Su Yu fought all his life, he was a victorious general on the battlefield, and commanded thousands of troops and horses. In the mouths of his comrades-in-arms, Su Yu"Fight the battle of the gods"., also praised as"The first merit of the Huaihai Campaign".。Su Yu, who made outstanding contributions to the liberation of the republic, also regretted in his heart, that is, he could not fulfill his filial piety under his parents' knees.
Su Yu. Su Yu left his hometown in his teens, went out to study, and joined the army, and has not been able to return to his hometown for more than 60 years. During this period, his father Su Jiahui passed away, and his mother did not see her second son for 23 years. Su Yu was loyal to the revolutionary cause of the motherland, but he was unable to fulfill his filial piety under the knees of his parents, leaving endless regrets for this great husband.
In August 1907, Su Yu was born in Fengmushujiao Village, Fulong Township, Huitong County, Huaihua City, Hunan. At this time, the Su family still had a little family business, and his father Su Jia would give him this name, just to let him inherit the family business and carry forward the Su family's industry.
After her mother Liang Wanying gave birth to Su Yu, she gave birth to two younger sisters to Su Yu, namely Su Cuiyun and Su Cuilan. plus Su Yu's elder brother Su Duorui and sister Su Cuiqin, the parents have a total of five children. When Su Yu was a child, he had a good relationship with his brothers and sisters, and when he got delicious food, the first thing that came to mind was his two younger sisters.
In the memories of Su Yu's sister Su Cuilan, the second brother had delicious and fun food, and they were all quietly sent to him. When he was a child, Su Yu often told stories to Su Cuilan and taught Su Cuilan to read and write. When he was young, Su Yu began to learn marksmanship with the long-term workers in his family, and later practiced the archery skills of piercing the Yang in a hundred steps.
He also loves to exercise, and every day he runs from Dajingkou, the county seat, to Muzhen Qiaotou, and turns back. This trip takes more than 6 kilometers to go back and forth, Su Cuilan didn't believe that the second brother insisted on running like this every day, so one day she secretly put a note under the Muzhen Bridge. After she returned home, she said to her second brother Su Yu:"Second brother, I put something under the Muzhen Bridge, you can bring it back to me when you exercise tomorrow morning." ”
Su Cuilan had just gotten up the next day, and the second brother had already come back from running and brought her the note. Su Cuilan believed that the second brother Su Yu had to run 6 kilometers every day, which shows Su Yu's firmness. When Su Yu was born, because Su Yu's father Su Jiahui did not go well in the imperial examination, his timber business encountered floods, and the family road quickly fell.
The former residence of Comrade Su Yu.
Su Jiahui was so devastated that he did not dare to start a business anymore, so he could only devote himself to the rest of his family's land. Most of the employees in the family were also dismissed, and the work in the fields during the slack season was all due to the busy work of Su Jiahui and his wife. At this time, the eldest brother Su Duorui also picked up the burden of the family early, and followed his parents to work in the fields every day.
In his childhood, the person who took care of Su Yu was his eldest sister Su Cuiqin. Mother Liang Wanying works hard every day and spends little time with her second son, and the eldest sister Su Cuiqin can be said to have replaced the role of her mother and takes care of the young Su Yu. During her childhood, Su Cuiqin took several younger siblings to play, and when it was time to eat, she had to cook for her parents.
Like many ordinary families in China at that time, the eldest sister was like a mother, and Su Cuiqin took on more responsibilities for the family. In 1925, with the support of his parents, Su Yu went to Changde and was admitted to the Hunan Provincial Second Normal School. From this time on, Su Yu met many people with lofty ideals in school, came into contact with advanced revolutionary ideas, and began to devote himself to it.
In 1927, after the Hunan warlord Xu Kexiang launched the "Ma-Ri Incident", the reactionary military police of the Kuomintang in Changde surrounded the Hunan Provincial Second Normal Regiment and searched for revolutionary fighters in the school. At the moment of great urgency, Su Yu and his classmates sneaked out of the campus through the sewers in the school and escaped.
With the help of Mr. Wen Shoushan, the students were able to dress up and get on the train to Wuchang. After arriving in Wuchang, Su Yu and his classmates found the party organization and were arranged to enter the 24th Division of the Northern Expeditionary Army. After that, Su Yu followed the army, participated in the Nanchang Uprising, and began his life as a horseman.
