There are many famous generals in our army, who is the first person who is the best at fighting in large corps?
There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's minds, and each one has his own standards in his heart. Including Peng, Lin, Liu, Xu, and Su, the "Five Tiger Generals" of our army, there are only a handful of founding generals who have commanded the operations of the large corps, and they are all strong contenders for the first person in the operation of the large corps.
General Peng of the "Five Tiger Generals" of our army commanded the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Lin Zong had the Liaoshen Campaign, Liu Shuai had the Liberation of the Great Southwest, Xu Shuai had the Hubei-Yu-Anhui Counter-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign and the Jinzhong Campaign, and General Su Yu also had the battles of Menglianggu, Yudong, Jinan, and Huaihai.
Other founding generals, General Zhu Lao commanded four counter-encirclement and suppression, Chen Geng commanded the counteroffensive in western Yu, Deng Hua and Han Xianchu performed well on the 38th Front, Yang Dezhi, Luo Ruiqing, and Geng Biao's corps made outstanding contributions in the North China battlefield, and Xu Shiyou's heroic display in the Jiaodong and Shandong battlefields are all classic examples of the combat of our army's large corps.
Among these famous generals, who was the first person in the battle of our army's large corps?
General Lin had the most soldiers under him
Fighting in large corps is the inevitable result of our army's development to a certain stage.
The "corps" level of our army was formed in the late period of the Liberation War, and generally fell between the "field army" and the "army" (formerly known as the "column"). The number of our corps is generally between 60,000 and 150,000, usually around 100,000.
The role of the XPCC is similar to the formation of group armies during the Anti-Japanese War.
Large corps operations, as the name implies, are battles with a large scale and a large number of enemies annihilated at one time. Large corps operations are the result of our army's development and the enemy's weakening during the Liberation War.
First, the number of our army is at least 100,000 or more, and the number of troops participating in the battle on both sides is generally more than 200,000, and in some "Armageddon battles", the total number of troops participating in the battle of both sides will even reach more than one million;
Second, the battle of large corps is not only a duel of infantry, but also artillery, tanks, and heavy troops account for a considerable proportion;
Third, in a local area, large corps operations often play the role of determining the victory or defeat of a war;
Fourth, the operation of large corps requires commanders' strategic thinking to be higher, and has both strategic and tactical requirements;
Fifth, the combat consumption of the large corps is huge, which is a huge challenge to the communication line and logistics supply;
Sixth, there are various forms such as blitzkrieg, ambush warfare, sports warfare, fortification warfare, and siege warfare at the same time.
Our army is a famous general, who is the first person to fight in the big corps?
Some people think that General Peng is "self-taught without a division," and the reason is very simple: No matter how many or few troops there are, General Peng's command level is as stable as ever, and the bigger the battle, the more vicious the battle, and the stronger the enemy army, the domineering spirit of General Peng's corps in fighting is fully displayed.
In the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, Peng commanded a million volunteers and more than 100,000 people's troops, and in five campaigns and more than a year of stalemate, the coalition forces returned home again and again.
Some people think that it is Su Yu who "fought the immortal battle", Su Yu used troops to calculate everything, and even Liu Shuai, the "contemporary Sun Wu" in the Yudong campaign, modestly said that he was inferior; Huaihai blocked Huang Baitao and waited for Du Yuming, which fully demonstrated the genius of the large corps in combat.
Some people also think that it is Lin Zong, who has a deep city government, and Lin Zong's Red First Army during the Red Army period, which reflects the freedom of advance and retreat of the large corps in the successive counter-encirclement and suppression; In the Northeast Battlefield during the Liberation War, the three lower Jiangnan, the four protection and Linjiang had the charm of large corps fighting, and the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign could be called the second battle.
Some people believe that the first person in the operation of the large corps is Liu Shuai, who has a strong theoretical level and practical ability.
The period of the Anti-Japanese War. Liu Shuai formed a "guerrilla group" to fight the people's war with the Japanese army; During the liberation period, he led Nakano to open and close directly behind enemy lines, decisively fought the Huaihai "thin dog pulling hard" to carry the Huangwei Corps, and marched to the southwest to directly bury the Jiang family dynasty.
There is also the most low-key Xu Shuai, who independently formed a "guerrilla warfare method" during the Red Army period; During the Anti-Japanese War period, he proposed the theory of "human mountains" in the plains; During the liberation period, he always used inferior troops to hide and seek with his fellow countryman Yan Xishan, and finally completed the liberation of Shanxi.
Su Yu's combat ability of the corps was well known, and this was written in a eulogy after his death.
In the evaluation of the coffin's conclusion, the comment that "he is especially good at commanding large corps to fight" is the only one of the ten marshals and ten generals. However, as a combat master of the large corps, Xu Shuai, who can fight, be resourceful and low-key, also has several outstanding advantages.
