<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > Centennial General 48: Liu Yalou</h1>
Author: Forget about the jianghu
Behind every outstanding military commander, there must be a powerful chief of staff.
As a rare military wizard in our army, Lin Biao's team is naturally extraordinary, including political commissars at the level of marshals such as Luo Ronghuan and Nie Rongzhen, as well as chiefs of staff at the level of generals and admirals such as Su Yu, Xiao Jinguang, Liu Yalou, and Xiao Ke.
Throughout Lin Zong's military career, from the platoon commander of the Nanchang Uprising to the commander of the Four Fields, who crisscrossed the north and south, he has always been a military commander. The more famous ones who served as chief of staff for him were more than a dozen, but only Liu Yalou was praised as "one top three".
Liu Yalou
There were no less than a dozen chiefs of staff who had cooperated with Mr. Lin, and the first one who was more famous was Chen Qihan.
In June 1930, the Red Fourth Army of Jinggangshan was reorganized into the Red First Army in Changting, Fujian Province, with 3 armies (Commander Huang Gongluo), 4th Army, and 12th Army (Commander Wu Zhonghao). The 23-year-old Lin Biao served as the commander of the Red 4 Army, the political commissar Luo Ronghuan, and the chief of staff Chen Qihan.
The founding general Chen Qihan was a native of Xingguo, Jiangxi, who participated in the Northern Expedition and the Eastern Crusade and rose to the rank of battalion commander. In 1925, he entered the Whampoa Iii Phase and served as the captain of the cadet team and the commander of the major political battalion. In the summer of 1931, he became the chief of staff of the Red 3rd Army and participated in the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign.
In November 1931, Su Yu was transferred from the commander of the 13th Division of the Red Fourth Army to the chief of staff of the Red Fourth Army.
When the two gods of war meet, it seems that there will be sparks? But during the Red Army period, commanders lost too quickly and were transferred too frequently. Not long after, Su Yu was transferred to the Red Army School cadet company commander, and the founding lieutenant general Nie Heting took over as chief of staff.
In February 1932, Su Yu was transferred back to the Red 4th Army, still serving as chief of staff, but only a little more than a month later.
Lin Biao and Su Yu worked together for a short time, but both were born in 1907 and were very thoughtful. Lin Biao has a very high opinion of himself, but he can talk with Su Yu very well, and the person concerned recalls: Lin Biao attaches great importance to Su Yu and also attaches great importance to his opinions and suggestions.
Su Yu
In March 1932, Lin Biao became the commander of the regiment, and Chen Qihan was appointed chief of staff.
In January 1933, Chen Qihan was transferred to the chief of staff of the Jiangxi Military Region and cooperated with the commander in preparing for the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign. Xu Yangang, commander of the Red 3rd Army, succeeded him as chief of staff of the Red First Army and spent a year with Lin Biao. In December, he was transferred to the commander of the Xiang'e-Gansu Military Region and the commander of the 16th Division.
Xu Yangang's end was very tragic, in June 1935, the 46th Regiment of the Red 16th Division, which insisted on guerrilla warfare, was surrounded by enemy troops, and Xu Yangang was rewarded with a reward of 10,000 yuan. He stood alone in the siege, hid in his hometown to recuperate, and was hacked to death with an axe by the three brothers of Huang Shengchun, who were greedy for money.
At the end of December 1933, Zuo Quan of the headquarters was transferred to the First Army as chief of staff.
Zuo Quan was a first-term student of Huangpu and a classmate of Liu Bocheng's Frunze Military Academy. He once served as the political commissar of the Red 15th Army, and fought together with Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan on the Eastern Expedition to Fujian in the battles of Zhangzhou, Shuikou, Le'an, and Yihuang, so he was no stranger.
As soon as Zuo Quan took office, he ushered in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, and he seamlessly connected with Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan, cooperated closely with the Red Third Army, and annihilated the enemy's three divisions in Huangpi and Caotaigang to capture more than 10,000 enemy prisoners. After that, he participated in the Long March and the Eastern and Western Expeditions in northern Shaanxi.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zuo Quan served as deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, partnered with Peng Zong, deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army, and died at Cross Slope on May 25, 1942. When Mr. Lin heard the news, he was grief-stricken and wrote only one poem of more than 100 lines in his life to mourn his good partner during the Red Army period.
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During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Lin Biao served as the commander of the 115th Division, and the chief of staff was Zhou Kun.
Zhou Kun, a native of Pingjiang, Hunan, was two years older than Lin Biao and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising. Before the Long March, the Red 8th Army was formed, with Zhou Kun as the commander of the army, but the losses were almost exhausted at the Battle of Xiangjiang, and more than a thousand people were merged into the Fifth Army.
After the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, the battles of Pingxingguan and Guangyang had Zhou Kun's painstaking efforts.
In February 1938, zhou Kun returned from a meeting in the Second World War Zone and asked the guards to return with 30,000 yuan of military expenses, and he carried 30,000 yuan without quitting. Zhou Kun, Chen Guang, and Wang Liang have always been regarded as "Lin Biao's three guns", and Zhou Kun's departure was a great blow to Lin Biao, and within a few days he was mistakenly injured by Yan Jun for walking his horse alone. At the beginning of 1939, Lin Biao, Liu Yalou and others went to the Soviet Union to study and recuperate.
