After the award of the title in 1955, the issue of Su Yu's military rank has been talked about by future generations. Many people believe that Su Yu's military exploits are very great, and the evaluation of generals is low, so he should be awarded the marshal. Some people outside the party suggested Su Yu to **"Yes, you can be a marshal."
Why do many people think that Su Yu's military rank is low?
The reason is that Su Yu's military exploits are very great, especially after the beginning of the Liberation War, from the "Seven Battles and Seven Victories" of the Soviet-Chinese Campaign to Meng Lianggu's total annihilation of the Kuomintang ace and the reorganization of the 74th Division, and then to the Huaihai Campaign with 600,000 against the enemy 800,000, Su Yu is even more like a god of war.
The campaign began on 13 July and ended on 31 August 1946. Successive Experience:
Xuantai fought and annihilated more than 3,000 people.
Gaonan fought and annihilated more than 10,000 people.
Hai'an fought and annihilated more than 3,000 people.
Fort Lee fought, annihilating more than 8,000 men.
Ding Lin fought, annihilated more than 1,500 people, captured more than 2,000 enemies
Shao Bo fought and annihilated more than 2,000 people.
For example, in the battle of the Yellow Road, more than 5,000 people were annihilated and 12,000 enemies were captured.
A total of seven battles.
Since the battle of Xuantai, Su Yu has used more than 30,000 people of the Central China Field Army against the 120,000 people of the Kuomintang army, frequently made surprise moves, won seven battles and seven victories, and annihilated 6 brigades and 5 traffic police brigades of the Kuomintang army in one and a half months, a total of 530,000 people, accounting for 44% of the total strength of the Kuomintang army that invaded the Soviet Union and China. The offensive of the Kuomintang army against the Soviet Union and China also ended in a crushing defeat.
After the end of the Soviet-Chinese campaign, the spokesman of the Yan'an headquarters made a statement to Xinhua News Agency reportersOfficially known as the "Seven Battles and Seven Victories".
The reorganized 74th Division is the five main forces of the Kuomintang Army, known as Chiang Kai-shek's five trump cards, and the entire 74th Division is the most dazzling of the five trump cards. Wang Yaowu once said something like this:"If there are 74 divisions, there will be the Kuomintang, and if there are 5 74 divisions, the whole of China will be unified. ”
In the face of such arrogant troops, Su Yu commanded the Huaye troops, starting from May 11, 1947, the 74th Division launched an attack on the Huaye Ninth Column, and ended with the killing of Zhang Lingfu on the afternoon of May 16, and it took only six days to take Meng Lianggu.
This battle caused a great shock to the Kuomintang army, and although they did not abandon their plan to carry out a major attack on Shandong, the momentum of their offensive was defeated.
Chiang Kai-shek has repeatedly said bitterly:"Meng Lianggu's defeat is the most painful and regrettable thing since our army suppressed the bandits. ”
After the Battle of Meng Lianggu, there was also a famous conversation between ** and Su Yu. **Say to Su Yu:
"You have been so resolute and swift in destroying the 74th Division, on this land of China, there are two people who did not expect, one is Chiang Kai-shek, and the second person who did not expect is me***! ”
On September 24, 1948, Su Yu, then acting commander and acting political commissar of Huaye, sent a telegram to the ** Military Commission, with the goal of annihilating the enemy's Xuzhou right-wing group"It is proposed that the Huaihai campaign be carried out."。This was the first time that the idea of the Huaihai Campaign was proposed.
* The next day I replied to agree, ** said in the reply:"We believe that it is very necessary to hold the Huaihai Campaign. ”
At this point, the Huaihai Battle began.
From November 6, 1948 to January 10, 1949, which lasted 66 days, the Kuomintang army successively invested about 800,000 people; The PLA has about 600,000 troops participating in the war.
In the battle, the CCP eliminated 555099 Kuomintang communists, including:
320355 prisoners, 171151 wounded, 35,093 defected, and 28,500 rebels.
124 Kuomintang senior generals and above were captured, 22 surrendered, and 8 rebelled.
The Huaihai Campaign was the largest battle since the outbreak of the Liberation War. Su Yu was the first to suggest launching the Huaihai Campaign, and the Huaye under his direct command destroyed more than 400,000 enemies, accounting for 80% of the total number of enemies destroyed in the Huaihai Campaign.
In 1949, ** said in a conversation:"In the Huaihai Campaign, Comrade Su Yu made the first contribution. ”
Su Yu, who has such military exploits, was awarded the rank of general, and indeed many people were unhappy and felt low, and some people even said that Su Yu himself was dissatisfied with not being rated as a marshal, and he was also criticized by ***, and he was criticized and cried.
In fact, including ***, the leaders were full of praise for Su Yu's military talent.
** The first time was to give Su Yu the marshal.
At a Zhongnanhai meeting, when discussing what military rank Su Yu should be awarded, ** not only proposed to give Su Yu the title of marshal, but also gave Su Yu a very high evaluation:"**On history, talent, and morality, Su Yu can receive the rank of marshal. In the War of Liberation, who doesn't know Su Yu in East China? ”
**Say to ***:"But Su Yu has already asked to resign! ”
**I was very emotional when I listened to it:"It's rare Su Yu! He resigned three times, in 1945 he gave up the commander of the Central China Military Region, in 1948 he gave up the commander of the East China Field Army, and now he has resigned from the rank of marshal, which is a thousand times stronger than those who want to jump off the building! ”
**Immediately after that:"Su Yu's second is the commander, the other is the marshal, the talent is rare, and the general still has to be the general. ”
**Added:"And it's the number one general. Let's settle it down like this, the ten generals and the ten marshals. ”
It can be seen from this that ** began to advocate that Su Yu be awarded the marshal, it was Su Yu's high style and bright festival, and he didn't want it, so he resigned from the marshal, of course, there was no such thing as him being dissatisfied with the rank of general, and *** talking to him and criticizing him.
In fact, Su Yu is very indifferent to the matter of awarding titles.
Once, Su Yu's secretary Ju Kai saw that a document in the party recorded that even Shao Lizi, a high-level democrat outside the party, said that Su Yu should be evaluated as a marshal, so he reported Su Yu in person and pointed out the material to him. Ju Kai thought that the chief would be happy when he read the material, but he didn't expect Su Yu to sink his face and blurt out:
"Evaluating my general, it's high enough, what kind of marshal do you want? I'm just too high, not too low. ”
Then, he said to Ju Kai very seriously
"Don't talk about this in the future, it's all low-level fun and meaningless. ”
Although Su Yu was not rated as a marshal, it did not affect his status and reputation in the history of the republic.
When the title is officially conferred,The first order conferring the rank of general was awarded to Su Yu
Because the ceremony of conferring the title of marshal would take place later, Su Yu was not only ".The First General of the Republic ", and it is also since the founding of the People's Republic of ChinaThe first military man to be awarded the rank of military.