General Su Yu was a pure soldier all his life, the general's wife was called Chu Qing, originally named Zhan Yongzhu, and was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province.
Mrs. Su's father was a banker in Shanghai Beach, so Chu Qing grew up in a wealthy family, had no worries about food and clothing, and often lived in Shanghai, so she was also well-informed. Because of the different growing environments, General Su Yu and his wife have a lot of differences in their lives, and they will make some "jokes" from time to time.
One day after the liberation of Shanghai, General Su Yu had some free time, and the general rarely accompanied Chu Qing to walk the road.
After the war, Greater Shanghai has returned to its former prosperity, Chu Qing used to live with his father in Shanghai when he was young, this time back to Shanghai, revisiting the old place, Chu Qing felt particularly happy, and General Su Yu's mood was also good.
When passing by a café with an elegant environment, General Su Yu suddenly turned back to Chu Qing and said, "This café is good!" Very good! ”
Chu Qing was quite surprised, in her memory, for the Westernized way of life, su Yu did not reject, but also never so praised, what is going on today? Could it be that "the iron tree has blossomed"?
Without waiting for Chu Qing to ask the truth, General Su Yu continued, "You see, if you put a few machine guns on the roof of this café, you can completely block the entire street." ”
Chu Qing suddenly realized, couldn't help but laugh, a café actually triggered such a topic, Chu Qing couldn't help but sigh, Su Yu is still that Su Yu, a good iron-blooded general who came out of the fire of war, even if he is in the big Shanghai, the general's mind is still fighting, deployment, the general's words just now are completely the instinctive reaction of the soldiers!
Speaking of the revolutionary couple of General Su Yu and Chu Qing, there is also an interesting story. Chu Qing left Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, in 1937 for Shanghai, and the following year rushed from Shanghai to southern Anhui to join the New Fourth Army, and served as a stenographer in the headquarters secretariat, when her name was Zhan Yongzhu.
In order to prevent his family from being implicated by himself, Zhan Yongzhu decided to change his name, and Zhan Yongzhu's change of name was related to Su Yu. That day, Su Yu wrote dozens of surnames on the paper, asking her to choose one, Zhan Yongzhu chose the word "Chu", Su Yu also joked with her at that time: "Little Zhan, you can listen well, my hometown Hunan belonged to the Chu state in ancient times, from now on, you are even our Hunan people!" ”
Perhaps by coincidence or by providence, a few years later, 18-year-old Chu Qing and 34-year-old Su Yu became a lifelong partner and became an authentic Hunan daughter-in-law.
In Chu Qing's memory, General Su Yu had a calm breath every time he faced a big battle. Shortly before the Battle of Huangqiao began, General Su Yu led his troops to garrison Shuixi Village in Liyang, Jiangsu Province. After dealing with the complicated military affairs, he still hoes down to the ground like a man who has nothing to do, helping the people in the garrison to do farm work, or hoeing the land, pulling grass, or pulling a family routine with the local peasants, not at all like a high-ranking general who is about to command a big battle.
Chu Qing still remembered that a large map was usually hung on the wall of General Su Yu's headquarters, and during the Huaihai Campaign, the "Huaihai Campaign Situation Map" was hung on the wall of the command post, which was plastered with small red and blue flags, red representing our army, and blue flag representing the Kuomintang army.
Whenever the war situation changed, the staff officers of the headquarters were busy, removing the blue flag and posting the red flag, or the red flag and the blue flag. General Su Yu kept his eyes on the map and issued orders from time to time, and during the days when the battle was at its most intense, General Su Yu stayed awake for seven days and seven nights, sticking to the map and not slackening off for a moment.
General Su Yu's comrades-in-arms always said that he was good at fighting "fairy battles", especially good at finding fighters in sports, and even creating fighters to deal heavy damage to the enemy. This "stunt" of the general was even applied to hunting.
According to the recollection of General Su Yu's guards, the general had a good marksmanship, and since becoming a senior general who commanded thousands of troops and horses, the general did not have the opportunity to shoot at the enemy with his own hands, so hunting became the best way for General Su Yu to live a "gun addiction".
As with the good fighting of sports warfare, when General Su Yu hunts, he is usually reluctant to fight the prey in a static state, and once during the hunt, the general was looking for food in the soil, according to General Su Yu's marksmanship, he could definitely shoot the target with one shot, but the general was delayed in firing.
The guard next to him was in a hurry, and repeatedly urged: "The chief is about to shoot!" Don't let it run! ”
General Su Yu waved at the guards, "Scare it, let the earth badger move!" ”
The guards understood the general's meaning, and took a few steps forward to meet the badger, and the badger heard the sound and ran away with his legs, at this time, the gun in the hands of General Su Yu fired, and the running badger fell to the ground in response.
On another occasion, General Su Yu took the guards on a boat ride in Gaoyou Lake, Jiangsu Province, and there was a group of wild ducks in the grass of the lake that were playing in the water, and the general did not carry out a "sneak attack" on this group of wild ducks, but threw a small stone, and the wild ducks were frightened, and immediately flew up with their wings, and the general quickly raised his gun and did not aim, "Bang! bang! bang! Three shots were fired, and three wild ducks fell from the sky in response.
General Su Yu's military ability is well known, but the general is by no means a pure "Ichisuke Takefu", according to the comrades who have long followed General Su Yu to turn north and south, General Su Yu is very fond of music, and will also use several instruments, including the moon harp, harmonica, and dong gong.
Comrades especially like to listen to General Su Yu play the "New Fourth Army Military Song" with harmonica, a small harmonica, the general can actually play the mighty and majestic sense of military song, in the extremely difficult and difficult battlefield behind the enemy lines, comrades often absorb tremendous energy from it, boost morale.
This is a generation of famous generals who can write and fight, flesh and blood, an ordinary but unusual founding general.