Lin Biao or Su Yu, whose commanding style do you prefer?

1. Marshal Lin Biao won steadily, while General Su Yu took a deviated approach

Looking at the battles commanded by Lin Biao and Su Yu in the War of Liberation, it is not difficult to find that the two "gods of war" , Marshal Lin Biao advocated fighting a sure battle, and General Su Yu dared to take the wrong direction. Lin Biao commented on Su Yu and said: "(Su Yu) fights immortal battles. I dare not make up my mind in any battle he fights." For example: from July 13 to August 31, 1946, Su Yu commanded more than 30,000 people in the Central China Field Army. In the central area of ??Jiangsu, he launched fierce battles with 120,000 Kuomintang troops and won 7 consecutive battles including Xuantai, Runan, Hai'an, Libao, Dinglin, Shaobo, and Ruhuanglu, wiping out more than 50,000 enemies. This is the famous "Seven Battles and Seven Victories" in the history of our army. This was a battle that surprised even Chairman Mao. Su Yu repeatedly asked the central government for instructions to fight the Northern Jiangsu Campaign, which meant that regardless of success or failure, Su Yu had to bear the responsibility alone. Su Yu resolutely chose the Northern Jiangsu Campaign, which shows that he Military command style.

Marshal Lin Biao was different. In the Battle of Liaoshen, Marshal Lin Biao had some differences with the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao on whether to attack Changchun or Jinzhou first. Marshal Lin Biao advocated attacking Changchun where he was sure, and then attacking Jinzhou, win steadily.

2. Lin Biao and Su Yu, Su Yu dared to use less to defeat more, to defeat the strong with the weak.

In May 1947, Su Yu commanded the Battle of Menglianggu and completely annihilated the 74th Division, one of the enemy's "five main forces". This was one of Jiang Gong's strongest direct troops and killed the enemy Lieutenant General. Division commander Zhang Lingfu defeated the enemy's key attack on Shandong. Jiang Gong said that he did not expect that Su Yu could defeat the 74th Division. Chairman Mao later met with Su Yu and lamented that he did not expect that Su Yu could fight this battle so well. Su Yu often surprises the enemy and defeats more with less.

Let’s talk about the Battle of Huaihai. The Kuomintang called it the “Battle of Xubeng”. During the War of Liberation, the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army fought with Xuzhou as the center, starting from Haizhou (Lianyungang) in the east and ending in Shangqiu in the west. Starting from Lincheng (now Xuecheng, Zaozhuang City) in the north and reaching the Huaihe River in the south, it launched a strategic offensive campaign against the Kuomintang army. The battle started on November 6, 1948 and ended on January 10, 1949. Liu Zhi, the Xuzhou Bandit Suppression Headquarters, commanded five corps headquarters, 22 military headquarters, 56 divisions and an appeasement zone of the National Army of the Republic of China** 555,000 soldiers were wiped out and reorganized, and the People's Liberation Army's total casualties were 134,000. The Battle of Huaihai was a battle in which 600,000 troops defeated the Kuomintang's 800,000 troops with less than 800,000.

The Battle of Liaoshen and Pingjin commanded by Marshal Lin Biao: the Northeast Field Army suffered 700,000 casualties and the Kuomintang Army 550,000. Casualties: The Northeast Field Army suffered 69,000 casualties and the Kuomintang Army suffered 470,000 casualties and prisoners.

The Battle of Pingjin (called the Battle of Pingjin in mainland China and the Battle of Pingjin in Taiwan) was one of the "three major battles" of the Kuomintang Civil War. It started on November 29, 1948 and ended on January 31, 1949. End of day, ***64 days. Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, Nie Rongzhen, and Liu Yalou commanded the Northeast Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the North China Military Region troops to destroy 1 million troops. With Peiping and Tianjin as the centers, they destroyed and reorganized three corps of the National Army of the Republic of China at the cost of 39,000 casualties. 13 armies and 50 divisions with a total of 521,000 troops liberated large areas of North China including Peiping and Tianjin.