As we all know, the head of the ten generals is Commander Su, the former military commander of the East China Field Army, who commanded many battles of great significance during the Liberation War, and was called the "God of War" with Lin Shuai. In terms of the command ability of the large corps, few of the ten marshals can be compared with Commander Su, after all, from a military point of view alone, Commander Su is undoubtedly the best, which is his strength.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, the chairman made him the commander and political commissar of the Northeast Border Defense Army, and intended for him to command a large army to fight in the DPRK. At the outbreak of the Korean War, Commander Su was seriously unwell and could not command the volunteer army to fight in Korea, missing an opportunity to perform abroad.
Although Commander Su was unable to lead troops to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the chairman still reused him. In 1954, Commander Su succeeded Nie Shuai as chief of the general staff, which was a position of high power and could not be filled by those who were not capable of doing so, and Commander Su was good at military affairs, and it was very appropriate for him to serve as the chief of the general staff.
Commander Su was criticized, and the old marshal "openly criticized and secretly protected"?
1958 was undoubtedly a special year for Commander Su, when his military career was "Waterloo" and was severely "criticized" at the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission because of the problem of "extreme individualism". The cause of the matter is more complicated, mainly because commander Su had unresolved contradictions in his work with Minister of National Defense Peng Laozong during his tenure as chief of the general staff, and some misunderstandings with Nie Shuai in his work were not clearly explained.
Su Yu was "criticized", some people were silent, some people spoke against their hearts in order to protect themselves, and some people supported him. Among the ten generals, Huang Kecheng and Tan Zheng sided with Mr. Peng, and Xiao Jinguang chose to support Commander Su and vouch for his character in front of the chairman, which contributed greatly to Commander Su's later review.
Commander Su's former subordinates, Ye Fei, Wang Bicheng, and Tao Yong, resolutely supported Commander Su when the old superior was in difficulty, regardless of his own safety. Although the personal relationship between Ye Fei and Commander Su was not good due to the "Nanyang Incident", in the face of Dayi, Ye Fei maintained his integrity and did not say anything against his heart.
Among the ten marshals, one of the marshals "explicitly criticized and secretly protected" Commander Su, indicating that he was not speaking for him, but actually speaking for him. As we all know, among the ten marshals, Chen Shuai and Commander Su had many years of cooperative relations, but at the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission in 1958, Chen Shuai chose to criticize Commander Su, and the marshal who protected Commander Su had someone else.
The marshal who protected Commander Su at the meeting was Ye Shuai, and in order to get him out of the "whirlpool" in the conference, Ye Shuai chose to use the method of "open approval and secret protection" to speak for Commander Su. At the meeting, Ye Shuai said: Su Yu has fought so many big battles, and it is normal to have a little pride, and there is no practical error. Ye Shuai was a high-ranking and powerful person, a marshal of the country, and what he said had a certain weight, and many people at the conference did not dare to oppose him.
Repeatedly actively protecting Commander Su?
Under the protection of Ye Shuai and General Xiao Jinguang, Commander Su passed the review, and the post of chief of the general staff was abolished, which is already a relatively good result if you refer to the experience of General Peng and others at the Lushan Conference a year later. After the congress, Ye Shuai considered Commander Su and arranged for him to work at the Academy of Military Sciences, serving as vice president and continuing to contribute to the development of the army.
Influenced by "criticism," the leaders in the military academy, in order to protect themselves, consciously or unconsciously chose to avoid Commander Su. When Ye Shuai learned of this situation, he did not shy away from suspicion and held a welcome meeting for Commander Su at the Academy of Military Sciences, at which Ye Shuai affirmed Commander Su's contributions to the country and asked the comrades in the Academy of Sciences to learn from him. With the support of Ye Shuai, Commander Su's status in the Academy of Military Sciences has always been very high, and few people have troubled him.
Commander Su was an idle man, and after his physical condition was restored, he asked Ye Shuai to arrange more work for himself. From the perspective of protecting Commander Su, Ye Shuai let him settle down, wait for the opportunity, protect himself, prepare for a big battle in the future, and don't do something that is inconsistent with his own ability.
Ye Shuai had always been optimistic about Commander Su's military command ability, and the reason why he took great pains to protect him was to cultivate talents for the country in case of unforeseen needs in the future. At that time, the international situation was confusing, the relations between our country and the Soviet Union changed, and the two sides clashed on the border, and once the war was fought, Commander Su would certainly be able to come in handy, and when the time came, Ye Shuai would recommend him to the central authorities, and it would not be more justified for Commander Su to come back at that time.
Under the protection of Ye Shuai, 1958 was already the lowest period of Commander Su, and by the sixties, many generals had suffered serious blows, and Commander Su could have a relatively stable environment, and did not suffer a major impact in the special period, thanks to the protection of Ye Shuai.
Under the protection of Ye Shuai, Commander Su also had great achievements in his later years, his personal freedom was not limited, and there were many opportunities to go abroad to investigate. In the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in the 1970s, although Commander Su did not command on the front line, he and Xu Shuai sat in the command headquarters at the domestic headquarters, made overall decisions, and formulated relevant battle plans for the front-line troops, which played a very crucial role.
It is worth mentioning that in the 1970s, when the situation was improving, Ye Shuai recommended Commander Su to his superiors to serve as the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, and because Commander Su had not yet been rehabilitated at that time, he ultimately failed to achieve it.
epilogue
Among the ten marshals, the one who helped Commander Su the most after the founding of the People's Republic of China was Ye Shuai, and in difficult times, he stepped forward many times to protect him and protect talents for the country, regardless of his own safety. Commander Su did not live up to Ye Shuai's expectations, for many years he endured humiliation and burdens, his professional knowledge did not fall behind, and when the country needed itself, he was able to stand up and serve the country, and both of them were upright people and excellent Communist Party cadres of our party.