On December 25, 1994, the then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and Zhang Zhen jointly published an article entitled "Reminiscence of Comrade Su Yu", specifically pointing out that in 1958, the criticism of Su Yu at the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission was wrong and a mistake in history.
In May 1958, Su Yu was criticized for many reasons, the main reason was threefold, the first was that when he was deploying to attack the Matsu Islands, Su Yu issued operational arrangements to the front-line troops of the Fuzhou Military Region and the Nanjing Military Region without approval.
The second is that during the period of accompanying him to the Soviet Union, he asked the chief of the Soviet General Staff for military materials without authorization, which is a violation of foreign affairs discipline, and if it rises to the issue of relations between the two countries, it will be a major diplomatic matter; the third is that Su Yu transferred the volunteers back to China in the name of the General Staff, which should be ordered by the Central Military Commission or the Ministry of National Defense.
These three problems can be summed up as "overstepping his authority"; when criticizing Su Yu, some people criticized him for asking for power from above, and looking for a basis to go abroad, and the basis for this was that he asked the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union for materials, and objectively Su Yu did these three things inappropriately, and these problems can be magnified.
At first, criticism of Su Yu was limited to a few generals, but as the number of participants increased, the speeches at the meeting became more and more disorganized, and later the number of people in the meeting increased to more than 1,400, and almost all the senior generals of the army were notified to attend, asking them to expose Su Yu from three aspects.
The first is that Su Yu does not respect the leadership and does not unite the team, the second is to stretch out his hand to ask for power, and the third is to rely on foreign self-respect, the typical is that Su Yu asked the chief of staff of Su ** for information, in the environment at that time, some people with ulterior motives magnified Su Yu's problems, especially the details.
As a result, Su Yu's problems were exaggerated, resulting in his wrong criticism, and under the encouragement of some people with ulterior motives, some old subordinates also stood up to criticize Su Yu, and some people refused to fall into the ground, especially the three "Ye Wang Tao", whose performance at that time was respectable.
Ye Wang Tao" refers to Ye Fei, Wang Bicheng and Tao Yong respectively, all three of them are Su Yu's old subordinates, who fought with Su Yu during the Anti-Japanese War, and are Su Yu's three sharp knives to defeat the enemy.
They were forced to stand up and expose Su Yu, Ye Fei's method was very simple, come to "Xu Shu into Cao Ying" without saying a word, no matter who persuaded him, for what reason to persuade him, Ye Fei just didn't open his mouth, putting on a look of "dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water", they wanted to convict Ye Fei, but they couldn't find a reason.
Wang Bicheng spoke at the meeting, bluntly saying that he was ordered to expose Su Yu's "big conspiracy", but he said that Su Yu proposed to the Military Commission to carry out the Huaihai War, which was a great merit.
Then he said Su Yu's "plan", Wang Bicheng moved out of the great man, saying that he knew this best, as for Su Yu's "yin" side, Wang Bicheng claimed that he had not experienced it, and asked those who knew to come out to expose it for everyone to learn, Wang Bicheng's speech made many people admire.
Tao Yong's method of dealing with it is much more clever, Tao Yong said that he is not very literate, he can't write materials, let them write things out, just read them themselves, I didn't expect Tao Yong to speak, directly said that this is the secretary of a certain leader to write the material, I don't know some words, read the wrong don't laugh.
As a result, Tao Yong opened his mouth to read a few words, and the originally serious criticism conference suddenly burst into laughter, Tao Yong read some words as "circles", which caused laughter, and their purpose of criticizing Su Yu naturally failed, and the three old subordinates used their own methods to maintain the old superior Su Yu.