There are rumors among the people that Lin Biao is seen in good times, Su Yu is seen in adversity, and Peng Dehuai is seen in desperate situations, and three different war situations are used to distinguish the three generals who can lead thousands of troops and horses to fight. These three generals, two of whom were the founding marshals of New China and one was the founding general, were all big figures in the army. Their identities and status have also been tempered in one war after another.
Of course, since the combat styles and ways of thinking of the three people are completely different, the battles they fight can only be completed by themselves. Assuming that someone else takes their place, they may not be able to accomplish such a beautiful result. Although the three sayings of good times, bad times and desperate times, although they are somewhat one-sided, they can be circulated among the people for many years, and there is obviously a certain amount of truth. What representative classic battles did these three outstanding military generals fight? Can this widely circulated sentence be corroborated?
In good times and bad, each has its own tricks
As we all know, Lin Biao's personality is taciturn, especially after being injured, and his personality is even more withdrawn than before. In the ranks of the People's Liberation Army, there are not many people who can be regarded as his friends, but Su Yu can probably be counted as one.
The two of them grew up and experienced roughly the same period, but the time when they came to prominence was different. Some people say that Lin Biao is famous as soon as possible, and Su Yu is a late bloomer, and the two of them are like a pair of military twin stars.
Their command characteristics are also completely different, so there is a saying that Lin Biao is seen in good times and Su Yu is seen in adversity.
It should be noted that looking at Lin Biao in good times does not mean that Lin Biao can only fight in good times. The War of Liberation was an extremely dangerous war, and the Northeast Field Army led by Lin Biao also encountered many adversities, but he was still able to reap the fruits of victory.
So the meaning of this sentence is that Lin Biao has played very well in good times and has the ability to create good times.
The Liaoshen Campaign, which broke out in September 1948, is a typical example.
Before the start of the campaign, the main force of our army had about 700,000 armed forces, plus a total of 300,000 local armed forces, and a million-strong division could be formed.
The Kuomintang reactionaries, on the other hand, had only 550,000 men and were besieged in disconnected areas such as Changchun and Jinzhou. They are unable to form a cooperative force with each other, and are very suitable for being annihilated by each other.
Therefore, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) decided to adopt the method of closing the door and beating the dogs, launching attacks in different areas separately, and annihilating the vital forces of the reactionaries little by little.
Although our army is numerically larger than the enemy, this does not mean that Lin Biao's environment is good. The outcome of war does not depend on the number of troops, it will also be related to the army's weapons and equipment and material supply, and the criteria for measuring the combat effectiveness of an army are also very complex.
Therefore, at the beginning of the outbreak of the Liaoshen Campaign, the situation of our army was not smooth sailing.
Fortunately, Lin Biao has the ability to fight smoothly, and he can plan a variety of action plans for the next campaign through careful thinking and many scrutiny, and choose the most secure one with the highest chance of winning.
Therefore, looking at Lin Biao in good times, in fact, what we see is Lin Biao's grasp of the steady battle situation and the control of the rhythm of the battlefield. Not fighting unprepared battles is his greatest characteristic.
He first sent a part of his troops to stay in Changchun, and then ordered his army to march towards Jinzhou. After 31 hours of fierce fighting, the PLA won the Battle of Jinzhou, which shocked the Kuomintang defenders in Changchun.
After the capture of Jinzhou, the Kuomintang commander in Changchun, Zeng Zesheng, realized that even if they insisted on confronting the PLA, they would only resist stubbornly. Therefore, he led about 26,000 people to declare an uprising, and Changchun was peacefully liberated.
In the process of marching all the way south, the PLA has continuously absorbed forces from various quarters and expanded its ranks. By the end of the campaign, the total strength of our army had risen to 3 million, while the total strength of the Kuomintang had dropped to 2.9 million.
In the later period of the Liaoshen Campaign, the Northeast Field Army became more and more smooth, which had a lot to do with Lin Biao's cautious and meticulous character and careful command style.
Su Yu's style is completely different from Lin Biao, he is known as the god of military command, and he is often able to create miracles in adversity, dare to fight tough battles, and dare to gnaw hard bones.
In many seemingly hopeless battles, he was able to fight his way out and eventually turn the tide of the battle and turn the headwind into a military show.
