Xu: First of all, the period of the Liberation War was Xu Shuai's second pioneering period, and history once again gave him the opportunity to be the founder of the People's Liberation Army. During the War of Liberation, Xu first served as Liu Bocheng's deputy, the first deputy commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region. Presided over the Shanxi combat mission. At that time, almost all the regular PLA troops in Shanxi were taken away by Liu Bocheng, and all the people who stayed in Shanxi were local troops and guerrillas. The difference in combat effectiveness is recognized. Xu Shuai himself said: The 18th Corps was a team that exercised, grew and expanded in the War of Liberation. It had a weak foundation, a lack of backbone, poor weapons and equipment, and never fought a big battle, but its combat task was very arduous and it seemed almost incompetent. But Xu Shuai was not angry. He reorganized the army and trained in the battle. Soon, he formed an army of about 60 thousand people. This internal combat unit can attack the city slightly. They broke Linfen, attacked Yuncheng, fought Jinzhong and fell into Taiyuan, and soon became a veritable main corps. Peng, Lin, Liu, Chen and Nie succeeded in "using troops" in the war of liberation. They didn't play the role of founders, but Xu was "building the army". In just two years, he set up the 18th Corps of the People's Liberation Army, which played the role of a founder. In the war of liberation, this was not done by any other senior general of the People's Liberation Army. In this sense, the War of Liberation was almost Xu Shuai's second adventure from scratch.

In addition, during the war of liberation, Xu optimized the overall situation of the People's Liberation Army in the war of liberation with his brilliant achievements and played the role of commander-in-chief of an independent theater. Shanxi battlefield lies between northwest battlefield and north China battlefield. After Liu Bocheng and Chen Geng took the troops away, the PLA's deployment in this area almost became a vacuum. Even Chiang Kai-shek wanted Yen Hsi-shan, a three-point Kuomintang veteran, to have hundreds of thousands of troops. Peng wrestled with Hu Zongnan, and Nie was beaten out of the water by Fu. At that time, if Yan Xishan Group and Hu Zongnan went to the northwest to deal with Peng, Peng could not stand it; If you are in North China with Fu Da Nie, Nie will feel even worse. In order to fill the vacuum, Xu, who had become famous during the Red Army period, organized local armed forces, often haunting Yen Hsi-shan, making it impossible for him to be distracted from northwest or north China. The low-cost Shanxi battlefield invested by the People's Liberation Army actually cut off the links between the northwest and north China of the Kuomintang army. Although Shanxi battlefield belongs to North China battlefield in name, Xu is the first deputy commander of North China Field Army in name, but in fact, Shanxi is regarded as an independent theater, and Xu is actually the commander of an independent theater. During the War of Liberation, Northwest Xiang Peng asked Xu Corps to help them, and North China also made such a request, but it was unmoved. 1948 June 18 said in a telegram to Peng and others: "You are shouldering the heavy responsibility of fighting in the northwest with about 70,000 people. It is very hard, but it is difficult to give you direct military assistance in other aspects. Yang Dezhi and Luo Ruiqing asked the Forward Corps to help fight Fu, and now you ask the Corps to help fight Hu Zongnan. We think this is not appropriate. " "The vanguard troops have gone north, and the battle of Jinzhong will be launched in a few days." "The plan is to stay in Jinzhong until Taiyuan is captured." Fixing the Forward Corps on the battlefield in Shanxi is actually a smart move: using tens of thousands of troops to deal with nearly 300,000 troops of Yan Xishan, the strategic cutting of northwest and north China was completed, and the strategic situation of the People's Liberation Army during the War of Liberation was optimized. Therefore, after the battle of Jinzhong, President Mao Zedong called to praise the Forward Corps "under the command of two comrades, the whole army fought bravely, the people supported it, and the rear worked hard to support it, and won victories on various battlefields in just one month." Please note that the words used by Mao Zedong are "so wonderful" and "extremely helpful to the whole battle". This evaluation is seeking truth from facts: an interior combat unit mainly formed by local armed forces has become a field force of great help to the whole war situation in just two years, ranking among the main legions, and its record cannot but be evaluated as "so brilliant."

He Long: In the War of Liberation, under the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, He Long led the main force of the Jinsui Military Region. Together with the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region commanded by Comrade Nie, they launched Suiyuan Campaign, attacked Liangcheng and Taolin, fought fiercely in Zhuozi Mountain, and besieged and retreated to Baotou, which dealt a heavy blow to the Kuomintang troops invading the liberated areas and defended the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

1947, Comrade He Long was appointed commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Joint Defense Military Region and commander of the Northwest Military Region. According to the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, he transferred all three main columns to the Northwest Field Army and handed them over to Comrade Peng to participate in the northwest battlefield. I rushed to northwestern Shanxi and northern Shaanxi, a sparsely populated place with inconvenient transportation and scarce resources, and wholeheartedly strengthened the construction of the rear area, ensuring the logistics supply and personnel supply in the Northwest Liberation War and making great contributions to the liberation of the northwest region. After the liberation of Xi, Comrade He Long also served as the director of Xi 'an Military Management Committee, which effectively organized the takeover and resumption of production of the largest city in northwest China.

1949 10, comrade He Long led 18 corps and other departments into Sichuan, annihilating more than 80,000 people in northern Sichuan. Later, in cooperation with Liu and Deng Dajun, Hu Zongnan assembled hundreds of thousands of troops in Chengdu. Together with Deng Xiaoping and Liu Bocheng, we have successfully organized various tasks such as entering Tibet, fighting bandits and tyrants, and building the Southwest. It has made outstanding contributions to the liberation and construction of southwest China.