Chapter 851: A Little Enemy Who Loves and Hates
When the lesson plan in Liu Yan's hand fell to the ground with a "pop", the whole class looked at this elegant and charming "goddess teacher" in shock, only to see that her face was pale, her breathing was short, and her eyes were also confused......
Ye Ming was also taken aback by her actions, and quickly stopped, subconsciously lowering his head, not daring to meet her gaze. [Full text reading]
After a long time, Liu Yan woke up from a state of extreme shock, knowing that she had just lost her temper, she quickly brushed the hair on her forehead with her hand to cover it, bent down to pick up the lesson plan, patted the dust on it, barely controlled her excitement, and calmly said to Ye Ming, who had stopped answering questions: "That classmate, you just answered very well and very correctly. Could you please stand up for a moment, continue to analyze the entire situation of that battle, and tell your classmates why Marshal Chen Yi summarized that battle in this way? When you sit and answer, your voice is not loud enough, and many students may not be able to hear clearly. So, please stand up for a while! ”
Ye Ming's voice just now was indeed not loud enough, the main reason was because he was weak and a little afraid of Liu Yan, so he didn't dare to let go of his voice to speak. Unexpectedly, Liu Yan didn't open any pot and mentioned which pot, but asked him to stand up and answer this question, which suddenly forced him into a corner, so he had to stand up slowly, and continued to answer: "The reason why Marshal Chen Yi used 'the head of a general in a million army' to describe the Menglianggu Battle is because before this battle, the Kuomintang launched a key attack on China's Shandong Liberated Area, and the 200,000 troops of the East China Field Army have been surrounded and intercepted by 400,000 enemy troops, and have been carrying out strategic detours and retreats.
At that time, the strategy adopted by the enemy army was to advance step by step, pressing step by step, constantly encroaching on the territory of the liberated areas, and constantly tightening the encirclement of the East China Field Army. If this trend continues, the East China Field Army will have only two choices: either withdraw from the Shandong boundary and surrender the large liberated areas that it has worked so hard to create to the enemy; Either they will fight to the death with the enemy's 400,000-strong army, but in that case, they will probably be completely destroyed. Therefore, before the Battle of Menglianggu, our army was at an absolute disadvantage.
However, at this time, the Kuomintang 74th Division, which had always been arrogant and arrogant and thought it was invincible in the world, had rarely been defeated in many previous battles with our army, and had won a complete victory in the recent Battle of Lianshui. Therefore, this unit, which is known as the trump card of the Kuomintang and the elite of the elite, has developed the idea of arrogance and contempt for the East China Field Army, from division commander Zhang Lingfu to more than 30,000 officers and men. Therefore, they ignored the strategy of making dumplings step by step and fighting steadily, and adopted the erroneous policy of lightly advancing the enemy and taking the initiative to seek battle, detached themselves from the large friendly forces around and behind, and plunged straight into the main camp of the East China Field Army like a sharp knife.
Zhang Lingfu and his staff officers did not expect that when they were reorganizing the 74th Division and striding forward to pursue the East China Field Army, there was a person who was closely eyeing their piece of fat. And this person is Su Yu, the deputy commander of Huaye.
At that time, Su Yu saw that the 74th Division had broken away from their circle of friendly troops who were making dumplings and was sticking forward to chase Huaye, so he made up his mind to annihilate the 74th Division. Therefore, he ordered the operational staff to report daily on the distance between the 74th Division and their follow-up units. When Su Yu learned that the distance between the 74th Division and the friendly forces behind them was more than 10 kilometers, he immediately made a decision, mobilized more than 100,000 troops from five columns of the East China Field Army, and adopted a roundabout tactic to first separate the 74th Division from other Kuomintang units participating in the encirclement operation, and then quickly surrounded the 74th Division near Menglianggu in central Shandong Province. At the same time, Su Yu mobilized Huaye's other four columns to form multiple blocking lines to launch a stubborn blocking battle against the Kuomintang troops who rushed over to support the 74th Division nearby. In the end, after several days and nights of fierce fighting, the East China Field Army completely annihilated the reorganized 74th Division with an absolutely superior force.
"Actually, at that time, Commander Su Yu made up his mind to encircle and annihilate the 74th Division, which was a great risk. Because Zhang Lingfu's wishful thinking at that time was: he led the reorganization of the 74th Division into the heart of the East China Field Army like a sharp knife, and then, he deliberately let the East China Field Army surround him, and led the 74th Division to climb up Meng Lianggu, which had no way out, just to use himself as a bait to lure the main force of Huaye to surround the 74th Division. Then, the 400,000 Kuomintang troops on the periphery surrounded Huaye's main force. In this case, as long as the 74th Division withstands the attack of Huaye's main force for three to five days, and when the Kuomintang forces on the periphery surround it, their division can unite inside and outside, blossom in the center, and annihilate Huaye. This is what Zhang Lingfu calls the central flowering plan.
It is a pity that he underestimated the determination of the East China Field Army to encircle and annihilate him, and also underestimated Su Yu's command ability and the combat ability of the East China Field Army. At the same time, he also overestimated the support ability of his friendly troops and their determination to support their 74th Division: because some of the Kuomintang troops who surrounded Huaye on the periphery did not want to do their best to save the 74th Division, and even some army generals wished that Zhang Lingfu would perish. Therefore, Zhang Lingfu's plan to blossom in the center did not come true in the end, but instead took more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the 74th Division, and at the same time took his own life.
"It is precisely because the East China Field Army has taken a huge risk in encircling and annihilating the 74th Division this time, and the 74th Division is indeed a brave and tenacious force. Therefore, when Marshal Chen Yi summed up the Menglianggu Campaign in which the East China Field Army was surrounded by the enemy and risked the annihilation of the entire army, he brilliantly compared it to 'taking the head of a general among a million troops'. This sentence is very appropriate and very vivid! ”
Because Ye Ming was very familiar with this battle, and he had also studied the book "General Su Yu" many times, when telling this allusion, the logic was clear, the thinking was clear, orderly, and eloquent, which attracted the attention of most of the students in the class. After he finished speaking, Zhang Lingzhi took the lead in applauding. Many people couldn't stop looking at Ye Ming while applauding, admiring his erudition and knowledge.
And Liu Yan on the podium began to ask Ye Ming to stand up and speak, just to see his appearance clearly. In the process of his narration, she was already convinced that this new classmate of the Youth Cadre Class who was gushing about the battle of Meng Lianggu was the "little enemy" who she loved and hated in her heart......