Su Yu's military ability is the highest. Why did he only bring 600 people to the Red Army when the New Fourth Army was founded?

1938 1.6, a few months after the outbreak of the all-round anti-Japanese war, after arduous negotiations, another armed force led by China's * * * production party, the New Fourth Army, was finally formally established. At that time, the headquarters of the New Fourth Army was located in Nanchang, and the New Fourth Army was composed of Red Army guerrillas in eight southern provinces 14 guerrilla zones.

After the three main forces of the Red Army left the base area for the Long March, the Red Army troops who stayed in the base area began an arduous three-year guerrilla war. They are active in the 14 guerrilla zone in eight southern provinces.

In the face of the enemy's heavy encirclement and suppression, the environment faced by the Red Army guerrillas who insisted on guerrilla areas was even worse than the main force of the Red Army on the way to the Long March.

By the time the New Fourth Army was founded in 1938, the Red Army had 14 teams in guerrilla zones in eight southern provinces. Except for the Red Army in Qiongya, Hainan Island, all the Red Army guerrillas in other guerrilla areas were incorporated into the ranks of the New Fourth Army.

According to the negotiations between the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang, the New Fourth Army has four detachments, of which 1 detachment is a guerrilla in southwest Fujian led by Zhang Dingcheng, Deng Zihui and Tan Zhenlin. This guerrilla group has more than 500 guns, 1200 people, and is organized as the second detachment of the New Fourth Army.

The guerrilla forces in eastern Fujian led by Ye Fei have been fighting in eastern Fujian, and their strength is not small. It has more than 500 guns and more than 920 people, organized into 3 detachments and 6 regiments.

The strength of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi guerrillas led by Fu is also quite strong, with as many as 1 100 men and more than 350 guns, forming a team. There are also 929 Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi guerrillas led by the ecliptic, which are organized into three detachments and five regiments. At that time, in addition to the 3 19 rifle, the guerrilla also had three heavy machine guns and three light machine guns.

The guerrillas in southern Zhejiang led by Su Yu and Liu Ying have more than 600 people and more than 200 guns. Due to the lack of a regiment, the guerrillas in southern Zhejiang were organized as part of the fourth regiment of the second detachment. Simon Chung led the Fujian-Jiangxi border guerrillas with more than 300 men and 150 guns, which were also not enough for a regiment, and were also made up as part of the second detachment.

There are 398 guerrillas in northeast Jiangxi led by Li Buxin, organized into one team, two regiments and three battalions. The Fujian and Jiangxi guerrillas led by Tan Yubao also have a battalion with about 335 troops and more than 200 guns, which are organized into one team, two battalions, two regiments and one battalion.

The Guangdong-Jiangxi guerrillas and Guidong guerrillas, led by Xiang Ying and Chen Yi, the leaders of the Central Sub-bureau who stayed in the Central Soviet Area at that time, had 2 15 rifles and more than 450 troops, which were made up as part of the 2nd Regiment, 2nd Battalion and 3rd Battalion.

After the Red Fourth Army and the Red 25 Army left successively, they stuck to the Red 28 Army led by Gao Jingting in the Soviet area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, with the strongest strength. He has more than 65,438+0,500 guns, organized into 4 teams, 7 regiments and 9 regiments. Zhou Junming led the 600-strong Tongbaishan guerrillas in southern Henan into 4 detachments and 8 regiments. As for more than 300 guerrillas in southern Hunan, they were directly turned into military spy camps.

Therefore, after reorganization, the New Fourth Army was organized into four detachments and nine regiments, of which 1 detachment Chen Yi was the commander and Fu was the deputy commander, with the first and second regiments under its jurisdiction and about 2,300 troops. Zhang Dingcheng, the detachment leader of the second detachment, and Su Yu, the deputy detachment leader, have three or four regiments with a strength of about 1800.

Zhang sent by Yan 'an is the commander of the third detachment, and Tan Zhenlin is the deputy commander. It has jurisdiction over the fifth and sixth regiments, with a strength of about 2 100. The 4th detachment, with Gao Jingting as its commander, has jurisdiction over the 7th, 8th and 93rd regiments, with more than 3 100 people.

