On September 27, 1955, a grand ceremony was held for the rank of PLA officers, and the secretary general read out the orders for the awarding of military ranks to generals at all levels - among them, ten marshals and ten generals were born.
Needless to say, the top ten marshals are the founding fathers of our party and the founding of the army, and each of them is a big man who has experienced endless hardships with ***. But among the top ten generals, there is one person who seems extremely "out of place", and this person is Su Yu, the head of the top ten generals.
Objectively speaking, if you rank according to seniority, among the top ten generals, Su Yu's qualifications and age should be ranked behind, after all, if nothing else, just one Chen Geng can completely cover him. But Su Yu is at the head of the generals, but it is a fact that no one can argue.
Because the top ten marshals pay attention to the greatness of the generals who build the party, while the top ten generals pay more attention to the prestige and achievements in the army.
In the War of Liberation, Su Yu and Mr. Lin were unique and "stole" the highlights of the big names, so Su Yu became the "goalkeeper" under the marshal, which is naturally well-deserved.
It stands to reason that with Su Yu's attainments in the army, no matter what position he holds in the army after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he should be recognized by everyone.
But history just played a joke on him, Mr. Lin, who was originally a double in the army with him, might compete with him for honor, but in fact, Mr. Lin has always admired Su Yu in history, so he did not conflict with him.
- On the contrary, it was another upright person who had a confrontation with him, and this person was Mr. Peng.
As we all know, in the War of Liberation, Mr. Peng seemed to be inferior to Su Yu and Mr. Lin, who were in the limelight, but in the subsequent War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he was the best in the whole army. Therefore, Mr. Lin, Mr. Peng, and Su Yu have always been famous generals in the army who are quite loved by soldiers.
However, for this sudden honor, Su Yu has always been cautious and humble, he doesn't want to get involved in any political turmoil at all, he just wants to serve the people well and contribute to the country.
However, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, military construction was very important, and it was directly asked many times. Therefore, under the attention of ***, Su Yu first assisted *** as the second deputy chief of the general staff, and then officially became the chief of the general staff, playing a huge role in the army at that time.
But in the process of building the army, Su Yu's views on military affairs are very different from those of others, and he has asked him directly many times, so Su Yu once had a record of reporting to *** over ***, which caused *** to be criticized.
Immediately afterwards, Su Yu was not clear about his powers and responsibilities at that time, which led to a conflict between the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense over the transfer of troops. In addition, on the issue of army construction later, Mr. Peng always had his own opinions, and Su Yu also had his own suggestions.
According to the qualifications, in front of Mr. Peng, Su Yu seems to be humble, and Su Yu has always been very low-key in normal times, but as long as the military is discussed, he is a stubborn scholar.
As a result, it can be imagined that Mr. Peng has a straightforward personality, if he can't convince him, he will often hold on to a thing, and Su Yu will not flinch from what he believes, plus the powers and responsibilities of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff were not clear at that time.
Over time, contradictions arose between the two sides.
Later, the rectification movement was launched, and anti-dogmatism criticism appeared within the army.
At this time, Su Yu and ** were involved, and Mr. Peng, who was in charge of the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission, debated with Su Yu again, and in this debate, Su Yu was treated unfairly and suppressed.
- For example, he has been on the ** three times, as well as *** below the "top", many times bypassing the superiors and directly contacting ***, violating many working principles, and the General Staff he leads and the Ministry of Defense still have suspicions.
Of course, this was something that was not in the radical climate of the time.
But this crackdown obviously still had a huge impact on Su Yu, according to Su Yu's wife Chu Qing's recollection: Su Yu was in a trance, her emotions were out of control many times, and she was very painful, and once hugged her and cried.
Although his mood gradually stabilized later, and under the protection of ***, Su Yu was not affected by the turbulent times. And Mr. Peng also told him later that he didn't feel guilty in his life, but he just felt sorry for Su Yu.
All in all, the turmoil of that year finally passed, and compared with other marshals and generals, although Su Yu was the first to be impacted, he was also the lucky group of people, after all, he did not experience a more cruel period in the future.
After the turmoil of the turbulent period passed, with the cooperation of *** and ***, all the turbulent elements were arrested, and everything returned to the right track. At this time, *** has become a wise leader in the minds of all the people, and *** has also become the core of the ** leadership team, and its influence at that time can also rank among the top three.
It is worth noting that ** has a very good relationship with Su Yu.
In 1958, Su Yu was suppressed and removed from the post of chief of the General Staff, but he still came to the Academy of Military Sciences as vice president as vice minister of defense, and later served as the first deputy secretary of the party committee, becoming the president at that time.
This position makes him the right-hand man of ***.
In the following 20 years, Su Yu has been staying at the Academy of Military Sciences, and he is familiar with ***, and he has been praised by him many times, and told him: There will be a day when he will come out in the future.
After 1976, it happened that at this time, Comrade *** also wanted to reform the old and make the new, and he humbly went to invite the old cadres to go out of the mountain many times, including Su Yu, of course, Comrade Xiaoping has also been urging this matter.
Under this effect, ** originally considered appointing Su Yu as vice chairman of the Military Commission.
You must know that this appointment is not simple, because at that time, the vice chairman of the Military Commission was a very remarkable person, usually a marshal, such as the former vice chairman of the Military Commission, Mr. Lin, and ***
However, in the end, this appointment failed to come down after all, and Su Yu finally stopped at the threshold of the marshal and stayed in the position of general. So the question is, why didn't the appointment take place?
Needless to say, this appointment has something to do with the injustices he has suffered.
As mentioned above, Su Yu was wrongly suppressed, although it was an incident out of nowhere, but he was indeed involved in the turmoil with the three marshals, especially with Mr. Peng.
It's like having a conflict with your brothers, the quarrel is fierce, the relationship is still good, and everyone is dedicated to the public. I can't bear to be fanned by someone, and it turns out to be a tragedy.
But this is not the most important thing, I personally think that the key lies in the "four people", and these four people "obstructed" Su Yu to some extent.
- At that time, there were four vice chairmen of the Military Commission, they were *** Marshal, ** Marshal, ** Marshal and *** Marshal, and the four marshals sat in the Military Commission like the Four King Kongs.
It is not difficult to see from the identities of these four people that they all have a common characteristic, that is, the rank of marshal, although Su Yu is also an "uncrowned marshal", but after all, he still failed to take this most critical step.
Without the official status of marshal, but becoming vice chairman of the Central Military Commission together with the four marshals, it is inevitable that some will cause unnecessary disputes. Therefore, even if his good old comrades-in-arms didn't care, and even recommended them personally, they still didn't succeed.
However, Su Yu didn't care about this, he had the righteous act of resigning from the marshal and the commander of Huaye in his early years, and he was already used to being humble, so why bother to cling to an honor when he is old.
Everything is justified, since the problem has not been dealt with back then, and he is not a marshal, why bother fighting?However, although Su Yu failed to break through this "limit" and left endless regrets, he was an irreplaceable candidate for "marshal" in his heart.
According to Li Yinqiao, the chief of the guard around him, recalled: When discussing the issue of Su Yu's title, he not only wanted to give Su Yu the title of marshal, but also gave Su Yu a very high evaluation in a comparative way, that is: "* On history, talent, and morality, Su Yu can receive the rank of marshal."To be able to get such a high evaluation, perhaps in Su Yu's heart, it is more worthy than all the honors.