On February 5, 1984, General Su Yu died.
On the 11th, when Su Yu's body was cremated in Babaoshan, an accident happened.
Just after the cremation was completed, when the master in charge of the cremation and Su Yu's eldest son screened the ashes together, they found that three pieces of corroded iron were found at the original head position of Su YuThree pieces of shrapnel!
Chu Qing, who was Mrs. Su Yu at the time, was sad when she saw these three shrapnel, and said to her son:"Your dad has been having a headache because of the three pieces of shrapnel in his head, which tortured him for 54 years! ”
54 years! Occupying two-thirds of Su Yu's life, he needs to endure the pain to command the battle, his endurance is beyond imagination, and when did these three shrapnel enter Su Yu's head? What kind of pain did he go through?
FigGeneral Su Yu.
On August 10, 1907, that day happened to be the seventh day of the seventh month of the 33rd year of Guangxu, when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met at the Queqiao and the women worshiped the moon and begged, a loud baby cry woke up the sleeping villagers in the Dong village of Huaihua County, Hunan.
Most of the surnames of the Dong people are special, and most of the people in this village have the surname "Su", they are all a family with the same root and ancestor"House of Scholars".
The baby boy was born, and the family had children and grandchildren to inherit it, which made the talented old man Su very happy, and directly named the beloved son in his arms "Jiye", and the word "Yu" was used to show that he inherited the family business and his children and grandchildren were prosperous. But fate made the little baby choose a different path.
When Su Yu was born, it happened to be the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and Emperor Guangxu was just a puppet, and it was the Empress Dowager Cixi who really controlled the major policies of the imperial court.
But although the Empress Dowager Cixi has been infiltrated in the court for decades, she is short-sighted after all, and most of the treaties of the Qing Dynasty for the loss of power and humiliation of the country and the reparation for land cession were signed when she was in power.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty was surrounded by enemies by Western powers, and there was turmoil and banditry on the inside.
It is precisely because of the incompetence of the Qing ** that bandits in Xiangxi are rampant.
Of course, this has also derived many stories of "robbing the rich and helping the poor" and "chivalrous people traveling alone".
These oral stories fascinated Su Yu at a young age.
Therefore, he also wants to become such a "hero" and act chivalrous on the rivers and lakes.
In order to fulfill his dream, Su Yu searched around his home.
Su Yu's family had a lot of land, and in that era when grain was precious, their family was absolutely wealthy.
In the era of rampant bandits, high-ranking families would recruit some big hands to protect their homes, and although Su Yu's family did not support thugs, there were also a few long-term workers who knew kung fu.
On the one hand, I ensure the safety of my home, and on the other hand, I do my work at home.
The long-term worker named Ah Tuo became Su Yu's first teacher.
Figure: Young Su Yu.
In order to be able to let Ah Tuo teach himself kung fu, Su Yu at a young age did not waste a lot of effort.
Although Su Yu's family has long-term workers, most of those long-term workers are"Only the master's order is obeyed",For him, the little young master in the family, he generally stayed away, for fear that the little young master would be a little bumpy and the master would blame him.
And among them, only Ah Tuo treats the little young master as a child and plays with him, which also makes Xiao Su Yu very close to Ah Tuo, but when Su Yu asked to learn martial arts, Ah Tuo refused without thinking about it.
In Ah Tuo's heart, the little young master will inherit this family business in the future, and he only needs to be a rich man in the future, there is no need to dance with guns and sticks and learn these dangerous things.
But he still couldn't help Su Yu's soft grinding and hard bubbles, there was no way, Ah Tuo had to ask Master Su for instructions, and only began to teach Su Yu Kung Fu after getting the master's permission, but he still didn't dare to teach Su Yu Kung Fu easily because it was too dangerous, and only taught Su Yu Scud.
The so-called scud is actually to practice long-distance running and short-distance explosive running ability, and the best way to practice it is to tie sandbags or wear lead plates on your legs, and run and jump on time.
If you want to practice, you need to persevere, and Ah Tu originally thought that Young Master Xiao Su Yu would retreat from the difficulties after his temperament came up, but he didn't expect him to persevere, which made Ah Tu, as a **, very shocked Su Yu had such perseverance at a young age.
As Su Yu became more proficient in Scud, he began to pester Ah Tuo again, asking him to teach him new kung fu. Seeing Su Yu working so hard, in order to let the little young master have the means to protect himself in the future, Ah Tuo decided to teach the little master marksmanship.
