General Su Yu, known as the "head of the ten marshals", not only made outstanding achievements in military affairs, but also was exemplary in the education of his children. He resolutely opposes the idea of privilege and asks his children to sharpen themselves at the grassroots level.
His eldest son, Su Rongsheng, also joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and he has many testimonials about the experience.
During the transfer, the fighters carried the radio station with a flat pole, and another one carried him. Growing up in this environment, he didn't have a deep understanding of what stability was.
It wasn't until he entered the East China Nursery School that his life stabilized. However, since his father Su Yu went to Beijing to work, he also went to Beijing. In his eyes, his father always had a majestic temperament.
Su Rongsheng was once thrown directly into the water by his father, and only threw him a bamboo pole, which is puzzling. But Su Yu said, "I will not allow my son to be a coward. ”
Su Rongsheng studied in Bayi Primary School, and his parents were very strict with him, and he was no different from ordinary children. The head teacher knew that his father was the famous General Su Yu, but he couldn't believe that the general would ask the child like this.
Once, she asked, "Did you give birth to this mother?" Faced with this question, Su Rongsheng just nodded. Although the teacher didn't ask any more, she always had a question mark in her heart.
She thought: "How can the Chief of the General Staff be so harsh? Su Rongsheng understood his father's approach, because his father never regarded his children as "private property," a concept that surpassed many of his contemporaries.
In order for children to be "independent**", it is necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the social environment, otherwise children who grow up in "greenhouses" will have weak environmental adaptability.
Under the influence of his father, Su Rongsheng also had a military dream in his heart. However, Su Yu reminded him a long time ago: "Young people should not be greedy for small families, and don't think about going to the unit and sitting in the office." ”
In this way, in 1966, Su Rongsheng, who graduated from the Harbin Military Engineering Institute, was "arranged" by his father at the beginning: starting from an ordinary front-line soldier.
Among the soldiers on the front line, Su Rongsheng's cultural level is very high, but he still took root in the southern Xinjiang of the motherland for 4 years, rain or shine, and later came back because the troops were transferred back to the inland areas.
Unexpectedly, due to the tension on the northern border, there was a war on Zhenbao Island, and Su Yu once again took the "relationship" and transferred his son to the front line. On the northern front, although his troops did not fight, they received the task of entering the mountains to carry out national defense construction, and that digging was 3 years.
Once, a huge dangerous rock was difficult to be eliminated, so Su Rongsheng asked all the soldiers to leave, and he climbed to clear the danger himself, but he didn't expect another big stone above to fall immediately after, and it happened to hit the ladder.
In hindsight, I was still very scared. But if he didn't go up at that moment, he would definitely be reprimanded by his father, because Su Yu told him when he first became a grassroots commander: "You have to trust them completely, do this, no matter how dangerous the situation, they will fight a bloody road with you; However, what you ask your warriors to do, you must do yourself; Fighting a war will kill people, and the soldiers have given their lives to the motherland, and as a commander and fighter, you must especially cherish the lives of the soldiers. ”
Su Rongsheng has long been accustomed to everything in life, because so are his younger siblings. His younger brother Su Hansheng also chose to join the army and went to work on a ship with difficult conditions.
There, a long period of training at sea left him with severe rheumatoid arthritis, often in agony, which remained with him for the rest of his life. Although Su Huining is a girl in the family, her father Su Yu is equally strict with her.
She worked in the propaganda team and the cooking class for 3 years, and later hoped that her father would let her go to a unit with better conditions. However, Su Yu's reply made it clear that although the external environment will affect people, the decisive factor lies in personal consciousness.
Su Huining didn't mention it again after understanding his father's position. As the eldest brother, Su Rongsheng set an example. In the missile unit on the Yunnan border, he even shot down a US reconnaissance plane in actual combat, which was also the first third-class merit in his military career.
At the end of the 60s, Su Rongsheng at the front line lived a tense and hard life, there were more than 4 enemy situations every day, the alarm would sound at any time, no one could be paralyzed, as long as the alarm was heard, he had to go to the front immediately.
A father's love is like a mountain, but Su Yu's way of loving his children is really different.
I find it very satisfying that being a soldier in peacetime and being able to participate in two battles without fighting is a pity for me. For their father and son, the greatest happiness of the father is that although he is strict with the child, in the end the child understands him.
With the promotion of his position, Su Rongsheng never forgot his father's teachings. In 1983, he was appointed commander of the Army's 200 Division. Before taking office, he went to the hospital to say goodbye to his father.
Su Yu's condition was getting worse day by day, and it had become extremely difficult to speak. Even in the past, father and son would communicate for a long time, but this time, they were not able to say a few words.
Su Rongsheng clearly remembered that his father's words at that time were few, but they were extremely profound: "The division level is very important, and the training of companies, regiments, and divisions is very important to military cadres. ”
This is the last sentence that Su Yu left to Su Rongsheng.
In the interaction between General Su Yu and his son, the topic of military affairs was always indispensable. General Su Yu would often ask his son, for example, "What should you do next if your motorized unit was blown up by enemy planes while marching on the road?" ”
Therefore, many people believe that Su Yu and his son are a pair of "military father and son". These strict military requirements were later translated into Su Rongsheng's abilities.
Every time I took on responsibilities in the military, I would be more grateful for my father's nurturing and education. "Because he used to be on the front lines, he was very good at shooting, after all, it was a skill that could save his life at a critical moment.
