The discord between the generals will not only affect the deployment of troops, but even directly lead to the defeat of the war. In history, there are many cases in which the prestige of the manager is insufficient and the veteran generals are dissatisfied, resulting in unfavorable wars. For example, when Zhuge Liang was the commander of the First Battle of Bowangpo, he had a dispute with Guan Yu Zhang Fei, and in the end, it was Liu Bei himself who mediated to ease the peace. In fact, during the War of Liberation, a similar situation occurred in our army.
During the Liberation War, after the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army merged into the East China Field Army, Chen Yi and Su Yu became partners. Chen Yi considered that his command ability was inferior to Su Yu's, so he put Su Yu in charge of directing the battle and doing the work of political coordination himself. However, some generals who originally belonged to the Shandong Field Army were not very convinced of Su Yu and often made trouble.
The Battle of Menglianggu was a very important battle in the Liberation War, which was extremely difficult to fight, and the two armies of the Kuomintang and the Communists were in a state of stalemate. Zhang Lingfu led the elite 74th Division of the Nationalist Army to launch a surprise attack on the headquarters of our army, and Su Yu changed his battle plan overnight, hoping to use himself as bait to annihilate Zhang Lingfu in one fell swoop.
Xu Shiyou of the Ninth Column led his troops to wander in the mountains for many days, the soldiers were very hard, after receiving the order to let him return to the same place, Xu Shiyou was full of complaints on the phone, su Yu's face was red, but still expressed understanding. Chen Yi, who was standing on the sidelines, immediately picked up the phone and "scolded" the disobedient veteran.
Hearing that General Chen was angry, even if he was a grumpy veteran, Xu Shiyou could only obey, conscientiously carry out Su Yu's order to surround Zhang Lingfu, and completely cut off him from the reinforcements. With the full cooperation of the other columns, Xu Shiyou annihilated this elite unit known as the Kuomintang Yulin Army in one fell swoop.
The Battle of MengLianggu was finally won, and Xu Shiyou's Ninth Column was indispensable, thinking that he would be praised by the chief, but was severely criticized by Chen Yi. At the commendation meeting, Chen Yi repeated the scolding of Xu Shiyou, which made him take it as a warning.
The Battle of Jinan in 1948 opened a precedent for our army's field army to break through the big cities of the Nationalist army, which was of great significance. Before the war began, Chen Yi and Su Yu summoned their generals to discuss the battle policy, and Huaye's veteran general Song Shilun refused Su Yu's request to let him besiege the western city of Jinan on the grounds of lack of ammunition. After being criticized by Su Yu, he not only did not think about repenting, but also slapped the table and stared. The Central Committee demanded that the Song Dynasty wheel be dealt with seriously, and Su Yu took into account the overall situation and pleaded with Chairman Mao. Finally, under the repeated preaching of Chairman Mao and Chen Yi, Song Shilun admitted his mistake.
In addition to the Song Dynasty, Xu Shiyou once again disobeyed Su Yu's military orders in this battle. Originally, Su Yu wanted Xu Shiyou to surround the city of Jinan for a feint, and he led the main force to ambush and wait for the arrival of reinforcements to annihilate the reinforcements in one fell swoop. However, Xu Shiyou was proud of his high merits and was very unhappy to learn that he was only pretending to attack. He did not carry out Su Yu's orders, but led his army to attack Jinan alone, and although he soon captured the city, Su Yu's plan to annihilate the reinforcements was bankrupt.
After the battle, Chen Yi reported the contradiction between Xu Shiyou and his partner Su Yu to the central government. Xu Shiyou was punished by removing the commander of the Ninth Column and returning to Shandong to defend, resulting in the failure of this brave and good warrior to appear on the battlefield of the Battle of Huaihai.
Chen Yi could be said to know the roots of Su Yu's old partner, and he knew that he was inferior to him in commanding operations, so he assured that he would give the command to Su Yu. And when there was a conflict between Su Yu and the generals of Huaye, he resolutely sided with Su Yu and supported him and resolved the contradiction with the soldiers for him.
It can be said that Chen Su and Chen Su were a pair of golden partners in the Liberation War. If he had left Chen Yi, Su Yu would not have been able to arrange his troops so smoothly, and Chen Yi would not have been able to achieve such brilliant achievements in the war without Su Yu. With the full cooperation of these two commanders, Huaye can achieve victory after victory on the battlefield and create miracles again and again in the battlefield.