Due to the harsh social environment at that time, coupled with the high mountains and dense forests in Xiangxi, many families relied on hunting for a living. Therefore, basically every house has a shotgun.
Of course, the difference in living class can also be reflected in the amount and quality of firearms at home, as one of the richest families in the local area, Su Yu naturally has guns in his family, and Ah Tuo was a hunter before, and he was naturally a master of guns.
Figure: Young Su Yu.
In order to teach Su Yu to practice guns, Ah Tuo also put a lot of thought into it, after all, as a young master of the family, he is still young, and once there is an accident, it is a terrible thing.
Therefore, it is necessary to absolutely ensure Su Yu's safety, and at the same time, he must not let the lords and wives of the family know, otherwise he will definitely interrupt Su Yu's path of learning martial arts.
Under Ah Tuo's careful teaching, Su Yu quickly learned the basic essentials of shooting, and just when Ah Tuo was about to take him up to the mountains to hunt and practice, Su Yu's family was almost ransacked.
In desperation, the family had to move to the county to live, and the long-term workers were all dismissed, Su Yu could no longer accept Atuo's teachings, and of course, he was forced to transfer schools.
In 1913, when Su Yu was six years old, Su Yu's father had already invited a private school teacher for him to enlighten him.
After all, Su Yu's parents and ancestors were all from Xiucai, and they can be regarded as scholars, of course, I also hope that Su Yu, the only son, can be a scholar, and he can inherit the family business in the future, and even pass the exam to become an official.
But after all, this is Su Yu's father's wish, and for Su Yu, these jerky and difficult Four Books and Five Classics make him not interested in it at all.
But this is how his father and ancestors learned, which made Su Yu's idea of wanting to go to his uncle's new school was stifled by his father.
But seeing that the child couldn't learn at all, Su Yu's father was also anxious, so he had no choice but to agree to Su Yu's idea and send him to the Eighth National School founded by his younger brother.
With the turmoil of the times, as a wealthy family in the village, it has also declined, and the heavy taxes have made Su Yu's family more and more burdened, coupled with the outbreak of the ** war, those defeated troops burned and looted in the village.
Thanks to the protection of Changgong, Su Yu's family escaped a catastrophe, in order to live a stable life, Su Yu's father had to take the family to live in the county town, which made Su Yu no longer able to learn martial arts with Ah Tuo, nor could he continue to learn new knowledge from his uncle.
Su Yu, who came to Huitong County, felt for the first time what it means to be "unfamiliar".
Figure: Su Yu and his comrades-in-arms.
In order to continue his education, Su Yu was transferred by his father to study in Huitong County, where he continued to learn new ideas and knowledge, but when he was studying hard, his father set up a family affair for him, and the bride was someone he didn't know at all.
In the mouths of her parents, the bride has a decent family background, has not read, and is a down-to-earth child.
But no matter how his parents describe it and praise it, this is unacceptable to Su Yu, who has always received a new education and accepted new ideas.
He can't stand his parents taking control of his marriage and his own destiny like this, he wants to break free from the shackles, break out of the cage, and get his own freedom.
In this way, in order to oppose the marriage made by his parents, Su Yu chose to apply for the Hunan Provincial Second Normal School, which is located in Changde, and he can naturally stay away from arranged marriages when he is far away from his parents.
The test results were issued, and Su Yu won one of the only two admission places in the county with excellent results.
Thanks to his efforts, he was finally able to escape.
But the old-fashioned father does not allow his children to stay out of his sight.
He wants Su Yu to serve by his side, wants Su Yu to take over the family business, and does not seek to glorify his ancestors, as long as he is safe, after all, in such a troubled world, Changde is too far away from the meeting, and Su Yu's study made his father resolutely oppose.
Although his parents strongly objected, this still couldn't stop Su Yu from leaving, and when Su Yu learned that his parents strongly objected, he hid from his parents and secretly left home.
It's just that this time I ran away from home because I was shy in my pocket, so I had to go home again.
But after his parents saw Su Yu's firm idea, they no longer cared about these things, and in order to fulfill his son's dream, Su Yu's father had to withdraw from the marriage and hold a banquet for him.
By the time Su Yu left home again, Su Yu had already taken enough silver dollars on the road, and what filled Su Yu's heart along the way was no longer to escape, but to be grateful.
Figure Nanchang Uprising.
Due to the long distance, Su Yu did not catch up with the enrollment, and in desperation, he had to work and study in Changde.
