Major General Su Yu

Author: Xu Xuechu
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: In early summer of 1927, the reactionary forces of the Kuomintang staged the "Marek Incident," plunging Changsha into a sea of blood, where many outstanding sons and daughters of the Communist Party were martyred. Among the progressive figures who survived, there was a young man who became a valiant general under the command of Ye Ting, the commander of the 24th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, at the age of 20. Seventeen years later, when the news of his victory—leading a force of only a few thousand in the Chetang battle in northern Jiangsu, defeating over a thousand enemies—reached the Yan'an cave dwellings, Mao Zedong, with his sharp eye for talent, made a highly prophetic remark: "This man, who rose from the ranks of a soldier, will one day command a force of four or five hundred thousand." This general, recognized and praised by Mao Zedong, was none other than the legendary military commander Su Yu, who later achieved numerous remarkable victories and became renowned as the "Chinese War God."