"From ancient times to the present, how many one-armed generals have there been in China? There was no such thing in the old era, and only our Red Army units could cultivate such unique talents! ”When the title was conferred in 1955, among the more than 700 founding major generals, there was a general whose resume was very special, because when he was awarded the title, his rank was very low, it was a regimental level, and his specific position was only a warehouse chief at that time, his name was Sulu.
When General Sulu was awarded the title, he was one-armed, because his arm was dedicated to the revolutionary cause.
Su Lu is a native of Liuyang, Hunan, modern Hunan talents, worthy of the name, at the age of 15, Su Lu made a living in Changsha, and later the founding general **, at this time was a team leader on the Changsha Railway, Su Lu followed him, actively participated in the labor movement, anti-imperialist and anti-feudal.
After the defeat of the Great Revolution, Sulu returned to his hometown, carried out secret underground work, and joined the local guerrillas, in 1929, ** returned to his hometown Liuyang, led the revolutionary struggle, Sulu followed **, successively served as the chief of the division, the commander of the Red Army company, the regiment commander and so on.
During the Agrarian Revolution, Su Lu participated in all the anti-encirclement and suppression battles in the Hunan and Jiangxi Soviet Region and the ** Soviet Region in the Hunan and Jiangxi Military Region"I pulled the cart with Sulu, and later fought together, and at that time, he was not in a high position, and his credit was not small. ”
After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Su Lu entered Kang Da to study, and after graduation, he was arranged to go to Taiyuan, Shanxi to engage in the revolutionary movement, and the main person in charge of our party in Shanxi at that time was ***
**Entrusted by Yan Xishan, chairman of Shanxi Province, an anti-Japanese training class was set up in Shanxi to train anti-Japanese cadres.
** I talked to them one by one, and once, when he saw Sulu, he pretended not to know: "What's your name?" ”
Su Lu said angrily: "Su Dayu." * Haha laughed: "What, Su Dayu?" No wonder you want to slip too, it turned out to be a big fish, your name is weird, I'll change it for you, you don't want to slip away. ”
Sulu was puzzled: "What name can be useful?" ”
**: I want to put you, a big fish, on the head of the Japanese devils, and make a fuss about their majesty, that is, add a "day" under your fish, and call it Lu. ”
When Su Lu heard this, he readily agreed, he later changed his name to "Sulu", after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Su Lu served in the Shanxi Youth Anti-Enemy Death Squad formed by ***, and successively served as the captain and regiment commander.
During the Liberation War, Su Lu served as deputy brigade commander and deputy division commander under the command of the North China Military Region, and in April 1949, during the Taiyuan Campaign, Su Lu's unit was ordered to attack the Red House stronghold outside the east gate of Taiyuan.
The enemy was heavily guarded in the stronghold of the Red House, which was very difficult for our army to attack, and at the critical moment, Sulu turned to the division commander and political commissar and said, "I'll go out and have a look." Subsequently, he advanced with an assault platoon, and the platoon commander, after clearing enemy mines, accidentally detonated the enemy's chain mines.
The mines were on the spot, Sulu's left arm was blown to pieces, and the soldiers were very angry when they saw this scene, and their morale soared, and they conquered the Red House stronghold in one fell swoop, and after the battle, Sulu was sent to the hospital.
After the Battle of Taiyuan, the troops continued to advance to the northwest, and Sulu remained in Taiyuan due to his injuries.
After the liberation of the country, Su Lu was appointed as the commander of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region, in this position, he worked for 5 years, in 1955, the leaders of the provincial military district found him, taking into account his situation, decided to let Su Lu retire.
Su Lu also knew his physical condition, and at the same time understood that the leaders of the provincial military district told him this, also because they had a younger and more educated suitable candidate, he should no longer occupy this position, but he really didn't want to enjoy the blessings, although he was 54 years old at this time, which was not very old.
Sulu said: "Leader, I am an idle person, let me recuperate, I have nothing to do, I will be sick, I ask to go to the warehouse." ”
The leaders of the provincial military district were a little stunned, and they: "The commander of a military division went to guard the warehouse? A treasury chief is a regimental position. "They don't think it's appropriate.
Sulu insisted on going: "What is this, can go up and down, isn't this a common thing during the war years?" ”
In the end, the leaders of the provincial military district could only agree, and as a result, Su Lu was appointed as the chief of the 495th Treasury of the Ordnance Department of the People's Liberation Army.
In September, our army decided to carry out the first award of titles in the whole army, and at that time, Sulu was guarding the warehouse, and suddenly received a notice from his superiors that he should hurry to Beijing.
After Su Lu came to Beijing, he participated in the award ceremony, ** The Prime Minister personally awarded him the rank of Major General, and the Prime Minister held Su Lu's right hand tightly:"Comrade Sulu, you have made meritorious contributions to the people, and I thank you on behalf of the people. ”
With tears in his eyes, Sulu said:"I didn't do enough, the people gave me too much. ”
Su Lu, who thus became one of the founding major generals of New China, returned to Shanxi, and the leaders of the North China Military Region found him: "Old Su, the organization has decided that you will go to Shanxi to serve as the deputy commander." ”
From then on, Sulu was transferred from the chief of the treasury to the deputy commander of the provincial military district, a position he held for 21 years until 1975, when he retired to the second line.
A year later, Sulu died of illness at the age of 74.
After Sulu's death, in his organizational files, everyone only found that he was appointed as the head of the warehouse, and there was no position as the deputy commander of the provincial military district, so in Sulu's eulogy, his last position was only at the regimental level.
The guard who followed Sulu for many years later recalled: "I have been with Commander Su for many years, he has no official addiction, no official arrogance, and during the war years, he always pretended to lead the troops to rush to the enemy, and after liberation, he pretended to contribute to the construction of the troops, and he was really a good leader for me." ”
The life of General Sulu, perhaps, is as *** wrote in the article "Serving the People":"The value of a person is not only to see the level of his position and the size of his power, but more importantly, to see whether he can go up or down, whether he can obey the organization's distribution, and serve the people wholeheartedly in his own work. ”
Salute to the old general!