The Battle of Laiwu was a very spectacular battle fought in the Liberation War.
First of all, in terms of the number of captured enemies, it reached more than 50,000, which is the highest number of enemies annihilated by our army on the East China battlefield. Then there is the stupidity of the Kuomintang army, looking at the entire liberation war, presumably they themselves admit how badly the Battle of Laiwu was fought.
Even the protagonist of this battle, Li Xianzhou, confessed after being captured, and in order to find out the original reason, he also specially found Chen Yi and talked for several hours before he was willing to give up.
It was after this symposium that Su Yu completely became a god of war level figure in Li Xianzhou's heart.
Su Yu
So how did Su Yu strategize to win the battle against Laiwu?
He was pushed out by Wang Yaowu and became a substitute ghost
In fact, when it comes to the Battle of Laiwu, Li Xianzhou is completely a sad cargo, because this battle originally had nothing to do with him.
The story goes back to before the Battle of Laiwu, in early 1947, when the Kuomintang army planned a 15-day Battle of Lunan to eliminate the East China Field Army.
In fact, to tell the truth here, the layout of the Kuomintang is not bad at all, and even some of them are unexpected, regarding the Battle of Lunan, the nationalist army plan is probably the following points:
First, attack Linyi and take the capital of the CPC Shandong Liberated Area.
Second, strive to eliminate chen Su's entire army in 15 days.
Third, the north and south march together to encircle Huaye.
Of course, the main reliance here is on the southern front, and the northern front is just a weak corps.
Chiang Kai-shek personally sat in Xuzhou to remotely control Chen Cheng, and Chen Cheng commanded the main army of the southern front to attack the north according to the order, and at the same time ordered Wang Yaowu of the northern front to send troops south to jointly annihilate Huaye.
Wang Yaowu's troops were really not good, since he had fought a few battles with Chen Su in Shandong, he did not dare to act rashly at all, and had been obediently guarding the front line in Jinan and Qingdao, and never dared to take the initiative to provoke.
However, Chen Cheng, who was a dead brain, had to let Wang Yaowu send troops, and he also said in a beautiful name that he had won a great victory in Linyi, and the communist army had no resistance, so don't be timid like a rat.
The Linyi victory mentioned here refers to the fact that after Ou Zhen attacked Linyi, our army strategically abandoned Linyi according to the deployment, and naturally gave the nationalist army, which has always liked to falsely report the victory, so after Ou Zhen occupied Linyi, it was immediately reported to Linyi, and also claimed to eliminate 15 brigades of our army.
Chiang Kai-shek was naturally ecstatic, thinking that our army had returned to heaven and lacked skill, and Chen Cheng's straw bag was also contemptuously showing off the good news of the Linyi Campaign at this moment.
But Wang Yaowu was not a straw bag, he did not believe that the Nationalist army could eat 15 brigades of our army in Linyi, although the strength of the southern front was very strong, but he could not deceive himself!
Li Xianzhou
Therefore, Wang Yaowu believed that this was completely Chen Cheng's fornication, and chose not to resolutely send troops.
Chen Cheng was so angry that he said that Linyi had won a great victory, and Wang Yaowu was still instigating something, so he reported it to Chiang Kai-shek and filed a complaint.
Chiang Kai-shek naturally believed chen cheng more, and at the same time blindly optimistic that Linyi's great victory was completely true, so he ordered Wang Yaowu to unconditionally carry out Chen Cheng's orders, send troops to Laiwu as soon as possible, and complete the task of jointly attacking Huaye from the north and the south.
Wang Yaowu could only knock out his teeth and swallow blood when he was angry again, but at this moment, none of wang Yaowu's 3 armies could be relied on, and if he went personally, he was bound to die at the hands of Chen Su.
What to do?
Wang Yaowu fixed his gaze on the body of Li Xianzhou, the man who carried the pot.
Subsequently, Wang Yaowu sent Li Xianzhou as the front-line commander on the pretext of sitting in Jinan, and officially embarked on the road of death with the strength of the 46th, 73rd, and 12th armies.
Wang Yaowu
Poor Li Xianzhou was sent to Chen Su's hands.
Su Yu made a clever calculation to determine the direction of the national army
Li Xianzhou is on the set, then we should talk about the next set.
At the beginning, su yu's main strategic point was also Linyi on the southern front, after all, Linyi's core position as the cpc liberated area in Shandong was of great significance, and it should not be easily abandoned unless necessary.
Su Yu's original plan was to send most of his troops to attack the right side, attract Huang Baitao's entire 25th Division to turn back, and then Su Yu would eat Huang Baitao again.
