At the beginning of 1955, the Fifth Ordnance Institute of Shanxi ushered in an old man with an extraordinary temperament, his eyes were bright and his figure was slender. After being wounded and discharged from the army, the old man was assigned to the local area, and he participated in many battles, but he has not been able to settle down. After several requests, he decided to join the militia training and became a temporary militia instructor. During the day, the old man instructed the young soldiers to conduct training in shooting targets and platoon movements, and at night they rested in the warehouse of the 5th Ordnance Station. Whenever outsiders visited, he always smiled and called himself "the storekeeper of the people's army". The old man was dressed in a plain green military uniform and spoke with a Shanxi accent, which seemed to be no different from ordinary people. Half a year later, however, a telegram from Beijing changed everything. The old man received the order and immediately set off for the north.
Under the arrangement of his superiors, he ascended to the medal podium and was personally awarded the rank of major general by ***. At that moment, the name of the hero Sulu was finally known to the people of his hometown. How did Sulu spend his later years?What kind of merit does it have?In 1902, Su Lu was born into a poor peasant family in Liuyang, Hunan. During the war-torn years, his parents barely made ends meet. When he was 8 years old, famine swept through Liuyang. In order to survive, Sulu left his hometown with his people and worked for the landlords as day laborers and heavy laborers, but he could only eat bran and wheat husks and sleep in the cowshed at night. Despite the hardships of life, the young Sulu never gave up. In 1927, he led the Shonan Uprising. When the Red Army passed through Liuyang, Sulu did not hesitate to join them.
At the age of 25, he finally found the meaning of life, and with the army, Sulu's ideological consciousness increased day by day. Participating in the fight against local tyrants, dividing the land, and watching the villagers be liberated, Sulu's heart swelled with indescribable joy. During the period of the agrarian revolution, the enemy constantly harassed the base areas. In order to defend the peace, Sulu fought hard, bravely charging in battle, fearing life and death. As a result of such performance, he was promoted to platoon commander and company commander. In 1931, the Kuomintang began a large-scale encirclement and suppression of our base areas. After being trained in battle after battle, Sulu became more mature and steady, and became an outstanding commander.
In 1933, as the deputy commander of the 53rd Regiment of the 18th Division of the Red 6th Army, he organized the "Kangling Ambush", and with the cooperation of his brother troops, relying on the complex terrain, Sulu successfully inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. In October 1934, under the instructions of his superiors, Sulu led the army to launch the Long March, and the Red 6th Army Corps shouldered the task of escorting. In the Battle of Xiangjiang, Sulu took the lead, holding a machine gun to hold the position, and the 53rd Regiment resisted stubbornly and did not flinch under his leadership. Sulu entered a state of almost fanaticism, fighting with the enemy, fearlessly, inspiring the entire Red 6th Army to ignite the fighting spirit, the soldiers turned anger into strength, decisively fought back against the enemy, showing the prestige of the Red Army, and made meritorious contributions to the War of Resistance.
In 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Su Lu was appointed as the commander of the 25th Regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, fought behind enemy lines, and made great progress. In 1940, Sulu's troops took the lead in responding to the order of the commander-in-chief and participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments. At Guanjiayuan, they engaged in a fierce battle with the Okazaki Brigade, an elite unit of the Japanese army. Sulub ambushed and led three battalions of troops to launch a fierce attack, condescendingly, and at the sound of an order, all the soldiers charged into battle. After approaching, our troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy and launched a fierce struggle. Sulu took the lead in the charge, letting out a wolf-like roar, inspiring all the soldiers, in this battle, the Okazaki brigade lost troops, and the prestige of the Eighth Route Army spread throughout North China.
In 1946, the Liberation War began, and according to the arrangement of the superiors, the Sulu troops were assigned to Nakano and served as the commander of the 184th Division of the 62nd Army of the 18th Corps. At the beginning of the war, hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops besieged Nakano, and Su Lu led the 184th Division to successfully break out of the encirclement. In 1947, Nakano's army advanced into Dabie Mountain, and the 184th Division was ordered to stay behind. In the face of several times the enemy's army, Sulu calmly commanded, attacked decisively, and performed well in a complex environment. In January 1949, when our people's army entered Shanxi, Sulu first defeated Yan Xishan's troops and led his troops to capture the outside of Taiyuan. A month later, the city of Taiyuan was besieged by our regiments, and Sulu's 184th Division was ordered to attack the eastern gate of Taiyuan. It was a tough battle, the enemy set up a heavy defensive line, and there were more than a dozen blockade fires in front and behind, and finally succeeded in liberating Taiyuan.
Sulu once again showed the ambition of the team and took on a difficult mission. The 184th Division struggled under the enemy's fierce artillery fire, and after two days of hard fighting, finally entered the city. However, the Yan army engaged in stubborn street fighting in the inner city. As a historical city, Taiyuan superiors are not allowed to use heavy **. In this case, Yan Jun had already been cornered. The enemy was unwilling to surrender easily and engaged in a final struggle. As the saying goes, the brave wins. Sulu watched the warriors fall and couldn't take it anymore. "Let me go up and have a look," he said calmly to the commissar. Subsequently, he led the fighters to the front line. At this time, he was no longer the division commander of the headquarters, but the vanguard of the death squad. With a wealth of experience, he managed to break through the defensive line and open a gap with a hard hand.
However, Sulu was wounded by an enemy grenade. Only to hear a boom, a wall collapsed. Sulu fell to the ground and was lucky enough to protect the vital part, but his right arm was blown off and blood gushed out. **Afterward, Sulu ignored his personal injuries, holding his severed arm in his left hand and roaring angrily to direct the charge. In this way, the 184th Division captured the city of Taiyuan. However, Sulu lost his right arm forever and was forced to lie in the hospital. Looking at Sulu's empty right sleeve, Political Commissar Deng Tianshun's face was full of sadness, and he smiled and said: "It's nothing, one arm can still fight for the revolution." After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in October 1949, Su Lu was appointed commander of the Changzhi Military Division. Five years later, Sulu felt unwell and found it difficult to hold a leadership position for a long time. Therefore, he submitted a request for resignation to the provincial military district.
As a result, Sulu was granted a temporary leave to go to Shanxi to recuperate. Half a year later, Sulu suddenly received a call from Beijing and got up to attend the award ceremony. At the ceremony, ** held his left hand and said: "Comrade Sulu, you have made immortal contributions to the people, and I salute you on behalf of the people." Sulu replied, "I have not done enough, the people have given me too much." "In the sixties of the last century, Sulu officially left the troops. At the local level, he cared about the people, preached policies, and still shined brightly. In December 1976, Sulu died in his hometown at the age of 74.