Among the ten founding marshals of New China, there was a general who had made great achievements in the Red Army period, but was no longer famous during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and he had commanded our army to be four of the most classic ten major battles in history, and he was Marshal Xu Xiangqian, who ranked eighth. Even Liu Shuai spoke highly of him, calling him the most capable of fighting in our army. What classic battles has Xu Shuai commanded? What was achieved in the battle?
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Marshal Xu Qianqian was born in 1901 to a peasant family in Wutai, Shanxi, and was a cadet of the first batch of the Whampoa Military Academy.
During his school years, because he was silent and did not like to perform, he was perfectly missed by Chiang Kai-shek, who was eager to gather talents at that time, and also achieved his path of growing into the best general of our army.
Xu Shuai participated in the creation of the Eyu-Anhui base area and was one of the founders of the Red Fourth Army
When Xu Shuai during the Red Army period became the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Army, Mr. Peng was also the commander of the army. It was also during this period that Xu Shuai fought two of the most classic battles in the history of our army in which less won more.
Sujiabu - Siege point to fight the classic battle
In 1932, shortly after the establishment of the Red Fourth Army, the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang reactionaries against the Eyu-Anhui base area began, and although it had just won two victories in the battles of Huang'an and Shanghuang not long ago, there were still more than ten enemy military forces around the base area, and the situation was grim and could not be underestimated. In February, the enemy's two divisions in Anhui Province successively captured Sujiabu, Qingshandian and other areas, and there was a great possibility of encircling the base areas, and in this crisis situation, the central authorities decided to resolutely counterattack and drive the enemy out of the Eyu-Anhui base area.
Xu Shuai analyzed the current enemy situation, and he believed that although the enemy's western Anhui region had a large number of troops, the deployment was relatively scattered, and there was still a big gap in the period that could be used by our army, so it was better to take advantage of the enemy's defects.
On the evening of March 21, the Red Army began to move, and it took three days to surround the main force of Chen Tiaoyuan, then chairman of the Kuomintang Anhui Province.
When he found out, he could not break through, so he had to send a signal to the outside world to ask the surrounding troops to come to support. Here we must talk about Xu Shuai's encirclement and reinforcement tactics, which can be simply and popularly understood as the fishing law enforcement now commonly said, and the bait in this battle is the three forces deployed by Chen Tiaoyuan in Qingshandian and Sujiabu and other areas, with the purpose of annihilating the enemy troops who have come to support them one by one under the condition of ensuring that the "bait" will not escape.
Xu Shuai's plan worked, and in the next few days, the enemy first sent 4 regiments and 1 brigade of troops, and just after reaching the periphery of the encirclement point, they were severely damaged by the Red Army, with heavy losses, and the remnants of the troops had to flee in a hurry, and the enemy inside wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to break through and was annihilated for the most part, and fled back to Sujiabu. In late April, the Nationalist government in Nanjing received news of the defeat in the western Anhui region and sent Li Shiding to lead 15 regiments of about 20,000 troops to support, and the enemy troops were divided into two groups, deciding to encircle the Red Army from the east and west.
Xu Shuai finally waited for the big fish to take the bait, he quietly watched the enemy troops who were about to bite the bait step by step to the encirclement circle, and when he hesitated, he also specially dispatched the main force of a division to lure the enemy deeper, and the enemy really made a plan, step by step stepping into the large net specially woven for him. On May 2, the main force of the Red Army began to close the net, 20,000 enemy troops instantly like mud cattle into the sea, quietly completely annihilated by our army, by the 8th Sujiabu Campaign officially ended, in this 48-day campaign, Xu Shuai led our army to annihilate more than 30,000 enemy troops, capture more than 20,000 people, capture more than 20,000 guns and other urgently needed military materials, further consolidate the Eyu-Anhui base area.
The Red Army has annihilated the most battles in the history of the enemy - anti-six-way encirclement and suppression
This battle took place in the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area during the Red Army period.
In October 1933, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Liu Xiang, a general of the Sichuan Army, to be the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Suppression Campaign and gave him the task of eliminating the Red Army in the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area for three months. Liu Xiang attached great importance to this operation, mobilized almost all 110 regiments in Sichuan and about 200,000 troops, and began to march to the Red Army base area in six routes.
At that time, the red fourth army had only 80,000 troops, and Xu Shuai, as the commander, did not panic at all, sitting on the front line and calmly deploying our army to resist the enemy's offensive. In December, the enemy's six-way forces began to launch a crazy attack on the basis, Xu Shuai analyzed that the current enemy's military strength is not balanced, not every road is strong in combat effectiveness, once we open the enemy's weak gap, then to a certain extent, counter-attack is by no means a problem. After observing, he set his sights on the enemy's sixth way.
On August 9, 1934, under the command of Xu Shuai, the Red Fourth Army, which had been besieged for nearly a year, climbed rocks and took a dangerous road, crossed the mountain road with complicated terrain, and went around to the Qinglongguan position in the rear of the enemy, and immediately annihilated the strength of three brigades of one division of the enemy.
On the night of August 28, taking advantage of the night, the Red Fourth Army surprised the enemy's main force from the area of Victory Mountain in the middle of the enemy's third and fourth roads, annihilating the strength of 10 regiments, the enemy was caught off guard, and had to retreat one after another, the Red Fourth Army continued to pursue, directly drove the enemy to the Jialing River area, officially broke the enemy's six-way siege, and the enemy's six-way encirclement and suppression was declared a failure.
In this battle that lasted for 10 months, the Red Fourth Army annihilated more than 80,000 enemy troops and captured countless guns and ammunition, which became the most classic operation of the Red Fourth Army and one of Xu Shuai's most well-known representative battles.
