Su Yu (1907— 1984) is a native of Huitong County, Hunan Province. /kloc-joined the Chinese communist youth league in 0/926 and transferred to China in 0/927. Participated in Nanchang Uprising and Southern Hunan Uprising. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as the company commander, battalion commander and division commander of the 12th Army of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, the division commander of the 64th Division, the chief of staff of the Gongsi Army, the political commissar of the First Division of the Red Army, the chief of staff of Gong Yijun, the chief of staff of the Qigong Corps, the chief of staff of the Red Army's northward anti-Japanese advance team, the division commander of the Forward Division, and the commander of the Fujian-Zhejiang Military Region. Insisted on guerrilla warfare in the south for three years. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as deputy commander of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army, deputy commander of the headquarters of Jiangnan and Subei of the New Fourth Army, commander and political commissar of the first division of the New Fourth Army, and commander and political commissar of the Suzhong Military Region and the 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 of the East China Field Army, acting commander, acting political commissar, and deputy commander of the Third Field Army. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as vice chairman of the East China Military Commission, deputy chief of staff and chief of staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, vice minister of national defense, vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences, first political commissar and member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC). 1955, he was awarded the rank of general. He was a member of the first, second and third national defense committees, a member of the third and fourth the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) committees, a vice chairman of the fifth the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), an alternate member of the seventh Central Committee, and a member of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh Central Committees. He was elected as the Standing Committee of the Central Advisory Committee at the first plenary session of the Central Advisory Committee in China.
Brief introduction of Su Yu's life
First, Huangqiao decisive battle "Indiana Jones"
1940 10 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, on a tucheng in huangqiao town, northern Jiangsu, Su Yu, 33, deputy commander of the Northern Jiangsu Command of the New Fourth Army, took a telescope and stared at the land in front of him where the war between the enemy and us was imminent.
Huangqiao town is located in the center of Jingjiang, Rugao, Hai 'an, Taixian and Taixing in the east of northern Jiangsu. The New Fourth Army established an anti-Japanese base area centered on Huangqiao, which facilitated the development of Nantong, Rugao, Haimen and Le Kai. Only by controlling the above-mentioned areas can we echo our Jiangnan army, control the Yangtze River passage, and threaten the connection between the stubborn Japanese army and the enemy troops defending the south of the Yangtze River.
"By the sofa, let others sleep soundly!" Han Deqin, the anti-communist "expert" under Chiang Kai-shek, the chairman of Jiangsu provincial government and the deputy commander-in-chief of Su Ru Theater, actually let his main force, the 89th Army and the Independent Sixth Brigade, attack Huangqiao, and fought with me several times as many troops as the New Fourth Army.
When the vanguard of the Independent Sixth Brigade arrived at two and a half kilometers north of Huangqiao, Su Yu gave the order, and I 1 column soldiers were divided into four roads, like four steel knives, cut into several pieces, first annihilated the brigade headquarters and the guard regiment, and forced the vanguard regiment to come back, and then one of them bypassed the enemy lines from the flank to form an encirclement. The development of the campaign was as expected by Su Yu before the war. After three hours of fierce fighting, 1 brigade was completely annihilated. Lieutenant General Onda watched his men lying around, pulled out a pistol and prepared to commit suicide.
Choosing Onda Brigade as the first goal is a miracle in the eyes of military strategists. Onda Brigade is one of the strongest fighting forces in the North Han Deqin 16 troops. There are more than 3,000 people in the whole brigade, and the same color "China Guan" 79 rifle. Each infantry company has nine brand-new Czech machine guns, and most of the officers are "cadets". According to our army's consistent operational principle, it is to defeat the weak first and then the strong. But this time, Su Yu went against the "convention" and took it by surprise and hit the nail on the head.
After Weng Brigade was destroyed, the 89th Army, the main force of Han Deqin stubborn army, was completely exposed. Su Yu commanded the troops to launch a general attack, and fought fiercely overnight, and the 89th Army was completely annihilated. Li Shouwei, commander of the army, wearing the rank of Lieutenant General conferred by Chiang Kai-shek, escaped the river, fell into the water and drowned in the Bachigou River. Han Deqin, who was in charge of the war before the visit, saw that the tide had ebbed and led thousands of people to flee. A month later, the New Fourth Army joined forces with Liu Shaoqi and the Eighth Route Army in Hai 'an.
