In 1948, the Battle of Nian Zhuang was in full swing.
"How dare you lie about the number of casualties!" In the headquarters of the East China Field Army, Su Yu took the case.
Seeing that the matter could no longer be concealed, the commanders of the columns reported the actual number of casualties one after another.
Su Yu learned that Huaye had already suffered most of the casualties, and after pondering for a moment, he said, "From now on, it is strictly forbidden to report the number of casualties!" ”
Everyone couldn't help but sigh, isn't this covering their ears and stealing the bell?
What is the meaning of Su Yu's move?
Difficult Huang Baitao
After the end of the three major battles in 1948, the living forces of the Kuomintang army were completely wiped out. Lao Chiang was unable to return to heaven and had to flee to Taiwan in defeat.
The battle that played a key role in the three major battles was the Huaihai Campaign. The Battle of Huaihai was the one in which the heaviest casualties and the largest number of enemies were annihilated among the three major battles.
At the beginning, when Su Yu, deputy commander of the East China Field Army, formulated the strategic policy for the Huaihai Campaign, he wanted to directly attack Xuzhou, where the main force of the Kuomintang was stationed.
The superiors affirmed Su Yu's overall strategic goal, but proposed a little adjustment: before attacking Xuzhou, Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps in Xin'an Town should be annihilated.
The central government was very prescient.
Among the Kuomintang troops who fought against Su Yu, the most difficult opponent was Huang Baitao.
When Chiang launched a full-scale civil war, his first plan was to capture the Soviet-central region, where Su Yu was located.
In order to stabilize the first battle, Lao Jiang sent all his troops to the battlefield in an attempt to annihilate Su Yu. But Su Yu is a military wizard, how could he let Lao Jiang succeed.
The Kuomintang army fought Su Yu seven times, but each time Su Yu was unable to fight back. Under Su Yu's counterattacks again and again, Lao Chiang's troops were greatly damaged.
At that time, the 83rd Division of Lao Jiang's descendant army failed to escape Su Yu's trap. Only Huang Baitao's troops retreated and were not annihilated by Su Yu.
Huang Baitao was not a regular army of the Kuomintang, but a ragtag army of the Kuomintang that had been incorporated from local separatist forces.
This kind of army has one characteristic: it is particularly good at looking at the eyes.
In the Northern Expedition, Huang Baitao saw that his superiors were no longer able to resist Lao Jiang, so he immediately found the right time to defect.
Huang Baitao knows that he has to look at the situation and fight, and knows what to do when and when.
Su Yu was deeply touched when he fought against Huang Baitao.
Huang Baitao is like a fly buzzing in the air, constantly disrupting your movements while you focus on other opponents.
As soon as you aim at him, he flies away again, which is really difficult.
After that, Su Yu and Huang Baitao fought fiercely, although they narrowly won every time, he also suffered a lot of losses in the hands of Huang Baitao.
In this deployment of the Huaihai Campaign, there was a plan to annihilate Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps.
Su Yu planned to capture Xuzhou first, and when Huang Baitao saw that the main position had been lost, he would no longer have the intention of fighting. Huang Baitao must have been very easy to deal with at that time.
However, through years of operational observation and research, the central authorities have learned that Huang Baitao's combat ability is actually very strong, and he just likes to retain his strength in every battle.
For example, in the Battle of Eastern Henan, Huang Baitao went to reinforce the Kuomintang troops besieged by Su Yu. Lao Jiang gave Huang Baitao a death order, and if he didn't rescue people, he didn't have to go back.
So Huang Baitao used all his firepower to attack Su Yu, even though Su Yu had eliminated nearly 90,000 people, Huang Baitao still had the strength to fight him.
Su Yu had to temporarily retreat in order to save troops, which shows that Huang Baitao is deeply hidden.
The central government explained the reason, if Su Yu directly attacked Xuzhou, then Xuzhou would definitely send Huang Baitao to the rear for reinforcements, and Su Yu might be attacked by the enemy at that time.
