Liu Shuai and Su Yu are both famous generals during the war, one is a Confucian general who strategizes thousands of miles away, and the other is the "god of war" who dares to fight the "fairy battle". It's just that they are ill-fated, they have experienced a rain of bullets in wartime, and they are also full of thorns in peacetime, and the anti-"dogmatism" in 1958 has made many generals suffer, Liu Shuai and Su Yu are also among them, although there are veterans who speak for them, but their endings are different.
Liu Shuai was a veteran who joined the army in 1911 and accumulated rich combat experience in the Democratic Revolutionary War. In order not to damage the cranial nerves, he insisted on surviving the operation without anesthetic, and even doctors who had seen a lot of cases admiringly called him "the god of the army". It is hard to imagine that a Confucian general with a gentle personality can burst out with such strong perseverance in his body.
Liu Shuai made great achievements in the war years, Mr. Zhu said that he had the "style of an ancient famous general", and the world can also see Liu Shuai's noble character of benevolence, faith, wisdom, courage and strictness. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to train more military talents for the country, Liu Shuai resigned from the post of commander of the Southwest Military Region and devoted himself to military education. He was personally involved in many aspects of training, validation, and translation, and despite his physical discomfort, he worked tirelessly to train military personnel.
The reason why Liu Shuai made such a conscientious contribution to the cause of national defense was to make New China stronger, and at that time, the relations between China and the Soviet Union were very friendly, and the Soviet Union also provided a lot of assistance to China's construction in all aspects, and it had a deep Soviet imprint in many fields, and the same was true in the military aspect. It was only later that the "big brother of the Soviet Union" reversed his previous friendly face and withdrew all experts, which caused an embarrassing situation in the development of China in various fields, and it was also at this time that everything with the imprint of the Soviet Union became a "political" problem.
In 1958, when China and the Soviet Union fell out, at a meeting of the Military Commission, Mr. Peng proposed that "copying Soviet textbooks and inviting Soviet coaches" was suspected of "dogmatism". Liu Shuai calmly analyzed the situation at that time, and in order to avoid the expansion of this matter, he took everything on his shoulders and resigned from his position to return to Beijing to recuperate.
At that time, Liu Shuai's physical health was very poor, and he had always had a hidden disease in his eyes, and this incident made him anxious and caused high intraocular pressure, and he fell ill after returning to Beijing, so he did not participate in the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission later, but the "criticism" of him did not stop, and it also caused a lot of controversy. Mr. Peng believes that Liu Shuai committed serious "dogmatism" when managing the Military Academy, which is not conducive to the development and construction of the army, and he also believes that "we should mainly talk about our own and refer to others' own."
With the criticism of these two important leaders, the atmosphere at the venue was very depressing and tense, but there were also people who stood up to speak for Liu Shuai, one of whom was Yang Yong, the founding general of the People's Republic of China. General Yang Yong believed that Liu Shuai's previous work had always been to "obey the best orders", and at that time it was a habit of emphasizing learning from the Soviet Union, and Liu Shuai was not a complete "dogma", and he could see the actual embodiment of his "self-oriented" in a military exercise.
In the face of some people questioning Liu Shuai's military command ability, Deng Gong directly stood up and clarified that as the best partner of "Liu Deng's army", Deng Gong's affirmation of Liu Shuai is the most authoritative and representative. And Mr. Chen was even more blunt to help Liu Shuai speak, when he visited Liu Shuai, he said: "What do you write to review, if you want to write, I will write it for you, just a hundred words", which shows how resentful and concerned Mr. Chen always was at that time.
It's just that Liu Shuai has the support of so many generals, and he still hasn't slackened this review, he made a "review" seriously and sincerely, and when he finished speaking, everyone stood up and applauded, which is the respect and respect of those old cadres and students who are familiar with him, and their applause is the resistance to this criticism and deep sympathy for Liu Shuai. At that time, there were several times when senior generals and cadres spoke for Liu Shuai, not that others did not dare to say it, but that they could not say it.
In contrast, Su Yu also spoke for him, but the weight was far less than those who spoke for Liu Shuai, so Liu Shuai only made one review and passed it successfully, while Su Yu did eight reviews and could not be completely understood. The two famous generals in the army were completely rehabilitated after their deaths, leaving a bleak ending to their brilliant lives, which is inevitably embarrassing.