Atlas of Battles

commander, 9 engagements

Battles of Su Yu

Battles of Su Yu

Chinese general (1907–1984)

Su Yu is recorded as a commander at 9 placed engagements in the atlas between 1945 and 1949: 4 battles and 5 campaigns, all in present-day China. Taken in date order, the sites lie 3,058 km apart end to end, 382 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Chinese Civil War (8), Three Major Campaigns (1).

Gaoyou–Shaobo CampaignBattle of Huaiyin–Huai'anBattle of Rugao–HuangqiaoNanma–Linqu CampaignBattle of JinanHuaihai CampaignShuangduiji CampaignBattle of GuningtouShanghai CampaignBattle of JinanHuaihai CampaignShuangduiji CampaignBattle of GuningtouShanghai CampaignSeoulTaipeiChengduGuangzhouWuhanChongqingXianGuiyangHangzhouTaiyuan1000 km30.574N, 119.226E
9 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1945: 1 engagements1946: 2 engagements1947: 1 engagements1948: 3 engagements3 in 19481949: 2 engagements19451949
9 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Gaoyou–Shaobo Campaign, 1945Battle of Huaiyin–Huai'an, 1946Battle of Rugao–Huangqiao, 1946Nanma–Linqu Campaign, 1947Battle of Jinan, 1948Huaihai Campaign, 1948Shuangduiji Campaign, 1948Battle of Guningtou, 1949Shanghai Campaign, 194919451949
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1945Gaoyou–Shaobo CampaignJiangsu, ChinaCommunist victory
1946Battle of Huaiyin–Huai'anHuaiyin District, China114 km NWNationalist victory
1946Battle of Rugao–HuangqiaoJiangsu, China114 km SECommunist victory
1947Nanma–Linqu CampaignShandong, China405 km NNationalist victory
16 September 1948Battle of JinanJinan, People's Republic of China130 km WCommunist victory
1948Huaihai CampaignShandong, China130 km ECommunist victory
1948Shuangduiji CampaignAnhui, China524 km SDecisive Communist victory
1949Battle of GuningtouKinmen County, People's Republic of China827 km SRepublic of China victory
1949Shanghai CampaignShanghai, People's Republic of China812 km NCommunist victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.