Compared with other founding generals, Lin Biao is a taciturn person. Many generals have the impression of Lin Biao that they are serious and cherish their words.
However, Lin Biao is not always taciturn. There is a problem that no one needs to mention first. Lin Biao will talk about it himself. That is eloquent. To put it to an exaggeration, the entire process of talking is not breathless. So, what kind of topic can make Lin Biao so interested?
Since the revolutionary era, Lin Biao has not liked to speak, and he usually doesn't like to interact with others, let alone visit others' homes. During the Yan'an period, after his wife gave birth to a child, she had no milk because she was malnourished and asked her to see if there were any women in other families who had given birth to a child. She asked her to borrow some milk or get some milk powder.
Lin Biao replied, "Yan'an is so difficult, how can I do it?" Lin Biao's wife was so angry that she said he was "stupid", and said that everyone could get it, why can't he do it, but Lin Biao only replied, "People are different."
After the national liberation, several other marshals of the Republic liked to get together to chat and visit each other, but he didn't. The yard where Lin Biao lives is quiet every day, and he is poorer, so he sits on the bed to read books. He is in better health and can get up. He walks around the room or yard, and sometimes laughs alone.
Therefore, the most important content in Lin Biao's life is meditation. Comrade Deng Xiaoping sighed more than once: "I admire Lin Biao's contemplation and taciturnity."
From these situations, we can see that Lin Biao is really taciturn. However, when talking about tactical issues, Lin Biao seemed to have become a different person, and immediately changed from "silent gourd" to "mother-in-law's mouth".
Why did it become a "mother-in-law's mouth"? Because Lin Biaoda loves military command from the bottom of his heart, in his opinion, he can't get tired of talking about military and tactics. Lin Biao's military tactical knowledge did not come out of thin air.
Lin Biao has received formal military knowledge learning, and is good at learning and good at thinking. Therefore, his strategic and tactical literacy is very high, and he has proposed many famous tactics, such as " three-three system ", "one point and two sides", etc. Therefore, people have a very high evaluation of Lin Biao's military command ability.
However, many people's evaluation of Lin Biao's military capabilities often focuses on commanding operations, but in fact, his ability to lead troops should not be underestimated. After all, an excellent military commander must also have the ability to lead troops.
Lin Biao led his troops mainly from two aspects: one is style and the other is tactics. There is no need to say much about our army's style, so Lin Biao mainly puts more effort into tactics. How to put in the effort
? It is to explain tactics to our army commanders and soldiers. Lin Biao himself has a lot of skills, and he also likes to explain tactics to the soldiers, and of course he also speaks very well.
When explaining tactics, Lin Biao no longer cherishes his words, but instead makes long-term comments, but he usually explains them in concise and easy-to-understand words, and sometimes performs scene simulations, , which is mainly to enable the soldiers to clearly master the tactics.
1931 's third anti-encirclement and suppression , the troops began to train and prepare for the fourth "anti-encirclement and suppression". At that time, Lin Biao was the commander of the Fourth Army of the First Red Front.
Before the attack, the superiors conducted a special training exercise. Everyone rushed to the military headquarters from all directions. After sitting in a courtyard, the training began.
At that time, Lin Biao was conducting the exercise. He stood at the center and said that if you want to fight a good war, you must first have some military theories and continuously improve your combat command capabilities.
Then, Lin Biao began to explain to you several common tactics at that time, including "circumcision encirclement" and "intermediate breakthrough". Lin Biao knew that if it was just a simple explanation, someone might not understand. Therefore, in order to allow many officers and soldiers below to fully understand the tactics, Lin Biao specially invited several comrades to help demonstrate.
There are four comrades in total, and Lin Biao temporarily calls them A, B, C, and D.Lin Biao first started to say "circumventing siege". He asked Comrade A to stand in the middle of the yard and let him play the enemy, and then asked Comrade B to play the offensive warrior. Lin Biao said to Comrade B: "Now you encircle the left and attack the enemy from the left wing." As soon as he finished speaking, Comrade B quickly took the gun and ran towards A from the left. When he reached Comrade A's vicinity, he immediately lay down and posed for combat.
Lin Biao pointed to the scene in front of him and said to everyone: "This is the left-wing detour. ." Then, Lin Biao ordered Comrade C to act as a right-wing detour, and at the same time ordered Comrade D to act as a frontal attack.
Lin Biao explained the meaning of their movements one by one, then waved his arms and made a move of hugging from the middle of the two sides, saying, "The actions of B and C are circles."
After a while, Lin Biao withdrew his arms, then stretched out his right hand and put his five fingers together, and then suddenly inserted straight forward: "D's actions are circles and breakthroughs!"
