After fourteen years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Anti-Japanese War finally came to an end, on August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and on December 29, Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, accepted the surrender of the remnants of the Japanese army in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province, and the Japanese commander Iwasaki Daisa, who was the commander of the Defense of Gaoyou City at the time, actually presented his ancestral Purple Cloud Sword to Su Yu.
Why did the Japanese army Ōsa Iwasaki dedicate his ancestral Purple Cloud Treasure Sword to Su Yu? What exactly did Su Yu do to make the Japanese army Iwasaki Daisaku admire so much?
The Japanese army was defeated, and the Japanese Daisaku offered the sword
On August 15, 1945, the news of the defeat of the Japanese army quickly spread throughout the country, and the people of the whole country shouted: Japan has declared unconditional surrender!
This was big news that made every Chinese people excited, but there was one person who was depressed, and this person was Lao Jiang.
In order to ensure his superiority in the civil war, the old Chiang carefully arranged his own plans, first of all, the old Chiang was ready to fight with the surrendered Japanese army against his ally, our party.
After the Japanese army announced the unconditional surrender, lao Jiang and the surrendered Japanese army frozen the previous suspicions, and at the same time, in order to express his sincerity to the surrender of the Japanese army, the old Chiang officially announced the acquittal of Okamura Ningji and 260 Japanese soldiers in Shanghai, and said that he would send these people back to China on August 31, 1945.
Old Chiang's series of practices won the participation of many surrendered Japanese troops, and Old Chiang's first plan was perfectly successful, and secondly, Old Chiang invited great men to renegotiate.
The Chongqing talks were a fake peaceful tactic played by chiang kai-shek, ostensibly to negotiate with our party, but in reality the purpose was to drag our party back and mobilize its own army.
While negotiating with the great man in Chongqing, lao Chiang secretly made small moves, and he transferred some of his troops to north and east China in an attempt to occupy the transportation hubs of north and east China by force.
In November 1945, Lao Chiang summoned high-level Kuomintang officers to an emergency meeting, at which Lao Chiang demanded the annihilation of the main force of our party within 6 months, and ordered Tang Enbo and others to go to the Xuzhou area to actively plot against the Chinese and Japanese puppet armies in the Xuzhou area to attack the People's Liberation Army, so as to win the victory in the civil war and seize the opportunity.
Under the instigation of Tang Enbo and others, the Japanese troops in Yangzhou and Taizhou went to Gaoyoucheng in Jiangsu Province to join the Kuomintang 25th Army and assist the Kuomintang 25th Army in attacking the base area of the Central China People's Liberation Army.
In addition, in order to ensure the smooth realization of his goals, Lao Jiang also sent 240,000 laborers to cast the walls of Gaoyou City, not only that, Lao Jiang also ordered these laborers to build pillboxes and artillery towers to resist the attack of our party.
Old Chiang's wishful thinking was very good, but Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, had already seen through old Chiang's plot, and Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, sent a direct telegram to the central authorities.
Su Yu suggested in the telegram that the Battle of Gaoyou must be fought immediately, and that at present the Kuomintang army and the remnants of the Japanese army are united in wanting to divide the liberated areas of central China, and if the battle of Gaoyou is victorious, then the dream of the Kuomintang army and the remnants of the Japanese army wanting to divide the liberated areas of central China will be in vain.
The situation was urgent, the Party Central Committee immediately agreed to Su Yu's proposal, on December 19, 1945, the Battle of Gaoyou officially began, the commander of the Central China Field Army Su Yu carefully planned the confrontation plan with the enemy, in order to reduce the casualties of the PLA troops, the commander of the Central China Field Army used the loudspeaker to shout at the remaining Japanese troops of the other side.
He said: "You have been surrounded, and now surrender, you can spare your life, after all, the swords and cannons are not long-sighted, and you will feel good when you really open fire." ”
The greatest use of this kind of shouting is to break through the psychological defense line of the remaining Japanese troops, and once the psychological defense line collapses, the possibility of victory in the Battle of Gaoyou will increase.