When he was training in Jinggangshan, he learned many ideas related to the war of annihilation from Chairman Mao. In the years that followed, he continued to practice and improve his military qualities in this area.
During the three-year guerrilla warfare campaign in southern Zhejiang, Su Yu also always carried out the idea of a war of annihilation, constantly went deep behind enemy lines, understood the enemy's situation, and created conditions for our army to annihilate the enemy.
And in the process, he has encountered countless adversities, so he has also honed his excellent skills to fight in adversity.
In the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu's command art was vividly displayed.
There is no doubt that the course of this campaign was difficult. Our army wants to uproot the superiority of the Kuomintang army north of the Yangtze River, and the Kuomintang naturally has to do its best to confront our army, so it is natural that the two sides will form a tug-of-war and confrontation. Adversity will inevitably appear on the battlefield.
When his secretary looked back on this journey, he was amazed by the way this genius general commanded. He commanded many battles, each of which was a different style of play, and each one worked.
For example, in the Battle of Laiwu, he used the trick of attacking the east and the west very cleverly. On the surface, he put on a posture of fighting to the death with the enemy general Wang Yaowu in the Lunan region. But in fact, the Lunan area was just the opening of his pocket formation, and his real plan was to lead the enemy army to the Luzhong area.
Wang Yaowu was really fooled, and the Battle of Laiwu broke out, and Su Yu annihilated Wang Yao's troops of more than 570,000 people in the pocket that had been prepared for a long time.
The Eastern Henan Campaign, which he personally commanded, was also an important node in the Huaihai Campaign, and it directly affected the strategic situation of both sides, causing the Kuomintang reactionary army to completely lose the advantage of launching a large-scale offensive against our army.
In this battle, Su Yu adopted the command method of taking Kaifeng first and attacking the enemy to save him. He first concentrated his superior forces and took Kaifeng within the time predetermined in the strategic plan to help our army establish an initial superiority.
After that, he immediately transferred his troops and marched towards the Shounian Department of the enemy military region in an all-round way, intending to eat this corps.
Before Huang Botao and Qiu Qingquan rushed to support, he completed the strategic goal and annihilated the Ou Shounian Corps through the method of focusing on the attack.
Using superb command art, Su Yu led our army to successfully annihilate more than 90,000 enemy troops in this battle. This was a hearty victory in the Huaihai Campaign and even on the entire battlefield of liberation, and he once again proved that his military reputation was not in vain.
Although the victory in the Huaihai Battle did not mean the victory of the Liberation War, it had already laid a basic victory for our army and created more initiative for the next battle south of the Yangtze River.
Su Yu's ability to fight in the face of adversity and the principle of daring to concentrate superior forces to fight were also included in his ten major military principles.
Desperate situation also looks, General Peng
"Who dares to slash immediately, only I am General Peng." This is Chairman Mao's evaluation of Mr. Peng, and it is also the voice of the chairman and the vast number of Chinese military and civilians.
Peng Lao is always a veteran and brave general, and he has experienced countless tough battles in his life. His title of marshal and the title of boss were all obtained from countless battlefield experiences.
Dare to be in a desperate situation, dare to confront enemies stronger than yourself, this is the characteristic of Mr. Peng. And this characteristic was embodied on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea that broke out in 1950 was not only a war to support North Korea in resisting aggression, but also a war to defend the homeland and defend the country, and it was also a war to promote the national prestige of New China.
This battle must be fought, and it must be fought brilliantly, beautifully, and won in a comprehensive manner. However, to succeed, the process can be difficult.
At that time, the United Nations forces represented by the United States had already been built into a contingent with a mechanized and modern combat level. Many of their heavy equipment, not to mention the use of Chinese soldiers, some have not even seen it.
What's more, they can also control the air on the battlefield. Westerners' fighters constantly hover in the sky and will blow up not only the garrisons of our troops, bomb the fortifications of our troops, but also disrupt our transport fronts.
However, looking at our army, the air force construction of New China is almost a blank slate, and we must enhance our air combat capability with the support and guidance of the Soviet Union, so that we can compete for a place with the US military.
At that time, Mr. Peng rushed back to Zhongnanhai from the northwest, and he was ordered to receive a huge and arduous task.
