On July 7, 1937, Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, which was a unilateral crushing of an agricultural country by an advanced industrialized country.
In order to launch this war of aggression and annex China, Japan began to prepare before the First Sino-Japanese War, so the Japanese soldiers had undergone strict training, and they were not only well-equipped but also accurate in marksmanship.
In 1938, Su Yu had the first confrontation with the Japanese invaders, and after this battle, he was deeply impressed.
Now some anti-Japanese dramas film the Japanese army stupidly and stupidly, which makes people feel very brainless, but in fact, it is not like that at all.
The sharpshooters of the New Fourth Army clashed with the Japanese invaders, and the enemy's marksmanship was accurate and vigilant
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army planned to enter the city to search under the pretext that a soldier was missing in Wanping City, but was blocked by our garrison, and the Japanese army shot Chinese soldiers to fight back, and the outbreak of the full-scale War of Resistance against Japan.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan's main battlefield was in the North China Plain, and after the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, Chinese soldiers used 700,000 lives to slow down the pace of the Japanese army's attack on the southeast of the mainland.
With the defeat of the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army passed through Yangzhou and Suzhou, all the way to Nanjing, the seat of the Nationalist Government.
The Chinese soldiers on the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu were almost all gone, and the reason why Japan later launched the Nanjing Massacre was that Nanjing was the capital of the Republic of China government, and as long as the Nanjing people were killed, the Chinese would bow their heads.
Beginning on December 13, 1937, the Japanese army carried out a 22-day massacre against Nanjing compatriots, resulting in the death of at least 300,000 people, which was also the most desperate moment for the Chinese people.
Chiang Kai-shek and others had fled to Chongqing in early December 1937, and a large area south of the Yangtze River had fallen, and in such a harsh environment, the New Fourth Army became an anti-Japanese force.
On February 15, 1938, the New Fourth Army received an organizational telegram instructing its troops to Zhenjiang, Danyang, Changxing, Guangde, Jintan, and other areas to facilitate the local development of the establishment of base areas, in order to expand the base of the Fourth Army.
The advance detachment of the New Fourth Army led by Su Yu carried out a reconnaissance mission in the south of the Yangtze River and found that the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the local people was gradually disappearing, and many people even thought that we had no way to win against the Japanese.
He believed that the people of Jiangnan urgently needed a victory to strengthen their confidence in resisting Japan, and that the New Fourth Army also needed a victory to strike a blow at the arrogance of the Japanese.
At the critical moment, Su Yu received an order from the military leaders to destroy the railway section from Zhenjiang to Nanjing within three days to block the Japanese attack.
After getting the map, he made an unexpected decision after analysis and judgment, and set the target task at Weigang, which was not far from the road.
This place is located in the southwest of Zhenjiang, with small hills on both sides, a 198-meter-high hill to the east and a 455-meter-high hill to the west.
The railway is surrounded by rolling hills, dense vegetation, and narrow roads, making it an ideal place for ambush warfare. Late at night on June 16, 1938, Su Yu led his soldiers to ambush around Weigang, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enemy.
At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 18th, five Japanese military vehicles came from a distance, a total of more than 30 people, these people swaggered into the ambush circle without warning, only to hear Su Yu shouting: Up!
After that, there was a burst of gunfire, and our soldiers opened heavy fire on the enemy with submachine guns and grenades.
The Japanese soldiers abandoned their cars and fled, some panicked and fell into a nearby ditch, some jumped into the trees on both sides of the road, some tried to get under the trucks, and some Japanese soldiers pulled out their guns to shoot back......
Although the soldiers of the New Fourth Army occupied the commanding heights on the top of the mountain, the marksmanship of these Japanese soldiers was very accurate, and many of our soldiers were wounded.
Relying on the advantage of the first strike, our side finally won the victory, and at the end of the battle, we cleaned the battlefield to collect loot, and found a lot of military supplies from the trucks.
Returning to the camp, Su Yu reflected on this battle, and found that the soldiers of the New Fourth Army had poor grenade throwing skills, and their shooting skills were not as good as the enemy's, but they accidentally injured their comrades, and he also wondered why these Japanese soldiers were more accurate in marksmanship than themselves.
Rural children embarked on the revolutionary road and participated in the Battle of Weigang to fight the Japanese
What kind of person is Su Yu, let's take a look at his growth and development experience.
On August 10, 1907, Su Yu was born in Fengmushujiao Village, Huitong County, Hunan Province. His family conditions are not bad, and his parents also attach great importance to education, and in 1913 he was sent to a private school to study, and the enlightenment courses are mostly books such as "Hundred Family Names", "Three Character Classics" and "The Mean".
When he was 11 years old, a gang of bandits appeared in Su Yu's hometown, and several villages around him burned, killed, looted, and robbed houses.
After Yuan Shikai's death, the Beiyang army was torn apart, and warlords fought in various places, which soon spread to Hunan. Su Yu's classmates at school were dissatisfied with the Beiyang warlords in the local area and launched protests, which had a great impact on him.
In March 1924, Su Yu left his hometown to Changde, Hunan, and in the spring of the following year, he was admitted to a normal school, where Jiang Yiwu, the leader of the Wuchang Uprising, Lin Boqu, the founder of the Zhenchu School, and Zhuo Jiong, a famous economist, all studied.