Nanchang Uprising Exhibition Hall, showing the rebel army arriving at Niuhang Station large sculpture.
When Su Yu participated in the Shonan Uprising and led the guerrilla war in the south for three years, his family suffered. Su Yu led the Red Army in the guerrilla area of southwest Zhejiang, defeated the invading enemy many times, and became a thorn in Chiang Kai-shek's side. Immediately, the Kuomintang reactionaries raided the Su family and forced Su Yu's father, Su Jiahui, to explain Su Yu's whereabouts.
Su Yu had not returned home for many years, and Su Jiahui did not know the whereabouts of his second son, and he would not have told the reactionaries if he knew it. Su Jiahui had no choice but to take his wife and daughters and secretly moved to Huitong County and lived incognito. At this time, Su Yu's eldest brother Su Duorui also fled, and the Kuomintang reactionaries could be described as frenzied.
In the process of Su Jiahui leading the family ** wave, he was worried about his two sons and became ill. He couldn't eat or drink, and eventually died suddenly at the age of 43. Su Yu knew the news that it was already during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and he was grief-stricken. After Su Jiahui's death, Su Yu's mother, Liang Wanying, fasted and recited Buddha every day and prayed for her two sons who were away.
At this time, Su Yu's eldest sister, Su Cuiqin, took care of her mother. When her father died and her brother and brother were away and couldn't return home, this strong woman shouldered the burden of the Su family. Thanks to her efforts, her two younger sisters, Su Cuiyun and Su Cuilan, were able to continue their studies, and she was the second mother of her younger siblings.
In 1938, the anti-Japanese national united front was formed, and the eldest brother Su Duorui did not have to flee and had returned home. One day, the Su family sent a letter, signed by Su Yu. This is the first letter Su Yu sent after 11 years away from home, and the family finally knows that Su Yu has not died yet, and is still directing the battle against the Japanese invaders.
In the spring of 1938, Su Yu (back row, sixth from left) took a group photo with some cadres of the Red Army's Advance Division at Shanmen Street, Pingyang County, Zhejiang.
The eldest brother, Su Duorui, wrote back to Su Yu, informing him that his father had passed away and that his mother and sisters were all well. Su Yu received a letter and saw his brother say:"Duozhen, don't worry about your family, my mother and sister are taken care of by me, you can command the war well and drive the Japanese out of China. ”When Su Yu learned that his father had died, he secretly returned to his room and closed the door, and the tough guy couldn't stop crying and wet his pillow.
During the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched a civil war, and the Kuomintang reactionaries began to ** Su Yu's family again. Su Yu's eldest brother Su Duorui's pharmacy was closed down, and he faced assassinations from the enemy many times, but fortunately he escaped. In the White Terror, the Su family struggled, relying on Su Yu's eldest sister, elder brother, and younger sister to take care of their mother.
In 1949, on the eve of the battle of crossing the river, ** knew that his old comrade-in-arms Su Yu had been away from home for decades. **Asked with a smile:"It's been decades since you left home, do you miss home?”Su Yu replied"**Can you not want to?I have a mother, an older brother, an older sister, and a younger sister at home, and I think about it very much!”**Say:"When you cross the river, you must go home and have a look. ”
Su Yu nodded and said"Now that the front-line command task is heavy, I can only borrow the Kuomintang newspaper to report safety to my family. When the whole country is liberated, I will definitely go home and see. ”In the battle of crossing the Yangtze River, a million heroic divisions of the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River and achieved another great victory. On October 4, 1949, Huitong also ushered in the liberation, and Su Yu's return to home was put on the agenda.
Su Yu was very happy, and also made preparations before going home, and waited to see the old mother. However, at that time, when returning to the Huihui, he had to pass through the area still controlled by Bai Chongxi's Gui family, so his superiors arranged a reinforcement company for Su Yu to protect his safety. After Su Yu learned the news, he thought that going home to visit his relatives was his private matter, and he couldn't be so excited, so he decided not to go back to his hometown to visit his relatives first.