Four detachments and nine regiments, plus more than 980 people directly under the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, the total number of troops 10300 people, and more than 6,200 guns. Since then, the New Fourth Army has become one of the main armed forces resisting Japanese aggression under the leadership of China's Communist Party during the Anti-Japanese War. It is active in many areas such as Central China and East China, and has made great contributions to the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

However, when I learned about the new fourth army composed of eight southern provinces 14 red army guerrillas, I found an interesting fact that the most powerful red army guerrillas can exceed 1000 people. However, the Red Army guerrillas in southern Zhejiang led by Su Yu actually only have more than 600 people.

Su Yu is the most outstanding military genius in our military revolutionary career for more than 20 years. He is also the most fruitful PLA star among the founding fathers, and together with Lin Biao, he has become the brightest Gemini of the PLA.

Su Yu's military ability has already passed the extremely cruel war test, which is universally recognized. Then, why did the most talented general of the New Fourth Army lead only more than 600 Red Army troops during the three-year guerrilla war? Why didn't Su Yu, who was brilliant militarily, develop the Red Army into a division?

All this has nothing to do with Su Yu's military theory. Or, if it weren't for Su Yu, let alone the existing strength of the Forward Division, whether this Red Army team can exist is unknown.

Why didn't Su Yu leave the Soviet area with the Long March of the Central Red Army, but stayed in the south?

This is because, as early as June 65438+July 0934, before the main force of the Central Red Army decided to leave the Soviet area for the Long March, Su Yu, the chief of staff, left the Central Soviet Area with his army and went north to Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui and other provinces, with the purpose of promoting our party's anti-Japanese proposition and at the same time containing the enemies surrounding the Central Soviet Area.

At that time, after more than 2,000 recruits were suddenly recruited, the total strength of the Red Seven Army Corps was about 6,000, but there was a shortage of guns and ammunition, only 1200 rifles and a small number of light and heavy machine guns.

After Cheng Hongjun, an anti-Japanese advance team set out from Ruijin and traveled thousands of miles to Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces. Even in the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Soviet areas, they joined forces with the Red Ten Army led by Fang Zhimin to form the Red Ten Army.

However, due to the command error and the fact that the enemy was too strong, the Red Ten Army finally suffered a crushing defeat in Tanjiaqiao. More unfortunately, the Red Army that broke through was surrounded by Kuomintang troops in Huaiyushan and finally failed. Most of the Red Army's anti-Japanese advance teams went north and died after desperate resistance.

Fortunately, when Huaiyushan was surrounded by the Kuomintang, Su Yu, chief of staff of the Red Ten Corps, led some Red Army troops to break through and arrived at the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi base areas.

After arriving in the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi base area, the CPC Central Committee conveyed the instructions of the Central Committee: the advance team broke through the troops to form a forward division, with Su Yu as the division commander and Liu Ying as the political commissar, and entered Zhejiang to carry out guerrilla warfare and create a Soviet base area.

Its purpose, on the one hand, is to attack and attract the enemy, to defend the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Soviet area and its adjacent base areas, and on the other hand, to strategically cooperate with the main forces of the Red Army.

Why is such a small army entrusted with such a big task? This has a lot to do with the status of Zhejiang. As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek is from Zhejiang, which is economically developed. Therefore, Zhejiang, as his hometown and lair, has always been the pride of Chiang Kai-shek.

Therefore, the Red Army's going deep into Zhejiang to carry out guerrilla warfare and establish base areas is bound to become a menace to Chiang Kai-shek and attract a large number of Kuomintang troops, thus effectively containing the enemy and playing a role in defending the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Soviet area and coordinating with the main force of the Red Army.

The breakthrough force of the advance team led by Su Yu is mainly composed of a mortar company, a machine gun company and a 2 1 division 5 company. In addition, there are some minor patients who have recovered, as well as some staff of the political department, the supply department and the security bureau, with a total strength of about 400 people.

At this time, in order to strengthen the Forward Division, the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee also incorporated more than 1 00 people from the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Independent Division into the Forward Division. Therefore, after the reorganization, Su Yu led the advancing division with a total force of about 500 people. In order to meet the needs of guerrilla warfare, Su Yu reorganized the Forward Division. He didn't use the most conventional division battalion platoon, but directly organized three detachments and a team directly under the division.