Lin Biao concluded: "What is circles and encirclement? It means to circling the enemy side and cooperate with the frontal troops to surround the enemy. What is a middle breakthrough? A middle breakthrough is also called a central breakthrough, which means to carry out breakthrough operations against the central part of the front of the enemy's defensive position. "
The officers and soldiers at the meeting were fascinated by the hearing. Seeing this, Lin Biao asked, "Do you understand?" At this time, the officers and soldiers woke up as if they were dreaming, and the whole yard "live" in an instant. Some nodded frequently, some answered excitedly, and some looked thoughtful.
After everyone slowly calmed down, Lin Biao said happily: "Okay, then let's talk about what it means to surround and fight support on all sides."
The image of Lin Biao in the film and television drama
After hearing this, everyone calmed down, staring at Lin Biao tightly, for fear of missing something. Lin Biao still arranged for Comrade A to play the enemy, and then asked Comrade B to play the siege of the Red Army , and then instructed C and D to set up an ambush on the north side of A.
After saying that, Comrade B began to perform circumference around A, and then C and D also quickly lie down on both sides of the door of the house, showing a combat-ready posture. After they finished the demonstration, Lin Biao drew a circle on his chest with one hand and pointed to the door of the house with the other, saying: "This is surrounded on all sides, surrounded the points and attacked the reinforcements!"
As he said, Lin Biao clearly stated that this tactic is fishing, using some forces to surround the enemy's strategic points, so that the enemy can reinforce. Then he concentrated our main force to annihilate the reinforcements. The purpose is not to defeat the surrounded enemies, but to attack the reinforcements.
It only took more than an hour from the beginning of the exercise to the end of the exercise. However, Lin Biao's easy-to-understand words and clearly visible performances left a deep impression on everyone.
and what left a deep impression on them was that Lin Biao would also say so many things. After all, in normal times, Lin Biao often responded with the words "um" and "good".
In addition, in order to let the officers and soldiers understand tactics, Lin Biao also created many words when explaining, such as "hard battle", "bureaucratic battle", " bayonet sees red ", etc. Even cadres and soldiers who do not have much military theory knowledge can understand them at once, remember them at once, and understand them at once.
Of course, Lin Biao was not static when explaining tactics. He would supplement, improve and develop tactics according to the new situation, and then talk to them tirelessly.
For example, during the War of Liberation, Lin Biao talked about tactical issues, and talked at the conference, and even in the telegram, Lin Biao would mention it, and he would not miss any opportunity. The reason for this is to enable the troops to fight and win battles.
As we all know, in the early stages of Northeast China, some battles were not fought well, so Lin Biao always thought about what aspects did not do well.After thinking, Lin Biao believed that the main reason was that some of the holes in the Northeast battlefield were torn too big, and the troops were too scattered, so there was no concentration of troops to open a breakthrough.
In order to fight the next battle, in 1947, Lin Biao held a special military meeting to explain how to concentrate troops and open a breakthrough based on this situation.
At the meeting, Lin Biao talked freely. He compared the battlefield to a house, saying that he had to open the door first, and then enter through the door before he could hit the inner room, and then fight out from the inner room. Therefore, when attacking, it was mainly to "open the door", that is, to open a hole, which was the key to the battle.
Then, Lin Biao emphasized that it is very difficult to open the door because the enemy also knows that this is the key. Every place will have support from other places. Therefore, it is not easy for our army to break through. Since it is not easy and it is very important, we must concentrate our efforts to open it.
How to fight the concentrated force? It is to focus on the concentrated firepower, specifically attack the enemy at a point, so that the enemy cannot raise its head or counterattack. At this time, put the hard troops at this point and let them in, and then they will definitely be able to open the enemy's "gate".
said this, and everyone suddenly realized that it was also based on Lin Biao's tactical instructions. In addition, Lin Biao was tireless and repeatedly "mouth-in-law" on tactical issues, which made the tactical level of the Northeast Army instantly improve by leaps and bounds. After the Liaoshen Campaign ended, Du Yuming said more than once that the enemy in the Northeast has far surpassed the enemy within the pass.
and above all reflect Lin Biao's great interest and fun in military and tactics, and also reflects Lin Biao's vividness and liveliness in explaining tactical classes. It can be said that Lin Biao was a completely different Lin Biao at this time. After all, Lin Biao in life was speechless and was indifferent to almost anything.
However, although Lin Biao, who explains tactics, has a huge contrast with Lin Biao in life, this is not surprising. Instead, it makes people more clearly realize that Lin Biao is a big military slut, and only this can make such a rare change.