* After hearing the news, ask him:"Why haven't you returned to your hometown yet?”Su Yu only said:"When the whole country is liberated, I will definitely go back. ”**Knowing the thoughts of his old comrade-in-arms Su Yu, he specially sent someone to bring Su Yu's family to Nanjing. Su Cuiqin, Su Duorui, and Su Cuiyun took their old mother Liang Wanying all the way to Nanjing.
General Su Yu memorial hall hanging statue.
This is Liang Wanying and Su Yu's mother and son, meeting again after 23 years. Su Yu fell in front of everyone, and his tears fell, and he felt guilty for his mother. During his time in Nanjing, Su Yu's work was particularly busy, and there were many jobs waiting for him to arrange every day. But in between busy work, Su Yu spent almost all of his free time with his mother.
Su Yu's mother developed the habit of worshipping Guanyin Bodhisattva in her early years, praying for the blessings of her children, and after arriving in Nanjing, she still had to worship the Bodhisattva every day. After Su Yu learned of the situation, he specially sent someone to invite a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, bought an incense burner, and asked his mother to worship it. Liang Wanying has suffered a lot over the years, and Su Yu quietly listened to her mother's story, often crying because of grief.
Liang Wanying doesn't like to eat big fish and meat, she likes to eat March buds, and when Su Yu goes out to investigate, he always buys a little back for his mother to eat. Liang Wanying was old and it was inconvenient to go to the toilet, so Su Yu personally dug a hole in the wooden bench and made it into a toilet for his mother to use. Su Yu has been away from his mother for 23 years, and he hopes to be by his mother's side all the time, but for the cause of the motherland, he can't.
In 1951, Su Yu returned to Beijing and served as the second deputy chief of the general staff. Su Yu and Chu Qing took the children, so they could only say goodbye to their old mother and go to Beijing. At home in Nanjing, Su Yu entrusted his mother to the care of his eldest sister Su Cuiqin, and he continued to devote himself to the construction of New China.
At this time, Su Yu was replaced with severe Meniere's syndrome because of the shrapnel left in his body because of his past war wounds. He insisted on working while sick, sometimes he was injured in battle**, had a severe headache, and couldn't even look around left and right. During the war years, Su Yu was wounded six times, and many pieces of shrapnel on his body could not be removed, which brought great pain to the famous general.
As a result, Su Yu was in a state of recuperation for a long time, and while he was recuperating, he actively contributed to the construction of New China. In 1975, Su Yu, who served as the first secretary and first political commissar of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, learned a sad news. When he heard that his eldest sister Su Cuiqin had died, Su Yu was very sad and wrote to his eldest sister's family to express his grief.
In 1971, Su Yu and *** at the first representative meeting of the Academy of Military Sciences.
Su Yu was in tears of grief for the death of his eldest sister Su Cuiqin, but soon after, he heard a piece of news that made him angry. That is Su Cuiqin's niece Liang Chuang, who wants to bury her grandmother beyond the standard in the name of Su Yu. In the name of Su Yu, Liang Chuang moved the ashes of his grandmother Su Cuiqin back to his hometown and buried them in a large coffin.
After Su Yu learned of the situation, he sent a letter to Zhang Yunlu, secretary of the county party committee, proposing that he could not be buried, which was completely inconsistent with state regulations. Later, Zhang Yunlu, who received the letter, recalled:After reading this letter, he and other comrades of the county party committee were all moved, this is the general of the republic, strict with himself, public and selfless, and above board. ”
Su Yu understands the eldest sister's thoughts, and she doesn't want to see her descendants violate the country's regulations because of her posthumous affairs. Su Yu has made great achievements in his life, is honest and selfless. In 1949, after Su Yu took over his family, his eldest brother Su Duorui begged him to arrange for him to work at East China Military and Political University.
Su Yu refused his eldest brother because he did not meet the regulations, and Su Duorui had to return to his hometown to work. During his stay in Nanjing, his relatives and neighbors often came to visit him, and some people proposed to join the army, go to university, or ask Su Yu to arrange a job. Su Yu always warmly entertained the villagers in his hometown, but Su Yu politely refused their requests that violated the regulations.