Because the Kuomintang forces around the Soviet area were very powerful, in order to get rid of the enemy, the advancing division did not directly March into Zhejiang, but went south from the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi base area and decided to go to the Red Army base area in northern Fujian first, and then went to Zhejiang after getting in touch with the party organizations there.

In this way, after more than a month of training and consolidation,1February, 935, more than 500 people of Qianjin Division left the base area and went south to Fujian under the leadership of Su Yu, the division commander.

But as soon as the Red Army arrived in Fujian, it was ambushed by the enemy, which not only caused great losses, but also damaged the only radio station of the advance division. Since then, the advance division has lost contact with the CPC Central Committee and the higher-level party organizations and has become a lone army.

To make matters worse, after arriving in northern Fujian, they not only failed to find the Red Army guerrillas in northern Fujian led by the ecliptic, but even were ambushed by the enemy again because of the traitor's betrayal. In desperation, the advance division had to leave northern Fujian and enter southwest Zhejiang.

After the advance division entered Zhejiang, under the leadership of Su Yu, it fought flexibly in various places, constantly concentrated superior forces to attack the enemy, and won many battles, which not only supplemented weapons and ammunition, but also successfully opened up a guerrilla base area in southwest Zhejiang with Xianxialing as the center.

The base area established by the Red Army in Zhejiang greatly frightened Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang. Immediately, the Kuomintang troops in Zhejiang began to assemble and launched an encirclement and suppression campaign against this Red Army team.

At that time, the Kuomintang troops involved in the encirclement and suppression were Zhejiang Security Brigade and Tax Police Corps, with a total of 89 regiments, and their strength was 10 times that of the advance division. Moreover, although these Kuomintang troops were organized into security brigades or tax police regiments, they were not weaker than the main force of the Kuomintang under the careful management of Chiang Kai-shek. This can be seen from the security director of the Kuomintang in Zhejiang Province at that time. He is Yu Jishi, Chiang Kai-shek's confidant.

However, even so, the advancing division defeated the enemy's first encirclement and suppression and greatly expanded the base area in southwest Zhejiang. With the victory of the battle, the advancing division has also made great progress.

At that time, the advancing division had grown to nearly 1000, and expanded to five columns and two independent detachments. If you add local staff, it has exceeded 2000. At the same time, the advance division also established local armed forces with more than 65,438+10,000 people in the base area.

Therefore, from May to mid-September of 1935, it took only four months for Su Yu to lead the advancing division to successfully establish the 1 guerrilla base area in Zhejiang, initially realizing the tasks entrusted by the CPC Central Committee and gaining a firm foothold in Zhejiang.

However, as mentioned earlier, Chiang Kai-shek is from Zhejiang, and Zhejiang is his lair and ruling core. Therefore, the existence of the Red Army guerrillas in Zhejiang is equivalent to a backyard fire, which makes Chiang Kai-shek particularly intolerable.

Therefore, when the encirclement and suppression of the security guard and the tax police regiment failed, Chiang Kai-shek immediately began to mobilize heavy troops. This time, Chiang Kai-shek directly transferred his closest clique, the Central Army, appointed Wei Heluo as the commander and deputy commander of the headquarters of the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Anhui Border Region, and began to launch an encirclement and suppression campaign against the Red Army base areas.

In the face of the Kuomintang army, which is absolutely superior in equipment and strength, despite the flexible combat methods adopted by the advancing division, the guerrilla base areas in southwestern Zhejiang still suffered huge losses, many Red Army soldiers died in battle, and the party organizations suffered great damage.

Facing the situation that the enemy is strong and we are weak, Su Yu decided to adopt the policy of "you hit you, I hit me, and the enemy advances and I retreat", leaving the second vertical and the fifth vertical to stick to the base area, while the main force jumped out of the enemy's encirclement and made an outside line.

Immediately, Su Yu led the main force of the advancing division to leave the base area in southwest Zhejiang, and successfully joined forces with the Mindong Red Army guerrillas led by the Mindong Special Committee in Shouning County on June 5 1935.