It wasn't until the second year that he finally entered the second normal school as he wished, but during this period, his father died of illness, and everything in the family was managed by his mother.
In the process of studying in the second provincial division, Su Yu's life trajectory was completely changed.
Here, he understood that only the Communist Party could save China and pull this already dilapidated country out of the quagmire, so he began to actively participate in the youth revolutionary work in school, and finally embarked on the road of revolution.
In 1925, Su Yu successfully entered Ye Ting's 24th Division Teaching Brigade, and from this moment on, Su Yu officially embarked on the road of Rong Ma's life.
Two years later, Su Yu, who had just turned 20, finally became a member of the Communist Party of China.
In April 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup, Su Yu, as a member of the Communist Party, resolutely joined the team of ** and prepared for the Nanchang Uprising.
In order to carry out the Nanchang Uprising, Su Yu's guard team was ordered to move forward, and on this way, the scud practiced by Su Yu made a great contribution to the emergency march.
At that time, Su Yu's guard team was responsible for the security work of the Nanchang Uprising command organ and the escort of ** ammunition.
In order to do his best to transport *** Su Yu to the front line, in addition to the shell gun and the bullets he needed, he had to bring two rifles and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, as well as water bottles, lunch boxes, shovels, bedding and other equipment needed for emergency marching, and the total weight of the items carried by the whole body exceeded 60 kilograms.
FigNanchang Uprising.
In the case of heavy loads, Su Yu and others marched more than 70 miles a day in the middle of summer, many soldiers fell ill in the scorching heat, and many soldiers left because of difficulties, among them, Su Yu has always been confident, although this is his first long-distance march, but he has withstood the test.
Just after the outbreak of the Nanchang Uprising, Su Yu has been arranged to carry out material transfer work, during this period of conscientiousness, under the command of **, although the Nanchang Uprising failed, but the historical significance is significant, as the actual leader of the rest of the Nanchang Uprising, ** decided to lead the rest to continue fighting.
In the face of the heavy encirclement of the Kuomintang troops, in order to ensure the integrity of the Nanchang uprising troops, the uprising troops must march quickly and leave the Kuomintang troops behind far behind.
* Although the speed of the march was fast, it was not without a trace, and the rebel troops were soon caught up by the troops led by Qian Dajun, the commander of the Kuomintang 32nd Army, and the two armies fought a skirmish in Wuping County.
The rebels were sleepy and lacking, and they were short of them, and they quickly ordered the soldiers to retreat after a fierce battle with the enemy, and continued to move westward, in order to cover the transfer of large troops, Su Yu's second platoon was ordered to block the enemy and buy time for the rebels.
After receiving the order, the platoon commander of the second platoon quickly made strategic arrangements, under the arrangement of the platoon commander, Su Yu and his comrades did everything to shoot out the bullets in their hands, although it was only a small platoon, but at the moment of life and death, the momentum was extraordinary, and the enemy did not know the truth and reality, so they were shocked by the soldiers of the second platoon on the battlefield, and retreated while fighting.
FigNanchang Uprising.
Just when the soldiers in the second platoon thought that victory was in sight, a bullet suddenly struck Su Yu, directly passing through his right ear and head, and Su Yu, who was shot in the head, instantly fell to the ground and could not move.
At this time, although Su Yu's eyes were closed and his blood was pouring out, his mind was still clear and he knew everything that was happening around him, but he couldn't open his eyes and his body couldn't move, like a dead man.
After the victory of this blockade battle, the platoon commander counted the number of people and found Su Yu in a pool of blood, he thought that Su Yu had no value for treatment, so the platoon commander decided to leave Su Yu behind.
Su Yu, who fell in the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses, only listened to the platoon commander say"It's not that I don't care about you, it's really a difficult war, brother, I'm sorry! ”As he spoke, he unloaded the shell gun on Su Yu's body, and led the remaining soldiers of the second platoon to chase after the large army.
As time passed, the wind stopped, and the hillside that had just experienced the war was quiet and terrible at this time, and Su Yu gradually woke up in this quiet.
Su Yu understood that they were all gone, and in their eyes he was just a sacrificed soldier, and what should he do at this time when he was seriously injured, whether to recover from his injuries and go home to inherit the family business, or continue to participate in the war.
The firm concept in his mind has already helped him make a choice, and Su Yu has only one thought at this time, and that is"Stand up, catch up with the troops, and keep fighting".
Su Yu managed to stand up with his strong willpower, but due to the severity of his injuries, his limbs did not seem to be subject to the control of his brain.
