Major General Su Yu

Author: Xiong Zhengyan
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: A young man from a wealthy family who. After the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, he was severely injured but his ideals and beliefs only grew stronger, vowing never to leave the revolutionary army. On Jinggang Mountain, he personally received guidance from Mao Zedong and was praised by Zhu De as a "young military strategist." During the Northern Expedition of the Red Army, he led a successful breakout after the failure of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Unit and fought a guerrilla war in Southern Jiangxi for three years. When the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, he led the New Fourth Army's Volunteer Brigade into Jiangnan, winning the first battle at Weigang; he then expanded northward, opening up Suzhou, and advanced into Western Jiangxi, achieving three victories at Tianmu Mountain. His reputation intimidated the Japanese, puppet, and KMT forces. During the Liberation War, he performed magnificent feats: the Seven Victories in Central Suzhou, exploring the laws of early-stage warfare; the Subei and Luning campaigns, which turned the tide of the East China theater; the battle of Mengliangguan, where he "sliced off the head of a general in a million-man army," with battle commands that were "ever more extraordinary," repeatedly setting new records for enemy kills; he bravely proposed and insisted on a large-scale decisive battle in Central China, leading the Central Military Commission to change its original decision and demonstrating the extraordinary of a military strategist and strategist; in the strategic decisive battle, he was the first to propose the Huaihai Campaign, skillfully guiding the battle's development and commanding the Huaihai Field Army to create a miracle in the history of world warfare; during the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign, he repelled British warship provocations; in the fierce battle for Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, he combined politics and military strategy to achieve a complete victory; his two resignations as commander-in-chief were hailed as a model of high moral integrity throughout the army. After the founding of the People's Republic, Mao Zedong summoned him four times to liberate Taiwan, appointed him as the field commander-in-chief for the Korean War, and later personally nominated him as Deputy Chief of the General Staff and then Chief of the General Staff. During the Cultural Revolution, he was entrusted with extraordinary contributions in a special time and on a special battlefield. However, in 1958, he suffered an unjust accusation, and his subsequent rehabilitation process was full of twists and turns, leaving people to sigh in admiration.