The decisive battle of Huangqiao is an unprecedented battle of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu. The brilliant record of eliminating 1 0,000 and 1 0,000 people remained in the glorious history of our army. General Zhang zhen, the former chief of staff of the East China Field Army, said: "As a generation of famous soldiers, the biggest feature of Su Yu's use of troops is his thinking, skill, strategy and skill."
Second, the Soviet Union's "Seven Wars and Seven Wins"
1July, 946, the land of central Jiangsu was shrouded in the clouds of war. At this critical juncture, Su Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, came to the front of the Soviet area. Although there were as many as120,000 Kuomintang troops invading the liberated areas in the middle of Jiangsu, and only over 30,000 field troops in Central China, Su Yu was full of confidence. He knows that losing popular support and arrogance are the enemy's achilles' heel. He doesn't believe that American plane guns will make opponents a winner.
When the curtain of the war was finally lifted, Su Yu's ability to strategize was displayed. He chose the battlefield of his first battle in the south of the Soviet area, which was an unusual decision. To meet the invading enemy, my traditional method of warfare is to "lure the enemy deep." However, after careful study, Su Yu thought that from the perspective of "favorable weather, favorable geographical position and harmonious people", it was more advantageous to fight in the south of the Soviet area than in the deep.
The battle between Xuanjiabao and Qin Xing was the first battle of the Soviet Union. The fighting began in July 13. Prior to this, our army learned that the enemy had reorganized 83rd Division, 49th Division, 99th Brigade and 25th Division # Well, and soldiers with knives and hooks came to Hai 'an, the base camp of Hua Ye, in three ways to fight with our army. In this regard, Su Yu waved in front of the battle map of the Field Army Command: "I won't accompany you, we will beat him all the way!" Xuanhetai reorganized the 83rd Division to defend against the enemy. The original name was 100 army. This is Chiang Kai-shek's direct unit, equipped with new American equipment and trained by American instructors. In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, he fought in Myanmar as an expeditionary force with strong combat effectiveness.
Whether such an enemy can win the first battle, including Mao Zedong, is of great concern. It was not until after a fierce battle day and night that the battle to wipe out two enemy regiments, two battalions and more than 3,000 people ended that Mao Zedong personally drafted a telegram and asked, "Is it the reorganization of the 83rd Division? How many divisions have been destroyed, and how many more? "
In another battle, such as (Gao) Nan (Tong), Su Yu used the enemy's misjudgment to make Wang Lijiang March for more than 100, and raided the enemy's 49th division for a long time. As a result, it was once again unexpected, and more than 10,000 people were annihilated. So many people were wiped out at one time, which is the first time since the liberation war. On the day of the end of the battle, the Central Military Commission and Mao Zedong sent telegrams: "Celebrate your great victory!"
The enemy suffered two defeats in two wars and was unwilling. Chen Chengtian, chief of the General Staff of the Kuomintang, went to Nantong personally, reaffirming the Soviet Union's determination to "suppress bandits" and giving encouragement to frustrated Chiang Kai-shek: Tang took command in Nantong, and Bai Chongxi also rushed to Xuzhou to supervise the war. And mobilized the troops of the second echelon, a total of six brigades, to attack Haian, an important town in the middle of Jiangsu. And Su Yu only used a column of more than 3,000 people to bravely resist the repeated onslaught of more than 50,000 enemies, killing more than 3,000 enemies, while I only suffered more than 200 casualties. It set a new record of 15: 1 casualties on both sides.
Fort Lee in World War IV completely broke the enemy's dream of a quick solution to the Soviet Union. Another great achievement of Ding Nian and Lin Zi in the Fifth World War was the smashing of the enemy's traffic police squadron, a "pocket ace force" known as the Kuomintang. In fact, this is a spy unit trained by American spy Meles and Kuomintang military spy Dai Li, which is more reactionary politically than other Kuomintang troops. In the name of "restoring traffic", they specifically "cleared" the liberated areas along the highway, cooperated with the landlord's returning home group, and brutally suppressed the people. In order to capture our local cadres and militia, they actually stored several rooms in Dingyi, which contained countless shackles and handcuffs engraved with the words of the United States.
By the end of the sixth war, villains were killed, and the seventh war was like (Gao) Huang (overseas Chinese). The Kuomintang will lose 6 brigades and 5 traffic police brigades, accounting for 53,000 people.
This is the famous "Soviet Union wins seven wars and seven victories". The whole 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 than its own troops in the Soviet campaign."