However, these remnants of the Japanese army believed that they had the Kuomintang as their support, so they shouted arrogantly: "We only surrender to the Kuomintang army, and our party army is not worthy of accepting our surrender. I'd like to see what he can do to break through my walls. ”
Toast not to eat and eat the penalty wine, late at night on December 19, Su Yu ordered the soldiers to use wheel warfare to attack the Japanese troops inside the city wall, at first, the Japanese troops inside the city wall could resist the attack of the People's Liberation Army, but as time went on, the remaining Japanese troops lost confidence more and more, and at noon on December 20, our soldiers occupied the Japanese stronghold outside Gaoyou City.
At the same time, the three main teams of the Central China Field Army had already attacked the south and north gates of Gaoyou City, and as long as Su Yu gave an order, they would rush to Gaoyou City, defeat the remaining Japanese troops in Gaoyou City, and occupy Gaoyou City.
In order to ensure a complete victory in the Battle of Gaoyou, in the early morning of December 22, Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, Tao Yong, commander of the Eighth Column, and senior generals of the Central China Field Army held a late-night meeting, the purpose of which was to take Gaoyou City in one fell swoop, in which Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, made a detailed plan for the attack on Gaoyou City.
On the night of December 25, the sky was beautiful and it rained at night, which provided important environmental conditions for the Central China Field Army to attack Gaoyou City, and the time had come, and Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, immediately ordered a raid on the walls of Gaoyou City.
After receiving Su Yu's order, Tao Yong, commander of the Eighth Column, immediately demanded that all the artillery of the Eighth Column take the battlefield and attack the walls of Gaoyou City, and in the fierce artillery fire, the 68th Regiment of the Eighth Column quickly broke through the enemy's fire and rushed to the head of the wall, and launched a street battle with the remnants of the Japanese army guarding the wall.
After the 68th Regiment broke through the enemy fire, the 64th Regiment of the Eighth Column fought with the remnants of the enemy troops at the northwestern gates of Gaoyoucheng, and these remnants of the troops were already in disarray under the condition of double-sided attack, and on the morning of the 26th, these remnants of the Japanese army had been surrounded by our army.
However, su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, did not exterminate him, but let the Japanese propagandists shout at him and use peaceful means to make him surrender, at this time the commander of the city defense, Iwasaki Daisa, had already been frightened by the tactics of our army, so he led the remaining Japanese troops to surrender to our army.
The Battle of Gaoyou ended in the victory of our army, capturing more than 1,000 Japanese troops and more than 5,000 puppet troops at the lowest cost, not only that, our army also captured 61 cannons and 4308 guns.
On December 29, su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, accepted the surrender of the remaining Japanese troops at Gaoyou City, at which time the Japanese army Iwasaki Daisaku learned that this scholar was the so-called Dingding Daimyo, Xiao Yong and good at war, and in order to show his respect for General Su Yu, Iwasaki Daisa, after giving a military salute to Su Yu, presented his ancestral purple cloud sword to General Su Yu.
The Battle of Gaoyou was the last battle of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and it was also the largest battle, and its end marked the complete end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and also laid the foundation for the seven battles and seven victories of the Soviet Union and China in the later period.
General Su Yu lived a lifetime
General Su Yu is known as the God of War, just by looking at the appearance, General Su Yu looks good and polite and is a scholar, but in fact, he is a heroic and good war god general, and he is a sharp blade that makes the enemy army afraid.
General Su Yu was born on August 10, 1907, his hometown was in Huitong, Hunan, in 1916 he studied at the Eighth National School founded by his uncle, and in 1925, Su Yu was admitted to the Provincial Second Division with his own efforts and was sent to Wuchang to study.
In 1927, he officially joined our party and participated in the Nanchang Uprising, during the Long March, Su Yu was left in the south to lead the guerrilla war, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Su Yu served as the deputy commander of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army, leading his own team to win many wars.
During the Liberation War, he served as the commander of the Central China Field Army, led his own troops to confront the old Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang troops, led his own troops many times, and directly attacked the old lair of the old Chiang Kai-shek; Su Yu treated his own troops with his own methods; if he was practicing guns, he would ask his soldiers to practice arm strength first.
In 1955, Su Yu was awarded the rank of General, the first of the Ten Great Generals of the People's Republic of China, and in 1984, Su Yu died in Beijing, and his life came to an end.
Looking back at the life of Su Yu's god of war, he dedicated his life to his motherland, he participated in many battles, with few victories and more is the norm, for the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the victory of the War of Liberation, made a lot of sacrifices, such a god of war, worthy of our posterity to always respect and love him