It is not an exaggeration to describe this war as a desperate situation, and at the time of the Volunteer Army's dispatch, almost no one in the world was optimistic about China. Moreover, in the course of the real battle, our army did face many desperate situations.
But even if he knew that the front was a desperate situation, Mr. Peng had to break through and take a look. Since the party and the state have entrusted this task to him, he must shoulder this burden.
Marshal Nie Rongzhen wrote in his memoirs that Mr. Peng expressed his determination to carry out this task after being ordered in danger. His resolute and resolute attitude impressed many people at the cadre meeting at that time.
On the evening of October 19, the mighty Volunteer Army marched out. As the commander-in-chief of this war, Mr. Peng did not stay in the rear, but rushed to North Korea with the vanguard to analyze and command in the most dangerous environment.
In such a difficult situation, he also led the volunteers to break the myth of the invincibility of the US army, and cooperated with the Korean People's Army to win the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
When we look back on this war through the eyes of later generations, we look at the heroic efforts of our ancestors while knowing the outcome of the war. However, all the parties on the battlefield at that time, whether it was Mr. Peng, the generals of various armies, and the soldiers on the front line, they did not have the ability to predict the future, and they all broke this desperate situation with a fighting mentality.
Knowing that you can't do it, knowing that you can't fight and winning, this is the strength of Mr. Peng.
The commander of the war, changed several times
Speaking of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, in the pre-war discussions, the choice of the commander in chief has changed several times.
Mr. Peng was actually not Chairman Mao's first choice, and before he was urgently recalled to Zhongnanhai, Chairman Mao also considered Lin Biao and Su Yu, two generals.
It's just that both of them are sick, and the years of fighting have brought their physical load to the limit.
Lin Biao once had a sudden Yaxing by chance, wearing captured Japanese military clothes and galloping on horseback. Unexpectedly, his movements were so great that they attracted the attention of one of Yan Xishan's soldiers.
The man looked from a distance and saw only a man in a Japanese uniform rising and falling on horseback. He couldn't see the specific appearance of the person who came, and only rudely thought that it was a Japanese general who had broken into the Chinese army station, so he didn't hesitate to shoot his gun.
Lin Biao, who was galloping on the battlefield, was inadvertently put down by an ordinary soldier. Although after all-out treatment, he lost the worry of his life, but since then he has been left with the sequelae of fear of light, wind and sound.
Normally, it's okay, but once his head hurts, he feels like the whole world is spinning, and people can't concentrate.
Su Yu is also in poor health, and a general like him, who can repeatedly win vitality in desperate situations, must have faced many fatal dangers. Every victory, he bought it with his scarred body.
He had suffered a total of six wounds, two of which were in the head, and he still had three pieces of shrapnel in his brain that could not be removed.
He also gets headaches from time to time, and he doesn't even have the power to control things. Even when eating, the meal and the dish must be placed in a straight line in front of him.
In September 1950, Chairman Mao eagerly hoped that a good general would be able to lead the troops to the battle, but Su Yu and Lin Biao's bodies were not suitable for such a difficult task.
In the telegram sent to the top leaders of the Northeast Region, Chairman Mao's regret was overflowing. Two good generals who can take on the responsibility of the coach have no way to rush to the battlefield.
Under such circumstances, Mr. Peng, who was still presiding over the work in the northwest, received an urgent order and rushed to Beijing to take over the burden.
Fortunately, after several changes, the position of the commander of the Volunteer Army was finally determined, and the large army was able to move smoothly.
In fact, it is difficult for outsiders to imagine what the direction of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea would be if one of Su Yu and Lin Biao took over this task. The two of them have different combat styles, and their respective styles are also different from those of Mr. Peng, so the characteristics of the war they command are definitely different.
The posture of the commander will inevitably affect the posture of the army.
But all imagination and assumptions are meaningless, because the facts are already in front of us. The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a victory, the Chinese army has created one myth after another, and China's international status has been enhanced.
epilogue
Looking at Lin Biao in good times, Su Yu in adversity, and Peng Dehuai in desperate situations, this sentence really has its own truth. Lin Biao was able to fight in good times, and he was also able to turn his situation into a good situation and choose the most secure combat plan. Su Yu dares to break through adversity and has the ability to turn the tide of battle. Peng Dehuai dared to show his sword in a desperate situation and kill all sides.
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