First, Xu Shuai was the first marshal to independently command the battle of the large corps.
During the Red Army period, the main force of the base areas with more than 100,000 troops in the whole country was only Hong Yi, led by Zhu Mao, and Hongsi, who Xu Qianqian was the commander-in-chief. The Red Fourth Front Army commanded by Xu Qianqian fought big battles and vicious battles continuously, and the results were also brilliant. The famous Sujiabu Battle and the anti-six-way siege, Xu Shuai defeated the strong with weakness, and the spirit was haunted, perfectly combining guerrilla warfare and sports warfare.
Second, Xu Shuai is the only "Five Tiger Generals" whose forces have never been superior.
During the Red Army period, Xu Shuai was only the first to emerge; During the Anti-Japanese War, due to physical reasons, he missed the opportunity to integrate Shandong independently, and during the Liberation War, the Jinzhong Campaign, which swept 100,000 with 60,000, fully demonstrated the demeanor of Xu Shuai's army.
The third point is that Xu Shuai's large army fights and is very good at taking advantage of the time and place.
After the fourth counter-encirclement and suppression defeat in the Hubei-Yu-Anhui base area, Xu avoided the real attack and attacked the void, keenly found a breakthrough point and entered Dabashan in Sichuan-Shaanxi, cleverly used the contradiction between Tian Songyao and other warlords of the Sichuan army to break the encirclement and suppression of 100,000 enemy troops and successfully gained a foothold.
Soon, the Red Fourth Front Army expanded from less than 40,000 to more than 100,000.
In comparison, the first person in the battle of our army's large corps has to be General Peng.
During the Red Army period, General Peng was the military chief of the Red Third Army; During the Anti-Japanese War, as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, he organized the Hundred Regiments War; During the liberation period, General Peng led the Northwest Field Army to use "mushroom tactics" to maneuver with Hu Zongnan, and finally counterattacked to liberate the northwest; To resist US aggression and aid Korea, he also led representatives of the five major field armies to stop the coalition forces.
Some people say that the large corps under General Peng's command did not fight much, and I am afraid that it is inaccurate to call the "first man."
During the period of the Red Army, our army fought mainly "guerrilla warfare"; During the Anti-Japanese War, including the "Hundred Regiments War", it was mainly sabotage battles; For a long time during the Liberation War, there were only 450,000 people in General Peng's western field, and only 160,000 when the whole army was reorganized.
However, it is not that the more people commanded, the higher the combat level of the large corps.
In military history, there are not many famous generals in our army who command an army of more than 300,000. Even Bai Chongxi, one of the "Big Three" of the enemy Gui, had only three or four hundred thousand people under his command. The chairman had promised that if Bai Chongxi rebelled, he could command 300,000 troops.
The view that the more troops commanded, the stronger the combat capability of large corps, is somewhat one-sided.
Indeed, the more combat strength of a large corps, the more places need to be comprehensively considered and coordinated, the more uncontrollable factors there are, and the more difficult it is to win. However, the ancients' philosophy of "ruling a big country if you cook small food" is also similar in terms of war, and there are many similarities in strategy, tactics and principles.
The most typical is General Peng, the whole army reorganized Xiye only 160,000 people, with the joining of the 18th and 19th Corps, it grew to 350,000, 580,000 in its heyday. To resist US aggression and aid Korea, Peng commanded the 1.5 million troops of the Sino-DPRK coalition army, which was handy and had no sense of discord.
Others believe that General Peng commanded the large corps to fight and also lost the battle.
In "Peng Dehuai's Self-Statement", General Peng summarized the four major defeats in his military career, namely:
During the Red Army period, the Red Third Army attacked Ganzhou without success, suffered heavy losses in the Guanjiayan offensive in the third stage of the Hundred Regiments War, Baoji in the Longdong Campaign of Xifu during the Liberation War was recovered, and the fifth campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea annihilated 82,000 enemies and suffered 85,000 self-damages.
There are no absolute victorious generals in the world, and Liu Shuai also said that "it would be good to win a majority."
Moreover, the defeat of Ganzhou was caused by the "leftist tilt" of the superiors, the battle of Guanjiayan was not a large corps battle, and the root cause of the defeat of the fifth campaign to resist US aggression and aid Korea was more a problem of logistical support.
Mr. Peng's judgment of the war situation, tactical choices, on-the-spot command, and natural domineering are all labels with great personality. In particular, President Peng's "natural domineering" is not possessed by any other founding marshal, general and admiral.
The long-term shortage of troops did not affect the military talent of the commander of General Peng's corps.
In the face of the coalition army, dare to "show the sword" and plan skillfully, so that the coalition army can not take advantage of the slightest. The combination of Deng Hua, Hong Xuezhi, Han Xianchu and other deputies also proves that President Peng is not only good at commanding large corps to fight, but also good at knowing people and building teams.
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