Just about to take a step forward, he staggered down, and Su Yu had no choice but to roll down the hillside, but fortunately, it was autumn and winter, and his clothes were thick, and Su Yu was not injured.
Su Yu, who rolled to the bottom of the hill, carefully identified the direction, because he couldn't stand up and walk, Su Yu had to crawl forward, and when Su Yu was exhausted, he happened to meet several soldiers of the Nanchang rebel army walking along the mountain, to check if there were comrades who did not keep up with the large army because of injuries, and sure enough, Su Yu who was crawling at the foot of the mountain was found.
In this way, Su Yu was picked up by his comrades after receiving a simple bandage and treatment, and caught up with the large army.
Figure Su Yu. This was the first time Su Yu was shot, and it was also the first time in his life that he was abandoned, but he still chose revolution.
In addition to this injury, Su Yu was wounded five times in the days that followed, the most serious of which nearly died.
After Su Yu followed the troops of the Nanchang Uprising to Jinggangshan to join the troops of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the ranks of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area immediately grew, and when Chiang Kai-shek fought a warlord war in order to unify the Central Plains, Zhu Mao in Jinggangshan decided to expand the scope of the revolutionary base area and attack Ji'an.
At this time, Su Yu was no longer the fledgling young man, he had already become the chief of staff of the Red Fourth Army, and the task of liberating Ji'an was handed over to Su Yu to complete.
In order to seize Ji'an, it was necessary to first eliminate the 15th Independent Brigade of the Kuomintang Army, which was the only way to occupy Ji'an.
In order to eliminate the 15th Brigade, Su Yu used the Shuinan Battle to lure the enemy, and sure enough, under Su Yu's arrangement, the strategy of luring the enemy was successful, but to everyone's surprise, the 15th Brigade had strong firepower.
Originally, Su Yu could fight a beautiful ambush battle, but he didn't expect it to become an offensive battle because of the enemy's outnumberedness, although this battle was difficult, but Su Yu has been facing difficulties and unswervingly commanding.
Just when the Red Army was about to win, a bomb fell five meters away from Su Yu's command post, the bomb was instantaneous, Su Yu could not dodge in time, and was hit in the head by the shrapnel wrapped in the bomb, his face was covered with blood at that time, and he could no longer command the battle, and the strategy of attacking Ji'an was shattered.
Su Yu was quickly carried off the battlefield by the military doctor after being hit by the aftermath of the bomb**, although the trauma recovered quickly, but because there was no surgical environment and technology at that time, the shrapnel left in the head was never removed, and those shrapnel accompanied Su Yu for the rest of his life.
General Yu Tusu.
On the Shuinan battlefield, Su Yu's wound was the most serious of the six, and after 1937, the god of luck seemed to have been favoring Su Yu, and Su Yu was never injured on the battlefield again.
However, the six injuries that year seriously affected Su Yu in the second half of his life.
After the establishment of New China, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, and the default preferred commander in his heart was Su Yu, but he didn't expect that Su Yu had an injury at that time and had to go to the Soviet Union to recuperate, just like that, Su Yu missed the opportunity to command the volunteer army to fight.
Of course, Su Yu's six injuries were all during the Red Army, and each time the injury was serious, it took a long time.
This also made Su Yu's position in that period stay at the deputy regimental level, and when the military rank was assessed after the founding of the People's Republic of China, no matter how many immortal battles Su Yu fought, he could still only be condescended to the rank of "general".
At the same time, it was precisely because of Su Yu's injury that he rarely held substantive work after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and mostly focused on honor until Su Yu's death.
In 1984, after the death of General Su Yu, who had gone through many ups and downs, after his body was cremated, three shrapnel were found at the scene, and the three shrapnel were left in the head during the Battle of Shuinan.
Su Yu's life has been full of ups and downs, from a rich young master to a revolutionary soldier who pursues truth, from a soldier rolling in the pile of dead to the head of the "Ten Generals", Su Yu has experienced too much.
The gun marks on his body represent his repeated birth and death, and his contributions to the establishment of New China;
In the battle of Menglianggu, Zhang Lingfu's 74th Division was completely annihilated;
The Huaihai Campaign encircled and suppressed Huang Wei and Huang Baitao's corps, and even *** said:"In the Huaihai Campaign, Su Yu should be the first to act. ”
is such a singing and crying general, it takes 50 years to endure the pain of shrapnel in the head, which once again proves Su Yu's strength and greatness.