"Mao Zedong's Insight into Luo Ronghuan and Su Yu"

When the Great Revolution failed in 1927, Mao Zedong organized the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and Luo Ronghuan, who had just come out of school, was also in the ranks. Luo Ronghuan was an honest man who joined the Chinese Communist Party while studying at Sun Yat-sen University in Wuchang. He was a college student, so he also served as a manager of accounts, but on the way to lead the peasant self-defense army to participate in the autumn harvest uprising, he was cheated out of his money box by two leper soldiers. However, at this moment, Mao Zedong noticed this revolutionary-willed "scholar" and appointed him as the representative of the Secret Service Company. In the struggle to open up the Jinggangshan base area, Mao Zedong further discovered many valuable qualities of Luo Ronghuan: he himself did everything that was required of the soldiers; charged forward when fighting, and covered behind when retreating; carried a gun for the sick when marching, checked the shop after work during camping, and took party members to stand guard and put up sentries when eating—although this meant that sometimes he had to be hungry. Luo Ronghuan became a close friend of the soldiers with his exemplary actions and was deeply loved by the soldiers. Less than three years later, Mao Zedong appointed Luo Ronghuan as acting political commissar of the Red Fourth Army.

Mao Zedong once commented on Luo Ronghuan: "Ronghuan is an honest man, but he also has a strong sense of principle, can take into account the overall situation, has always been strict with himself, and treats others leniently, and he needs such cadres to do political work." In the decades of revolutionary struggle, Luo Ronghuan really lived up to the expectations of the people, made immortal contributions to the liberation of the Chinese people, and became a famous generation of marshals.

Mao Zedong's appointment of Su Yu was a model for his eclectic and talented employment. As early as the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Su Yu, who was in his 30s, had already shown outstanding military talent. His troops annihilated 100,000 Japanese puppet troops in 1938-1943 alone. In 1944, in the Battle of Cheqiao, nearly a thousand enemy troops were annihilated at one time, which made the enemy army in northern Jiangsu feel frightened. Mao Zedong believed that the general, who had grown up as a soldier, had the ability to command an army of four or five hundred thousand men. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Su Yu served as deputy commander of the Central China Military Region and commander of the Central China Field Army. After the outbreak of the civil war, Su Yu led 30,000 field troops to meet the attack of 120,000 people in 5 integrated divisions of the Kuomintang army, and within a month and a half, seven battles and seven victories in the central Soviet region, annihilating more than 50,000 enemy troops. When Su Yu and his troops arrived in Shandong to meet Chen Yi, Mao Zedong called Chen Yi and others in 1946 and instructed the campaign commander to entrust Su Yu with responsibility. Su Yu lived up to expectations, and within 3 months, assisted Chen Yi and specifically commanded the battles of Subei, Lunan, and Laiwu, all of which won great victories. When the Kuomintang concentrated more than 450,000 troops from 60 brigades to launch a key offensive against Shandong, Su Yu, with the arrogance of "taking the rank of general among a million troops," concentrated all the main forces to attack the enemy's 74th Division, which was advancing in the middle of the road, and won the victory in the Battle of Menglianggu, forcing the enemy who attacked Luzhong to retreat in its entirety. Su Yu played a major role in the Liberation War and became an excellent general of the People's Liberation Army who won every battle.

When selecting and appointing people, Mao Zedong opposed the discussion of seniority and insisted on promoting young outstanding talents out of the ordinary. As long as he knew the talents, Mao Zedong boldly applied them. Mao Zedong once said: "In the Battle of Chibi, Cheng Pu was more than 40 years old, and Zhou Yu was in his 20s, and although Cheng Pu was a veteran, he was not as capable as Zhou Yu." At present, who is in charge of the great enemy? Or the rising star Zhou Yu hung up the marshal seal of the Metropolitan Governor... In ancient times, we could use people out of the box, so why can't we be promoted out of line? In the years of revolutionary war, mao zedong appointed eighteen- and nineteen-year-old "dolls" as divisions and regimental commanders, and it was not uncommon for young people in their twenties to be corps commanders, but decades of bloody storms proved that Mao Zedong knew people well, used people accurately, and they all became invincible generals.