He only said to the folks in his hometown:"As a national cadre, I can't violate discipline and I can't engage in specialization. ”Sometimes the villagers don't understand, Su Yu can only reason with them many times, and every time the villagers leave, Su Yu will always send the travel expenses. He encouraged the folks:"Go back to your hometown and do a good job in farming and construction. ”
Su Yu is not only strict with his relatives in his hometown, but also with the staff around him, his family, and himself. For his three sons and daughters, the eldest son Su Rongsheng, the second son Su Hansheng, and the daughter Su Huining, Su Yu sent them to the army for training. Su Rongsheng's memories:"Dad was very strict with me. ”
Su Yu took a photo with his sons Su Rongsheng and Su Hansheng.
When Su Rongsheng was three years old, his father Su Yu and mother Chu Qing took him to the river to learn to swim. Su Rongsheng also learned to swim for the first time, and he was a little scared and didn't dare to go into the water. Su Yu didn't think much about it, and directly picked up Su Rongsheng and threw him into the water.
The first time Su Rongsheng went into the water, he felt that he was immediately submerged, and he kept splashing in the water. Su Yu shouted at his son"Hold on to the bamboo tube, don't be afraid, swim by yourself. ”Chu Qing blamed her husband:"Why did you throw him in, you are not afraid of drowning him. ”Su Yu said with a smile"You should throw him into the water, or he will never learn, don't you see that he is not drowning?".”
That's it, Su Rongsheng hugged the bamboo tube, and gradually learned to swim. His father, Su Yu, used the education method of soldiers, and he asked his children to bear hardships and stand hard work, be tenacious and brave, and cultivate them to become the pillars of the motherland. When Su Rongsheng was in middle school, Su Yu asked Su Rongsheng to live in the school dormitory like the children of workers and peasants, eat a big pot of rice, and only go home on weekends.
Su Yu's strictness to Su Rongsheng, the teacher also saw it in his eyes, and he felt incredible. The teacher came to Su Rongsheng many times and asked:"Are you your mother's own?”Su Rongsheng replied"Yes. ”The teacher seemed to have to hear the word stepmother to be satisfied. Later, Su Rongsheng was admitted to the Harbin Military Engineering Institute majoring in missiles with excellent results.
He excelled in school and his grades were always among the best, and he graduated from the school successfully. At that time, the students of the Kazakh military industry were particularly sought-after in various units, and most of the students at the level of Su Rongsheng were assigned to the organs and stayed in the big cities. After the arrangement of his father Su Yu, Su Rongsheng was assigned to a missile unit on the Yunnan border and was responsible for striking the U-2 reconnaissance planes sent by the enemy.
In October 1979, Su Yu's family took a group photo.
At that time, the troops often carried out tasks in the mountains, and the conditions were particularly difficult, but it was this difficult time that tempered Su Rongsheng into a real soldier. In Yunnan, Su Rongsheng took part in many national defense and air defense operations, and also participated in the shooting down of an unmanned reconnaissance plane of the enemy. In 1969, Su Rongsheng's ground-to-air missile unit came to the mainland to garrison.
The training and living environment of the troops have been greatly improved, and Su Yu has made arrangements for his son Su Rongsheng. At that time, the Zhenbao Island incident occurred, and the situation was very tense. After consulting with Su Rongsheng's superiors, Su Yu transferred him to a front-line field unit on the northern front that was prepared for the anti-aggression war. From the southern border of the motherland to the northern frontier of the motherland, Su Rongsheng has experienced greater tests and faced more difficult conditions in all aspects.
Su Yu's second son, Su Hansheng, was assigned to work on a sea boat with difficult conditions after joining the army, and because of his long-term work at sea, he was left with severe rheumatoid arthritis. And Su Yu's only daughter, Su Huining, Su Yu is also strict with her, Su Huining has been in the army for three years, and has worked as a cook, propaganda team member, and communication check-in clerk.
Su Huining saw other comrades who were transferred to a good unit, and he also wanted his father to help him change his work unit. Su Yu refused to transfer his daughter to work, and he said to his daughter earnestly"It is true that the living environment has an impact on the progress of people, but this is only an external condition, and the decisive factor is self-consciousness. You were born in war years, but you live in peace times, and you must exercise your ability to endure hardships and stand hard work. ”
Su Yu summed it up through his own life experience"No good flowers grow in a greenhouse".。He sent his children to the front, that is, to let them withstand the wind and rain, become self-reliant, and become the pillars of the motherland. For the staff around him, Su Yu is not only taking care of them in life, but also strict in other aspects.
