In 1955, in Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai, in order to regularize the army, our army carried out the first award ceremony. At that time, the ten marshals and ten generals were naturally the brightest stars, and their rankings were also talked about by the world, becoming the topic of many military enthusiasts after dinner.
Among the ten marshals, the ranking is a bit exquisite, such as the position of the first ranked Zhu Laozong is unshakable, and the other nine marshals cannot be replaced. Mr. Peng, who ranked second, had great military achievements and high prestige; he was not only the premier commander in China, but since the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, his international status far exceeded that of other marshals, and ranking second was also well deserved.
It is worth mentioning that in the Liberation War, the strength of Sanye under Chen Yi was second only to that of President Lin's Siye, and its strength was stronger than that of Erye, commanded by Liu Shuai. In terms of battle achievements, Sanye fought many major battles and annihilated many elites of Chiang Kai-shek's army; it was only after the Battle of crossing the river that Erye showed great might, and liberated the Great Southwest like an autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, but at that time the situation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had already been reversed, and the enemy was weak and we were strong, and the difficulty of liberating the Great Southwest was not so difficult.
In the ranking of the top ten marshals, Liu Shuai ranked fourth and Chen Shuai ranked sixth. Although Sanye is stronger than Erye in terms of strength and battle achievements, in the ranking of marshals, Liu Shuai is higher than Chen Shuai, why is this?
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The selection of the ten marshals not only valued the merits of the Liberation War, if we look at this period, then Su Yu's being a marshal is a foregone conclusion. Liu Shuai's revolutionary credentials were stronger than Chen Shuai's, and since the beginning of his crusade against Yuan Shikai, Liu Shuai was already a revolutionary general with experience in leading troops to fight.
During the Nanchang Uprising, Liu Shuai held a very high status, served as chief of staff, and became one of the main leaders of the uprising. Although Chen Shuai also participated in the Nanchang Uprising, when he arrived, the uprising was basically over, and he could only go after Zhu Laozong's rebel army, and the two launched the Shonan Uprising in the same year.
The Shonan Uprising, regardless of its scale or impact, was inferior to that of the Nanchang Uprising, and judging from the official positions held in the army before and after the Nanchang Uprising, Liu Shuai was the chief of staff, and Chen Shuai served as the political instructor of the regiment after the Nanchang Uprising. During the Red Army period, Liu Shuai served as the chief of the general staff of the Red Army for a long time, and Chen Shuai's overall position in the Red Army was not as good as Liu Shuai.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Shuai was one of the division commanders of the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army, and Chen Shuai was the commander of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army. If we calculate according to the level of the commander of the New Fourth Army and the commander of the Eighth Route Army, at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Liu Shuai's position was higher than that of Chen Shuai, although since the Anhui Incident, when Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, was imprisoned by old Chiang, Chen Yi took over his post and became the commander of the New Fourth Army, but that was a later matter, and there was a gap in time.
During the Liberation War, although Chen Shuai and Liu Shuai were both commanders of an army, in 1948, according to the orders of their superiors, Chen Shuai was transferred to the Central Plains Military Region and served as the deputy commander of the Central Plains Field Army, and the position of commander was Liu Shuai. Although the superior transferred Liu Shuai to the Central Plains Field Army out of the need for the two field armies to fight together, in terms of the level of his position, Chen Shuai was Liu Shuai's subordinate.
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As we all know, Liu Shuai came from a regular military class, and in his early years he was admitted to the general school opened by the Shu military government in Chongqing, studied modern military courses, and began to cultivate military thinking. After the Nanchang Uprising, Liu Shuai went to the Soviet Union to study, and studied in the famous Moscow Advanced Infantry School and the Frunze Military Academy, where he mastered a large amount of military theoretical knowledge. If we talk about military theoretical attainments, among the ten marshals, Liu Shuai should be the first.
Chen Shuai is from the liberal arts and has not systematically studied military theoretical knowledge, which is not as good as Liu Shuai. During the Red Army period, Liu Shuai was one of the most important senior commanders of our army, and many operational instructions and plans were conceived by him. Although Chen Shuai also had experience in commanding guerrilla warfare in the Soviet zone, there was still some gap between him and Liu Shuai in terms of military level.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Liu Shuai was the military commander of a unit, the commander of the 129th Division, and the commander of the Second Field Army, responsible for the military command of the troops. Although Chen Yi was the commander of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the Third Field Army, and the political commissar, not all of the New Fourth Army's battles against the enemy were commanded by Chen Yi, and Su Yu, Huang Kecheng, and other generals also participated in it, sharing a lot for him.
It is worth mentioning that the East China Field Army, the predecessor of the Third Field Army, is composed of two major field armies in central China and Shandong. At the beginning of the Liberation War, Chen Shuai was transferred to Shandong as the supreme commander of the Shandong Field Army, during which time, Chen Shuai and Jiang Jun's many battles, more defeats than victories, the central government once asked Xu Shuai to succeed him, and finally at the insistence of the chairman, Chen Yi retained the position of commander. From the battles commanded by Chen Shuai in the early days of the Liberation War, we can see that his advantage is not military command, and there is still some gap between his ability in this regard compared with the first-class Su Yu, Liu Shuai, Xu Shuai, etc.
After the merger of the two major field armies in central China and Shandong, Chen Shuai's main job was to be responsible for the coordination and leadership of the troops, and the most important military command work was entrusted to Su Yu, with a clear division of labor, and each giving play to his own advantages. The situation in Erye was different, liu shuai had always been the military commander of this unit, responsible for combat command.
epilogue
Although Sanye's comprehensive strength was stronger than Erye's, Erye paid a lot for the victory of the Liberation War, marched thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, and directly inserted into the core area of Chiang Kai-shek's army, sharing a large part of the pressure on other field armies. After Erye advanced into the Dabie Mountains, in the absence of rear combat, he faced the encirclement and suppression of Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops, and the losses of the troops were quite serious, which was an inevitable thing, not Liu Shuai's responsibility.
Among the ten marshals, Liu Shuai is stronger than Chen Shuai in terms of seniority and military command in the army, and with this advantage, in the ranking of marshals, Liu Shuai is in the front and Chen Shuai is well understood. It is worth mentioning that Liu Shuai's age is the second among the ten marshals, second only to Zhu Laozong, and he is more like an old man than Chen Shuai.
The abilities of Liu Shuai and Chen Shuai are between Bo Zhong, no matter how up or down, but the areas they are good at are different. Liu Shuai has achievements in the military field, whether it is commanding wars or teaching and educating people, he is a professional talent. Chen Shuai has comprehensive ability, can command operations, can also engage in diplomacy, and engage in political commissars, and is an all-rounder in our army.
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