Preface
As the saying goes, it's easy to put the icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow, even if it's a friend, it's hard to do it in a critical moment, let alone if it's hostile. However, at the time of the Liberation War, such an incident happened, in the Huaihai Campaign, Du Yuming's 200,000 troops were tightly surrounded, to the point of running out of ammunition and food.
In the face of the current situation, General Su Yu immediately decided to let the soldiers of our army go to deliver food to Du Yuming's army, and most people did not understand General Su Yu's actions very well, but after the Huaihai Campaign, everyone finally knew the reason.
First, the difficult Du Yuming Group
Speaking of why Du Yuming was besieged by our party and ended up in a dilemma, the most important reason was Lao Jiang's blind command. In the War of Liberation, Du Yuming, who was known as Lao Jiang's favorite general, also had a nickname "Fire Captain", to put it simply, there was a problem there, and Lao Jiang sent Du Yuming there.
Du Yuming, who was originally in the northeast, was treated well, and was transferred to the Central Plains by the order of Lao Jiang. Lao Chiang said that he was the commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang, but he was more like a gambler, and it can be said that the Kuomintang was losing and retreating because Lao Chiang liked to gamble, but he lost again and again.
After the Huaihai Campaign began, the goal designated by our party was to fight Huang Baitao's corps first, then Huang Wei's corps, and finally the tricky Du Yuming group.
Our party, under the leadership of General Su Yu, successfully annihilated Huang Baitao's corps, and Huang Baitao was defeated and died. For a while, Huang Wei and Du Yuming both felt a little cold in their lips and teeth. Only a few days later, the entire army of more than 100,000 troops of Huang Wei's corps was tightly besieged by our party in the area of Shuangdui.
At this time, Du Yuming judged the situation and immediately retreated with his army, but it was a battle against him, how could Su Yu let him escape easily. A net has long been laid on Du Yuming's retreat, and it can be said that Du Yuming himself is difficult to protect at this time.
At this time, Lao Jiang began to give orders to Du Yuming again, asking Du Yuming to go back now to rescue Huang Wei's corps. Du Yuming also knew very well that as long as he followed Lao Chiang's orders to go north, he would definitely fall into the encirclement of our party. It is a pity that the phrase "soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty" has been deeply engraved into Du Yuming's blood, and Du Yuming has no choice but to go back to rescue Huang Wei's corps.
Knowing himself and knowing that he would win all battles, General Su Yu had already expected Lao Jiang's thoughts, so he immediately organized a large army to surround Du Yuming's group. It was only in the early morning of the next day that Du Yuming was tightly surrounded by our party's army. At this time, Du Yuming, who was in prison, let alone to save Huang Wei, whether he could break through was a question.
After all, he was a battle-hardened general, and on the third day, Du Yuming began to organize a large army to break through. But they were all blocked by our party, and in the end, Du Yuming's group was besieged near Chenguanzhuang. This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the people here have long run away and taken all the food they can eat at home, and this place is now an empty city.
At this time, Du Yuming's group is already one of the few descendant troops in the hands of Lao Jiang, after Du Yuming is besieged, Lao Jiang is bound to rescue, but the most important thing at present is to solve the food of Du Yuming's 200,000 army.
If the soldiers can't even eat, what strength and energy do they have to fight? So at first, Chiang Kai-shek also tried his best to save his descendants. Helicopters flew back and forth one after another, bringing not only food, but also ammunition and other supplies to Du Yuming's army. But this is only initially, it is already winter, and helicopters are limited after extreme weather.
2. Coal transfer in the snow
After mid-December, the weather in Chenguanzhuang deteriorated instantly, and the arrival of rain and snow directly affected the airdrop. And they have been airdropped for many days, and it is impossible for our party not to know about it, and of course it is necessary to take action.
Under the influence of the weather and our party, the number of airdrops and supplies have plummeted. And there is another very interesting thing, because they are afraid that our army will shoot at helicopters, they do not dare to get too close to the ground, which directly leads to the materials they airdropped to our party's territory through the action of the wind.
Since it is to our party's territory, it is naturally our party's materials, and in just ten days, Du Yuming's army's grain storage has been eaten. The fighters were in a panic, and it can be said that what people did in the face of hunger was unbelievable, and hunger brought about irritability, and even cannibalism within the Kuomintang.
At this time, the Kuomintang army was just like our party during the Long March, eating tree bark and weeds as long as they could live, and their pampered stomachs would eat everything.
At this time, our army is exactly the opposite. The victory of our army in the Huaihai Battle was forged by the people, and it was precisely because they had been sending food to our party that our party could not only fill its stomach, but also eat meat.
General Su Yu was also very clear about the situation of Du Yuming's army, and it is worth mentioning here that the tactics adopted by Su Yu were "encircling but not fighting", building defensive measures, but not attacking. At that time, many people in the party felt that this was the best opportunity to attack Du Yuming's clique, because at this time the Kuomintang army was so hungry that they could not even hold a gun.
At this time, Su Yu not only did not launch an attack, but asked the soldiers of our army to send some food to the Kuomintang, which not only had food but also cigarettes, and of course our army's propaganda brochures were indispensable. During the Chinese New Year, Su Yu ordered the soldiers of our army to send a few pigs to the Kuomintang army, and let them eat meat during the New Year.
3. A great victory
At first, the Kuomintang officers and men were still very vigilant, they were afraid that our party would poison the food, but then they were really hungry, and some people said that even if they died, they would have to eat enough food before dying. They found out that our party did not poison the food, but gave it to them to eat, and while they were moved, they saw the pamphlets that our party had sent together with the food, and gradually some people surrendered to our party.
At first, there were only a few people, and finally they began to surrender to our army in groups and in successions, they were really hungry, and most of the Kuomintang troops were ordinary people, and most of them obeyed orders.
And from the bad weather in Chenguanzhuang to the New Year, more than 10,000 people surrendered to our army in less than a month.
As the saying goes, whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, Su Yu ordered to open a hole in the encirclement and let the innocent people and students in the city come out.
Our party's actions have made some Kuomintang troops feel the benevolence and righteousness of our party, and they are willing to surrender one after another, but many of them did not eat our party's food in vain. They all took up their weapons and joined the camp of our party, and turned around to fight the Kuomintang army.
With the end of the Pingjin Campaign, our party, under the command of General Su Yu, launched a general attack on Du Yuming's group. Compared with the high morale of our party, the Kuomintang army has already lost its morale, and defeat is inevitable, and the Du Yuming clique was completely annihilated by our party.
After the end of this battle, Huaye finally ushered in a rare large-scale increase in troops, according to incomplete statistics, Huaye increased nearly 200,000 soldiers after the end of this battle.
epilogue
It has always been important to evaluate a general not only for his record and ability, but also for his benevolence. Most of the soldiers' requirements for generals are benevolence and bravery, and Su Yu's body shows not only the benevolence and righteousness as the chief general, but also the humanitarian spirit admired by our party.
In the face of the fact that Du Yuming's clique ran out of ammunition and food, and did not take the opportunity to attack, but sent them food, it was also because of the benevolence of General Su Yu and our party that they regained the hearts of a large number of Kuomintang soldiers.