After becoming a corps commander, every time he left the army, he would have a subject that he had to do - to test his shooting skills with regimental, division, and brigade commanders. In fact, he didn't want to compete with anyone, but just wanted to make these cadres who led the troops realize the gap.
Just as a corps commander has never given up training, neither will a division commander, a company commander, or a platoon commander. In every competition, few people can win against Su Rongsheng, he stressed: "Even as a deputy commander, I will often go to the shooting range to shoot guns, which is to remind myself to always maintain the quality of a soldier."
Although we live in times of peace, it is the duty of a soldier to be ready to fight at all times. Su Rongsheng recalled that when he was a child, his father gave him a small pistol and taught him to love ** and cultivate the temperament of a soldier.
In the eyes of the officers and men of the troops, Deputy Commander Su Yu never greeted him when he went down to the grassroots level, and he hoped to be able to directly understand the real situation of the troops. And every time he investigates, he also hates people the most.
Every time a unit leader arranges a reception task, he will always pick the most suitable person and say to others: "You have other important tasks, just do it." ”
When listening to reports from troops, he always pays attention to details, and when he hears vague words such as "sometimes", "occasionally", "individually", etc., he immediately expresses his opinion: "If it is a reporting issue, do not be vague. ”
Therefore, the troops have gradually formed an atmosphere in which only when they show tangible achievements and changes will they be taken seriously, and they can no longer feel good about themselves, but must have the courage to face and solve existing problems.
Although Su Rongsheng shot down an enemy plane when he was fighting the United States on the border, he did not become complacent and continued to observe the tactics of the United States. After the defeat of the U.S. military in Vietnam, it began to study our weaknesses and then carried out a series of reforms.
When organizing training, the US military also unabashedly pointed out the existing problems, believing that this is the key to improvement. In the same way, during the training of the Russian army, the examiner will mercilessly point out the problems of the cadets, because they understand that only in this way can they really improve their abilities and prevent the death of innocent people on the battlefield.
General Su Rongsheng, with his excellent training and management skills, has become an example for many soldiers to learn from. His promotion to the rank of lieutenant general is an affirmation of his military career.
In the position of deputy commander, he devoted himself to training for seven years, and every year he would conduct live drills at the desert base, organizing more than 100,000 people from 45 divisions and regiments to take turns to go into battle.
His rigor and meticulousness make him a master of finding problems, which is worth learning from all of us.
Su Rongsheng firmly believed that only rigorous training and ruthless criticism could bring about victory on the battlefield. He does not allow anyone to question the training, and once he finds a problem, he will use the surveillance on the battlefield to directly give it to the other party, and slow down frame by frame in the process of commenting, without mercy.
This kind of harsh criticism even makes the commanders and fighters of the relevant units shed a cold sweat every time. In Su Rongsheng's eyes, every training session is an important assessment, and he pays attention to details and does not allow any flaws.
In a confrontation exercise in 2003, 27 foreign military observers from 15 countries came to observe. Su Rongsheng attaches great importance to their evaluations, and he believes that these evaluations represent the attitudes of foreign military commanders and fighters, and are of great significance for improving their own training.
He said: "We need to pass on the fine traditions from generation to generation, and if our generation does not consider improving the combat effectiveness of the troops, it will be too late to start a war in the future." In January 2006, Su Rongsheng retired, but his heart could not immediately return to ordinary life.
In an interview, he still said: "There are still some things, I am still in charge of a certain information transformation project, if I can continue to pay attention to this project, then I have to really do it well, so that I have no regrets in my military career." ”
General Su Rongsheng's home is simple and simple, with white paint decorating the whole house, the only thing that stands out is the wall behind the sofa, on which the wooden partition of the "August 1st" military emblem is hung, and there are all kinds of ** models, from gun shells to aircraft and tanks, as if you are in an arms museum.
When talking with General Su, this reporter can always feel a special sense of intimacy. Su Rongsheng even asked the reporter: "Did you bring a USB flash drive?" I have a copy of the information I can give you. ”
When the reporter followed him into the study, he was greeted by a batch of "military items", including binoculars, water bottles, etc.; But the reporter's attention was still attracted by that **, which was left by Su Rongsheng at different times**.
There are those who are naked in the cat cave, those who command the army on war horses, and those who sweat on the training ground in camouflage uniforms. Interestingly, there is also a military tent in his study, and when the reporter visited, Su Rongsheng explained with a smile: "This is where I sleep, and only by sleeping here can I feel at ease and comfortable." ”
For the future, he said: "I plan to travel the mountains and rivers of the motherland, to shoot, swim, there is also a song in the army that I particularly like called 'thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, a thousand pounds of heavy burden to me', I also bought "Introduction to Earth Sciences", I have always wanted to understand this beautiful motherland, while the body is still healthy, just go out for a walk first." ”
This is a retired general who graduated from engineering, he was not born heroic, but he made a career with his own efforts. His success is entirely due to his hard work.
He was a model of the military salute of Su Yu's eldest son, Lieutenant General Su Rongsheng, and his life was ordinary and great. Yu Wei once wrote about his deeds in "Overview of Party History", and Meng Zhaogeng ** in "Fujian Party History Monthly" ** He and his son Su Rongsheng had a different father-son relationship.