Third, Mao Zedong made an exception and went out to meet him.
People who often work around Mao Zedong know that Mao Zedong's contacts with comrades, friends and relatives have their own characteristics. Mao Zedong seldom shows intimacy in the communication between comrades in the Party unless they meet again after a long separation. He is basically dignified and informal, concise and straightforward. He doesn't do etiquette such as welcoming guests. Someone asked him for instructions to report his work, but he didn't get up and continued to read the documents. Sometimes the chairman will listen to several reports first, and then make a gesture: "sit down, sit down and talk." For old comrades who haven't seen each other for a long time, Mao Zedong had to get up and see him off, but he rarely crossed the threshold.
1948, Su Yu rushed to Chengnanzhuang from the front to attend a military meeting. Mao Zedong strode forward and shook hands with Su Yu. Su Yu respectfully shook the chairman's hand. Both of them are very excited. Mao Zedong's sudden meeting with Su Yu this time became an exception in Mao Zedong's contacts with comrades in the Party.
Things have to start with a telegram.
During the period of 1947, under the situation of the victorious development of the People's Liberation War, according to the deployment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Liu Deng, Xie Chen and Chen Su went deep into the Kuomintang-controlled areas of the Central Plains and completed the strategic deployment, which put the Kuomintang army in a passive position. Chiang Kai-shek also changed his strategy, forcing the PLA to carry out long-term continuous operations without rear support with superior forces, making the situation of the Third Route Army even more difficult. In this case, after consideration, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong decided that Hua Ye 1, 4, and 6 columns led by Su Yu would cross the river south and carry out large-scale mobile combat missions in several southern provinces, so as to force the enemy to change its strategic deployment and attract twenty or thirty brigades to defend the south of the Yangtze River, which was beneficial to the body count of the Third Route Army.
Finally, the telegram familiarized Su Yu.
After receiving the telegram, Su Yu carefully analyzed the military, economic, geographical and other conditions. He repeatedly sized up the situation and thought that the enemy should be wiped out as far as possible to the north of the Yangtze River. Fighting a big annihilation war, it is beneficial to concentrate troops in Jiangbei, but it is unfavorable to divide troops and cross the river. Therefore, in his report, he suggested that Liu Deng, Xie Chen and Hua Ye rely on the rear (north of Longhai) to fight, in order to get enough supplies of shells, explosives and grenades, and give play to the role of existing equipment to destroy the enemy in large numbers.
Mao Zedong attached great importance to Su Yu's opinions and invited Su Yu and Chen Yi to come for an interview. Chen Su set off immediately, covering more than 800 kilometers. Along the way, Su Yu and the driver took turns driving jeeps and arrived in Chengnanzhuang, Fuping County, Hebei Province on May 5.
Since the fifth anti-encirclement campaign failed in July, 1934, after Su Yu became the chief of staff of the Red Army's anti-Japanese advance team northward, Su Yu has not seen Mao Zedong and other central leading comrades for 1948 days. More than ten years ago, during the Jinggangshan struggle, Su Yu learned the strategy and tactics of China revolutionary war from Mao Zedong and Zhu De. After more than ten years, he himself grew into an excellent military general. Meeting after such a long separation is on the eve of the final victory of the China Revolution, and both sides have infinite joy. So Mao Zedong made an exception and went out to meet Su Yu. They shook hands warmly and stayed together for a long time.
Fourth, "I am a drop in the ocean!"
Although Su Yu has made outstanding achievements, he never takes credit. He has great respect for the leaders and comrades who work with him. When dealing with major issues, he must ask for instructions in advance and report afterwards, and he never makes a claim. Every instruction from the superior should be carefully studied and carried out.
When going out, whenever she meets a photographer, Su Yu always hides behind. He doesn't smoke himself, but when cadres and soldiers come to his dormitory, he always invites them to smoke and drink tea, and those who don't smoke eat sugar and stay for dinner. When you leave the army or go to other units, you are stopped by the sentry, and you get off and report your name and work unit. You are also afraid that soldiers can't understand Hunan dialect, so you often take off your military hat to show the soldiers the names inside.
Whenever someone mentioned Su Yu's great achievements in the revolutionary war years, Su Yu always smiled indifferently and said, "I am a drop in the ocean!" The reason for Tan's victory always comes down to three aspects: First, the correct command of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman Mao; Second, brave and tenacious officers and men participating in the war; Third, the people's strong support.