60,000 troops annihilated the enemy and 100,000 - the Battle of Jinzhong
From the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the early stage of the War of Liberation, Xu Shuai's figure was rarely seen, mainly because Xu Shuai had physical problems during this period and had always been in a state of recuperation. In the later stages of the Liberation War, Xu Shuai's health improved, and as soon as he came out of the mountain, he fought a very wonderful battle. It is worth mentioning that before this campaign, Chairman Mao and the central authorities were worried about Xu Shuai's health, and deliberately lowered the target of Xu Shuai's troops to annihilate the enemy, but who wanted to be rejected by Xu Shuai on the spot, and said that the amount allocated was too small, and he wanted to triple the number of annihilated enemies.
Shanxi is Xu Shuai's hometown, and at the same time, it is also the territory of Yan Xishan, which has been occupied for nearly 40 years, and Yan Laoxi has completely treated this place as his own acre and three points of land, and the operation of Shanxi is impermeable. This time, both of them said that it was a home battle, who was the best at it?
In the summer of 1948, the autumn harvest season in Shanxi was approaching, and in the face of the coming war, Yan Xishan and the People's Liberation Army were actively preparing for the war, especially Yan Xishan made several plans, one of the most crucial of which was to seize grain and autumn harvest, and be prepared for holding on to it and consuming it for a long time. Xu Shuai had already understood Yan Xishan's intentions, and in the face of his blatant grain grabbing plan, could Xu Shuai agree? The answer was obviously no, but Xu Shuai still allowed Yan Xishan to send his own troops, and he was brewing a bigger plan.
On June 9, the first plan of the Jinzhong Campaign began to be implemented, Xu Shuai first mobilized a part of the troops, made a long time unable to attack the Jinzhong region, impatient to take a detour to fight the northwest, Yan Xishan was really deceived, in order to surround and annihilate this Platon Army, Yan Xishan sent out the jinzhong troops that had previously been stubbornly held, but Xu Shuai's move flashed Yan Xishan's old waist, the PLA troops who had left the "northwest" had not yet been found, and the three county towns in the rear, QiXian County, Jiexiu, and Pingyao, which had just been transferred troops, were directly taken by Xu Shuai.
Yan Xishan urgently withdrew his troops, and no longer dared to easily dispatch troops. In the face of Yan Xishan's stubborn intentions, when Xu Shuai had already responded to the enemy, the first thing he had to do was to print out the enemy forces in the city. Xu Shuai decided to divide his troops and pretend to attack the Taikoo area, which was an important stronghold, Yan Xishan was indeed successful, and immediately sent troops out of the city to compete, and this force, under Xu Shuai's intentional inducement, took the next step away from Taiyuan City and entered the encirclement circle that had been ambushed in advance.
After Xu Shuai divided his troops and went around, he directly cut off the enemy's retreating communication line, and at this time, this force was like a turtle in an urn, and he wanted to break through but found that Xu Shuai had already tightened his pockets. And then there was an overwhelming victory.
On July 16, the Battle of Jinzhong officially ended, and the PLA troops annihilated 100,000 enemy troops.
The tasks assigned by Chairman Mao and the Central Committee were exceeded. Taiyuan City is close at hand, and the next battle is the last battle in Shanxi.
2 marshals and dozens of admirals went into battle together - the Battle of Taiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi and the base camp of Yan Xishan, the city inside and outside the yan xishan for decades of "decoration", built countless fortifications and fortresses, the city also has Yan Xishan's most sophisticated more than 100,000 troops, almost can be called impregnable. As far as the People's Liberation Army is concerned, although it has just won the victories in the battles of Linfen and Jinzhong, the soldiers are in a state of exhaustion, and the strength of the troops also needs to be replenished, Xu Shuai's old illness has recurred at this time, and how and when to fight this battle has become the main problem at present.
Beginning on October 5, the People's Liberation Army rose to the challenge and launched a campaign on the outskirts of Taiyuan, and the central government also sent some troops to support it. On the 26th, the People's Liberation Army began to compete for the four most important strategic fortresses on the outskirts of Taiyuan, took these four fortresses, the Taiyuan Campaign was almost half victorious, Yan Xishan in order to defend Taiyuan City and block the pace of the PLA's offensive, sent 8 divisions of troops, the People's Liberation Army also invested 27 regiments and countless artillery at any cost, the two sides were fierce for half a month, our army finally successfully took four fortresses.
At this time, the north has entered winter, and our army also needs to rest, so the central authorities have decided to slow down the plan to attack Taiyuan, and after the three major wars next year, they will concentrate their forces to launch a general attack on Taiyuan.
In March 1949, the central government once again transferred troops to the Taiyuan battlefield, and with Xu Shuai's original strength, the strength of the troops under Taiyuan City had reached 320,000. On the eve of the battle, Xu Shuai also persuaded Mr. Peng, who was going to the northwest to command the battle, to stay and coordinate the command, and the 2 future marshals of the Republic joined forces, plus dozens of future generals, and the combat lineup was unprecedentedly luxurious.
On April 20, the People's Liberation Army launched a general offensive against Taiyuan. The Taiyuan defenders who had been besieged for half a year had long been at the end of the crossbow, the city was seriously short of materials, it had fallen into a state of chaos, the People's Liberation Army from the city wall to the city, it took only 9 hours to end the battle, this half-year campaign, a total of more than 130,000 enemy annihilation, yan xishan, which had been entrenched here for 38 years, drove out of the old nest.
Xu Shuai was an outstanding military figure on the mainland, a representative figure of the proletarian revolution, and a hero of the republic; he used his life's painstaking efforts to contribute to the new China and was a well-deserved Chinese hero.