There were Li Tianyou, Liu Zhen, Han Xianchu and others, but Lin Zong's evaluation of them was not as good as a general named Su Jing, who once said: "One Su Jing is equal to 100,000 soldiers." ”
This Su Jing's fame seems to be not very big, why does Lin Zong have such a high evaluation of him? In fact, Su Jing's fame is not much related to his work, Su Jing is not a general who leads the troops, but engages in intelligence and reconnaissance, and it is conducive to work without fame, and his battle achievements are huge.
Su Jing was a soldier under Lin Zong very early, he was a native of Longhai, Fujian, he went to middle school, he was still a small intellectual at that time, and later followed his father to Burma to make a living, and after "918" learned of the Japanese invasion, Su Jing resolutely returned to China to participate in the anti-Japanese rescue activities.
In 1932, Su Jing first joined the local guerrillas in his hometown, and then reorganized into the Red Army with the troops, becoming a soldier of the Red First Army, because Su Jing was clever, he was assigned to work in the reconnaissance section, and he became a reconnaissance staff officer during the Long March.
During the Long March, all the way was a place that had not been walked before, and the road situation was not known, and only by reconnaissance could the next day's marching route be formulated, and during the period it was also surrounded and blocked by the enemy, so there were not only vanguard regiments on the Long March Road, but also vanguard reconnaissance teams.
At that time, Su Jing and others were the vanguard of the vanguard, and later in order to ensure the smoothness of the north, the chairman personally went to the first army to command, Su Jing summarized the situation reported by the scouts every day, and then specified the next day's itinerary, during which hundreds of maps were drawn.
Today, there are still several maps at that time kept in the museum, witnessing the Long March, but also witnessing the contributions of Su Jing and other reconnaissance personnel, based on this, Nie Shuai, who was the political commissar of the Red First Army at the time, spoke highly of Su Jing in his memoirs, saying: "The Red Army crossed the meadow, and Comrade Su Jing was meritorious in opening the way in front. ”
In the later War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Su Jing was also under the command of General Lin, especially in the Liberation War, Su Jing, who was good at reconnaissance, made great contributions and helped Lin Zong fight a turnaround battle, and the morale of the soldiers at that time was low.
At this time, it was necessary to fight a victorious battle to turn over, and Lin Zong pinned his hopes on the intelligence department, to be precise, on Su Jing, so Su Jing and more than 100 scouts were active between the white mountains and black waters, and the reconnaissance learned that the enemy had two regiments separated from the main force and were in the Xiushui Hezi area.
It was simply great news, the enemies of the two regiments were not many, they could be eaten, Lin Zong was very excited, and immediately transferred the strength of 7 regiments to annihilate them in one fell swoop, and fought a turnaround battle, and then with the help of Su Jing's intelligence, Lin Zong fought one victory after another.
Especially after inflicting heavy damage on the enemy's 71st Army, Lin Zong happily said to his secretary, "One Su Jing is equal to 100,000 soldiers", and in the later battles, Su Jing also provided a lot of information for the attack on Jinzhou, and Su Jing was also sent to Tashan to participate in the blockade battle.
It can be seen that Lin Zong attaches great importance to Su Jing, and after the founding of New China, Su Jing successively served as deputy chief of staff of the Central and Southern Military Region and minister of the Military Affairs Department of the General Staff Department, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955, and served as an adviser to the General Staff In 1978 until his death in November 1997 at the age of 87.