more than 30,000 "Main Forces of Su Yu" march silently on the Great Plains and touch their hinterland? Thirty thousand people touched in, why didn't the dogs in the village bark?
These defenders were the police force reorganized from the "Loyal National Salvation Army" of that year, and the combat effectiveness was originally pulled, Li Mo'an was not at ease, called to ask about the situation, and replied to the opposite side, "It doesn't matter, it will be fine if you fight for an hour or two"... As a result, the next day, more than 5,000 people in five police brigades were completely annihilated, and Huaye captured a large number of American carbines and machine guns.
Su Yu called this battle "drilling into the belly of the enemy."
When Dingyan was attacked, he decisively attacked Shao Bo, who only had ten columns of defense, but this was the 10 columns of "the artillery did not move, it must be ten columns", the Kuomintang army kicked the iron plate, not only did not shoot Shao Bo, but also was annihilated more than 2,000 people... This is the sixth battle.
In the seventh battle, when the Shaobo Defense War began, Su Yu not only did not rescue the 10 columns, but the main force directly inserted into the enemy-occupied area. Li Mo'an originally thought that Su Yu would save Shao Bo, the ninety-ninth brigade of the reorganized sixty-ninth division stationed at Huangqiao was preparing to march into Rugao, but in the middle of the road was ambushed by Su Yu's main force, Huaye soldiers attacked the Ninety-ninth Brigade from both sides of the road, Li Mo'an was in a hurry, he thought that Su Yu would be in Shaobo, and even go to Rugao, but he did not expect that his main force was on the outskirts of The Yellow Bridge, the ninety-ninth brigade commander Zhu Zhixi was his Huangpu apprentice, the old subordinate of the Northern Expeditionary Army, desperately saved, he sent Hai'an's sixty-fifth division to quickly reinforce, As a result, a brigade and a regiment of the Sixty-fifth Division were intercepted by death only a few kilometers from Lihuangqiao, and Li Mo'an sent a part of the Twenty-fifth Division to rescue it by car... As a result, the Twenty-fifth Division had not yet arrived, the Ninety-ninth Brigade was completely destroyed, the brigade commander Zhu Zhixi was captured, and most of the reinforcements were annihilated... In this battle, Su Yu annihilated more than 17,000 people on the other side.
In the "seven battles and seven victories" in the Soviet Union, Su Yu defeated the enemy with 30,000 people and 120,000, annihilating 53,000. Annihilated the enemy more than he himself.
In January 1947, Su Yu commanded the reorganized troops to eliminate the reorganized 26th Division, which was the first reorganization of our army to annihilate an integrated division of the Nationalist Army.
In May 1947, the reorganized 74th Division, the head of the five main forces of the Kuomintang, with 32,000 men, was annihilated by Su Yu at Menglianggu. The elder of the transport brigade burst into tears: "The revolutionary force, which I have absolute superiority in, have been framed by the bandits of inferiority. What a loss that has never been greater, and it can not be saddening! ”
In the whole of 1947, Su Yu commanded the troops to eliminate the formation of a total of 40 brigades, more than the total number of enemies annihilated in other battlefields in the country.
In the War of Liberation, our army carried out a total of 134 relatively important battles, each of which annihilated more than 30,000 enemies, of which 12 were under the command of Su Yu; 23 times were more than 50,000 enemies per battle, of which 8 were under the command of Su Yu.
Su Yu had his own ideas, often rejecting the strategic decisions of the central authorities and the instructors, and when he came on his own, the Suzhong Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign were all the same, but the instructors were often very happy.
The telegrams sent by the instructors to Su Yu were often "arbitrary, don't ask for instructions..."
Su Yu looks polite and polite, like a "Confucian general", in fact, he is very assertive, sometimes appearing to be "very iron-headed", the instructor complained to him several times in his life: "Su Yu, you are from Xiangxi, I suspect you are a Miao zi (Miao)", Su Yu felt that he was a Han Chinese... Many years later, it was proved that Su Yu was a Dong person...
The instructor is not the opposite "micro-master", he is very fond of this kind of front-line military commander who has his own opinions and seeks truth from facts, and he concludes in "Against Originalism": "Blindly and completely unobstructed on the surface of the instructions of the superiors, this is not really the implementation of the instructions of the superiors, this is the best way to oppose the instructions of the superiors or to slack off on the instructions of the superiors." ”...... So he likes Su Yu very much.
In fact, the teacher and Su Yu were friends of hardship, they "went to the countryside together", when the Red Army Seventh Congress, the teacher was selected, the former secretary of the party committee gave Chen Shiren, breathlessly ran to recuperate, at this time Su Yu just gave the instructor as a guard company commander.
During the first counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, under the command of the instructors, it was Su Yu, the commander of the Red Army division, who captured Zhang Huizhan alive. Looking closely, Su Yu's flexible and changeable command style is really a bit similar to that of the instructors.
Su Yu's style of commanding battles is not the same as that of Lin Biao and Peng Zong, Lin Biao likes to "settle accounts", and if he does not calculate the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, he absolutely does not fight, and if he wants to fight, he must win a big victory; Peng is good at fighting a frontal hard battle with steel teeth; and Su Yu is a bit like the legendary "soldier immortal" Han Xin, "who loves to fight immortal battles."
In September 1961, the faculty received Marshal Montgomery. Montgomery praised the instructors as clever military experts, using soldiers like gods, especially the Battle of Huaihai. The instructor was very modest and said, "The person who is the most capable of fighting in my comrades-in-arms is named Su Yu, the Battle of Huaihai was commanded by him, and he is a native of Hunan." ”