Resume of General Su Yusheng.

Introduction to Su Yu (Resume of Su Yu)

Su Yu (1907-1984) was a native of Huitong County, Hunan Province. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1926 and transferred to the Communist Party of China in 1927. Participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Southern Hunan Uprising. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as company commander, battalion commander and detachment leader of the Twelfth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, commander of the Sixty-fourth Division, chief of staff of the Fourth Red Army, political commissar of the teaching division of the First Red Army, chief of staff of the Eleventh Red Army, and Chief of Staff of the Seventh Army Corps, Chief of Staff of the Tenth Red Army Corps, Chief of Staff of the Red Army's Northward Anti-Japanese Advance Team, Commander of the Advancing Division, and Commander of the Fujian and Zhejiang Military Regions. It persisted in the guerrilla war in the South for three years. During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as deputy commander of the Second Detachment of the New Fourth Army, deputy commander of the Jiangnan and Northern Jiangsu Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, division commander and political commissar of the First Division of the New Fourth Army, and commander and political commissar of the Central Jiangsu Military Region and Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region. During the War of Liberation, he served as deputy commander of the Central China Military Region, commander of the Central China Field Army, deputy commander, acting commander and acting political commissar of the East China Field Army, and deputy commander of the Third Field Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Vice Chairman of the East China Military and Political Commission, Deputy Chief of General Staff and Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Deputy Minister of Defense, Vice President of the Academy of Military Science, First Political Commissar, and Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Member of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general. He was a member of the first, second, and third National Defense Commissions, a member of the third and fourth National People's Congress Standing Committees, vice chairman of the fifth National People's Congress Standing Committee, an alternate member of the seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and an alternate member of the eighth and fourth National People's Congress Standing Committees. Member of the 9th, 10th and 11th Central Committee. He was elected as a standing member of the Central Advisory Committee at the first plenary meeting of the Central Advisory Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Introduction to Su Yu's life

1. "Surprise Soldiers" in the decisive battle of Huangqiao

At 3:00 pm on October 4, 1940, a horse in Huangqiao Town, northern Jiangsu On Tucheng, Su Yu, the 33-year-old deputy commander of the New Fourth Army's Northern Jiangsu Headquarters, held up a telescope and stared at the land in front of him where war between the enemy and ourselves was about to break out.

Huangqiao Town is located in the center of Jingjiang, Rugao, Hai'an, Taixian and Taixing counties in eastern northern Jiangsu. The New Fourth Army established an anti-Japanese base with Huangqiao as the center to facilitate its development to Nantong, Rugao, Haimen, and Qile. Only by controlling the above-mentioned areas can we cooperate with our Jiangnan troops, control the Yangtze River channel, and threaten the connection between the Japanese invaders and stubborn troops and the Jiangnan defenders.

"How can we allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the bed!" Han Delin, Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Japanese "expert", chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Government and deputy commander-in-chief of the Lusu Theater, immediately ordered his direct descendants to the 89th Army, the main force He and the 6th Independent Brigade and other troops attacked Huangqiao and fought a decisive battle with me with several times the strength of the New Fourth Army.

When the leading troops of the 6th Independent Brigade arrived two and a half kilometers north of Huangqiao, Su Yu gave an order, and our 1st column was divided into four groups, like four steel knives, cutting them into several pieces. In the first section, the brigade headquarters and rear guard regiment were annihilated, forcing the leading regiment to return for reinforcements, and then one unit was used to bypass the enemy's rear from the flanks, taking advantage of the situation to form an encirclement. The development of the battle was as Su Yu expected before the battle. After three hours of fierce fighting, the 1st Brigade was completely wiped out. Lieutenant General Weng Da, the brigade commander, looked at the corpses of his men everywhere and took out his pistol to commit suicide.

Choosing the Onda Brigade as the first target to annihilate was a strange move in the eyes of military strategists. The Wengda Brigade is one of the most combat-effective units among Han Deqin's 16 troops in northern Jiangsu. There are more than 3,000 people in the brigade, all equipped with the same "Chinese official" Type 79 rifles. Each infantry company has 9 brand-new Czech machine guns. Most of the officers are "military students." According to our army's consistent combat principle, we attack the weak first and then the strong. But this time Su Yu went against the "routine" and hit the target by surprise.

After Weng's brigade was wiped out, the 89th Army, the main force of Han Deqin's stubborn army, was completely exposed. Su Yu commanded the troops to launch a general offensive. After a night of fierce fighting, the 89th Army's headquarters was completely annihilated. Army Commander Li Shouwei fled across the river to escape, but he lost his footing and fell into the water. He was drowned in the Bachigou River wearing the rank of lieutenant general awarded to him by Chiang Kai-shek. Han Deqin, who went to the front line to supervise the battle, saw that the situation was over and led more than a thousand of his remaining troops to flee in panic. A month later, the New Fourth Army successfully joined forces with Liu Shaoqi and the Eighth Route Army's southward troops in Hai'an.