At that time, the Red Army guerrillas in eastern Fujian led by Ye Fei had grown to nearly 1,000 people and were further strengthened after joining forces with the Red Army.

Therefore, the guerrillas in eastern Fujian and the soldiers of the Qianjin Division who have been fighting alone are very excited, and both sides are very happy. After the leaders of the two sides joined hands, they decided to set up a temporary provincial party committee on the Fujian-Zhejiang border, with Liu Ying as secretary, Su Yu as organization minister, Ye Fei as propaganda minister and less * * * as temporary provincial party secretary.

It is very beneficial for the Red Army to unite with the two teams that have lost contact with the Central Committee and fought alone. However, what I never expected was that at this critical moment, there were some internal differences.

Liu Ying, who actually leads the work of the provincial party committee, often imposes his will on others in the name of the provincial party committee, which arouses the suspicion and disgust of others, especially Comrade Mindong. Even in March 1936, Liu Ying wanted to transfer Ye Fei from eastern Fujian and remove Su Yu from the post of organization minister.

1936, Liu Ying gave Su Yu such an order in the name of the temporary provincial party committee, asking him to see Ye Fei, taking the opportunity to arrest Ye Fei, and even sent him to the provincial party committee for armed supervision.

Because of these problems, Su Yu and Liu Ying finally separated.

However, even under such conditions, Su Yu still showed outstanding military talents. The advance division returned to Zhejiang under his leadership and fought to establish the base area, which not only restored the base area, but also restored and developed the team.

Therefore, by the end of 1936, the Red Army led by Su Yu had once again grown from a few hundred to more than 1500, with thousands of local guerrillas and mass armed forces. Guerrillas spread all over more than 30 counties such as Wenzhou, Taizhou, Jinhua and Shaoxing.

So at this time, the forward division led by Su Yu has developed into one of the most powerful teams in the southern Red Army guerrillas. However, at this time, due to the great changes in the domestic political situation, especially the peaceful settlement of the Xi incident, Chiang Kai-shek had to stop attacking the main force of the Red Army in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region.

Not content with defeat, Chiang Kai-shek turned to use more troops to destroy the southern guerrillas of the Red Army. In this case, the Su Yu Advance Division, which established the base area in Chiang Kai-shek's lair, Zhejiang, has undoubtedly become a thorn in Chiang Kai-shek's side.

Therefore, in this encirclement and suppression campaign, the forward division is still the focus. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized six divisions, two independent brigades and local peace preservation corps, totaling 43 regiments, in order to encircle the Red Army with only 1500 men.

In order to destroy the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek did everything possible. At that time, in order to cut off the contact between the Red Army team and the masses, Chiang Kai-shek even took measures such as immigrating to villages, burning huts in border areas, and distributing daily necessities and rice to residents according to their heads.

The enemy's encirclement and suppression forces were unprecedentedly powerful and the means were unprecedentedly vicious. At this time, the wrong anti-encirclement strategy was adopted, which caused the Red Army to suffer heavy losses in this anti-encirclement campaign.

This is also the reason why when the New Fourth Army was reorganized, there were thousands of troops in the forward division, and only 600 people in the end. But even so, under the leadership of Su Yu, the anti-encirclement campaign won, and not only the guerrilla areas survived, but also the main force of the Red Army team and many cadres persisted.

Therefore, when the Southern Guerrilla of the Red Army was reorganized into the New Fourth Army, the reason why the Forward Division led by Su Yu did not become the largest one of the Southern Guerrilla of the Red Army, with only more than 600 troops, actually had a lot to do with the conditions at that time.

On the one hand, the advancing division itself is a breakout force, and its strength is very weak, far less than other left-behind Red Army units. On the other hand, due to the wrong command and constraint of Liu Ying and others, they failed to break free from Sue's arm and do this.

In addition, Chiang Kai-shek's hometown and core area were the places where he advanced into division warfare and established base areas, and the degree of being besieged by Kuomintang troops far exceeded that of other guerrilla areas. For various reasons, the advance division of the Red Army failed to become the most powerful guerrilla in the New Fourth Army.