Su Yu soon joined the student union and secretly began to work for the organization, and in 1926 he took part in the struggle against the expulsion of Teng Daiyuan, and in the same year joined the Communist Youth League and embarked on the road of revolution.
After Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Coup", the principal of the Second Division of Changde was killed, and the organization sent them to Wuchang in order to protect the safety of the students, Su Yu joined the 24th Division Teaching Brigade, and the captain was the famous General Ye Ting.
Here he was baptized by revolutionary ideas and strengthened his determination and confidence to fight for independence for the country and the nation.
In the summer, he left Wuchang with the large army and marched to Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and before arriving in Jiangxi, this teaching team was reorganized, and Su Yu's squad was changed to a guard team.
During this period, Su Yu also received professional military training, participated in the Nanchang Uprising with other comrades-in-arms on August 1, and went south to Guangdong with the troops.
In April 1928, Su Yu, who had become an instructor, led the troops to Jinggangshan to join another team in victory, and the two teams were combined into the Fourth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with Mr. Zhu as the commander.
Before the outbreak of the "77 Incident", Su Yu had been active in the southern region and participated in five anti-encirclement and suppression struggles against the White Terror. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the guerrillas in the eight southern provinces were reorganized into the New Fourth Army, and Su Yu was appointed deputy commander of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army.
In June 1938, he led the New Fourth Army to fire the first shot of its advance into Jiangnan, and the battle of Weigang broke out. It was also in this battle that Su Yu, known as the sharpshooter, realized for the first time that the Japanese were more difficult than he imagined......
From the above introduction, it is not difficult to find that Su Yu is a general and handsome man with both civil and military skills, and even such a person sighs that "the Japanese army's marksmanship is too accurate", which shows how powerful the Japanese army was at that time.
Recognizing the gap with the Japanese, he trained hard to become a generation of war gods
Today's people's understanding of the Japanese army invading China often comes from some TV dramas, and many anti-Japanese dramas make Japanese soldiers stupid and stupid, so they cause many misunderstandings.
It can be seen from the Battle of Weigang that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army invading China is very strong, after all, Japan wants to invade China for more than a day or two, so how can it not make full preparations!
As mentioned at the beginning, the Japanese army wanted to invade the mainland during the First Sino-Japanese War, and even after the Meiji Restoration, how could it not have some family background and strength after decades of preparation.
The "stupid and stupid" Japanese army only exists in TV dramas, and how stupid they are filmed in TV dramas is how strong they are in reality.
When the Songhu War broke out in 1937, Japan sent its most elite troops, which led to the loss of almost all the elite units of the Chinese army, navy and air force, and the Japanese army completely suppressed the Chinese army by relying on sophisticated equipment and combined firepower.
After the Battle of Weigang, General Su Yu was deeply aware of the gap between the Chinese army and the Japanese, and in view of the experience and lessons learned from this battle, he later became more strict with the shooting skills of his own soldiers.
As long as he did not fight, he would personally supervise the soldiers to conduct shooting training, and hand over to the soldiers all the military knowledge and tactical ideas he had learned, thus directly improving the ability of the New Fourth Army to fight alone.
Later, Su Yu and the team led by Chen Yi converged, crossed the Yangtze River to the north, and successfully opened up the base area in the Battle of Huangqiao. After the Southern Anhui Incident, Chen Yi became the acting commander of the New Fourth Army, and Su Yu became the commander of the First Division, leading the team to stick to the Soviet-Chinese base area.
It is very close to Shanghai and Nanjing, and these two places have been occupied by the Japanese at that time, and to put it bluntly, they are operating under the noses of the Japanese, which shows that Su Yu is very powerful.
The Japanese army often swept through various base areas, and for more than three years, it had never captured the first division led by Su Yu.
As mentioned above, seeing the sophisticated equipment and strong combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers, Su Yu had stricter requirements for his soldiers.
In addition to daily training, they also carried out surprise raids, ambushes, and night battles from time to time, and practiced by battle, which not only trained the team, but also caught the Japanese off guard.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese army had a very high battle loss ratio, but the battle loss ratio of the troops led by Su Yu was extremely low, because he recognized the strength of the Japanese army very early.
Relying on the principle of knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent and not being defeated in a hundred battles, Su Yu led his troops to hold the Soviet-Chinese base area and made great contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
After the Liberation War began, Su Yu often carried four treasures when fighting: a pistol, a map, a compass and a telescope, and the name of a sharpshooter gradually spread among the army.
In October 1946, Su Yu took over the command of the East China Theater, and after that, he participated in the Lunan Campaign and the Laiwu Campaign.
In the Battle of Menglianggu, Su Yu led the corps to completely annihilate the 74th Division of the enemy's ace army, and in the Huaihai Campaign, he defeated the enemy with 600,000 soldiers and 800,000 soldiers, laying the foundation for the final victory of the Liberation War.
In 1947, Su Yu's record ranked first in all theaters, and he was awarded the rank of general in 1955.
When the god of war died in February 1984 and his body was cremated, Su Yu's family found three pieces of shrapnel from his ashes. These pieces of shrapnel were left behind during the Shuinan operation that year, and they were also the reason why he had been suffering from headaches for many years.
Before he died, General Su Yu instructed his wife Chu Qing: The funeral should be simple, and scatter his ashes in the place where he once fought......
From Su Yu's experience, it can be seen that only by having the courage to admit the gap between himself and the enemy can he make greater progress. What do you think differently about this?