The decisive battle at Huangqiao was an unprecedented decisive battle fought by the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu. The glorious record of annihilating 11,000 enemies has remained in the glorious war history of our army. General Zhang Zhen, who once served as the chief of staff of the East China Field Army, said: "As a famous general of his generation, Su Yu's biggest characteristics in his military use are his careful deliberation, decisiveness, and ingenuity in strategy and use of extraordinary troops to accomplish extraordinary feats."

2. "Seven Battles and Seven Victories" in Central Jiangsu

In July 1946, the land of Central Jiangsu was covered with war clouds. At this critical juncture, Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, came to the front line in Central Jiangsu. Although the Kuomintang troops that invaded the liberated areas in central Soviet Union numbered as many as 120,000, while the Central China Field Army only had more than 30,000 people, Su Yu was full of confidence. He knows very well that loss of heart and pride and arrogance are the enemy's fatal weaknesses. He did not believe that American aircraft and artillery would turn his opponent into a victor.

The end of the war revealed Su Yu's ability to strategize. He chose the southern part of the liberated areas of Central Soviet Union as the battlefield for his first battle. This was an unusual decision. To meet the invading enemy, our traditional tactics are to "lure the enemy deep", but after careful research, Su Yu considered the three aspects of "timing, location, and troops" and believed that fighting in the central and southern areas of Jiangsu is more advantageous than deep areas.

The Battle of Xuan (Jiabao) and Qin (Xing) was the first battle in the Central Jiangsu Campaign. The battle began on July 13.

Prior to this, our army learned that the enemy had reorganized the 83rd Division, the 49th Division, the 99th Brigade, and the 25th Division # Inami No Togogou in three directions and came towards the Huaye base camp Haian, setting up a posture to compete with our army. In response, Su Yu waved his hand in front of the battle map of the field army headquarters: "Excuse me for not accompanying him, we are dedicated to fighting his way!" Xuan and Tai defended the enemy and reorganized the 83rd Division, originally designated as the 100th Army. Equipped with American weapons and equipment, he was trained by American instructors. He served as an expeditionary force in Burma during the late Anti-Japanese War and had strong combat effectiveness.

Mao Zedong was also extremely concerned about whether such an enemy could win the first battle. After a day and night of fierce fighting, when two enemy regiments, two battalions and more than 3,000 enemy troops were successfully annihilated, Mao Zedong drafted a telegram asking: "Is the 83rd Division being reorganized? How many of the divisions have been wiped out, and how many are left?" ?"

Fighting again at Rugao South (Tong), Su Yu took advantage of the enemy's misjudgment and ordered Wang Li to march for more than 100 miles to attack the enemy's 49th Division. However, he once again surprised the enemy. More than ten thousand enemies were wiped out. This was the first time since the beginning of the Liberation War that so many enemies were wiped out at once. On the day the battle ended, the Central Military Commission and Mao Zedong sent a telegram: "Congratulations on your great victory!"

The enemy was defeated in two battles and was unwilling to accept it. Chen Chengtian, Chief of the General Staff of the Kuomintang, went to Nantong from Nanjing to reiterate the determination of Central Jiangsu to "suppress bandits" and to cheer up the frustrated Chiang Army: Tang Enbo took command in Nantong, and Bai Chongxi also rushed to Xuzhou to supervise the battle. And mobilized the troops of the 6th brigades of the second echelon to attack Haian, our important town in central Jiangsu. However, Su Yu only used a column of more than 3,000 troops to bravely resist the fierce attacks of more than 50,000 enemies and killed more than 3,000 enemies, while we only suffered more than 200 casualties. A new record of 15:1 casualties between the enemy and ourselves was created.

The fourth battle at Fort Lee completely shattered the enemy's dream of quickly solving Soviet Union. Another big gain from the fifth battle with Ding Di and Lin Zi was the destruction of the enemy traffic police squadron, a so-called "pocket ace army" of the Kuomintang. In fact, this is a secret service force trained by the cooperation of American spy Melos and Kuomintang military commander Dai Li. It is more politically reactionary than other Kuomintang troops. In the name of "restoring traffic," they specifically carried out "clearance operations" in our liberated areas along the highway, and cooperated with the Landlord Returning Corps to bloody suppress the people. In order to capture our local cadres and militiamen, they actually stored countless shackles and handcuffs engraved with the word "USA" in several rooms in Dingyi.

By the Sixth Battle of Xiebo and the Seventh Battle of Ru(Gao)Huang(Qiao), the Kuomintang had lost 6 brigades and 5 traffic police brigades, totaling 53,000 troops.

