The starting point of Lin Biao and Su Yu
In June 1946, with the heavy artillery fire fired by the Kuomintang troops into the Liberated Areas, the curtain of the War of Liberation was officially opened, a great war that determined the future destiny of China.
Although in the early stages of the War of Liberation, the Kuomintang army, which had the superiority in strength and equipment, once had the upper hand, forcing the PLA to enter a strategic defensive posture, with the close cooperation of the Central Military Commission and the plaster generals, the PLA gradually achieved a strategic reversal, and finally successfully won the war of liberation and achieved great achievements in the establishment of the republic.
Among them, when it comes to the number of enemies annihilated by the various units of the People's Liberation Army, there is a very interesting comparison: Sanye annihilated 2.45 million enemies and Siye 1.8 million, so who is better than Su Yu and Lin Biao, who are the two gods of war?
To answer this question, we still have to start with the experience of the two people. Among them, Lin Biao was born in the Whampoa Military Academy, belonging to the generals from the class, while Su Yu's birth was relatively ordinary, he studied at the Hunan Provincial Second Normal School, and later as a progressive student, Ye Ting was appointed as a probationary platoon leader, thus embarking on the military road.
It is precisely for this reason that Lin Biao's promotion path is obviously much smoother than Su Yu's. After graduating from Huangpu, Lin Biao directly participated in the Northern Expedition and the Nanchang Uprising, becoming the first regimental commander of the Red Army, and later in the anti-encirclement and suppression struggle, Lin Biao was promoted by Chairman Mao, and at the age of 23, he became the commander of the 34th Army of the Red 1st Army, becoming the youngest commander in the Red Army.
At the same time, Su Yu's starting point was much lower, and after the Nanchang uprising, he only served as the head of the guard squad, and then followed the team south to Jinggangshan. However, due to Su Yu's flexible brain, his superiors also discovered Su Yu's military talent and began to promote him step by step to company commander, battalion commander, and regiment commander.
The difference between Lin Biao and Su Yu
But by 1935, the fates of both Lin Biao and Su Yu had undergone a drastic change—the main forces of the Red Army were forced to embark on the Long March of Strategic Transfer, and the old base areas could only be left with the old, weak, sick and brutal guerrillas. Among them, Lin Biao was the one who commanded the main force of the Red Army, while Su Yu was the one who stayed in the base area to fight guerrillas. This difference also directly leads to the two people's very different styles of combat play.
Su Yu led his weakly equipped Red Army forces into the deep mountains and forests of the south and began to fight a three-year guerrilla war that was extremely arduous. In the past three years, Su Yu has faced countless sieges that are several times, or even dozens of times greater than his own enemies, and is in danger almost every day. Therefore, Su Yu's only way to survive is to use strange troops to fight the enemy's surprise. From the perspective of others, Su Yu's playing style has even reached the level of "adventurism".
As the commander of the main force of the Red Army's Long March, Lin Biao directly shouldered the heavy responsibility of the security of the whole Party Central Committee, so he would never fight a war and take a dangerous place, but should be cautious and cautious. Lin Biao himself has a very clear summary: I am a person who fights a war, even if there is a five-point chance of winning, I will not send troops, only seven points of victory will send troops! However, if the chance of winning by nine points is reached, the enemy has also run away early and there is no battle to fight, so it is still the most appropriate to use seven points.
Therefore, judging from the summary of the military style of the two men, Su Yu is good at fighting strange battles and dangerous battles, and the more chaotic the situation, Su Yu can find out the clues and traces in it, and smell the hope of victory from it. And Lin Biao is more good at tackling tough battles and hard battles, and is a practitioner of the right way of fighting, and destroying decay and indestructible is Lin Biao's unique style of fighting. There is no question of who is better than the two of them, it is just a difference in style.
Number of enemy annihilated
In the Liberation War, it was Lin Biao and Su Yu's military style that most intuitively reflected. The Northeast Field Army commanded by Lin Biao directly "closed the door and fight dogs" in the northeast, first attacked Jinzhou and broke off the connection between the northeast and Guannei, and then gradually nibbled down the three major cities in the northeast and liberated the whole territory of the northeast.
Later, when Siye digested the resources of the northeast and swung his division south, he even gave full play to the "unstoppable", and wherever the army went, the enemy was either defeated or surrendered, and there was no ability to resist at all. According to post-war statistics, Siye fought all the way from the northeast to Hainan Island, annihilating 1.8 million enemies all the way, and making great achievements.
The pinnacle of Su Yu's command is undoubtedly the well-known Battle of Huaihai. In this battle, both the Kuomintang and the Communists originally thought that it was a strategic temptation, and the scale of the troops invested did not exceed 100,000 people, but unexpectedly, with the development of the war, more and more troops were involved, and finally it directly became a strategic decisive battle of 800,000 to 600,000, and no one expected this progress.
Only Su Yu stripped away the cocoon in the chaotic Huaihai battlefield and used his keen intuition to see one fleeting fighter after another. Under his command, the People's Liberation Army was like a delicate scalpel that cut the nationalist defense line one by one, swallowing up the 800,000 nationalist troops that were originally superior in strength. From the overall point of view, the command of this Huaihai Campaign can be described by the word art. This is where Su Yu's strength lies.
The three wilds commanded by Su Yu have long fought in the north and east China areas, which are plain terrain suitable for the large deployment of the Nationalist army, so the Nationalist army is very densely distributed - the number of annihilated is naturally more. According to post-war statistics, Su Yu's three fields annihilated a total of 2.45 million enemies, which was the largest number of enemy annihilated troops among the major field armies, and the great contributions made by Su Yu to the establishment of the republic can be seen.