During the entire Liberation War, Ichino annihilated 520,000 enemies, Erye annihilated 2.3 million enemies, Sanye annihilated 2.47 million enemies, and Siye annihilated 1.88 million enemies. Among the 2.3 million enemy troops destroyed by Nino, the Southwest Campaign accounted for a large proportion, at this time the Nationalist army had been completely defeated, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, so the difficulty was not very great. The annihilation of the enemy in Sanno and Shino was basically at the most important time of the liberation war, and it was more difficult. Friends who are familiar with history know that the foundation of Sanno is far inferior to that of Shino.
At that time, there were five main sources of this unit, one was the six main divisions directly under the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and one main force of the Luzhong, Binhai, Jiaodong, and Bohai Military Regions, with a total strength of more than 60,000 people; second, the Third Division, the most powerful of the New Fourth Army, with a total strength of 30,000 troops; third, the 359th Brigade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, the 1st Garrison Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, and the Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the Yan'an Artillery School, with a total strength of more than 10,000 troops; and fourth, jinsui, Jizhong, and Yan'an artillery schools. There is 1 main force regiment in each of Hebei, Luyu, and 5 is part of the main force of the Jireliao Military Region.
In addition, more than 20,000 party and government cadres from various liberated areas and Yan'an were also dispatched to the northeast. It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, the Northeast People's Autonomous Army was brave and brave, and with the acceptance of weapons and ammunition left by the Japanese army, the firepower also surpassed the whole army. Such a solid foundation is far from being comparable to That of Mino. But even under such circumstances, Sanye's total number of annihilated enemies in the Liberation War still ranked first, which was even more precious. The reason why Sanno can have such an outstanding record is inseparable from the command of the god of war, Su Yu.
As everyone knows, Chen Yi is in charge of the overall situation in Sanye, and his military command mainly depends on Su Yu. Due to the special strategic position of the Jiangsu Liberated Area and the Shandong Liberated Area, after the Liberation War began, the Nationalist army mobilized heavy troops to besiege Huaye, including the three absolute main forces of the reorganized 11th Division, the reorganized 74th Division, and the 5th Army. In the face of difficulties, Su Yu has repeatedly staged the example of winning more with less and defeating the strong with the weak. In the Battle of Suzhong, Huaye 30,000 against 120,000 enemies, seven battles and seven victories, annihilated more than 53,000 enemies, and Li Mo'an, who fought "able to write and be able to fight", lost his temper.
The Battle of Huaihai, with 600,000 vs. 800,000, was the most difficult of the three major battles. In the Liaoshen Campaign, Dongye faced the enemy with 700,000 against 550,000; in the Battle of Pingjin, Dongye faced more than 500,000 enemies with a million troops, and the strength of the troops was even more overwhelming. In the Battle of Huaihai, our army was 200,000 less than our opponents. Moreover, in order to fight this strategic decisive battle, Lao Jiang almost did his best, and famous generals such as Huang Baitao, Hu Lian, Qiu Qingquan, and Du Yuming also all entered the battle. However, Su Yu, like a cattle in a cattle race, divided and surrounded the enemy one by one and annihilated them completely, winning the final victory in the Battle of Huaihai, which has to be said to be a miracle.
In addition to being good at winning more with less, Su Yu was always able to keenly grasp the fighter plane and fight the Battle of the Immortals, the most representative of which was the Battle of Meng Lianggu. In this battle, Su Yu went against common sense and took the 74th Division, the number one trump card of the Nationalist Army, to the surprise of many people. After all, the strength of the 74th Division is there, if it cannot eliminate the opponent in a short period of time, there is a danger of being counter-encircled by the enemy, and the consequences will be unimaginable at that time. However, Su Yu skillfully dispatched and took the first rank of the enemy general in the million army, and fought the most classic battle in the Liberation War.
In addition, Su Yu is also very responsible and can adhere to his own opinions. In April 1948, in order to alleviate the pressure on the Central Plains battlefield, Chairman Mao decided to send Su Yu and huaye's three main columns to cross the river to fight in the Kuomintang area. However, after careful consideration, Su Yu believed that this would do more harm than good, and if the troops rushed to cross the river, in the absence of rear combat, they would inevitably be blocked and chased by the enemy, and they would turn to several provinces in Jiangnan, and the loss would not be less than 50,000 people. He said to Chen Yi emotionally: "Use the price of 50,000 casualties and attrition to go to Jiangnan to fight on the battlefield of the Central Plains, and have a complete confidence in annihilating more than a dozen reorganized divisions of the enemy." The war situation in the Central Plains and even the whole country may change! ”
Chen Yi was persuaded and admired Su Yu's courage to speak out boldly and out in disregard of personal gains and losses. However, he also knew that Chairman Mao was not the one who easily abandoned his own ideas, let alone strategic propositions that had a bearing on the overall situation of national victory. In the end, Su Yu personally sent Chairman Mao a long telegram of nearly 3,000 words, expounding in detail his own propositions, and after Seeing this telegram, Chairman Mao thought that Su Yu's analysis was reasonable and well-founded, and finally changed his mind. This is in sharp contrast to Lin Biao in the early days of the Liaoshen Campaign, in which Lin Biao vigorously advocated the first attack on Changchun, and Chairman Mao sent several consecutive telegrams to strengthen his determination to fight Jinzhou.
Under the command of Su Yu, Hua Ye played many classic battle examples, and the number of annihilated enemies ranked first among the four major field armies. Among them, the top three columns in the number of annihilated enemies in the Liberation War were all from Huaye; the first rank was the Tao Yong column, which annihilated a total of 200,000 enemies, and the Huaihai Campaign alone annihilated 72,863 enemies; the second rank was Ye Fei's column, which annihilated 195,000 enemy; and the third rank was Wang Bicheng's column, annihilating 190,000 enemy troops. The nationalist general Hu Liandu admired Su Yu, and in his later years he once said that "the earth is less than a millet", and the name of Su Yu's god of war is truly deserved.