Su Yu
Su Yu ( Chinese 粟裕 , Pinyin Sù Yù , W.-G. Su Yü ; born August 10, 1907 in Huitong County ( Hunan ); † February 5, 1984 in Beijing ) was a Chinese general of the Red Army or the People's Liberation Army . He fought in the war against Japan and in the civil war . After the proclamation of the People's Republic, he was Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army.
Su, a member of the Dong ethnic minority , joined the Socialist Youth League in 1926 and the Chinese Communist Party that year . On August 1, 1927, he took part in the Nanchang uprising and joined the Red Army under Zhu De and Chen Yi . He was one of the soldiers who joined Mao Zedong's Jinggangshan Base Area . In 1930 he was hit by shrapnel while fighting with Kuomintang troops; the splinter stayed in his head for the rest of his life. In 1934 the Communist Party had to evacuate the Jiangxi Soviet and withdrew in the Long March . Part of the Red Army under command of Chen Yi, Xiang Ying and Su Yu remained in southern Jiangxi and western Fujian back to Ruijin to defend and as a guerrilla , the Nationalist troops bind to. With only a few deployable soldiers, but many wounded, they lived on the edge of society "like animals in the wild". In 1937 these troops formed the New 4th Army . During the war against Japan, Su set up a communist base in the border area between Anhui and Jiangsu , where he was wounded again in July 1937; the projectile was not removed from his arm until 1959. In this war he showed strong ability to wage a semi-conventional war and in 1940 he defeated the forces of the Kuomintang governor of Jiangsu Han Deqin in the Battle of Huangqiao .
After Japan surrendered and the Chinese civil war flared up again, Su was appointed deputy commander of the troops in eastern China and the 3rd Field Army. In June 1946, when the Kuomintang troops attacked the communist base areas, Su proposed that the fighting be carried out to non-communist party controlled areas instead of defending the mountainous bases. Su Yu succeeded in defeating a Kuomintang army of well-equipped 120,000 soldiers in Jiangsu and Shandong with 30,000 soldiers and 100,000 militiamen. After this success, Mao Zedong gave up the previously successfully used guerrilla tactics and approved conventional methods of warfare. In 1947, Su was appointed commander of the East China Field Army. In this role, Su led the troops of the Communist Party in the Menglianggu campaign and succeeded in destroying an elite unit of Chiang Kai-shek with the 74th Division of the National Revolutionary Army . In the Huaihai campaign of 1948/1949, Su commanded the People's Liberation Army together with Liu Bocheng. The strategy of drawing together the troops and disbanding them quickly goes back to Su, which in late 1948 brought about decisive victories in battles against the National Revolutionary Army.
After the People's Republic was proclaimed, Su was responsible for preparing an attack on Taiwan. In June 1950, Mao Zedong and the Central Military Commission appointed him commander of the so-called Chinese Volunteer Army to assist North Korea in the Korean War . However, Su fell ill and had to be treated in the Soviet Union , and Peng Dehuai took over his position. The Korean War also postponed the landing in Taiwan (and has not yet taken place). For his services, Su was awarded the rank of Grand General ( Chinese 大将 , Pinyin dàjiàng ) in 1955 . He went through several stations in the People's Liberation Army, in the 1950s he held the post of Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army , in addition, he acted as Deputy Minister of Defense . During the Cultural Revolution he was responsible for railways, post, telecommunications, ports and shipbuilding. He was a permanent member of the Defense Commission, the Standing Committee of the People's Congress and the Standing Committee of the Central Advisory Commission .
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- ↑ a b c d Xiaoxiao Li: Chen Xilian . In: Xiaobing Li (Ed.): China at War - An Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59884-416-0 , p. 429-431 .
- ↑ Dieter Kuhn : The Republic of China from 1912 to 1937 - Draft for a political history of events . 3. Edition. Edition Forum, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 3-927943-25-8 , p. 557-558 .
- ↑ a b c Christopher R. Lew and Edwin Pak-wah Leung: Historical dictionary of the Chinese Civil War . 2nd Edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-7874-7 , pp. 219-220 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Su Yu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 粟裕; Su Yu; Sù Yù |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese General of the People's Liberation Army |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huitong |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 1984 |
| Place of death | Beijing |