Lin Biao stayed in the Soviet Union for three years, and had the closest contact with Liu Yalou, and the two studied the theory of the Frunze Military Academy together, discussed the famous examples of the Soviet-German battlefield together, and occasionally expressed some of their own views, leaving three good years.
In February 1942, Lin Biao returned to Yan'an, and the second meeting with Liu Yalou was until four years later.
In October 1945, the Northeast People's Autonomous Army was established, and Lin Biao's chiefs of staff were Xiao Jinguang and Wu Xiuquan.
A native of Changsha, Hunan Province, Xiao Jinguang served as a party representative of the 6th Division of the 2nd Army of the National Revolutionary Army during the Northern Expedition in 1925. After returning from his second study in the Soviet Union in 1930, he served as chief of staff of the Red 12th Army and political commissar of the Fifth and Seventh Armies. During the Long March, he served as chief of staff of the Red Third Army. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as chief of staff of the Rear Command of the Red Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the Eighth Route Army's Left Behind Corps and the deputy commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Jinsui Joint Defense Army.
Wu Xiuquan, a native of Wuchang, Hubei Province, served as Li De's Russian translator, deputy chief of staff of the Red Third Army, chief of staff of the 73rd Division of the Red 15th Army, and secretary general of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the director of the Lanzhou Office of the Eighth Route Army and the deputy director of the Operations Department of the General Staff.
In January 1946, the Northeast People's Autonomous Army was renamed the Northeast Democratic United Army.
Through more than three months of dispatching troops, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army has more than 100,000 people, and the focus of its work has also shifted from large cities to small cities and vast villages, mobilizing the masses, eliminating the remnants and bandits, and establishing base areas with divisions as units. However, the urgent need for regularization of the troops was also on the agenda, and Lin Zong was worried. It was at this time that Luo Ronghuan, the second political commissar recuperating in Dalian, recommended a candidate for chief of staff.
Lin Zong was overjoyed to see the name: Liu Yalou. Liu Yalou is a native of Fujian, has always been a subordinate of Lin Biao, the political commissar of the Red Fourth Army, the political commissar of the Red 2nd Division of the Red First Army, the commander of the Red 1st Division, and the chief of education of the Kang Da. In the Soviet Union for three years, the relationship between the two was not reversed.
In February 1946, Liu Yalou moved north from Dalian to Harbin to serve as the chief of staff of the Democratic Coalition Army. Lin Zong, who has always disliked to show his face, rarely went out to greet him, and left a famous sentence: "Just come, a Liu Ya building roof my three chiefs of staff." "
Liu Yalou cooperated with Lin Biao for 3 years, and in February 1949, Dongye was changed to Shiye, liu Yalou was the commander of the 14th Corps, and on the way south, he became the commander of the Air Force. Since Luo Ronghuan remained in Beiping due to illness, Xiao Ke, the first chief of staff, cooperated with Lin Zong to march into zhongnan.
In the decisive battle of Hengbao and the liberation of Hainan, Xiao Ke and Lin Zong's cooperation was also very tacit, and Lin Zong was very satisfied with him.
However, of the top ten chiefs of staff who have had a total of affairs with Lin, only Liu Yalou has received high praise from "one top three".
Liu Yalou, Lin Biao, and Luo Ronghuan on the northeast battlefield
Compared with other chiefs of staff, Liu Yalou has an irreplaceable advantage over Lin Biao and Siye.
First, professionalism is excellent. Liu Yalou's arrival was immediate, drastically cut out the complicated and simplified, and soon established an efficient command system, completely solving the coordination between the command and the major military regions. Raising the unified communication code of the communication team, Shino began to exert force.
Second, the ability is strong enough. After the unification of the northeast in June 1946, Luo Ronghuan went to the Soviet Union for surgery in August, Liu Yalou and Lin Biao fought two battles and four draws, three times jiangnan and four bao Linjiang, survived the most difficult period. After entering the customs, taking Tianjin in 29 hours convinced many corps commanders.
Third, personalities complement each other. Liu Yalou and Lin Biao have similar interests but very different personalities, one is introverted and deep, one is introverted and deep, and the other is forbidden by hot temper, and the governance of the army is perfectly complementary. Privately, brothers and friends, Only Liu Yalou can intervene in Lin Zong's family affairs.
Fourth, adhere to principles. Liu Yalou has always been Lin Biao's follower, during the Red Army period and Yang Chengwu known as the "right and left arm", during the Long March period and Chen Guang 2nd Division through the pass will be quite powerful. However, he did not budge at all on the issue of fighting Jinzhou, and Luo Ronghuan urged Lin Zong to give up fighting Changchun.
Lin Biao commented that Liu Yalou was a born military strategist, with a first-class mind and excellent strategy, superb organizational and management skills, and was the first-class chief of staff of our army. In addition to the chairman in his life, Liu Yalou probably only served Lin Zong, and such a chief of staff naturally had to top three in Lin Zong's eyes.
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