In 1958, it was decided to convene an enlarged meeting of the Military Commission, requiring all thousands of senior cadres and officers in China to participate. Su Yu, then chief of the General Staff, was also notified of the meeting, but he did not know that the meeting was actually a conspiracy.
The theme of the meeting was to rectify the "evil trend" in China, but with the use of some well-intentioned people, it turned out to be a criticism meeting. At this meeting, innocent old revolutionaries were indiscriminately incriminated, and Su Yu was naturally among them.
He was slandered as a "counter-revolutionary", criticized for "trying to fight for power", and even said that he would not fight at all. In the end, he was labeled "bourgeois individualism".
Su Yu was shocked by these trumped-up charges, and he kept recalling them in his mind, but he couldn't find any memories related to them. In desperation, he could only refute weakly.
At this moment, Chen Geng stood up and said loudly: "Su Yu can't fight, so who will?" Stand up and let me see. This sentence caused silence in the venue.
Chen Geng was full of praise for Su Yu's deeds of using soldiers like a god during the Liberation War, and always hoped to get acquainted with him. Despite the tense war situation, it was not until the end of 1947 that the two were able to meet in order to relieve the pressure on Liu Deng's army and let Su Yu and Chen Geng lead the army to support Dabie Mountain.
Su Yu deeply admired Chen Geng's military talent, and said as soon as they met: "I can get to know you, I have no regrets in this life." The two often discussed military affairs together and soon developed a deep friendship.
In addition, Su Yu also offered advice to Chen Geng, which benefited Chen Geng a lot in the military.
On November 6, 1948, the Huaihai Campaign centered on Xuzhou officially began, and Su Yu and Chen Geng led the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army respectively to fight against the Kuomintang army.
Su Yu's task was to defeat the 7th Corps of Huang Baitao of the Kuomintang Army and create conditions for the attack on Xuzhou. Chen Geng's task was to prevent the Kuomintang Huang Wei's 12th Corps from reinforcing East China.
Su Yu quickly accomplished the task, but Chen Geng encountered difficulties. Although Chen Geng successfully prevented the enemy from reinforcing the enemy, the battle situation fell into a stalemate due to the large gap in the number of equipment and personnel between the two sides.
Seeing this scene, Su Yu offered advice to Chen Geng, which is the method of civil work. The earthwork method is a way of attacking by digging tunnels to gradually approach the enemy's defense line, which can greatly reduce the army ** in the tunnel, and when it is close enough to the enemy's defense line, it can suddenly launch an attack and catch the enemy off guard.
Chen Geng successfully used Su Yu's strategy to conquer the enemy army. He not only adopted Su Yu's military advice in the Huaihai Campaign, but also used the earthwork method again in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1950, which greatly improved the army's victory rate.
However, surprisingly, in 1955, Chen Geng became angry with his friend Su Yu. What's going on? Although the Liberation War made Su Yu, it also left him full of injuries.
* After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to take care of his health, he withdrew from the front line of the war and transferred to the post of Chief of the General Staff of the General Staff. Although Su Yu is still recuperating from his body, he still asked Chen Geng to help him deal with his work.
In April 1955, Su Yu, who was recuperating, received a ** from Chen Geng. Although before this, Chen Geng often cared about his body and reported on his work, but this time, there was anger in his tone. "
Su Yu, there is a 'mole' around you, it's time to take care of it. "Su Yu didn't get angry after hearing this, but eagerly asked what happened. Chen Geng recounted what happened.
That morning, he was criticized by his superiors. At first, **'s secretary contacted him and said that *** had something to look for him and asked him to come to the office.
Although Chen Geng, who is usually very arrogant, but in the face of ***'s hot temper, he didn't dare to delay, and immediately put down what he was doing and rushed to the office. Before entering the office, the secretary of ** stopped him and reminded:"Mr. Peng made a lot of fire inside, you should be careful when you speak. "
Chen Geng scratched his head, he really couldn't think of what mistake he had made recently, and pushed open the office door of *** in a nervous mood. As soon as I saw him, I threw a report at him and asked loudly: "This is what your staff wrote?"
Bullshit, have you done a good job? Chen Geng immediately took the report, but he had never seen the report before, but found that it had his signature on it. He promised to go back and investigate the matter.
This low-level mistake made *** very angry, and he severely criticized Chen Geng. After being trained, Chen Geng immediately returned to the staff headquarters to investigate, and finally found that Su Yu's secretary was the ghost.
He didn't think the report was important, so he privately printed Chen Geng's signature and handed it in. This made Chen Geng very angry, so he called Su Yu angrily. Despite this, Chen Geng and Su Yu's friendship did not break down, and they apologized to each other afterwards.
Chen Geng's deep friendship with Su Yu. In 1958, Chen Geng spoke out for Su Yu at a meeting of the Military Commission, but was criticized for it. In order not to implicate Chen Geng, Su Yu wrote a review against his will, trying his best to prove his innocence.
These are indicative of the deep friendship between them. In 1961, Chen Geng recuperated in the Shanghai Hospital where Su Yu was recuperating, and the two spent many happy times.
However, Chen Geng's sudden death made Su Yu deeply saddened, and his condition worsened. However, despite being seriously ill, Su Yu still insisted on attending the memorial service for Chen Geng's body to see off his old comrades.
Chen Geng once helped Su Yu, and he never forgot this kindness. This deep friendship is not only reflected in the words and deeds between them, but also deeply engraved in their hearts.
In September 1961, he was ordered to go to the northeast to inspect the Kazakh military industry, and the first task after his arrival was to pay tribute to Chen Geng. Kazakhstan Military Industry was founded by Chen Geng, so a special area was set up there to display Chen Geng's ** and relics.
Su Yu stared at these ** and relics, showing deep nostalgia on his face. The friendship between Su Yu and Chen Geng stems from their shared talent, which has continued to this day and has not changed.