So Su Yu immediately adjusted the battle plan and decided to lead his troops to attack Xin'an Town and annihilate Huang Baitao's corps.
战役前夕
In order not to startle the snake, Su Yu made the false impression that the East China Field Army was going to march to Xuzhou in order to confuse the enemy.
Kuomintang leaders Gu Zhutong and Liu Zhi, who were stationed in Xuzhou, sensed our party's actions and immediately convened a combat seminar.
At present, the combat situation of the Kuomintang troops in various places is not optimistic, and the northeast region has been fiercely attacked by our party.
If Xuzhou is lost, they will not be able to return to the sky.
So the leaders of the Kuomintang decided: all the troops abandoned the city they were now stationing and immediately withdrew to Xuzhou to participate in the battle. Liu Zhi was very embarrassed by this.
In recent years, he has made a lot of money in the Xuzhou area, and has already formed a stable business chain in various places, and the army can retreat as soon as possible, but what about his money? You can't throw it away for nothing!
And now there are displaced people everywhere, and if the army goes directly to the road with gold, silver and jewelry, if it is plundered, it will definitely cause a lot of losses.
Liu Zhi imagined his white silver flowing into the hands of the homeless, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of pain.
No, you have to find a safe way.
At this time, he remembered a person, Huang Baitao, who was stationed in Xin'an Town.
He immediately called Huang Baitao, and after a while, he said his thoughts.
He asked Huang Baitao to stand by now, wait for the 100th Army and the 44th Army to converge, and then withdraw west to Xuzhou together.
Liu Zhi was ostensibly worried about Huang Baitao's safety, but in fact he wanted to borrow Huang Baitao's hand to protect his gold, silver and jewelry.
After Huang Baitao received the order from his superiors, he was very excited.
He was a monk halfway, and in Lao Jiang's heart, he was definitely inferior to his descendants. Even the Kuomintang has always ignored their motley army.
Now that Liu Zhi wants to hand over the 100th Army and the 44th Army to him for management, won't his Seventh Corps be subject to the same regulations as the regular Kuomintang troops?
The superiors take such a fancy to him, and he will definitely not let the superiors down.
Huang Baitao was thinking happily, but he didn't know that it was during the time when he delayed his retreat that Su Yu had already led his troops to Xin'an Town.
By the time Huang Baitao waited for the 100th Army and the 44th Army, Su Yu had already broken into the gate of Xin'an Town.
When Huang Baitao reacted, it was already too late.
Su Yu's surprise shocked Huang Baitao, he didn't expect Su Yu's target to be him!
Huang Baitao immediately fled to the west with his people.
Su Yu immediately led people to chase after him, and after chasing for two days, he finally besieged Huang Baitao in Nianzhuang.
The two sides launched a fierce battle here, Su Yu came with the determination to win, how could he let Huang Baitao escape again, and directly launched a general attack on the Seventh Corps.
Huang Baitao has just won the attention of his superiors, he doesn't want to be surrounded and annihilated in this place where birds don't, it's too embarrassing!
Huang Baitao began to resist hard, trying to find an exit for a breakthrough.
In fact, not long before the start of the battle, the Kuomintang 13th Corps, which was not far away, could provide support.
After learning of Su Yu's movements, Liu Zhi immediately notified the 13th Corps to withdraw to Xuzhou.
Liu Zhi thought, anyway, Su Yu's target is Huang Baitao, let Huang Baitao and Su Yu fight a few times first. If you can beat it, it's best, if you can't beat it, then find a way to support.
Anyway, Liu Zhi was reluctant to let the 13th Corps waste its troops for the sake of Huang Baitao's motley army.
As soon as Huang Baitao heard that the 13th Corps was going to retreat, he immediately called Li Mi, the leader of the 13th Corps, and begged him for support.
Li Mi only said that this was an order from his superiors and could not be disobeyed. He comforted Huang Baitao and said that he had done a good job of strong fortifications in the mill village to ensure that Su Yu could not attack it.
After Huang Baitao heard his words, he was not relieved, but chilled. Listening to Li Mi's words, it seemed that the top was about to give up on him.