However, Su Yu's plan failed to materialize, and only a group of enemy troops was captured, and su Yu's heart was not fulfilled.
Therefore, Su Yu prepared to launch a second plan, retreating the main force to the north of Linyi, and then encircling and annihilating the enemy's large army after the whole line of the enemy advanced northward.
Su Yu Chen Yi
This decision was very bold, and a little carelessness would really allow the Nationalist army to take Linyi, but the decision of The head of Chen Su was still strongly supported by the central government.
Subsequently, Ou Zhen led the corps to attack Linyi, and after occupying the empty city, he unexpectedly advanced northward with an unexpected dense approach, changing the previous performance of sitting still.
This was a bit of a surprise to Su Yu; if he chose to attack the enemy on the southern front now, and if the enemy troops on the northern front came and destroyed our base area in the Yimeng Mountains, then our army would be completely cut off from the rear road, and the Liberated Area of Shandong would inevitably fall into danger.
Therefore, under the unanimous discussion of the central government and Chen Su's two chiefs. It was decided to boldly go north, first to get rid of the enemy troops on the southern front, and then to find an opportunity to eat the 3 armies on the northern front, first to solve the security of the northern front, and then to return to the southern front to fight.
After the strategy and tactics were determined, Su Yu immediately arranged the plan for the northern offensive.
The question is, the northern front is big, where to choose the location of the decisive battle?
Su Yu was still a general who had fought the Immortal War, and soon speculated where the northern front of the overseas army would appear.
Naturally, it is the first line of Laiwu Xintai.
The basis for Su Yu's judgment is very bold, the previously mentioned Chiang Kai-shek wants to annihilate Chen Suhuaye's army in 15 days, it is bound to choose a very convenient route, and Laiwu is the nearest line.
However, Su Yu was not the grass bale of the Nationalist army in the end, and it was certainly not enough to rely on speculation alone, if the heavens were pitiful and gave the Nationalist army a wise man to inform laiwu of the dangers of the Xintai front, then Huaye would be empty, and he would completely lose the base area in the Yimeng Mountains.
In the end, Su Yu still captured a point that no one could see: Li Xianzhou was stuck in Boshan.
Boshan is close to Zichuan, Laiwu is in front of him, Li Xianzhou is not a fool in the end, naturally he still perceives the danger of Laiwu, so he only sent the strength of one division to Laiwu to find out first.
But it was this subtle action that allowed Su Yu to capture Li Xianzhou and Wang Yaowu's intentions, and they also knew that Laiwu was dangerous, but they didn't know where to go? Laiwu could only choose to go south, so he would send a part of his troops to feel the situation first.
Chiang Kai-shek
Horns!
Su Yu immediately and resolutely ordered that all huaye troops go north to Laiwu, advance covertly, and fight a battle in Laiwu to encircle and annihilate the nationalist army.
At this time, Li Xianzhou saw that the troops going forward were not in danger, so he also led the main force to sail towards Laiwu.
It can be said that heaven has a way you don't go, and hell has no door for you to break in.
However, li Xianzhou could not be blamed for his stupidity, after all, how could he realize that my General Su Yu had already calculated so cleverly!
In the end, more than 50,000 people in Li Xianzhou were shamefully annihilated by Chen Su on the battlefield of Laiwu, and looking at the reasons for the defeat, he had to say something, and he could find several reasons:
First, Ou Zhen boasted that Linyi's great victory was a disaster.
Second, Chen Cheng's stupid command is also a time bomb.
Third, Wang Yaowu foresaw the danger but still did not stop Jiang Chen Weicao.
Han Liancheng, commander of the Fourth and 46th Armies, was a member of the Chinese Communists, and victory could not be separated from his internal and external cooperation.
Fifth, Li Xianzhou himself was an incompetent conductor.
After being captured, Li Xianzhou was completely convinced, and in just 3 days, he was wrapped in more than 50,000 dumplings by the People's Liberation Army, which is also rare in the history of world wars.
Chen Yi
Later, Li Xianzhou was received by Chen Yi, and Li Xianzhou was no longer dissatisfied at this moment, and Bi respectfully consulted Chen Yi, and the two of them had a conversation for more than 2 hours.
During the conversation, Li Xianzhou inexplicably asked Chen Yi, how did Hua Ye judge that our army must go to Laiwu?
Chen Yi smiled and told Li Xianzhou and Pan about Su Yu's before and after in the Battle of Laiwu.
Li Xianzhou couldn't help but sigh: ZhuangZha Su Yu is worthy of being today's God of War level figure!
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