He was born in the war-torn years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, when he was swaddled, he lived a life of upheaval and displacement, his father was the first general of New China, the tiger father had no dogs, under the strict teaching of his father, with his own efforts, he was not afraid of hardships, he struggled hard, starting from an ordinary soldier, and finally the officer to lieutenant general, the only one in the descendants of the founding ten generals who was awarded the title of battle merit, the father and son of two generations of generals, living up to the prestige of the general's family, he is the protagonist of this article - Su Rongsheng
In the summer of 1942, Su Yu led the New Fourth Army to carry out anti-sweeping and anti-Qingye battles against Japan, his son was born, the war raged, Su Yu and his wife Chu Qingyi discussed, put the child in suzhou children's grandfather's home, the child's grandfather remembered his son-in-law Su Yu's efforts for the War of Resistance Against Japan, named the child Su Rongsheng, Chinese pay attention to the name, the later life of Su Rongsheng, really like the name of the grandfather, Rong Ma life.
In fact, friends who marry wives and have children know that the children brought out by grandpa and grandfather are all good, but because of the generations of relatives, the children are always squeamish, and the young Su Rongsheng is not vulgar, so after the liberation of Shanghai in 1945, after the situation was slightly stable, Su Rongsheng was taken by his parents to raise him, and General Su Yu found that his children were timid and cowardly, afraid of seeing people.
Su Yu took the 3-year-old Su Rongsheng to the creek, taught him to swim, demonstrated it again, saw his son lying on the shore, a scared look, did not dare to come down, Su Yu gave him a bamboo, told him to hold, and then threw him into the water, although it was only a small stream, but Su Rongsheng was too small, scared to cry, Su Yu looked at him like that, and did not reach out, his mother Chu Qing blamed her husband.
Su Yu said that if he did not exercise, the courage of the child would never be there for a lifetime, and when General Su Rongsheng told people about this matter later, he was still full of emotions for his father's style of raising children as a soldier. In fact, we all know the good intentions of General Su Yu, everyone hopes that their children may not become very talented, but they must not be weak, and they must have ambition and cannot cower.
Under the strict education of the general, Su Rongsheng also grew up rapidly, after the founding of the People's Republic of China with his parents to live and study in Beijing, after the famous general, coupled with the strict family style, Su Rongsheng also took joining the army to serve the country as his life goal, in 1961, the 19-year-old Su Rongsheng was admitted to the Harbin Military Engineering College at that time with excellent results, and the dean was the famous general Chen Geng.
When he first went to school, in order to catch up with China's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam, Su Rongsheng began to want to join the army in advance, but General Su Yu, who has always supported his children's advances, said that now is not the time when su Rongsheng can rely on inferior equipment to defeat the enemy with his tenacious will to fight and not be afraid of sacrifice.
Starting from an ordinary soldier, except for the top level of the unit, no one knows that he is the son of a general, Su Rongsheng lived up to his father's high expectations, in the homeland air defense operation in 1967, he shot down the US U-2 reconnaissance plane, and won the third class of merit, and then, Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated, the Zhenbao Island incident broke out, Su Yu used his power to transfer his eldest son to the northern front, this is another three years, where he has been leading troops at the grassroots level, Su Rongsheng remembered his father's teachings, loved the soldiers like a son, and ate and slept with the officers and men at the grassroots level. There is danger of rushing first in front.
In the 1980s, when the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam began, Su Rongsheng came to the front line again, at this time he was already the chief of staff of a certain army division, the son of a general, who had personally visited the front line three times, and personally shot down the enemy's reconnaissance plane, and he had become a legend like his father, the god of war.
After the end of the war, in the 1990s, Su Rongsheng was the deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region, mainly focusing on training, and he has been at the grass-roots level, dealing with problems that arise during the training of our army's reorganization.
He has repeatedly put forward criticism and rectification opinions, is a general who grasps problems and attaches importance to reality, and is deeply rooted in his father's demeanor; like his father, he started as an ordinary soldier and relied step by step on his own efforts to achieve the position of lieutenant general, and was the only one among the descendants of the ten founding generals who was awarded the title of military merit.