Just when he was desperate, he received instructions from Lao Jiang. Lao Jiang ordered him to fight Su Yu in Nian Zhuang first, and when the time was ripe, he immediately withdrew to Xuzhou.
Lao Jiang's idea is very simple, if the mill is lost, then the next one will be Xuzhou's turn.
Lao Jiang asked Huang Baitao to block Su Yu's westward advance in Nianzhuang, and when Su Yu's troops were almost depleted, he would send troops to reinforce Huang Baitao, and take the opportunity to annihilate Su Yu in one fell swoop.
The idea is very good, but it is to use Huang Baitao as a target.
If you can't win, you have to die; If he wins, he will say nothing in the army in the future.
Huang Baitao's heart was horizontal, and he could only stick to the village!
Decisive battle to grind the village
After Huang Baitao made up his mind, he began to deploy in Nianzhuang. Sure enough, as Li Mi said, the fortifications of the village were very strong.
Outside the position, there were basically water trenches and earthen walls overlapping each other. You can see the outside from the inside, but you can't see the inside at all.
Su Yu also had a headache, and he couldn't find a breakthrough at all. Huang Baitao's army was huddled in one place, and there was no way to maneuver, so he could only attack.
With less than a few days left before the attack on Xuzhou, he had to make a quick decision.
So Su Yu immediately ordered the troops from the east, west, north and south directions to attack Nianzhuang together.
When the soldiers who reached the trench began to enter the water, the national troops who were lying in ambush on the city walls immediately launched a counterattack.
Each of them had a machine gun in his hand, and in a few minutes he dealt with dozens of fighters of our army.
Within half an hour, the water in the trench was stained red with blood. The commanders of the columns sensed that something was wrong and immediately led their men to retreat.
After losing the first battle, Su Yu frowned, and he called the columns to ask about the number of casualties.
Generally on the battlefield, after each battle, the leaders will decide the next step of the battle based on the number of casualties.
If the casualties are too heavy, a retreat should be considered.
But this time it was a life-and-death battle between the two armies, and there was no possibility of retreat.
The commanders of the columns were all heroic and courageous, and it was impossible for them to retreat.
So one by one, they tacitly misreported half of the casualties.
Su Yu has been a commander for so long, how could he not detect their abnormality, and directly shoot the case: "You dare to lie about the number of people, don't hurry up and tell the truth!" ”
When the crowd saw that they could no longer hide it, they told the actual number.
There are 16 columns of the East China Field Army, and each column has almost lost 4,000 people!
Su Yu's face was solemn, and after pondering for a moment, he ordered: "From now on, it is strictly forbidden to report the casualty figures!" ”
Everyone looked at each other, and if they didn't report it, would it reduce the number of casualties? Isn't this self-deception?
Su Yu has his considerations. He knew that Huang Baitao had made the determination to fight to the death, and if he wanted to annihilate him, a vicious battle would definitely be inevitable.
Now most of the soldiers have been killed at the beginning of the war, and there is no progress yet. He must first stabilize the morale of the army, and not lose the fighting spirit of the soldiers.
After that, Su Yu ordered their captured enemy troops to attack Lianzhuang. When everyone saw that the enemy army had also joined our camp, their confidence could not help but increase.
In this way, the mill village fell into a melee for seven days and seven nights.
During this time, the village was once broken by the People's Liberation Army and once blocked by the national army. The people who were guarding the walls one day began to try to attack the walls the next day.
As more and more enemy troops were captured by our army, Su Yu gradually grasped the specific location of the breakthrough.
After a bloody battle day and night, our army finally succeeded in breaking through the city wall and annihilating the 7th Corps.
Seeing that the general trend was gone, Huang Baitao immediately fled through the back door and was killed by a stray bullet halfway.
Su Yu won a big victory.
After Huang Baitao was cornered, he broke out with amazing resistance, causing great damage to our army.
It is precisely because of Su Yu's foresight that he was able to turn defeat into victory in the milling village. I have to say that the title of "Winning General", Su Yu lives up to his name!