Su Yu and his secretary Ju Kai took a group photo.
Ju Kai has been a secretary by Su Yu's side for 14 years, and Su Yu once said to him personally:"You work by my side, don't expect me to give you anything, when you leave me, I can write a performance of you working with me, and don't expect me to tell you, what are you going to do?".”
In 1951, Su Yu served as the deputy chief of general staff and lived in No. 12 Yu'er Hutong in Beijing. **The family lives in the main house of the courtyard, while Su Yu's family lives in the backyard, which is Su Yu's initiative to request. The courtyard is in disrepair, and the floor creaks and creaks when people step on it.
Sometimes at night, nasty rats emerge from cracks in the floor, roaming around the room, biting curtains and bedding. Later, after the management department learned of the situation, they specifically approached Su Yu and proposed to tear down the house and build a few new houses. Su Yu was unwilling to cause trouble to the organization and increase the burden on the country, so he chose to refuse.
The management office had to repair the house, and Su Yu asked everything to be simple and reduce the maintenance cost again and again. After Su Yu became chief of the General Staff, the relevant departments proposed to give Su Yu a new car, and Su Yu said:"This car is used so well, why should I change it?When the official is bigger, he should take a better carWhat is this concept?”
Su Yu's family goes to school and works, and never uses the bus allocated to Su Yu by the state. Chu Qing and the children rode bicycles or took buses back and forth regardless of wind or rain. In addition to official business, Su Yu never uses the bus for his own private affairs. Su Yu likes to go among the common people, and when he is resting, he takes a bus to the vegetable market.
While buying some vegetables, he chatted with the vegetable vendors in the vegetable market and the ordinary people who bought vegetables to understand the living conditions of the people. Sometimes the staff around him are worried about his safety, Su Yu only said:"Talking to the people, what does it matter?Don't forget that we are just the people's 'servants'. ”
The cloth shoes worn by Su Yu.
Su Yu had lived in an old-fashioned bungalow for more than 30 years, and he refused to be rebuilt and expanded by the authorities. Every time a comrade from the management department came to him, he said:"As long as the house can be lived, the country's economy is still very difficult, and we have to use the money for economic and national defense construction. ”Su Yu has no requirements for eating, often what the cook does, he eats, and eats with relish.
Su Yu often told the cook, that is:"Don't overdo it, don't waste it. ”Su Yu takes special care of the staff around him, and when the staff have difficulties at home, Su Yu always takes out his salary to help them. Sometimes, Su Yu would take out his salary, invite comrades to dinner, and care for the staff.
When Su Yu went to the place to inspect work, he only lived in a guest house. After coming to the guest house, the first thing Su Yu did was to remind the staff around him that he must pay the food stamps and food expenses, and he did not want to take advantage of the public. This is our senior general Su Yu, who has been strict with himself, arduous and simple all his life, and has always thought about the cause of the construction of the motherland. Su Yu called himself a veteran in his later years, and once composed a song "Veteran Music":
Half a lifetime of career between horses, the rider has not been saddled.This is General Su Yu, who has few other hobbies in his life, but loves four items: guns, maps, compasses, and telescopes. His marksmanship is exquisite, and he can penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, allowing him to kill enemies on the battlefield;He loves maps, and he explores the enemy's situation on the map and wins thousands of miles awayHe loves the compass and uses it to show the way to the team and make them invincibleHe loved telescopes, through which he could see through the enemy's deployments and achieved brilliant victories one after another.* Roaring like a drum, guns whistling like a piano.
The territory is galloping vertically and horizontally, and the enemy is counted as millions of enemies.
There is no need to sigh in the mirror, white hair can still whip again.
In mid-January 1984, Su Yu took a group photo with medical staff in the hospital.
Su Rongsheng always remembered that his father's bedroom was full of maps, and he often pondered for a long time in front of them. Su Yu said to his son"As a military commander, reading maps and terrain is a compulsory course, not only to see, but also to memorize. ”When Su Yu looked at the map of China, he often looked at the southeast sea of the motherland, and he was still thinking about the unfinished business of the motherland.