This is the famous "Seven Battles and Seven Victories in Central Jiangsu". The entire campaign took only one and a half months. Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army, later recalled: "Su Yu destroyed more enemies in the Battle of Central Jiangsu than his own troops."

3. Mao Zedong made an exception and stepped out of the door to greet

Anyone who often works around Mao Zedong knows that Mao Zedong’s interactions with comrades, friends, and relatives each have different characteristics. When interacting with comrades within the party, unless they met again after a long absence, Mao Zedong rarely showed affection. Basically, he was dignified and informal, concise and straightforward. He also did not engage in etiquette such as welcoming and seeing off guests. When someone came to him to ask for instructions and report on work, he did not get up and continued to review documents. The chairman sometimes listened to a few sentences of the report before making a gesture: "Sit down, sit down and talk." Mao Zedong would stand up to greet old comrades he had not seen for a long time, but he rarely stepped forward.

In 1948, Su Yu rushed from the front line to Chengnanzhuang to attend a military meeting. Mao Zedong strode up to greet him and shook hands with Su Yu. Su Yu respectfully shook the chairman's hand. Both of them were very excited. Mao Zedong broke the Stepping out of the door to greet Su Yu became an exception in Mao Zedong's interactions with comrades in the party.

It all started with a telegram.

In 1947, under the circumstances of the successful development of the People's Liberation War, according to the deployment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the three armies of Liu Deng, Chen Xie, and Chen Su penetrated into the Kuomintang-controlled areas of the Central Plains and completed the strategic deployment, which plunged the Kuomintang army into a dilemma. passive position. Chiang Kai-shek also changed his strategy and used superior force to force the People's Liberation Army to carry out long-term and continuous operations without rear support, putting the three-pronged army in a more difficult situation. Under this circumstance, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong considered and decided that Su Yu would lead Huaye's 1st, 4th and 6th columns to cross the Yangtze River and march southward to carry out large-scale mobile combat missions in several southern provinces to force the enemy to change their strategy. The deployment will attract 20 to 30 enemy brigades to return to defend Jiangnan, which will help the three-pronged army to annihilate the enemy.

The telegram finally told Su Yu to "see you again when you are ready."

After receiving the telegram, Su Yu carefully analyzed the military, economic, geographical and other conditions of both the enemy and ourselves. After repeatedly reviewing the situation, he believed that as many enemies as possible should be eliminated north of the Yangtze River. To fight a war of annihilation, it would be advantageous to concentrate our forces north of the Yangtze River, but it would be unfavorable to divide our forces across the river. Therefore, he suggested in his report that Liu Deng, Chen Xie and the main force of Huaye rely on the rear (north of Longhai) to fight in order to obtain sufficient supplies of artillery shells, explosives, and grenades, and to make full use of existing equipment to eliminate a large number of enemies.

Mao Zedong attached great importance to Su Yu's opinions and asked Su Yu and Chen Yi to come for interviews. Chen Su immediately set off, traveling more than 800 kilometers. Along the way, Su Yu and the driver took turns driving the jeep, and arrived at Nanzhuang, Fuping County, Hebei on May 5.

Since the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" failed in July 1934, when Su Yu served as chief of staff of the Red Army's advance team heading north to fight against Japan, until May 1948, Su Yu had not seen Mao Zedong and others for 14 years. Comrade the central leadership. More than ten years ago, during the Jinggangshan struggle, Su Yu learned the strategies and tactics of China's revolutionary war from Mao Zedong and Zhu De. More than ten years later, he himself has grown into an excellent military general. Reunited after a long absence, and on the eve of the final victory of the Chinese revolution, both sides have infinite joy. So Mao Zedong made an exception and stepped out to greet Su Yu, and the two shook hands warmly for a long time.

4. "I am a drop in the ocean!"

Although Su Yu had great military exploits, he never took credit for himself and was arrogant. He has great respect for the leaders and comrades who work with him. When dealing with major issues, he always asks for instructions in advance and reports afterwards, and is never good at making opinions. Every instruction from superiors must be carefully studied and implemented.

When he was out, whenever he encountered a photographer, Su Yu always hid behind him. He himself does not smoke, but when cadres and soldiers come to his dormitory, he always invites them to smoke and drink tea, and the non-smokers to eat candies. When the meal is served, he stays to eat together. When leaving the army or going to other units, if I was stopped by a sentry, I would get out of the car myself and inform my name and work unit. I was afraid that the soldiers would not understand Hunan dialect, so I would often take off my military cap and show the name in the hat to the soldiers.

Whenever someone mentions Su Yu’s great achievements during the revolutionary war years, Su Yu always smiles indifferently and says, “I am a drop in the ocean!” When talking about the reasons for victory, he always boils it down to three reasons. Three aspects: first, the correct command of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao; second, the bravery and tenacity of the officers and soldiers participating in the war; third, the strong support of the people.