Dear readers, have you ever seen a photo of Su Yu wearing a suit and tie? There's one here, very rare, very precious. From the group photo, it can be seen that Su Yu is very handsome in a suit and tie, in the middle is Su Yu's wife Chu Qing, who is the one on the right? He is a Japanese.
What is the story behind this group photo?
Admiral Su Yu died of illness in 1984. In 1979, Su Yu was 72 years old and had already entered his old age. In 1979, he was busy and participated in many important activities, such as going to Wuhan and meeting Wang Bicheng, commander of the Wuhan Military Region, and Chen Pixian, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, and many other old subordinates of that year.
As vice chairman of the Fifth National People's Congress, Su Yu also attended the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. In May, Su Yu visited Japan as the top adviser of the "Sino-Japanese Friendship Ship". This was the first time that General Su Yu had set foot on Japanese soil.
Su Yu visited Shimonoseki, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, and Nagasaki. In the process, Su Yu received and met with many Japanese soldiers, and on May 18, Su Yu met with Mototoshi Yamashita, the commander of the Japanese Defense Agency, and many Japanese officers on active duty.
Yamashita Mototoshi said: I have heard of Your Excellency's name for a long time, and I have heard that Your Excellency is the highest adviser of this friendship ship visiting group, and I have long wanted to meet with You.
The prestige of General Su Yu is not only well-known at home, but also very well-known abroad, especially in Japan, and many Japanese officers know him, Su Yu was the nemesis of the Japanese army during World War II, and the wizard and model of commanding large corps to fight. The Japanese nation is accustomed to worshipping the strong, and Su Yu is a strong man on the battlefield, an undefeated opponent.
Then, Su Yu also met with many retired Japanese officers, including a former Japanese lieutenant general named Matsukin Kuchi, who had met Su Yu when he came to China in 1978, and Su Yu's words left a deep impression on him: Soldiers have retired, but patriotic and concerned about national defense have not been retired.
This sentence was brought to the United States by Matsukin Kuchi, who had just returned from a trip to Europe and the United States, and when he gave a speech to senior cadres of the US Military At the American Military University, Matsukin Kuchi specifically mentioned Su Yu's words, which won unanimous praise. This sentence is similar to MacArthur's "Veterans don't die, just gradually wither".
In late May, when Suyu arrived in Kobe, an old Japanese man who had traveled thousands of miles insisted on seeing Suyu. For the sake of Sino-Japanese friendship, Su Yu did not refuse. Unexpectedly, as soon as the old man met, he saluted Su Yu with a standard military salute and said very excitedly, "Old chief, do you remember me?"
Su Yu looked at it carefully, as if it were similar, quickly searched from memory, suddenly his eyes lit up, and quickly went up to shake the old man's hand and said, I remember you, you are our artillery battalion commander. The old Japanese man burst into tears, not expecting that decades had passed and Commander Su still remembered him.
The old man's name was Eiichi Yamada, a Japanese soldier and artillery expert who participated in the war of aggression against China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Eiichi Yamada was also poisoned by Japanese militarist ideas, and it was Su Yu who gave him a blow to the head, so that he could wake up in time and turn back to the shore.
In the anti-Japanese battlefield, Yamada Became a prisoner of the New Fourth Army led by Su Yu. Unexpectedly, Su Yu did not kill him, but carried out patient ideological education on him, and Yamada Eiichi was beaten to the head, repented, and joined the anti-war alliance.
The New Fourth Army captured a batch of Japanese artillery fire, but it would not be used, and Su Yu knew that Yamada Eiichi was an expert in artillery and decided to use him. Yamada joined the New Fourth Army, using the artillery fire of the New Fourth Army to deal with the Japanese invaders, and became the artillery battalion commander of the New Fourth Army.
Su Yu was able to boldly use the Japanese prisoners and entrust them with heavy responsibilities, which was also very bold and remarkable at that time. Yamada Followed Su Yu and ushered in the comprehensive victory of China's War of Resistance Against Japan, and then followed Su Yu to participate in China's War of Liberation, ushered in the founding of New China, and completely washed away his sins.
The most incredible thing is that Yamada also participated in China's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and used artillery fire to teach American devils on the battlefield. In 1958, Su Yu was wrongly criticized and dismissed from his post as chief of the general staff, and Eiichi Yamada returned to Japan.
Since then, the separation has been more than 20 years. In 1979, when he heard that Su Yu was visiting Japan, Yamada Washito was extremely excited and looked forward to it. He lived in Osaka, and Osaka was within the scope of Su Yu's visit, but Yamada Eiichi did not wait for Su Yu to come to Osaka, and he could not wait to personally run to Kobe to meet the old chief.
He knows it when he meets the old people, not to mention the old comrades-in-arms under the old subordinates. Su Yu was also very excited in his heart, they talked a lot of past events, when parting, Su Yu took out the new tie and new shirt he was going to wear from the suitcase, and said to Yamada Eiichi, this trip did not expect to meet you, nor did I prepare any gifts, this shirt and tie I have not yet worn, give it to you, to commemorate our friendship that year.
"Are you shirtless?" Robe with the Son. Su Yu was able to give his own intimate clothes to Eiichi Yamada, indicating that he really regarded him as a good friend. Yamada Eiichi solemnly accepted the gift and treasured it forever, which was a testimony to his friendship with General Su Yu and a witness to Sino-Japanese friendship.